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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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"Hundreds of firefighters spend the day battling wildfires in a forested, mountainous region.", "BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell was interrupted on air by pro-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong.", "A Royal Navy frigate is heard warning Iranian armed forces, moments before a British-flagged oil tanker was seized in the Gulf.", "The five-week-old dogs were stolen by machete-wielding burglars but are now \"safe and well\".", "The deployment of soldiers and fighter jets comes amid heightened tensions with Iran in the Gulf.", "Police name victim as 21-year-old Asim Khan, from Grangetown, as a 27-year-old is arrested.", "Police are investigating if the shooting is connected to two other incidents in Coventry last night.", "The March for Change is protesting ahead of the announcement of a new prime minister.", "Deaf student Liam Mcmulkin has created more than 100 signs for words used in science.", "The 38-year-old served with Greater Manchester Police and was visiting the island attraction with his son.", "The airline halts all flights to the Egyptian capital for a week as a security \"precaution\".", "The video platform says it is sorry some have felt pressured to send their favourite influencers money.", "The most senior family court judge calls for a public education campaign on parenting after splitting up.", "The 13-year-old's death has left his school \"devastated\", the chairwoman of governors says.", "The news comes as footage was released of a man seen running away from Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's house.", "The No Outsiders project was halted after demonstrations outside the school in Alum Rock.", "The London estate agent disappeared 33 years ago and her body has never been found.", "Streaming giant to set up production base at historic London studio owned by Pinewood Group.", "A body from a Kenya Airways flight fell into a garden in south London on Sunday.", "A fire engulfs two warehouses in Kentucky containing 45,000 barrels of bourbon.", "Friends say Gareth Delbridge was a \"big family man\" and Michael Lewis was a \"great guy\".", "Tributes are paid to Switzerland forward Florijana Ismaili after the missing footballer's body is found.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle and her child, which was born by Caesarean section, have both died.", "The aircraft maker says the money is for the education and welfare of communities hit by the disasters.", "England players left \"their hearts and souls on the pitch\" in their Women's World Cup semi-final defeat, says boss Phil Neville.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed to death on Saturday.", "It will look at government departments to ensure they work in the best interests of devolution.", "Rescuers were called to reports of a boat taking on water 242 nautical miles off the east coast.", "Some common cancers are now more likely to be caused by obesity than tobacco, a charity is warning.", "Britain's Andy Murray confirms he will play mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon.", "England must be \"honest with themselves\" if they are to \"take the next step\" after their World Cup exit, says ex-defender Alex Scott.", "Skin from Skunk Anansie says the rapper's set was a \"wonderful moment for black culture\".", "The problem had also affected Instagram and Messenger, affecting access to media and other files.", "Cardiff student Aaron Singh says the rules in Wales are \"not fair\" and discriminatory.", "A Janelle Monae fan whose \"guaranteed\" seat was revoked, is told she can now have one.", "Edward Gallagher was cleared of all charges except posing with the body of a dead prisoner in Iraq.", "Why 24-year-old Kevin Mcleod's death was not treated as murder will form part of the review.", "The victim was reportedly killed while hiking towards the volcano's summit.", "Anthony Lock says he cannot find work, despite sending \"hundreds\" of job applications.", "As the government consults on making Changing Places toilets mandatory in public buildings, campaigners tell the BBC why they are necessary.", "Police appeal for fraud victims to come forward after two men reportedly spent two days at a hospital offering to help staff claim back tax.", "The outsourcing firm is fined for fraud and false accounting over its electronic tagging service.", "A funeral is held in Sharjah for Khalid Al Qasimi, who died \"unexpectedly\" in London.", "The museum, which recently underwent a £30m redevelopment, beats four others to the £100,000 prize.", "A police officer pointed out the ringleader to armed colleagues, ending the deadly attack, a jury hears.", "A former paratrooper says his barracks was decorated with Nazi flags and pictures of Adolf Hitler.", "Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman to be nominated for the post of European Commission chief.", "Beijing tells the UK not to \"interfere in its domestic affairs\" after protests in the former colony.", "Residents on the island of Kyushu are told to seek safety immediately as rain threatens flooding.", "It becomes the second provider in the UK to offer the super-fast mobile connection.", "Mr Magid was elected as the first Green MEP for the Yorkshire and The Humber constituency in May.", "Northern Ireland's politicians have jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.", "A report three months before two workers died said rail staff have had to \"jump for their lives\".", "England captain Steph Houghton reflects on her penalty miss against USA as England are knocked out of the Women's World Cup.", "The government did not manage expectations after allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis, a report finds.", "The girlfriend and co-defendant of Darren Pencille tells a court she thought he had been in a fight.", "The figures are 10 times higher than the general population, making support vital, a study says.", "A man accused of lying about an alleged VIP paedophile ring claims he was turned into a human dartboard.", "A murder trial hears Lucy McHugh's family asked her school friend to slap her on several occasions.", "Some locals praise the passion of protesters - but others fear they're alienating their elders.", "The retail giant's boss says an October Brexit could cause problems as it's too close to Christmas.", "The British Council says some parents now see European languages as less useful because of Brexit.", "Jackie Groenen's extra-time goal sends the Netherlands into a Women's World Cup final against the USA thanks to a tense win over Sweden.", "England's World Cup semi-final defeat by the United States attracts the highest peak television audience of the year so far", "Arizona pulls factory grant after the firm's \"unpatriotic\" withdrawal of allegedly racist trainer.", "Four of the five PSNI officers in question were at the Cookstown hotel the night three teenagers died.", "The government announces a \"road map\" to combat the \"economic hit\" women take at every stage of life.", "Princess Haya, a wife of Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is said to have fled in fear of her life.", "But campaigners and a former Conservative health minister have criticised his idea.", "US political leaders join condemnation of Nike for pulling a trainer with a controversial US flag.", "Nkululeko Zulu tells a tribunal he suffered years of racist abuse while serving in the Army.", "Teenage qualifier Coco Gauff's fairytale run at Wimbledon continues with an emphatic second-round win over Magdalena Rybarikova.", "England suffer heartbreak in the World Cup semi-final, losing 2-1 to defending champions the United States in Lyon.", "MPs hold a debate on assisted dying.", "See how the players rated as England lost 2-1 to the USA in the Women's World Cup semi-final.", "The BBC show's creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge says Fleabag isn't \"just for posh girls\".", "There were 2,300 \"no shows\" for MOTs in June, despite anger in NI over an appointments backlog.", "After Albert Grannon pulled his airgun trigger, Stanley Metcalf, six, said: \"You shot me granddad.\"", "The two men who were hit by a passenger train were wearing ear defenders, police say.", "Current Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire will finish his seven-year tenure in July 2019.", "An MP is applauded after her emotional speech on the introduction of the Children's Funeral Fund after her \"impatient\" campaigning.", "Christine Lagarde is on track to become the first woman to run the European Central Bank.", "England reach their first World Cup semi-final since 1992 with a comprehensive 119-run defeat of New Zealand at Chester-le-Street", "Was Alex Morgan's team drinking goal celebration an Independence Day-channelling ultimate power move?", "England fans - and the occasional American - watch the action unfold at a fan zone in south London.", "The view from the US as their team wins a place at the World Cup final - at the expense of England.", "Andrea Camilleri's books won international acclaim and changed perceptions of Sicily.", "Who are the four US congresswomen who President Trump told to \"go back\" to their countries?", "The former Beatle is working on a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.", "It's a song from 2006, by a band from Northern Ireland formed in Dundee.", "Michael and Marjorie Cawdery, both aged 83, were attacked in their home in 2017.", "\"America’s united efforts to curb opioid use disorder and addiction are working,\" a statement reads.", "The PM calls on the Labour leader to apologise for anti-Semitism failings in heated Commons exchanges.", "Supporters of the measure hope to stop a future PM bypassing Parliament to push through a no deal.", "Hashem Abedi is set to appear in a UK court charged with killing 22 in the 2017 attack, police say.", "Protesters who have blocked a city centre road since Monday leave the site.", "The BBC's boss says he told the government it had taken the \"nuclear\" option on TV licences.", "Rescuers are being hampered by narrow lanes at the site of a deadly building collapse.", "The BBC has obtained footage of the night which shows unarmed police and members of the public as they tried to confront the armed men.", "A survey suggests only 30% of teachers at pilot schools think it will benefit poorer pupils.", "The video streaming pioneer blamed price rises for adding fewer paid subscribers than hoped.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says Theresa May never told him she was willing to leave without one.", "Two watchdogs have \"grave\" concerns about how police and prosecutors treat victims of crime aged over 60.", "The ruling could impact others in the public sector, including police, teachers and doctors.", "David Briffaut is having surgery after breaking his neck in an accident on a water slide in Spain.", "Crew on the Russian ship blocked from leaving the port of Leith over safety fears receive donations.", "One of two men charged with raping and killing Scarlett Keeling is guilty, an Indian court rules.", "Police and the PM's spokesperson praise officers' courage and professionalism during the attack.", "Simon Brown died after leaning from the window of a Gatwick Express train in August 2016.", "Business lobby groups say ministers must act to avoid \"acute\" skills shortages after Brexit.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt make their last pitches to Conservative members before voting closes.", "Cancer Research warns people in the UK to protect their skin at home and not only when they are away.", "What are the roots of the women Trump told to \"go back\" - and how many Americans are from somewhere else?", "Her move to a Tehran hospital follows a hunger strike in protest at her detention in Iran.", "The UK Advertising Standards Authority bans a Dyson ad for implying fan is cordless.", "The remains are undergoing forensic testing and police are following \"many lines of inquiry\".", "Dutch airline KLM has asked mothers to cover up when breastfeeding, in response to complaints.", "After President Trump tells four women of colour to \"go home\", his own party is muted in its criticism.", "Edward Cairney and Avril Jones have both been jailed for the murder of Margaret Fleming.", "Start-up NeuraLink wants to start testing its human computer interface on humans.", "In her last major speech, she says \"ill words\" have consequences, but comes in for criticism herself.", "Salih Khater drove at people in a \"premeditated\" attack before crashing his car outside Parliament.", "Family members and friends have described their loved ones and paid tribute to their lives.", "A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace explores Queen Victoria's modernisation of the Royal Family.", "The government is set to add the Paralympics to the 'crown jewels' list of sports that must be screened live on free-to-air television.", "Victims of domestic abuse in rural areas suffer longer and are less likely to get support, says report.", "A ruling that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven is to be overturned.", "A man killed when he apparently leaned out of a train window and was hit on the head was a life-long railway fanatic who worked in the industry.", "The 25-year-old is also given a lifetime ban by airline Jet2 for \"extremely disruptive behaviour\".", "US imposed sanctions are crippling the economy, making food and medicines unaffordable.", "The boy is one of two taken to hospital and the driver has been arrested in connection with the incident.", "A 24-year-old man killed on a train may have been leaning from a window when he suffered a blow to the head, police say.", "The group, some of whom were boys, were arrested after a British woman alleged she was raped, local reports say.", "What can be done to try to halt Scotland's rising toll of drug-related deaths?", "Fleetwood Town boss Joey Barton is charged with causing actual bodily harm following a post-match incident in the tunnel at Barnsley in April.", "Carl Beech's legal team says he \"genuinely believed\" his paedophile ring allegations to be true.", "At the Made in America showcase, Mr Trump responds to questions about the meaning behind his tweets.", "The retailer is accused of producing more plastic waste, but says the promotion is sustainable.", "The man was suffering from mild hypothermia when he was picked up by French authorities.", "The Killing Eve actresses are both up for best actress in a drama series at this year's Emmy TV awards.", "Prosecutors say they dropped the case after the accuser refused to testify about his missing phone.", "The Royal Society tells the Tory leadership candidates the UK collaborates more with the EU than the US.", "The Commons vote on a plan to prevent Parliament being suspended to allow a no-deal Brexit.", "The man who killed 22 people in a suicide attack had recently returned to the city from Libya.", "Aaron McKenzie appears in court charged with killing Kelly Mary Fauvrelle and her baby in her home.", "MPs say the simple step of adding more ethanol to the UK's fuel mix would be same as taking 700,000 cars off the roads.", "The party says it will eliminate the \"modern-day scourge\" if it wins the next election.", "The Moon appears red on the day of the 50th anniversary of the historic space flight.", "Matthew Bell is facing jail, but questions remain about why it took so long to catch him.", "The US theme park defends its record after Virgin Holidays stops selling tickets to its attractions.", "The 35-year-old woman died at the scene at a roundabout in south London.", "A man who tried to steal a car with children inside was chased and beaten by a mob in Philadelphia.", "An adviser to the supreme leader says Iran should retaliate, after the UK detained an Iranian oil tanker.", "The Metropolitan Police says the alleged leak has damaged the UK's international relations.", "Stem cell donors could \"save\" the life of one-year-old Phoebe Ashfield from Dudley, says her mother.", "Follow a journey through Central America - and see the risks a migrant may face to reach the US.", "Big tech companies are feeling the heat as the General Data Protection Regulation gathers momentum.", "Royal Marines boarded the tanker en route to Syria, amid concerns it was breaching EU sanctions.", "The angular shape of the construction contrasts with the straight sides of Egypt's \"true\" pyramids.", "One of the most important Russian space science missions in the post-Soviet era lifts off from Baikonur.", "The Tory leadership frontrunner says he will appoint a veterans minister if he becomes PM.", "All students are offered free train tickets to a university open day, after fears of excessive cost.", "Top climber Di Gilbert scaled Everest twice and was shocked by the number of bodies she saw.", "Police say they are looking for two men who fled the scene after being disturbed by passers-by.", "Serena Williams faces \"pressure times 100\" when she plays Simona Halep in the Wimbledon final seeking a 24th Grand Slam singles title, her coach says.", "Popular trails have been blocked with rocks and had branches placed at head height.", "A car was seen fleeing the scene after Malik Hussain, 35, was stabbed to death in Birmingham.", "The cricket correspondent will tell passengers to \"hold on to their hats\" at St John's Wood station.", "The pair were arrested after the County Down man's body was found at a lake weeks after he went missing.", "Simona Halep wins her first Wimbledon title and crushes Serena Williams' latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a 6-2 6-2 win.", "Hundreds of migrants occupy the city's Panthéon and demand the right to stay in France.", "The Unite union says 4,000 staff will strike over pay, but the airport says it has plans to remain open.", "But leadership rival Boris Johnson says the UK will leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\".", "A tribute on the presenter's Instagram page said Emily Hartridge \"touched so many lives\".", "Police say the incident in Old Rutherglen Road in Glasgow followed a disturbance at a pub.", "Rival demonstrations were held in Seoul over the consumption of dog meat, a traditional part of South Korean cuisine.", "Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib describe conditions at US facilities at the southern border.", "Olafur Eliasson's art is quietly provocative, and at its best stimulates your senses and your mind.", "The justice secretary wants to scrap rules obliging some offenders to reveal prison time to employers.", "Gun owners hand over semi-automatic weapons as part of a buyback scheme after the mass shooting.", "Allegations against the financier and registered sex offender reportedly date to the early 2000s.", "The USA win the Women's World Cup for the fourth time after beating the Netherlands 2-0 in Sunday's final.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell wants Labour to back a second referendum \"sooner rather than later\".", "They are due to appear in court on Monday after police seized explosive substances in Ballymena.", "One Jaguar Land Rover worker was taken to hospital and 27 were assessed by ambulance crews.", "The justice secretary says he will quit if the next Tory leader pursues leaving the EU without a deal.", "A man in his 20s is shot dead in the early hours, the second to be killed in London this weekend.", "The teenager was struck by a car speeding on the wrong side of Glenburn Road in Paisley.", "The guitar-player set standards in world music with his lilting version of The Girl from Ipanema.", "Police say about 22 people have been injured and are being treated in hospital.", "Fifty years on from the Stonewall uprising, London Pride 2019 was just as colourful as ever.", "He died along with his daughter, three other women and two men in a helicopter crash.", "Sir Antony Gormley says the oil giant has no place sponsoring the annual portrait prize.", "Two Americans and a Spaniard are hospitalised with bull injuries at the popular Spanish event.", "Saudi Arabian carrier flyadeal halts plan to buy Boeing planes and switches to Airbus fleet.", "The Foreign Office will explore how memos from the UK's envoy in the US were published by a paper.", "Leaked emails reveal Sir Kim Darroch described the White House as \"uniquely dysfunctional\".", "The deadline of 1 September set for the deal is a \"tight\" timeframe, experts have warned.", "New figures show 45 people were banned from keeping animals due to cruelty in 2018.", "Why Iran's nuclear agreement is facing its most fundamental challenge yet.", "The singer told fans at the end of his Hyde Park show that he would have the operation in September.", "Fifty-two people died and 700 were injured when four bombs exploded across the capital in 2005.", "A 23-year-old woman and a man, 28, are arrested over the crash on the M61.", "Avoniel Leisure Centre closed early on Sunday amid tensions over loyalist bonfires.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were joined by close family and friends for the private ceremony.", "The scholarships will target those with academic potential but limited opportunities.", "The family of the US actor has confirmed he died after suffering a seizure in his sleep.", "Andy Murray and Serena Williams begin their blockbuster partnership with a confident win in the Wimbledon mixed doubles on Centre Court.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an \"appalling attack\" in Enfield.", "After praising revolutionary rebels for seizing \"airports\", Mr Trump said the autocue went \"kaput\".", "The actor and former footballer was at her side when she died at their family home on Saturday.", "Some Conservative members received more than one paper to vote for the next PM, the BBC learns.", "London and Wall Street could bear the brunt of cuts as the bank fights a falling share price.", "Tens of thousands marched in a bid to raise awareness about a controversial extradition bill.", "The German lender will exit the share trading business, much of which is in London and New York.", "The light-headed feeling is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, known as orthostatic hypotension.", "The singer's fans talk to Newsbeat about what she means to them, after news of her suspected drug overdose.", "The former teen star has spoken openly about her painful struggles with drugs and eating disorders.", "Jason Spencer shouted the n-word and bared his buttocks on Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?", "After meeting Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Trump hails a \"very big day for free and fair trade\".", "The gold medallist and her husband, Steve Backshall, revealed the news on social media.", "General Motors lowers its profit forecast, blaming rising costs for steel and aluminium due to tariffs.", "There is a \"Wild West\" approach to the education provided for pupils who have been excluded, MPs say.", "Dr Kenneth Milner would have been interviewed over rape and child cruelty at a psychiatric hospital.", "Nairo Quintana wins stage 17 of the Tour de France as Britain's Geraint Thomas extends his overall lead and Chris Froome slips to third.", "Susan Margaret Stephos speaks about her experience of being caught up in the wildfires in Greece.", "Rédoine Faïd, who broke out of prison on 1 July, ditched a car with explosives after being spotted.", "At least 74 people die as flames spread across the Attica region around Athens.", "Rescuers comb land and sea for dozens of people missing after fires that claimed at least 80 lives.", "A close associate of the Brexit donor Arron Banks has raised questions about whether he had business contacts with Russia.", "Five men appear in court charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.", "Video shows people taking refuge in the sea as they try to escape wildfires in the area of Rafina.", "Deadly wildfires in Greece follow huge blazes in Sweden, the US and the UK.", "Dutch scientists call an immediate halt to research with the anti-impotence drug in pregnancy.", "The Foreign Office is assisting a British family affected by the fires, which have killed at least 77.", "Matt Hancock, who replaced Jeremy Hunt as health secretary, tells Newsbeat there is \"loads to do\" with apps in the NHS.", "The pop star is reportedly in a stable condition after being found unconscious at her home.", "The activist caused disruption on a plane that stopped the migrant being sent home.", "The Advertising Standards Authority ruled viewers were misled over nutritional value claims.", "Nasa says organic matter suggests there might have been life on the planet.", "The BBC's Gavin Lee visits the devastated village of Mati and meets those who have lost everything.", "Five men are charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a three-year-old was injured.", "Civil rights group Big Brother Watch says the police technology breaches the Human Rights Act.", "With the US placing tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, how are the countries affected responding?", "Ancient food foraging behaviour has now adapted its rhythms to online food deliveries, say academics.", "The social media firm's shares were hit by news that growth in monthly active users is slowing.", "The wife of a \"fat cat international banker\" is battling against an Unexplained Wealth Order.", "A study suggests it will take more than 100 years to bring the poorest up to the level of classmates.", "At least 20 people died and hundreds went missing after a dam collapsed, engulfing thousands of homes.", "Katerina Pantelidis tells the BBC's Gavin Lee how she survived the devastating wildfires in Greece.", "Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will \"deputise\" for the PM as talks in Brussels enter crucial phase.", "Businesses, government and regulators need to make tackling sexual harassment at work a priority, say MPs.", "Wildfires have killed at least 74 people in Greece.", "Most inmates have been recaptured, after police sent late-night warnings to the public.", "Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks says the money was to fund a political campaign and denies corruption.", "The Attica region around Athens is consumed by flames", "Fiona Onasanya is charged with perverting the course of justice and is due at the Old Bailey in August.", "Methane on the Red Planet waxes and wanes with the seasons - another clue in the search for life.", "Dawn Sturgess became ill within 15 minutes of spraying the Novichok on her wrists, says Charlie Rowley.", "The US tries to protect farmers suffering from tit-for-tat tariffs targeting agriculture products.", "Dover MP Charlie Elphicke is charged with three counts of sexual assault against two women.", "MPs and peers from five political parties call on the Home Office to end its opposition to drug consumption rooms.", "Australia retain the Women's Ashes and have an 8-2 lead in the multi-format series as they draw the Test with England at Taunton.", "Countries must work together to tackle global health risks, England's outgoing chief medical officer warns.", "A convicted paedophile made false allegations of murder and sexual abuse against public figures.", "The environment secretary says both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt \"would do a great job\".", "Dozens of masked men armed with batons have stormed a train station in the Hong Kong district of Yuen Long.", "Her husband says she was kept in solitary confinement while on an Iranian psychiatric ward.", "The firm made \"significant\" profits at Brook House, where detainees were allegedly abused, a report finds.", "The Labour leader says he wants to \"confront this poison and drive it out of our party\".", "If new UK PM wants to tear up the withdrawal deal \"we're in trouble\", Ireland's deputy PM warns.", "The BBC's Stephen McDonell is amid the pro-democracy protesters as tear gas is fired.", "Sir Alan Duncan presses for Commons vote on whether MPs support Boris Johnson forming a government.", "Philip Hammond tells the BBC he plans to resign when Theresa May leaves office next week.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry claims a first major championship win of his career with a dominant six-shot victory at The Open at Royal Portrush.", "One woman was taken to hospital after the fire broke out at The Mall in Walthamstow, east London.", "The Chancellor believes that the power over Brexit lies with EU member states and private business.", "The government says the move will help tackle \"intimidation and aggression\" used by some bailiffs.", "The incident happened at St Patrick's Cemetery in Dundalk on Sunday afternoon.", "There are senior jobs for Sajid Javid, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Liz Truss and Michael Gove after more than half of those in cabinet are sacked or resign.", "Ofcom had called on networks to automatically cut prices for out-of-contract mobile subscribers.", "David Briffaut, from Essex, broke his neck in an accident on a slide at a water park in Benidorm.", "As the race ends, one minister quits in protest at a possible Boris Johnson victory.", "Ex-steelworker Toni Olszewski was given hepatitis C-infected blood after a motorbike crash.", "The foreign secretary wants to set up an international mission to respond to Iranian \"piracy\".", "The British Airline Pilots' Association says 93% of its members have voted in favour of industrial action.", "Farmers say wind farms and mobile phone masts cause higher rates of animal mortality, but scientists say there's no evidence to prove it.", "Jo Swinson or Sir Ed Davey will be named as Sir Vince Cable's successor on Monday afternoon.", "The third in line to the throne is seen smiling in an England football shirt in images taken by his mother.", "A report into NI's education funding finds there are \"unmanageable pressures on school budgets\".", "New Zealand stun holders and 11-time champions Australia to win by a single goal in the 2019 Netball World Cup final in Liverpool.", "A cross-party group of parliamentarians is seeking a ruling that parliament cannot be prorogued.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry says he grew up \"holing putts to win The Open\" after winning his first major at Royal Portrush.", "Excavators tear down 'illegal' structures said to house 17 people after a long legal battle.", "The implication of the recent US ban on its companies from dealing with Huawei was not clear, the government says.", "Hundreds of firefighters spend the day battling wildfires in a forested, mountainous region.", "Mike Taggart \"lost his whole world\" when his mother Donna Crist was stabbed to death by her husband.", "A Royal Navy frigate is heard warning Iranian armed forces, moments before a British-flagged oil tanker was seized in the Gulf.", "The 39-year old says she will do \"whatever its takes\" to stop Brexit after defeating Sir Ed Davey.", "With a new prime minister to be announced this week, we are on the verge of another moment of enormous change in politics.", "The car maker says a plastic engine part can in \"very rare cases\" melt and cause a fire.", "Mack Horton has previously accused Chinese freestyle champion Sun Yang of being a \"drug cheat\".", "The suggestion of a mass search for Nessie has gone viral, and prompted a cautionary message from the RNLI.", "The professional dancer, a judge on Strictly's German version, will fill Dame Darcey Bussell's chair.", "The credit score agency has agreed a settlement after hackers stole 147 million people's details.", "A girl seen crying and singing during the set of Sigrid at Glastonbury Festival has met her idol.", "Footage shows the successful launch of India's second lunar mission.", "Swimmer Adam Peaty wins his third successive gold in the men's 100m breaststroke at the World Championships, with compatriot James Wilby taking silver.", "A claim that the footballer assaulted a woman in 2009 cannot be proven, Las Vegas prosecutors say.", "Novak Djokovic saves two championship points in Wimbledon's longest singles final to retain his title in a thrilling win over Roger Federer.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "The huge barrel jellyfish, as big as a human, was seen off the coast of Cornwall.", "England win the men's World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a super over in one of the most incredible games in cricket history.", "The US says Iran's deal breaches are a \"crude attempt\" to extort payments from nations.", "A Ford Fiesta hit a 59-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man on Saturday morning and both died at the scene.", "The 36-year-old was a passenger in a car hit by a police vehicle which had been called to an incident.", "A man who tried to steal a car with children inside was chased and beaten by a mob in Philadelphia.", "An adviser to the supreme leader says Iran should retaliate, after the UK detained an Iranian oil tanker.", "England's men are aiming to win the World Cup for the first time when they face New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday.", "Yellow-vest protesters formed barricades and lit fires after the annual military event in Paris.", "Follow a journey through Central America - and see the risks a migrant may face to reach the US.", "Stem cell donors could \"save\" the life of one-year-old Phoebe Ashfield from Dudley, says her mother.", "Five men are arrested on suspicion of affray after the crash in south-west London.", "Power has now been restored to all customers affected by a power outage in Manhattan.", "The Chancellor believes that the power over Brexit lies with EU member states and private business.", "The Spanish carrier's UK departures were delayed by an average of 31 minutes last year, research shows.", "Demands for a new system will be taken to the ruling executive after allegations of interference.", "Royal Marines boarded the tanker en route to Syria, amid concerns it was breaching EU sanctions.", "Conservative MP Guto Bebb says Boris Johnson would be a \"disastrous\" prime minister.", "France's annual military parade, commemorating the storming of the Bastille prison, takes place in Paris.", "Sir Kim Darroch steps down as Boris Johnson faces criticism for not fully backing him.", "Police say they are looking for two men who fled the scene after being disturbed by passers-by.", "Watch the moment Eoin Morgan and England lift the Cricket World Cup trophy after a dramatic sudden-death super over against New Zealand at Lord's.", "England captain Eoin Morgan says he \"never allowed\" himself to imagine lifting the World Cup.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle died at the scene while son Riley died in hospital after being delivered.", "A car was seen fleeing the scene after Malik Hussain, 35, was stabbed to death in Birmingham.", "Simona Halep wins her first Wimbledon title and crushes Serena Williams' latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a 6-2 6-2 win.", "\"Europe's GPS\" remains offline as it grapples with a technical glitch in its ground infrastructure.", "A tribute on the presenter's Instagram page said Emily Hartridge \"touched so many lives\".", "Watch the moment that Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win England the World Cup.", "More than 20 workers, a 53m crane and a truck move the 110-year-old Bascule Bridge.", "The former Welsh Office minister and Conservative leader in the Welsh Assembly has died aged 72.", "The duchess has an elderflower and lemon sponge delivered during the Cricket World Cup final.", "Freckles approached a team of divers for help after getting hooks embedded under her eye.", "Roger Federer must \"take it up a level\" to beat Novak Djokovic and claim a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title, says three-time champion John McEnroe.", "Police say the man dropped nearly 200ft, but was found on river rocks below with no major injuries.", "The Queen was in residence at the time of the incident, in the early hours of Wednesday.", "The US president says the UK ambassador is \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.", "Ex-PM says suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit would be 'totally unacceptable'.", "The US says Iran's deal breaches are a \"crude attempt\" to extort payments from nations.", "The voice-assisted device will give official NHS advice, but critics fear a \"data protection disaster\".", "There was no jaw-dropping moment in ITV debate but both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will be happy.", "Police confirm a body found in a lake in County Down is that of missing man Pat McCormick.", "Parents in Wales will be able to make a formal complaint if new guidelines are not taken into account.", "Researchers have found the earliest example of our species outside Africa.", "Tisha Rowe, who is a doctor, says she was told to wrap herself with a blanket by an attendant.", "A BBC spokeswoman says they have not been able to \"reach agreement\" with Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson.", "The governor of Kronoberg prison, where the rapper's being held, denies TMZ's claims it is \"filthy\".", "Tributes paid to the late comedy actor, who had been receiving palliative care for heart failure.", "Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson trade blows over Europe and US diplomatic row in fractious ITV encounter.", "Police on the Greek island say Suzanne Eaton, who was there for a conference, died of suffocation.", "Joy Watson was left with a broken eye socket following the attack at a roadside cafe.", "Sir Kim Darroch steps down as Boris Johnson faces criticism for not fully backing him.", "Stephen Nicholson tells a court he did not rape or murder 13-year-old Lucy McHugh.", "Theresa May faces questions from Jeremy Corbyn as reaction pours in to Sir Kim Darroch's resignation.", "The British ambassador to the United States resigned from his role on Wednesday.", "MPs are debating the controversial legislation that seeks to push back the next assembly election.", "Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet at Wimbledon for the first time in 11 years after reaching the semi-finals.", "Sir James is reported to have paid £43m for the flat, following the move of his company's HQ to Singapore.", "The machines, which have been used by the NHS, were recently found to have a security vulnerability.", "The government's spending watchdog says there is \"little to show\" following the botched deal.", "The Department for Work and Pensions says the minister was wrong to say victims would not have to pay.", "Headmaster Aled Rees writes to parents after pupils copy the hit TV show and \"pair\" each other off.", "All flights were suspended for more than two hours due to an air traffic control problem.", "New Zealand shock India in a thrilling World Cup semi-final at Old Trafford.", "The coastguard says the pleasure boat was taking on water rapidly three miles off Pembrokeshire.", "A nurse in chronic pain is told she will have to wait at least three years for NHS treatment.", "Opposition growing to policy of charging overseas patients upfront for NHS care in England.", "Bonfire builders say there is no need for the council to intervene after tyres are removed from two sites.", "At least 20% of the most common gulls carry the bacteria, which scientists fear can be passed on to humans.", "The rapper says she has \"better educated\" herself amid a human rights backlash.", "The contenders for Conservative Party leadership, and PM, row over the date the UK will leave the EU.", "The US pop star reclaims pole position on a \"Celebrity 100\" list she last topped in 2016.", "The UK's \"ramshackle\" approach means emissions are not being cut fast enough, advisers say,", "Andy Murray and Serena Williams' box office partnership at Wimbledon continues with another straight-set win in the mixed doubles.", "The British star of stage and screen and father to fellow actor Toby dies at the age of 91.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson made the comments after MPs voted to change same-sex marriage and abortion law.", "MPs vote by the thinnest of margins to make it harder for a future PM to prorogue Parliament.", "Julian Dunkerton, back at the helm of the High Street brand, says he is attempting to \"steady the ship\".", "Andy Murray and Serena Williams are out of the Wimbledon mixed doubles after the stellar pairing lose to top seeds Bruno Soares and Nicole Melichar.", "A recovery in car production helped the economy grow 0.3% in May after declining 0.4% in April.", "The German chancellor insists there is no need to worry despite the third incident inside a month.", "The water was pumped out during sea trials and HMS Queen Elizabeth returned to Portsmouth.", "BBC News NI assesses the impact of Parliament's vote to legalise same-sex marriage and abortion in NI.", "A girl from war-torn Yemen who had an aggressive tumour in her eye has been fitted with a prosthetic.", "Lord Triesman, Labour's former general secretary, says life in the party has become \"sickening\".", "Captain Eoin Morgan believes his England side could not be better prepared for Thursday's World Cup semi-final against Australia.", "This wasn't Tommy Hodgson's first jump as he trained with the Parachute Regiment in World War Two.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt traded jibes over Brexit, tax and their personalities in a feisty debate on ITV.", "Inadequate assessment of inmates eligible for release is putting public safety at risk, a report says.", "Flights were suspended for 30 hours after the multiple drone sightings at Gatwick Airport in December.", "An inquiry finds that \"unacceptable behaviour\" by \"known offenders\" has been tolerated.", "Brexit, Trump and bad-tempers in TV debate.", "Three people are said to have survived after the vessel sank off the town of Zarzis.", "She wants thousands of people to make \"an incredible vibration\" that \"might just change the world\".", "The Brexit Party MEP compared leaving the EU to \"slaves\" rising up \"against their owners\".", "As the government consults on making Changing Places toilets mandatory in public buildings, campaigners tell the BBC why they are necessary.", "The officer who shot dead London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt says he feared Butt would kill him.", "It's after a report found smoking is being shown more on Netflix than on popular shows on US TV.", "Alek Sigley was freed after a meeting between Swedish diplomats and the North Korean government.", "The government has announced tough stake limits on fixed-odds betting machines, sometimes called the \"crack cocaine\" of gambling.", "Thousands of ethnic minority Muslim children undergo \"cultural re-engineering\" in giant boarding schools.", "Kay Smith wants the terminally ill to be given assistance to die to spare them an \"awful\" death.", "Royal Marines boarded the tanker en route to Syria, amid concerns it was breaching EU sanctions.", "Families of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash want to know why the Boeing 737 Max was allowed to fly.", "Kazakhs tell the BBC they and their relatives are being jailed in camps China says are for training.", "Teenage qualifier Coco Gauff's fairytale run at Wimbledon continues with an emphatic second-round win over Magdalena Rybarikova.", "Beijing tells the UK not to \"interfere in its domestic affairs\" after protests in the former colony.", "Carl Beech tells jurors the boy was deliberately run over and he never saw him again.", "After more than 400 years, the oldest building firm in Britain, R Durtnell and Sons, has ceased trading.", "The Ex-English Defence League leader is accused of contempt of court by filming defendants.", "She says the authorities did not believe she would not be performing a solo public concert.", "The London estate agent disappeared 33 years ago and her body has never been found.", "The BBC gets rare access to facilities in Xinjiang thought to be holding more than a million Muslims.", "The first commercial hunt in 33 years went ahead despite an international outcry.", "Richard Selley, who has Motor Neurone Disease, has written to MSPs calling for assisted death to be legalised in Scotland.", "Tammy Minshall was in the back of the ambulance which was in a crash with a car in Needwood.", "The investment will fund an electric version of the XJ model, helping to secure 2,700 jobs.", "Nkululeko Zulu tells a tribunal he suffered years of racist abuse while serving in the Army.", "The figures are 10 times higher than the general population, making support vital, a study says.", "Egypt called for the auction of the relic - which it says was stolen during the 1970s - to be cancelled.", "Europe's biggest conservation charity will sell its fossil fuel shares and invest in green start-ups.", "The problem had also affected Instagram and Messenger, affecting access to media and other files.", "The Norwegian singer will meet Nina, 13, who was overcome with emotion during her Glastonbury set.", "Thirteen students and one staff member were banned from campus during a visit by the Queen.", "A state of emergency has been declared in the city of Ridgecrest as firefighters battle flames.", "Attacks on tankers in the Gulf drew the US in the 1980s - now it could be even more dangerous.", "A fire engulfs two warehouses in Kentucky containing 45,000 barrels of bourbon.", "The reality star says the company is \"notorious\" for \"knocking off\" designer items she wears.", "Bold decisions are needed to improve the way forces work, the chief inspector of constabulary says.", "Take control of this special 1000th episode of BBC Click - a first-of-its-kind interactive experiment that puts you in the director’s chair as you decide what stories to watch and as the show changes to suit you.", "Friends say Gareth Delbridge was a \"big family man\" and Michael Lewis was a \"great guy\".", "The victim was reportedly killed while hiking towards the volcano's summit.", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman says others will decide if she is \"ultimately responsible\".", "Jeremy Hunt says his team had believed his chance against Boris Johnson to be \"a very long shot\".", "Chelsea name Frank Lampard, who spent 13 years at Stamford Bridge as a player, as their manager on a three-year deal.", "The UK's biggest betting firms agree to contribute more money to fund problem gambler treatment.", "From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister to tension in the time of President Trump.", "A diabetic teenager has been refusing treatment and says she wants to die.", "Theresa May urges her potential successors to \"think creatively\" about how to ensure the UK stays together.", "The light-headed feeling is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, known as orthostatic hypotension.", "Greek fire survivors confront the defence minister, saying they waited hours for help from authorities.", "A close associate of the Brexit donor Arron Banks has raised questions about whether he had business contacts with Russia.", "Five men appear in court charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.", "The professional fighter pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and must undergo anger management.", "As UK temperatures soar above 30C, we hear from those struggling to find shelter from the sun.", "A couple are in a bitter fight for custody of their grandchildren after their son was killed in China.", "The wife of a \"fat cat international banker\" is battling against an Unexplained Wealth Order.", "England's green and pleasant lands are turning brown.", "The exact location of the discovery - estimated to be worth more than £50,000 - is being kept under wraps.", "Social media users are asking why the controversial YouTuber is appearing on Charlie Sloth's show.", "The Arctic Monkeys receive their fourth nomination as the Mercury Prize reveals its shortlist.", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh could be tried in the US and face the death penalty.", "The EU's chief Brexit negotiator rejects a key element of Theresa May's proposals for future trade.", "How does the 2018 heatwave compare to, and differ from, the heatwave of 1976?", "Compare the temperature in your area to other locations in the UK and around the world.", "Temperatures hit 35C as the Met Office predicts the UK's all-time record could be beaten this week.", "Police say the blast was caused by a \"suspected firecracker device\" and only the attacker was hurt.", "Charlotte Brown, 24, died after falling in the River Thames on her first date with Jack Shepherd.", "On their first mixed tour, Barcelona's men flew first class while the women were seated elsewhere.", "At least 83 people have been killed and dozens more are missing in one of Greece's worst-ever wildfire disasters.", "Ellie Soutter, one of Britain's most talented young snowboarders, dies on her 18th birthday.", "The government is reviewing the scheduling of cannabis. What is the current situation?", "Nurses have complained on social media their pay went up by much less than their union had promised.", "Boys are more likely to keep the same group of friends, research suggests.", "The social media ads that helped Vote Leave win the EU referendum are published in full for the first time.", "The BBC was also seeking leave to appeal against the privacy case ruling but it has been refused.", "With the US placing tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, how are the countries affected responding?", "An independent FA inquiry into sex abuse in football finds no evidence of an institutionalised conspiracy.", "Officials were alarmed when applications flooded in after mistaken reports the city needed ninjas.", "There are \"serious indications\" the blaze that killed 83 was started deliberately, a minister says.", "The black hole at the centre of our galaxy has helped astronomers confirm a key prediction of Albert Einstein's ideas.", "The decision on whether to spend more on this case is a difficult dilemma for the corporation.", "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson sends a heartfelt video message thanking hospitals after surgery.", "Children shouldn't be able to buy heavier models that can do more damage, ministers say.", "Match of the Day host Gary Lineker says no one voted \"for the mess we seem to be in\".", "The social media firm's shares were hit by news that growth in monthly active users is slowing.", "Reece is 13 and has been excluded six times. He now attends a Pupil Referral Unit.", "A ruling over coverage of a raid on the singer's home puts press freedom at stake, the BBC argues.", "Self-balancing electric skates designed by Segway will not be allowed on the pavement in the UK.", "The actress urges soul-searching after a train attack, though it is unclear if race was a motive.", "Kaitlan Collins was barred from an event after asking President Trump \"inappropriate\" questions.", "Families of epileptic children welcomed the move, which does not change rules on recreational use.", "Councils often chase debts \"over-zealously\", the Treasury Select Committee says as it calls for change.", "Ex-Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says he would \"not be sitting here today\" without the \"great care\" of hospital staff.", "Crews have the fire under control after evacuating about 50 people from the five-storey building.", "After meeting Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Trump hails a \"very big day for free and fair trade\".", "General Motors lowers its profit forecast, blaming rising costs for steel and aluminium due to tariffs.", "Dr Kenneth Milner would have been interviewed over rape and child cruelty at a psychiatric hospital.", "Video shows people taking refuge in the sea as they try to escape wildfires in the area of Rafina.", "The families of two children are seeking medical cannabis to help stop their seizures.", "Met officers ignored early chances to catch serial killer Stephen Port who murdered four young men.", "The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommends rules should be changed for these drugs, if safe.", "Eurotunnel says air conditioning problems meant some carriages could not be used, leading to delays.", "Charity ADHD Action is calling on the government to formally record adult ADHD figures.", "Shares in the e-commerce giant jump on record profits, driven by online sales and its cloud services.", "The fall in Facebook's shares wiped more than $120bn off the company's market value on Thursday.", "It follows high-profile cases involving children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil.", "The BBC programme opened with footage of former cricketer Wasim Akram but referred to him as Imran Khan.", "The run-up has been been marred by claims of pre-poll rigging, intimidation and a muzzled media.", "The 101-year-old was one of the last surviving female pilots from World War Two.", "US congresswoman Ilhan Omar responds to chants of \"send her back\" at a Trump rally in North Carolina.", "The move follows the sacking of Baroness Hayter after she criticised the handling of anti-Semitism claims.", "The former Beatle is working on a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.", "The online fashion giant says sales growth has been held back by warehouse problems in the US and Europe.", "\"America’s united efforts to curb opioid use disorder and addiction are working,\" a statement reads.", "Supporters of the measure hope to stop a future PM bypassing Parliament to push through a no deal.", "The victim was racially abused while travelling with his young daughter on the Borders Railway.", "Hashem Abedi is set to appear in a UK court charged with killing 22 in the 2017 attack, police say.", "Baroness Hayter criticised the Labour leader's team for having a \"bunker mentality\".", "The sighting in a garden near Duthie Park is thought to be the first since the 1970s.", "The House of Commons' Science and Technology raises concerns about accuracy and bias.", "Less than one in 10 offences saw someone charged or summonsed to appear in court, figures show.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says Theresa May never told him she was willing to leave without one.", "The video streaming pioneer blamed price rises for adding fewer paid subscribers than hoped.", "The charge will wipe out profits, but Boeing says it hopes the aircraft will resume flying this year.", "Governor Ricardo Roselló is urged to quit after leaked sexist, profane and homophobic text messages.", "Aliny Godinho was murdered by her ex-husband Ricardo in front of their three-year-old daughter.", "The Office for Budget Responsibility says borrowing could surge if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.", "The brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi appears before Westminster magistrates.", "The measure aims to stop a future PM bypassing Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit.", "The probe will check if water, ventilation and drainage systems at the Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh are safe.", "Chris Froome is named winner of the 2011 Vuelta a Espana after Juan Jose Cobo is stripped of the title over doping irregularities.", "Senior Tories seeking to avoid leaving the EU without a deal, are looking at a radical plan, Newsnight learns.", "People who attack emergency services are not getting harsh sentences despite a new law, an MP says.", "Nearly two million cubic metres of sand is being shifted to a stretch of the Norfolk coast to protect it from the sea.", "Former education secretary says school funding should not be part of a battle over the PM's legacy.", "In a UK first, a 7m high barrier of sand is being created to help stop the coastline from crumbling.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt make their last pitches to Conservative members before voting closes.", "Cancer Research warns people in the UK to protect their skin at home and not only when they are away.", "The three golfing sons of Northern Ireland who helped bring a major championship to north Antrim.", "The group of Israelis, aged from 15 to 20, has been remanded in custody.", "Composer Zosha Di Castri spills the beans on her latest work, which launches the BBC Proms on Friday.", "Marcin Porczyk disappeared after a night out and was found by workers near Swansea marina.", "Ritaj and Rital were born joined at the head. They're reunited with the doctors who saved their lives.", "Family members and friends have described their loved ones and paid tribute to their lives.", "The Beerepoot siblings in Tasmania are ordered to pay more than A$2m for failing to pay income tax.", "The government is set to add the Paralympics to the 'crown jewels' list of sports that must be screened live on free-to-air television.", "The number of likes is a measure of how well content is doing on the social media platform.", "The regulator says water firms must also invest billions more in improving services between 2020 and 2025.", "An Albanian says his photo was used without permission, but the European Commission disputes this.", "The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the average temperature was 61.6F (16.4C).", "Schools and colleges urgently need billions more in funding, a committee of MPs says.", "Julie James says some developments in Wales will have a \"whole pile of problems\" in years to come.", "Jens Stoltenberg calls on Russia to comply with the INF nuclear treaty before an August deadline.", "Heads warn of a funding crisis - and the education secretary says he hears the message \"loud and clear\".", "Lap dancers who fear their jobs are under threat have joined a union in a Scottish first.", "The \"horrendous\" two-car crash in Stevenage came at a gathering where there were modified vehicles.", "Prosecutors say they dropped the case after the accuser refused to testify about his missing phone.", "The Royal Society tells the Tory leadership candidates the UK collaborates more with the EU than the US.", "PC Avi Maharaj was alone at the family home of a dead child when he used their TV account to buy porn.", "The ad urged shoppers to surprise female secretaries with a gift of a wine, chocolate and condoms.", "Theresa May says \"it's not fair\" parents have to return to work before their baby leaves hospital.", "Rory McIlroy makes a quadruple bogey on the first hole and triple bogey at the last as his bid for a home Open victory at Royal Portrush is left in tatters.", "An advocate for the homeless says using children's song Baby Shark as a deterrent is \"inhumane\".", "Zac Cox fell 130ft while working on a stadium ahead of the 2022 World Cup.", "The UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed\", says a UN-commissioned report on the UK.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell wants Labour to back a second referendum \"sooner rather than later\".", "Fifteen-year-old Coco Gauff is out of Wimbledon following a 6-3 6-3 defeat by Simona Halep in the last 16.", "The judge told drink-driver Victoria Parry she would have gone \"straight down\" to jail if she was a man.", "A security firm says deepfaked audio is being used to steal millions of pounds.", "Mandla Maseko, from South Africa, won a chance to become the first black African in space.", "A lawsuit claims a mix-up at a California fertility clinic meant a woman delivered the wrong children.", "The US star says she is \"still processing a lot\" after becoming upset during a concert.", "Carwyn Jones was giving evidence at the inquest of sacked minister Carl Sargeant.", "Unions back a referendum in all scenarios with voters being given the option to remain in the EU.", "Salih Khater drove at police officers before crashing his car outside Parliament, his trial is told.", "The firm hopes new anti-bullying measures will help prevent abuse but stresses work is still ongoing.", "The Met Police are asked to look into the leak of emails calling the Trump administration \"inept\".", "The justice secretary says he will quit if the next Tory leader pursues leaving the EU without a deal.", "Five people were freed after being arrested at the event which attracted about 600 ravers.", "Two Americans and a Spaniard are hospitalised with bull injuries at the popular Spanish event.", "The proportion of children with autism in Northern Ireland schools has almost trebled in a decade.", "The businessman founded the High Street retailer as Penny's in 1969 in his home country of Ireland.", "Five people were hurt when a van crashed into the queue at a community centre in Kirk Hallam.", "Vulnerable tenants have been forced to sign over benefits in return for accommodation, police believe.", "The civil servant previously in charge of Brexit-planning tells the BBC no deal is fraught with risk.", "The 15-year-old girl was crossing Glenburn Road in Paisley with friends when she was struck by a car.", "The campaigner is the latest celebrity to settle with News Group Newspapers over phone-hacking.", "Storms flooded the Washington DC metro area, snarling the morning commute and stranding drivers.", "Newsnight reveals a letter from more than 50 MPs urging a stronger line on teaching about same-sex relationships.", "The German lender will exit the share trading business, much of which is in London and New York.", "The Brexit-backing MP caused controversy within her party during the 2016 referendum.", "Johanna Konta keeps alive hopes of a first British women's singles champion at Wimbledon for 42 years by reaching the quarter-finals.", "Carl Beech, 51, has refused to give the surname for a boy he claims was abused alongside him.", "More than 700 viewers complained that Maura Higgins \"sexually harassed\" Tommy Fury last month.", "The airline and pilots' union will hold talks to avoid a potentially disruptive summer walkout.", "The airline has said how hackers accessed customer data, but there are a variety of possible methods.", "Mum-of-three Alishia Curry says a loan company claimed her Universal Credit payments.", "Robyn Fryar, 15, was crossing Glenburn Road in Paisley with friends when she was struck by a car.", "After praising revolutionary rebels for seizing \"airports\", Mr Trump said the autocue went \"kaput\".", "YouTuber Daniel Howell told the BBC the fight to being accepted as LGBT is far from over.", "But PM disagrees with the assessment of the Trump administration, which was called \"inept\".", "They are due to appear in court on Monday after police seized explosive substances in Ballymena.", "The USA win the Women's World Cup for the fourth time after beating the Netherlands 2-0 in Sunday's final.", "One Jaguar Land Rover worker was taken to hospital and 27 were assessed by ambulance crews.", "Kylie Minogue, Sheryl Crow and Lewis Capaldi show support for a campaign against \"throwaway fashion\".", "The outgoing prime minister seemed like the figure of change in 2015 but he hopelessly overpromised.", "The British foreign secretary responds to leaked emails by the UK ambassador that call Trump \"inept\".", "Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson trade blows over Europe and US diplomatic row in fractious ITV encounter.", "A charity loses a High Court legal challenge against the use of children as informants by police.", "Supporters rally around the election winner's party headquarters in Athens.", "Newsnight learns that most staff planning for no deal were stood down, but may be reinstated before October.", "The Foreign Office will explore how memos from the UK's envoy in the US were published by a paper.", "Robyn Fryar, 15, was crossing Glenburn Road in Paisley with friends when she was struck by a car.", "A 23-year-old woman and a man, 28, are arrested over the crash on the M61.", "The scholarships will target those with academic potential but limited opportunities.", "The rapper is detained for at least a further two weeks over a fight in Stockholm.", "Legendary racing pundit John McCririck, who for many years was the face of British horse racing, dies at a London hospital aged 79.", "The Brexit Party MEP compared leaving the EU to \"slaves\" rising up \"against their owners\".", "The victim was found with gunshot wounds in Wembley on Friday and pronounced dead in hospital.", "Boris Johnson says it is \"not true\" sensitive information was withheld from him as foreign secretary.", "The family of a teenager found inside a burning car say friends haven't helped the investigation.", "An adviser to the supreme leader says Iran should retaliate, after the UK detained an Iranian oil tanker.", "Employers are urged to be vigilant after the UK's largest modern day slavery network is exposed.", "The presenter announces she is standing down after 13 years at the helm.", "Thousands of ethnic minority Muslim children undergo \"cultural re-engineering\" in giant boarding schools.", "President Donald Trump has hailed the \"brave men and women\" of the US military at 4 July event.", "The law graduate used Facebook to befriend children and incite them to commit sexual acts on camera.", "A 37-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of assault after the van struck people outside a hall.", "Miroslaw Lehmann was tricked into coming to the UK from Poland in 2014 with the promise of a job.", "We take a look at reaction in countries around the world to the news that Boris Johnson is the UK's top diplomat.", "Families of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash want to know why the Boeing 737 Max was allowed to fly.", "Kazakhs tell the BBC they and their relatives are being jailed in camps China says are for training.", "Carl Beech tells jurors the boy was deliberately run over and he never saw him again.", "After more than 400 years, the oldest building firm in Britain, R Durtnell and Sons, has ceased trading.", "Carl Beech tells a court he was \"ashamed\" and \"in denial\" about possessing indecent images of children.", "Officers investigating murders committed by Stephen Port were guilty of \"systemic failings\", but won't be disciplined.", "A small UK study found promising signs of a kinder, less invasive treatment for the disease.", "Monkstown is one of Antrim's most deprived areas, but a boxing club is helping youths fight back.", "The BBC gets rare access to facilities in Xinjiang thought to be holding more than a million Muslims.", "The record of the man who will be the UK's next prime minister.", "Why were there issues about the sharing of intelligence with Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary?", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman says she decided the risk of opening the hospital was too great.", "The man was stuck for six days in his Liverpool basement before being rescued.", "The former longest-serving health secretary hopes to beat Boris Johnson to the job of prime minister.", "British police suspended work with Eurofins Scientific after it was hit by a ransomware attack in June.", "Thirteen students and one staff member were banned from campus during a visit by the Queen.", "A state of emergency has been declared in the city of Ridgecrest as firefighters battle flames.", "The BBC's diplomatic correspondent assesses Boris Johnson's time at the Foreign Office.", "Conservative party leadership race 2022", "American 15-year-old Coco Gauff saves two match points in another astonishing display to extend her dream Wimbledon run into the last 16.", "The new prime minister will be chosen by 160,000 Tory party members - but what are the vote-winning issues?", "A heavily-pregnant woman lost the twins she was carrying after being viciously attacked by the father of the unborn children.", "Police believe portable phone charger may be to blame for the fire on the Virgin Atlantic flight.", "Take control of this special 1000th episode of BBC Click - a first-of-its-kind interactive experiment that puts you in the director’s chair as you decide what stories to watch and as the show changes to suit you.", "After praising revolutionary rebels for seizing \"airports\", Mr Trump said the autocue went \"kaput\".", "Six of the 14 officers killed in a fire on a secret Russian submersible are now state heroes.", "The chancellor says it would be \"shocking\" if the next prime minister tried to \"sideline\" Parliament.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt took part in a Conservative leadership hustings event in Perth.", "A government-owned bank is accused of forging signatures on court documents in repossession proceedings.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are pledging big tax cuts.", "The investment will fund an electric version of the XJ model, helping to secure 2,700 jobs.", "A diabetic teenager has been refusing treatment and says she wants to die.", "Reports of domestic abuse increase over the summer months, says the PSNI.", "Temperatures hit 35C as the Met Office predicts the UK's all-time record could be beaten this week.", "The rapper says she isn't ready to leave her baby after giving birth earlier this month.", "Greek fire survivors confront the defence minister, saying they waited hours for help from authorities.", "Jack Shepherd told police he never asked if Charlotte Brown could swim.", "The Metropolitan Police says it was responding to reports of a firearm.", "A man from Bristol has made his first visit to London since World War Two to mark his 100th birthday.", "For the first time in more than a quarter of a century, a British singer has topped the US R&B chart.", "John Schnatter is seeking documents about his exit from the company, after his use of the N-word.", "At least 83 people have been killed and dozens more are missing in one of Greece's worst-ever wildfire disasters.", "Ellie Soutter, one of Britain's most talented young snowboarders, dies on her 18th birthday.", "There's some chemistry to the pleasant smell of rain after a long, dry spell.", "The US president's former lawyer claims Donald Trump knew of a 2016 meeting with influential Russians.", "The Match of the Day presenter has called for a fresh referendum on any deal.", "The contracts, which were introduced three years ago, are not delivering the benefits they promised.", "In a letter to Ball in 1997, the prince called one of the victims a \"ghastly man\", the inquiry heard.", "People were told not to travel \"due to the extreme weather conditions and signalling failure\".", "The general also mocked the US president for using the language of \"night clubs and gambling halls\".", "He also sent letters and turned up at the house the presenter shares with husband Frank Lampard.", "Three people in a 4x4 and two Italian tourists in a minibus died in the head-on collision in Moray.", "The social media ads that helped Vote Leave win the EU referendum are published in full for the first time.", "The station says \"it doesn't feel right\" to broadcast the chat with the controversial YouTuber.", "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson sends a heartfelt video message thanking hospitals after surgery.", "Met officers ignored early chances to catch serial killer Stephen Port who murdered four young men.", "Shares in the TV network drop on allegations of sexual harassment by chairman Les Moonves.", "Shares in the e-commerce giant jump on record profits, driven by online sales and its cloud services.", "Thunderstorms move across the country as lightning strikes cause delays to East Coast rail services.", "The family were left \"terrified\" after the safari park bear \"chewed\" the car and no help came.", "Facebook is facing crisis and a leadership vacuum as concerns spread worldwide.", "The US basketball star says he works to reassure LeBron James Jr that he can \"take his own course\".", "The rescue centre said the birds had been placed in buckets of water to \"cool their feet down\".", "As UK temperatures soar above 30C, we hear from those struggling to find shelter from the sun.", "It follows high-profile cases involving children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil.", "A couple are in a bitter fight for custody of their grandchildren after their son was killed in China.", "An independent FA inquiry into sex abuse in football finds no evidence of an institutionalised conspiracy.", "Jennifer Caldwell was selling tickets for a London musical when she was asked to stand in and perform.", "From priest to labourer, 10 UK workers told us what it is like to wear a uniform in hot weather.", "The Gossip Girl actor vehemently denied sexual assault allegations that were filed in Los Angeles.", "Millions of UK employees do not get the time off work they are legally entitled to, says union body.", "England's green and pleasant lands are turning brown.", "The actress urges soul-searching after a train attack, though it is unclear if race was a motive.", "Dominic Cummings is ordered to appear before a select committee's inquiry into fake news by 20 June.", "Lucy McHugh's body was found in woodland in Southampton on Thursday morning.", "The technology meltdown at TSB earlier this year has cost the bank £176m.", "There's a weather warning in parts of north and eastern England for heavy rain. It has already hit some areas such as Doncaster, where this downpour on Thursday evening was caught on camera.", "Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh could be tried in the US and face the death penalty.", "The gang members, all aged 15, are handed life sentences for killing Jacob Abraham in December.", "How does the 2018 heatwave compare to, and differ from, the heatwave of 1976?", "Facial recognition technology needs more diverse data, a top Google executive tells the BBC.", "The EU's chief Brexit negotiator rejects a key element of Theresa May's proposals for future trade.", "Carrie Fisher and Richard E Grant will appear in the ninth instalment of the franchise.", "Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he has \"never been in favour of Mr Assange's activity\".", "The Oscar-winning star says he was \"disgusted, busted and not to be trusted\" while drinking.", "Satellite imagery appears to show Pyongyang has demolished buildings at the Sohae rocket launch site.", "There are \"serious indications\" the blaze that killed 83 was started deliberately, a minister says.", "The Queen was in residence at the time of the incident, in the early hours of Wednesday.", "A probe into how MPs treat their staff says behaviour has been \"tolerated and accepted for too long\".", "Researchers have found the earliest example of our species outside Africa.", "Police on the Greek island say Suzanne Eaton, who was there for a conference, died of suffocation.", "Police had warned there was a risk of violence if the council tried to dismantle the Avoniel bonfire.", "All flights were suspended for more than two hours due to an air traffic control problem.", "General secretary Jennie Formby accuses deputy leader of \"denigrating\" progress made against anti-Semitism.", "The university watchdog challenges a continuing rise in the proportion of first-class degrees.", "Bonfire builders say there is no need for the council to intervene after tyres are removed from two sites.", "There are 768 blocks of sea on offer across the main North Sea producing area and West of Shetland.", "Emergency crews retrieve the bodies and rescue two survivors in rough seas off New South Wales.", "Singer Mina from Korean group Twice will get treatment and rest instead of going on a world tour.", "For the first time, no airports are given a \"poor\" rating by the industry regulator.", "A coroner rules Labour's Carl Sargeant killed himself after allegations of inappropriate behaviour.", "Captain Eoin Morgan believes his England side could not be better prepared for Thursday's World Cup semi-final against Australia.", "Police say the man dropped nearly 200ft, but was found on river rocks below with no major injuries.", "The US president says the UK ambassador is \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.", "Twenty young people will take charge of restoring the natural habitat, alongside producing food.", "An adviser to the supreme leader says Iran should retaliate, after the UK detained an Iranian oil tanker.", "The outgoing prime minister says more information about injustice will lead to better policies.", "Mississippi Republican Robert Foster rejects interview with unaccompanied female reporter.", "Jill McDonald will leave the company after criticism over the availability of fashion products.", "Inspectors find drugs are \"too readily available\" at the UK's largest prison, HMP Berwyn.", "The Department for Work and Pensions says the minister was wrong to say victims would not have to pay.", "Serena Williams makes light work of Barbora Strycova to reach the Wimbledon final and stand one win away from a 24th Grand Slam singles title.", "Attacks on tankers in the Gulf drew the US in the 1980s - now it could be even more dangerous.", "The 50th anniversary of David Bowie's Space Oddity is being marked by a new Ziggy Stardust-inspired doll.", "The German chancellor insists there is no need to worry despite the third incident inside a month.", "The Virgin boss tells the BBC a no-deal Brexit would be \"devastating\" for his company.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's baby was delivered after she was attacked at home but died days later.", "Dingwall suffered flooding on Wednesday and forecasters warn parts of Scotland could see further downpours.", "The party's deputy leader says he is \"shocked\" and \"appalled\" by allegations made in a BBC documentary.", "They are holding talks with Buccleuch over its plans to sell 25,000 acres of its Borders Estate.", "Many tourists are flocking to the sacred indigenous site in Australia before it is no longer possible.", "Sir Kim Darroch steps down as Boris Johnson faces criticism for not fully backing him.", "The British ambassador to the United States resigned from his role on Wednesday.", "CHA Fertility Center allegedly implanted their embryo into a different woman, who gave up the child.", "Conservationists say plans for a launch site in North Uist threaten a \"pristine section of wild Atlantic coastline\".", "A nurse in chronic pain is told she will have to wait at least three years for NHS treatment.", "Plastic-backed appliances pose a fire risk and should be removed from sale, the consumer group says.", "A primary school is closed after a survey warns of a \"medium\" risk of a quarry spoil slip.", "England surge into their first World Cup final for 27 years with a sensational eight-wicket demolition of Australia at Edgbaston", "Apple has disabled Walkie-Talkie mode after a security flaw was found.", "Bjørn Kjos, one of the founders of the low-cost airline, stands down after 17 years in charge.", "Hailstorms and gale-force winds leave seven dead and dozens injured in the region of Halkidiki.", "Nearly 240,000 England school leavers try for university, but applicant numbers in the rest of the UK fall.", "The 10-month-old died in hospital after the incident at Bright Horizons Nursery in Edinburgh.", "The rocket carrying a satellite is believed to have landed in the sea, the first failure in 15 launches.", "Blockbusters including James Bond and Mission Impossible are also shot at the studios.", "Labour's deputy leader says it's time to bring in \"sunlight\" to \"disinfect\" the party.", "A judge rules the 2012 shooting of unarmed Anthony Grainger was legally justified but criticises police.", "Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan says investigations are focused on a leak, not a hack.", "The giant block of ice has spun around and is now moving north along the Antarctic Peninsula.", "The former child star played the gum-chewing brat in 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.", "Even going electric won't stop cars polluting city streets, government advisers say.", "Seven people, including six tourists, have been killed in a violent storm that swept across a region of northern Greece.", "Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet at Wimbledon for the first time in 11 years after reaching the semi-finals.", "Relatives of victims of 2018's Lion Air crash signed forms stopping them taking legal action, lawyers say.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson made the comments after MPs voted to change same-sex marriage and abortion law.", "Facebook's way of sending data from the EU to the US will be challenged in the EU's top court later.", "A no-deal Brexit is perceived as more likely, but banks are still resilient, says the Bank of England.", "BBC News NI assesses the impact of Parliament's vote to legalise same-sex marriage and abortion in NI.", "Almost two years since 700,000 Rohingyas fled violence in Myanmar, there's no sign of them returning.", "Experts say there is no alarm, despite a high level of caesium at a Soviet-era submarine wreck.", "Climate change campaigners use colourful boats to stop traffic and urge the government to \"act now\".", "England win the men's World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a super over in one of the most incredible games in cricket history.", "Who are the four US congresswomen who President Trump told to \"go back\" to their countries?", "Test captain Joe Root says England are halfway to reaching the cricket \"pinnacle\" of winning a World Cup and Ashes double.", "Yellow-vest protesters formed barricades and lit fires after the annual military event in Paris.", "The 1,000ft skyscraper is rejected by Sadiq Khan who says it would have \"limited public benefit\".", "The president's suggestion that four politicians leave the country has prompted an outpouring of stories.", "Videos of grandparents' reactions to the Cricket World Cup final capture joy at the once in a lifetime win.", "Louai Ali told jurors the zombie knife used to kill Sidali Mohamed was bought for £50 via Instagram.", "England's stunning victory in a champagne super over was a very English way to win a World Cup, writes Tom Fordyce.", "New tools to fight online scams are launched after a legal action by TV personality Martin Lewis.", "England captain Eoin Morgan says he \"never allowed\" himself to imagine lifting the World Cup.", "\"Europe's GPS\" remains offline as it grapples with a technical glitch in its ground infrastructure.", "The BBC has been given rare access to Iran to gauge the public mood as tensions with the US deepen.", "Liam Fox wants to train new trade negotiators. Opponents say it is a last-minute scramble.", "There was an increase in hoarding coins during the \"tumultuous\" reign of the queen, an expert says.", "The World Health Organization says the news could be a game-changer because of the population density.", "As MPs and peers call for an overhaul of whistleblowing laws, a former teacher explains why she took action.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "Cyclist Scott Walker, 43, died after being found seriously injured on a road in Fife last week.", "The Spanish carrier's UK departures were delayed by an average of 31 minutes last year, research shows.", "Karl Shiels appeared in RTE's Fair City and had roles in Batman Begins and Peaky Blinders.", "Prof Catriona Matheson will advise on policies to tackle Scotland's rising number of drug deaths.", "Imports of waste oil from Asia, intended to cut carbon from transport, are linked to rising levels of deforestation", "Fans worldwide said New Zealand's Black Caps had lost the Cricket World Cup, but \"won our hearts\".", "Jacquie says it was like a fire ripping through her family after five relatives died because of drug addiction.", "China's economy has been slowing despite Beijing's efforts to boost spending and cut taxes.", "Why Iran's nuclear agreement is facing its most fundamental challenge yet.", "Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib describe conditions at US facilities at the southern border.", "England's director of cricket Ashley Giles says he is unconcerned about claims England were awarded one run too many in their World Cup final win over New Zealand.", "Five men are arrested on suspicion of affray after the crash in south-west London.", "Gerald Matovu, who sold drugs to serial killer Stephen Port, gave his victim an overdose of GHB.", "The brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly, an earlier inquest heard.", "Mike Ashley's company says \"uncertain\" trading at House of Fraser is part of the reason for the delay.", "Alan Turing's achievements should make him a household name says \"father of the internet\" Vint Cerf.", "Those who love cricket cannot have asked for any more from England's World Cup final victory, says Jonathan Agnew.", "Stars and politicians are campaigning for a non-white scientist to feature on the new £50 note.", "Officials say there is no evidence for far-right claims foreigners have killed thousands of Germans.", "The 19-year-old was detained after the victim, 22, died from stab wounds on a street in Greenwich.", "How debit cards have replaced cash as the most popular way to pay in the UK - in graphics.", "Watch the moment that Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win England the World Cup.", "Jeremy Hunt says the language was \"totally offensive\", while Boris Johnson says it was \"unacceptable\".", "At the Made in America showcase, Mr Trump responds to questions about the meaning behind his tweets.", "England's cricket world cup-winning squad hails from across the country and around the globe.", "Thousands of workers are calling for better conditions as the retail giant's annual sale starts.", "A \"Fat Controller\" figure should lead operations, says the man tasked with improving the railways.", "Sadiq Khan says \"there's never any excuse for criminality\" but that poverty is a factor.", "England's World Cup-winning cricket team meet British Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street.", "People have to \"wake up to the greatness\" of Novak Djokovic after he won his 16th Grand Slam, says Boris Becker.", "Watch the moment Eoin Morgan and England lift the Cricket World Cup trophy after a dramatic sudden-death super over against New Zealand at Lord's.", "Extinction Rebellion protesters are in Cardiff city centre, blocking the road outside the castle.", "It comes as party staff demand an apology from Jeremy Corbyn on Labour's response to Panorama programme.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt face questions from Sun newspaper readers as race enters last week.", "More than 130 people have been killed in Nepal, Bangladesh and India amid flooding and landslides.", "A few months ago the World Cup wasn't even on the radar of England's new bowling star Jofra Archer - but did he just predict the most nail-biting match in history?", "Sara Khan, hired by the government to tackle extremism, says teachers should have had more support.", "Unlike the riotous 2005 Ashes celebrations, England's World Cup parade at The Oval was a much more family-friendly affair.", "Freckles approached a team of divers for help after getting hooks embedded under her eye.", "From Lapland in the Arctic Circle to the southern island of Gotland, dozens of fires are raging.", "Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga walked 35 metres off the ground in front of hundreds of people in Paris.", "He has been treated in hospital for serious burns to his arm and face, police said.", "More drugs are being prescribed to young people in Britain, despite concerns about potential harm.", "The bank says plans to set up a new hub on the banks of the Clyde will double its Scottish workforce.", "Francesco Molinari becomes the first Italian to win a major, holding off a pack of heavyweight names to claim The Open Championship at Carnoustie.", "There's been a rise in the number of families in England who work but are still homeless, says charity.", "Poorer and middle income families have not seen incomes rise since 2003, new research suggests.", "Minister faces questions over the UK's stance on two IS suspects from London facing a possible US trial.", "But preparations have begun in case negotiations end without agreement, Brexit secretary says.", "Ex-Southampton FC coach Bob Higgins was accused of assaulting 24 boys between 1971 and 1996.", "All of the UK will have full-fibre broadband coverage by 2033 under a new national telecoms strategy.", "Six people are arrested after the attack in a room at Manchester's Beetham Tower.", "Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is among the novels on this year's longlist.", "Germany's football association rejects allegations of racism from Mesut Ozil but accepts it could have done more to protect him from abuse.", "A woman admits misleading customers who paid for secured storage for their cars - which were left in fields.", "The three-year-old, who was attacked at a Home Bargains store, suffered burns to his arm and face.", "Temperatures peak at 41.1C (106F), as officials issue a new warning to stay safe.", "There is no guarantee that the products you recycle are actually recycled, the UK watchdog warns.", "Advanced X-ray machines are on trial that can detect explosives and screen items inside bags.", "Faking a murder: The assassin, the police, the victim and his wife explain how they convinced the world it was real.", "Drivers must meet minimum standards, including being able to read a number plate from 20m.", "The foreign secretary says the EU must change its Brexit approach as the UK is \"not going to blink\".", "One in 25 children fell into the category when they left primary school last year, figures show.", "Captured members of a notorious Islamic State cell...", "A drug that can stop people getting recurrent bouts of malaria has been approved by regulators in the United States.", "The UK's largest supermarket group is thought to be planning to challenge discounters Aldi and Lidl.", "Tens of thousands of people hold a protest against a recent law denying surrogacy to gay couples.", "The woman was praying when a 100kg (220lb) stone fell just a few feet away.", "The Irish airline is forced to improve its pay as staff take strike action to get a better deal.", "The 104 page document sets out the UK's proposed relationship with the EU after Brexit.", "The 1963 demo tape features a 16-year-old Bowie singing with his first band, The Konrads.", "\"Down valuations\" can lead to sales falling through and property chains collapsing.", "North Korea's nuclear programme has been a source of great concern for more than 20 years.", "A penalty shootout in a Scottish League Cup tie finally produced the result that comedian Eric Morecambe predicted.", "Lee Savage met his victims on the dating website and mounted a persistent campaign to rape them.", "Satellite imagery appears to show Pyongyang has demolished buildings at the Sohae rocket launch site.", "Five ships are allowed to hunt up to 227 whales for profit, ending a three-decade pause despite criticism.", "The light aircraft veered into a hangar shortly after take-off at an airport near Dallas.", "It would be \"unacceptable\" for civil servants to discuss his health, Downing Street says.", "Stephanie Grisham struggles with Kim Jong-Un's staff to let US media into South Korea meeting.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's brother leads tributes to his pregnant sister who was stabbed to death.", "Nigel Farage pledges to scrap interest on tuition fees as he steps up preparations for a snap election.", "Live updates as Hong Kong police move in after protesters storm parliament building.", "It's time the Church of England reflected its many ethnic minority members, says Rose Hudson-Wilkin.", "Images from Hong Kong's Legislative Council as protesters break in and deface the council chamber.", "Carola Rackete ignored Italian orders and docked her Sea-Watch-3 vessel, clipping a patrol boat.", "How did Hong Kong's protesters - many barely out of their teens - manage to force the government's hand?", "BBC journalist Danny Vincent reports from inside parliament after protesters broke into the Legislative Council.", "The five ships that set sail are the first to commercially hunt whales in Japan in more than 30 years.", "The US president and North Korean leader meet at the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea.", "EU leaders have been holding marathon talks in an attempt to pick a successor to Jean-Claude Juncker.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "MPs say laws on political advertising and funding need to be updated for the digital age.", "A look at the prince's contribution to Wales during the 50 years since his investiture.", "Police have linked the money to criminal activity carried out by Chinese organised crime groups.", "A mother and her daughter are stopped over fears the 10-year-old was at risk of female genital mutilation abroad.", "The Treasury is urged to provide a \"front-loaded\" five-year fund to improve local roads in England.", "Jonny Bairstow hits a century as England reignite their World Cup campaign with a 31-run win over India.", "He had been suing Essex Police over his arrest following the death of Stuart Lubbock at his home.", "The end of the whisky plant in Kilmarnock led to the loss of about 700 jobs.", "Comic Omid Djalili upsets some people on social media with a joke about the Welsh language.", "Some fear they could run out of money for essential services like child protection and social care.", "Head coach Phil Neville says it would be considered a \"failure\" if England do not beat the USA and reach the Women's World Cup final.", "MPs warn that childcare in England risks becoming accessible only to the wealthy.", "Nominees for the top EU jobs must be a balance of nations and gender, Latvia's PM says.", "The Conservative ex-politician and journalist says he and his wife Frances remain \"good friends\".", "The leadership hopeful says he would give the EU three weeks to show willing before abandoning talks.", "The person is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi on Sunday afternoon.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be the first royals to visit the Islamic republic in 13 years.", "The conflict between mainland China and Hong Kong is playing out at college campuses across the US.", "The BBC's Allan Little sees a change in Scotland after 20 years of having its own parliament.", "The two leaders meet at the Demilitarized zone, an area that divides the two Koreas.", "Fifteen-year-old qualifier Cori Gauff beats five-time champion Venus Williams in a stunning first-round upset at Wimbledon.", "The Tory leadership candidate's team says there will be no change to how Scottish government funding is calculated.", "Huge group chats with real-time voting let demonstrators decide what steps to take next.", "The true scale of homelessness in the North East is largely hidden from view, according to Shelter.", "The star makes a triumphant return to Glastonbury, 14 years after cancer forced her to pull out.", "The reality star and designer does a U-turn following accusations of cultural appropriation.", "The TV presenter and the former Strictly star got wed in Las Vegas.", "The chancellor says pledges from the Tory leadership hopefuls \"greatly exceed\" the Treasury's coffers.", "Top seed Novak Djokovic starts his defence of the Wimbledon crown by beating Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets.", "The BBC's Nick Beake goes inside the Legislative Council to see the damage after activists broke in.", "Renewed hopes of a US-China trade deal see investors sell gold, while US stocks hit a fresh record.", "Janelle Monae, Billie Eilish, Christine and the Queens and Kylie make their mark on the festival.", "Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 26-year-old, whose baby is in a critical condition.", "England suffer heartbreak in the World Cup semi-final, losing 2-1 to defending champions the United States in Lyon.", "The event was billed as one of the biggest celebrations of LGBT pride in history.", "A debate on the issue was prompted by a petition from The Only Way Is Essex's Bobby Norris", "A day that started with champagne led to clashes between police and protesters – and ended with tear gas.", "An Amazon engineer uses machine learning to lock out his cat when it brings back prey in its mouth.", "He is the police force's fifth chief constable, succeeding Sir George Hamilton.", "The Department for Transport wants more charge points in the UK but hybrid vehicle sales have fallen.", "The ex-minister's wife says his farewell note is not an apology over accusations he faced.", "Dominic Grieve's attempt to stop the suspension of Parliament will not be put to a vote on Tuesday.", "Britain's Johanna Konta bids for a Wimbledon semi-final spot, while Andy Murray is in mixed doubles action with Serena Williams.", "The latest plan for replacing EU subsidies after Brexit rewards work such as planting trees.", "A lawsuit claims a mix-up at a California fertility clinic meant a woman delivered the wrong children.", "Advisers asked to find a solution to the Irish border Brexit problem run into immediate difficulties.", "Brexit uncertainty coupled with an economic slowdown has pushed sterling to April 2017 levels.", "Bonfire builders say there is no need for the council to intervene after tyres are removed from two sites.", "After the ambassador's emails row, will Mrs May's successor tackle, tame or tolerate Donald Trump?", "The clip of eight climbers making their way up a peak is being used to help analyse what went wrong.", "The contenders for Conservative Party leadership, and PM, row over the date the UK will leave the EU.", "Andy Murray and Serena Williams' box office partnership at Wimbledon continues with another straight-set win in the mixed doubles.", "An \"eye-opening\" fishing trip persuaded the owners \"there's not plenty more fish in the sea\".", "MPs vote by the thinnest of margins to make it harder for a future PM to prorogue Parliament.", "Get our news coverage on your phone or tablet and discover a range of compelling features.", "Johanna Konta fails in her bid to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals after an error-strewn display in a straight-set defeat by Barbora Strycova.", "Snowball went viral in 2008, but now scientists say he can teach us about dance and social behaviour.", "Unions back a referendum in all scenarios with voters being given the option to remain in the EU.", "More than 40 million households watched the show in its first four days, the streaming service says.", "The US president says the UK ambassador is \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.", "The firm hopes new anti-bullying measures will help prevent abuse but stresses work is still ongoing.", "The Met Police are asked to look into the leak of emails calling the Trump administration \"inept\".", "The London singer-songwriter is running a writing camp for LGBT artists.", "There was no jaw-dropping moment in ITV debate but both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will be happy.", "Jeremy Corbyn urges the next Tory PM to hold a vote, but doesn't say what he would do if he got to No 10.", "The businessman founded the High Street retailer as Penny's in 1969 in his home country of Ireland.", "Overall, ethnic minorities earn 3.8% less than white ethnic groups, the first official figures show.", "The UN's education agency says global targets on improving education are going to be missed.", "The ex-English Defence League leader's Facebook Live could have intimidated defendants, a judge says.", "The rapper says she has \"better educated\" herself amid a human rights backlash.", "The vessels, which were part of the German High Seas fleet, were deliberately scuttled 100 years ago.", "Researchers find that in US states that have legalised the drug, teen use has dropped.", "Identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience - this is why we are making greater efforts to explain what type of information you are reading or watching on our site.", "Skin from Skunk Anansie says the rapper's set was a \"wonderful moment for black culture\".", "The civil servant previously in charge of Brexit-planning tells the BBC no deal is fraught with risk.", "The family of the US actor has confirmed he died after suffering a seizure in his sleep.", "She's spoken about how she's struggled with criticism and why becoming a mum is making her take action.", "Storms flooded the Washington DC metro area, snarling the morning commute and stranding drivers.", "Flights were suspended for 30 hours after the multiple drone sightings at Gatwick Airport in December.", "The UK's data privacy regulator has said it plans to fine the US hotel group for a data breach.", "Johanna Konta keeps alive hopes of a first British women's singles champion at Wimbledon for 42 years by reaching the quarter-finals.", "The business pioneer twice ran for president as an independent in the 1990s.", "The rapper is detained for at least a further two weeks over a fight in Stockholm.", "The first head-to-head clash between the rivals saw some pointed and personal exchanges.", "The artefact was sold for £4.7m last week, despite Egypt warning it was probably stolen.", "Scotland's drug-related death toll may have hit a new record high of 1,200 in 2018, MPs are told.", "The new prime minister will be chosen by 160,000 Tory party members - but what are the vote-winning issues?", "The UK Foreign Office bans two Russian news agencies, accusing them of spreading misinformation.", "The Unite leader says Labour should trust Jeremy Corbyn to consult the party on its Brexit stance.", "Lord Triesman, Labour's former general secretary, says life in the party has become \"sickening\".", "Two other teenagers who also fell ill were taken to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment.", "The British foreign secretary responds to leaked emails by the UK ambassador that call Trump \"inept\".", "Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson trade blows over Europe and US diplomatic row in fractious ITV encounter.", "The Foreign Office will explore how memos from the UK's envoy in the US were published by a paper.", "Inadequate assessment of inmates eligible for release is putting public safety at risk, a report says.", "The Old Town Road star posted a string of LGBT themed tweets on the final day of 2019 Pride Month.", "The coastguard says the pleasure boat was taking on water rapidly three miles off Pembrokeshire.", "The UK's \"ramshackle\" approach means emissions are not being cut fast enough, advisers say,", "The BBC show's creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge says Fleabag isn't \"just for posh girls\".", "The naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says that climate change will make parts of Africa uninhabitable.", "Denmark plans controls on popular influencers after an Instagram star posted a suicide note.", "A \"straight pride\" group claimed they were victims of terrorism after they were sent glitter-filled envelopes.", "Music videos by Daddy Yankee, Rosalia and Maluma dominate YouTube's most-watched list for 2019.", "The shadow foreign secretary was cycling when she was involved in a collision in Westminster.", "CalMac ferries faces rising costs for complications and delays on two new ships, according to the owner of the shipyard where they are being built.", "Marcin Porczyk disappeared after a night out and was found by workers near Swansea marina.", "The murdered journalist's sister Nichola opens up about her family's experience the night of the murder.", "Brandon Rice, 17, became unwell in a house in Hamilton in the early hours of Wednesday.", "Algeria win the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time as a freak early goal secures a 1-0 win against Senegal in Cairo.", "Commuters have been \"let down by a programme that is well behind schedule\", a committee of MPs says.", "The charge will wipe out profits, but Boeing says it hopes the aircraft will resume flying this year.", "Composer Zosha Di Castri spills the beans on her latest work, which launches the BBC Proms on Friday.", "Samson D'Souza was found guilty of \"culpable homicide not amounting to murder\" by an Indian court.", "Zimbabwe netballers celebrate their top-eight finish at the World Cup by dancing their way on to BBC Two's TV coverage while Hazel Irvine is still presenting.", "He said he had to check on his 65-year-old mother despite fracturing his hip earlier in the day.", "Iris Goldsmith was driving the vehicle on the family farm in Somerset, an inquest has heard.", "The \"horrendous\" two-car crash in Stevenage came at a gathering where there were modified vehicles.", "The Inverclyde yard posts a £60m loss following major cost overruns on deal to build new ferries.", "Fraudster Shaun Greenhalgh returns to Bolton Museum which paid £440,000 for one of his fake statues.", "The 5.1 magnitude earthquake knocked out telecoms and power in parts of the city.", "The home secretary also said open racism was propelling extremist politicians to power around the world.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 July.", "Scottish SPCA officers and police seized more than 100 animals in the Aberdeenshire raid in 2017.", "Michael Lewis and Gareth Delbridge were using a petrol-engined tool when they were struck on 3 July.", "Thirteen-year-old Lucy McHugh had \"unknown promise, cruelly obliterated\", the judge said.", "Former members of a radical sect describe growing up in communes where abuse was commonplace.", "Ireland fans hit headlines at Euro 2012 with their \"Angela Merkel thinks we're at work\" flag.", "Theresa May says \"it's not fair\" parents have to return to work before their baby leaves hospital.", "Rory McIlroy agonisingly misses the cut at his home Open as Ireland's Shane Lowry shoots a 67 to take a share of the lead.", "David De Montfalcon, 64, died from a heart attack after Alan Rooney shouted and caused damage in his shop.", "A Conservative AM says it must start generating cash or be sold by the Welsh Government.", "Senior Tories seeking to avoid leaving the EU without a deal, are looking at a radical plan, Newsnight learns.", "Ben Kaye and the boys' grandfather surprised children at a Shropshire primary school.", "In his first interview, YouTube's UK managing director defends the platform's algorithms.", "Higher debt interest payments and increased spending on services contributed to a sharp rise in borrowing.", "Donald Trump has told US media \"I like\" Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and that they're \"friends of mine\".", "The 17-year-old boy became unwell at the property in Pitreavie Court, Hamilton in the early hours of Wednesday.", "“He's a different kind of a guy but they say I’m a different kind of guy too,\" the US president says.", "The world premiere of the fifth series of Peaky Blinders was held in Birmingham ahead of its return to BBC One later this year.", "Whether it's almond, soy or coconut it seems cow's milk is being ditched for alternatives.", "Attacks on tankers in the Gulf drew the US in the 1980s - now it could be even more dangerous.", "The boss of the new high-speed rail link has reportedly warned the project will exceed its £56bn budget.", "The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the average temperature was 61.6F (16.4C).", "Schools and colleges urgently need billions more in funding, a committee of MPs says.", "Government plans to toughen punishments for motorists breaking the law to try to reduce road deaths.", "BeLeave founder Darren Grimes says the Electoral Commission's punishment has \"taken a huge toll\".", "Dentists, teachers and police officers are reportedly to get pay increases of between 2% and 2.9%.", "James Goddard, 30, who was arrested outside Parliament, admits public order offences.", "New light is being shed on the dispute between the agency that buys Cal Mac ferries and the only shipyard in Scotland able to build them. With large loans and overspends at stake, this will get messy in 2019.", "A series of messages are sent from the Met's account calling for the release of a drill rap artist.", "The government says separate entrances \"stigmatise\" social housing tenants in new developments.", "The Scottish government draws up plans to take Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde into public ownership", "Teachers and members of the armed forces are among those receiving a wage increase.", "The US musician becomes the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms.", "Water scooter riders are reported for harassing a dolphin in the river near North Shields Fish Quay.", "Alek Sigley wrote articles about North Korean fashion, apps, and restaurants for website NK News.", "Police say about 22 people have been injured and are being treated in hospital.", "Fifty years on from the Stonewall uprising, London Pride 2019 was just as colourful as ever.", "Employers are urged to be vigilant after the UK's largest modern day slavery network is exposed.", "Sir Antony Gormley says the oil giant has no place sponsoring the annual portrait prize.", "Get BBC News", "Marie McCourt wants to deny killers parole if they will not reveal where victims' remains are.", "A Smurf-like sculpture of the US first lady unveiled in her hometown of Sevnica gets mixed reviews.", "Officers investigating murders committed by Stephen Port were guilty of \"systemic failings\", but won't be disciplined.", "The man was stuck for six days in his Liverpool basement before being rescued.", "Charlie Adlard says he has had exhibitions all over the world but never in his home town Shrewsbury.", "Get our news coverage on your phone or tablet and discover a range of compelling features.", "Take control of this special 1000th episode of BBC Click - a first-of-its-kind interactive experiment that puts you in the director’s chair as you decide what stories to watch and as the show changes to suit you.", "England finish fourth at the Women's World Cup after losing 2-1 to Sweden in the third-place play-off in Nice.", "Boris Johnson says there should be a \"strong Conservative influence\" in the replacement for EU aid.", "", "The Lego model is unveiled as events are held to mark 50 years since the Stonewall uprising.", "Up to 1.5 million people have been watching the parade go through central London.", "Why Iran's nuclear agreement is facing its most fundamental challenge yet.", "Identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience - this is why we are making greater efforts to explain what type of information you are reading or watching on our site.", "How to get in touch with BBC News about web and digital services.", "Dan O'Sullivan, 29, is believed to be first person charged since Finns Law was introduced.", "Conservative party leadership race 2022", "American 15-year-old Coco Gauff saves two match points in another astonishing display to extend her dream Wimbledon run into the last 16.", "Several places in southern Alaska are experiencing record temperatures, including its largest city.", "The show, due to take place this weekend, is called off after number of exhibitors pulled out.", "Get the latest news, entertainment, and top stories about Rossett from the BBC", "Ballot papers arrive as Sir John Major endorses Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson backs new trade zones.", "Conservative Party members have started voting on who will be the next prime minister.", "The guitar-player set standards in world music with his lilting version of The Girl from Ipanema.", "Johanna Konta stages a determined comeback to beat Sloane Stephens and reach the Wimbledon fourth round but Dan Evans and Harriet Dart lose.", "Merseyside fire chiefs admit that its response to emergences has been 'compromised' by budget cuts.", "Sir John Sawers says Whitehall is \"anxious\" that \"potential prime ministers\" lack leadership qualities.", "Carl Beech tells a court he was \"ashamed\" and \"in denial\" about possessing indecent images of children.", "Monkstown is one of Antrim's most deprived areas, but a boxing club is helping youths fight back.", "The singer told fans at the end of his Hyde Park show that he would have the operation in September.", "The actor is interviewed under caution over sex assault claims in the UK, a US website reports.", "Andy Murray and Serena Williams begin their blockbuster partnership with a confident win in the Wimbledon mixed doubles on Centre Court.", "Gordon Brown says his party must \"rebuild trust\" with the Jewish community.", "Producers of Welsh lamb, potatoes and sea salt say the EU helps them on the global market.", "After praising revolutionary rebels for seizing \"airports\", Mr Trump said the autocue went \"kaput\".", "Police said there was \"widespread\" disorder before, during and after Millwall's game against Everton.", "\"Tree is a fine example of Manchester International Festival's spirit of adventure.\"", "The victim was found with gunshot wounds in Wembley on Friday and pronounced dead in hospital.", "The family of a teenager found inside a burning car say friends haven't helped the investigation.", "Parm Sandhu says she was denied promotion and opportunities on the basis of her race and gender.", "Kate Williams says she only knows of three other people in the UK who have the same cancer as her.", "The British establishment figure was accused of sexual harassment and assault, The Times reports.", "MPs vote in favour of a new \"Helen's Law\" to deny killers parole if they will not reveal where victims' remains are.", "How to add BBC News alerts to your app and sign up for our newsletters.", "A fight breaks out ahead of Millwall and Everton's FA Cup clash at The Den in London.", "Noel Conway said he was \"extremely disappointed\" as his court battle for assisted dying ends.", null, "Get our news coverage on your phone or tablet and discover a range of compelling features.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were joined by close family and friends for the private ceremony.", "Councillors are warned a campus revamp is under threat after they rejected proposals to finance it.", "Some Conservative members received more than one paper to vote for the next PM, the BBC learns.", "\"A star has been born,\" according to nine-time champion Martina Navratilova after watching Coco Gauff, 15, reach the Wimbledon fourth round.", "The law should be changed so convicted killers who do not reveal where their victims' bodies are cannot be set free, the mother of a murdered woman says.", "The North Antrim MP will miss crucial Brexit votes when Parliament resumes.", "From Lapland in the Arctic Circle to the southern island of Gotland, dozens of fires are raging.", "The aircraft \"blatantly violated\" Israeli airspace, Israel's PM says, but Syria denies this.", "For the second year running, travel watchdog Transport Focus has asked customers for their views.", "They are to spend nine days living in a monastery, a tradition for Thai men who experience adversity.", "The Western Mediterranean route to Spain is now the most popular with migrants trying to reach Europe.", "More drugs are being prescribed to young people in Britain, despite concerns about potential harm.", "The Tour de France is stopped temporarily when riders are affected by a spray used on protesting French farmers, with some needing medical treatment.", "Teachers and members of the armed forces are among those receiving a wage increase.", "Poorer and middle income families have not seen incomes rise since 2003, new research suggests.", "The gold medallist and her husband, Steve Backshall, revealed the news on social media.", "Adolescent boys in England will now get the vaccine for which girls are already eligible.", "At least 74 people die as flames spread across the Attica region around Athens.", "Fatima Khan, 21, posted a video on social media of Khalid Safi as he lay dying.", "Global heat records have fallen this month, and not just where it's summer. So what's happening?", "Dutch scientists call an immediate halt to research with the anti-impotence drug in pregnancy.", "Researchers say it could help to identify dementia earlier when the condition is easier to treat.", "Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is among the novels on this year's longlist.", "More than 100,000 people want Insatiable to be pulled before its release, but the show's star urges viewers to watch before passing judgement.", "The football and hot weather helped sales to grow at their fastest pace this year, research suggests.", "The BBC's Gavin Lee visits the devastated village of Mati and meets those who have lost everything.", "Daniel was only 18 months old when he first met Stuart at a care home.", "RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire employs 600 people and has been the Red Arrows' home since 2000.", "A woman admits misleading customers who paid for secured storage for their cars - which were left in fields.", "The man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.", "At least 20 people died and hundreds went missing after a dam collapsed, engulfing thousands of homes.", "One in 25 children fell into the category when they left primary school last year, figures show.", "For the towns where 66 people died in last June's forest fires, life will never again be normal.", "Forest fires raging across Greece have killed at least 20 and injured more than 100.", "Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will \"deputise\" for the PM as talks in Brussels enter crucial phase.", "Passenger numbers fell in 2017 in a number of English cities, but overcrowding remains a problem.", "France's Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 16 of the Tour de France after Britain's Adam Yates crashes late on while leading.", "A Briton held for two years in Bangladesh following a deadly cafe siege faces no charges, police say.", "Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks says the money was to fund a political campaign and denies corruption.", "A woman abused by her stepfather has said she is \"delighted\" she will now be able to claim compensation.", "The Attica region around Athens is consumed by flames", "After months of lockdown, many are enjoying a spell of hot weather. Here is how to handle the heat.", "The Kingdom Choir performed Stand By Me at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.", "North Korea's nuclear programme has been a source of great concern for more than 20 years.", "Holyrood's Brexit bill is \"fundamentally inconsistent\" with UK law and should be struck down, judges are told.", "Satellite imagery appears to show Pyongyang has demolished buildings at the Sohae rocket launch site.", "The pop star is reportedly in a stable condition after being found unconscious at her home.", "Dawn Sturgess became ill within 15 minutes of spraying the Novichok on her wrists, says Charlie Rowley.", "The US tries to protect farmers suffering from tit-for-tat tariffs targeting agriculture products.", "Scientists capture an image of two particles interacting and sharing their physical states for an instant.", "Darren Pencille stabbed Lee Pomeroy 18 times in an argument on a Guildford to London train.", "London's iconic bell began striking the hour on 11 July 1859.", "Iris Goldsmith, 15, was killed in an accident on her family's Somerset farm earlier this week.", "Police had warned there was a risk of violence if the council tried to dismantle the Avoniel bonfire.", "Darren Pencille, the man who stabbed Lee Pomeroy to death on a London-bound train, had a history of mental illness.", "General secretary Jennie Formby accuses deputy leader of \"denigrating\" progress made against anti-Semitism.", "Popular trails have been blocked with rocks and had branches placed at head height.", "The former Blue Peter presenter is accused of assaulting a woman in Westminster in 2008.", "Some Emerade pens have blocked needles so patients are advised to carry a spare one at all times.", "The Unite union says 4,000 staff will strike over pay, but the airport says it has plans to remain open.", "Roger Federer moves within one win of a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title as he beats Rafael Nadal to set up a final against Novak Djokovic.", "The 35-year-old woman died at the scene at a roundabout in south London.", "An adviser to the supreme leader says Iran should retaliate, after the UK detained an Iranian oil tanker.", "They are part of an operation that saw 16 foreigners detained after testing positive for drug use.", "The outgoing prime minister says more information about injustice will lead to better policies.", "More than 1,000 demonstrators were arrested during April's climate change protests in London.", "As forced marriages reported in Scotland increase, Nyla Khan describes being taken to Pakistan to marry aged 17.", "Big tech companies are feeling the heat as the General Data Protection Regulation gathers momentum.", "Christine Mackie, who plays Coronation Street's Dr Gaddas, was 11 when her dad took his own life.", "Mississippi Republican Robert Foster rejects interview with unaccompanied female reporter.", "All students are offered free train tickets to a university open day, after fears of excessive cost.", "It is understood the trial of the former first minister on charges of attempted rape and sexual assault will not begin until at least January.", "Misconduct proceedings against four officers involved in detaining Thomas Orchard are dismissed.", "Excluded from mainstream school, these teenagers explain how boxing helps them channel their ADHD.", "Serena Williams makes light work of Barbora Strycova to reach the Wimbledon final and stand one win away from a 24th Grand Slam singles title.", "The pair were arrested after the County Down man's body was found at a lake weeks after he went missing.", "Attacks on tankers in the Gulf drew the US in the 1980s - now it could be even more dangerous.", "Rival demonstrations were held in Seoul over the consumption of dog meat, a traditional part of South Korean cuisine.", "Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib describe conditions at US facilities at the southern border.", "A flight from Vancouver to Sydney hits a severe patch of turbulence and is diverted to Hawaii.", "The Tory leadership candidate says the move would show the UK was \"ready to defend its interests\".", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's baby was delivered after she was attacked at home but died days later.", "Ali Issa Ahmad says he was badly beaten after wearing a Qatar flag T-shirt at a match in Abu Dhabi.", "Our business and transport correspondents answer your questions on electric cars.", "HMS Duncan's deployment has been brought forward amid escalating tensions between the UK and Iran.", "A submarine suspected to be carrying drugs is seized by US Coast Guards in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.", "All the latest content about Global Education from the BBC.", "The BBC secures exclusive rights to the 2021 Women's European Championship, which will be hosted by England.", "Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renew their celebrated rivalry on Friday when they meet at Wimbledon for the first time since the epic 2008 final.", "But leadership rival Boris Johnson says the UK will leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\".", "This is Theresa May's final interview with the BBC before she leaves Downing Street for the last time next week.", "England surge into their first World Cup final for 27 years with a sensational eight-wicket demolition of Australia at Edgbaston", "Olafur Eliasson's art is quietly provocative, and at its best stimulates your senses and your mind.", "The story of the deadly violence in Khartoum on 3 June, told through those who filmed it.", "Babies with tongue-ties rarely need surgery to help them feed, a US study suggests.", "The prime minister has told the BBC that she will leave the job with a \"mixture of pride and disappointment\"", "Manchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife in March.", "The Metropolitan Police says the alleged leak has damaged the UK's international relations.", "A judge rules the 2012 shooting of unarmed Anthony Grainger was legally justified but criticises police.", "The Tory leadership frontrunner says he will appoint a veterans minister if he becomes PM.", "Police say Farhad Salah \"posed a very real risk to the safety of our communities\".", "Cody Rhys Williams-Jones had so many haemorrhages in his eyes, it was impossible to count them.", "Relatives of victims of 2018's Lion Air crash signed forms stopping them taking legal action, lawyers say.", "US police believe the mother suffered a fall in 2016 and her daughter did not provide adequate care.", "Hundreds of migrants occupy the city's Panthéon and demand the right to stay in France.", "Nathaniel Ernest developed permanent ringing in his ears after going to a loud concert aged 18.", "The cameras have faced criticism, but Sajid Javid says it is right police use the latest technology.", "The young man, who died at the scene in Croydon, was one of three people attacked on the same street.", "The singer is reportedly facing several new charges including child abuse images.", "Almost two years since 700,000 Rohingyas fled violence in Myanmar, there's no sign of them returning.", "The Scottish festival ran for 22 years but organisers say they're focusing on new events.", "Experts say there is no alarm, despite a high level of caesium at a Soviet-era submarine wreck.", "After President Trump tells four women of colour to \"go home\", his own party is muted in its criticism.", "The man was suffering from mild hypothermia when he was picked up by French authorities.", "Gerald Matovu, who sold drugs to serial killer Stephen Port, gave his victim an overdose of GHB.", "Who are the four US congresswomen who President Trump told to \"go back\" to their countries?", "Thousands of workers are calling for better conditions as the retail giant's annual sale starts.", "A \"Fat Controller\" figure should lead operations, says the man tasked with improving the railways.", "The brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly, an earlier inquest heard.", "The Killing Eve actresses are both up for best actress in a drama series at this year's Emmy TV awards.", "Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is voted in by MEPs as the head of the EU Commission.", "The government says it will consult on raising the age limit for playing the National Lottery from 16 to 18.", "A senior Tory says the views expressed by the leadership rivals appear to rule out any compromise.", "Pearson says students will only be able to rent physical books as it makes all products \"digital first\".", "The 1,000ft skyscraper is rejected by Sadiq Khan who says it would have \"limited public benefit\".", "A health warning is issued as nine people collapse after using a vaping liquid containing the drug.", "The president's suggestion that four politicians leave the country has prompted an outpouring of stories.", "The London rapper has been charged over the stabbing of a 20-year-old at a 2018 New Year's Party.", "Victims of domestic abuse in rural areas suffer longer and are less likely to get support, says report.", "Prof Catriona Matheson will advise on policies to tackle Scotland's rising number of drug deaths.", "Tyga, Stefflon Don and Yxng Bane were among the acts due to perform.", "Jacquie says it was like a fire ripping through her family after five relatives died because of drug addiction.", "US imposed sanctions are crippling the economy, making food and medicines unaffordable.", "The version now available on the streaming site no longer depicts a young girl taking her life.", "Police and the PM's spokesperson praise officers' courage and professionalism during the attack.", "A House of Lords inquiry looked at the impact of the ban on fishing discards six months on.", "The BBC has obtained footage of the night which shows unarmed police and members of the public as they tried to confront the armed men.", "Business lobby groups say ministers must act to avoid \"acute\" skills shortages after Brexit.", "New tools to fight online scams are launched after a legal action by TV personality Martin Lewis.", "The 58-year-old was fatally injured at an Asda supermarket in Peterhead on Tuesday afternoon.", "Rescuers are searching through the debris of the four-storey building in India's financial capital.", "The airline also says it could close bases and axe summer flights next year.", "The party says it will eliminate the \"modern-day scourge\" if it wins the next election.", "An analyst says research showed the scheme made offenders more harmful, but it continued to be used.", "The Moon appears red on the day of the 50th anniversary of the historic space flight.", "Her move to a Tehran hospital follows a hunger strike in protest at her detention in Iran.", "Guinness World Records says the Harlech street has beaten the previous record holder in New Zealand.", "Writer Ahdaf Soueif says it should take \"a clear ethical position\" on BP sponsorship and other issues.", "Jeremy Hunt says the language was \"totally offensive\", while Boris Johnson says it was \"unacceptable\".", "GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre reveals it blocked 200,000 messages lying about a refund.", "At the Made in America showcase, Mr Trump responds to questions about the meaning behind his tweets.", "A man accused of lying about an alleged VIP paedophile ring is a sophisticated paedophile, jurors are told.", "Shares in AG Barr fall sharply after the soft drinks maker warns of a \"challenging year\" for the firm.", "The shadow foreign secretary was cycling when she was involved in a collision in Westminster.", "The 33-year-old was struck by the vehicle while walking in the Shettleston area of Glasgow.", "Labour's Gloria De Piero, who opposes a second EU referendum, says she has received online abuse.", "Experts fear that for some vulnerable girls, secondary school lessons on the issue will be too late.", "The German leader uses the 75th anniversary to call on citizens to counter rising right-wing extremism.", "Algeria win the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time as a freak early goal secures a 1-0 win against Senegal in Cairo.", "Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy says missing the cut at his home Open hurt, but the \"love\" of the crowd spurred him on to a remarkable round of 65.", "Sarah Boyle was incorrectly told she had an aggressive cancer after noticing problems breastfeeding.", "England fall to an agonising 47-45 defeat by New Zealand in the Netball World Cup semi-final in Liverpool.", "Official data reveals the highest number of practical tests taken by learners in a year.", "Demonstrators call for anti-Putin activists to be allowed to run in September's Moscow elections.", "Bin collections, cleaning and school dinners could be taken back in-house under the party's plans.", "Australia will defend their Netball World Cup crown on Sunday after coming through 55-53 in a thrilling semi-final against South Africa.", "Zimbabwe netballers celebrate their top-eight finish at the World Cup by dancing their way on to BBC Two's TV coverage while Hazel Irvine is still presenting.", "He said he had to check on his 65-year-old mother despite fracturing his hip earlier in the day.", "Donald Trump says he will speak to the Swedish Prime Minister and wants the situation 'resolved'.", "Passengers were left coughing and short of breath following exposure on the morning Tube train.", "The US musician becomes the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms.", "Swansea and Bristol are both about 45 miles from Cardiff, yet one train ticket costs £1,300 more.", "There was once about 6,000 Jewish people in Wales but the figure has dropped to the hundreds.", "Rory McIlroy agonisingly misses the cut at his home Open as Ireland's Shane Lowry shoots a 67 to take a share of the lead.", "Benjamin Netanyahu breaks the record set by Israel's founding father, but he faces an uncertain future.", "The Brazilian president accuses the national space agency of exaggerating the scale of deforestation.", "Difficult questions will have to be answered about decisions that were taken ahead of the seizure of a British tanker.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry shoots an incredible eight-under 63 to give him a four-shot lead heading into Sunday's final round of The Open.", "“He's a different kind of a guy but they say I’m a different kind of guy too,\" the US president says.", "BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell was interrupted on air by pro-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong.", "Attacks on tankers in the Gulf drew the US in the 1980s - now it could be even more dangerous.", "The boss of the new high-speed rail link has reportedly warned the project will exceed its £56bn budget.", "The five-week-old dogs were stolen by machete-wielding burglars but are now \"safe and well\".", "The deployment of soldiers and fighter jets comes amid heightened tensions with Iran in the Gulf.", "England take on New Zealand while holders Australia face underdogs South Africa in the semi-finals of the Netball World Cup 2019 in Liverpool.", "Campaigners say bringing knives to courts shows some people are \"desensitised\" to carrying weapons.", "The March for Change is protesting ahead of the announcement of a new prime minister.", "A series of messages are sent from the Met's account calling for the release of a drill rap artist.", "The government says separate entrances \"stigmatise\" social housing tenants in new developments.", "The backpackers were fined €950 (£853) and asked to leave the city under a new public order law.", "The airline halts all flights to the Egyptian capital for a week as a security \"precaution\".", "The European Parliament meet this week for the first time since May's elections.", "Scottish universities are to recruit more medical students from Scotland at the expense of those from elsewhere in the UK.", "The airline says four British passengers it denied boarding at Amsterdam were \"disruptive\".", "The video platform says it is sorry some have felt pressured to send their favourite influencers money.", "The Tibetan spiritual leader apologises for saying a future female successor should be \"attractive\".", "Two days of rain have caused at least 15 deaths and disrupted transport in India's financial capital.", "The 13-year-old's death has left his school \"devastated\", the chairwoman of governors says.", "The crew members were poisoned by fumes during Monday's incident in northern Russia, officials say.", "The record heat experienced across Europe last week was made much more likely by rising temperatures say researchers.", "Skywatchers in parts of Chile and Argentina briefly saw the Moon pass directly in front of the Sun.", "A ruling that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven is not fair, a student says.", "Images from Hong Kong's Legislative Council as protesters break in and deface the council chamber.", "The five ships that set sail are the first to commercially hunt whales in Japan in more than 30 years.", "The Academy - the people who choose Oscars winners - announce 842 new members.", "MPs say laws on political advertising and funding need to be updated for the digital age.", "The USA are not a team who fear opponents but Hope Solo says that, for once, they have reasons to be worried about England.", "A rundown of the BBC's top-earning stars.", "A mother and her daughter are stopped over fears the 10-year-old was at risk of female genital mutilation abroad.", "The growing number of therapy dogs in universities are making a real difference, researchers say.", "Some fear they could run out of money for essential services like child protection and social care.", "The story of a teacher protecting students during an attack in Santa Fe turns out to be a lie.", "Britain's Andy Murray confirms he will play mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon.", "It's the first time three women have made the top 10 on the BBC's star salaries list.", "Cardiff student Aaron Singh says the rules in Wales are \"not fair\" and discriminatory.", "Edward Gallagher was cleared of all charges except posing with the body of a dead prisoner in Iraq.", "The Conservative ex-politician and journalist says he and his wife Frances remain \"good friends\".", "The person is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi on Sunday afternoon.", "The previous owners were unaware it was a long-lost piece of the medieval Lewis Chessmen.", "The annual report shows the difficulty of reporting any financial year, and the disadvantages of removing BBC Studios from the equation of salaries disclosed.", "Meet the English duo hoping to be the architects of their home nation's World Cup semi-final defeat on Tuesday.", "The BBC director general says Chris Evans felt \"under pressure\" after his salary was published.", "Police hope targeting the cash will reduce street violence by disrupting gang activities.", "Fifteen-year-old qualifier Cori Gauff beats five-time champion Venus Williams in a stunning first-round upset at Wimbledon.", "Serious concerns are raised by MPs about penalty fines for vulnerable people going to the dentist.", "Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman to be nominated for the post of European Commission chief.", "Mr Magid was elected as the first Green MEP for the Yorkshire and The Humber constituency in May.", "Northern Ireland's politicians have jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.", "Gary Lineker and Chris Evans are among the top earners - but many stars have taken pay cuts.", "A fault in Whirlpool machines was blamed for at least 750 fires over an 11-year period.", "Ann Drummond was found with serious burns near Bathgate and her death is being treated as suspicious.", "Data from GPs and hospitals shows a three-fold increase in appointments for the condition in September.", "The UK's biggest betting firms agree to contribute more money to fund problem gambler treatment.", "The chancellor says pledges from the Tory leadership hopefuls \"greatly exceed\" the Treasury's coffers.", 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government would not tolerate the use of NDAs to \"silence and intimidate victims to stop them speaking out\".\n\n\"The new legislation will stamp out misuse, tackle unacceptable workplace cultures, protect individuals and create a level playing field for businesses that comply with the law,\" she said.\n\nSir Philip Green was previously accused of using NDAs to stop several former employees from speaking out about bullying and sexual harassment\n\nLast year, Sir Philip Green was accused of using NDAs to stop several former employees from speaking out about bullying and sexual harassment at his Arcadia retail group.\n\nAnd earlier this year, dozens of academics told the BBC they were \"harassed\" out of their jobs and made to sign NDAs after raising complaints about discrimination, bullying and sexual misconduct.\n\nMs Tolhurst said the new legalisation would ensure that the limitations of the confidentiality clause were clear and in plain English.\n\nIt will also provide more advice and introduce new enforcement measures to deal with agreements that fail to meet the legal requirements.\n\nShe said the new measures would \"protect individuals and create a level playing field for businesses that comply with the law\".\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality & Human Rights Commission, said: \"Harassment and discrimination should never go unanswered and unchallenged just because victims are prevented from speaking out.\n\n\"This new legislation will help to end ambiguity about employees' rights and stop the misuse of NDAs to protect corporate and personal reputations and obstruct justice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nWomen's Ashes Test, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day four of four):\n\nAustralia will retain the Women's Ashes as the Test petered out into a draw.\n\nEngland avoided the follow-on and declared on 275-9, but they could not tear through the Australian batting line-up, which finished on 230-7.\n\nEllyse Perry (76 not out) again batted well as the tourists opted not to set England a fourth-innings target.\n\nEngland trail 8-2 in the multi-format series, but could still draw it if they win all three Twenty20 games, beginning in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nAustralia won all three one-day internationals to open up a 6-0 lead and the two points available for a draw in this four-day Test would guarantee their retention of the Ashes.\n\nThat knowledge was always at the back of their minds as they batted out the game before shaking hands with an hour of scheduled play remaining.\n\nAt the start of the day's play, all four results were still theoretically possible with England on 199-6 behind Australia's 420-8 declared, but as it turned out, the most crucial passage was first up in the best period of the entire Test.\n\nEngland needed 72 to avoid the follow-on and there was more intent to their batting than they had shown on the third evening when their dead-bat tactics were heavily criticised.\n\nThey did lose Shrubsole for 11 and Nat Sciver 12 short of a century, with England still 19 shy of the 271 target.\n\nBut Laura Marsh and Sophie Ecclestone combined stoically for the ninth wicket partnership to get them over the line.\n\nMarsh, who made a brave 28, survived a testing and hostile examination from young quick Tayla Vlaeminck before a cut for four off the left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux ensured Australia would have to bat again.\n\nMarsh took that positive impact with the bat into her bowling and in the space of five balls in the first over after lunch she removed openers Alyssa Healy for 13 and Rachael Haynes for one.\n\nWith Ecclestone causing problems at the other end with her left-arm spin, there were a few tricky moments for Australia.\n\nMeg Lanning and Perry eased any worries with a 50 partnership until the Australia captain somehow dispatched a filthy full toss from Kirstie Gordon straight to Georgia Elwiss at cover.\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight brought herself on for a rare bowl and claimed the wicket of Jess Jonassen (37) but Perry continued on her own serene way.\n\nShe eventually finished unbeaten on 76, and 192 runs for the match, after her first-innings century as she showed why she is a cut above the rest in women's cricket.\n• None How far are England behind Australia?\n• None Quiz: Test your knowledge of the Women's Ashes\n\nAustralia pass on chance to tee up drama\n\nAustralia were under no obligation to set any kind of target for England to chase in the fourth innings, but there was a slight disappointment about their cautious attitude.\n\nA run rate of 3.46 from 35 overs in the afternoon session when they had the chance to put their foot on their accelerator did not suggest a team in a desperate hurry to win the game.\n\nWhen they returned to bat after tea, their intentions were clear and the game drifted to its conclusion, in what was the first women's Test since these two sides met at North Sydney Oval in November 2017.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Gloria De Piero said she had received online abuse from people wanting to overturn the result of the EU referendum\n\nLabour's shadow justice minister has quit its front bench and decided not to stand at the next general election.\n\nGloria De Piero, MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, said she was unsure she could \"sustain the energy and commitment of the last nine years\".\n\nShe campaigned for Remain in a strongly pro-Brexit seat but does not support a second referendum.\n\nIn her speech to party members, she also hit out at a \"lack of tolerance\" in the Labour Party.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said her decision was \"disappointing\".\n\nSpeaking to members on Friday, Ms De Piero said: \"I've had time to think about whether I can continue to give you all the energy and personal sacrifices that you need as a Labour champion for this constituency. You deserve the absolute best.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Labour Party is made up of mostly good people who sometimes disagree on how to achieve good. There is nothing wrong with that. It's good and it's healthy and it should be welcomed.\n\n\"The lack of tolerance for different viewpoints in the Labour Party frankly worries me.\n\n\"We have to have respect for each other, even if we disagree, because we are all part of this Party.\"\n\nShe also said she received \"grim\" abuse on social media from people wanting to overturn the referendum result.\n\nEarlier this month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged the next Conservative leader to hold another referendum before taking the UK out of the EU, saying Labour would campaign for Remain.\n\nIn the EU Referendum 69.8% of voters in Ashfield voted Leave, on a turnout of 72.8%.\n\nMs De Piero has represented the traditionally safe Labour seat since 2010 but at the last election won by only a few hundred votes.\n\nShe continued: \"This party is about a set of values not any individual and we would all do well to remember that.\n\n\"And while I'm at it, and it doesn't happen in Ashfield, but when I hear people being called right-wing in the Labour Party I find it utterly offensive.\n\n\"We are all left-wingers in this party - that is why we joined the Labour Party.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said he thought her speech was \"lovely\" but added: \"We worked together as a team, [I'm] disappointed she's standing down, but we're a broad church in the Labour Party and we always will [be].\n\nThe shadow chancellor said he had been to visit Ms De Piero to help fundraise only a few weeks ago\n\n\"If there's any evidence of intolerance, we've said to our MPs and members, let us know and we will take action.\"\n\nMs De Piero finished her speech by saying she \"actually believes\" in Brexit and would continue to campaign for a soft version of it, before inviting members back to her home for drinks and frozen pizza.\n\nCorrection 9th October 2019: This story has been updated to clarify that Ms De Piero said she was stepping down for personal reasons, not directly because of her views on a \"lack of tolerance\" within Labour.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mahershala Ali (middle) has been announced as Marvel's new Blade\n\nMarvel has announced a bumper crop of 10 new superhero movies at Comic Con.\n\nMarvel studios president Kevin Feige, flanked by dozens of Hollywood stars, revealed the post-Avengers roster of films to a stunned hall in San Diego.\n\nMany attendees at world's largest pop-culture fan convention had camped out to reserve a seat for the event.\n\nOne major surprise was the announcement of Oscar winner Mahershala Ali as Blade the vampire hunter, a role played by Wesley Snipes in the 1998 film.\n\nThere was rapturous applause and screams as Ali took to the stage to reveal he would take on the role of the daywalker.\n\nNatalie Portman confirmed her return to a fourth Thor film - Thor: Love and Thunder - reprising her role as Jane Foster, but this time wielding the power of the Thor hammer.\n\n\"Feels pretty good. I've always had a little hammer envy,\" Portman told the delighted crowd after being handed the hammer by director Taika Waititi.\n\nPortman's role is based on Jason Aaron's comic book series that sees Jane Foster become the mighty lady Thor when Thor Odinson finds himself unworthy of picking up the hammer.\n\nChris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson will also return for the film.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marvel Studios This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier the audience were teased with number of new productions and sequels from phase four of the Marvel cinematic universe.\n\nThe first film to be announced was The Eternals. The cast includes Angelina Jolie, and Salma Hayek appeared on stage in front of the excited audience to talk about their new roles.\n\nJolie, who will play Thena, told the crowd: \"I'm going to work ten times harder because I think what it means to be a part of the MCU, what it means to be an Eternal, to be part of this family. I know what we all need to do.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie spoke about her new role in the The Eternals as she was stood on stage next to Lia McHugh and Dong-seok Ma\n\n\"We've all read the script, we all know what the task ahead is and we know what you deserve so we are all going to be working very very hard,\" she added.\n\nThe Eternals are powerful beings who look human but have special powers. The film has a release date of November 2020.\n\nThe first Asian American super hero film Shang-Chi was also announced, and we now know who will play the lead role. After months of castings Kevin Feige announced Canadian actor Simu Liu had been confirmed to play the Kung-Fu master only a few days ago.\n\nShang-Chi who was born to a Chinese father and an American mother, first appeared in the Marvel comics almost 50 years ago.\n\nShang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings will also star Crazy Rich Asians actress Awkwafina.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Marvel Studios This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScarlett Johansson has played the role of Natasha Romanoff elsewhere but this is her standalone film\n\nAfter months of speculation, Marvel finally confirmed the first details of the eagerly anticipated Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff.\n\nThe film has been in production for 30 days with a teaser trailer showing early scenes in Budapest.\n\nJohansson told the panel: \"I get to play Natasha as a fully realised woman, in all of her many facets, and I'm excited for fans to see the flawed side of her.\"\n\nA number of Marvel series were also announced which would be available on the new Disney+ streaming service, including Loki with Tom Hiddleston and Hawkeye starring Jeremy Renner and Kate Bishop.\n\nFeige ended the panel by telling a cheering audience that he did not have time to talk about a host of other films.\n\n\"We didn't mention that we're making Black Panther 2, we didn't mention the fact that Guardian of the Galaxies 3 is coming.\n\n\"We didn't have time to talk about Captain Marvel 2, and I didn't have time to talk about the Fantastic 4 and there's no time to talk about Mutants,\" he told a delighted crowd.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Johnson has said the public expects Brexit promises to be honoured\n\nBoris Johnson has called on his Conservative leadership rival Jeremy Hunt to commit to leaving the EU on 31 October \"deal or no deal\".\n\nMr Johnson said the two men should agree that the revised Brexit deadline must be met \"no matter what\" in order to keep promises to the British people.\n\nMr Hunt has suggested he could seek extra time if he was close to getting a better deal but was not quite there.\n\nThe two are vying to succeed Theresa May, with the result due on 23 July.\n\nThe deadline for Brexit was pushed back to 31 October after MPs rejected the deal Mrs May agreed with the EU three times.\n\nIn an interview with Talk Radio, one of a series of media and public appearances, Mr Johnson said he would stick to that date \"come what may, do or die\".\n\nIn an effort to turn the pressure up on his rival, Mr Johnson later tweeted a copy of a letter he had written to Mr Hunt insisting this was the \"central question\" of the contest.\n\n\"Leaving on 31st October - with no ifs, buts or maybes - is the only way to restore trust in our democracy. In short this is about whether the original people's vote will be respected.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike Mr Johnson, Mr Hunt has also promised to renegotiate Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement, particularly focusing on the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHe has said he would back a no-deal exit as a last resort but he has hinted he might ask for more time beyond 31 October if necessary to get an improved deal.\n\nCommitting to a deadline that might come too soon to allow a proper negotiation risks triggering a general election and the \"political suicide\" of the Conservatives, Mr Hunt has said.\n\nResponding to his rival's letter, Mr Hunt suggested Mr Johnson was afraid of debating the issue face to face.\n\nSky News was forced to scrap a planned debate later on Tuesday after Mr Johnson refused to attend, leading Mr Hunt's team to accuse his rival of \"bottling it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson has struggled to explain in detail how he will get the EU and MPs on side in time to enable the UK to leave with a deal on Halloween.\n\nBut on a visit to the Wisley Gardens in Surrey, he insisted there was a \"new dynamic\" in place in Brussels and London since last month's European elections - which saw a surge in support for populist anti-EU parties - and there was \"goodwill\" on both sides to do a deal.\n\nMr Johnson belatedly hit the campaign trail on Tuesday\n\nHe stopped off at a butchers in Oxshott\n\nHe insisted getting rid of the backstop - the insurance policy designed to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland - was a precondition to a renegotiated agreement even though the EU has ruled this out on many occasions.\n\nHe suggested he would be willing to \"suspend\" the £39bn \"divorce bill\" the UK has agreed to pay the EU until he had secured commitments on trade and the border.\n\nPressed over why the EU would agree to this, the former Mayor of London said \"what I bring is the ability to change the equation\".\n\nHowever, he conceded his plan to maintain frictionless trade with the continent after Brexit through Article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) would require the approval of the rest of the EU and could not happen unilaterally.\n\nThis was reiterated by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox - a backer of Mr Hunt - who wrote in a letter to one of his constituents that Article 24 \"would not, by itself, allow the UK to maintain tariff-free trade with the EU in the absence of a negotiated agreement\".\n\n\"It is important that public debate on this topic is conducted on the basis of fact rather than supposition, so that we are able to make decisions in the best interests of our country,\" he wrote.\n\nAfter days of criticism that he was hiding away, Mr Johnson undertook a succession of media and public appearances and met members of the public in a walkabout in Surrey.\n\nBut he continued declined to answer questions about Friday's row with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds.\n\nThere has been speculation about whether a picture of the couple sitting happily in a beer garden, which appeared in Monday's newspapers, was actually taken over the weekend as much of the initial coverage implied.\n\nMr Johnson said he was not responsible for what pictures newspapers published\n\nAsked during an interview with LBC whether the picture was actually much older, Mr Johnson repeatedly refused to comment on its \"antiquity or provenance\" and said the persistent line of questioning was \"farcical\".\n\nMr Johnson has also raised eyebrows by making a series of uncosted spending pledges.\n\nAreas ranging from social care and schools to infrastructure and broadband are all set for investment if he becomes prime minister, Mr Johnson has said.\n\nHe also said he would prioritise reducing the tax burden on those on lower incomes, by raising National Insurance thresholds, ahead of other measures.\n\nHe has faced criticism for proposing to also increase the level at which people pay the higher rate of income tax from £50,000 to £80,000, a move which financial experts have said would cost billions and favour the top 8% of earners.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nManny Pacquiao said he had \"fun\" as he became the oldest welterweight champion in history by beating WBA Super champion Keith Thurman in a split decision in Las Vegas.\n\nThurman - previously undefeated - had promised to send the 40-year-old Fillipino into retirement, but was knocked down in the first round before a thrilling fight went the distance.\n\n\"I knew it was too close,\" said American Thurman. \"He got the knockdown so he had momentum in round one. This was a beautiful night of boxing.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old had been looking for his 30th straight win.\n\nTwo judges scored it 115-112 to Pacquiao, while the other gave it 114-113 to Thurman.\n\nPacquiao - a world champion at eight weights - was fighting for the 71st time in a stellar career that has seen seven defeats, but with four of those losses coming in his past 11 fights before the meeting with Thurman.\n\nAfterwards, Pacquiao said he felt \"blessed\" and he will return to the Philippines to resume his work as a senator before deciding his next move.\n\n\"I think I will fight next year,\" he added.\n\nThurman had a height, reach, weight and age advantage over Pacquiao, but was chasing the fight from the beginning and started to bleed from his nose in the fifth round.\n\nHe recovered in the middle of the contest, but Pacquiao stormed back to take the last few rounds.\n\nThe Filipino could now face Britain's Amir Khan, though last week he denied claims that an agreement for a bout in Saudi Arabia was a already in place for November.\n\nKhan claims the fight will take place in Riyadh on 8 November.\n\n\"I wish I had a little bit more output to go toe to toe,\" Thurman told US broadcasters. \"I felt like he was getting a little bit tired, but he did have experience in the ring. My conditioning, my output, was just behind Manny Pacquiao. It was a great night of boxing. I'd love a rematch.\n\n\"I want to thank the fans. I want to thank everybody for coming out. Manny Pacquiao is a great, truly great champion.\"", "Angela Merkel visited an exhibit in Berlin in July on anti-Nazi conspirator Claus von Stauffenberg\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Markel has used the 75th anniversary of the most famous plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler to call on citizens to counter rising right-wing extremism.\n\nMs Merkel thanked the German officer, Claus von Stauffenberg, and other plotters who tried in 1944 to kill the Nazi dictator with a briefcase bomb.\n\nStauffenberg and some 200 co-conspirators were caught and executed.\n\n\"This day is a reminder to us, not only of those who acted on July 20, but also of everyone who stood up against Nazi rule,\" she said in her weekly video podcast.\n\n\"We are likewise obliged today to oppose all tendencies that seek to destroy democracy. That includes right-wing extremism.\"\n\nThe right-wing party Alternative for Germany in May became the country's largest opposition party in parliament with an anti-immigrant and nationalist agenda.\n\nIn recent years there has been a rise in far-right attacks, including the murder of a German politician, whose death prosecutors believe was politically motivated and carried out by assassins with neo-Nazi extremist links.\n\nAccording to government figures, there are 24,000 right-wing extremists in Germany. Nearly 13,000 are believed to have a tendency to violence.\n\nCount Claus von Stauffenberg pictured with his children in 1940\n\nThe German colonel was 36 years old when he tried to kill Adolf Hilter during a meeting at the Nazi leader's secret headquarters - called the Wolf's Lair - in a forest in East Prussia.\n\nHitler survived the assassination attempt with minor injuries after someone had moved the bomb, concealed in a briefcase, next to a heavy table leg, deflecting much of the explosion.\n\nStauffenberg and his co-conspirators were branded as cowards and traitors, and executed within hours. Their plot to seize control of the regime and make peace with Western allies to end World War II went relatively unrecognised for decades.\n\nThe plot, known as Operation Valkyrie, came back to prominence with the 2008 film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise as the former count attempting to over-throw Hitler's Nazi regime.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and app from 15 July; Follow daily live text commentaries online.\n\nEngland missed out on the Netball World Cup final once again as they fell to an agonising 47-45 defeat by New Zealand in Liverpool.\n\nThe Roses were unbeaten in the group stage but fell short in the semi-finals against an inspired Silver Ferns side.\n\nNew Zealand go on to face holders Australia in Sunday's final for a sixth consecutive tournament.\n\nEngland have now lost eight straight World Cup semi-finals and face South Africa in the bronze-medal match.\n\nThey will match their achievements from 2015 if they beat the Proteas, who were narrowly beaten by Australia in the opening semi-final.\n• None As it happened: England fall to semi-final defeat\n\nTracey Neville's Roses famously fought back to snatch a late win in the gold-medal match against the Diamonds at the Commonwealth Games in 2018.\n\nBut this time they were on the receiving end of the disappointment.\n\nNew Zealand showed their intent by surging into a 5-0 lead as England panicked, but the Roses regrouped to take a three-goal lead into half-time.\n\nUntil this match, England had not come from behind in the tournament and as the Silver Ferns pushed back in front, they looked intent on staying there.\n\nEngland threw everything at the Kiwis in the final quarter - but their opposition soaked up the pressure and played down the seconds left on the clock.\n\nWhat went wrong for England?\n\nEngland did not look like the confident team who came through the group stages without losing a quarter.\n\nShooter Jo Harten's form dropped dramatically in the first half, compared to her heroics in the previous game against South Africa, and she only improved when she moved to goal attack.\n\nEngland's engine room and captain Serena Guthrie was also guilty of failing to bring the goods on the day.\n\nHead coach Neville said her side's \"basic errors\" cost them the game.\n\n\"New Zealand came out really strong in that first quarter, \"she said. \"We didn't learn our lessons quickly enough. We seemed to be chasing the game, which is something we haven't done in this tournament.\n\n\"We gave it our all but didn't have the legs. This tournament is quite brutal. We've got another game tomorrow and we go again.\"\n\nGive it a go yourself! Find out how to get into netball with the BBC Get Inspired guide\n\n'We've already won in some respects'\n\nIt was a rocky road to this final for New Zealand. They failed to reach the Commonwealth finals in 2018 for the first time and dropped to fourth in the rankings, one place behind England.\n\nOff the court, key player Laura Langman, who has made more than 100 international appearances, was out of the set-up for 18 months because she chose to play her club netball in Australia.\n\nBut the arrival of coach Noeline Taurua in 2018 led to those club rules being relaxed and now Langman, along with veteran defender Casey Kopua, will get a shot at gold again in what is likely to be their last World Cup.\n\n\"I'm a bit lost for words,\" said Taurua. \"We've got one more game to go to get the gold and that's what we're going for.\n\n\"We've already won in some respects. We were underdogs coming into this game. There's nothing else for us to worry about.\"\n\nNew Zealand came close to beating the Diamonds in the preliminary stages and this victory over the hosts will surely give them the belief they need to beat their long-time rivals.\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: Ireland would have to protect its place in the EU single market\n\nIf the new UK prime minister wants to \"tear up\" the existing withdrawal agreement with the EU \"we're in trouble\", Ireland's deputy PM has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the decision for a no-deal Brexit would be the UK's but added checks \"of some sorts\" would be needed in the Irish Republic.\n\nIreland would have to protect its place in the single market, he told the BBC.\n\nBoth men vying to become UK PM say they want to change the withdrawal deal and, in particular, the so-called backstop.\n\nMr Coveney warned: \"That's a little bit like saying, 'Give me what I want or I'm going to burn the house down for everybody.'\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he hoped the UK and EU would negotiate a future relationship that would mean the backstop - designed as an insurance policy to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland - could be avoided.\n\nHowever, he warned it could not be removed from the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"The EU has made it very clear that we want to engage with the new British prime minister, we want to avoid a no-deal Brexit but the solutions that have been put in place to do that haven't changed,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\n\"If the British government forces a no-deal Brexit on everybody else, the Republic of Ireland will have no choice but to protect its own place in the EU single market. That would fundamentally disrupt the all-Ireland economy.\"\n\nHe said the all-Ireland economy had helped maintain peace on the island of Ireland but that protecting it would \"not be possible\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHowever, he added that contingency plans were being drawn up with the European Commission to try to minimise the disruption.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have said they would keep no deal on the table to strengthen negotiations\n\nBut former Tory leader and Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith said both the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and the Irish prime minister had told him there would be no hard border with Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"I asked, well, lay out what your proposals are - and we'd already proposed alternative arrangements - and basically what was described to me was alternative arrangements - the same thing we'd been talking to them about which would alleviate the idea of necessary checks on the island of Ireland based on what exists at the moment,\" Mr Duncan Smith said.\n\nAnd DUP leader Arlene Foster said she was \"disappointed, but not surprised\" by what Mr Coveney had said, and accused him of trying to \"look tough\" in the eyes of the incoming prime minister.\n\nThe DUP, whose 10 MPs are crucial for the Conservative Party's majority, has said it does not want the UK to leave the EU without a deal, but believes ruling out no-deal would damage the UK's negotiating hand.\n\nMuch of what Simon Coveney had to say today mirrored his warnings in the past.\n\nNo time limit on the backstop, there is wiggle room on the political declaration and no deal would be a disaster for the economy.\n\nBut there was one key difference this time - his intended recipient of the message.\n\nThe Irish government is acutely aware that the incoming prime minister is likely to want to make good on his Brexit strategy.\n\nNo deal is still on the table.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has managed to keep the EU on board and its backstop argument has not changed - but can it hold the line?\n\nThis was also the clearest interview from Mr Coveney yet - stressing if a no-deal Brexit does happen, the blame rests with Westminster, not Dublin.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster hit back that the Irish deputy prime minister was trying to \"look tough\" to the new PM.\n\nIn the coming days, we will likely see much more \"tough talk\" emerging from both sides.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement has been rejected three times by MPs in the Commons, with the backstop a key sticking point among Brexiteers.\n\nThe two men vying to become the next prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, have said the backstop is \"dead\" - a position seen as increasing the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf MPs fail to support a Brexit deal agreed between UK and EU by 31 October, the legal default is to leave with no deal on that date.\n\nBoth contenders to be the next prime minister have said they want to leave on that date and renegotiate with the EU, leaving with a deal.\n\nBut Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson have also said they would keep the possibility of no deal on the table to strengthen negotiations, despite Parliament voting to rule the option out.\n\nMr Johnson has also refused to rule out suspending Parliament to force a no-deal Brexit through.\n\nThis week, MPs backed a bid to make it harder for a new prime minister to do this.\n\nA majority of 41 approved the amendment, with four cabinet ministers, including Chancellor Philip Hammond, abstaining.\n\nDo you have any questions about what would happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 20,000 protesters have gathered in Moscow demanding free and fair elections in the Russian capital.\n\nProtesters are calling for opposition candidates to be allowed to register for the September polls.\n\nThe authorities have refused to register them despite each candidate gathering the minimum 5,000 signatures needed to be eligible to run.\n\nOpposition leaders including the most prominent, Alexei Navalny, joined supporters at the rally.\n\nActivists opposed to the government of President Vladimir Putin say the authorities have wrongly declared supporters' signatures invalid. Around 30 candidates were barred from running.\n\nThousands attended the rally in Moscow on Saturday\n\nSpeaking at the event Mr Navalny told protesters: \"We will show them this is a dangerous game. We should fight for our candidates.\"\n\nHe vowed that there would be a bigger rally next week unless authorities register a number of candidates for the vote.\n\nOne candidate, Lyubov Sobol, has been on hunger strike for more than a week, demanding that she be allowed to run.\n\nProtesters are demanding that opposition leaders be allowed to run in the September elections\n\nOrganisers said on Facebook that they were protesting for a Russia \"without bandits, fraudsters, swindlers and thieves\".\n\nLocal authorities gave permission for the rally to take place.\n\nLast week, police arrested dozens of protesters at another rally in defence of independent election candidates.\n\nThe protests come amid a drop in approval ratings for Mr Putin and anger over declining living standards and widespread corruption.\n\nOrganisers said they were calling for a Russia without \"fraudsters\"", "Thousands of people are marching in Hong Kong in the latest of a series of protests by pro-democracy campaigners.\n\nProtesters ignored the designated finish line, continuing on to China's government headquarters in Hong Kong, where anti-China graffiti was sprayed.\n\nThe BBC's Stephen McDonell was amid the pro-democracy protesters as tear gas began to be fired.", "England won bronze at the Netball World Cup by beating South Africa 58-42 in their play-off match in Liverpool.\n\nTracey Neville's side were aiming for gold on home soil but suffered an agonising two-goal defeat by New Zealand in Saturday's semi-finals.\n\nBut the Roses, ranked third in the world, did finish with a medal - comfortably seeing off the Proteas after a cagey opening quarter.\n\nNew Zealand beat Australia 52-51 in a thrilling final later on Sunday.\n\nEngland won an unexpected gold at the Commonwealth Games 15 months ago and although they could not match the elation of that moment, the home crowd were still delighted to see the Roses on the podium on the final day.\n\nIt also gave head coach Neville a positive send-off in her 70th and, as it stands, final match in charge before she steps down to concentrate on starting a family.\n\n\"When Tracey first came into his job it was a whirlwind, but to see her grow as a world-class international coach has been a pleasure,\" said England captain Serena Guthrie.\n\n\"Today was about sending her off as best we could and we did that.\n\n\"It's hard to keep it together when we have got everybody crying at the moment. This has been the best experience.\n\n\"We almost feel like we have won a gold medal because of how we have changed the game. These 12 athletes have been up against it from the beginning and I'm so proud of everyone. I'm lost for words.\"\n• None All the reaction from England v South Africa\n\nNeville opted for the same seven who finished the heartbreaking semi-final, with Nat Haythornthwaite rewarded for her fluid performance at wing attack in place of Chelsea Pitman.\n\nThe errors that cost England a place in the final were eradicated, with Jo Harten looking far more comfortable at goal attack, and partner Helen Housby finishing with 100% shooting stats.\n\nIt was a nervous first half but the Roses gradually became more confident and took a seven-goal lead against a fifth-ranked South Africa team, who were going for their first medal since they won silver in 1995.\n\nSouth Africa's colossal efforts in their own two-goal semi-final defeat appeared to have taken it out of them as defenders Karla Pretorius and Phumza Maweni, so clinical against Australia, were unable to contain England.\n\nProteas coach Norma Plummer brought on Surrey Storm's Shadine van der Merwe at wing defence in an attempt to shore up her centre court and stifle the Roses, but the South Africa faded and the gap was too wide.\n\nEngland lost only three quarters during the entire tournament and have now secured bronze for the third World Cup in a row, which goes a little way towards banishing the disappointment of losing their eighth successive semi-final.\n\nThe two coaches say goodbye\n\nNeville announced before the tournament that she would be stepping down for personal reasons. She took the reins from Anna Stembridge in 2015, leading the squad to World Cup bronze in Sydney later that year.\n\nIt was her first major tournament at the helm and she had to deal with the personal tragedy of the death of her father on the eve of the event.\n\nThe former international shooter's time will be remembered as being the first England coach to win Commonwealth gold in 2018.\n\n\"You talk about the journey and the rollercoasters - this tournament has surmised everything about this team,\" said the 42-year-old.\n\n\"It was about finishing as the Roses because they know we'll never play together again as a squad.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would be open to a return after her career break, she responded: \"It was a difficult decision for me to hand in my notice, but it was the best decision for me at the time. I always want to come back to the Roses. I want to be part of this squad no matter what.\"\n\nMeanwhile, netball legend Plummer - a former world champion with Australia as both a player and coach - finished her stellar after the match - her 50th as South Africa coach.\n\nThe 74-year-old has overseen the Proteas' rise up the world rankings, and as hosts of the next World Cup in Cape Town, Plummer leaves the team in good shape for her successor to win a medal at a home tournament.\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The SNP is considering bringing forward legislation that would stop \"no deal\" being the default Brexit position.\n\nIf a Brexit agreement is not reached between the UK and EU by 31 October, the current legal default is to leave with no deal in place.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said there were mechanisms to change this, such as bringing forward a new bill, if enough MPs support it.\n\nPM hopeful Boris Johnson has said he is prepared to walk away without a deal.\n\nBut speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland, Mr Blackford said he was confident that \"no deal\" was not now the most likely outcome.\n\nThe SNP Westminster leader said he was encouraged by the vote to stop a new prime minister suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"We need to seize the moment to finish the job and take no-deal off the table.\n\n\"There is a clear majority in Parliament that wants to stop no-deal, we are talking right across the chamber, it is right that we do that, and there are opportunities we are looking at.\n\n\"We need to bring a motion to parliament that would have authority, allow us to present a bill that can stop Boris Johnson going forward and pushing through no deal.\n\n\"There are a number of potential options but for example we could bring forward a bill that would amend the Withdrawal Act that would strike out no-deal as the default position.\n\n\"If parliament gives that signal that no deal is not acceptable then I would expect the EU to take account of that.\"\n\nMr Johnson is widely expected to become the next prime minister when the winner of the Tory leadership race is announced on Tuesday\n\nMPs have consistently voted against a no-deal Brexit - which means the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement in place about the \"divorce\" process - but the new prime minister could try to get around that by suspending Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to the deadline, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nA majority of 41 MPs approved an amendment in the House of Commons on Thursday that blocks any such suspension of Parliament between 9 October and 18 December.\n\nTory leadership front runner Mr Johnson has said he is not bluffing about leaving the EU on 31 October - even if it means walking away without a deal.\n\nHis opponent, Jeremy Hunt, says he will decide by the end of September whether there is a \"realistic chance\" of reaching a new deal. After that, he will prepare to leave without one.\n\nMeanwhile, also speaking on Sunday Politics Scotland, Lib Dem leadership candidate Jo Swinson again ruled out any coalition with a Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShe said: \"Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be prime minister, he can't be trusted on Brexit because time and time again he has shown he wants Brexit to happen.\n\n\"I am ruling out a coalition with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, absolutely,\"\n\nThe Scottish MP is favourite to succeed Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader when the party ballot closes on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"All the polling suggest Boris Johnson will win... and I am making my plans accordingly\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next PM.\n\nHe said a no-deal Brexit, something Mr Johnson has left open as an option, was \"not something I could ever sign up to\".\n\nAsked if he thought he would be sacked next week, Mr Hammond said he would resign on Wednesday to Theresa May.\n\nHe said he intends to quit after Prime Minister's Questions but before Mrs May steps down.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hammond said it was important the next PM and his chancellor were \"closely aligned\" on Brexit policy.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK must leave the EU by the new Brexit deadline of 31 October \"do or die, come what may\".\n\nHis leadership rival Jeremy Hunt has said a no-deal exit cannot be ruled out, but he is prepared to further delay Brexit if required to get a new withdrawal deal.\n\nMr Hammond said the situation \"might be more complicated\" if Mr Hunt wins the Tory leadership contest, but \"all the polling\" suggested Mr Johnson would succeed.\n\n\"That is what is likely to happen, and I'm making my plans accordingly\", he said, adding he would wait until the result is announced on Tuesday to \"see for sure\".\n\nMr Hammond said he understood committing to leave by this date, even with no deal, would be a condition for serving in Mr Johnson's cabinet.\n\nHe said: \"That is not something I could ever sign up to. It's very important that a prime minister is able to have a chancellor that is closely aligned with him in terms of policy\".\n\nHe added that Jeremy Hunt's position regarding a no-deal Brexit was \"more nuanced\", and he had not demanded a \"loyalty pledge\" on the exit date from prospective ministers.\n\nMr Hammond said he would support either man in their pursuit of a new Brexit deal, but it would not be possible to agree this before the end of October.\n\n\"A genuine pursuit of a deal will require a little longer\", he added.\n\nEither Jeremy Hunt (l) or Boris Johnson (r) will become PM next week\n\nMr Hammond has been a prominent critic of the idea of a no-deal Brexit, recently indicating he may vote to bring down the next PM to stop such a scenario.\n\nHe had said he could \"not exclude anything\" when asked whether he would back a motion of no-confidence in the government.\n\nAsked whether he would go against the next PM in a vote of no confidence, he said: \"I don't think it will get to that\".\n\n\"I am confident that Parliament does have a way of preventing a no-deal exit on October 31 without parliamentary consent\".\n\n\"I intend to work with others to ensure Parliament uses its power to make sure that the new government can't do that\", he added.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary David Gauke reiterated his intention to resign from government should the next prime minister pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Gauke told the Sunday Times: \"If the test of loyalty to stay in the cabinet is a commitment to support no-deal on October 31 - which, to be fair to him, Boris has consistently said - then that's not something I'm prepared to sign up to.\"\n\nThe votes haven't been counted - but already Westminster is preparing for Prime Minister Johnson.\n\nIt's not a surprise that Philip Hammond has decided not to serve in a Johnson government.\n\nBut the manner of the announcement - live on television, hammering Mr Johnson's key policy on Brexit so publicly - shows just how deep divisions in the Tory Party run.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke has confirmed he'll quit too if Mr Johnson wins - and others are likely to follow.\n\nThere is an element of jumping before they are pushed.\n\nBut it's also a reminder the next PM will face the same huge challenge Theresa May faced - how do you manage discipline in a bitterly divided party, with such a slender working majority in Parliament?\n\nNobody knows the answer for sure.\n\nMeanwhile, the Irish deputy prime minister said the Irish Republic would have \"no choice\" but to protect its place in the EU's single market if the UK \"forces a no-deal Brexit on everybody else\".\n\nAlso speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Simon Coveney warned that if the incoming Conservative prime minister chose to \"tear up\" the Brexit withdrawal deal, then \"we're in trouble\".\n\n\"That's a little bit like saying, 'Give me what I want or I'm going to burn the house down for everybody\".\n\nSome 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting in a postal ballot to elect the next leader.\n\nBallots must be returned by 17:00 BST on Monday, with the winner of the contest due to be announced on Tuesday.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry claimed a first major championship win with a dominant six-shot victory on 15 under par amid raucous scenes at The Open.\n\nLowry started the celebrations early, his arms aloft as he squeezed through the crowds who swarmed the 18th fairway at Northern Ireland's Royal Portrush.\n\n\"This feels like an out-of-body experience,\" said the 32-year-old.\n\nLowry held his nerve in the wind and rain to shoot a one-over 72, with Tommy Fleetwood second on nine under.\n\nEngland's Fleetwood briefly threatened but a double bogey on the 14th effectively ended his challenge as he finished with a three-over 74.\n\n\"I can't wait to wake up on Monday morning and find out what it's going to feel like then. It's just going to be incredible,\" added Lowry who was mobbed before he reached the green on the last hole.\n• None 'How Lowry became Pied Piper of Portrush'\n• None The Cut podcast: Lowry Open win is 'for the island of Ireland'\n\nThousands of partisan fans lined the 18th to cheer Lowry's victory procession and as he turned to embrace his caddie Brian 'Bo' Martin after hitting his second shot to the green, hundreds flooded the fairway ahead of him.\n\nLowry and Martin were shepherded through the crowds and under a rope by marshals to allow them safe passage.\n\nThere will also have been a sense of redemption for Lowry following his final-round capitulation at the US Open three years ago when, like on Sunday, he started with a four shot lead but a 76 saw him fall away as Dustin Johnson won.\n\nAmerican Tony Finau carded a one-over-par 71 to end third on seven under, his best finish at a major.\n\nAn up-and-down round for England's Lee Westwood saw him card a two-over 73 for a share of fourth that guarantees him a place at next year's Masters. He finished six under overall alongside world number one Brooks Koepka who struggled to a 74.\n\nThere was little doubt about who the vast majority of the fans were behind from the first moment until the last, with huge cheers greeting Lowry's name when it was read out over the speakers as he arrived at the first tee.\n\nHe had looked calm while out on the practice green but nerves appeared to take their hold when he tugged his opening tee shot into the rough before hitting his second into a greenside bunker.\n\nLowry escaped with a bogey but the nerves were there for Fleetwood too as he missed a birdie putt that would have cut the lead to two.\n\nThe 28-year-old, bidding to become the first Englishman to win the Open since Sir Nick Faldo in 1992, then overhit his par putt on the third and the bogey meant Lowry's advantage was four once again.\n\nThat seemed to give Lowry the confidence boost he needed and he holed two successive birdie putts from the fourth. Heavy rain and wind arrived soon after and Lowry, battling both the elements and nerves, struggled after the turn, bogeying four of the five holes from the ninth.\n\nFrom then on it was about digging in and not giving Fleetwood the glimmer of hope of taking it down to the wire. Lowry holed a couple of crucial par putts before celebrating a birdie on the 15th with a big fist pump. It was a putt that appeared to signal the moment Fleetwood's fleeting hopes of staging a comeback were ended.\n\nLowry's name was already being engraved on the Claret Jug as he approached the 18th green as he soaked up the adulation from the thousands gathered to witness the biggest win of his career.\n\nWestwood, runner up at 2010 The Open, will have arrived at Portrush on Sunday quietly confident of mounting a challenge as he looked to break his major duck.\n\nThe 46-year-old Englishman made a poor start with a bogey on the first but recovered with three birdies over his next four holes.\n\nHowever, every time he looked like threatening the leading pair, the chance to close the gap passed him by. He left a birdie putt hanging on the edge of the seventh hole before missing another opportunity on the eighth.\n\nHis challenge effectively ended around the turn with bogeys on the ninth, 11th and 12th and he finished six under overall after carding a two-over 73.\n\nWestwood's compatriot Justin Rose had an even tougher day. He shanked a shot almost sideways in the midst of the heavy rain while on the ninth and did not pick up a birdie until the 12th hole. But three bogeys in his last six holes saw him return to the clubhouse with an eight-over 79 to end one under.\n\nIn contrast, Scotland's Bob MacIntyre and England's Tyrrell Hatton were the only two golfers who finished in the top six to fire under-par rounds on Sunday.\n\nMuch of that will be down to their earlier start time and missing the stormy weather. MacIntyre, making his major debut, hit a three-under-par 68 while Hatton finished on two under.\n\nBack-to-back titles never on for Molinari\n\nFrancesco Molinari, the 2018 winner, never really got his defence going, although he did finish on a high by shooting the best round of the day.\n\nThe Italian, who won by two shots at Carnoustie last year, shot a five-under 66, which included an eagle on the 12th.\n\nAsked if he had enjoyed his week as defending champion, Molinari, who had opened with a three-over 74 in round one, said: \"I can't lie - some bits of it yes, some bits of it no.\n\n\"But I was not managing my expectations well enough unfortunately. On Sunday I was playing more freely, just enjoying the support from the crowd.\"\n\nThe parties in Portrush will go long into the night, but one person who will not be in the mood for any celebrations any time soon is JB Holmes.\n\nThe American led at the halfway stage of the tournament and was third on 10 under at the start of the final day, primed to challenge for the victory.\n\nHowever, he endured a horror round of 87 that included six bogeys, four double bogeys and one triple bogey, finishing 16 over for the day and six over for the tournament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"We can seek to persuade... but we can't control\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has warned the UK will not be able to control key elements of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC Panorama that if the UK leaves without a deal, then the EU will control many of the levers - including what happens at the French port of Calais.\n\nEx Brexit Secretary David Davis told the programme that Whitehall never believed a no-deal Brexit would happen.\n\nThe EU has set the UK a deadline of 31 October to leave the bloc.\n\nBut despite spending £4.2bn on Brexit preparations, Mr Hammond warned that the government has limited influence on how a no-deal scenario might look.\n\nAsked if the UK can control Brexit, he said: \"We can't because many of the levers are held by others - the EU 27 or private business. We can seek to persuade them but we can't control it.\"\n\nHe added: \"For example, we can make sure that goods flow inwards through the port of Dover without any friction but we can't control the outward flow into the port of Calais,\" he told Panorama.\n\n\"The French can dial that up or dial it down, just the same as the Spanish for years have dialled up or dialled down the length of the queues at the border going into Gibraltar.\"\n\nFrench officials have previously rejected suggestions they could resort to a \"go-slow\" policy at Calais if there is no Brexit deal - insisting that closing the port would be \"economic suicide\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond and John McDonnell agreed on the threat posed by no deal\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Hammond told MPs a no-deal Brexit could cost the Treasury up to £90bn and said it would be up to them to ensure that \"doesn't happen\".\n\nHe has also said it was \"highly unlikely\" he would still be in his job after Theresa May stands down next month.\n\nThe Panorama programme - entitled Britain's Brexit Crisis - will outline the tensions in government during Theresa May's time at Number 10 when it is broadcast on Thursday.\n\nMr Davis, who quit as Brexit secretary last year, told the BBC that the Treasury wanted to avoid talking about the prospect of leaving without a deal.\n\nHe concluded that many in Whitehall did not believe it would ever happen - despite two years of planning.\n\n\"I've got to be able to say to you 'if this doesn't work we'll leave anyway' and you've got to believe it.\n\n\"And for you to believe it I've got to believe it. And I don't think Whitehall really ever believed that they would actually carry out the plans we laid so carefully over two years.\"\n\nDavid Davis quit as Brexit secretary, saying the PM had \"given away too much too easily\"\n\nTory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nHis rival Jeremy Hunt has said he can negotiate a new deal for the UK \"by the end of September\" - and that he \"expects\" the UK will leave the EU before Christmas.\n\nVoting among the party's 160,000 or so members is under way, with a winner expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nBritain's Brexit Crisis is on BBC1 this Thursday, July 18, at 9pm.\n\nDo you have any questions about what would happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been seriously injured and taken to hospital after being hit by a car at a cemetery in County Louth.\n\nThe incident happened at St Patrick's Cemetery in Dundalk on Sunday afternoon.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said a \"dark coloured car drove at a number of people\".\n\nThe car then drove out of the cemetery onto the public road and collided with a number of parked cars before coming to a stop.\n\nA man in his late 20s, believed to be the driver, was arrested at the scene.\n\nIrish national broadcaster RTÉ reported that the cemetery was crowded at the time.\n\nSeveral other people received minor injuries, gardaí said.\n\nThe injured man was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.\n\nIt happened during the annual blessing of the graves at about 15:40 local time.\n\nAn eyewitness who spoke to RTÉ said some people had to jump out of the path of the car.\n\nThe priest taking the service told RTÉ it was a \"very frightening\" experience.\n\nFr Mark O'Hagan said the incident happened towards the end of the service.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nCoverage: Highlights on BBC Two, updates on BBC R5L Sports Extra, and reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish swimmer Adam Peaty has become the first man to swim 100m breaststroke in under 57 seconds - breaking his own world record with a time of 56.88.\n\nThe 24-year-old has dominated both the 100m and 50m in recent years, setting the 14 best times in the 100m breaststroke.\n\nPeaty's latest fastest time came in the semi-finals of the World Championships in South Korea.\n\n\"There's no other word except for 'incredible',\" he said.\n\nHe is now unbeaten in five years over the distance in major competitions.\n\n\"Obviously I've been chasing that for three years now, ever since I touched that wall in Rio [in 2016] I was like, I could go faster,\" Peaty added.\n\nThe Olympic champion eclipsed his own record by just over two-tenths of a second and won comfortably in the second men's semi-final on day one in Gwangju.\n\nCompatriot James Wilby and Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki finished almost two seconds behind Peaty, with China's Yan Zibei winning the first semi-final in 58.67 to qualify second behind Peaty for Monday's final.\n\nPeaty previously claimed he could break his own 100m world record in South Korea, calling it the \"magic 57-second barrier\".\n\n\"I could blow it away, get near it or be miles off it - but it's looking good,\" Peaty told BBC Sport.\n\nHe recently revealed he practises \"active meditation\" to aid his mental health after suffering a dip following his gold-medal winning performance in the 100m breaststroke at Rio 2016 and has since backed mental health campaigns.\n\nPeaty will attempt to retain his Olympic title in the 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.", "Police have released images of two people they want to speak to\n\nPolice are looking for two men after suspected CS gas was released during a fight on a London Underground train.\n\nIt happened at 09:13 BST on board a Victoria line Tube train at Oxford Circus in central London.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said a number of people were treated at the scene by paramedics for coughing and shortness of breath.\n\nThe force has appealed for witnesses and released CCTV images of the two men they would like to speak to.\n\nBTP added that other than the symptoms shown by the passengers, there were \"no further concerns for their health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPassenger Michael Roberts was with his girlfriend on their way to Oxford when he said he saw two people \"looking into the next carriage had seen some sort of a commotion\".\n\n\"Then two guys stumbled into our carriage and all the people on our carriage moved naturally away from the door.\n\n\"That's when everybody realised we couldn't breathe properly.\"\n\nOxford Circus is situated on the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street\n\nThe 26-year-old said at first he thought the men were drunk \"because they were trying to frantically get into the carriage\" while the train was moving northbound between Green Park and Oxford Circus.\n\nMr Roberts said he had his T-shirt over his mouth because he could not breathe and his girlfriend was \"spluttering\".\n\nHe said the effects of the gas lasted about an hour and described the ordeal as \"pretty frightening\", adding the train was about half full at the time.\n\nOxford Circus Tube station is situated at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street and serves the Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines.\n\nA Transport for London spokeswoman said the train had been taken out of service and to a depot for quarantine.\n\nCS gas, also known as tear gas, can cause a burning sensation around the eyes and difficulty in breathing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The proposal would allow renters in England to check up on their prospective landlord\n\nA database of rogue landlords would be opened up to prospective tenants under government plans.\n\nThe Rogue Landlords Database was launched in 2018 and only has ten names on it so far.\n\nIt includes those who have been banned for failing to make a property habitable, or have been convicted of serious offences.\n\nAt the moment the list is only open to local authorities but under a package of rent reforms it will be opened up.\n\nThe proposals apply to England as housing policy has been devolved.\n\n\"This database has the potential to ensure that poor quality homes across the country are improved and the worst landlords are banned, and it is right that we unlock this crucial information for new and prospective tenants,\" said Communities Secretary James Brokenshire.\n\n\"Landlords should be in no doubt that they must provide decent homes or face the consequences.\"\n\nMore than four and half million households rent from private landlords in England, a number which has risen dramatically in recent years as buying a house has become more expensive.\n\n\"Renters have to provide references from employers and previous landlords before a landlord hands over the keys to a new flat. So it is only fair that renters get the opportunity to check that a prospective landlord doesn't have a criminal record,\" said Dan Wilson Craw, director of Generation Rent, which campaigns on behalf of tenants.\n\n\"This plan is another victory for renters, though we need much more effective enforcement to identify all landlords who have been breaking the law,\" he added.\n\nThe move will be open to a 12-week consultation which will also consider whether to widen the scope of the rogue list to more housing-related offences, such as breaching the Tenant Fees Act.\n\nAccess to the Rogue Landlords Database is part of a wider package of reform to the rental sector, which includes an end to no-fault evictions, which allow landlords to get rid of tenants without a reason after their fixed-term tenancy period has ended.", "Prince George is seen smiling in an England football shirt for official photographs released to mark his sixth birthday.\n\nKensington Palace published three pictures taken recently by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe third in line to the throne turns six on Monday.\n\nTwo of the images show the prince wearing a white England home shirt and grinning in the garden of his home at Kensington Palace.\n\nA third shows him on a family holiday, wearing a green polo shirt and striped blue and white shorts.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex took to Instagram to wish their nephew a happy birthday.\n\nWriting from their official account, the royal couple commented: ''Happy Birthday! Wishing you a very special day and lots of love!\"\n\nThe England football team also sent their well-wishes to the young royal, complimenting the prince on his Three Lions t-shirt.\n\nThe official account for the England team wrote on Twitter: \"Great choice of shirt! Have a brilliant birthday, Prince George!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was born in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nHe appeared in front of the world's media one day later, when Prince William and Catherine stood cradling him on the hospital steps.\n\nThis year, he has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony and at his mother's Chelsea Flower Show garden.\n\nBy George, how you've changed! Clockwise: Prince George on his six birthdays\n\nEarlier this month, the young prince received a tennis lesson from Roger Federer at the home of Kate's parents in Bucklebury, Berkshire.\n\nThe sports star said George was \"cute\" and had a \"good\" technique.\n\nThe prince's first appearance, when he was only a day old\n\nA great-grandchild to the Queen, George is expected to take the throne after his grandfather and his father.\n\nThe prince has completed Year 1 at the private Thomas's Battersea school.\n\nHe will begin Year 2 this September, his final year in the lower school before he moves to the middle school.\n• None In pictures: George's first five years", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nShane Lowry admitted he would go to bed \"thinking about holding the Claret Jug\" on Sunday after finishing round three of The Open with a four-shot lead.\n\nThe Irishman is 16 under after carding a sensational course record of eight-under 63 at Royal Portrush on Saturday.\n\nEngland's Tommy Fleetwood is second on 12 under, while American JB Holmes is two shots further back in third.\n\n\"It's only natural, isn't it?\" said Lowry. \"We're human. We're not robots. We can't not think about things.\"\n\nHe added: \"And when you try not to think about something you end up thinking about it more - so you might as well talk about it.\n\n\"I'm not going to be sitting there on Sunday morning in the house trying not to think about the day ahead. I'll be talking about it.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old also held a four-shot lead after three rounds of the US Open at Oakmont in 2016, but a final-day collapse saw him fall away and Dustin Johnson claim victory.\n\n\"I learned a few things that day about playing the final day in a major with a lead,\" he said. \"I'm a different person now. That's what will help me.\n\n\"I've got certain things in my life that make it different. I've got a family now. No matter what I shoot on Sunday, my family will be waiting for me.\"\n\nLowry only fell short of equalling Branden Grace's major-championship record of 62, set at The Open two years ago at Royal Birkdale, when he missed a putt by an inch on the 18th green.\n\nHe was cheered on by a partisan crowd and he reflected: \"Walking from the green to the next tee, people are literally a yard away roaring in your face.\n\n\"I thought I dealt with it well and hopefully will do the same on Sunday.\"\n\nHome trio Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke had been tipped to do well at the Dunluce Links on the Northern Ireland coast, but only McDowell made the cut and is two under after a third round of 68.\n\n\"I felt like I could come here and come under the radar - I'm not quite under the radar any more,\" Lowry added.\n\nLowry will play with Fleetwood in Sunday's final group, and the pair will tee off at the earlier than scheduled time of 13:47 BST because of a forecast of wet and windy weather.\n\n\"Tommy grew up in Southport, he's played in bad weather and bad conditions before,\" said Lowry. \"JB Holmes flights the ball lovely, he's pretty good. Brooks (Koepka) is there too.\n\n\"There's a good leaderboard behind me. We'll see what happens.\"\n\nFleetwood, 28, shot a five-under 66 to follow rounds of 68 and 67 and is two shots ahead of Holmes.\n\n\"There are moments where you get your nerves, and there are critical moments you have to handle,\" said Fleetwood.\n\n\"I have handled them pretty well this week. The weather's set to be pretty rough, but I'll be pretty happy no matter what.\n\n\"We'll see what happens, but Sunday is going to be special and very loud. It will be a challenge to keep your concentration all day but I wouldn't have it any other way.\"\n• None Sign up to get golf news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nNew Zealand stunned holders and 11-time champions Australia to win the 2019 Netball World Cup in Liverpool.\n\nThe final was tense throughout and came down to the dying seconds and just one goal, as the Kiwis prevailed 52-51.\n\nIt was the Silver Ferns' fifth world title but their first since 2003 as they finally ended the Diamonds' dominance.\n\nEngland clinched bronze with a 58-42 victory over South Africa in their play-off match earlier on Sunday.\n\nThe Roses' win was routine compared with the drama which followed between the Trans-Tasman rivals who were competing against each other for the sixth consecutive World Cup final.\n\nIn a final that was evenly poised at half-time, New Zealand came out firing in the third quarter as they powered into a seven-goal lead with the 8,000-strong crowd behind them.\n\nAustralia reached the final unbeaten, defeating the Silver Ferns in their last group game by a single goal, and they brought the score back to that margin in the fourth quarter as Liverpool prepared for a spectacular finish.\n\nBut then they wilted under the pressure. With three minutes remaining, a mistake between the usually reliable shooter Caitlin Bassett and wing attack Kelsey Browne left the Diamonds flustered and New Zealand secured the turnover.\n\nThe Silver Ferns held their nerve and ran the clock down to snatch the trophy from their long-time rivals.\n\nIt gave a number of players the perfect send off, with Kiwi veteran defender Casey Kopua and international centurions Laura Langman and Maria Folau likely to bow out as world champions.\n\nKiwi coach Noeline Taurua, who took charge 11 months ago, suggested that her more experienced players were central to the victory. She said: \"Our fossils stood up and led from the front.\n\n\"I was actually quite speechless. Every day was going to be a challenge for us. To do the final is massive for the Ferns, for the sport and the community at home.\"\n\nAustralia coach Lisa Alexander chose to start captain Bassett after resting her for the semi-final against South Africa and she said after their defeat: \"There are hundreds of things you could change to make a difference but I'm proud of our efforts. We just didn't bring our A game.\n\n\"We'll look at everything but you don't have a knee-jerk reaction on a one-goal loss. It shows how close world netball is.\"\n\nThe Diamonds have now lost back-to-back major finals following their defeat by England in the Commonwealth Games in 2018, which also ended 52-51.", "In 2017, most drug-related deaths involved heroin but a large percentage had also taken pills\n\nThe Home Office has been urged to take part in an emergency summit about Scotland's record drugs deaths.\n\nThe number of drug-related deaths in Scotland soared to 1,187 last year, the highest rate since records began in 1996.\n\nScotland's Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick has said he will host a summit in Glasgow to discuss the crisis.\n\nMr FitzPatrick has invited the UK government to take part.\n\nIn his letter to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Mr FitzPatrick described the \"tragic\" increase in drugs deaths as \"unacceptable\" and added: \"I take seriously the impact this has on individuals, families and communities.\"\n\nMr FitzPatrick wrote: \"In response to these shocking statistics, I am inviting the UK government to work with the Scottish government to tackle this problem which claims so many lives.\"\n\nAsking for a government minister to attend a proposed emergency summit - expected to be held in Glasgow - about the problem, he added: \"The Scottish government has already agreed that we will host such a summit, where government representatives, local authorities and the chair of Scotland's new drug deaths taskforce would be invited, ensuring the voices of those with experience of using drugs, and their families, are also heard.\n\n\"I understand that there is cross-party support for this conversation, including from [Scottish Conservative] Miles Briggs MSP, who has written to me to offer his support.\"\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick said the deaths were an \"emergency\"\n\nMr Briggs, the Scottish Conservative health spokesman, described the situation as a \"national emergency\" and called for \"serious and detailed conversation\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a crisis that spans political divides, so we would hope that both Scottish and UK governments are involved.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it would be responding to Mr FitzPatrick's letter in due course and a spokesman added: \"Any death related to drug misuse is a tragedy.\n\n\"The causes of drug misuse are complex and need a range of policy responses and many of the powers to deal with drug dependency such as healthcare, housing and criminal justice are devolved in Scotland.\n\n\"We are combating the illicit drug trade with the National Crime Agency and Border Force working to prevent serious organised crime and importation across Scotland.\n\n\"We will continue to work with Scottish government to tackle this problem which claims so many lives.\"", "This crisis was entirely predictable, but was it avoidable?\n\nAt the start of this month the Gibraltarian authorities - aided by a detachment of Royal Marines - detained a tanker which was believed to be carrying Iranian oil destined for Syria.\n\nThis would have been a breach of EU sanctions directed against various Syrian entities and individuals.\n\nGibraltar and Britain insist they were acting entirely legally, but Tehran has described the episode as piracy.\n\nAnd ever since the vessel was detained, the Iranians have been threatening to seize a British-flagged ship in retaliation.\n\nIndeed, an earlier effort by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to divert a British tanker into Iranian waters was only averted by the muscular intervention of a Royal Navy warship, the Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose.\n\nBut there is a limit to what one warship can do.\n\nThis time it appears not to have arrived on the scene quickly enough and the Stena Impero and its crew are now in Iranian hands.\n\nA second ship that was detained by the Iranians was subsequently allowed to go, underlining the fact that this seems to be a direct retaliation for the arrest of the tanker off Gibraltar.\n\nWell the first thing to remember is that this specific row between Tehran and London is only one aspect of an already highly volatile situation in the Gulf.\n\nThe Trump administration's decision to walk away from the international nuclear deal with Iran and to re-apply sanctions is having a hugely damaging impact on the Iranian economy.\n\nWhile it denies some of these actions, the US and its allies believe it was responsible for attacking several vessels with limpet mines.\n\nIt has also shot-down a sophisticated US unmanned aircraft.\n\nAnd, as if to underline the risk of conflict, the US claims more recently to have shot down an Iranian UAV (drone) that approached one of its vessels. The Iranians deny the loss.\n\nSo the first order of business is to try to calm tensions and avoid escalation.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has made it clear that way ahead will rely upon diplomacy not force\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has made it clear that he wants this problem resolved urgently, but that the way ahead will rely upon diplomacy not force.\n\nHe has already spoken with his US counterpart - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nHe has tried, but so far failed, to speak to his Iranian opposite number.\n\nThere are likely to be many more bilateral conversations in the hours and days ahead as Britain seeks to develop as wide a coalition of countries as possible to try to encourage Iran to release the Stena Impero.\n\nWhile Britain will not want to have this presented as a simple exchange of vessels - it maintains that Iran's actions, contrary to its own, are illegal - it is highly likely that the fate of the Grace 1 - the vessel detained off Gibraltar - will have to figure in any future arrangement.\n\nSince Iran's threats to UK-flagged shipping were well known, this episode is highly embarrassing for the British government.\n\nThe priority now will be to ensure the safe return of the vessel and its crew.\n\nBut difficult questions will have to be answered concerning the decisions that have been taken and the resources available.\n\nGiven the highly fragile and volatile situation in the Gulf, together with the desperate need to bolster the flagging Iran nuclear accord, was it sensible to detain the vessel carrying Iranian oil off Gibraltar?\n\nWhat did ministers think Iran would do?\n\nAnd did they really believe that this arrest could be insulated from the wider crisis in the Gulf?\n\nSecondly, why was UK shipping not adequately protected in the Gulf?\n\nThere are only a relatively small number of UK-flagged vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, but, as events have shown, far too many for one hard-pressed warship and its crew to provide security.\n\nA second warship is on its way, the Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan.\n\nWe are told that the decision to announce the despatch of the second vessel was thought about long and hard - balancing the need for security against a desire not to do anything to escalate tensions.\n\nNonetheless, Iran was signalling its intentions loud and clear. It was neither deterred nor dissuaded from seizing a British tanker.\n\nThe episode raises some uncomfortable issues regarding Britain's global maritime role.\n\nThe UK has the pretence of playing a significant naval role in the Gulf.\n\nThis today amounts to a naval base, one frigate, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary amphibious landing ship and four mine counter-measures vessels - what used to be called minesweepers.\n\nOne destroyer is on its way and another vessel is due to head to Gulf waters in due course.\n\nThis force was not configured to protect British shipping.\n\nNaval experts believe that the Royal Navy simply no longer has sufficient numbers of work-horses - frigates and destroyers - to be able to surge vessels into the Gulf when a crisis beckons.\n\nYou clearly cannot be everywhere at once.\n\nBritain must tailor its armed forces according to its means. But this crisis did not erupt yesterday.\n\nAnd for whatever reason, the naval presence there was insufficient to prevent the seizure of a British merchant vessel.\n\nPerhaps Iran's warnings were not taken seriously enough?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam was so frustrated by the lack of signs for scientific words, he created his own\n\nFrustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in British Sign Language, a Dundee student has created more than 100 new signs to help deaf people express themselves when talking about science.\n\nFor any new student, coming into a lecture theatre or a laboratory can be nerve-wracking - especially if you can't hear.\n\nThat was the reality Liam Mcmulkin faced when he began studying life sciences at the University of Dundee in 2015.\n\nBorn deaf, Liam was the first person in his family to go to university, after receiving an undergraduate scholarship from The Robertson Trust.\n\nHe admitted having fears about what life as a student would be like, particularly when it came to lectures:\n\n\"When I applied to university, I was worried about two things,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\n\"Firstly, I was at school with 10 other deaf people but now at university, I was the only deaf person. How could I communicate?\n\n\"Secondly, English at university is at a higher level, would I be able to cope?\n\n\"I thought I would just apply anyway.\"\n\nFrustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in British Sign Language (BSL) during classes, Liam decided to take matters into his own hands.\n\n\"Watching the interpreters for a one hour lecture is very tiring,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of new words and scientific words are often very long, like 'deoxyribonucleotide' and 'deoxyribonucleoside'.\n\n\"Sometimes the interpreter would be finger spelling for ages and I was having to watch it.\n\n\"We would make up new signs which meant it was easier next time, but it also meant I had to learn new signs which was very tiring.\"\n\nLiam began his project, with funding from the BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship and The Robertson Trust.\n\nWithin two months he had invented over one hundred new signs, which are now recognised by British Sign Language and used across the country.\n\nLiam hopes his new signs will make science more accessible to deaf people\n\nAsked how he came up with his own signs, Liam said: \"You have to think about the meaning of the word.\n\n\"Sign involves hand shape, orientation and location to signify the meaning.\n\n\"It's definitely much easier because there is less finger spelling.\n\n\"It is easier for the interpreter as well as for me. So, maybe when I meet other deaf scientists we will have the signs to communicate rather than finger spelling, because I don't want that.\"\n\nLiam starts a master's degree in September and in future, hopes to become a researcher.\n\nHe plans on building his library of signs to make science accessible to everyone.\n\n\"I feel really happy because I know from my own experience how difficult it is to learn during my lectures,\" he said.\n\n\"Now the new signs have spread, I feel it will be much better for future students.", "They used to be football hooligans, fighting each other on the terraces and in the streets.\n\nNow, two groups of \"football lads\" have got together to combat extremism – but in very different ways.\n\nThe Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) claims to be against all forms of extremism – but critics say it peddles far-right and Islamophobic ideas online and on its marches.\n\nWorried football fans created Football Lads And Lasses Against Fascism (FLAF) in response.\n\nNo longer involved in football violence, men from both groups spar online and put up stickers around grounds to mark their territory.\n\nFor more on the DFLA and FLAF listen to this edition of 5 Live Investigates.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry produced one of the great major championship rounds with a sensational eight-under-par 63 that sees him take a four-shot lead into Sunday's final round of The Open.\n\nLowry, who called it \"one of the most incredible days of my life,\" carded eight birdies to finish on 16 under overall at Royal Portrush.\n\nEngland's Tommy Fleetwood is Lowry's closest rival on 12 under after a 66.\n\nJB Holmes is third on 10 under, one head of Justin Rose and Brooks Koepka.\n\nWorld number one Koepka, who won this year's US PGA Championship and finished runner-up at the Masters and US Open, finished with successive birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to keep himself in contention to win a fifth major in his last 10 appearances.\n\nBut the day belonged to the 32-year-old Lowry who started the day tied at the top of the leaderboard alongside Holmes and was in sensational form from the first hole until the last, hitting 17 of the 18 greens in regulation as he set a new course record.\n\nA partisan crowd at the Northern Irish course cheered his every birdie, the noise being so raucous that Fleetwood and playing partner Lee Westwood, who were in the group in front, had to wait to play their tee shots on the 18th.\n\nAnd there were incredible scenes as Lowry walked down the last. Scenes usually reserved for the final day of the championship, as fans stood to applaud and cheer their man as he completed a memorable round of golf.\n\nWith adverse weather forecast for Sunday, tee times have been brought forward with the first tee time at 07:32 BST with the leaders beginning their final round at 13:47 BST.\n\n'Nowhere I'd rather be'\n\nWith home favourite Rory McIlroy - who shot a 61 on this course before two new holes were created on the Dunluce Links for The Open - missing Friday's halfway cut, the fans put their support behind Lowry, and he rose to the occasion.\n\nHe came agonisingly close to matching Branden Grace's major-championship record of 62, set at The Open two years ago at Birkdale, but his effort for birdie on the 18th missed by an inch.\n\nNevertheless, his 16-under overall total of 197 is the lowest after 54 holes in Open history and he has, so far, shown little signs of faltering in his pursuit of a first major success.\n\nEven as Fleetwood rose up the leaderboard Lowry kept his cool, picking up a shot on the par-five fourth before taking the outright lead with another gain on the 12th before successive birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th stretched his advantage to four.\n\nAnd amid the chaotic scenes on the 18th as Lowry putted for par, his playing partner Holmes holed a birdie putt to ensure a positive end to a mixed round.\n\nThe American had kept pace with Lowry through the first 12 holes, sinking three birdies without dropping a shot, but bogeys on the 13th and 14th allowed Lowry to move clear. Holmes finished with a two-under 69 and starts Sunday's round six shots off the pace.\n\nHowever, Lowry knows as well as anyone that there is still a long way to go. Three years ago he went into the final round of the US Open with a four-shot lead only to let that tournament slip from his grasp with a final-round 76.\n\n\"I hope I'm going to be able to deal with it better,\" said Lowry. \"I know it's going to be difficult and hard but hopefully I am ready for it.\n\n\"I have a tough 24 hours ahead of me, but there's nowhere I would rather be. I have a four-shot lead in an Open in Ireland. Sunday is going to be incredible no matter what happens.\"\n\nWaiting to pounce should Lowry slip up, however, is Fleetwood.\n\nThe Southport native is aiming to become the first English winner of the Open since Nick Faldo in 1992 and he, like Lowry, made the most of the calm conditions to shoot a low score on the front nine, hitting three birdies to reach the turn in three under.\n\nFleetwood picked up another birdie on the par-five 12th but finished with six straight pars to post a bogey-free 66.\n\n\"We'll see what happens, but Sunday is going to be special and very loud,\" Fleetwood told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It will be a challenge to keep your concentration all day but I wouldn't have it any other way.\"\n\nEngland's Rose, who finished in a share of second place at last year's Open Championship at Carnoustie, threatened to trouble the leaders when an eagle on the par-five 12th followed by two birdies propelled him up the leaderboard.\n\nHowever, a bogey on the par-three 16th meant he finished with a three-under 68 and will start Sunday seven shots behind Lowry, alongside Koepka, who shot six birdies and two bogeys.\n\nCompatriot Lee Westwood briefly climbed to the top of the leaderboard after a run of three successive birdies from the second, sparking hopes the 46-year-old might finally break his major duck, but his form slipped on the back nine and two bogeys meant he signed for a 70 to finish on eight under.\n\nBut it was a good day for 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett as the Yorkshireman shot the second lowest total of the day.\n\nThe 31-year-old hit six birdies without dropping a shot, giving him the clubhouse lead halfway through the round but Lowry's scintillating display likely leaves Willett needing another strong final round to just put himself in contention for a second major victory.", "Passengers at London Heathrow were handed letters from BA explaining the suspension of the Cairo flights\n\nLufthansa has resumed flights from Cairo, but British Airways says services will still be cancelled for another six days as a \"precaution\".\n\nOn Saturday BA alerted passengers who were about to board a plane from Heathrow to the Egyptian capital.\n\nGerman airline Lufthansa also stopped flights between Cairo and Frankfurt and Munich but they resumed on Sunday.\n\nBA took the decision to suspend flights on the Heathrow to Cairo route for \"security reasons\".\n\nThe British government said it was aware of BA \"notifying passengers\" of the decision to temporarily stop flights to Cairo.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has updated its advice, saying \"there is a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation\".\n\nA BA spokesman said on Saturday: \"We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment.\n\n\"The safety and security of our customers and crew is always our priority, and we would never operate an aircraft unless it was safe to do so.\"\n\nBritish Airways passengers received a letter at Heathrow about the cancellations\n\nBA currently runs one flight from Heathrow to Cairo and back again per day - and says flights will continue to be suspended between the capital cities until next Saturday, 27 July.\n\nEgyptair is continuing to fly twice daily between Heathrow and Cairo - and flights from UK airports to other parts of Egypt are still scheduled.\n\nThe Independent's travel editor Simon Calder told the BBC: \"It seems to be specifically British Airways and specifically Cairo to Heathrow which is the concern.\"\n\nA spokesman for Cairo airport told the BBC the airport had yet to be notified by BA of any such changes.\n\nChristine Shelbourne, 70, from Surrey was due to go to Cairo for a week on Saturday with her 11-year-old grandson. She said she managed to check into the flight at 15:00 BST (14:00 GMT). However, her boarding card wouldn't open the barriers.\n\nMs Shelbourne said her husband knew about the cancellation before the airport staff\n\n\"The check-in staff reissued my boarding pass and I tried again but that didn't work either and we were told to try again in half an hour,\" she said.\n\n\"Whether they knew anything I don't know, but my husband told me the flight had been cancelled before they did. There were no suggestions or help from staff about alternative flights.\"\n\n\"My 11-year-old grandson is heartbroken - he's been looking forward to the trip for months. We're just not going now,\" she added.\n\n\"It was handled badly to be honest. My grandson is currently looking for flights for us - he's devastated.\"\n\nOne passenger named Dan said the airline had given customers £5 food vouchers \"meant to last 24 hours\".\n\nMichael Khalil, 42, from Guildford says he is about £1,200 out of pocket as a result of his flight being cancelled.\n\nMichael Khalil said he rushed to another terminal to catch an alternative flight to Cairo\n\nHe was booked on the flight earlier on Saturday but ran to Terminal 2 and used his own money to book on to another flight.\n\nMr Khalil works in training and development. He says he has an important business meeting on Monday and told the BBC: \"I have no choice. I have to be there.\"\n\nSafaa Almaghrabi was due to fly to Cairo on 24 July with her husband and six children for her sister's wedding on 26 July.\n\nThe 31-year-old says she cannot find any direct flights. When there were some available earlier on Saturday, they were more than £35,000 for the whole family.\n\n\"We contacted British Airways and they had two nonsense solutions. The first was to book us a flight on the 31 July, the earliest flight they can. And this way we'll miss the wedding,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThey also offered her a full refund which she says is \"really disappointing and unfair\".\n\nThe only indirect flights she can find are via Dubai, and Jordan which she said \"will be horrible for six kids\".\n\nShe said: \"I cannot afford to go but I have to go.\"\n\nHannah Lilley said she had been saving up for her holiday since winter\n\nHannah Lilley, from London, was due to be flying to Cairo this Thursday for a \"once-in-a-lifetime holiday\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I am grateful for security and of course it is important to be safe.\n\n\"However, the communication from BA has been very poor. I am gutted at the damage to my summer.\n\n\"My holiday was booked in February. Flights with BA, a tour of the Nile from Cairo to Aswan across eight days and a couple of days at a resort by Giza.\n\n\"I have to wait until Monday to get through to my insurers to try and get all these different costs back.\"\n\nCurrent UK Foreign Office (FCO) advice on travel to Egypt warns against \"all travel\" to certain parts of the country.\n\nBut Cairo is part of a safer region where the FCO only suggests reviewing its advice before visiting.\n\nFollowing the bomb explosion that destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October 2015 after it had departed Sharm El Sheikh airport, the UK was one of a number of countries to temporarily suspend flights to and from the country.\n\nHave you been affected by flights to Cairo being cancelled by British Airways? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some people attempted to extinguish fires near their homes\n\nHundreds of firefighters have spent the day battling wildfires in a forested, mountainous area of central Portugal.\n\nEight firefighters and 12 civilians have been injured in the Castelo Branco region, according to the interior ministry.\n\nOne badly burned civilian was evacuated by helicopter to the capital Lisbon.\n\nHelicopters and tanker planes have been used to douse three major blazes in the region, with two now said to have been brought under control.\n\nThe biggest operation - involving 800 firefighters, 245 vehicles including bulldozers, and 13 planes and helicopters - is tackling a fire in the municipality of Vila de Rei.\n\nHe added that an investigation had been launched to discover whether the fires might have been started deliberately.\n\n\"There's something strange. How is it that five such large fires broke out in areas that are so close to each other?\" said Mr Cabrita.\n\nThe Portuguese army said it had sent soldiers and machinery into the area to open routes for firefighters.\n\nPresident Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa expressed his \"solidarity with the hundreds fighting the scourge of the fires\".\n\nThe fires started on Saturday afternoon and were fanned by strong winds.\n\nVillages were evacuated as a precaution, and several major roads were closed.\n\nWildfires are an annual problem in Portugal. The country is warm, heavily forested, and affected by strong winds from the Atlantic.\n\nDozens of people were killed in huge fires there in 2017.\n\nSix regions in central and southern Portugal are currently on high alert for fires.", "The BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell has been interrupted on air by pro-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nThere have been mass demonstrations in the city in recent weeks against a proposed extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to China for trial.\n\nThis weekend is seeing mass protests by both pro- and anti-China demonstrators in Hong Kong.\n\nRead more: Why are there protests in Hong Kong? All the context you need", "A recording of radio exchanges between a British warship and an Iranian armed forces vessel has been released, revealing the moments before a British-flagged oil tanker was seized in the Gulf.\n\nIn the audio the Iranian vessel can he heard instructing the tanker, the Stena Impero, to change direction. The Iranian vessel then tells the Royal Navy frigate that its intention is to inspect the Stena Impero, for \"security reasons\".", "The puppies catch up on some sleep after their ordeal\n\nSix puppies stolen by machete-wielding burglars have been reunited with their mother after they were found by police.\n\nThe litter was snatched on Saturday morning when two men followed a man into a flat in Harpurhey, Manchester.\n\nThe five-week-old puppies were shoved into carrier bags and their mother was slashed in the face when she tried to defend them, police said.\n\nOfficers later recovered all six puppies from a property in Moston.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nGMP initially believed seven puppies were taken but on Sunday they said six puppies had been stolen.\n\nZena was injured with a machete while trying to defend her puppies\n\nDet Con Nick Kershaw said: \"The puppies are all safe and well, and have been reunited with their mother, Zena, who was absolutely delighted to see them.\n\n\"It has been a huge effort from the team to reunite the puppies with their mother before the worst happened, however our investigation is not finished there and we are keen to speak with anyone who can help us.\"\n\nA man at the Fernclough Road flat was also attacked during the burglary and suffered \"defensive wounds\" to his hands and arms, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nOfficers said the burglars - who also took cash, keys and a phone - were both black, slim and wore dark clothing with their hoods up.\n\nBoth men were thought to be in their 20s.\n\nOne is believed to have been about 6ft 3in and was wearing a grey and black camouflage face covering while the other is slightly shorter and wore a plain black face covering, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gen Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of US Central Command, visited Saudi Arabia on Thursday\n\nThe Pentagon has said US troops are being deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend American interests from \"emergent credible threats\".\n\nThe move comes amid heightened tensions with Iran over the safety of shipping lanes in the Gulf.\n\nSaudi Arabia confirmed that King Salman had approved the move \"to strengthen regional security and stability\".\n\nThe kingdom has not hosted US combat forces since 2003, when Donald Rumsfeld announced their withdrawal.\n\nThe US presence in Saudi Arabia started with Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when Iraq invaded Kuwait.\n\nBBC North America correspondent Peter Bowes says the US is understood to be deploying Patriot air defence missile batteries manned by 500 soldiers to Prince Sultan Base in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe US also plans to send a squadron of F-22 stealth fighters to the base.\n\n\"This movement of forces provides an additional deterrent and ensures our ability to defend our forces and interests in the region from emergent, credible threats,\" a statement from US Central Command said.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran have worsened since Washington unilaterally withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. The US has since tightened sanctions it re-imposed on Iran's oil sector.\n\nLast month, Iran shot down a US surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz, accusing it of violating Iranian airspace. The US insisted the drone had been over international waters at the time, and condemned it as an unprovoked attack.\n\nThe US has also called on Iran to release a Panamanian-flagged tanker and 12 of its crew, which was seized by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday during a naval patrol. Iran said the vessel had been smuggling fuel.\n\nThen on Thursday President Donald Trump said a US warship had destroyed an Iranian drone that came too close. Iran has denied losing a drone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran releases video which it claims show its drone still flying\n\nOn Friday tensions ratcheted up even higher when Iranian forces seized the UK-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in the Gulf saying it was in breach of regulations.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt demanded the tanker's release, saying there would be \"serious consequences\" if Iran continued to detain it.\n\nThe US has also blamed Iran for two separate attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June - an allegation Tehran has denied.", "Asim Khan's family are being supported by specially trained officers\n\nA 21-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Cardiff city centre has been named by police.\n\nAsim Khan, from Grangetown, was treated at the scene but later died at the city's University Hospital of Wales.\n\nSouth Wales Police was called to St Mary Street at about 04:50 BST on Sunday after reports of an assault.\n\nA 27-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is currently in custody at Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nMr Khan's family are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nInvestigations centred on an area of St Mary Street\n\nDet Supt Richard Jones said: \"A young man has tragically lost his life early this morning and we are doing all we can to identify the person responsible.\n\n\"CCTV shows a disturbance which starts in the street near McDonald's and moves towards the Oxfam store where the victim has collapsed having sustained a wound as a result of being stabbed.\"\n\nDet Supt Jones said \"significant police inquiries\" were continuing and thanked the local community for its \"understanding\" while cordons are in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The teenager was shot as he stood outside McDonald's in Coventry city centre\n\nA 15-year-old boy is being treated for potentially life-changing injuries after he was shot outside a McDonald's.\n\nPolice believe shots were fired from a motorbike carrying \"a number of people\" on Cross Cheaping in Coventry city centre at about 23:10 BST on Saturday.\n\nDetectives are investigating links to two other incidents at about the same time after a knife was recovered from a Cosy Club bar nearby.\n\nWest Midlands Police is treating the shooting as attempted murder.\n\nThe force said a second person, believed to be about 20, who was standing near the shot teenager was also hurt but not seriously.\n\n\"This was an appalling and reckless attack in a part of the city centre which was busy with people enjoying nights out,\" Det Insp Harjit Ubhi said.\n\nA second incident where a knife was found at Cosy Club may be connected, police said\n\nIn a third incident, an 18-year-old man was robbed a five minute walk away outside The Litten Tree pub on Warwick Road.\n\nThree people have been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon, in connection with the knife that was recovered from a bag in Cosy Club on Cathedral Lanes about 20 minutes after the shooting.\n\nPolice said there would be an increased presence in the city centre to reassure people.\n\nDetectives are examining CCTV and have appealed for any witnesses or anyone with dash-cam footage to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of central London in a march against Brexit and Conservative Party leadership hopeful Boris Johnson.\n\nThe pro-European March for Change is holding a \"No to Boris, Yes to Europe\" event, and includes a blimp depicting him.\n\nCampaigners are asking for Mr Johnson to \"stop the Brexit chaos\".\n\nEither he or Jeremy Hunt will be named as Theresa May's replacement as prime minister next week.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Mr Johnson, who has declined to comment on the march, is seen as the frontrunner in the contest.\n\nMany protesters waved the European Union flag as they demonstrated through central London\n\nHe said the UK would leave the European Union by 31 October \"come what may\" under his tenure, while Mr Hunt said he expected this to happen by Christmas.\n\nMr Johnson has claimed Brexit \"done right\" could \"cement and intensify\" the union between the UK nations.\n\nThe balloon depicting Mr Johnson has \"£350m\" emblazed on its front, symbolising the leave campaign's pledge of money towards the NHS during the 2016 referendum.\n\nThe March for Change organisers said: \"We won't put up with a hard Brexit PM being imposed on the country and hurtling us towards the cliff edge.\"\n\nThe march began in Park Lane and ended with a rally in Parliament Square\n\nProtesters used placards to share their feelings on Brexit\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam was so frustrated by the lack of signs for scientific words, he created his own\n\nFrustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in British Sign Language, a Dundee student has created more than 100 new signs to help deaf people express themselves when talking about science.\n\nFor any new student, coming into a lecture theatre or a laboratory can be nerve-wracking - especially if you can't hear.\n\nThat was the reality Liam Mcmulkin faced when he began studying life sciences at the University of Dundee in 2015.\n\nBorn deaf, Liam was the first person in his family to go to university, after receiving an undergraduate scholarship from The Robertson Trust.\n\nHe admitted having fears about what life as a student would be like, particularly when it came to lectures:\n\n\"When I applied to university, I was worried about two things,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\n\"Firstly, I was at school with 10 other deaf people but now at university, I was the only deaf person. How could I communicate?\n\n\"Secondly, English at university is at a higher level, would I be able to cope?\n\n\"I thought I would just apply anyway.\"\n\nFrustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in British Sign Language (BSL) during classes, Liam decided to take matters into his own hands.\n\n\"Watching the interpreters for a one hour lecture is very tiring,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of new words and scientific words are often very long, like 'deoxyribonucleotide' and 'deoxyribonucleoside'.\n\n\"Sometimes the interpreter would be finger spelling for ages and I was having to watch it.\n\n\"We would make up new signs which meant it was easier next time, but it also meant I had to learn new signs which was very tiring.\"\n\nLiam began his project, with funding from the BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship and The Robertson Trust.\n\nWithin two months he had invented over one hundred new signs, which are now recognised by British Sign Language and used across the country.\n\nLiam hopes his new signs will make science more accessible to deaf people\n\nAsked how he came up with his own signs, Liam said: \"You have to think about the meaning of the word.\n\n\"Sign involves hand shape, orientation and location to signify the meaning.\n\n\"It's definitely much easier because there is less finger spelling.\n\n\"It is easier for the interpreter as well as for me. So, maybe when I meet other deaf scientists we will have the signs to communicate rather than finger spelling, because I don't want that.\"\n\nLiam starts a master's degree in September and in future, hopes to become a researcher.\n\nHe plans on building his library of signs to make science accessible to everyone.\n\n\"I feel really happy because I know from my own experience how difficult it is to learn during my lectures,\" he said.\n\n\"Now the new signs have spread, I feel it will be much better for future students.", "PC Saddique was on holiday on Skye when he died suddenly\n\nA police officer has died while visiting the Isle of Skye's Fairy Pools during a holiday in Scotland.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique, who served with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), was visiting the attraction with his 13-year-old son on Friday when he died suddenly.\n\nHis family said the 38-year-old was passionate about outdoor activities and committed to youth work.\n\nPolice Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances.\n\nThe Fairy Pools are a natural waterfall phenomenon in Glen Brittle. The vivid blues and greens of the pools suggest an unnatural origin and they are popular with wild swimmers.\n\nPC Saddique joined GMP a year ago and was a student officer based in the Tameside district just outside Manchester.\n\nOutside work, the officer enjoyed hiking and trekking and was heavily involved in outreach work with young people in the local community, which focused on enabling youngsters to experience outdoor activities in the countryside.\n\nThe Fairy Pools at the foot of the Black Cuillin mountains are renowned for their crystal clear water\n\nA statement from PC Saddique's family said: \"Shaz was the most selfless person you could ever hope to meet; he always put other people first and wanted to make every new experience a fun one.\n\n\"He had a real passion for the outdoors and helping others, particularly young people in the community.\n\n\"Deep in his heart, he felt very strongly about youth outreach programs and getting young people out in the countryside to do fun activities.\n\n\"He loved his family more than anything; he was a supporting figure and a role model for his siblings. He was the best dad, and his wife and kids were his absolute world.\"\n\nPC Saddique's family said he was passionate about outdoor activities\n\nCh Sup Neil Evans, GMP's territorial commander for Tameside, said it was a very sad day for his force.\n\nHe added: \"Although Shazad was only with us for a short amount of time, it is clear to see the significant impact he had, not only on the public, but also on his colleagues.\n\n\"I spent some time with his close colleagues and listened to all the lovely words they had to say about him, and the stories they had to tell.\n\n\"I think one of the main things which stood out to me, were just how much of an outstanding individual and role model he was.\"", "Passengers at London Heathrow were handed letters from BA explaining the suspension of the Cairo flights\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all flights to the Egyptian capital Cairo for a week as a security \"precaution\".\n\nPassengers about to board a BA flight to the city from London's Heathrow Airport were told that it was cancelled - and that there would be no alternative flights for a week.\n\nThe airline did not specify what the security issue was.\n\nA spokesman for Cairo airport told the BBC the airport had yet to be notified by BA of any such changes.\n\nA BA spokesman said: \"We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment.\n\n\"The safety and security of our customers and crew is always our priority, and we would never operate an aircraft unless it was safe to do so.\"\n\nGerman airline Lufthansa also cancelled flights to Cairo on Saturday. However, flights to the city would resume on Sunday, a spokesman said.\n\nChristine Shelbourne, 70, from Surrey was due to go to Cairo for a week on Saturday with her 11-year-old grandson. She said she managed to check into the flight at 1500 (1400 GMT). However, her boarding card wouldn't open the barriers.\n\nMs Shelbourne said her husband knew about the cancellation before the airport staff\n\nShe said: \"The check-in staff reissued my boarding pass and I tried again but that didn't work either and we were told to try again in half an hour.\n\n\"Whether they knew anything I don't know, but my husband told me the flight had been cancelled before they did. There were no suggestions or help from staff about alternative flights.\"\n\n\"My 11-year-old grandson is heartbroken - he's been looking forward to the trip for months. We're just not going now,\" she added.\n\n\"It was handled badly to be honest. My grandson is currently looking for flights for us - he's devastated.\"\n\nOne passenger named Dan said the airline had given customers £5 food vouchers \"meant to last 24 hours\".\n\nMichael Khalil, 42, from Guildford says he is about £1,200 out of pocket as a result of his flight being cancelled.\n\nMichael Khalil said he rushed to another terminal to catch an alternative flight to Cairo\n\nHe was booked on the flight earlier on Saturday but ran to Terminal 2 and used his own money to book onto another flight.\n\nMr Khalil works in training and development. He says he has an important business meeting on Monday and told the BBC: \"I have no choice. I have to be there.\"\n\nSafaa Almaghrabi was due to fly to Cairo on 24 July with her husband and six children for her sister's wedding on 26 July.\n\nThe 31-year-old says she cannot find any direct flights. When there were some available earlier on Saturday, they were more than £35,000 for the whole family.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We contacted British Airways and they had two nonsense solutions. The first was to book us a flight on the 31st July, the earliest flight they can. And this way we'll miss the wedding.\"\n\nThey also offered her a full refund which she says is \"really disappointing and unfair.\"\n\nThe only indirect flights she can find are via Dubai, and Jordan which she said \"will be horrible for six kids.\"\n\nShe said: \"I cannot afford to go but I have to go.\"\n\nThe UK Foreign Office updated its advice for Britons travelling to Egypt.\n\nThe advice includes the warning: \"There's a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation. Additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to the UK.\"\n\nFollowing the bomb explosion that destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October 2015 after it had departed Sharm El Sheikh airport, the UK was one of a number of countries to temporarily suspend flights to and from the country.\n\nThe Foreign Office continues to advise against travel to certain parts of Egypt.\n\nHave you been affected by flights to Cairo being cancelled by British Airways? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fans are accusing TikTok creators of exploiting them for cash\n\nVideo-sharing app TikTok says it is \"sorry\" that some children and other young people have felt pressured into sending money to their favourite influencers on the app.\n\nTikTok lets fans send their favourite videomakers \"digital gifts\", which can cost up to £48.99.\n\nA BBC investigation found influencers promising to share their phone numbers with fans in exchange for the gifts.\n\nTikTok said it would strengthen its policies and guidelines but did not explain exactly how.\n\nClaire (not her real name) told BBC News she regretted spending £100 to obtain her favourite TikTok star's phone number - and he had never answered his phone.\n\nClaire, 12, who lives in the north-west of England, sent TikTok star Sebastian Moy a £48.99 \"drama queen\" gift to show her appreciation for his videos.\n\nAnd when he had asked for another one in exchange for his personal phone number, she said she was swept up in the moment.\n\nThe US-based video-maker has 3.8 million fans on TikTok and has not broken any of the app's rules.\n\nHe has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nTikTok is the fastest-growing social media app, with about 500 million regular users, although the company doesn't disclose its userbase. It's estimated to have been downloaded more than a billion times on app stores.\n\nThe app lets people post 15-second videos. It is known for clips of teenagers lip-syncing and dancing to the latest trending music.\n\nThe company says it is most popular with 16- to 24-year-olds but there is evidence that many users are under 13, which is against the app's rules.\n\nThe firm has already been fined $5.7m (£4.5m) by a US regulator after being accused of collecting under-13s' personal details without their parents' consent. And on Tuesday, the UK's Information Commissioner revealed she had also launched an inquiry into whether the app was doing enough to safeguard its youngest users.\n\n\"We do have an active investigation into TikTok right now, so you can watch that space,\" said Elizabeth Denham.\n\nVideomakers with more than 1,000 followers are allowed to broadcast live on the platform. It is during these live streams that fans can send digital gifts to show their appreciation.\n\nGifts appear as on-screen animations and cost between 5p and £48.99. The app's biggest stars can earn thousands of pounds in one live stream.\n\nTikTok declined to say how much of that money it kept - but several influencers told the BBC they took home 50% of all gift revenue earned.\n\nOver 10 weeks, the BBC monitored dozens of live streams in which the app's stars asked fans for gifts.\n\nIn exchange, they promised shoutouts on their live streams, said they would follow back fans on social media or offered to make \"duets\", which allow users to collaborate with TikTok stars in a split-screen video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne creator promised to talk to a fan on Instagram \"for a week\" and was given three gifts worth a total of £147.\n\nSome creators routinely offered personal messaging details and phone numbers in exchange for gifts.\n\nThe BBC also found a group who scoured the app for people giving gifts and then contacted them directly asking for money in exchange for \"likes\" and \"follows\".\n\nStephanie Barbour, from Toronto, found her 11-year-old daughter had run up a bill for $400 (£240).\n\n\"I was shocked when I found out what the money was spent on,\" she said.\n\n\"I said to my daughter, 'So you don't actually get anything for it?' and she said, 'No.'\n\n\"Adults should know better. And even other teenagers should know better - that you do not ask children for money.\"\n\nAnother TikTok fan, Kelly, told the BBC she had spent £500-£600 of her own money on digital gifts. She no longer sends them because she feels she was exploited.\n\n\"I understand people need to make money these days off social media but I just think it's force-fed down young people's throats that they need to pay money to get attention or feel appreciated,\" Kelly said.\n\nRhys, 20 said he had spent more than £1,000 without realising it.\n\n\"Gifting on TikTok is a little bit like gambling,\" he said \"It gets addictive. I really didn't see anything wrong with it at the time but now I don't think it's worth it.\n\n\"I have nothing to show for it. It was my personal choice but I do think there should be some sort of age restriction or timeout function.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted several of the TikTok stars seen using such techniques but most of them did not reply.\n\nThe Neffati brothers have amassed 2.5 million followers in just six months on the platform.\n\nThe 25-year-old Polish twins who live in Blackburn, Lancashire, are famous for their dancing and comedy sketches.\n\nThey offer to follow back fans in exchange for a \"drama queen\" gift, worth £49 and promise to write fans' names on their heads if they send multiple gifts.\n\nThey told the BBC that they had only started offering perks in exchange for gifts because they had been receiving them regularly.\n\nThey said they were simply following the lead of other creators on the platform and that most of the fans that sent gifts were about 30 years old.\n\nBut they said they did feel guilty when they received gifts from young fans.\n\n\"We don't like it when our gifters are young, so basically we ask them if their parents know about it,\" they said.\n\n\"But we can't stop them. We can't stop it. We are going live not only for the money but we are going on the live to get more audience.\"\n\nRhia, from south Wales, and has 2.5 million fans thanks to her creative video-editing skills.\n\nShe said her average fan was about 10 to 14 years old and they were always happy with the perks she offered in exchange for gifts.\n\nBut she also feels uncomfortable when she receives several gifts from very young followers.\n\nAnd she would like to see stricter age limits on gifting.\n\n\"It would give us peace of mind as creators,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It would make you feel more ethical because taking money from children is not a good way to earn a living really.\"\n\nLivestream gifting originated in China - where TikTok's owner Bytedance is based. The practice is far more popular there. Professional \"cam girls\" earn huge amounts from their audiences.\n\nIn the West, tipping has become more common especially on gaming platforms such as Twitch.\n\nHowever, the rapid rise of TikTok is testing the business model like never before.\n\nTikTok declined to answer specific questions but told the BBC it was investigating digital gifting.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We do not tolerate behaviours that are deceptive in nature and we are sorry to hear some of the users' experiences.\n\n\"We recognise there is always room for improvements in terms of making guidelines and information more accessible, clear and easy-to-understand for all users.\n\n\"We value your feedback and will further strengthen our policies and product features.\"\n\nThe company gave no details on what policies or community guidelines it would change.\n\nAlessandro Bogliari, from the Influencer Marketing Factory, said there was wider pressure on TikTok to make changes.\n\n\"These sorts of stories are not good for a social network that is becoming popular with brands and marketers,\" he said.\n\n\"The app has major potential but there is clearly work to do to improve things.\n\n\"I think more parental-control features would be a good idea and some sort of cap on the amount users can gift per day or per livestream.\n\n\"They could also make the guidelines more clear and ban the use of certain terms that 'hard sell' to users.\"", "Judges are having to deal directly with rowing couples in family courts because of legal aid cuts, the top family court judge in England and Wales has said.\n\nSir Andrew McFarlane said many hearings could be avoided, and went on to call for a \"public education programme\" on how to be a parent after splitting up.\n\nIt comes as a report says more parents are representing themselves because they do not qualify for legal aid.\n\nThe government said people representing themselves \"has long been the case\".\n\nSir Andrew, president of the Family Division which covers England and Wales, had earlier commissioned two groups to look at how the court system deals with cases involving children, and how it can be changed. Their reports were published on Wednesday.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's the World At One programme how cuts to legal aid have affected the system, Sir Andrew said: \"What it means for the court is that the judges and magistrates are often having to interact with these individuals directly, and that's a different skill-set from interacting with a professional lawyer.\n\n\"But what's needed is a major public education programme about parenting and how to be a parent once you and your partner have fallen out.\n\n\"The sort of thing I have in mind is the approach that was taken to smoking or seatbelts or other public health issues.\n\n\"Each parent has full responsibility now to sort the problems out for their children and we need to do what we can to educate the public at large about other ways of sorting their problems out other than coming to court.\"\n\nHe gave examples of mediation, counselling or \"maybe a YouTube video with parents talking about separation\".\n\nThe changes to legal aid came into force in April 2013 as part of a plan to reform the system and save £350m a year, and now legal aid applies to a limited range of family cases.\n\nIn its report, the working group of judges and professionals said legal aid data confirmed its observations that more people were coming to court in person and there had been a drop in the number taking up mediation sessions.\n\nThe report has suggested that a quarter of private law cases do not raise child protection issues and could be dealt with out of court.\n\nOne mother, who lost custody of all four of her children, said \"you get emotionally drained, physically drained\" from representing herself in court.\n\n\"It's now made me where I'm physically disabled and can't walk without a walking frame and suffer with stress incontinence every single day of the week,\" she told the World at One.\n\nAnother mother, who represented herself and secured custody of her child, also told the programme: \"I'd already been in three sets of family court proceedings before I represented myself for the final set.\n\n\"I was used to how family court works and how solicitors worked because I'd had a lot of experience watching it and being represented.\n\n\"So when I took the decision to be a litigant in person I felt quite confident that I knew procedure and the process but it was nevertheless still daunting.\n\n\"It was a prolonged, protracted set of proceedings. To deal with solicitors and barristers and judges as somebody with no legal training, it was daunting and a big decision to take.\n\n\"You have to be as objective as possible, especially in the courtroom, but you're talking about the most emotive thing there can be - it's about your child.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: \"It has long been the case that some people represent themselves in the family court and the latest figures remain stable.\"\n\nSince 2015, he said, the government has invested \"almost £8 million\" to help litigants in person - meaning people who represent themselves in court - via advice and support and will provide a further £3 million over the next two years.\n\n\"Legal aid remains available for family mediation and we are working to increase awareness of out-of-court dispute resolution to reduce the number of cases which come to court unnecessarily,\" the spokesman added.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of cases involving the care and supervision of children being referred by council social service departments have risen by by 25% since 2016, he said.\n\nLocal authorities need to be encouraged to do more preparation before bringing applications to family court, said Sir Andrew.\n\n\"It feels to me as if we are running up a down escalator,\" he said. \"We are running - people are working flat out to deal with the volume of cases. Although we may be holding our own, bit by bit we're slipping backwards.\"\n\nLocal authorities needed to be encouraged to undertake a thorough assessment of each case before making the decision to come to court, he said.\n\n\"Time spent in reconnaissance by the local authority, and frankly money spent in looking at the problem in depth before they come, is likely either to lead to those cases not coming at all, or if they do come, they'll be match-fit.\"\n\nLegal aid is the money given to people who need legal advice or help but cannot afford it.\n\nTo get legal aid for both criminal and civil cases, you have to show that the situation is serious and you can't afford to pay yourself.\n\nIn most cases, to qualify there is a means test based on the applicant's income and savings.\n\nSince 2010, there have been considerable falls in the amount of money the government has spent on legal aid.\n\nThe changes which came into force in 2013 withdrew aid from areas of law including family, welfare, housing and debt.", "Tributes have been paid to a \"very popular\" 13-year-old boy who was found dead in a river.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into how Christopher Kapessa ended up in the River Cynon in Fernhill, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Monday.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene at about 17:40 BST and police said he was confirmed dead \"shortly after\" his body was found in the water.\n\nIt was \"a terrible tragedy\", a Mountain Ash Comprehensive School governor said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family,\" chairwoman Pauline Jarman added. \"It's knocked us for six to be honest.\"\n\nThe main road in Mountain Ash was closed while police attended the scene\n\nDozens of tributes have been left on the main road near the scene.\n\nA group of pupils from the school came to lay flowers.\n\nBethany, 13, was one of Christopher's friends and said: \"He was a lovely, funny boy. He was like the class clown.\"\n\nThe girls added friends of the boy who were with him at the time had tried to help but were unable to save him.\n\nBethany's grandmother Heather Llewellyn, from Cwmbach, was with Bethany on Monday when she got the news.\n\n\"Beth was sitting next to me and she said, 'My friend's died'.\n\nAnother tribute called him the funniest boy in the world, adding: \"You meant the world to me. Your laugh changes everybody's mood.\"\n\nOne tribute at the scene read: \"I miss you so much already\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said in a statement: \"This is devastating news, but I know that the local community will rally around and offer its full support to the family and his friends at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nRay Thomas, from Fernhill Community Centre, said the family of the boy, from Pontypridd, had not lived in the area very long.\n\n\"As a community we have been left devastated by the tragic events that unfolded last night,\" he said.\n\n\"We cannot begin to comprehend what the family and friends of the victim are going through.\n\n\"The family have not lived in our community long but that has no relevance to us, when you live in our community you become one of our own.\n\n\"We all feel incredibly saddened by this tragedy and would like to express our sincere heartfelt condolences to the family and close friends of this young lad and extend our offer of support to anyone who has been affected.\"\n\nHis football club Mountain Ash Juniors, said in a tribute on social media that Christopher was a \"lovely lad, a great friend and teammate to many\".\n\nLawson, 13, a classmate and teammate in the football club's under-13s side, came to leave a football shirt in his memory.\n\nOne girl cried on her friend's shoulder after placing her flowers alongside the ever-growing pile of tributes.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was \"saddened\" to hear about the incident and added pastoral support would be offered to those affected.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death in south London in the early hours of Saturday\n\nThe baby son of a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in south London has died.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant, died at a house in Raymead Avenue, Croydon, on Saturday.\n\nHer baby - named Riley by Ms Fauvrelle's family - was delivered by paramedics at the scene but died in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nThe news comes as the Metropolitan Police released footage of a man seen running away from the house that night.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman said the \"tragic development makes it even more important that anyone with information comes forward as a matter of urgency\".\n\nThe CCTV released by Scotland Yard earlier shows a figure walking towards Ms Fauvrelle's home at about 03:15 BST on Saturday, then running away just over 10 minutes later.\n\nMs Fauvrelle died at the scene but Riley was delivered by paramedics and was initially said to be in a critical condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage shows a man walking towards Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's home, then running away\n\nPolice were called on Saturday to the house in Thornton Heath over reports of a woman in cardiac arrest.\n\nThe Met said it was an \"extremely challenging investigation\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Norman said officers needed \"to identify the man shown in the footage urgently, even if only to eliminate him from our inquiries\".\n\nPolice have described the investigation as \"fast-paced and extremely challenging\"\n\nHe added that police were aware of \"speculation about whether Kelly's attacker was known to her\" but said detectives were \"not in a position to say and we must retain an open mind\".\n\n\"One of the key aims of my investigation is to build a complete picture of Kelly's life and the people with whom she was in contact, but I also need to consider other possible scenarios,\" he said.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nA 37-year-old man has been released with no further action while a 29-year-old man was bailed until a date in August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Moffat said the No Outsiders project was about community cohesion\n\nA suspended equality programme at the centre of a row about teaching LGBT rights will return at a school.\n\nThe No Outsiders programme at Parkfield Community School sparked protests, which spread to Anderton Park Primary School, with parents claiming the teachings were not \"age appropriate\".\n\nThe Birmingham-based school said the new version of the programme had been designed to respect parental concerns.\n\nBut a parent group has said it feels it is still \"biased\" towards LGBT issues.\n\nThe amended scheme, called 'No Outsiders for a Faith Community', will be implemented at Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock in September.\n\nThe school said the re-launch followed five months of consultation with parents, community representatives and the Department for Education.\n\nHundreds of parents and children gathered outside Parkfield Community School in protest at the teachings\n\nIt said that in the amended resource, lessons referenced race, religion, age, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation and disability.\n\nA spokesperson for the school said: \"As a result of the consultation 'No Outsiders for a Faith Community' has been especially designed for Parkfield Community School acknowledging and respecting the concerns and sensitivity expressed by some parents in the present school community.\"\n\nThe resources and programme will also be structured for each year group.\n\n\"Our school ethos of equality and everyone being welcome remains a key aspect of our school,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHowever, the Parkfield Parents Group said it had voted against the newly-developed programme.\n\n\"This is because it is well known that the original programme and now even the new programme is heavily biased towards LGBTQ, whereas an equality programme doesn't need to be,\" it said.\n\nFatima Shah, whose daughter is at Parkfield School, said: \"We just haven't been listened to.\n\n\"We have said we don't want children in reception to be shown books with same sex relationships. Its confusing for them.\n\n\"But the school has said it will do exactly the same as it was doing before but with a slightly different name. How is that taking our views into account?\"\n\nThe No Outsiders programme is being taught at more than a hundred schools across England.\n\nParents said they had concerns the teachings were not \"age appropriate\"\n\nIt was designed by Andrew Moffat, the assistant head at Parkfield School, in 2014.\n\nHe said its aim was to introduce children to diversity in society and make them accept difference within the world today so that everybody is welcome.\n\nOfsted previously ruled the lessons at Parkfield were age-appropriate.\n\nBirmingham's Anderton Park School has also faced months of protests over its relationships education.\n\nProtesters have been banned from its gates by a High Court injunction, with a trial to take place later this month to decide whether they can resume directly outside the school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigating the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh are searching land in Worcestershire after receiving \"new information\".\n\nThe body of Ms Lamplugh, who disappeared from London in 1986, has never been found and her killer never charged.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers are now searching areas of land in Pershore.\n\nMs Lamplugh's family has been notified and police will remain at the scene until a \"thorough search\" is complete.\n\nThere is a large police cordon along the road next to the field police are investigating\n\nThe new information followed publicity about the search last year of a property in Sutton Coldfield which once belonged to the mother of prime suspect John Cannan.\n\nCannan, 64, who is serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of Bristol newlywed Shirley Banks, was named as a suspect in Ms Lamplugh's murder in 2002.\n\nPolice searched the former home of John Cannan's mother last year\n\nOfficers from West Mercia Police are supporting the latest search, which the Metropolitan force said was not connected to the owner of the land.\n\nThere have been searches for Ms Lamplugh - who was officially declared dead in 1994 - in Worcestershire previously, when police excavated a field near the former Norton Army Barracks in 2000 and 2001 and land near the village of Drakes Broughton in 2010.\n\nThe 2010 site is near to the latest area of interest but that search was called off after no evidence connected to the case was found.\n\nThe search in Pershore is expected to last about two weeks, a police spokesperson said.\n\nThere is a large police cordon along the main road, the B4084, on the outskirts of Drakes Broughton in Pershore, and a mechanical digging device was checking sections of the field along with a dog unit.\n\nA neighbour who lives across the road from the site told the BBC the \"whole area is in a state of shock\" at the latest development.\n\nA digger could be seen in the field as police search for Ms Lamplugh's remains in Pershore\n\nMs Lamplugh's parents, Paul and Diana, who died without finding out what happened to their daughter, set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust four months after her disappearance to support victims of stalking.\n\nIn a statement, the Trust said: \"We hope that the current investigations will be successful and provide some resolution to Suzy's case.\"", "Netflix has announced it's taking a long-term lease on Shepperton Film Studios near London.\n\nIts plan is to create a dedicated UK production hub, including 14 sound stages, workshops and office space at the site owned by the Pinewood Group.\n\nMajor films including Gladiator, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again have used the facilities.\n\nFilming on Netflix's action film The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron, is already underway at the studio.\n\nThe deal, believed to be in place for 10 years, will see the Netflix production hub take up 435,000 square feet of the studios.\n\nThe financial details have not been disclosed by either company.\n\nOver the past year, 40 Netflix originals and co-productions have been created across Britain, including Sex Education in Wales, Outlaw King in Scotland and The Crown at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.\n\nOscar-winner Olivia Colman takes over as the Queen in the next series of The Crown\n\nTed Sarandos, the chief content officer for Netflix said the studio \"has been synonymous with world class film for nearly a century\".\n\n\"We're incredibly proud to be part of that heritage,\" he went on. \"This investment will ensure that British creators and producers have first rate production facilities and a world stage for their work.\"\n\nThe creative industries in Britain are growing much faster than the rest of the economy. This means they will be central to the country's future after Brexit. If you talk to the streaming giants, they say that the cheap pound, exceptional calibre of producers and writers, and huge appetite for English-language productions together make this country a hugely attractive proposition.\n\nAs a result, there is a chronic shortage of studio space in Britain. When demand vastly exceeds supply, prices rise. When prices rise, the poor are priced out. It follows that while a giant like Netflix - the biggest company in film and television anywhere in the world today - says they want studio space at Shepperton, they get it. But for the smaller companies desperate for facilities where their creative impulses can flow, there is still not nearly enough usable space.\n\nEventually, this will get built, as part of an investment-in-infrastructure programme. In the meantime, the marriage of Netflix and Shepperton - one of the most storied names in all cinema - shows that when the best of the new and the best of the old come together, Britain is the location. At some point, politicians will notice, and look to take advantage.\n\nPinewood group chairman, Paul Golding, added the deal with Netflix was part of a wider £500m expansion which will see them build an additional 22 sound stages (16 at Shepperton and six at Pinewood), thus \"enabling us to host even more productions.\"\n\nUS actor Gary Lockwood on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was written and directed by Stanley Kubrick\n\nOver the past decade the growth of the UK film/TV industry has significantly outpaced that of the UK economy.\n\nDedicated production space, therefore, is in short supply and specialist property agents Lambert Smith Hampton estimate there is a current shortage of studio space in the UK the size of more than one hundred football pitches.\n\nNetflix and its partners will produce new and existing TV series and feature films.\n\nEarlier this year Netflix's Roma won three Oscars - including best foreign language film.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kenyan aviation authority: \"Whoever it is most likely had access to the airside\"\n\nThe stowaway who fell from a Kenya Airways plane in London is likely to have been an employee at Nairobi's main airport, a Kenyan official has said.\n\nThe plane was flying from the airport in Kenya's capital to Heathrow when a body fell into a garden on Sunday.\n\nThe man most probably had legal access to the airport, Kenya's Civil Aviation Authority chief told the BBC.\n\nA post-mortem examination would be carried out and the death was not being treated as suspicious, UK police said.\n\nThe body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden in south London's Clapham suburb, a neighbour said.\n\nThe neighbour, who did not want to be named, said he heard a \"whomp\" so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and \"blood all over the walls of the garden\".\n\n\"So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken,\" he said.\n\nThe neighbour said a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on an plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.\n\nThe plane spotter had arrived almost at the same time as the police and told them the body had fallen from a Kenya Airways flight.\n\nDescribing the victim, he said: \"One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.\"\n\nThe identity of the individual is yet to be established.\n\nPolice believe the victim fell from the landing gear compartment of the plane - where a bag, water and some food were found when it landed.\n\nThe director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Gilbert Kibe, told BBC Africa that there was tight security at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.\n\nIt was unlikely that an outsider would have crossed the runway, and climbed into the plane without being noticed, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where do stowaways hide on planes?\n\n\"They do check every part of the airplane, including the undercarriage, the wheels, the brakes, the tyre condition, the wheel well that is above there. They inspect everything. So when those checks were being done, it is not likely that person was there, otherwise he would have been seen.\n\n\"So at which point the person gained access, that is the mystery,\" Mr Kibe said.\n\nThe discovery of the stowaway who started his journey from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi has raised questions about the effectiveness of security checks in place there.\n\nThe airport is already under a state of heightened security largely responding to the threat posed by the militant group al-Shabab, based in neighbouring Somalia.\n\nA similar incident took place in 1997 when the body of a young man was found hanging in the nose-wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Nairobi after it landed at Gatwick Airport.\n\nThe Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) says a team has been assembled to investigate how the stowaway got on board the plane.\n\nThe KAA carries out security drills at the airport - most recently in November 2018.\n\nIt is not the first death of this kind on the Heathrow flight path.\n\nIn June 2015, one man was found dead on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com's headquarters in Richmond, west London, while another was found in a critical condition after they both clung on to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg.\n\nIn August 2012, a man's body was found in the undercarriage bay of a plane at Heathrow after a flight from Cape Town.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fire in Kentucky that has destroyed two Jim Beam warehouses containing 45,000 barrels of bourbon may have been caused by a lightning strike.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He always had a smile on his face\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the two railway workers who died after being hit by a train on Wednesday.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, from Kenfig Hill and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, from North Cornelly, were hit by the Swansea to Paddington train near Margam.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said the men may have not heard the train coming as they had ear defenders on.\n\nMr Delbridge was called an \"absolutely fantastic guy\" while the family of Mr Lewis said he was \"loved by everyone\".\n\nA third worker was treated at the scene for shock, but was not injured.\n\nFlowers for the victims were placed near the scene\n\nIn a statement, Mr Lewis's family said: \"We would like to thank everyone so much for their support during this difficult time and ask that we are now given the space we need to grieve.\"\n\nAlan Gitsham, a former railway worker who used to work with both men, said: \"Mike was great, a tidy fella. I'm devastated, I can't believe he's gone.\"\n\nKenfig Hill Rugby Club said earlier Mr Delbridge was a long-standing member and \"an absolutely fantastic guy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The train hit the men while they were on the tracks near Margam\n\nGary Chappell, the club's treasurer, said Mr Delbridge's death was \"more than devastating\".\n\n\"He was an absolutely fantastic guy. He always had a smile on his face,\" he said.\n\n\"He always had time to say hello to you.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Delbridge, who was known as \"Gazza\", was an \"absolute staunch\" Kenfig Hill supporter and was well known at the club.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kenfig Hill RFC This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRay Giles, club secretary, described Mr Delbridge as a \"big family man\" and \"a really, really likeable lad\".\n\n\"Cheerful, never down, always bags of fun,\" he added.\n\nMr Giles went on to say Mr Delbridge was an excellent sportsman when he was younger and it was \"such a tragedy to lose someone so dear\".\n\n\"We were all just stunned, lost for words, and just grieving at the moment.\"\n\nThe Reverend Gordon Sollis, from North Cornelly Methodist Church, said it had opened its doors for those who want to pray or reflect on the incident.\n\n\"I'll be here if people want to talk about anything or just be here,\" he said.\n\nMr Delbridge and Mr Lewis died at the scene following the incident shortly before 10:00 BST and an investigation is under way.\n\nBTP Supt Andy Morgan said: \"Following a number of urgent inquiries into this tragic incident, it has been established that the three people were railway workers who were working on the lines at the time.\n\n\"The initial stages of the investigation suggest that the two men who died had been wearing ear defenders at the time and, tragically, could not hear the passenger train approaching.\n\n\"We have a number of officers who remain in the area and we are continuing to work alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the full circumstances of what happened in the moments before this incredibly sad, fatal collision.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police is working to establish the identity of the victims.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch said it will proved further details of what happened and information about its investigation in the coming weeks.\n\nIt said its investigation was independent to any by the railway industry, BTP or the industry's regulator, the Office of Rail and Road.\n\n\"We will publish our findings, including any recommendations to improve safety, at the conclusion of our investigation,\" it said.\n\nThe deaths come just three months after the branch warned there were \"too many near misses in which railway workers have had to jump for their lives\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Trafnidiaeth Cymru / Transport for Wales This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Trafnidiaeth Cymru / Transport for Wales\n\nIn 2018, there was one death on the mainline railway and 6,641 injuries, of which 164 were major.\n\nBill Kelly, Network Rail's route managing director for Wales, said: \"We are fully co-operating with the British Transport Police and Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the families of our colleagues and our members of staff who will be affected by this tragic loss, and we will provide all the support we can.\"\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) said about 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident and they were transported by buses to Port Talbot and Cardiff about three hours later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers on the train which killed two rail workers describe how events unfolded\n\nGWR said everyone at the company was \"incredibly saddened\" to learn two railway colleagues died and it was working with BTP, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and Network Rail to find out how the \"tragic accident\" happened.\n\nStephen Lester, who was on board the train, said: \"[I] looked out of the window and saw people standing around looking at the floor.\"\n\nHe said the blinds had to be pulled down as there were about 30 secondary school children from Swansea in the carriage who were due to go on a trip to London.\n\nAbout 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident, Great Western Railway said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe body of Swiss footballer Florijana Ismaili has been found, days after vanishing following a swimming accident at Lake Como in Italy.\n\nThe 24-year-old was declared missing on Saturday after jumping into the lake from a boat and failing to resurface.\n\nItalian rescue services said her body was found at a depth of 204 metres on Tuesday.\n\n\"I am deeply saddened and shaken. It's hard to accept that Flori is gone,\" said Swiss women's boss Nils Nielsen.\n\nIsmaili, who made her international debut in 2014, was the captain of BSC Young Boys.\n\n\"We are very upset and deeply affected,\" her club said.\n\nUntil the last moment, I still had hoped for a miracle and wished in my heart that everything was just a bad dream\n\nShe was capped 33 times by her country.\n\nLiverpool's Swiss international forward Xherdan Shaqiri said he was \"deeply shocked\" by the news.\n\nNational women's team coach Nielsen added: \"She always had a smile on her face and inspired us with her happy nature. She was someone who faced every challenge and set the example. I can only imagine what it must be like for all those who knew Flori longer and closer than me. But my thoughts are with them in these difficult times.\"\n\nInternational team-mate Lia Walti, who plays in the WSL for Arsenal, said: \"Until the last moment, I still had hoped for a miracle and wished in my heart that everything was just a bad dream.\n\n\"The news has hit me deeply and you can not find any right words at such a moment. I just hope very much that Flori did not have to suffer.\"\n\nAnother team-mate, Lara Dickenmann, said: \"We are all incredibly sad and shocked. it is inconceivable that Flori is no longer with us.\"\n\n\"In the sky a star has gone out. We are very, very sad,\" said Swiss men's team national coach Vladimir Petkovic.\n\nIsmaili was named in the Swiss league's team of year for four successive seasons, and the Swiss Association of Football Players (SAFP), which runs the vote, said she \"deserves to receive this award when she is again voted one of the top 11 in Switzerland by team-mates\" for the 2018-19 season.\n\nSAFP president Lucien W Valloni said the player \"was a very loyal member of SAFP, who has worked to improve conditions in women's football.\n\n\"SAFP will like to remember Florijana as a wonderful person and great player.\"\n\nGianni Infantino, the president of world football's governing body Fifa, also paid tribute saying: \"This is an extremely sad moment for all the football community, particularly at a time when we gather at the Fifa Women's World Cup.\"\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin added: \"Uefa and the European football community is deeply shocked and saddened by the death of Florijana Ismaili.\n\n\"We extend our deepest sympathy to her family and friends at this sad moment.\"", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death in south London in the early hours of Saturday\n\nThe family of a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in her bedroom in south London were woken by her \"screams\", police have said.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant, died in the early hours of Saturday and her baby Riley was pronounced dead on Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Michael Norman said Ms Fauvrelle was the victim of a \"sustained and vicious attack\".\n\nHe said police were yet to establish a motive for the \"double homicide\".\n\nThe Met has also released CCTV which shows a figure walking towards Ms Fauvrelle's home at about 03:15 BST on Saturday, then running away just over 10 minutes later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage shows a man walking towards Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's home, then running away\n\nDet Ch Insp Norman, from Homicide Command, said whole Ms Fauvrelle's family - her mother, two brothers, sister and sister's baby son - were in the house on Raymead Avenue, Croydon, at the time of the attack.\n\n\"The family were alerted just before 3:30 in the morning by the sound of screams which was clearly Kelly,\" he said.\n\n\"Kelly's sister was the first person to go into the room, by that point there was no-one else there.\"\n\nHe said police and paramedics did \"everything they possibly could to try to save Kelly's life and it was clear they were going to be unsuccessful\" and then delivered the baby by Caesarean section.\n\nMs Fauvrelle was pronounced dead at the scene and the baby - named Riley by the family - died in hospital.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle died at the scene and her baby died in hospital\n\nDet Ch Insp Norman said \"we have to remain open minded\" regarding a motive to the attack and there is a \"need to build as complete a picture of Kelly as we possibly can\".\n\nHe said that Ms Fauvrelle's bedroom was at the rear of the ground floor and there was a communal passageway so \"potentially the obvious access point would be through the kitchen\".\n\n\"There is no sign of a forced entry but that does not mean, through accident, the premises were insecure,\" he added.\n\nPolice said Riley's father was not currently being treated as a suspect.\n\nLocal MP Steve Reed raised the murder in Parliament during Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions and said: \"The police now believe this may have been a random attack by someone unknown to the family.\"\n\nIn response, Prime Minister Theresa May said \"we were all shocked when we saw this terrible act\".\n\nA 37-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released with no further action, while a 29-year-old man held over the same offence was bailed until a date in August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All 157 passengers and crew were killed when flight ET302 went down shortly after take-off\n\nBoeing is giving $100m (£80m) to help families affected by the two crashes of the company's 737 Max planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.\n\nThe payment, stretching over several years, is independent of lawsuits filed in the wake of the disasters, which together killed 346 people.\n\nThe money will support education and living expenses for families and community programmes, Boeing said.\n\nThe loss of Ethiopian Airlines' flight ET302 in March was the second fatal accident involving a 737 Max in the space of five months. A near identical aircraft, owned by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air, went down in the sea off Jakarta in October 2018.\n\nCrash investigators have focussed on the aircraft's control system and Boeing has been working with regulators to roll out a software upgrade. The top-selling 737 Max has been grounded worldwide since March, with no date when the aircraft might be cleared to fly again.\n\nBoeing said in a statement on Wednesday that the \"funds will support education, hardship and living expenses for impacted families, community programs, and economic development in impacted communities. Boeing will partner with local governments and non-profit organizations to address these needs. This initial investment will be made over multiple years.\"\n\nDennis Muilenburg, the chairman and chief executive, added: \"We at Boeing are sorry for the tragic loss of lives in both of these accidents and these lives lost will continue to weigh heavily on our hearts and on our minds for years to come.\n\n\"The families and loved ones of those on board have our deepest sympathies, and we hope this initial outreach can help bring them comfort,\" he said.\n\nNomi Husain, a Texas-based lawyer representing some of the families of victims of ET 302, said Boeing's payment \"doesn't come anywhere close to compensating the families for what has been taken from them\".\n\nHe told the BBC's transport correspondent Tom Burridge that \"some of our clients are not interested in financial compensation at this point\" and that Boeing \"put profit over safety to get their number-one selling plane to market\" - a claim the planemaker strongly denies.\n\nMr Husain has so far filed seven cases on behalf of families, with some of those lawsuits seeking damages of $276m. He estimated that about 50 lawsuits had so far been filed by victims' families.\n\nSome families are waiting for further information about the technical causes of the crashes and how regulators cleared the 737 Max to fly before deciding on legal action, he said. But many others just want the truth, he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Robert Clifford, who is representing 23 families, said: \"This type of offer so early in the litigation process is unprecedented. Because there is still so much to learn about what occurred, it also appears to be disingenuous.\"", "England's players left \"their hearts and souls on the pitch\" in their Women's World Cup semi-final defeat by the USA, said boss Phil Neville.\n\nThe Lionesses lost 2-1 in Lyon, with Ellen White having a goal ruled out by the VAR for offside and captain Steph Houghton having a late penalty saved.\n\n\"I've told them no tears tonight,\" said Neville. \"I'm proud. They have touched the hearts of the nation.\n\n\"I couldn't ask for more. We had the time of our lives.\"\n\nEngland must now shrug off the heartbreak of a third consecutive semi-final defeat in a major tournament to face either Sweden or the Netherlands in Saturday's third-place play-off.\n\n\"We'll have to allow 24 to 48 hours for this to sink in and for them to get over this disappointment,\" added Neville, who said beforehand anything other than reaching the final would be a \"failure\".\n\n\"Nothing I can say will make them feel better. Elite sport and being on top of the world means that on Saturday in Nice we have to produce a performance.\n\n\"It will tell me a lot about my players. I've moved on from this already and now I'm looking forward to Saturday's game.\"\n• None Pundits: 'England must be honest to take next step'\n• None Analysis: 'England miss out on eureka moment again'\n\nThe USA, who are the world's top-ranked team and defending champions, led within 10 minutes from Christen Press' header. Ellen White equalised for England with her sixth goal of the tournament, a tally matched by Alex Morgan when she put the USA back in front.\n\nThe real drama came after the break as White had a goal disallowed and was awarded a penalty after she was tripped by Becky Sauerbrunn, with both decisions made by the VAR.\n\nHoughton's spot-kick was saved by Alyssa Naeher, and Millie Bright was sent off late on for a second booking as the game drifted away from England.\n\n\"It's about winning,\" said Neville. \"I can't say to my players: 'Unlucky.' That's white noise to them, because they wanted to win. That tells me that we're closer than we've ever been. We came here to win and we didn't do that.\n\n\"Football can be cruel. We have had a fantastic ride. When we got the penalty I turned to my bench and said 'we are going to win it' but it wasn't to be.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be an open game and I felt they were starting to run out of steam in the second half.\n\n\"We only had a 10-minute period in the first half where we played with the belief that we talked about. We stood off them too much. We will learn massively from this.\"\n\nNeville accepted the offside decision against White was correct but said Bright should not have been shown her first yellow card and he thought \"the referee wasn't really in control of the game\".\n• None How you rated the players: England v USA\n\n'I was planning the next two years this afternoon'\n\nNeville says he is already looking to the future as England look to win a major tournament for the first time. His contract runs until the end of Euro 2021, which is being held in England - with the final at Wembley.\n\nPrior to that, the former Manchester United player will also take charge of the Great Britain team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - they qualified as a result of England's run to the World Cup semi-finals.\n\n\"The minute the game finished my first thought was 'how do we win on Saturday?' and my second thought was 'how do we win Olympic gold?'\" he said.\n\n\"I was looking at them and that was my motivation. And then I looked at them and thought, 'how do we win the Euros in 2021?' I won't wallow or go back to my room and feel sorry for myself.\n\n\"It's now making us be better and getting the next two or three percent that will make us become the best team in the world. The aim is to become the best like America. We've still got a way to go. I won't stop until I get there.\n\n\"I've started already. I was actually in my room this afternoon planning the next two years. It's the way I work. It's fast.\"\n\nI've let the team down - Houghton\n\nNeville said \"no blame should be attached to\" captain Houghton, who has had a fantastic tournament but missed the penalty which ultimately cost them extra time.\n\n\"That was cruel,\" said Neville. \"She was outstanding in the game and she read everything.\n\n\"She has probably had the best season of her career. She had the courage to take the penalty and then keep playing football after. She is an amazing person and a world-class footballer.\"\n\nNikita Parris had missed England's previous two penalties in the tournament.\n\nManchester City defender Houghton said: \"I got told today that I was on the penalties and I was confident because I had been scoring all week but I didn't connect with it properly and the goalkeeper guessed the right way.\n\n\"I've let the team down but we've got to try to get a bronze medal now. I hold myself to high standards. I'm gutted and heartbroken. It's not just about me but in those actions it is. We were so close but I'm proud of everyone because we gave it everything.\n\n\"I thought we were the better side in terms of how we played football, but ultimately, lapses in concentration cost us.\"\n\nEngland goalscorer White added: \"The person stepping up takes a lot of courage and we'll never put anything on Steph - she's our leader.\"\n\nGoalkeeper Carly Telford said: \"I have to give my heart to Steph. It was probably the biggest moment of her career and unfortunately she missed it. But stepping up was inspirational to me.\"\n\nWhite's goal put her top of the Golden Boot chart with six, but Morgan pulled level - and the American leads because of her three assists to White's zero.\n\nThe game could have been different had White's second-half strike - which was initially allowed - stood. The VAR offside decision was correct, albeit marginal.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who has joined Manchester City from Birmingham this summer, was in tears as she spoke to BBC Sport after the game.\n\n\"I'm going to cry,\" she said. \"I'm devastated not to get to the final.\n\n\"All I feel is pride for my team-mates. I'm proud to be English. USA had an amazing match and we just couldn't match them. I wish them all the best in the final.\n\n\"We gave everything. In the first half we were sloppy. We got ourselves back into the game with the goal and it's bitterly disappointing.\n\n\"We've got an unbelievable squad and we had so much belief that we'd get to that final but we just couldn't do that on the day.\"\n\n'I hope a lot of girls and boys pick up England shirt'\n\nTelford, who was playing because of an injury to Karen Bardsley, said: \"It was devastating, heartbreaking. It's not how we thought the journey would end.\n\n\"I knew yesterday afternoon I would be playing. I had 24 hours to prepare but I felt like I had been preparing for the whole of my life. I would have preferred to be on the winning side.\n\n\"It was end-to-end but you want to be on the winning side no matter what. I hope there are a lot of young girls and boys picking up an England shirt.\n\n\"That's an important message for us.\"\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.\n• Find out how to get into football with the", "Footage of a man seen running away from a house where a heavily pregnant woman was stabbed to death in south London has been released by police.\n\nThe CCTV, recorded on two cameras, shows a figure walking towards Kelly Mary Fauvrelle's Croydon home at about 03:15 BST on Saturday, then running away just over 10 minutes later.\n\nMs Fauvrelle, 26, died at the scene. Her baby was delivered by paramedics but died in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman said officers \"need to identify the man shown in the images urgently, even if only to eliminate him from our inquiries\".", "Theresa May is expected to visit Scotland on Thursday\n\nThe prime minister is to announce a review of UK government departments to make sure they work in the best interests of devolution.\n\nTheresa May will make the announcement during a visit to Scotland this week in one of her final visits as prime minister.\n\nIt was described as a \"desperate act\" by Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nThe review will be chaired by Lord Dunlop, the former Scotland Office minister.\n\nIt will ensure that all of the UK government's structures - including government departments - are co-operating to ensure devolution works.\n\nThe move is seen as a necessary step, particularly after the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nScotland's first minister has said she wants to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence if the country is taken out of the EU.\n\nAnd Scotland Secretary David Mundell has warned that a no-deal Brexit could \"threaten the continuance\" of the UK.\n\nBoth Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have committed to strengthening the union, but neither has ruled out leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nFormer Scotland Office minister Lord Dunlop will lead the review\n\nWhen news of the review was reported by The Scotsman on Tuesday night, there was concern that it could stray into devolved areas - but Number 10 made clear it was not the case.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was a \"desperate act by a prime minister who has shown zero respect for the Scottish Parliament during her time in office\".\n\n\"It's for the Scottish people - not a Tory PM - to consider and decide what future we want for our parliament and country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScotland Office minister Lord Duncan told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that Ms Sturgeon \"would say that sort of thing, wouldn't she?\"\n\nHe added: \"What we're doing right now is examining how devolution works here.\n\n\"Time and time again I've listened to the first minister saying that the UK government isn't working for Scotland. The UK government is working for Scotland and it wants to make sure that it is working as best as it can, hence this review - a simple straightforward way of making sure devolution is working as best as it can be.\"\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, later described the review as a \"farce\" at Prime Minister's Questions, and claimed that: \"The real legacy of this prime minister is shutting down Scotland and ignoring the will of the Scottish Parliament. The Tories have never supported devolution and it's clear they never, never will.\"\n\nMrs May responded by saying: \"There is only one party in this House who wants to stop devolution in Scotland and that's the Scottish National Party\".\n\nThe prime minister's visit to Scotland on Thursday will come the day before a Conservative leadership hustings in Scotland.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson outlined plans for a unit in Number 10 which would \"sense-test and stress-test\" every policy for the results it would have on the union.\n\nAnd he said the next prime minister should be \"minister for the union\", a position which was \"cost-free but symbolically significant\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hunt said he would ensure the UK left the EU in a way that protects the union.", "Two men who were rescued from the boat were taken back to a rescue station in Durban\n\nA British woman has died while sailing onboard a yacht that was damaged off the coast of South Africa.\n\nRescuers were called to reports of a boat taking on water 242 nautical miles (448km) off the country's east coast on Monday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.\n\nTwo South African men on board the yacht were uninjured and were rescued along with a dog.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it is supporting the woman's family.\n\nRescue crews tried to save the woman but she was pronounced dead on board.\n\nThe two survivors, who are from Durban and Cape Town, and the dog were taken to Durban sea rescue station.\n\nThe NSRI said it offered its \"sincere condolences\" to the woman's family and friends.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman added: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British woman following her death whilst sailing off the coast of South Africa and are in contact with the South African authorities.\"", "Obesity now causes more cases of four common cancers in the UK than smoking, according to a charity.\n\nCancer Research UK says bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco.\n\nIt says millions are at risk of cancer because of their weight and that obese people outnumber smokers two to one.\n\nBut its new billboard campaign highlighting the obesity-cancer risk has been criticised for fat-shaming.\n\nIt is not the first time the charity has been accused of fat-shaming.\n\nIn February, comedian and campaigner Sofie Hagen took to Twitter to criticise the campaign.\n\nOne Twitter user, @KenLynch73, said linking obesity with cigarette-style branding was a new low.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Serious Ken This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Serious Ken\n\nCancer Research UK says it is not about blaming people for being overweight.\n\nNor is it suggesting that smoking and obesity are directly comparable in terms of cancer risk. Both increase a person's risk.\n\nBut it says being overweight or obese causes around 22,800 cases of cancer each year, compared to smoking which causes 54,300. For the four highlighted cancers:-\n\nSmoking remains the UK's leading preventable cause of cancer overall. Obesity ranks second, says CRUK.\n\nBut while smoking rates are decreasing, obesity is increasing, which health experts agree is concerning.\n\nTheir warning comes as Tory leadership contender Boris Johnson vowed to not to extend the sugar tax without a review.\n\nWhen asked about plans to extend the tax on soft drinks to milkshakes, Mr Johnson mocked his own weight and said he was \"very, very reluctant\" to imposes taxes that \"clobber those who can least afford it\".\n\nHe suggested we \"encourage people to walk, cycle and generally do more exercise\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2018, Cancer Research UK said around 38% of all cancers diagnoses could have been prevented\n\nJust over one in four UK adults are obese.\n\nIn the UK, there are about:\n\nWhile the link between obesity and cancer is well established, the biological mechanisms behind it are not yet fully understood.\n\nFat cells make extra hormones and growth factors that tell cells in the body to divide more often. This increases the chance of cancerous cells being made.\n\nPhysical activity probably plays a role too, experts say.\n\nBeing overweight or obese does not mean a person will definitely develop cancer but it does raise their risk.\n\nAnd this risk is higher the more weight a person gains and the longer they are overweight for.\n\nAccording to Cancer Research UK, 13 different cancers are linked to obesity:\n• breast (in women after the menopause)\n• bowel\n• pancreatic\n• oesophageal (food pipe)\n• liver\n• kidney\n• upper stomach\n• gallbladder\n• womb\n• ovarian\n• thyroid\n• multiple myeloma (blood cancer)\n• meningioma (brain cancer)\n\nThe link between obesity and cancer is in adults only, although a healthy weight is important for children too.\n\nEach year in the UK, the charity says, excess weight causes about:\n\nProf Linda Bauld, Cancer Research UK's prevention expert, said the government should do more to tackle the UK's obesity problem.\n\nThe government had been slow to restrict unhealthy food and drink ads, the British Medical Association said.\n\n\"While we are very much aware of the health risks associated with smoking, less effort has been thrown behind tackling obesity, which is now a major cause of cancer,\" it said,\n\nNHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: \"The NHS can't win the 'battle against the bulge' on its own.\n\n\"Families, food businesses and government all need to play their part if we're to avoid copying America's damaging and costly example.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray has confirmed he will play mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon.\n\nMurray, a two-time singles champion at SW19, will compete in both the men's and mixed doubles less than a month after returning following hip surgery.\n\nAmerican Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, had earlier told journalists: \"If you guys really want it... all right, done.\"\n\nThe pair are expected to play their first match together on Thursday.\n\nMurray, who won Queen's with Feliciano Lopez, will partner Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the men's doubles.\n\nThe Scot was turned down by world number one Ashleigh Barty before suggesting he might pair up with 37-year-old Williams, who has won seven doubles titles at Wimbledon.\n\nMurray said: \"Serena is obviously a brilliant player, has a great doubles record and is brilliant on grass obviously. She's arguably the best player ever.\"\n\nLaughing, he added: \"So she'd be a solid partner.\"\n\nThe only issue will be whether the American's knees will cope with the extra demands of playing doubles as well as singles - and whether Murray's fitness holds up to what will be a packed doubles programme if they have a good run.\n\nWilliams has struggled with a knee injury this year but beat Giulia Gatto-Monticone on Tuesday.\n\nMurray played mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 2006 where he teamed up with Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens and reached the second round.\n\nHe was also a silver medallist with Laura Robson in the London 2012 Olympics which were played at the All England Club.\n\nWilliams is a two-time mixed doubles Grand Slam champion, having partnered Max Mirnyi to win Wimbledon and the US Open in 1998.\n\nSome 64 pairings compete in the mixed doubles, which is played over the best of three sets.\n\nJust before the pairing was confirmed, Williams had remained coy about the prospect at a news conference following her first-round singles victory.\n\nJournalist: \"When do you think you could make that decision? Next three hours? In the morning?\"\n\nWilliams: \"This is crazy. I don't know. I'm still kind of in the singles mode, trying to figure that part out. We'll see. I could use extra matches, though, so... could be something.\"\n\nJournalist: \"Could you give us a rough percentage of how likely you think it is you would play with Andy?\"\n\nWilliams: \"I don't know. If you guys really want it, then maybe I'll do it.\"\n\nJournalist: \"We do really want it.\"\n\nWilliams: \"Yeah? All right, done, just for you guys. Don't forget.\"\n\nAsked what she likes about Murray, Williams replied: \"We're a lot alike on the court! I've always liked that about him.\n\n\"Talking about work ethic... His work ethic is just honestly off the charts. That's something I've always respected about him. His fitness, everything.\n\n\"To do what he's done in an era where there's so many other great male tennis players, so much competition, to rise above it, not many people have done it.\n\n\"There's so many things to be admired. Above all, he really stands out, he really speaks up about women's issues no matter what. You can tell he has a really strong woman in his life. I think above all that is just fantastic.\"\n• None Relive the coverage of day two from Wimbledon\n• None Williams through with Barty and Kerber\n• None Konta among five Britons to reach second round on Tuesday\n• None Theatrical Kyrgios sets up Nadal tie as Tomic loses in under an hour", "England must be \"honest with themselves\" if they are to \"take the next step\" after a third consecutive major tournament semi-final defeat, says former player Alex Scott.\n\nCaptain Steph Houghton missed a late penalty as England were beaten 2-1 by defending world champions the USA.\n\nThe Lionesses lost at the last World Cup to Japan and at the 2017 Euros to eventual winners the Netherlands.\n\nMidfielder Jordan Nobbs said England \"need to be hard on ourselves\".\n\nThe Arsenal player, who missed the World Cup with a knee injury, told BBC One: \"It is heartbreaking but USA always have something which gets them to a final.\n\n\"We have not quite found that yet. We need to be hard on ourselves because we will never get to a final if we don't look into that.\"\n\nFormer England and Arsenal player Scott added: \"England were beaten by the better team. When you look at the USA side, they were fitter, ruthless and clinical when they needed to be - those are the lessons England will need to take.\n\n\"How do we get to the next level? They have to be honest with themselves, they need to look and evaluate. They need to learn a harsh lesson and need to learn to be truthful with one another to get to the next step.\n\n\"Every player will look at themselves now and ask: 'What do we need to do to be better and be the best in the world?' That is the level [they need to be at].\"\n\nFormer USA goalkeeper Hope Solo said: \"We wanted to see the USA tested and we wanted to see England attacking in numbers. For the first time, USA did not drop back defensively and they tried to play. It was fun football to watch and I am proud of both sides.\"\n\n\"For England, the success is in final details,\" she said. \"They have come so far in terms of their fitness and how they want to play.\n\n\"You can see in the second half, England were putting together passes and were getting opportunities at goal, but it is now about doing it for 90 minutes, it is about the consistency.\"\n• None Analysis: 'England miss out on eureka moment again'\n\nShould White have stepped up for the penalty?\n\nEngland fell behind to Christen Press' early header and levelled through Ellen White's brilliant, first-time strike. But Alex Morgan's free header just after the half-hour mark proved to be the winner.\n\nWhite and Morgan are tied at six goals each in the race for the Golden Boot, but should the England forward have stepped up for the crucial missed penalty?\n\nNikita Parris had failed to convert from the spot with her past two efforts in the tournament so the opportunity was given to Houghton, but the Manchester City player saw her strike saved by USA goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher.\n\nScott said: \"Maybe we needed someone telling Ellen: 'You can score goals, go and take it.'\n\n\"But throughout previous World Cups and tournaments, Ellen has never wanted to step up and take a penalty - maybe it is the pressure and how you handle it? It is something she can work on.\"\n\nNobbs added: \"It is brave from Steph and she will be disappointed but Ellen has scored so many goals. You don't know what goes on on the training field.\n\n\"We missed two penalties, then changed it so they have obviously done work on that for Steph. But it is about pressure and who can get that goal.\"\n\nEarlier in the second half, White looked to have equalised with a lovely finish, but the video assistant referee (VAR) adjudged she was offside by the narrowest of margins.\n\nEngland had won all five games until the semi-final loss and were on a run of 381 minutes without conceding a goal before Press struck.\n\nNeville's side had defender Millie Bright sent off late on for two yellow cards, the second of which was a foul on Morgan. But it was England's lack of composure on the ball that proved to be their undoing.\n\nScott said: \"Sloppy is the right word for England throughout the tournament - in the second halves, when the team has got tired. If Phil has come in with the philosophy of wanting to be a footballing team and wants to play out from the back, then we need to be better on the ball.\n\n\"At times we were the architects of our own downfall, handing the ball to the USA.\"\n\nNobbs added: \"Eventually your luck runs out and against a top team like the USA, they will score goals against you and that happened to us today.\"", "Skin, from the band Skunk Anansie, says she doesn't want to \"throw shade\" on Stormzy - despite pointing out he's not actually the first black British artist to headline Glastonbury.\n\nThe rapper made the claim in the build up to his Pyramid Stage slot last week - though he swiftly corrected it.\n\nSkin had, in fact, topped the bill 20 years earlier.\n\nBut she's told Radio 1 Newsbeat that Stormzy's set was still a \"wonderful moment for black culture\".\n\nStormzy's original tweet went out on the day of his performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by CROWN OUT NOW 👑\n\nAnd Skin says it's not the first time she's been overlooked.\n\n\"It's one of those things - Beyonce said she was the first black female and I didn't really say anything then.\n\n\"I love Stormzy, it's all come from a place of love, but I did feel like I had to point out that we did it.\"\n\n\"At the end of the day - and I don't want to offend any Keith Flint fans out there - but you could argue Maxim was a frontman of the Prodigy.\n\n\"And they beat us to it in 1997!\"\n\nGoing back even further, there are bands like UB40 who had several black members and headlined in 1983.\n\nTheir lead singer was white, though - so it really comes down to how you define a \"black headliner\".\n\nMaxim from the Prodigy could also claim to be the first black British artist to headline Glastonbury\n\nSkunk Anansie formed in 1994, headlined Glastonbury in 1999, split up in 2001 and reformed in 2008.\n\nBut Skin says when they played Worthy Farm her race was never explicitly mentioned.\n\n\"It wasn't a conversation that was being had whether we were the first or I was the first black woman or anything like that.\"\n\nBut she thinks, under the surface, it was on people's minds.\n\n\"Glastonbury had a certain face at that time and it was white rock artists and not many women either.\n\n\"So there were a lot of articles and newspapers that were asking 'Why Skunk Anansie?', in the same way that, when he did it, people were asking 'Why Jay-Z?'\n\n\"Because there's a black face at the front of the band maybe people thought it wasn't rock enough - that it wasn't the right face for Glastonbury festival.\"\n\nStormzy used his set to talk about everything from politics to knife crime\n\nBut she thinks attitudes have now changed.\n\n\"Twenty years later Stormzy is there and it's just amazing to see,\" she says.\n\n\"To be honest I think 20 years is a bit too long. There could have been many black artists in that 20 years that could have had that slot and absolutely nailed it, from Dizzee Rascal to Goldie.\n\n\"But me and Maxim from the Prodigy are good friends and we're just really proud for this next generation and bigging up Stormzy.\n\n\"None of us want to put even a hint of shade on his amazing success. We're really delighted for him.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Facebook says glitches affecting its platforms have now been resolved.\n\nUsers across the world had been unable to upload or view photos, videos and other files.\n\nThe problems had affected its Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp apps.\n\n\"The issue has... been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone,\" it tweeted. It added that an unspecified issue had been accidentally \"triggered\" during \"routine maintenance\".\n\nFacebook has more than 2.3 billion monthly active users and Instagram has one billion.\n\nIn some cases, users were shown grey boxes annotated with text explaining what the firm's image analysis software had suggested to be the contents of the original photos.\n\nRival platform Twitter also had issues, with some users not able to send direct messages or receive notifications for a time.\n\nThe company apologised for the inconvenience, tweeting at about 23:00 BST: \"We're almost at 100% resolved. There may be some residual effects for a small group of people, but overall your DMs should be working properly now. We appreciate your patience!\"\n\nIn March, Facebook and Instagram suffered their longest period of disruption ever. Problems also struck both apps as well as WhatsApp in April.\n\nThe latest problems followed earlier disruption on Tuesday when Cloudflare - a company that provides internet security to website operators - suffered a fault of its own that caused thousands of websites to display \"502 errors\" when visited. The US firm has since published a blog blaming a flawed software deployment.\n\n\"Our testing processes were insufficient in this case and we are reviewing and making changes to our testing and deployment process to avoid incidents like this in the future,\" it said.", "A Sikh boxer says a rule that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven is discriminatory.\n\nCardiff University student Aaron Singh, 20, says the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is preventing him from competing because of his faith.\n\n\"It's not right and it's not fair,\" he said.\n\nA similar rule was dropped in England and professional boxers have been allowed to compete with a beard for years.\n\nThe Welsh Amateur Boxing Association said it was waiting for guidance from the International Boxing Association.", "A disabled R&B fan has been guaranteed a seat to see one of her favourite acts after being warned she may have to stand.\n\nVirginie Assal had bought a seated ticket months ago to see Janelle Monae perform at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester.\n\nBut she found out a week ago her place had become \"first come, first served\".\n\nThe gig's organiser said it had now reserved seats for all those who indicated they require them.\n\nThe Manchester International Festival (MIF) website said those who had already expressed they needed \"access seating\", or a wheelchair space, would receive a wristband allowing them into the access area.\n\nMs Assal has scoliosis, a serious back condition, which means she cannot stand for long periods. She also cannot risk being in a crowded area in case she gets hurt. She does not use a wheelchair but is mobility-impaired.\n\nThe 25-year-old had booked her ticket to see the popular US singer, who's just played Glastonbury, in December last year. At the time, she requested a seat away from the crowd, and was told \"that was fine\".\n\nThe situation changed last week. She looked at the festival's website and saw only wheelchair users could reserve spaces. Seats for mobility impaired people could no longer be assured.\n\nWhen Ms Assal messaged MIF, it replied: \"We will have an accessible seating area available for the performance. As we have limited capacity, we'd advise turning up early as the seating area will be first come first served.\"\n\nHow early was early, she asked the organiser?\n\n\"[A]s soon as doors open,\" she was told.\n\nIt emerged only 12 reservable places were to be made available, for wheelchair-users only. A further 40 access seats were to be made available but could not be reserved.\n\nMs Assal complained to the festival organisers about its change of policy. She felt she could not have attended the gig with confidence in case she couldn't sit down. And, if she did get a seat, she would feel bad for potentially stopping another disabled person from sitting.\n\nHowever, after the BBC reported her story on Tuesday, MIF apologised. It clarified that Ms Assal would be guaranteed a seat. It was sorry if the advice given was \"at any point was confusing\".\n\nMs Assal received the reassuring news in an email on Tuesday evening from MIF's chief executive, John McGrath.\n\nIn a statement, MIF said it considered access a \"key priority\".\n\n\"[W]e work hard to ensure our events are as accessible as possible. MIF does not manage this particular space and although it is a standing event, we have worked closely with the external team to ensure there are accessible positions.\"\n\nIt asked that everyone booking tickets for an MIF event \"make us aware of their access requirements when they book\". It says it has increased the capacity of Castlefield Bowl to meet demand.\"\n\nMs Assal said she was \"on the whole pleased and grateful.\n\n\"It's a win, it's better. Accessibility can always be improved but my general request was for all the disabled people who needed a seat to have one and that was achieved.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US Navy Seal has been found not guilty of killing a young Islamic State group prisoner in Iraq and other murder charges in a San Diego military court.\n\nSpecial Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, was accused of stabbing the injured teenager to death as well as randomly shooting Iraqi civilians.\n\nHe was convicted of posing with the 17-year-old's corpse, but acquitted of all other charges.\n\nAnother Seal had testified that he was the one who killed the prisoner.\n\nGallagher, a decorated combat veteran who served eight tours, denied all the allegations against him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe seven-person military jury, which included five Marines and two sailors, delivered the verdict after about eight hours of deliberation.\n\nThe maximum sentence for posing for photos with a corpse is four months - but Gallagher has already served nine months in pre-trial confinement.\n\n\"We have a sentencing to do, but the maximum sentence of what they're about to sentence him on is much less than the time that they've already had him in the brig,\" Gallagher's lawyer, Tim Parlatore, said after the verdict, according to NBC News. \"So he is going home.\"\n\nThe allegations against the chief had come from members of his own platoon in the special operations branch of the US Navy.\n\nBut in a surprising twist, Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott testified earlier this month that he had asphyxiated the wounded militant while the teenager was in US custody.\n\nThe Seal medic said he had witnessed Gallagher unexpectedly begin stabbing the fighter after the two men had stabilised his injuries following an airstrike, but that the stab wounds had not appeared to be life-threatening.\n\nWhen the chief walked away, Mr Scott said he had plugged the youth's air tube as an act of mercy. When asked why, Mr Scott replied, \"I knew he would die anyway.\"\n\nMr Scott was granted immunity from being prosecuted for criminal charges before he testified. Prosecutors accused him of trying to protect Gallagher, alleging he had never mentioned committing the crime in previous interviews.\n\nIn the San Diego courtroom, I watched the seven men on the jury, knowing that six of them had served in combat. The fact that most of them had gone through battle meant they were more likely to be sympathetic to the accused, a veteran of eight deployments.\n\nThe verdict shows that the jurors did not believe there was enough evidence against him for a murder conviction - but enough to find him guilty of posing with a dead body.\n\nOverall, the verdict reflects an understanding that people can be transformed by combat and act in ways that are out of character.\n\nThis will reassure those who are concerned about being unfairly punished for their actions during wartime.\n\nAt the same time, the verdict will upset those who thought that the evidence against Gallagher was compelling. Regardless of how one sees the outcome of the trial, one thing is clear: it will be closely studied by those in the military for years to come.\n\nThe case drew the attention of some Republicans in Congress as well as President Trump, who tweeted in support of Gallagher and had reportedly weighed a pardon for him.", "Kevin Mcleod's body was found in Wick harbour in 1997\n\nPolice Scotland has asked for an independent review into the death of a man whose body was recovered from Wick harbour 22 years ago.\n\nKevin Mcleod's family believe he was murdered and have criticised how his death was dealt with in the past.\n\nWhy former Northern Constabulary did not investigate the case as a murder as instructed by a Crown official will form part of the review.\n\nMerseyside Police will carry out the \"detailed review\".\n\nMr Mcleod's uncle Allan Mcleod told BBC Scotland News online the review was an \"unexpected but welcome twist in the case\".\n\nHe said: \"The last 22 years have been exhausting for the whole family.\n\n\"We are delighted that everything from 1997 to the present day will now be the subject of an external independent review.\"\n\nAllan said he believed the review would begin in August or September.\n\nKevin, a 24-year-old electrician from Wick, was last seen alive on 8 February 1997 while on a night out with friends in the Caithness town.\n\nHis body was recovered from the sea the following day.\n\nKevin's parents, June and Hugh Mcleod, have received apologies from the police for how the investigation was handled at the time, and also the responses they had received to complaints about the probe.\n\nThe initial investigation into Kevin's death in 1997 by Northern Constabulary will be reviewed, along with all further inquiries carried out by Police Scotland since its formation in 2013.\n\nKevin Mcleod's parents June and Hugh and uncle Allan believe the 24-year-old was murdered\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Gillian MacDonald said: \"Kevin's parents, Hugh and June Mcleod, have suffered unimaginable pain and trauma for more than 20 years as they search for answers regarding his death.\n\n\"It is only right that Police Scotland does everything it possibly can to address these unanswered questions.\"\n\nShe added: \"As we have said previously, numerous investigations into this case by Police Scotland have confirmed that initial inquiries by Northern Constabulary fell short of the required standard and opportunities to gather vital evidence were missed.\"\n\nThe senior officer said Police Scotland's \"unequivocal position\" was that it fully accepted an instruction was given by a procurator fiscal to treat Kevin's death as a murder and to investigate it accordingly, which Northern Constabulary at that time failed to do.\n\nShe said: \"The tragic events surrounding Kevin's death remain unexplained, however we are fully committed to investigating any new evidence which may come to light.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tourists watch the explosion from a beach on the island of Lipari\n\nA volcano has erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli, killing one person and sending frightened tourists fleeing.\n\nThe victim is a male hiker who was hit by a falling stone, while other people were injured.\n\nThe navy has been deployed for a possible mass evacuation, with 70 people already evacuated.\n\nThe volcano is one of the most active on the planet and has been under a regular state of eruption since 1932.\n\n\"Unfortunately one man is dead, there are a few injured, but none seriously,\" emergency worker Calogero Foti told Italy's Rai television.\n\nThe victim was a 35-year-old man from Sicily who was hiking when the volcano erupted twice. His Brazilian friend was discovered dehydrated and in a state of shock, the AGI news agency reported.\n\nAsh rising from Stromboli after the eruption\n\nFirefighters are battling flames on the island.\n\n\"We saw the explosion from the hotel. There was a loud roar,\" said Michela Favorito, who works in a hotel on the island.\n\n\"We plugged our ears and after this a cloud of ash swept over us. The whole sky is full of ash, a fairly large cloud,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Columns of ash rise from the eruption of the volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli.\n\nFiona Carter, a British tourist on the island of Panarea, some 17 miles from Stromboli, heard the eruption.\n\n\"We turned around to see a mushroom cloud coming from Stromboli. Everyone was in shock. Then red hot lava started running down the mountain towards the little village of Ginostra,\" she said.\n\nView of the volcano from the nearby island of Panarea\n\nHolidaymakers were reported to have run into the sea after seeing ash rising from the volcano. The island is a popular location for holiday homes of the rich and famous.\n\nStromboli is known as the \"Lighthouse of the Mediterranean\" and has a population of around 500. The last major eruption was in 2002, when a blast destroyed local buildings and piers, injuring six.\n• None Mount Etna erupts for first time this year", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Lock believes employers think he will be on the sick all of the time\n\nA former soldier injured in two blasts in Afghanistan believes employers are discriminating against him because of his post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nAnthony Lock, 37, a former corporal in the Royal Welsh, also criticised Jobcentre staff for not being aware of their own scheme to support veterans.\n\nMr Lock, from Newport, is unemployed despite a citation for \"exemplary leadership and bravery\" and submitting \"hundreds\" of job applications.\n\nMr Lock said: \"No-one will employ me because I have post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\n\"That's how I feel, it's discrimination - it's always when I have to tell them why I've got a six or seven year gap off work, and that's when it goes dead.\n\n\"So it's either because I've got PTSD, mental health issues or I've had a number of injuries and they think I'm going to be on the sick all the time.\"\n\nMr Lock said he felt unable to leave the house for 10 years\n\nOn one trip to a Jobcentre, Mr Lock said staff had no knowledge of the armed forces champions scheme, aimed at helping veterans into work, and told him to contact the Salvation Army.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"We deeply value the service of our armed forces and apologise to Mr Lock if he feels his visit to the Jobcentre fell below his expectations.\n\n\"Every Jobcentre has an armed forces champion and if he'd like to make contact with us again, then we'd be happy to speak to him about the support we can provide.\"\n\nMr Lock was injured twice in six weeks by two separate improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan in 2009, resulting in \"serious life-changing injuries\" including a broken neck and ruptured spleen.\n\nHe feels he has been let down by the Army, UK government and employers, saying: \"The Army cannot even find the English and maths qualifications I gained while serving.\"\n\nHis mental health declined in the years after leaving the Army and he said he was close to suicide when he decided to write a book about his experiences.\n\nMr Lock said he was the first British soldier to be operated on aboard a helicopter over Afghanistan\n\nAnthony Lock was thrown 15m after his tank hit an IED in June 2009\n\nHe said: \"I was looking at the view, and there was a massive drop in front of me, and I thought 'I can do this now, I can end my suffering' - and something just stopped me.\n\n\"It was almost like somebody grabbed me from the back, I'd like to believe it was one of the boys who passed away.\"\n\nHe wants more employers to realise PTSD is not a barrier to giving someone a job and added: \"We're not bad people, a lot of us come with some really, really good skills that can help your business.\"\n\nNewport East MP Jessica Morden raised Mr Lock's story in the House of Commons during an armed forces debate, saying there was \"a lack of support for veterans like Anthony\" and too little oversight of the Jobcentre.\n\nShe added: \"We need to do far more with our veterans to help them into employment, to ease that transition into civilian life.\"\n\nThe Army said it does not issue qualifications gained while in service, as this is done by an awarding body.\n\nIt added that the awarding body should be contacted directly for a replacement.", "Changing Places toilets are bigger disabled toilets with a hoist, a changing bed and more space around the toilet for someone who needs assistance.\n\nThe UK government wants to make these toilets mandatory in new large public buildings.\n\nFiona from Bolton who has muscular dystrophy and Lorna from North Lincolnshire tell the BBC's Ellis Palmer why such toilets are necessary for them to do the things many take for granted.\n\nFilmed, produced and edited by Ellis Palmer and Rachel Schraer for BBC News and BBC Reality Check", "It was reported that two men spent two days inside the hospital offering to help staff claim back tax\n\nNine victims of a suspected fraud at the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine have been identified, police have said.\n\nThe scam at the hospital is understood to have taken place earlier this month.\n\nTwo men reportedly spent two days inside the hospital offering to help staff claim back tax.\n\nThousands of pounds are believed to have been lost; police believe there are more victims of the fraud and have urged them to come forward.\n\nIt is believed the fraudsters obtained the personal details of the employees, including bank details.\n\n\"We currently have nine potential victims of this alleged fraud, we believe there are more potential victims out there and we need them to contact us,\" said Det Insp Bob Blemmings.\n\n\"We are working closely with the Causeway Hospital to identify any potential victims and identify any suspects.\n\n\"We would advise anyone who believes they are the victim of this type of fraud to report it to their local Police station by calling 101.\"", "Outsourcing giant Serco has been fined £19.2m for fraud and false accounting over its electronic tagging service for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).\n\nThe fine is part of a deferred prosecution deal with the Serious Fraud Office, which will end an investigation that began in 2013.\n\nSerco had been understating how profitable the contract had been in its reporting to the MoJ.\n\nBack in 2013 the company paid £70m in compensation to the government.\n\nOn top of the fine, Serco paid £3.7m in costs.\n\nThe firm said it was \"mortified\" its UK subsidiary Serco Geografix had overcharged to tag criminals.\n\n\"Serco apologised unreservedly at the time, and we do so again,\" the firm's chief executive Rupert Soames said.\n\nHe added that the management and culture of Serco \"have changed beyond all recognition\" since 2013.\n\nIn 2013 Serco and fellow outsourcing group G4S faced allegations of charging the government for electronically monitoring people who were either dead, in jail, or had left the country.\n\nSerco lost its contract to tag criminals in the UK in late 2013.\n\nIt said it has taken \"significant steps\" to try to reform, including strengthening its bidding, contract management, internal audit and management assurance processes.\n\nNo board members or senior executives that were in post at the time still work for the group.\n\nThe Financial Reporting Council also launched an investigation in June 2016 into Serco's auditor, Deloitte, at the time of the offences.", "Khalid Al Qasimi appeared on the runway during London Fashion Week Men's last month\n\nA son of the ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has died in London, officials have announced.\n\nSheikh Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi died on Monday. London police say his death is being treated as unexplained.\n\nThe 39-year-old had forged a career for himself as a fashion designer. Clothes from his label, Qasimi, were shown at London Fashion Week.\n\nFuneral prayers were held on Wednesday morning in the UAE, where three days of national mourning have been declared.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by shjmediaoffice This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis father, Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, has ruled Sharjah since 1972. He expressed his sorrow in an Instagram post on Tuesday, saying his son was \"in the care of God\".\n\nThe President of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, offered his condolences to Sheikh Sultan and his family.\n\nIn a statement, the fashion label Qasimi said the sheikh had died \"unexpectedly\" but did not provide further information.\n\nPolice said they had received a report of \"a sudden death at a residential property in Knightsbridge\".\n\nA post-mortem examination was carried out on Tuesday but proved inconclusive, and they were awaiting the result of further tests, the police statement added.\n\nSheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi said his son was \"in the care of God\"\n\nQasimi said Sheikh Khalid had been \"praised for his tenacious yet sensitive exploration of social-political issues, particularly those pertaining to the Middle East and its sometimes strained relationship with the West\".\n\nAccording to the fashion label, he had studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins in London, and released his first collections in 2008.\n\nSheikh Khalid was also chairman of the Sharjah Urban Planning Council, which was tasked with overseeing infrastructure projects in the emirate.\n\nA friend - who did not want to be named - said Sheikh Khalid studied at the Architectural Association and was \"very talented, incredibly smart\" and \"incredibly passionate about human rights\".\n\n\"He loved life, very outgoing,\" the friend added. \"A very kind and generous person as well.\n\n\"He didn't care too much about ego - he could have, but he didn't.\"\n\nSeveral people have shared their grief at the news on social media, including fashion photographer Mariano Vivanco who called him \"my angel\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by marianovivanco This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK's ambassador to the UAE, Patrick Moody, expressed \"our deepest condolences\" to Sharjah's royal family.\n\nThe Qasimis are one of six ruling families in the country, and rule both the Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah emirates.\n\nNo date has yet been set for an inquest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I like the bakery and the sweetshop'\n\nA Welsh museum made up of re-erected ancient buildings has been named museum of the year.\n\nSt Fagans National Museum of History beat four other contenders to secure the £100,000 prize.\n\nThe Cardiff museum completed a £30m redevelopment last year, adding new exhibitions and hands-on workshops to its collection of historical buildings.\n\nThe last Welsh institution to win the prize was the Big Pit National Coal Museum in 2005.\n\nThe award, Britain's biggest single art prize, was known as the Gulbenkian Prize at the time.\n\nHMS Caroline in Belfast, Nottingham Contemporary. Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and V&A Dundee also made this year's shortlist.\n\nEach will receive £10,000 in recognition of their achievements.\n\nFounded in 1948, St Fagans is one of Wales' most popular heritage attractions.\n\nStephen Deuchar, Art Fund director and chair of the judges, said it was \"a truly democratic museum\" that \"lives and breathes the culture, history and identity of Wales\".\n\n\"It was made by the people of Wales for people everywhere,\" he continued. \"I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy visiting this incredible place.\"\n\nThe Art Fund charity has supported Museum of the Year since 2008\n\nArtist Jeremy Deller presented this year's prize to David Anderson, director general of National Museum Wales, at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday.\n\nBBC London arts reporter Brenda Emmanus and Scottish artist David Batchelor were among the 2019 judges.\n\nRecent winners of the prize include Tate St Ives, the Hepworth Wakefield gallery and the Whitworth in Manchester.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PC Tim Andrews pointed out Khuram Butt as the ringleader to armed police officers\n\nA police officer has told an inquest how he shouted at armed police to shoot the ringleader in the final moments of the 2017 London Bridge attack.\n\nPC Tim Andrews pointed at Khuram Butt and shouted \"shoot him!\" after an armed response vehicle pulled up beside him.\n\nHe had been on duty with PC Bartosz Tchorzewski when reports came in of a van hitting pedestrians on the bridge.\n\nHe had thought it was a drink-drive incident until he saw men carrying knives. Eight died in the attack.\n\nIn just 10 minutes, Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, ploughed down pedestrians on the bridge and brought chaos to Borough Market, carrying knives and wearing fake suicide belts. As well as the eight who died, 48 people were seriously injured.\n\nAll three men were finally shot dead in Stoney Street, bringing the attack to an end.\n\nAn inquest is taking place at the Old Bailey into the deaths of the attackers who were killed by armed police officers. It is expected to go on for three weeks and, under law, must be heard by a jury.\n\nAt the hearing, jurors heard evidence from Antonio Filis, the last person to be attacked. He said he had no idea what was going on before one of the knifemen stared at him and came over.\n\n\"I raised my hands in defence and shouted something along the lines of 'oi, what are you doing?'.\n\n\"I felt a blow on my head. At first I thought it was a bottle but I had no idea it was a knife.\n\n\"I remember seeing two more people coming towards me.\n\n\"I felt I was being pushed around so I found myself on the ground curled up with my hands over my head.\"\n\nHe then described hearing what sounded to him like fireworks going off in quick succession as the three men were shot.\n\nAfter the attack, a police officer helped him to the Globe pub where he realised he had been stabbed in the body as well as the head.\n\nGiving evidence, PC Andrews told how he and his colleagues had tried to chase down the attackers, first running towards Bedale Street where members of the public were pointing and shouting: \"They've gone down there.\"\n\nAs the officers walked down Middle Road, they came across the three men, the court heard.\n\n\"Butt had a football shirt on and he was standing with two knives in either hand,\" PC Andrews said. \"The other two gentlemen... were in dark clothes also with knives.\n\n\"Then it dawned on me it was probably a terrorist attack. I pressed my emergency button and asked for emergency assistance, firearms support.\"\n\nAmong the early morning bustle of Borough Market - porters wheeling barrows of vegetables, tourists being shown one of London's most atmospheric spots - a group of people emerged clutching maps and photographs.\n\nIt was the chief coroner and the jury from the inquest into the deaths of the London Bridge attackers.\n\nHis Honour Judge Lucraft QC showed the jurors the narrow streets and alleys, saying he wanted them to get an impression of what the place was like.\n\nThey saw some of the pubs and bars where Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba stabbed their victims.\n\nThen they examined the spot where the three men were shot dead by armed police, and the spot where the officers' armed response vehicle had rolled into tables and chairs. In his hurry to get out, the armed officer who was driving had not put the handbrake on.\n\nThe officers, who were in plain clothes and armed only with batons, backed away but were chased by the three men.\n\nPC Andrews said his partner was hit by a missile but by the time they got back to Bedale Street the attackers had disappeared so they resumed their search.\n\nHe said they found Butt in nearby Stoney Street with the other two, repeatedly stabbing a man.\n\n\"We started to close them down to assist the gentleman,\" he added.\n\nHe said he was about 10 metres away when an armed response vehicle pulled up and a firearms officer got out of the passenger door, holding his firearm.\n\n\"I was pointing at Butt shouting, 'shoot him! shoot him!'\" PC Andrews said.\n\n\"Butt started to close the officer down. The officer pulled the weapon up and shot him a number of times.\"\n\nPC Andrews said Butt had been running at the police marksman with \"hands raised in a threatening manner\".\n\nHe said the officer had shouted \"armed police\" before opening fire.\n\nButt fell to the ground and the officer shouted to PC Andrews \"cuff him, cuff him\", jurors were told.\n\nHe said: \"He was making some noises and moving slightly. I put the cuffs straight on. I looked down and could see a bomb belt around his waist.\"\n\nPC Andrews said that at the time he thought it was real and shouted that everyone needed to get back.\n\nPC Ian Rae, another officer at the scene, told jurors his attention was drawn to the other attackers who had been shot.\n\nHe said: \"I ran over to the one that was moving because I knew he had an IED (improvised explosive device) strapped to him by that time. I could see it.\"\n\nHe went to handcuff the man but an armed officer screamed at him to get out of the way, he said.\n\nRudi Thirion, who had been holding the Wheatsheaf pub door shut as the attackers tried to force their way in, told jurors he heard screams of \"drop your weapons, get to the ground\".\n\nHe said the knifemen were \"definitely in attacking mode\" as they ran towards the blue police lights.\n\n\"I saw two of them get shot. I did not see the third one get shot. I must have ducked down to take cover,\" he added.", "Former paratrooper Hani Gue told a tribunal he was subjected to racist abuse in the Army\n\nA former paratrooper endured racial abuse and described racism as \"prevalent\" in his battalion, an employment tribunal heard.\n\nHani Gue told the tribunal he saw Nazi, Confederate and SS flags and photographs of Adolf Hitler displayed in accommodation at Colchester.\n\nMr Gue and colleague L/Cpl Nkululeko Zulu have taken the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to a tribunal alleging they suffered racial discrimination.\n\nThe MoD is contesting the claims.\n\nMr Gue joined the Army in 2012 before transferring to 3rd Battalion (3 Para) A Company, based at Merville Barracks.\n\nMr Gue's colleague L/Cpl Nkululeko Zulu has joined him in taking the Ministry of Defence to a tribunal\n\nIn his statement to a central London employment hearing on Tuesday, Mr Gue, who describes himself as a black African of Ugandan nationality, recalled colleagues using racist language to describe Kenyan soldiers during a deployment to the country.\n\nMr Gue, who changed his Muslim surname of Hassan for fear that it could make him more likely to be a target, said racism was \"prevalent in 3 Para and A Company in particular\" and often passed off as \"banter\".\n\nHe also said photographs of himself and Mr Zulu, from South Africa, were pinned to the door of his room daubed with swastikas, Hitler moustaches and racist language.\n\nMr Gue, who asked to leave the Army in January last year, said: \"During the course of my employment I noticed that there were Nazi, Confederate and SS flags and photographs of Hitler displayed in A Company's accommodation which is a stone's throw away from the battalion headquarters.\"\n\nHe said the alleged abuse, which included people smashing bottles and urinating in the corridor where he was staying, had \"an extreme psychological impact\" on him.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, my experiences of racial harassment and discrimination during the course of my employment have led me to realise that the Army is not the honourable institution I once thought it to be.\"\n\nMr Gue and Mr Zulu say they were racially abused, harassed and that the Army did not take reasonable steps to prevent it.\n\nThe MoD said the armed forces take complaints very seriously and at least one incident was referred to the Royal Military Police..\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Announcing the nominations for the four top posts in the EU, European Council President Donald Tusk has hailed a \"perfect gender balance\" of two men and two women.\n\nIf approved by the European Parliament she will become the first female in the job.\n\nIMF chief Christine Lagarde was also nominated to head the European Central Bank.", "China has warned the UK not to \"interfere in its domestic affairs\" amid a growing diplomatic row over the recent protests in Hong Kong.\n\nIts UK ambassador said relations had been \"damaged\" by comments by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and others backing the demonstrators' actions.\n\nLiu Xiaoming said those who illegally occupied Hong Kong's parliament should be \"condemned as law breakers\".\n\nThe ambassador was later summoned to the Foreign Office over the remarks.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under secretary and head of the diplomatic service, told the ambassador his comments were \"unacceptable and inaccurate\".\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Theresa May said she had raised concerns with Chinese leaders.\n\nWeeks of mass protests in the territory over a controversial extradition bill exploded on Monday, when a group of activists occupied the Legislative Council building for several hours after breaking away from a peaceful protest - raising the colonial-era British flag.\n\nCritics say the extradition bill could be used to send political dissidents from Hong Kong to the mainland.\n\nDemonstrators have also broadened their demands to include the release of all detained activists and investigations into alleged police violence.\n\nIn the middle of the demonstrations, Mr Hunt pledged his \"unwavering\" support to the ex-British colony and its citizens' freedoms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a series of broadcast interviews and posts on social media, Mr Hunt repeated the message that the protesters should refrain from violence, but urged China to listen to the concerns of the Hong Kong people.\n\nBeijing has made a formal complaint about Mr Hunt, accusing the Conservative leadership contender of \"colonial-era delusions\".\n\nBut Mr Liu said he was \"disappointed\" by the UK's response.\n\nHe said the countries' relationship was based on mutual respect and suggested there would be further \"problems\" if the UK did not recognise China's sovereignty over Hong Kong, its \"territorial integrity and principle of non-interference in domestic affairs\".\n\nHe said it was \"hypocritical\" of UK politicians to criticise the lack of democracy and civil rights in Hong Kong when, under British rule, there had been no elections nor right to protest.\n\nThe recent unrest, he added, was \"not about freedom but about breaking the law\".\n\nIn response, Mr Hunt said good relations between countries were based on \"honouring the legally binding relationships between them\" - a reference to a 1984 treaty between the UK and China which paved the way for sovereignty over the territory to pass back to Beijing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Joint Declaration, signed by Margaret Thatcher and the then Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, set out how the rights of Hong Kong citizens should be protected in the territory's Basic Law under Chinese rule.\n\nHong Kong has, since 1997, been run by China under a \"one country, two systems\" arrangement guaranteeing it a level of economic autonomy and personal freedoms not permitted on the mainland.\n\nThe ambassador gave the British government both barrels at his press conference earlier.\n\nWhat's fascinating is there was no pretence, no attempt to gloss this over at all. This was visceral and system-wide. This is merely the British side of things, the same message is coming from Beijing and Hong Kong too. There is definite push-back from the whole Chinese machine.\n\nThe British are so infuriated that they've summoned the ambassador almost immediately to give him a dressing down.\n\nWhat was a war of words now risks becoming a substantial issue between the two countries.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it continues to make it clear to the Chinese government, both in public and private, that the rights of Hong Kong residents must be fully respected.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Theresa May said she had raised her concerns directly with Chinese leaders at the recent G20 meeting.\n\n\"It is vital that Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and the rights and freedoms set down in the Sino-British joint declaration are respected,\" she told MPs.\n\nSuccessive UK governments have heralded a \"golden era\" in economic relations with China, with growing levels of trade and foreign investment.\n\nBut critics say this has come at the expense of turning a blind eye to human rights violations in China and Beijing's increasing economic nationalism.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than one million people across the Japanese island of Kyushu have been ordered to evacuate, amid warnings of landslides and floods brought on by heavy rain.\n\nAuthorities urged residents in parts of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures to move to safety immediately.\n\nOne elderly woman in Kagoshima city died after a mudslide hit her home.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe has told residents of the cities to \"take steps to protect their lives\".\n\nKagoshima prefecture has asked Japan's self-defence forces to help with the relief efforts, Governor Satoshi Mitazono reportedly said.\n\nThe entire populations of Kagoshima city, Kirishima and Aira were ordered to leave. Another 930,000 people in the south of the island were also advised to move.\n\nBut by 1600 local time (0700 GMT), the country's Fire and Disaster Management Agency reportedly said fewer than 4,000 people had been evacuated.\n\nWeather officials say 1,000mm (39in) of rain has fallen on Kyushu island since Friday, and Japan's Meteorological Agency forecasts the rains will continue into next week.\n\nA further 350mm of rain is expected in the southern part of the island and 300mm in the northern part by Thursday morning, with some areas predicted to get more than 80mm of rain every hour. The agency said a month's rainfall could hit parts of Kyushu in just 24 hours.\n\nThe island of Shikoku is also forecast to receive up to 250mm of rain in the same period. The rainy front is expected to hang over the entire Japanese archipelago until Saturday.\n\nLast July about 200 people died in western Japan in the country's worst flooding disaster in decades. It was the highest death toll caused by rainfall in Japan since 1982.\n\nAbout two million people were evacuated and more than 70,000 emergency workers were deployed after the heavy rain caused floods and landslides in the region.", "5G could be used as a replacement for fixed home broadband as well as offering new services such as virtual reality\n\nVodafone has become the second UK mobile operator to turn on its 5G network, offering faster speeds and the opportunity for new services.\n\nThe network is going live in seven UK cities, including Cardiff, London, Manchester and Glasgow.\n\nMaking a success of the service could be crucial to the firm which has seen financial losses and customer complaints in recent years.\n\n5G networks offer more capacity than 4G with speeds up to 100 times faster.\n\nIt could also help support new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, robotics, connected cities and self-driving cars.\n\nThe three other cities to benefit are Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool.\n\nTwelve additional towns and cities will follow later this year - Birkenhead, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Guildford, Newbury, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Warrington and Wolverhampton.\n\nVodafone is the first UK provider to offer 5G roaming in Germany, Spain and Italy.\n\nBusiness director of Vodafone UK, Anne Sheehan, said: \"5G is a game-changer for the economy and UK businesses. We are committed to helping our customers take advantage of this technology by making it widely available in the UK and through roaming. We want to help UK businesses become global leaders and 5G will play an important role in achieving that aim.\"\n\nVodafone is offering three pricing options for SIM only:\n\nTariffs that are structured by data speed are \"a first for the UK\" said mobile analyst Kester Mann, of research firm CCS Insight.\n\nAs such, Vodafone will need to explain this to customers who are \"only just beginning to understand the value of megabytes and gigabytes\".\n\nThe total cost of a 5G Samsung Galaxy S10 and two-year contract is £1,637 ($2,062) for Vodafone's cheapest advertised tariff.\n\nTo encourage small businesses to take up 5G services, Vodafone is offering a series of new plans that give business customers access to unlimited data and 5G at the same price as 4G.\n\nRival Three plans to roll out 5G in August with services from O2 coming in the autumn.\n\n\"After a hotly contested battle with Vodafone, EE claimed the honour of switching on the UK's first 5G network, in May 2019. However, the reality is that being first means little to consumers and the initial launches this summer represent only the first few tentative steps in a marathon 5G journey ahead,\" said Mr Mann.\n\n\"The real winners in 5G will only become apparent several years down the line.\"\n\nThe UK has put itself at the top of the leader board with its swift adoption of the technology.\n\n\"In 2012, the UK was only the 53rd nation to launch 4G behind places such as Guam, Azerbaijan and Kiribati. Now, with all four networks planning to switch on 5G in 2019 it moves from laggard to leader,\" said Mr Mann.\n\nAll the UK's operators continue to use Huawei's equipment despite controversy surrounding the Chinese telecoms firm. If the UK government decides it is no longer safe to rely on having it as part of the network, the operators would be forced to strip out its kit and replace it.", "Mr Magid said he was \"visibly different\" and \"didn't intend to fit in\"\n\nA newly-elected Green MEP claims he was asked to leave the European Parliament building in Strasbourg on his first day.\n\nMagid Magid, 30, was wearing a baseball cap and a T-shirt with swearing and an anti-fascist slogan on it when he was asked to leave.\n\nThe former Lord Mayor of Sheffield was elected as one of six MEPs for the Yorkshire and Humber region in May.\n\nThe European Parliament said no member of staff was involved in the incident.\n\nMr Magid said he did not know who the person was who asked him to leave, although he believed that individual to be an official.\n\nHe said the person asked if he was lost and then suggested he leave.\n\nHe added: \"I make people feel uncomfortable, people don't know how to react.\"\n\nIn a tweet, he said: \"I know I'm visibly different. I don't have the privilege to hide my identity. I'm BLACK & my name is Magid.\n\n\"I don't intend to try fit in. Get used to it!\"\n\nHe said the exchange said a lot about what people thought politicians were supposed to look like, and he did not leave the building.\n\nA spokeswoman for the European Parliament said: \"We investigated the matter immediately after our attention was brought to it and can safely say that no member of Parliament staff was involved.\"\n\nMr Magid was attending the opening of the new five-year session of the parliament, though the length of the UK's involvement remains in doubt.\n\nUK MEPs may sit in the parliament until the country formally leaves the EU.\n\nMr Magid came to Sheffield aged five from an Ethiopian refugee camp \"to find a better life\".\n\nHe was a contestant on Channel 4's reality show Hunted, and was elected Broomhill and Sharrow Vale Green councillor in 2016 and became the city's youngest Lord Mayor in 2018.\n\nHe went on to cause controversy when, in July 2018, he \"banned\" visiting US President Donald Trump from Sheffield.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Northern Ireland's politicians have jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.\n\nGroup B Strep is the most common cause of serious infection in newborn babies in the UK.\n\nA cross-party letter has been sent to Department of Health officials.\n\nIt says it is unacceptable that a baby born in Northern Ireland has a higher chance of developing the infection than one born elsewhere.\n\nThe letter was prompted by the death of Hollie Maguire shortly after her birth in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital in 2016 from congenital pneumonia.\n\nAt her inquest last month, her parents, Brendan Maguire and Susan Ho-Maguire from Dunmurry, warned other mothers-to-be to take a simple test for the Group B Streptococcus bacteria that caused their daughter's death.\n\nGroup B Strep is also one of the leading causes of neonatal pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis.\n\nOn average, two babies each day in the UK develop a Group B Strep infection and each week one baby dies.\n\nEach year in the UK, between 400 to 500 babies are born with Group-B streptococcus (GBS) - a bacteria which can cause serious illness or death in newborns.\n\nMost will fully recover with treatment, but GBS can lead to pneumonia, meningitis and a dangerous blood infection called sepsis.\n\nAbout 150,000 pregnant women - one in five - carry GBS and if it is undiagnosed, there is a chance they could pass it to their baby.\n\nGBS can be especially dangerous to babies who are born prematurely.\n\nThe government has launched a new screening trial across 80 hospitals in Great Britain\n\nMost strains of the new born infection can be prevented by testing during pregnancy and providing intravenous antibiotics to women in labour.\n\nHowever, the UK does not routinely test for GBS, unlike the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.\n\nExperts worry that routine testing would see antibiotics given to many more women.\n\nIn 2017, independent experts said there was not enough proof that a national screening programme would benefit mothers and babies. Campaigners disagree.\n\nIn May, the government said screening would be offered as part of a trial at 80 hospitals in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe trial will compare two tests with the current approach of testing only \"high risk\" pregnant women.\n\nMr Maguire said he was pleased to see the issue had united the parties.\n\n\"I'm so pleased to see the political parties united in support of group B Step screening,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing can bring Hollie back, but if Northern Ireland introduced routine screening, other babies like Hollie would be protected and other families wouldn't have to go through the heartbreak we have.\"\n\nBrendan Maguire and Susan Ho-Maguire have called for all pregnant women to be tested for Group B Strep\n\nThe letter signed by representatives of the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance parties is also backed by the chief executive of charity Group B Strep Support.\n\nThe letter outlines that while Northern Ireland has made significant steps forward in its prevention of Group B Strep infection, improvements are possible.\n\n\"In America, Canada, France, Germany or Italy, Mrs Maguire would have been tested to see if she was carrying Group B Step bacteria and offered antibiotics in labour, which would very likely have prevented Hollie's infection,\" it states.\n\nJane Plumb who founded the B Strep support group told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster that the UK national screening committee had recommended against routine testing.\n\n\"We believe their decision is flawed,\" she said. \"Most developed countries are screening and have seen their rates fall quite dramatically.\n\n\"In ours, the rates are just going up. If we just keep doing what we're doing, we're going to get the same thing happening.\n\n\"It is not good enough. One baby a week in the UK is dying from GBS. We must change this.\"\n\nMs Plumb said that the test for GBS was costed by the NHS at £11 to £12.\n\n\"It's inexpensive, simple and safe. When you consider the costs of having a baby who develops GBS, the financial costs associated for that are absolutely huge before you even get onto the emotional costs.\n\n\"We can be protecting these babies and for the sake of £11 for this test for each pregnant woman, we absolutely should be making this available.\"\n\nShe welcomed news that Northern Ireland politicians had united to call for screening and noted that NI had made \"significant steps forward\" in recent years in preventing GBS.\n\n\"We can be doing so much more because babies and families are being let down by the current approach.\"", "Two rail workers were hit by a train with about 180 people on board on Wednesday morning\n\nA warning that there were \"too many near misses in which railway workers have had to jump for their lives\" was issued only three months ago.\n\nNow the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking into how two workers were killed by a train near Port Talbot on Wednesday.\n\nThe pair were struck near Margam by the Swansea to London Paddington train at about 10:00 BST and a third person was treated for shock.\n\nNetwork Rail has said it is cooperating with the British Transport Police and Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\nThe RAIB's annual report in April issued the warning and said every near miss should be regarded as a \"failure\" to deliver safety.\n\nAn incident in London in November 2018 was the first in about four years where a track worker was killed.\n\nThat was the only death of a track worker on mainline railways - excluding trams, undergrounds and private lines - included in the RAIB's annual report for 2018.\n\nThere were 6,661 injuries, of which 164 were major.\n\nRail investigator Simon French said the risk to workers had fallen since the organisation was created 13 years ago.\n\nBut, in the RAIB report, he said: \"I am concerned that, despite much effort and many initiatives, we are not seeing the hoped-for improvements in safety for track workers.\n\n\"Every near miss, however caused, should be viewed as a failure of the system to deliver safety.\"\n\nEmergency vehicles on the scene of the accident near Port Talbot on Wednesday\n\nUnions have said Wednesday's tragedy should not have been allowed to happen.\n\nManuel Cortes, Transport Salaried Staffs' Association general secretary, said: \"It's too early to speculate about what has happened here but clearly something has gone badly wrong.\n\n\"There must now be a full investigation because it is simply not acceptable that in the 21st Century people go out to work and end up losing their lives.\n\nHe added: \"Safety on our railways is paramount and sadly, as today's tragic events show, it can never be taken for granted.\"\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, described the deaths as \"shocking\".\n\n\"RMT is attempting to establish the full facts but our immediate reaction is that this is an appalling tragedy and that no-one working on the railway should be placed in the situation that has resulted in the deaths that have been reported this morning,\" he said.\n\n\"As well as demanding answers from Network Rail and a suspension of all similar works until the facts are established, the union will be supporting our members and their families at this time.\"\n\nMartin Frobisher, safety director at Network Rail said: \"We take all safety incidents, especially near misses with track workers, extremely seriously.\n\n\"Huge strides have been made in railway safety over recent years. Britain has a good safety record and Network Rail expects that all our people should come home safely every day.\n\n\"The tragic accident in south Wales has been shocking for all our people and we will make further improvements,\" he said.\n• None Rail workers who died 'may not have heard train'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England captain Steph Houghton reflects on her penalty miss against USA as England are knocked out of the Women's World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Cannabis oil is used to control Billy Caldwell's seizures\n\nFamilies' hopes were unfairly raised when doctors were allowed to prescribe cannabis, a report has concluded.\n\nThe public had expected ready access to prescriptions after the law changed in November but that had not and will not happen any time soon, MPs said.\n\nA report by the Health and Social Care Committee said that products remained unlicensed due to a lack of research.\n\nIt found the government had \"failed to communicate\" this - leaving doctors to face a backlash.\n\nThe efforts of the families of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, children with intractable epilepsy, led to the change in the law.\n\nBut very few prescriptions have been issued since the new rules were introduced.\n\nRecreational use of cannabis remains illegal - something the committee said ministers had chosen to stress.\n\nOnly a specialist doctor can prescribe these unlicensed cannabis products, not a GP. And they need evidence they are safe and effective.\n\nBut, the MPs said, some pharmaceutical companies were not making their products available for research and that clinical trials would take years.\n\nThe Department of Health should \"name and shame\" companies that obstruct trials \"as a matter of urgency\", the MPs' report said.\n\nThey added that there is currently no UK supplier for patients to turn to and that prescribed cannabis from overseas should not be seized.\n\nCost is another barrier, said the report.\n\nIt may cost about £25,000 to £30,000 a year to treat one child with rare epilepsy, the committee heard.\n\nPeter Carroll, from the campaign group End Our Pain, said doctors should not have to wait for full trial results.\n\nNHS England said it had told doctors what the change to the law meant and what arrangements were necessary.\n• None 'I smuggled cannabis oil to help my son'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man accused of stabbing a passenger 18 times on a train phoned his girlfriend to say he was hearing voices and being followed, jurors have heard.\n\nChelsea Mitchell said Darren Pencille's call was \"quite normal\" as he had panic attacks on trains, but he did not tell her he was going to kill anyone.\n\nShe told the Old Bailey that after she had collected him from the station he said \"he had been in a fight\".\n\nMs Mitchell, 28, of Wilbury Road, Farnham, in Surrey - the same address as Mr Pencille - denies assisting an offender following the incident on 4 January.\n\nLee Pomeroy was stabbed 18 times on a Guildford-to-London train, the Old Bailey has heard\n\nMs Mitchell said she did not suspect anything serious has happened after Mr Pencille asked her to pick him up from the train station.\n\n\"It was quite normal for him to be like that, very frustrated, with anxiety and paranoia. I have had so many calls like that,\" she said.\n\nShe told the court that she saw Mr Pencille had cuts when she got home and asked him if he wanted to go to hospital, but he said \"no\". She then went to the chemist and got antiseptic wipes and plasters.\n\nWhen she returned, he had shaved off his beard, she told jurors.\n\nThe court heard Mr Pencille made phone calls to his mother and ex-partner, and Ms Mitchell said she could hear him crying to his mother.\n\nShe told jurors she discovered what had happened \"not long after I got home\".\n\nAsked what she thought, Ms Mitchell said: \"I just shut down and froze. I was there earlier. I picked someone up. I just froze.\"\n\nAsked if she said anything to Mr Pencille, she said: \"I didn't know how to say anything. I didn't know what to do.\"\n\nThen asked if she called the police, she said: \"No. I didn't know what to do. The police were going to come anyway. The first place they were going to call was his flat and my flat.\"\n\nAsked what she did, Ms Mitchell replied: \"I waited.\"\n\nThe court heard police arrived the next morning and she told them Mr Pencille was in the house.\n\nShe said she had not tried to prevent Mr Pencille being arrested or prosecuted.\n\nThe court heard he was currently prescribed drugs which are used to treat anxiety, depression and psychotic conditions, and he had received inpatient and outpatient treatment.\n\nMr Pencille chose not to give evidence during the trial.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One in five people admitted to a UK hospital drinks alcohol in a harmful way and one in 10 depends on it, a study suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers want people with issues caused by drinking to be screened. They are also calling for more trained staff to give support.\n\nAlcohol can cause a large number of medical conditions, which costs the NHS in the UK around £3.5bn a year.\n\nBut many may not be receiving appropriate treatment, they said.\n\nHarmful alcohol use is 10 times higher and dependence eight times higher in hospital inpatients than in other people, the study suggests.\n\nThe study was published in the Addiction journal. It looked at 124 past studies and more than 1.5 million patients to estimate how many had any of 26 conditions related to heavy alcohol use.\n\nThe patients were in general wards, intensive care units, A&E departments or mental health inpatient units.\n\nThe report's lead author, Dr Emmert Roberts, said many doctors knew the problems were common among inpatients.\n\nBut he warned: \"Our results suggest the problem is much bigger than anecdotally assumed.\"\n\nAlcohol abuse was most common among patients in mental health units, the report found. Dependence was more common among people in A&E departments.\n\nDr Roberts said the findings were the most reliable to date.\n\nHe said dedicated inpatient alcohol care teams were needed to tackle the issue.\n\nEarlier this year, NHS England announced plans to put alcohol care teams in the 50 hospitals with the highest alcohol-related admissions.\n\nAt the time, Simon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, said it would give patients \"the support they need\".\n\nKate Oldridge-Turner, head of policy and public affairs at the World Cancer Research Fund, said the figures were worrying.\n\n\"We have a social culture in the UK which can be very focused on alcohol.\n\n\"We need the government to empower people to drink less by making our daily environments healthier. Information alone won't lead to large-scale change in behaviours.\"\n\nShe called for a minimum unit price and better urban planning to \"give people more social spaces that do not revolve around alcohol\".\n\nA minimum price for alcohol was introduced in Scotland in May last year. A recent report suggests there has been a substantial fall in the volume of alcohol sold at very low prices.", "Carl Beech has been accused of lying about an alleged VIP paedophile ring\n\nA man accused of lying to police about an alleged VIP paedophile ring said he was sexually abused and tortured by army generals, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, told jurors the torture included electrocution and turning him into a human dartboard.\n\nMr Beech is on trial accused of inventing allegations that a group of powerful figures sexually abused and murdered boys in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe former NHS manager's claims led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation, which ended with no further action being taken.\n\nGiving evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Beech also repeated claims he was raped by Jimmy Savile, who he said was a guest of the alleged group of abusers \"a few times, not many\".\n\nMr Beech described other abuse he claims he was subjected to as a child, including being taken to the army village of Imber, Wiltshire, where he said he was tied up and had his feet burnt.\n\nThe father-of-one from Gloucester said more than 10 adults were present - including former head of the Army, Lord Bramall - who were \"all in military uniform\".\n\nHe told jurors said that \"five or six\" others boys were present, but they \"were all split up and taken into different buildings\".\n\n\"I was undressed and tied to the wall\", he said. \"My hands raised above my head.\"\n\nThe defendant told the court that some of the men stabbed \"something into my foot, into my hands, then later on they put a lighter to my feet\".\n\n\"I can remember screaming and I can remember crying,\" he said.\n\nThe court has previously been shown footage of Lord Bramall, a D-Day veteran, telling police in 2015 that the allegations were \"ridiculous\" and demanding that detectives clear his reputation.\n\nLord Bramall, 95, was too ill to attend the trial in person.\n\nMr Beech also told the court that a now deceased former head of MI5, Sir Michael Hanley, was present at Imber with military figures and the former head of MI6, Maurice Oldfield.\n\nThe defendant said the MI5 boss threatened to make him \"disappear if I didn't do as I was told and no-one would care\".\n\nHe said Sir Michael was not personally involved in the alleged torture but directly \"instigated it\".\n\nDescribing other alleged physical abuse at Imber, he said: \"I had darts thrown at me, so I was a dartboard in effect, and electrocution as well.\"\n\nHe said the electrocution involved sparking wires being placed on \"my knees\" and \"between my legs\".\n\nMr Beech was known by the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media\n\nEarlier, Mr Beech told jurors he was abused by his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, soon after he and his mother moved in with the officer in the mid-1970s.\n\nHe said his stepfather first raped him in a toilet cubicle at a \"wildlife park near Oxford\" after going there for a \"nice outing\" along with another man and his son.\n\nThe jury heard that his stepfather first introduced him to \"General Bramall\" at an army office in Wiltshire.\n\nHe said that Lord Bramall \"asked my stepfather to leave or to wait outside\", adding: \"I wasn't in there for very long, and he touched my head, he touched my body, I had to undress and then I had to dress again.\"\n\nAsked about his stepfather's reaction to the trip, he said: \"He was happy. It was one of the few times that I remember him happy. He said I had done well although I don't know what I did.\"\n\nHe said that within days he was taken by his stepfather to an empty house where he found Lord Bramall, General Sir Roland Gibbs, General Sir Hugh Beach, and a man taking photos.\n\nHe said all the other men left the room apart from Lord Bramall, who then raped him.\n\nProsecutors say that Mr Beech's allegations, which prompted the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland inquiry, were completely made up.\n\nJurors have been told Beech has admitted charges of making indecent images of children and voyeurism.", "Lucy McHugh's body was found in woodland at Southampton Sports Centre\n\nA schoolgirl barricaded her bedroom door to stop her mother's \"violent\" lodger, who is accused of her murder, from coming in at night, a court has heard.\n\nLucy McHugh, 13, was later found stabbed to death near Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre in July 2018.\n\nJurors were also told the girl's family had asked her school friend to slap her \"on several occasions\".\n\nLucy's friend, who cannot be named, said she was \"really worried\" when Lucy told her in 2017 she had a \"boyfriend\" who was \"a 23 or 24-year-old\" who \"took her virginity\", Winchester Crown Court heard.\n\n\"She looked really uncomfortable and almost scared,\" the friend said in a video interview played in court.\n\nShe said concerns about Mr Nicholson were dismissed as \"fantasy land\" by Lucy's mother.\n\nLater, Lucy confided in the girl again, the jury heard.\n\n\"She told me Stephen's drinking and smoking weed was getting worse and he was getting more violent with her.\n\n\"About two weeks before she died she told me Stephen was slapping her.\n\n\"I asked whether she told Stacey [Lucy's mother]. She said she did, but Stacey told her to get out of her fantasy land because it would ruin someone's life.\n\n\"Then a week before she died she told me Stephen got really drunk and high and tried to get into her room and to stop him she put her bed against the door.\"\n\nWhen asked by prosecution barrister William Mousley QC how Lucy was after that, the witness replied: \"Terrified.\"\n\nThe girl said she stopped raising concerns in order to \"protect\" Lucy from her family.\n\n\"Her mum started getting physical with her, flinging her about,\" the girl said.\n\n\"On several occasions they asked me to slap her for lying but I never put a hand on her, I refused to do it.\"\n\nWhen questioned in court, the witness admitted she had not initially told police about events she later described in her video interview.\n\nJames Newton-Price QC, defending, asked her whether she really had been asked to slap Lucy by her family.\n\n\"Yes... about things she was saying at school about her and Stephen,\" the girl insisted.\n\nThe barrister asked if she had questioned whether the bedroom barricade really happened.\n\n\"No, I believed her,\" she replied.\n\nMr Nicholson also denies three charges of raping Lucy when she was 12 and two counts of sexual activity with a child once she had turned 13.\n\nThe care worker, formerly of Mansel Road East, also denies sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl in 2012.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The actions of protesters who burst into Hong Kong's Legislative Council have divided opinion\n\nA splinter group of protesters smashed their way into Hong Kong's legislative council on Monday, breaking glass walls, defacing paintings and spraying graffiti. It was denounced by the city's leader as an extreme use of violence, but how do residents feel about what happened?\n\nOn the roads that surround Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo) small groups of passers-by take photos of what is now being described as a crime scene. Some peel hand-written post-it notes from walls as memorabilia.\n\nTwenty-four hours earlier, the bustling six-lane carriageway that surrounds the government offices was held ransom by thousands of young protesters demanding the withdrawal of a controversial extradition law.\n\nArmed with makeshift barricades, they stormed Hong Kong's parliament - spraying graffiti on walls, and working in teams to deface symbols of Hong Kong's law-making body.\n\n\"I can understand the frustration and can also understand the opposition to what happened,\" said one Hong Kong resident, leaning on the fencing of a bridge overlooking the government offices.\n\n\"They avoided hurting anyone, they put up posters, they defaced the symbols of Hong Kong. I see it as organised riots. It was targeted at symbolism.\"\n\nThe regional emblem of Hong Kong was defaced\n\n\"I don't support them. They did the wrong thing,\" said a man who didn't want to be identified.\n\n\"I am glad that no one died,\" another man said.\n\nIn recent weeks millions of Hong Kong residents have marched on the streets, united in opposition to a now-suspended extradition law which critics fear could spell an end to Hong Kong's judicial independence.\n\nEven portraits of legislators were not safe\n\nThe peaceful protests have transformed into a youth-led civil disobedience campaign, aimed at disrupting government departments.\n\nOn Tuesday Beijing condemned the ransacking of the LegCo building. But the storming of the law-making body has garnered a mixed response from those who oppose the extradition law.\n\n\"Most of my friends support the young people because they think only this kind of action can achieve the goal. As a mum I only support protesting in a peaceful way,\" said a housewife identified only as Sarah, who has attended many of the peaceful marches against the extradition law.\n\n\"Their actions have deepened the gap between the young people and the senior citizens.\n\n\"Most of Hong Kong people support the action to fight for the democracy of Hong Kong, but they don't want to see any overwhelming violent action. I don't support the violence,\" she said.\n\nThe 22nd anniversary of the former British colony's return to China was marked on 1 July. Organisers claim that more than 500,000 took part in an annual pro-democracy march, ten times the number of protesters who attended last year's demonstration.\n\nOrganisers say over half a million took part in a pro-democracy march on 1 July\n\n\"We are fighting with a government that isn't elected by the public and a communist system. Protests like in your country don't work here,\" says Chris Yu, a secondary school teacher who has also joined many of the peaceful marches.\n\nOn 1 July, he saw his own students on the streets surrounding government buildings.\n\n\"Somehow, I agree\", says Mr Yu. \"I didn't agree in the past but now I do. I somehow realise we may need some new ways to protest.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A day that started with champagne toasts ended with tear gas\n\nPro-democratic lawmakers argue that protesters acted out of despair. But many fear that the violence could play into the hands of the pro-Beijing camp.\n\n\"I do not support violence. I think that we should use vote to continue the struggle. This is the second battlefield. But I will still fully support them,\" said a shop owner who took part in the peaceful march.\n\n\"This class of young people are fighting for something the adults have not dared to fight for so many years. How can I not be touched by them?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tesco boss Dave Lewis says the impact on shoppers of a no-deal Brexit is still uncertain.\n\nPlanning for the new Brexit deadline is \"more difficult\" because the supply network will be full of Christmas stock, Tesco's boss has warned.\n\nDave Lewis told the BBC that the new deadline of the end of October meant there would be \"less capacity\" for stockpiling longer-life items.\n\nA no-deal Brexit could mean tariffs and delays at the border that interrupt supplies of some food, he said.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said leaving the EU could also provide opportunities for the UK.\n\nMr Lewis said the supermarket chain had bought extra stock of long-life items in preparation for 29 March - when the UK was initially expected to leave the EU - but said it would be harder to make similar preparations this time round.\n\n\"We'll do whatever is practical depending on how things develop between now and then.\n\n\"But the challenge will always be those things which are shorter life - fresh produce. That's what the UK imports quite a lot of,\" he said.\n\nHe said the impact on shoppers of a no-deal Brexit was still uncertain.\n\n\"Empty shelves depends on what no-deal means. If there's a problem at the border, if there's a problem with tariffs then there could be interruption.\n\n\"If as part of no deal there is no tariff, there is no problem. We could be absolutely fine,\" he said.\n\nThe UK currently imports about half of the food it eats, but Mr Lewis said Brexit could be a good time to \"take stock\".\n\n\"It may be a good time for the UK to... decide, actually: what food do we want to eat, with what impact on health, with what impact on the environment.\n\n\"Having a food strategy for the country would be a very good outcome.\"\n\nOther key challenges facing the supermarket giant are demands for healthy eating, cutting waste and plastic-free packaging.\n\nMr Lewis admitted companies \"don't ever do enough\" to cut plastic use.\n\nWhile Tesco has removed plastics where it can and introduced the option for customers to bring their own packaging, he said getting rid of it completely would require huge changes across the supply chain which would involve \"9,000 suppliers across 35,000 products\".\n\nHe warned getting rid of packaging protection for loose goods could mean they were more likely to be damaged, creating more waste, and ultimately higher prices.\n\n\"We can't change everything tomorrow, it's not practical,\" he said.", "Brexit is causing poorer children to fall further behind in learning foreign languages, says the British Council.\n\nParents in disadvantaged areas are telling teachers languages will be less useful after Brexit, it says.\n\nIt warns that GCSEs and A-level languages in England are seen as being hard subjects in which to get a good grade.\n\nThe government said the overall picture for language learning in England was improving.\n\nThis is a snapshot of the state of language learning in England from the organisation that promotes British culture abroad.\n\nIt warns of growing concern that GCSEs and A-levels in modern foreign languages are seen as harder than other subjects.\n\nSome academics have recently written to Ofqual asking it to look again at the marking of language exams.\n\nThe British Council report also describes a shift in attitude, with some parents saying languages are \"little use\" as the UK is due to leave the European Union.\n\nTeresa Tinsley, the report author, says secondary schools in poorer areas are reporting a very definite Brexit effect, which could lead to an even sharper decline in language learning.\n\nShe fears if languages become the preserve of the better-off, or privately educated teenagers, those from less privileged backgrounds will be even further left behind.\n\n\"If they haven't got a language, that is a closing off of opportunities for work and culturally,\" she said.\n\nSchools are also reporting a reduction in activities, such as foreign exchanges, which give children the chance to experience a different culture.\n\nThe government's own guidance for schools says studying a foreign language from primary school onwards is a \"liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures\".\n\nFrom the age of seven to 11, pupils in England are expected to study a foreign language, either modern or ancient.\n\nBut Dr Tinsley says while some schools embrace language learning, others are struggling because of a lack of expertise or support from nearby secondary schools.\n\n\"Schools that are not achieving well are focusing on core subjects, and primary Sats tests. These are the outcomes that Ofsted will look at.\"\n\nThe report suggests their choice may be very limited. Only 5% of primary schools that responded to the British Council offered German.\n\nSankey Valley St James primary school in Warrington is one of the few to offer German as well as French.\n\nPupils in year 6 are encouraged to have a German pen pal and there is a lunchtime language club.\n\nThe school has a higher-than-average number of pupils from poorer families. But head teacher Deb Feltham said that made it even more important to maintain foreign language learning.\n\n\"We have great success with disadvantaged children. Through languages they learn speaking skills as well as the ability to listen.\"\n\nThe German ambassador in London, Peter Wittig, told the BBC the British Council report was \"alarming\". He said the findings were both saddening and troubling.\n\nHe described knowledge of German as a \"huge asset\". There was evidence that it was the most sought-after language among employers, as well as the basis for encouraging trust and understanding across borders.\n\n\"Post-Brexit the UK will - understandably and rightly - seek a new and even greater role in our globalised world. This will be facilitated if young Britons are inspired to be outward-looking and open from a very early age,\" he said.\n\n\"Language learning will be indispensable, and German, which is the mother tongue to more people in Europe than any other language, will remain an ideal choice.\n\n\"If we are to value and further develop our relationship with each other, we will again have to learn, in every sense, to speak each other's language.\"\n\nThe report comes on the day when he will be presenting an award to teachers of German.\n\nGerman has disappeared from some areas in secondary schools, but French and Spanish remain more common.\n\nA BBC languages investigation earlier this year showed the extent of the decline of French and particularly German in the last five years.\n\nA department for education spokesperson says the government is providing \"a range of support\" to schools to encourage foreign language learning.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe Netherlands reached their first Women's World Cup final after Manchester United midfielder Jackie Groenen's sweet extra-time strike settled their cagey semi-final against Sweden.\n\nThe European champions will face holders the United States in Lyon on Sunday, after Jill Ellis' side's win over England.\n\nThe 48,452 fans inside the Stade de Lyon had looked set to endure a nervy penalty shootout, before Groenen's crisp low shot sunk the Swedes' hopes of reaching their second final.\n\nFormer Arsenal goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal had earlier kept the Dutch on level terms with three important saves, before Gunners striker Vivianne Miedema's header was touched on to Sweden's crossbar at the other end.\n\nSubstitute Shanice van de Sanden's fierce shot was then tipped wide by Hedvig Lindahl to send the game to extra time and the Dutch eventually found a way through.\n\nSweden, who were playing in their fourth semi-final after stunning Germany in the last eight, will now face England in Saturday's third-place play-off in Nice (16:00 BST).\n• None How you rated the players\n• None Relive the game as it happened\n\nWednesday's disappointing contest failed to match up to the entertainment, the quality or the intense atmosphere that was seen in Tuesday's gripping tie between England and three-time champions the USA.\n\nBut the Netherlands' achievement - reaching the final while competing in only their second Women's World Cup - was greeted with emotional celebrations at the full-time whistle after a tense 120 minutes and their colourful fans danced with joy in the stands.\n\nRanked eighth in the world, they have enjoyed a rapid rise towards the top of the women's game, two years after winning the Euros on home soil, and they have been backed by a lively, dancing horde of passionate fans all across France.\n\nSarina Wiegman's side beat New Zealand 1-0, Cameroon 3-1 and Canada 2-1 to top Group E and reach the knockout stages for the second time.\n\nA dramatic 2-1 win over Japan and a 2-0 quarter-final victory against Italy followed to put them into their first semi-final, and they narrowly overcame the Swedes in Lyon despite never really playing their best football.\n\nPFA player of the year Miedema, who was the top scorer in the English Women's Super League in 2018-19, was relatively quiet but did almost win the tie in normal time when former Chelsea stopper Lindahl did brilliantly well to save her header.\n\nBoth goalkeepers had fine games as a well-organised and compact Sweden side made it hard for the Dutch to create chances.\n\nBut Groenen's winner saw the Scandinavians eliminated by the same side that knocked them out of the European Championship at the quarter-final stage in 2017.\n\nSweden will still look back on their run in France fondly, after wins over Chile and Thailand saw them reach the knockout stages, before they rested key players and lost 2-0 to the USA to finish second behind the pre-tournament favourites in Group F.\n\nImpressive wins over highly rated Canada and Germany followed, as the Swedes threatened to match their 2003 run to the final, but instead it is the Dutch who will be the Women's World Cup's first European finalists since the Germans' triumph in 2007.\n\nWith little between the two sides, the introduction of Lyon's former Liverpool winger Van de Sanden from the bench added pace to the Dutch attack and they looked slightly the stronger in the additional 30 minutes.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Groenen, who agreed to join Manchester United from German club Frankfurt in May, was mobbed by her team-mates as the full-time whistle blew.\n\nHowever, the game ended moments after Sweden's former Manchester City midfielder Kosovare Asllani was carried off on a stretcher with a concerning injury following an awkward landing. She was taken to hospital but Sweden will hope she can feature against England on Saturday.\n\nCan the Dutch win the final? BBC pundits have their say\n\nFormer US goalkeeper Hope Solo: \"The USA are already fitter than every other team. This doesn't look good for the Dutch going into the final. They will have to have the game of their lives against the United States.\"\n\nEx-England striker Dion Dublin: \"USA have got their hands on it already for me, these teams are miles apart. It should be a walk in the park.\"\n\nFormer Scotland winger Pat Nevin: \"Are they even close to taking on the USA? Is even one Dutch player good enough to get into the USA team?\"\n\nMatch stats - first semi-final to be won in extra time\n• None The Netherlands are the eighth different team and fourth European nation to reach a Women's World Cup final.\n• None No side have lost more Women's World Cup semi-final matches than Sweden, with this their third loss in four.\n• None This was the first Women's World Cup semi-final match to be settled in extra time.\n• None Groenen's winning goal was the Netherlands' first from outside the box in the Women's World Cup since their first ever goal in the competition, with each of their last 12 being scored inside the box.\n• None Sweden's Asllani won seven fouls, more than any other player in a single game at this year's tournament.\n• None It will be only the second WWC final to be contested by two female coaches, following Germany v Sweden in 2003.\n• None Kosovare Asllani went off injured after Sweden had used all subs.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kosovare Asllani (Sweden).\n• None Attempt missed. Shanice van de Sanden (Netherlands) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniëlle van de Donk.\n• None Attempt blocked. Julia Zigiotti Olme (Sweden) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sherida Spitse with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "England's World Cup semi-final defeat by the United States attracted the highest peak television audience of the year so far with 11.7m setting a new record for women's football in the UK.\n\nThat is 50.8% of the available audience and smashes the previous best for a women's game of 7.6m for England's quarter-final win over Norway.\n\nEngland play Sweden or the Netherlands in Saturday's third-place play-off.\n\nThe USA take on the winner of that semi-final in Sunday's final.\n• None Where next for England?\n\nThe 11.7m figure is the year's top audience based on a five-minute peak, as the semi-final attracted an average audience of 10.3m.\n\nEpisode one of BBC One's Line of Duty is the most watched programme overall of 2019 with 13.2m based on 28-day viewing data.\n\nFormer Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn says the World Cup has moved women's football from an \"Olympics sport\" to the mainstream.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"What's been so different and great about this tournament is the sheer number of people watching the Lionesses on TV.\n\n\"It's moved from being an interesting Olympic-type sport to an absolute mainstream sport. The importance of that is that adds attraction, it pulls girls and women into playing.\n\n\"At the top end, what will make the product of the Women's Super League more attractive is getting more exposure in the millions - so being on terrestrial TV is important - making sure the games are played in the elite stadiums that the men play in, and continuing to improve the quality of the football.\n\n\"At the end of the day it's a leisure pursuit and if people see great quality football being played then they'll come and watch it.\"\n\nHow the audience has grown\n\nIt is the fourth time a new record peak audience for women's football has been recorded by the BBC during the groundbreaking tournament. Peak figures are based on those watching for five minutes or more.\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Arizona has pulled a $1m grant to help Nike build a new factory in a dispute over the firm's withdrawal of a trainer allegedly featuring racist symbolism.\n\nThe state's governor had condemned Nike's decision, which was prompted by complaints about its use of an old US flag embraced by white nationalists.\n\nNike-sponsored sportsman Colin Kaepernick had criticised the trainers, now selling on websites for $1,500.\n\nBut governor Doug Ducey said Nike had bowed to political correctness.\n\nThe special edition Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July trainer features the Betsy Ross flag.\n\nWith a circle of 13 stars representing the first US colonies, the flag was created during the American Revolution. Although opinion is divided over its origins, the flag was later adopted for use by the American Nazi Party.\n\nNike said it withdrew the trainers \"based on concerns that it could unintentionally offend and detract from the nation's patriotic holiday\".\n\nOn Tuesday the trainers were selling for well over $1,500 on StockX, the online marketplace for trainers.\n\nColin Kaepernick was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers for six years\n\nEarlier, Mr Kaepernick, a former NFL star, reportedly told Nike that he found the flag offensive because of its connection to the era of slavery. Other critics also raised concerns with Nike.\n\nLast year, he became the face of Nike's advertisement marking the 30th anniversary of the company's \"Just Do It\" slogan.\n\nThe former American football quarterback had previously sparked a furore by kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest against police violence against African-Americans.\n\nMr Kaepernick was joined by other players, but their actions caused fury among some Republicans.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the players had shown \"disrespect\" to the US flag, adding that they should be sacked.\n\nThe Betsy Ross flag was used by the American Nazi Party as a symbol, here seen at a German American Bund rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939\n\nDoug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, said in a series of tweets: \"Words cannot express my disappointment at this terrible decision. I am embarrassed for Nike.\n\n\"Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation's independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,\" he said.\n\nLater, the governor's office confirmed that the $1m from the Arizona Commerce Authority' Competes Fund had been withdrawn. The fund is designed to attract, expand or retain businesses to the state. The factory was expected to generate about 500 jobs.\n\nNike said in a statement it remained committed to making \"a significant investment in an additional manufacturing centre which will create 500 new jobs\". It did not mention the Arizona plant by name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Doug Ducey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGeorgia Lord, the mayor of the city of Goodyear in Arizona where Nike is building the new factory, said the city \"had found itself in the middle of a difficult situation\".\n\nShe said the Goodyear City Council had recently \"unanimously approved a job creation agreement with Nike\".\n\n\"This deal is expected to bring more than 500 jobs and a significant investment to the city. We will honor the commitment we made in our agreement,\" she added.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz also dismissed Nike's move as unpatriotic, writing on Twitter that the shoe giant \"only wants to sell sneakers to people who hate the American flag\". Other Twitter users called for a boycott of Nike products over the move.\n\nHowever, Nike also received widespread support, with Twitter users pointing out that the flag had been used by white nationalists.\n\nMatt Powell, senior industry adviser at the research and consultancy group NPD, said Nike would probably find support among its core consumers.\n\n\"I think it's important to understand who Nike's core demographic is here. They're really focused on teens and looking at the commentary on Twitter and so forth, I don't see a lot of teens coming out with a negative attitude here,\" he said.\n\nMr Kaepernick has not played in the National Football League (NFL) since the 2016 season, and sued the organisation, arguing team owners deliberately froze him out because of his activism, later settling with the NFL.\n\nBetsy Ross was credited with sewing the first \"Stars and Stripes\" flag in 1776, although this version of events has been rejected by modern US scholars.\n\nNike is not the only company to recently face a backlash over products labelled racially insensitive. In December, Prada pulled products accused of depicting blackface.\n\nAnd on Monday, reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian said she would rename her Kimono line after people in Japan said her use of the term was disrespectful.", "Lauren Bullock, Morgan Barnard, and Connor Currie died as they queued to get into an event on St Patrick's night\n\nThe Police Ombudsman is starting a criminal investigation into five PSNI officers for alleged misconduct over the Cookstown disco crush tragedy.\n\nFour of the officers attended an incident at the Greenvale Hotel in County Tyrone where three teenagers died on the night of 17 March.\n\nThe other officer was involved in call handling that night.\n\nThe PSNI had asked the ombudsman to look into the actions of the first officers arriving at the hotel.\n\nThe ombudsman's office confirmed it was considering whether the five officers committed the offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nMorgan Barnard, 17, Lauren Bullock, 17, and Conor Currie, 16, died as hundreds of young people queued to get into an event on St Patrick's night.\n\nThe PSNI said at the time that officers who responded to a 999 call \"withdrew to await further police support\".\n\nThe then Chief Constable Sir George Hamilton has since described the officers' actions as \"brave\" but later apologised for doing so.\n\nNone of the officers under investigation has been suspended, the BBC understands\n\nMorgan Barnard's parents have said serious questions must be asked of the police.\n\nThe inquiry \"does not come as a surprise\", according to the Barnard family's solicitor Darragh Mackin.\n\nThe ombudsman's decision to investigate \"exonerates the family's efforts to ensure that no stone has been left unturned in the pursuance of truth\", he said.\n\nThe PSNI said it would \"cooperate fully throughout\" the ombudsman's investigation.\n\n\"We have full confidence in the office of the Police Ombudsman to complete a thorough and independent investigation,\" said Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin.\n\n\"Until this is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the families of Morgan Barnard, Connor Currie and Lauren Bullock who tragically died at the event and the police investigation into the circumstances surrounding their deaths continues.\"\n\nIt is understood none of the officers under investigation has been suspended but that position is being kept under review.", "The government is announcing a \"road map\" aimed at tackling inequality faced by women from school to retirement.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt said women take an \"economic hit\" at each life stage and are \"more likely to end up financially fragile\".\n\nShe wants to look at barriers to equality including employment rights and workplace sexual harassment.\n\nShe also said abortion rules in Northern Ireland were \"incompatible with a person's human rights\".\n\nUnlike other parts of the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, and a termination is only permitted if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.\n\nMs Mordaunt said the issue was devolved, but added that she expected the UK government to act following an expected court ruling on the subject.\n\n\"If government did not act, Parliament would,\" she added. \"I think paucity of care that women have endured in Northern Ireland is the most appalling thing and it must change.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4, she said women, on average, enter the workplace with higher qualifications and \"worked very hard, but earn less and save less\".\n\nThe road map sets out \"eight key issues\" including gender imbalances in certain industries and occupations and attitudes in schools.\n\n\"What this does is actually track a woman throughout the course of her life and at each stage of that life, the hit that she takes, usually the economic hit, which means that she's more likely to end up financially fragile, with fewer choices than the average person in society,\" Ms Mordaunt said.\n\n\"Women are 50% more likely to be in low pay and trapped in low pay for decades.\"\n\nThe minister said a consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace would be launched next week - and would include proposals on making employers responsible when a member of staff was harassed by another employee.\n\nShe also said she wanted to end paternity leave discrimination, make a better childcare offer, ensure pension pots were taken into account in divorces and introduce employment rights for carers.\n\nThe minister acknowledged that \"many have asked for paid leave for carers\" adding: \"The reason why these things haven't emerged is because we need more pressure from the Cabinet Office.\"\n\nThe CEO of the Chartered Management Institute, Ann Francke, said the road map was \"ambitious, comprehensive and collaborative\", and \"well-executed, it is a potential game changer\".\n\nCaroline Waters, deputy chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said gender inequality in Britain was \"deeply entrenched\" and there could be no \"quick fixes\".\n\n\"We urge concerted action across government to address all the barriers that continue to hold women back from achieving their full potential.\"\n\nBut Sarah Green, co-director of End Violence Against Women, said the proposals were \"little tweaks when what is needed is quite a big cultural shift still in our workplaces\".\n\n\"We need to do something fundamental as shifting the responsibility for preventing sexual harassment at work fundamentally from the individual employee to the employer.\"", "Princess Haya fled her husband in Dubai and is in hiding in London\n\nPrincess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband.\n\nSheikh Mohammed, 69, who is a billionaire racehorse owner and has often been seen conversing with the Queen at Ascot, has posted a furious poem on Instagram accusing an unidentified woman of \"treachery and betrayal\".\n\nThe Jordanian-born and British-educated Princess Haya, 45, married Sheikh Mohammed - owner of Godolphin horse racing stables - in 2004, becoming his sixth and \"junior wife\".\n\nSheikh Mohammed reportedly has 23 children by different wives.\n\nPrincess Haya fled initially this year to Germany to seek asylum. She is now said to be living in a £85m ($107m) town house in Kensington Palace Gardens, in central London, and preparing for a legal battle in the High Court.\n\nSo what prompted her to flee her luxurious life in Dubai and why is she said to be \"afraid for her life\"?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSources close to her have said that Princess Haya had recently discovered disturbing facts behind the mysterious return to Dubai last year of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler's daughters. She fled the UAE by sea with the help of a Frenchman but was intercepted by armed men off the coast of India and returned to Dubai.\n\nPrincess Haya then, along with the former Irish president Mary Robinson, defended Dubai's reputation over the incident.\n\nThe Dubai authorities said the runaway Sheikha Latifa had been \"vulnerable to exploitation\" and was \"now safe in Dubai\". But human rights advocates said she was forcibly abducted against her will.\n\nSince then, it is alleged, Princess Haya has learnt new facts about the case and consequently came under increasing hostility and pressure from members of her husband's extended family until she no longer felt safe there.\n\nA source close to her said she fears she may now be abducted herself and \"rendered\" back to Dubai. The UAE embassy in London has declined to comment on what it says is a personal matter between two individuals.\n\nPrincess Haya was educated in Dorset and Oxford and is thought likely to want to stay in the UK\n\nThere is, however, a wider, international element to this story.\n\nPrincess Haya, who was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset then University of Oxford, is thought likely to want to stay in the UK.\n\nIf her estranged husband demands her return then this poses a diplomatic headache for Britain, which has close ties to the UAE.\n\nThe case is also awkward for Jordan since Princess Haya is the half-sister of Jordan's King Abdullah. Nearly a quarter of a million Jordanians work in the UAE, sending back remittances, and Jordan cannot afford a rift with Dubai.\n\nThe BBC documentary Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess will be re-broadcast on BBC Two at 23:15 BST on Thursday.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "Boris Johnson has said he wants to examine whether levies on foods high in salt, fat and sugar are effective, and has vowed not to introduce any new ones until the review is complete.\n\nThe \"sugar tax\" on drinks came into force in April 2018, and a wider levy on all unhealthy foods is being considered to help tackle obesity.\n\nMr Johnson says he is concerned they unfairly target the less well-off.\n\nBut campaigners and an ex-Tory health minister have criticised his idea.\n\nIt comes as Cancer Research UK says millions are at risk of cancer due to their weight, and obesity now causes more cases of four common types than smoking.\n\nMr Johnson and his rival Jeremy Hunt are vying to be the next leader of their party and the next UK prime minister, and have been appearing in a number of events across the UK.\n\nThe Conservative Party's 160,000 members will begin voting for their preferred candidate next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock - who is one of Mr Johnson's most prominent backers - is set to publish a green paper which recommends extending the sugar tax to milkshakes.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said \"sin taxes\" were disproportionately paid by poorer families, and the current evidence that they reduced the consumption of unhealthy foods was \"ambiguous\".\n\nSpeaking during a leadership campaign visit, he added that he wanted to see proof that taxes \"actually stop people from being so fat\".\n\n\"We have got to deal with obesity, but we have got to do it in a way that is evidence based,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's announcement, Mr Hancock said he welcomed plans for a review into the levy on sugary drinks - and any \"future levies in this area\" - to determine their effectiveness.\n\nHe added that there were \"more ways\" other than taxation to tackle obesity \"without the need of the nanny state\".\n\nMr Johnson has also faced criticism for ordering the review given that in early 2016, while London mayor, he introduced a 10p charge on sugary drinks sold at City Hall.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson - who has said he \"reversed\" a diagnosis of type-2 diabetes after cutting out refined sugar and fast food - said the announcement constituted an \"acute flip-flop\".\n\n\"Sin taxes\" commonly refer to taxes on alcohol and cigarettes - regularly hiked at Budget time - but Mr Johnson's team said he was not referring to those items and was talking specifically about food.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the sugar tax had led to recipes for half the drinks that fell within its scope being changed - equivalent to removing 45m kilograms of sugar every year.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Our policies on obesity and public health have always been guided by evidence and will continue to be in the future.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt has said he would rather target manufacturers who produce less healthy products and \"threaten\" them with legislation \"if they don't play ball\".\n\nHe added: \"But my experience is, if you make that threat, you don't actually need to follow through with the dreaded milkshake tax.\"\n\nResponding to his rival's plan, Mr Hunt said he was \"totally confused about what Boris's policy is\".\n\n\"He says he doesn't want them, but the Health Secretary Matt Hancock is on his team and he says he strongly supports them.\n\n\"We have the second highest obesity in young people in the whole of Europe, and so the people who say they want to scrap these taxes need to say what is their plan, because it is terrible for these young people.\"\n\nFormer health minister Steve Brine, who is supporting Mr Hunt, also criticised Mr Johnson's suggestion.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Brine MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Treasury Minister Liz Truss, who is supporting Mr Johnson, said \"taxes on treats\" hit those on the lowest incomes, and people should be \"free to choose\".\n\nThe sugar tax - known officially as the soft drinks industry levy - means drinks with more than 8g per 100ml are taxed at 24p per litre, and those containing 5-8g of sugar per 100ml are taxed at 18p per litre.\n\nPure fruit juices are exempt as they do not carry added sugar, while drinks with a high milk content are currently exempt due to their calcium content.\n\nMoney raised by the sugar tax goes to help fund primary school sport.\n\nBoris Johnson has a bit of a mixed history on this matter because at times he's seemed to be fairly keen on a sugar tax. Indeed, he brought one in at City Hall. But now he appears to have changed tack.\n\nIt does represent quite a significant push-back against what has been government policy for a few years now - the need to disincentivise people from making unhealthy choices. And it could be a bit awkward given the health secretary is one of his key backers.\n\nBut talk of \"standing up to the nanny state\" probably goes down well with the Tory members.\n\nHis critics say it's back of the fag packet stuff and point to other things announced by him or his team in recent weeks that have gone a bit wobbly soon after. Tax cuts for higher earners and a possible public sector pay rise, for example.\n\nCamilla Cavendish, who argued for the tax as ex-PM David Cameron's head of policy, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she thought Mr Johnson would be wrong to review it.\n\nShe said she had made the case for the levy after becoming concerned about the cost to the NHS of treating diabetes, and obesity rates among poorer children.\n\n\"Boris is talking about not clobbering people on lower incomes, but actually I think that tax is one way to help people just drink better,\" she said.\n\nShirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said she was \"bitterly disappointed\" with Mr Johnson's \"short-sighted\" proposal.\n\n\"We should be building on the success of the sugar levy, not turning back the clock on the progress that has been made so far.\"\n\nShe said: \"They have been highly effective in bringing down smoking rates to record lows, including within deprived communities.\n\n\"Physical activity is one way to lose weight, but the government also has a big role to play if we are to significantly reduce obesity levels.\"\n\nEngland's chief medical officer has been considering taxing all unhealthy foods to tackle childhood obesity.\n\nProf Dame Sally Davies report is due in September - it was commissioned by Mr Hancock.", "US political heavyweight Mitch McConnell has waded into the \"racist trainer\" row with a call for Nike to reverse a decision to halt sales.\n\n\"I'll make the first order,\" the Republican Senate majority leader promised if Nike changes its mind.\n\nThe special-edition Fourth-of July trainer features an old US flag that some people say has racist overtones.\n\nMr McConnell said \"I think we've got a problem\" if some \"Americans find the American flag controversial\".\n\nThe sportswear giant withdrew the trainer, featuring the Revolutionary War-era Betsy Ross flag, following complaints that it represented an era of slavery.\n\nAlthough the origins and meaning are disputed, the flag was adopted by the American Nazi Party and other extremist groups.\n\nSportsman, activist and Nike-sponsored Colin Kaepernick was widely reported as one of those who said it was inappropriate, although he has yet to comment publicly.\n\nNike's decision sparked a huge backlash from conservative America and the governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, ordered the cancellation a $1m grant to help the company build a factory in the state.\n\nSpeaking in Kentucky, Mr McConnell told reporters: \"I hope Nike either releases these shoes or some other shoe maker picks up the flag, puts it on a pair of shoes and starts selling it. I'll make the first order.\n\n\"If we're in a political environment where the American flag has become controversial to Americans, I think we've got a problem.\"\n\nThe trainers are selling for more than $2,000 on secondary websites\n\nThe heels of the trainers were decorated with the flag, known for its circular arrangement of 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies of the US.\n\nThe shoes, which had already been shipped to retailers, are selling on the StockX online marketplace for more than $2,000. Nike has asked retailers to return the stock.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz also dismissed Nike's move as unpatriotic, writing in a series of tweets that the shoe giant \"only wants to sell sneakers to people who hate the American flag\".\n\n\"Yep, I own lots of @Nike I've been a life-long customer, since I was kid. But they've now decided their shoes represent snide disdain for the American flag,\" he said. \"Since they don't want my business anymore, I wont buy any more.\"\n\nIn an editorial, the Wall Street Journal said that \"no flag of the United States is a symbol of oppression and racism\" and that the row was \"another sign of our current political insanity\".\n\nBut social media was equally full of comments backing Nike and criticising the firm for thinking the flag was appropriate.\n\nLast year Mr Kaepernick, a former NFL star, became the face of Nike's advertisement marking the 30th anniversary of the company's \"Just Do It\" slogan.\n\nThe former American football quarterback had previously sparked a furore by kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest against police violence against African-Americans.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he had shown \"disrespect\" to the US flag. Many consumers said they would never buy Nike again after it adopted Mr Kaepernick, and social media featured pictures of people burning their trainers.\n\nBut in the following three months, Nike reported a rise in sales.\n\nMatt Powell, senior industry adviser at the research and consultancy group NPD, said Nike would probably also find support among its core consumers this time.\n\n\"I think it's important to understand who Nike's core demographic is here. They're really focused on teens and looking at the commentary on Twitter and so forth, I don't see a lot of teens coming out with a negative attitude here,\" he said.", "Nkululeko Zulu said he suffered racist abuse after asking for early holiday\n\nA former paratrooper was racially abused in the Army and heard a soldier call Nelson Mandela a terrorist, an employment tribunal has been told.\n\nNkululeko Zulu, who served as a lance corporal in the Parachute Regiment, also said he felt he had been held back for promotion due to his race.\n\nMr Zulu and former colleague Hani Gue have taken the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to a tribunal alleging they suffered racial discrimination.\n\nThe MoD is contesting the claims.\n\nMr Zulu served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para), based at Merville Barracks in Colchester, the tribunal in central London heard.\n\nHe said he had been racially abused by a sergeant in 2014 after asking for early holiday to return to South Africa to visit family.\n\nMr Zulu said there had been a series of events where he felt racially harassed and discriminated against throughout his time in the Army, which he joined in June 2008.\n\nBut the tribunal was told matters had escalated during a six-week exercise in Kenya in 2017.\n\nA corporal had referred to Kenyan soldiers as \"African animals\" and racist slurs were used to describe heard the local population, the former paratrooper said.\n\nDuring a platoon conversation Mr Zulu claimed a private said \"Nelson Mandela is a terrorist\" which was supported by a corporal.\n\nHe said: \"Both the corporal and private knew that Nelson Mandela, who fought for the liberation of black people under the evil apartheid regime in South Africa, was a big part of my life and South Africa's history.\"\n\nMr Zulu said after he reported the abuse, people in his unit stopped talking to him and were \"turning a blind eye to the racism\".\n\nFormer paratrooper Hani Gue told a tribunal he was subjected to racist abuse in the Army\n\nHe told the tribunal he left the Army in 2018 as he could no longer go on serving a \"racist institution\".\n\nSimon Tibbitts, for the MoD, said after an apology from the sergeant, Mr Zulu had accepted he was happy with the outcome but the former paratrooper said this was because he was of a junior rank and keen to progress his career.\n\nThe tribunal has already heard from Mr Gue, who claimed soldiers had decorated their barracks with Nazi flags and pictures of Adolf Hitler.\n\nThe MoD said the armed forces took such complaints seriously and at least one was referred to the Royal Military Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nCoco Gauff's fairytale introduction to Wimbledon continued with a second-round victory over Magdalena Rybarikova that belied her years.\n\nThe 15-year-old American qualifier needed just one hour nine minutes to beat her Slovakian opponent 6-3 6-3 under Court One's new roof.\n\nGauff, who beat five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams on Monday, will play Slovenia's Polona Hercog next.\n\n\"I'm still shocked I am even here,\" Gauff told BBC TV.\n\n\"I played well on pressure points. She was serving amazing. I've not been able to relax, there is so much going on.\n\n\"I believe I can beat anyone across the court.\"\n\nShe becomes the youngest player to reach the last 32 at Wimbledon since fellow American Jennifer Capriati, who reached the semi-finals in 1991, also aged 15.\n• None Edmund and Watson lose in second round\n• None Chance to play with Serena once in a lifetime - Murray\n• None Day three at Wimbledon as it happened\n\nAt such a tender age, Gauff is only eligible to play 10 tournaments at professional level between her 15th and 16th birthdays yet she appears to be taking the grand occasion of Wimbledon in her stride.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, she had trained briefly under the gaze of 18-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal before being approached for a chat by Roger Federer, an eight-time winner here, more than six hours before she finally got to play.\n\nAfter a late court switch, the match finally got under way just after 20:00 BST, but Gauff looked at home straightaway against the world number 139, who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon two years ago.\n\nShe broke 30-year-old Rybarikova's serve to love to go 4-2 up, losing just five points on her own serve throughout the entire first set.\n\nRybarikova, somewhat unsettled by the crowd's fierce support for Gauff, had her serve broken once again early in the second set.\n\nBut, showing glimpses of the form that saw her formerly become the world number 17, Rybarikova started to rally, twice defying Gauff on break point.\n\nYet this was always to be Gauff's night, and she saw out the win by breaking serve once again in front of a delighted crowd and in front of her ecstatic parents Corey and Candi.\n\nSpeaking after the match Gauff revealed that she has been using social media to help relax between matches and cope with her newfound fame.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting any of this. A lot of celebrities were messaging, posting me. I'm kind of star struck. It's been hard to reset. I don't know,\" she said.\n\n\"Surprisingly social media kind of relaxes me before the match. That's what I kind of do. Right now I'm going to keep everything the same because it's been working.\"\n\nOn a day for the youngsters, Felix Auger Aliassime, 18, progressed to the third round of the men's singles by beating France's Corentin Moutet 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-2.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n'Gauff is the favourite against Hercog'\n\n\"Hopefully her parents will handle this success well. There will be enormous offers and sponsorships galore.\n\n\"The way she's playing at the moment and the way she's acting - there aren't many players she will lose to.\n\n\"Gauff is the favourite going into the match against Hercog.\"\n\nGauff possible route to the final\n\nSo who could the 15-year-old face en route to a possible dream final a week on Saturday?\n\nIf she beats Hercog, then she could come up against former world number one Simona Halep in the fourth round.\n\nAnd if she passes that challenge then 2018 Australian Open winner Caroline Wozniacki might await her in the quarter-final followed by the possibility of a semi-final match against the wily Karolina Pliskova.\n\nAnd in the final? Current number one Ashleigh Barty or maybe one of her idols, Serena Williams.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland's dreams of reaching their first Women's World Cup final were dashed as Steph Houghton's late penalty was saved in a dramatic semi-final loss to holders the United States.\n\nThe England skipper's 84th-minute spot-kick was held by Alyssa Naeher, shortly before Houghton's fellow centre-back Millie Bright was sent off for a second bookable offence, as the Lionesses exited at the last-four stage for a third major tournament in a row.\n\nWinger Christen Press and striker Alex Morgan scored with headers either side of Ellen White's instinctive equaliser as the USA took a deserved 2-1 lead in a frenetic first half.\n\nA spirited Lionesses side improved after the break and White thought she had equalised with a low strike from Jill Scott's flicked through ball, only to be found to be marginally offside on a video assistant referee (VAR) review.\n\nWhite was then clipped in the area and Phil Neville's side were awarded a penalty after another VAR review.\n\nBut Houghton could not convert from the spot and the wait for a senior England side to reach a first global final since 1966 goes on.\n\nThe USA, who were backed by the majority of the 53,512 crowd in a gripped Stade de Lyon, are through to their third consecutive World Cup final and will now bid for a record fourth title when they face either Sweden or European champions the Netherlands on Sunday.\n\nThose two sides meet on Wednesday, with the losers taking on the Lionesses in Nice in Saturday's third-place play-off.\n\nSo close but yet so far for England\n\nThe Lionesses were the first senior England side to reach the semi-finals of three consecutive major tournaments, after their third-place finish at the 2015 World Cup in Canada and their run to the last four at Euro 2017.\n\nAfter winning the invitational SheBelieves Cup in the USA earlier this year, victories over Scotland, Argentina and Japan saw them top Group D in France, as belief grew that they could win their first major trophy.\n\nConsecutive 3-0 victories over Cameroon and Norway in the knockout stages followed, but Neville's side were unable to play with the same composure on the ball against the confident defending champions.\n\nEngland came under intense pressure in the early stages and may have been slightly relieved to be only 2-1 down at half-time, after the lively Rose Lavelle twice went close for the holders.\n\nEngland had the better of the second 45 minutes and were rewarded with a late chance to level when Becky Sauerbrunn made contact with White's shooting leg when the Manchester City striker was poised to tuck home.\n\nHowever, Houghton's penalty was weak and Naeher saved low to her right - the third spot-kick out of four England have missed in this tournament.\n\nTwo minutes later Bright was dismissed for a second yellow card for a clumsy foul on Morgan.\n\nSome of the devastated England players sank to the ground in despair as the final whistle extended their wait for a first major title.\n\nPre-tournament favourites the USA, who have reached at least the semi-finals of every Women's World Cup, will now contest their fifth final.\n\nAfter narrow 2-1 wins over Spain and hosts France in their past two games, they showed their experience and clever game-management to see out a third consecutive win by the same scoreline.\n\nThey were rampant early on, and led through Press' powerful header, continuing their record of scoring inside the first 12 minutes in all of their games so far in this tournament.\n\nThey had almost netted even earlier, when Lavelle nutmegged Bright in the fourth minute and rounded Demi Stokes, only to see her close-range shot well saved by Carly Telford, who played in goal for England with number one Karen Bardsley out with a knock.\n\nMorgan's sixth goal of this tournament put her level with White again at the top of the standings in the battle for the Golden Boot, after White had turned home Beth Mead's excellent ball from the left to level for England.\n\nHampshire-born coach Jill Ellis' side went through without their star of the previous two matches, winger Megan Rapinoe, who was a surprise late absentee with a hamstring injury.\n\nThroughout this tournament, England head coach Neville - who took charge of the Lionesses in January 2018 - has insisted his side's style is \"non-negotiable\", but he raised eyebrows by tweaking his line-up tactically for Tuesday's semi-final.\n\nRather than playing wide on the right, Lyon winger Nikita Parris was moved to a more central role, playing as a deep striker in something closer to a 4-4-2 formation than the tried-and-trusted 4-2-3-1 that had seen the Lionesses through to the last four.\n\nToni Duggan and Fran Kirby were left out with versatile winger Rachel Daly and Arsenal's Beth Mead coming in to the side to start as wide midfield players. England had a 4-2-4 feel when they were attacking, but Neville's team were frequently overrun in midfield in the first half.\n\nThe introduction of Kirby at number 10 after the break and Parris' switch back out to the wings appeared to propel England back in to the game, as they rallied and saw more of the ball in the USA's half.\n\nUltimately, they remain without a win over the USA in the World Cup, having lost 3-0 in 2007's quarter-finals and being beaten in 10 of their 16 contests overall.\n\nBut the Lionesses have won over millions of new supporters at home, with record television audiences watching their run to the latter stages.\n\nAnd their next major tournament will be on home soil, with 2021's European Championship to be played in England.\n\n'I've moved on from this already' - reaction\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"We'll have to allow 24 to 48 hours for this to sink in and for them to get over this disappointment. Nothing I can say will make them feel better.\n\n\"Elite sport and being on top of the world means that on Saturday in Nice [in the third-place play-off] we have to produce a performance. It will tell me a lot about my players.\n\n\"I've moved on from this already and now I'm looking forward to Saturday's game. I'll see the attitude, commitment of my players. They won't let me down, because they never have.\"\n\nEngland captain Steph Houghton: \"It's hard to put into words. We took one of the best teams in the world all the way. I'm so proud but I'm disappointed with the penalty and the goals we conceded.\n\n\"Ultimately we know that we can beat them and our aim was to win and we didn't do that. I got told today [that I'd be taking any penalty] and I've been practising them a lot and I was confident.\n\n\"I just didn't get a good connection. I'm gutted. I've let the team down. I'm gutted and heartbroken. We were so close but I'm proud of everyone because we gave it everything.\"\n\nUSA boss Jill Ellis: \"I can't even express how proud I am. It was such a great effort from everybody. Everyone stepped up, and that's what this team's about.\n\n\"That was her [Alyssa Naeher's] shining moment. We have one more game. I couldn't be prouder of this group. We have four days this time in between, so that will help.\n\n\"I told them [in a post-match huddle]: 'Stay humble. We've got one more.'\"\n\nEngland off the spot - the stats\n• None USA become the first side to reach three consecutive World Cup finals - they played Japan in 2011 and 2015.\n• None USA set a new World Cup record of 11 successive wins with victory, beating Norway's previous mark of 10 in a row (1995-99).\n• None Steph Houghton is only the second player to miss a penalty in a World Cup semi-final. Both misses have been against USA, also Germany's Celia Sasic in 2015.\n• None England's Millie Bright became the fourth player to be sent off at the World Cup.\n• None Christen Press' opening goal ended England's national record run of 381 minutes without conceding at the tournament.\n• None USA have never lost a World Cup game they have scored first in, winning 36 and drawing four.\n• None Ellen White is only the third player in World Cup history to score in three consecutive knockout games, after Carli Lloyd (2015) and Abby Wambach (2011).\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.\n• None Carli Lloyd (USA) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Nikita Parris (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Second yellow card to Millie Bright (England) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Francesca Kirby (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty saved! Stephanie Houghton (England) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Becky Sauerbrunn (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The day has started with questions to Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Ministers.\n\nShortly after 10:00 BST, the attorney general will take questions from MPs.\n\nThen, there are two urgent questions.\n\nThe first is on the role of Serco in the justice system, this question is being asked by shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.\n\nThe second UQ comes from former shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams and is on the review of social security claimant deaths since 2010, and whether or not these were supplied to reviewers of Work Capability Assessment.\n\nThen, MPs will hear the business statement for upcoming business in the Commons.\n\nAfter, there'll be a statement from the Transport Committee on local roads funding and maintenance.\n\nThis will be followed by a backbench business debate on ending the sale of petrol and diesel cars.\n\nAfter that, a general debate on assisted dying.\n\nFinally, the day will close with an adjournment debate on NHS procurement.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland missed out on a place in the Women's World Cup final after losing 2-1 to holders the United States in Lyon. Ellen White was your star performer for the Lionesses. Here's how you rated the players out of 10.", "It's fair to say Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having an excellent year professionally.\n\nShe's helping to write the next Bond movie, has seen Killing Eve become a huge international success, and had a triumphant final series of Fleabag.\n\nIt was almost universally praised by critics and audiences.\n\nThe only hint of negativity was that it was all... how best to say it? A bit, well... posh.\n\nThe Guardian's reviewer certainly felt the air of wealth and privilege made the show \"a little less lovable\".\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge admits that she was \"perfectly set up to have success in the world\".\n\nShe was a guest on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, revealing she has never pretended she's \"not from a privileged position\".\n\n\"I really know that I am. I mean, my God.\"\n\nShe went to private schools, lived in a lovely bit of London and had a supportive family and agrees it's \"absolutely, probably true that loads of people don't have the the same opportunities\" as her.\n\n\"If that is where it comes from, then I am really sympathetic to that feeling.\"\n\nBut she is less impressed when people criticise her actual work because she's had a lucky start in life.\n\n\"To criticise a story on the basis of where the author had come from, or how privileged the author is, undermines the story.\n\n\"It's not like my privilege created Fleabag. I created Fleabag, but from a point of place in my life where I was able to sit and write.\"\n\nShe thinks it is largely down to getting the right support.\n\nShe explains: \"I like to think that whatever life I'd lived, wherever I'd been born or brought up, I would still have written if I had been given the encouragement.\n\n\"That's the thing that I care about, encouraging people to do it.\"\n\nIsn't your dad's garden like this?\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge also disagrees that the story is \"just for posh girls\".\n\nShe says she was very aware that it was told \"through the prism of a very middle class family\" but says she was \"using them to tell a story that was emotional.\"\n\n\"People were sending me photos of tweets, with one guy saying 'I'm a disabled 42-year-old man living in Hull and I am Fleabag'.\n\nShe didn't have quite so much to say about her latest job - as part of the writing team for the new Bond film.\n\nThere were no plot hints but she's previously said she's trying to make the Bond girls \"feel like real people\".\n\nIn fact, the only thing she did reveal was that she had a \"total freak-out\" about an \"amazing\" 007 water bottle given out to cast and crew.\n\nNot the juiciest Bond gossip but good to know that Q Branch is on the case with cutting out disposable plastic.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Despite the backlog, there are no plans to relax MOT rules\n\nMore than 2,000 motorists across Northern Ireland failed to turn up for their MOT tests in June, despite public anger over test backlogs.\n\nThere were 2,300 missed appointments last month, according to the Department for Infrastructure.\n\nAt £30.50 per car per test, that is a potential loss to drivers of more than £70,000.\n\nIt comes as some motorists argue that backlogs mean they cannot book a slot before their MOT certificate expires.\n\nTo tackle the tests backlog, the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) opened 2,000 Sunday MOT slots on 16 and 23 June.\n• None Same year32,000 customers did not attend MOT tests\n\nMore vehicle examiners have been recruited and reminder letters are being sent out earlier to deal with the waits.\n\nIn the first three months of this year alone, 7,300 vehicles failed to turn up for a booked test - 3.4% higher than the equivalent period in 2018.\n\nA DVA spokesperson said that in 2018-19 financial year, 32,000 customers did not attend their MOT appointments.\n\nIn cash terms, \"no-show\" drivers have poured a potential £976,000 down the drain.\n\nThe DVA conducted just over 1.09 million vehicle tests in 2018-19, an increase of 1.8% on the year before and the highest figure on record.\n\nIn a statement, the DVA encouraged customers to book their vehicle test online as soon as they receive a reminder notice.\n\n\"We would ask that customers either attend their pre-booked appointments or cancel them to allow others to make use of the appointment,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite discussions between police and the DVA about relaxing the rules to ease the situation, the department said it was not considering offering motorists exemptions from the MOT test at this stage.\n\nNorthern Ireland has different rules around MOTs than the rest of the UK.\n\nA test is required on a car's fourth birthday in NI, rather than the third birthday elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, tests must be carried out at a specific MOT testing site operated by the DVA, whereas in Britain, tests can be conducted by approved private operators in commercial premises, such as garages.\n\nHave you got a question about MOT tests in Northern Ireland you would like us to answer? You can use the tool below to submit your suggestions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Stanley was visiting the house when he was fatally shot by Albert Grannon with a modified weapon\n\nA man who shot dead his six-year-old great-grandson with an unlicensed air rifle has been jailed for three years.\n\nStanley Metcalf died in hospital after being hit in the abdomen by a pellet at Sproatley, near Hull, on 26 July.\n\nAlbert Grannon, of Church Lane, Sproatley, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nAfter Grannon had pulled the trigger on the adapted weapon, the boy told the 78-year-old: \"You shot me granddad.\"\n\nStanley's mother said the pensioner has never apologised.\n\nGrannon admitted possessing an air rifle without holding a firearms certificate, along with the charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nThe youngster was shot by Grannon from a few feet away at a family gathering at the pensioner's house, prosecutor John Elvidge QC told the court.\n\nAlbert Grannon shot his great-grandson Stanley Metcalf with an air rifle\n\nMr Elvidge said Grannon kept the gun in a cupboard with a curtain over it and it was normally left loaded. The weapon needed a firearms certificate because its power meant it was categorised as \"specially dangerous\".\n\nHe said members of the family who were in the garden heard a loud bang and rushed in to find Stanley bent over in the kitchen with a wound the size of a 5p piece in his stomach.\n\nMr Elvidge said the pellet from the .22 rifle had gone all the way through, severing an artery.\n\nStanley's condition deteriorated in the ambulance and he died within two hours.\n\nThe prosecutor said Grannon told police the gun went off as he was checking whether it was loaded and the pellet must have ricocheted off the floor.\n\nBut, he said, forensic tests revealed that this could not have been the case.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, mitigating barrister Paul Genney said his client accepted that he pointed the gun at Stanley as he squeezed the trigger to check the gun was not loaded, \"but not, of course, deliberately\".\n\nReading a statement to the court Stanley's mother Jenny Dees said: \"Never once did he say sorry and now if he did, it would be meaningless and too little too late.\n\n\"It was through his [Grannon] recklessness, stupidity and lack of forethought that caused Stanley to be taken away.\n\n\"I hope he can live with himself and the pain he has caused\".\n\nGrannon showed no emotion as he stood to be sentenced.\n\nThe boy was shot in the abdomen with the air rifle, but died later from the injuries\n\nMr Justice Lavender told Grannon: \"You ended a young life and you brought lifelong grief and misery to his parents and to the whole of his family.\"\n\nHe said: \"What you did was obviously a very dangerous thing to do. Why on Earth did you do it?\"\n\nThe court heard how Stanley's extended family had been split by the incident and some relatives sat in the court itself while others were in the overhanging public gallery.\n\nMany were in tears as the sentence was passed.\n\nAs he was taken down, one woman shouted from the balcony: \"Love you Dad.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The train hit the men while they were on the tracks near Margam\n\nTwo rail workers who died after being hit by a passenger train were wearing ear defenders and may not have heard it coming, police say.\n\nThe men, aged 58, from North Cornelly, and 64, from Kenfig Hill, were struck near Margam by the Swansea to London Paddington train at about 10:00 BST.\n\nThe pair were pronounced dead at the scene and a third person was treated for shock, but was not injured.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was \"shocked and distressed\" by the incident.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) Supt Andy Morgan said: \"Following a number of urgent enquiries into this tragic incident, it has been established that the three people were railway workers who were working on the lines at the time.\n\n\"The initial stages of the investigation suggest that the two men who died had been wearing ear defenders at the time, tragically, could not hear the passenger train approaching.\n\n\"We have a number of officers who remain in the area and we are continuing to work alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the full circumstances of what happened in the moments before this incredibly sad, fatal collision.\"\n\nBill Kelly, Network Rail's route managing director for Wales, added: \"We are fully cooperating with the British Transport Police and Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the families of our colleagues and our members of staff who will be affected by this tragic loss, and we will provide all the support we can.\"\n\nPolice and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch are investigating\n\nThe tragedy happened just three months after the Rail Accident Investigation Branch warned there were \"too many near misses in which railway workers have had to jump for their lives\".\n\nIn 2018 there was one death on the mainline railway and 6,641 injuries, of which 164 were major.\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) said about 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident.\n\nOne passenger said a party of school children were on board, and they had had to shut the blinds in the carriage to prevent them seeing what was happening outside.\n\nThe train has since been moved and the line reopened just before 21:00 but GWR said replacement bus services will continue to operate to supplement trains between Swansea and Cardiff Central stations.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"Everyone at GWR is incredibly saddened to learn that two railway colleagues lost their lives this morning, when they were struck by the 0929 service from Swansea to London Paddington.\n\n\"We have offered our full assistance to the British Transport Police, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, and Network Rail as they seek to understand the circumstances which led to this tragic accident.\"\n\nPassengers started being evacuated from the train around three hours after the crash and were put on buses to Port Talbot and Cardiff.\n\nOne passenger who was on board the train said: \"This happened shortly after we left Port Talbot Parkway. We didn't hear anything at all. We weren't even aware an incident had taken place until the train manager made an announcement.\"\n\nStephen Lester could see \"devastated\" rail staff out of the window\n\nStephen Lester, who was also on board, said: \"[I] looked out of the window and saw people standing around looking at the floor.\n\n\"They were devastated that one or maybe two of their colleagues was under the train.\"\n\nHe said the blinds had to be pulled down as there were secondary school children from Swansea in the carriage. A teacher travelling with around 30 pupils said they had been on a trip to London, adding that rail staff had been \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers on the train which killed two rail workers describe how events unfolded\n\nArriving at Port Talbot Parkway, passenger Auriel Griffiths from Cimla, Neath Port Talbot, said: \"It was a bit of an experience really… thank God the train didn't turn over.\"\n\nShe had been travelling to visit a relative in hospital when the incident happened.\n\nShe said staff on the train had been \"very good\". \"They kept coming along and giving us information, coffee and water,\" she said.\n\nDescribing the moment the train came to a standstill, she said: \"It just sort of stopped. I didn't feel a bang or anything…\n\n\"People got killed, that's worse than being inconvenienced isn't it… I feel upset about it.\"\n\nRobert Jones praised the train staff for their handling of the incident\n\nFellow passenger Robert Jones, from Neath, who was travelling with his wife, said it had seemed as if the train was stopping because of the works which were going on.\n\n\"There was no sound, there was no particular judder, there was no commotion.\n\n\"Quite soon after the announcement was made that a major incident had occurred,\" he said, adding two further announcements were made explaining what had happened. \"It became evident that it was a tragedy.\"\n\nMr Jones said it was difficult in the hours that followed, knowing people had lost lives, but said: \"Every single passenger in my coach dealt with it in the most remarkable way. They accepted the situation that there would be a delay and the staff were just unbelievable all round.\"\n\nAbout 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident, Great Western Railway said\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash called for a suspension of all similar works by Network Rail \"until the facts were established\" following the \"shocking news\".\n\nHis counterpart at the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, Manuel Cortes, said it was not acceptable for people to \"go out to work and end up losing their lives\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke about the incident at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe said: \"I'm sure the whole house will want to express their condolences to the families of those rail workers who were hit and killed by a train this morning in Port Talbot.\"\n\nUK and Welsh ministers expressed their condolences after the fatal crash\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said she shared his sentiments.\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd, Welsh government deputy transport minister Lee Waters said the government and the assembly was \"deeply shocked\", adding: \"It's hard to understand how this could have happened this morning just 20 or so miles away from us.\"\n\nUK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said there would be an investigation into how the accident happened, adding: \"I will ensure lessons are learned\".\n\nHe said he was \"deeply saddened\" and sent his condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the workers.\n\nTwo ambulances as well as vehicles from the Hazardous Area Response Team and Wales Air Ambulance were sent to the scene\n\nWales' Transport Secretary Ken Skates tweeted: \"Deeply shocked by the news about the tragic incident involving railway workers near Margam this morning, and my thoughts are with the families of those involved.\"\n\nMP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock added: \"I'm very concerned to see reports of the tragic accident on the rail line between Bridgend and Port Talbot... This is awful news, and my thoughts are with the families of all concerned.\"\n\nA passenger took this picture from the train involved in the incident\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marie Anderson has been recommended for the role of Police Ombudsman\n\nMarie Anderson has been recommended to take over as Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman when the role becomes free later this year.\n\nMrs Anderson is currently Northern Ireland's Public Services Ombudsman, a position she has held since April 2016.\n\nCurrent ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, was appointed in 2012 and will finish his seven-year tenure in July 2019.\n\nA law passed last year gives the secretary of state power to appoint the position.\n\nSecretary of State Karen Bradley said: \"My absolute priority is to see the restoration of the executive at the earliest opportunity.\n\n\"In the absence of an executive, it is vital that we ensure stability and continuity for this important public appointment.\"\n\nPSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton said Mrs Anderson brings \"a wealth of experience to the role\".\n\n\"I recognise the importance of the role of the office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the public confidence that the independent investigation of complaints against police carried out by the office can bring,\" he said.\n\n\"It is an essential part of the mechanisms by which the PSNI can be held to account and I am confident PSNI will engage positively with the new Police Ombudsman in the future.\"\n\nThe post comes with an annual salary of £134,841.\n\nDuring his time in office, Dr Michael Maguire has been involved in a number of high-profile cases.\n\nIn September 2017, Dr Maguire contacted more than 100 families to say a squeeze on resources meant Troubles legacy complaints could not be proceeded with.\n\nHe said some of the inquiries could take up to 20 years to complete.\n\nIn November 2018, a judge rejected an application to quash his report into the Loughinisland killings.\n\nIn June 2016, Dr Maguire ruled there had been collusion between some police officers and the gunmen.\n\nLast year, the secretary of state passed a law through the Commons that gave UK government ministers the power to make some public appointments to the NI Policing Board, the Probation Board and the Police Ombudsman.\n\nThe role of the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland is to investigate complaints against the police.\n\nIt has a staff of more than 150 and received a budget of £9.3m in the last financial year.\n\nThere was interest in the role from both national and international candidates.\n\nMarie Anderson's appointment is required to go through a formalities process before being officially announced.\n• None Commissioner would welcome more powers", "An MP is applauded after her emotional speech on the introduction of the Children's Funeral Fund following her \"impatient\" campaigning.\n\nCarolyn Harris thanked MPs from across the political divide who had helped to instigate the government funding for bereaved parents for the cost of their child's funeral.\n\nThe deputy leader of Welsh Labour has been calling for the fund - which will start on 23 July - since she had to take out a loan to pay for the funeral of her son, Martin.\n\nHer campaigning zeal was praised by Speaker John Bercow and the prime minister.", "Christine Lagarde is known as the \"rock star\" of international finance\n\n\"No, no, no no, no no,\" was what Christine Lagarde was reported to have said when asked last year if she was interested in running the European Central Bank (ECB).\n\nYet just a few months later, she has been nominated as the institution's new president.\n\nMs Lagarde - known as the \"rock star\" of international finance - said the new role was \"an honour\".\n\nPoised, chic and known for her straight talking, she has become one of Europe's most influential ambassadors in the world of international finance.\n\nUntil this weekend, the main contenders for the ECB job were male central bankers.\n\nBut assuming the nomination is approved she will become the central bank's first ever female leader, responsible for the euro and the monetary policy of the eurozone.\n\nMs Lagarde is legendary for her stamina\n\n\"First ever female\" is a tag that has followed Ms Lagarde throughout her career.\n\nThe former lawyer was the first woman to chair global law firm Baker McKenzie, the first woman to serve as a finance minister from any Group of Seven nation and then the first to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n\nUnsurprisingly she has long championed promoting women into powerful positions, saying it's the key to improving the world economy.\n\n\"As I have said many times, if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today,\" she said earlier this year.\n\nThe silver-haired 63-year-old is legendary for her stamina. A former synchronised swimmer for the French national team, she is reported to exercise daily, even during meetings if necessary.\n\nIn her current role, she has been praised for steering the Washington-based IMF through the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nChristine Lagarde's status as rock star of international finance is beyond doubt.\n\nShe has a high profile as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, building on her experience as a cabinet minister in France.\n\nWhat she doesn't have is the technical expertise as a central banker. The previous presidents of the ECB did.\n\nAll three had been governors of their own national central banks. Mario Draghi in particular presided over the bank at a time when it faced the eurozone financial crisis and a weak economic recovery. The response was both innovative and technical.\n\nChristine Lagarde would not be the first ever central banker to be in that position. But there could well be challenges.\n\nThe eurozone is struggling with inflation that is persistently below its target. Getting it back up might require more innovation. Ms Lagarde would need to draw on the expertise of the ECB's technocrats.\n\nHer career has however had one significant negative, when she was investigated for abuse of authority during her time as French finance minister in 2007.\n\nIn 2016, she was convicted in a French court for failing to challenge a €404m award to flamboyant French businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008 over the sale of sportswear brand Adidas. She did not serve a sentence.\n\nBernard Tapie was ordered to pay back the €404m with interest\n\nMs Lagarde has always defended her decision, saying it was \"the best solution at the time\".\n\nIt's a determination that she learnt at a young age after her father's death when she was 17. Her mother, widowed at just 38, bought Ms Lagarde and her three younger brothers up alone.\n\n\"My mother was a very strong character. I learnt a lot from her,\" she told the Financial Times in an interview.\n\nMs Lagarde knew how to \"impose calm\" a former colleague says\n\nConsistently ranked among the top 10 most powerful women globally, Ms Lagarde has helped to rebuild the IMF's credibility following Greece's 2010 bailout, which bent the fund's rules.\n\nShe also presided over the IMF's biggest bailout, a $57bn deal for Argentina last year that many credited with arresting emerging market turbulence.\n\nMs Lagarde has admitted before that she lacks economic experience, telling the Guardian in 2012: \"I've studied a bit of economics, but I'm not a super-duper economist.\"\n\nMany don't believe this will hold her back.\n\nOne former IMF official said her leadership of the fund meant she was \"exceptionally qualified\" to run the ECB.\n\n\"She knew how to impose calm without posing as morally superior,\" instead displaying \"a touch of humanity,\" said a former colleague.\n\nMark Sobel, a former US Treasury official and chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, said Ms Lagarde has experience in monetary policy even though she is not an economist.\n\n\"She's been involved in all the monetary debate and it's not like they don't discuss monetary policy at the fund,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland surged into their first World Cup semi-final since 1992 with a comprehensive 119-run defeat of New Zealand at Chester-le-Street.\n\nThe hosts are set to finish third in the group and will meet India or Australia at Edgbaston next Thursday for a place in the final.\n\nNeeding to defeat the Black Caps to be sure of progressing, England were led by Jonny Bairstow's dominant hundred, his second century in the space of four days.\n\nThough they were checked as the New Zealand bowling improved, the England total of 305-8 seemed imposing on a pitch that gradually got harder to bat on.\n\nAnd they were boosted by the run outs of both Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor - Williamson unluckily undone when backing-up - that left New Zealand 69-4.\n\nFrom there, the Black Caps sucked the life from the spectacle with a limp attempt to defend their net run-rate, eventually being bowled out for 186 with Mark Wood taking 3-34 on his home ground.\n\nWilliamson's men have now suffered three successive defeats and slipped to fourth in the table.\n\nThey will be caught if Pakistan beat Bangladesh on Friday, though it would need an almost impossible swing in run-rate to deny them a place in the semis.\n• None TMS podcast: An England semi-final, the Plunkett song and Mark Wood's tiny hands\n\nBack-to-back defeats by Sri Lanka and Australia left England on the brink of an unthinkable exit, but they have responded with impressive wins over India and New Zealand, two fellow members of the top four.\n\nWhereas Sunday's victory at Edgbaston was played in front of a crowd ferocious in its support of the Indians, here they were willed on by a loyal following in the Durham sunshine.\n\nEoin Morgan once again had the benefit of winning an important toss. Not only did batting seem easier early in the day - though that could have been due to the excellence of Bairstow and Jason Roy - their three losses have come when chasing.\n\nWith a score on the board, England, again fielding four frontline pace bowlers, were a constant threat with the ball and superb in the field.\n\nJos Buttler took a wonderful diving catch to remove Martin Guptill and Adil Rashid's bullet throw accounted for Taylor.\n\nEngland began the World Cup as the top-ranked side and favourites. Now they are playing well enough to justify both tags they will be feared in the semis, especially if they bat first.\n\nIt is no coincidence England have got back to winning ways since Roy returned from a hamstring injury to resume his dependable opening partnership with Bairstow.\n\nIndeed, there was a sense of inevitability about the result from as early as the first over, when Roy hit left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner through the covers for four.\n\nOn Sunday, they added 160 for the first wicket, here it was 123 and, just as at Edgbaston, it was Bairstow who went on to make the more telling contribution.\n\nSo often Bairstow favours the leg side, but here he crunched the ball through the covers, played delicate late cuts and launched a mighty straight six down the ground.\n\nThe Yorkshireman has now made two centuries since attracting controversy for saying people were \"waiting for England to fail\" - comments he has since rowed back from - and celebrated with a leap into the air.\n\nEngland slowed after he dragged on to his own stumps off Matt Henry - they were actually 111-7 over the course of the last 20 overs - but Bairstow had already done enough to lift them to a winning score.\n• None 'Bairstow brings the noise - and the bedlam'\n\nNew Zealand won five of their first six games - the other rained off - but they now find themselves stumbling into their semi-final at Old Trafford on Tuesday against whichever team tops the group.\n\nDisadvantaged by the toss and an injury to pace bowler Lockie Ferguson, they started poorly with the ball, especially Santner and the returning Tim Southee, who was punished by Bairstow.\n\nAs England ran hard, New Zealand's fielding was sloppy, but the Black Caps gradually adjusted to the conditions and their improvement was led by the variations of medium-pacer Jimmy Neesham.\n\nNew Zealand's real problem is a reliance on the batting of Williamson - before today he had scored more than 30% of their runs in the tournament.\n\nFor that reason, the freakish way he was dismissed was a huge stoke of fortune for England and a mortal blow to the Kiwis.\n\nAs Taylor drove straight, bowler Wood got a finger-end to the ball before it crashed into the non-striker's stumps, with the desperate Williamson short of his ground.\n\nIn the next over, Taylor foolishly chanced Rashid's arm attempting a second and the contest was as good as over.\n\n'Win the next two tosses and win the World Cup' - what they said:\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"I thought we were outstanding today. It started with the two boys at the top of the order.\n\n\"They set a good solid platform playing in the manner they do. Jonny getting his hundred was match winning.\n\n\"The wicket did change after the 25th over and it did slow up. It was difficult to score. Every batsman found that so to have so many on the board was encouraging.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"If England win the next two tosses then I think they will win the World Cup.\n\n\"If they are in a chase I doubt whether they can play the right intelligent cricket under pressure.\n\n\"Can they win four tosses on the trot? Of course they can.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson: \"There are a lot of variables in these games and the margins on the scoreboard have looked big but for us it is important we look at it for what it is.\n\n\"England did get the best of the conditions but they were the better team. They outplayed us in all facets. The conditions didn't decide the result.\"", "\"Not since Boston dumped it in the sea has England been dissed with tea like this,\" declared the front page of Wednesday's New York Post.\n\nAlex Morgan's 'tea drinking' goal celebration, after heading the winner against England to send her side into the World Cup final, was definitely a diss.\n\nEngland forward Lianne Sanderson thought so. She called it \"distasteful\".\n\nAs the newspaper saw it, Morgan's swipe at Phil Neville's Lionesses was the best burn against the English since a load of tea was chucked in the sea in Boston in 1773, setting in motion American independence from the yoke of British rule.\n\n'Sticking it to the Brits' was the US women's national team take on it too. It said Morgan's strike was \"in honor of those 13 colonies\". (Quick history lesson - the 13 colonies were the original US colonies that fought for, and won, independence back in the 18th century.)\n\nAccording to Time magazine, Morgan was responsible for some \"masterful trolling\" and the \"ultimate power move\" against a nation that loves its tea almost as much as it used to love colonising.\n\nMorgan - kind of - tried to play it down. Ever heard the phrase \"that's the tea\"? Well that's what she was getting at. Apparently. That's the tea - that's the situation. I just scored against you. And we're in the final.\n\n\"I wanted to keep it interesting,\" she said after the game. \"I know Megan Rapinoe has the best celebration. I had to try and step up this game,\" she explained.\n\nHmmm. But you raised a pinkie, Alex. That's a giveaway...\n\nA butterfly can beat its wings and cause hurricanes on the other side of world, so the theory goes. Alex Morgan can lift her pinkie and send millions of people into meltdown. Because lifting the pinkie is supposed to be how the English drink their tea. It's etiquette, you see? (Spoiler alert: it's not really how you drink tea).\n\nEtiquette, though, has been sorely missing from the USA camp, according to Lionesses coach Neville.\n\nSo was Morgan making a point there and hitting back at such criticism?\n\n\"I feel like this team has had so much thrown at them and us. I feel like we didn't take an easy route through this tournament and 'that's the tea',\" she said later.\n\nFormer US presidential candidate and ex-first lady Hillary Clinton was among those offering congratulations to the winners. \"Congrats to the #USWNT for earning that tea,\" she tweeted.\n\nFair play for her not having a direct dig at Neville, who once reminded Mrs Clinton \"you lost, move on\" in a long-since deleted tweet.\n\nFor their part, the US players are no strangers to political involvement.\n\nSo it's possible, in the week that the US celebrates its independence from British rule, Morgan was giving a knowing nod to her nation's political past and the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776.\n\nOr maybe she was just having a pop at the tea-drinking English for a bit of a laugh?\n\nThat's more than likely. Though not everybody appreciated the joke.\n\n\"I could be wrong but it's based upon playing against England and we love our tea in England,\" Juventus forward Sanderson told beIN Sports.\n\n\"I'm not a tea drinker but that's what we're connected with so I think it's a little bit distasteful.\"\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.", "The dream for England is over, just as the sun sets on Battersea Park.\n\nUnder a cloud of disappointment, England fans who've been glued to the big screen for 90 minutes file home, swigging the last of their beers.\n\nThere were England shirts, men in suits, well-behaved dogs, women with St George's flags painted on their faces and the occasional American.\n\nWhen Christen Press scored the opening goal, you saw just how outnumbered the US was at the gathering in the park - only five people got to their feet, arms aloft, cheering on their countrywomen.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by loveparkswandsworth This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEngland's fans stayed seated on their picnic rugs and deckchairs - a gulp and a glance across at a friend.\n\nBut when Ellen White fired in England's first, the crowd were on their feet - screaming, cheering and hugging one another.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by loveparkswandsworth This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe warm night, filled with expectation and hope, was a reminder of last summer's men's World Cup for many.\n\nBen Bezuidenhoit, a student from Essex, wrapped in his England flag recycled from last year, has been enjoying England's success.\n\n\"The men scrape through on penalties but the women are smashing it,\" he says.\n\nBen Bezuidenhoit and Juliet Coutts agreed that England's success story up to the semis had been a welcome break from politics on the news\n\n\"When you watch the men play, you expect them to lose. When the women play you feel nervous because you know they could win.\"\n\nThere was a bigger take-up in Alice's work sweepstake for this World Cup, than for last year's. \"It's probably because we've been going on about it so much,\" she jokes.\n\nThere were some nervous smiles before the game kicked off\n\nBut people are divided about whether World Cup fever really has gripped the country.\n\nJuliet Coutts, another UCL student, is not convinced. \"It feels like it's been whipped up by the media,\" she says.\n\nBut Mr Bezuidenhoit says news of England's success had made a welcome break from all the political stories and the \"B-word\" that's dominated news headlines for so long.\n\nConnor Netter, pictured right, was confident the US could win\n\nWhen the US's Alex Morgan clinches another, Connor Netter, 20, who's on an eight-week internship from Los Angeles, is feeling confident.\n\n\"I like our chances,\" he says, grinning from ear to ear.\n\nHe's got caught up in the fans' passion for the game. Back home, he's more into American football and basketball - and definitely not men's football.\n\n\"Men in the US are so bad. The women's team are killing the men in terms of support,\" he added.\n\n\"There's a lot of interest in the women's game back home - people are definitely respecting the game more and there's a real hype.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellen White has a goal ruled out by VAR for offside\n\nWhen the final whistle blows, there's a smattering of applause.\n\n\"Come on, Sweden,\" shouts one lone voice. The team will take on the Netherlands in less than 24 hours for a place to play the US in the final on Sunday.\n\nMr Netter and his friends from Ohio State University are very happy.\n\nAs expected? \"You've got to be confident,\" he says, still grinning.", "\"Sorry to interrupt the game,\" comes the Welsh lilt of the sports bar owner in Washington DC, speaking on a microphone to the crowds glued to the USA v England game at the start of the second half.\n\n\"But someone's left their fish and chips on the bar - and it's been 20 minutes. No one likes cold fish and chips.\"\n\nThey could be forgiven for being so engrossed in the action that they forgot to eat - at times it seemed like people were even forgetting to breathe as the teams battled it out for a place in the World Cup final.\n\nThe venue, aptly (for the US fans, as it turned out) called Lucky Bar, is packed to capacity with red, white and blue ahead of the kickoff. That's despite the fact it is 15:00 local time on a blazing hot Tuesday afternoon.\n\nA few England fans are showing their colours by wearing Three Lions on their shirts, but there are many, many more Americans - in some cases, their friends or partners, delighting in ribbing each other during the game.\n\nBrit Richard Lindley, who has lived in the US for nine years, says: \"When we found out England was playing the USA, we took the day off work to be here. I feel horribly outnumbered though.\"\n\n\"We're going to see if our marriage lasts the game, But we have an agreement that we're not going to gloat, no matter what,\" promises his American wife Ridley Williams with a smile.\n\nRichard Lindley was supporting England while his wife supported the USA\n\n\"I'm surprised there are so many people here,\" she adds. \"But surprised in a good way. It's great to support this team, but we need to support them too financially [referring to their fight with US Soccer for pay equality with the men's team]. From a US perspective, the women are way better than the men so it just doesn't make sense.\n\n\"The women's game is so much more popular. Basically, the US backs the women because they're winners.\n\n\"And it's wonderful also for young girls to be able to look up to someone who looks like you.\"\n\nMany of the people in the bar admit they wouldn't have turned up if the US men's team was playing.\n\nChristine Nawrot and Stephen Ikin react to a tense moment during the match\n\nChristine Nawrot says: \"There's no way this bar would be so full. But I like that it's not just women supporting the game - it's a real cross-section.\"\n\nHer English partner Stephen Ikin adds: \"I've never taken much notice of the women's team before. Here in America, football's seen more as a women's sport. It was kind of amazing at the last game to see a guy with a female jersey on, with the name of a female player on the back.\"\n\nHe may well have been talking about Kelly Stephenson, who is wearing a shirt bearing the name of Kelley O'Hara, teamed with a pair of star-spangled banner shorts.\n\nKelly Stephenson bought his shirt online during the USA's first match of the tournament\n\n\"We were here at the bar for the first game,\" he says. \"I was on the phone at half-time, ordering this jersey. And then I decided to book tickets to France, and went to their Chile game.\n\n\"I love this team. This group of women have great personalities and support fantastic causes. They're a great unit.\n\n\"I'm borderline obsessed.\" [This indeed becomes obvious as he pauses to watch the goal replays at half-time, not wanting to miss a second].\n\nKelly Stephenson and Cate Behles transfixed by the match\n\nJim Grieco, visiting from New Jersey, fixed his schedule so he could catch the match. \"We're all very proud of them. I'm so happy to see such a large crowd here,\" he says.\n\nAnne Lumpkin, who played football at college level, is watching with a group of friends, all in their USA shirts.\n\n\"It's fun to watch with other people who share your passion for the game and the country,\" she says. \"And it's fun with it being 4 July soon, which makes it more exciting.\"\n\n\"And it helps with the excitement to be playing England as it's such a big name,\" adds her friend Colton Hotary.\n\nHarry Weiss, with his head in his hands, works in the USA but is from England\n\n\"England-America is such a classic game,\" says Harry Weiss, originally from the UK but living in the US. \"And it's about seeing great teams playing a great sport - I think people respect that.\"\n\nFans were concerned Megan Rapinoe wasn't playing, with Gaites Layton - there with her friends to watch the game - saying: \"I'm really hoping she's OK for the final. I think she's awesome and gives such a great voice to the sport.\"\n\nThe passion ran high during the match, with polite applause at first for England from the US fans turning to shouts of \"VAR!\" and \"are you kidding me?\" as the minutes ticked away.\n\nTwo women watch a dramatic moment during the World Cup semi-final\n\n\"This team definitely has the potential to go all the way,\" says Cate Behles. \"I've supported the team since the last women's World Cup, and it's just got bigger and bigger.\"\n\nWhen, in short succession, England miss a penalty and then Millie Bright is sent off, there are loud cheers and chants of \"USA! USA!\", any pretence of friendly rivalry having completely dissipated. And at the final whistle, the place erupts, finally letting out its collected breath.\n\nGaites Layton, right with her hands up, celebrating the US win\n\nSarah Parkinson says she is enjoying \"haranguing\" her English girlfriend, away in South Africa, over text message. \"Yeah it's been nasty back and forth for the last few minutes,\" she grins. \"It was a brilliant game.\n\n\"It's time for the world to recognise not just the degree of skill, but the degree of soul women's teams are bringing to the game, and elevate it to beyond where it's been.\"\n\nHer friend Alex Krensky, visiting from Wisconsin, admits: \"I'm not usually into sports. But it was so powerful being in a space with so many women there, seeing them be so excited and inspired.\"\n\nAnd Ridley Williams, consoling her husband over the result, says with a smile: \"Nope, still not gloating!\"", "Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian author behind the popular Inspector Montalbano television series, has died aged 93.\n\nOne of Italy's best-loved writers, he had been admitted to a hospital in Rome last month after a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe crime writer was best-known for his detective books starring inspector Salvo Montalbano based in the fictional Sicilian town of Vigàta.\n\nThe adapted Rai TV series was loved in Italy and became popular in the UK, US, France, Spain, Germany and Australia.\n\nCamilleri lost his sight in recent years but said in 2017 it had allowed him to picture things more clearly.\n\n\"I am blind, but losing my sight made all my other senses come back to life,\" he said. \"They have come to the rescue. My memory has improved, and I remember more things than before with great lucidity, and I still write.\"\n\nTogether, over a period of 25 years, they transformed a grim landscape of mobsters and mafia violence to a light-hearted, humorous, food-focused near-paradise of an imaginary town called Vigàta.\n\nNo other mystery plots have narrated the Sicilian \"gioia di vivere\" (joy of life) so effectively and with such a colourful protagonist: a detective whose days involve morning swims, spaghetti with clams and an onslaught of hilarious malapropisms from an illiterate receptionist at the local police station.\n\nWhere else can you find a coroner with a secret passion for cannoli, the cream-filled tubes of Italian pastry.\n\nFor London-based Sicilian writer Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Camilleri is \"by far the greatest Sicilian writer since the Second World War\".\n\n\"He should have been put forward for the Nobel prize,\" she said, adding that he was \"a man of great intellect, of immense culture and strong and unwavering left-wing principles that, if anything, grew over the years\".\n\n\"His passion for justice and support of those less fortunate, be they poor Italians or refugees or boatmen coming from Africa, never wavered.\"\n\nCamilleri wrote more than 100 books. His stories were fiction, but influenced by current affairs or the result of hours of scouring the archives.\n\nThe Montalbano novels, each of them published in a 180-page format - 18 chapters of 10 pages - have achieved worldwide sales of 25 million and have been translated into 120 languages.\n\nHis most recent, Alcyon's Cook, was published in May in Italy and quickly became a bestseller.\n\nCamilleri's final book in the series, entitled Riccardino and written in 2006, remains with his publisher, locked in a cabinet in Palermo under agreement that it be printed at a later date.\n\nA sculpture of Camilleri sits in front of Montalbano's house in Ragusa, Sicily\n\nThe writer's fame was amplified when his stories were adapted for television: his 24 novels and 10 short stories were made into 34 episodes and distributed in some 60 countries to date.\n\nThe Montalbano TV mysteries, first broadcast in May 1999, celebrated their 20th anniversary last month.\n\nItalians' interest in the character of Salvo Montalbano was ignited with The Shape of the Water, published in Sicily by Sellerio in 1994. At that time, Camilleri was already a 67-year-old pensioner having left a successful career as a director and TV author.\n\nReaders quickly developed a fondness for Montalbano because of his values: a policeman with an high sense of respect for people, with impeccable honesty and a strong dislike for bureaucracy.\n\nThey grew to admire his relatable humility, his stubbornness, his grouchy approach and his solitary spirit - he loves eating alone, in silence.\n\nThrough his books, Italian readers also got the opportunity to rediscover the importance of Sicilian dialect.\n\nCamilleri's use of Sicilian expressions - infusing the Italian language with Sicilian mother tongue - helped promote the island's culture, making people rethink their history.\n\nIn Sicily, his work is now studied in schools.\n\nThe character of Catarella - the comical illiterate police officer who talks incomprehensively in a mix of bureaucratic Italian and dialect - is amusing both in Italian and in English, as translated by Stephen Sartarelli.\n\nMontalbano seizes the imagination of a wide audience with descriptions of the picturesque seafront in the fictional Vigàta, the view from the terrace of the detective's house, the culinary surprises of his housekeeper, Adelina, and the feasts at the restaurant Calogero.\n\nEvery detail is both real and imaginative. One of Camilleri's early introductions to literature was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, which was read to him by his grandmother.\n\nSicily has been a popular tourist destination for years, but the so-called \"Montalbano effect\" has been credited with boosting tourism on the island.\n\nThe town of Scicli and the Church of San Matteo: one of the locations for the Montalbano TV series\n\nThe entire area of Ragusa - where cities such as Noto, Modica and Scicli are locations for the TV series - features beautiful baroque buildings and is home to a number of Unesco World Heritage sites.\n\nSix years ago, an airport opened in the province at Comiso which built on the increase in tourism.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: \"I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with\"\n\nThe ongoing row between US President Donald Trump and four non-white Democratic congresswomen has continued to escalate following a controversial campaign rally.\n\nDuring a speech in North Carolina, Mr Trump took aim at Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley as well as Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born lawmaker who he focused much of his criticism on.\n\nHis rhetoric prompted a chant of \"send her back\" from his supporters, which Mr Trump on Thursday claimed he disagreed with.\n\nThe rally fallout follows debate over a series of vitriolic tweets and statements by the president that have been widely condemned as racist.\n\nAll the women are US citizens. So what else do we know of the lawmakers known as \"the Squad\"?\n\nAll four were elected to the House of Representatives in last November's mid-term elections, each making history as a result.\n\nKnown to be progressive, they have clashed in recent weeks with the more pragmatic Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi - divisions with racial overtones that Mr Trump has tried to exploit with his tweets.\n\nMs Omar speaks at a news conference in Washington DC in June\n\nFirst-term congresswoman Ilhan Omar won a Minnesota seat in the House of Representatives last November, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the US.\n\nHer family first came to the US as refugees from Somalia, settling in Minneapolis in 1997 after fleeing the country's civil war. She became a citizen in 2000.\n\nThe 37-year-old mother of three is one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to the US Congress.\n\nBefore her election to Congress, she served in Minnesota's state legislature, making her the then highest elected Somali-American public official in the US.\n\nMs Omar's precedent-setting tenure has earned both adoration and criticism.\n\nShortly after her election, she drew praise for fighting to change a 181-year ban on headwear in the House, allowing her to wear a hijab for her oath of office.\n\nBut Ms Omar has also faced repeated accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nShe was forced to apologise for a series of tweets in February that suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) was buying influence for pro-Israel policies.\n\nLawmakers on both sides of the aisle said the tweets stoked anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money.\n\nMs Omar later released a statement \"unequivocally\" apologising for her tweets.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,\" Ms Omar wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ilhan Omar on her journey to becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the US\n\nShe came under fire from conservatives again in April for comments on 9/11 that Democrats said were taken out of context.\n\nA clip of Ms Omar apparently describing 9/11 as \"some people did something\" began circulating online, and the president tweeted a video showing footage of the terrorist attacks spliced with Ms Omar's speech.\n\nThe quote was from a speech Ms Omar gave to a civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), in March. The comments in Mr Trump's video were taken from a point she made about the treatment of US Muslims in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks:\n\n\"For far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. Cair was founded after 9/11 because they recognised that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr Trump has focused his attacks on Ms Omar saying she \"hates Israel\" and \"hates Jews\", and suggesting she supports the jihadist group al-Qaeda.\n\nUS media reported that Mr Trump's accusations probably reference a 2013 interview where Ms Omar was discussing a college terrorism class.\n\nShe did not praise al-Quaeda in the interview. Ms Omar remarked that a professor said the names of terrorist groups with a different kind of \"intensity\" compared with the tone he used when he said \"America\" or \"England\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez and Ms Tlaib at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to as AOC, made waves in the Democratic Party last June when she defeated political veteran and establishment favourite Joe Crowley in their party's primary in a new York district.\n\nThe 29-year-old went on to beat Republican candidate Anthony Pappas in the November mid-terms, becoming the youngest ever US congresswoman.\n\nThe freshman lawmaker was born in the Bronx, New York to parents of Puerto Rican descent. She has a degree in economics and international relations from Boston University, and worked as a community organiser, educator and bartender before deciding to run for office.\n\nSince her election, the self-described democratic socialist has become a lightning rod for the political right.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has not shied away from the spotlight, frequently taking to social media to hit back at Republicans, members of the media and other critics on a range of issues including immigration, poverty and race.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on detained migrants: 'The women were told to drink out of a toilet bowl'\n\nShe has earned a reputation for her impassioned testimonies at congressional hearings, which are often re-circulated among her nearly five million Twitter followers.\n\nShe has been particularly vocal in her push for environmental policy, serving as one of the sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution, which calls upon the US to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along with other goals.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has also been outspoken in her criticism of the president, saying there is \"no question\" that Mr Trump is racist.\n\nAnd she recently accused Ms Pelosi of \"singling out\" new congresswomen of colour following a number of clashes over their policy stances.\n\nSocial media savvy, Ms Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently coined the term \"the squad\" after suggesting they hashtag a photoshoot image of the four of them #squadgoals.\n\nMs Tlaib and Ms Omar talk before Mr Trump's second State of the Union address\n\nMuch like the other congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib's election this November made history.\n\nThe Michigan Democrat is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ms Tlaib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents. Her grandmother still lives in the West Bank.\n\nShe was sworn into office wearing a traditional Palestinian garment stitched by her mother.\n\nMs Tlaib also joined Ms Omar as one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to serve in Congress.\n\nThe eldest of 14 siblings, Ms Tlaib became the first member of her family to graduate from high school, and then from college and law school.\n\nSince assuming office, Ms Tlaib has been an outspoken critic of the president. She courted controversy when she used explicit language when calling for the president's impeachment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rashida Tlaib This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Tlaib was unapologetic about the furore incited by her remark, tweeting that she would \"always speak truth to power\".\n\nAfter his twitter storm, she said Mr Trump was \"biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime\", and said his attacks were a \"distraction\" from her job of representing people in her congressional district.\n\nCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley, 45, is the first African-American woman to be elected to the US Congress from Massachusetts.\n\nBorn in Cincinnati and raised in Ohio, Ms Pressley is the only child of a single mother.\n\nAfter attending Boston University, she served as a senior aide to Congressman Joseph P Kennedy II, and worked for Senator John Kerry for 13 years.\n\nHer own political career began in 2009 when she waged a successful bid for a seat on Boston City Council, becoming the first woman of colour elected to the council in its 100-year history.\n\nSimilar to Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Pressley's election to the US Congress involved a major political upset: she unseated 10-term Democratic congressman Michael Capuano in their party's primary.\n\nSince assuming office in January, Ms Pressley has been a vocal advocate of abortion rights, pushing to repeal an amendment that prevents Medicaid from covering abortions for low-income Americans.\n\nA survivor of sexual violence, Ms Pressley has also spoken up for better protections for assault victims, writing on her website that \"the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power\".\n\nShe said she could not call Mr Trump the president, only the \"occupant\" of the White House.\n\n\"He does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, the integrity of a true president,\" she told CBS.", "Over the course of his career, Sir Paul McCartney has written films, oratorios, poetry collections, children's books and more than 100 hit singles.\n\nNow, at the age of 77, he has a new challenge: His first stage musical.\n\nThe star is working on an adaptation of Frank Capra's classic It's A Wonderful Life, the story of a suicidal man saved by his guardian angel.\n\nSir Paul, who was four when the film was released in 1946, called it \"a universal story we can all relate to\".\n\nThe musical is set to debut in \"late 2020\", according to producer Bill Kenwright, whose previous credits include the West End show Blood Brothers and the touring version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.\n\nLee Hall, who wrote Billy Elliot and the recent Elton John biopic Rocketman, is penning the script and collaborating with Sir Paul on the lyrics.\n\n\"It's A Wonderful Life is my favourite film,\" said the Tony Award-winner. \"It has absolutely everything - comedy, pathos and a rare humanity which has touched generation after generation.\n\n\"To give it a life on the stage is an immense privilege in itself, but to do with Paul McCartney is off the scale.\n\n\"Paul's wit, emotional honesty and melodic brilliance brings a whole new depth and breadth to the classic tale. I feel as if an angel must be looking after me.\"\n\nThe beloved film starred James Stewart as George Bailey. Karolyn Grimes played Zuzu, his daughter.\n\nThis is not the first time that Capra's Oscar-nominated film has been turned into a musical.\n\nAn ill-fated adaptation was staged in the US in 1986, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler On The Roof) and music by Joe Raposo, a composer on the TV show Sesame Street, where he wrote C Is For Cookie and Sing - which was later covered by the Carpenters.\n\nInitially performed at the University of Michigan, it suffered repeated delays arising from a dispute over the rights to the story upon which the film was based, Philip Van Doren Stern's novella The Greatest Gift.\n\nBy the time the first professional production was staged, in 1991, Raposo had died of cancer. A 2006 off-Broadway revival received mixed reviews, with the New York Times criticising changes to the film's plot, and the show's lack of \"emotional punch.\"\n\nReviewer Anita Gates concluded: \"It used to be A Wonderful Life\".\n\nA more recent adaptation, by Keith Ferguson and Bruce Greer, still tours churches and schools around the US.\n\nBill Kenwright says he harboured ambitions to turn the film into a musical long before either of the US productions took shape, writing to director Frank Capra to seek permission at the very start of his career.\n\nDespite receiving a \"lovely handwritten letter by reply,\" his approach was turned down. Decades later, he was offered the rights \"out of the blue\" and approached Sir Paul to see if he'd be interested in writing the music.\n\n\"Like many of these things this all started with an email,\" said the former Beatle.\n\n\"Writing a musical is not something that had ever really appealed to me but Bill and I met up with Lee Hall and had a chat and I found myself thinking this could be interesting and fun.\"\n\n\"The songs take you somewhere you don't expect to go. They sound simple - but it's deceptive. That's Paul's genius.\"\n\nStarring James Stewart and Donna Reed, It's A Wonderful Life struggled at the box office upon release in 1946.\n\nHowever, it went on to become a beloved Christmas staple and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made.\n\nSir Paul's music has frequently been used on stage, notably in Cirque Du Soleil's ambitious Beatles show, Love.\n\nThe star also wrote a movie musical, Give My Regards to Broad Street, which was savaged by critics upon its release in 1984.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I still have a really deep relationship with that song,\" says Gary Lightbody. \"It's a beautiful moment every time you play it.\"\n\nSnow Patrol's ballad Chasing Cars has been crowned the most-played song of the 21st Century on UK radio.\n\nOriginally released in 2006, the lovestruck ballad never reached number one in the UK, but remained on the charts for more than three years.\n\nIt took up a similar residency on the airwaves, where it has become the most popular song of the last 20 years.\n\nSecond place went to Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling, while Pharrell's similarly upbeat Happy came third.\n\n\"It's unbelievable,\" Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody told the BBC. \"I'm not sure how that happened.\"\n\nAsked to explain the Chasing Cars' appeal, he said: \"It's an emotionally open song and it's a simple song. But it's also unabashedly a love song, and we don't really have any others.\n\n\"The way it unifies an audience is the thing I most cherish about it. It's a beautiful moment every time you play it.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by SnowPatrolVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe song was taken from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open. It was the 14th biggest-selling single of 2006, and the last song played live on Top of the Pops.\n\nLightbody was presented with a special award marking the achievement on Tuesday by music licensing body PPL, which tracks all the music played on radio and television in the UK, as it marked its 85th anniversary.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Lightbody looked back on the creation of Chasing Cars in a wine-fuelled, all-night recording session.\n\nI read that you'd written Chasing Cars in the garden of your producer's house. Is that right?\n\nYes, Jacknife Lee had a studio in the shed of his garden and we went down there with a couple of bottles of wine, and we wrote through the night.\n\nIn fact, we wrote 10 songs that night - and five of them ended up on Eyes Open, so that was pretty much half the album.\n\nNormally when you listen back to the music you wrote after a few glasses of wine, you go, 'Ah well, better luck next time'. But that particular evening, [we] gathered a lot of good stuff.\n\nSo what was in the air that night?\n\nI'm not sure. We were writing a Snow Patrol record, but we were also tasked with writing some songs for some other people - so that might have taken some pressure off. But by the next morning, none of those songs were going to anybody else, that's for sure!\n\nWho might have recorded Chasing Cars if you hadn't kept it?\n\nOh, I'm not going to tell you that! That's not fair!\n\nLightbody received his award from PPL boss Peter Leathem on Tuesday night\n\nEveryone knows the \"If I just lay here\" part. Had you written that lyric before the session?\n\nNo, it came spontaneously. The lyrics for that song all came that night. They just came out onto the page. And that's how I used to write - with just a flow. They would generally just sort of come out, and I wouldn't edit, for better or worse.\n\nSo with Chasing Cars, it was just what was happening at that moment in my life. I was in love. So it was a true, true representation of what was going on.\n\nI guess that's the secret. It's real emotion, with no filter and no censorship.\n\nYeah, yeah, that's very well put. It was as spontaneous a song as I've ever written. There's very few that were written so quickly.\n\nThat's why trying to like follow up or trying to like recreate a hit like that is a fool's errand. It's just never going to work that way again, because it's just about the magic that's in the air, the environment, the mood that you're in that day. All the chemistry comes together in that moment, and it can't be recreated.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by PharrellWilliamsVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLet's look at the other songs in this chart... Chasing Cars beat I Gotta Feeling and Pharrell's Happy. What do you make of those songs?\n\nI mean, it would seem that there's a pattern in there, and that pattern has nothing to do with Chasing Cars. They're very upbeat songs that are giving an audience permission to kind of jump up and down and be happy. Whereas Chasing Cars is a little bit more reflective. But it's good company to be in, because those songs have been absolutely dominant.\n\nPeople always say that writing a hit Christmas song is like a retirement plan... So is this song your retirement plan?\n\nNo! I don't have a retirement plan. I never thought about retiring. I'm always going to be writing songs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr if you'd like to share your memories of listening to Chasing Cars email them tohaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe killing of an elderly couple in their home by a man with severe mental health issues could have been avoided, a report has found.\n\nMichael and Marjorie Cawdery, both 83, were attacked by Thomas Scott McEntee in Portadown, County Armagh, in 2017.\n\nAn independent panel, appointed by health authorities to investigate the deaths, has completed its work.\n\nThe Health and Social Care (HSC) system said it would learn from the \"tragic incident\".\n\nThe investigation found that McEntee's actions on the day the Cawderys died occurred in \"the context of a significant deterioration\" in his mental health.\n\nIt concluded that the deaths \"could not have been predicted but could have been avoided\".\n\nA HSC spokesperson said it would work to reduce the risk of something similar happening in the future.\n\nMcEntee was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing the couple\n\nThe couple's son-in-law Charles Little said it was \"shattering\" for the family to hear that the deaths were avoidable.\n\n\"We are also very angry that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and the Health and Social Care Board have taken two years and two months to come to a conclusion that was obvious to the family by the end of June 2017,\" he added.\n\nIn June 2018, McEntee, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison.\n\nThe court case heard that authorities missed chances to take him off the streets.\n\nMcEntee had been causing a public nuisance in Warrenpoint, County Down, the day before the killings.\n\nPolice then took him to Newry train station, where McEntee said he planned to travel to Lurgan, County Armagh.\n\nHowever, he did not board a train and instead broke into a garage in nearby Derrybeg Lane.\n\nThe next morning, police received reports about McEntee walking naked along the road between Bessbrook and Newry.\n\nHe was taken to the nearby Daisy Hill Hospital but was not admitted.\n\nMcEntee left hospital and attacked the Cawdreys in their home nearby\n\nInstead he was taken to Craigavon Area Hospital in an ambulance, with a police escort.\n\nWhile waiting to be assessed in the emergency department, he got up and left.\n\nA short time later, McEntee was in the Cawdery's home, which is near the hospital.\n\nThey died in what the court case heard was a sustained, frenzied and gratuitous attack, which included the use of six knives.\n\nAn independent panel was appointed to conduct a level three serious adverse incident (SAI) review and the findings were recently shared with the Cawdery family.\n\nMr Little said his family was \"broadly content\" with the investigation's conclusion.\n\nBut he added mental health patients need to be handled \"carefully\".\n\n\"The fact that the incident could not be predicted is no defence - it is the very unpredictability of behaviour of those mental health patients who lead chaotic lifestyles that means they must be handled very carefully if they are to remain in the community.\"\n\nThe HSC said it would consider the report and involve the family in the process.\n\n\"We fully recognise the enormous distress that the families affected by this tragedy have suffered and we would unreservedly apologise for this,\" it added.", "Deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids like oxycodone fell by 14.5%\n\nDrug overdose deaths in the US have fallen for the first time since 1999, according to preliminary official data.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showed a drop of 5.1% in 2018 from the year before.\n\nHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said this was down to a decline in deaths linked to opioids.\n\nUS efforts \"to curb opioid use disorder and addiction are working,\" he said in a statement, although he added the issue \"will not be solved overnight\".\n\nThe US is in the midst of an opioid crisis, with hundreds of thousands thought to have died over the last few decades.\n\nFatal drug overdose numbers rose every year from 1999 to 2017, including a sharp spike between 2014 and 2017.\n\nExperts partially blame the overprescription of powerful and addictive painkillers for the epidemic.\n\nThe CDC research shows that an estimated 68,557 people died in 2018, down from 72,224 people in 2017.\n\nDeaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids - painkillers like morphine, codeine and oxycodone - fell by 14.5%, the sharpest drop for any drug category.\n\nHowever, those linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl still rose. Fentanyl is said to be up to 100 times stronger than morphine and has flooded the illegal US drugs market.\n\nThe numbers of deaths attributed to cocaine and methamphetamine also rose in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Lives are being saved, and we're beginning to win the fight against this crisis,\" Mr Azar's statement said, praising efforts by the Trump administration and community efforts across the US for the shift.\n\nBut while he described the decline as \"encouraging\", Mr Azar said \"by no means have we declared victory against the epidemic or addiction in general\".\n\n\"This crisis developed over two decades and it will not be solved overnight.\"\n\nThe Washington Post reports that the biggest US drug companies gave out 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills between 2006 and 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May and Corbyn both went on the attack in relation to their anti-racism records\n\nTheresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over their anti-racism records after the prime minister demanded an apology for anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nMrs May said it was a \"disgrace\" Mr Corbyn had \"dodged his responsibility\" for tackling anti-Jewish prejudice.\n\nThe Labour leader insisted he was \"dealing\" with the issue.\n\nAnd he said the PM should reflect on the impact of her own \"hostile\" immigration policies and her party's problems with Islamophobia.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, more than 60 Labour peers put their names to an advert in the Guardian accusing Jeremy Corbyn of failing to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\nThe signatories, who make up about a third of Labour members in the Lords, said the leader was presiding over a \"toxic culture\".\n\nBrandishing a copy of the advert at Prime Minister's Questions, Mrs May said he could not \"parade himself as the champion of the people and the defender of equality and fairness\" until he apologised for his failure to get to grips with the problem of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"The person who has been dodging his responsibility is the right honourable gentleman,\" she said. \"The real disgrace is his handling of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Corbyn said he would \"deal with any racism\" in his party and \"looked forward\" to Mrs May doing the same with allegations of Islamophobia in the Tories.\n\n\"This party totally opposes racism in any form whatsoever. Anti-Semitism has no place in our society or any of our parties and no place in any of our dialogue,\" he said.\n\nAlthough it was a bit of a cheek for Theresa May to lean over the despatch box and demand her opponent apologise, it does point to the fact that the anti-Semitism crisis in Labour has become a Jeremy Corbyn crisis.\n\nThis morning some Labour MPs were saying they wanted Mr Corbyn to go in front of a Jewish audience and apologise for his personal failure to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\nThe response of Team Corbyn has so far been to denounce such people as political malcontents seeking to damage his leadership.\n\nBut interestingly John McDonnell, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, said maybe the party ought to listen to some of the views of these critical peers and incorporate them into future recommendations.\n\nYou begin to wonder if the pressure is now becoming so intense that merely circling the wagons and denouncing critics as traitors is no longer sufficient.\n\nHe said Mrs May should reflect on the impact of her immigration policies when she was home secretary and the failings in the treatment of the families of Windrush settlers.\n\n\"Coming from a prime minister who encouraged the hostile environment, sent 'go home' vans around London and deported British citizens, I think she might look to her own party's and government's records as well.\"\n\nThe advert signed by 60 Labour peers, that appeared in Wednesday's Guardian\n\nLabour has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over anti-Semitism, which has seen nine MPs and three peers leave the party.\n\nLast week, the BBC's Panorama revealed claims from a number of former party officials that some of Mr Corbyn's closest allies tried to interfere in disciplinary processes involving allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nAs well as calls for an investigation into the claims made in the programme, the Labour leadership is also under pressure to adopt an independent complaints process.\n\nIn the Guardian on Wednesday, the peers said Mr Corbyn had failed to accept responsibility for \"allowing anti-Semitism to grow in our party\".\n\n\"The Labour Party welcomes everyone irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Except, it seems, Jews,\" the advert said.\n\n\"This is your legacy Mr Corbyn,\" it added. \"Labour is no longer a safe place for all members and supporters,\" it said.\n\nAbout a dozen of the signatories are former ministers who served in the last Labour government - including Peter Mandelson, Beverley Hughes and John Reid.\n\nThose who signed make up about a third of the Labour members of the House of Lords.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell hit back, saying the letter was \"completely inaccurate\".\n\nHe said some people wanted to use the issue as a \"political weapon\" - but he was focussed on sorting the issue.\n\nWhen the Panorama documentary aired, a Labour spokesman said the former employees who had talked to the BBC were \"disaffected\", and included some officials \"who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\".\n\nBut more than 200 current and former staff wrote to Mr Corbyn to say the party had treated whistleblowers in an \"appalling and hypocritical\" way, and that the \"moral responsibility\" for the anti-Semitism crisis lay with the party's leader.\n\nIn February Labour released figures showing that the party received 673 accusations of anti-Semitism by Labour members between April 2018 and January 2019. However the scale of the issue remains disputed.\n\nMeanwhile, there have been calls for the Conservatives to commission an independent inquiry into claims of Islamophobia by its members.\n\nEarlier in the leadership contest, Home Secretary Sajid Javid pressed his rivals to sign up for one during a head-to-head debate.\n\nTory chairman Brandon Lewis has also refused to say how many complaints the party has received about Islamophobia, but he has insisted the numbers were \"very, very small\".\n\nCorrection 23rd July 2019: An earlier version of this article inaccurately said that Labour has never confirmed the number of anti-Semitism cases it is investigating and this has been amended to confirm that the party did release figures for a 10 month period in 2018/19.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The House of Lords has backed an attempt to prevent a future prime minister suspending Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe measure will now go to MPs for a vote on Thursday, after peers defeated the government by 272 votes to 169.\n\nTory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has not ruled out suspending Parliament to ensure the UK could leave by 31 October, even without a deal.\n\nLabour said suspension would be \"constitutionally improper\".\n\nMr Johnson's leadership rival, Jeremy Hunt, has ruled it out.\n\nIf the 31 October deadline is reached without a deal being agreed, the UK will leave the EU without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nThe Lords cross-party measure to prevent a suspension came in the form of an amendment to a bill on restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland.\n\nLast week, MPs amended the bill to require ministers to give fortnightly reports to Parliament throughout October on progress to restore devolution.\n\nThe hope of those behind that amendment was that it would make it more difficult for Parliament to be shut down.\n\nThe latest move by peers is designed to strengthen that position, by making sure the fortnightly reports would have to be physically debated in the Commons and therefore it could not be suspended.\n\nThe amendment will have to be approved by MPs on Thursday in order to make it into the final version of the bill.\n\nFormer independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Anderson said it would require Parliament to sit at specified intervals between September and December.\n\nAlso backing the move, Labour peer Lord Goldsmith said suspending - or proroguing - Parliament to push through no deal would be \"a very bad idea\".\n\n\"It's Parliament who ensures we remain a free land - that is how we do our democracy. To allow that to be set aside would be wrong,\" he added.\n\nGovernment minister Lord Duncan of Springbank opposed the amendment, arguing it would send a message that peers can \"use Northern Ireland for different purposes when we choose to do so\".\n\nAlso opposing the move, Conservative peer Lord True said Mr Johnson had \"never said\" he would suspend Parliament, and \"outrage\" about the possibility of this occurring has been \"got up\" by \"Remainers\".\n\nFormer Tory prime minister John Major has said he would seek a judicial review in the courts if the new prime minister tried to suspend Parliament.\n\nCampaigner Gina Miller has threatened the same action.\n\nTory MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who opposes a no-deal Brexit, has warned that any attempt to do so is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.\n• None What would change with a no-deal Brexit?", "Hashem Abedi was arrested in Tripoli by members of the Rada Special Deterrence Force a day after the attack\n\nThe younger brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi is to appear in court charged with murdering the 22 victims of the attack, police say.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, was detained in Libya shortly after the May 2017 suicide bombing in which hundreds were injured.\n\nHe was extradited earlier, and arrested by British officers upon his arrival in the UK, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nMr Abedi will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, the force said.\n\nPolice said prosecutors had authorised them to bring charges against Mr Abedi in respect of:\n\nLibyan authorities handed Mr Abedi over to British police officers, who escorted him on a flight which left Mitiga Airport, near Tripoli, at 10:30 BST.\n\nThe university engineering student, who was born in Manchester, was transferred to a police station in London upon his arrival in the UK.\n\nFamilies of the victims and survivors were the first to be informed of the developments, police said.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nBoth brothers travelled to Libya in April 2017, before Salman Abedi returned alone to carry out the attack on 22 May.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the bombing while a total of 112 needed hospital treatment after the attack.\n\nGMP was granted a warrant for Mr Abedi's arrest in November 2017.\n\nA Libyan court had previously agreed to extradite Mr Abedi to the UK because he is a British citizen but the extradition process was delayed by fighting in Libya.\n\nHashem Abedi was transferred to a police station in London upon his arrival in the UK\n\nThis has meant the inquests into the deaths of the 22 victims were delayed, with family members told that the full hearings were not likely to begin until April 2020 at the earliest.\n\nNo-one has previously been charged over the Manchester Arena attack despite police raids after the bombing.\n\nA 2018 report said 23 people arrested in the UK were all released without charge.\n\nAbout 14,000 people were at the Manchester Arena for a concert when Salman Abedi, pictured, detonated a device\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said it was \"right and proper\" that those affected by the \"appalling\" attack will be able \"to see a judicial process on British soil\".\n\n\"Today is an important day in the recovery process for our city,\" he added.", "The protesters held a meeting to decide whether to stay on Castle Street or move\n\nClimate change protesters have ended a protest which involved blocking one of Cardiff's main thoroughfares since Monday.\n\nMembers of Extinction Rebellion voted to move their boat from Castle Street to City Hall and the road has reopened.\n\nThe group held a symbolic clean up at the site before they left.\n\nThey apologised for the inconvenience caused over the three days but said it \"achieved mass public awareness\" adding they were meeting with AMs later.\n\n\"Over just a few days of this bold action we have achieved mass public awareness and discussion, numerous media headlines, supportive statements from politicians,\" an Extinction Rebellion Cymru statement said.\n\nThe group, which has a camp set up at City Hall, said it will decide what the next steps will be at that location, but added the disruption caused was necessary.\n\n\"Not everyone will agree that this disruption is justified or necessary, but we truly believe it is,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Climate change and the current catastrophic loss of wildlife present a genuine threat to our civilisation which we must address immediately.\"\n\nEarlier, Insp Reg Martin from South Wales Police told the crowd the force would prefer them to move.\n\n\"You have taken this street for two-and-a-half days and in terms of public support, because of the disruption to the public, it's better to move sooner rather than later,\" he said.\n\nThe green boat which was in the middle of the street since Monday was towed to City Hall on Wednesday afternoon\n\n\"We've had some different threats to protest sites... there are individuals in the community [who] are opposed to this for whatever reason and clearly your public safety and protection is vitally important to us.\"\n\nHe said the disruption was \"escalating as time goes by\" adding: \"We would rather you were to leave this location in a dignified manner.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael had said police got the balance right in handling the protest.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"The balance is the protection of the right to peaceful protest and, on the other hand, not allowing things to go too far in terms of disrupting the lives of ordinary people.\"\n\nHe said he had received \"feedback\" from \"some people who are quite angry\" while others said it was \"a very important issue\".\n\nThe protest has now moved to City Hall and roads have reopened\n\nLabour AM Mick Antoniw met with protesters outside City Hall.\n\n\"We declared a climate emergency in the assembly and we've got to turn it into action,\" the Pontypridd AM said. \"These people here are doing that.\n\n\"I'm 65 this year, it's my generation that have screwed it up and so the protestors have got every right to complain. It's their future.\n\n\"These protests are our environmental conscience. It's one thing to declare a climate emergency. It's another thing to put it into action.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will be speaking with [first minister] Mark Drakeford about some of the issues raised with me here.\n\n\"Our biggest decision was not to proceed with the M4 relief road... That shows a significant recognition by the Welsh Government that business as usual is no longer possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's director general has claimed the Conservative government went \"nuclear\" by telling the corporation to take responsibility for free TV licences for over-75s.\n\nThe BBC announced last month that most over-75s would lose free licences.\n\nThe BBC took on the policy \"really unwillingly\" but had \"no choice\", Tony Hall told MPs on the House of Commons culture select committee.\n\nThe decision was made in negotiations with the government in 2015.\n\nLord Hall said the first he knew about the decision was when then-Culture Secretary John Whittingdale called him to say he had \"lost the argument\" and that the BBC would have to take over free TV licences for over-75s.\n\n\"At which point I said, 'Well, that's nuclear.' And I then laid out the consequences of that decision.\"\n\nLord Hall said future negotiations over the licence fee should take place \"in plain sight\"\n\nHe said he told the government at the time that the policy would need to be cut in some way, and that the government didn't seek a guarantee that it would be protected.\n\nAfter a consultation, the BBC has now decided to revoke free TV licences for all over-75s, except those claiming the pension credit benefit. That has proved controversial, with more than 600,000 people signing a petition calling for the government to restore funding.\n\nIn a sometimes tetchy hearing, Conservative MP Julian Knight accused Lord Hall of \"whingeing\", suggesting he had misjudged his negotiations with politicians at the time.\n\nThe corporation won certain other agreements from the government - including an extended charter period, an increase in the licence fee, no longer paying for broadband roll-out, and plugging a loophole that meant people could watch the iPlayer without a TV licence.\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins, also a Conservative MP, suggested those deals were worth \"about £700m\", adding: \"It seems you're net gainers from this process.\"\n\nDame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry signed an open letter calling for the move to be reversed\n\nThe corporation has said keeping free licences for all over-75s would cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's annual budget, by 2021/22.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Lenny Henry were among a host of celebrities to sign an open letter calling on the next prime minister to go back to the pre-2015 set-up.\n\nThe Conservative Party included a pledge to continue free TV licences for over-75s in its manifesto for the 2017 general election - after power for the concession had passed to the BBC in law.\n\nLord Hall told MPs he wrote to the government after the election to ask \"quite why the manifesto didn't reflect the powers that they had given to us, and I don't have a satisfactory answer\".\n\nHe added: \"It seemed, at best, odd to us that you had a manifesto commitment that was completely at odds with what the law had just determined was the case.\"\n\nLicence fee negotiations should not happen at such speed behind closed doors in the future, Lord Hall said.\n\n\"I feel very, very strongly that this mustn't happen again,\" he said. \"It happened in 2010 over a period of a few days, behind closed doors, and it happened again in 2015.\n\n\"I think when it comes to 2021, next time it's negotiated, it needs to be in plain sight with parliamentary involvement in a way that allows proper debate to take place.\"\n\nA government statement said it was \"very disappointed\" with the BBC's decision to change licence fee arrangements.\n\n\"We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession,\" it said. \"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.\n\n\"Taxpayers want to see the BBC using its substantial licence fee income in an appropriate way to ensure it delivers for UK audiences, which includes showing restraint on salaries for senior staff.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rescuers are relying on human chains of volunteers\n\nA human chain of rescuers is searching for survivors a day after a building collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai, killing 13 people and trapping dozens.\n\nOfficials say rescue efforts have been hampered by a warren of old streets which prevent access by heavy vehicles.\n\nRescuers are hopeful of finding more people alive. A woman was saved on Wednesday but her two children died.\n\nSuch disasters are not uncommon in Mumbai, which has thousands of old, dilapidated buildings.\n\nRescuers are facing a huge challenge because Dongri - in the south of the city, where the building was located - is a web of cramped, narrow lanes, hemmed in by run-down buildings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers searching for survivors formed a human chain and rescued a little girl\n\nOfficials say fire crews and ambulances could not even reach the site because the lane was too narrow. So a chain of fire-fighters, municipal workers and local volunteers has been ferrying rescue materials to the building and carrying away the injured and the dead.\n\n\"Tandel street, where the building stood, is so narrow that only one person can walk through it comfortably at a time,\" says BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur.\n\nRescuers worked through much of the night looking for people trapped by the debris. At least 10 other people were injured in the collapse and are in hospital.\n\nOn Tuesday, fire-fighters were retrieving a body from the under the rubble when they discovered an outstretched hand. That's how they found and saved 23-year-old Zinat Salmani and her daughter. She was trapped under an iron beam, wooden doors and a gas cylinder. They are now recovering in hospital.\n\nAnother woman, Alima Indrasi, 28, was pulled to safety on Wednesday. \"She has sustained injuries but is undergoing treatment,\" National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) spokesman Sachidanand Gawde told AFP. He said her two children had not survived.\n\nSome 15 families were living in the Kesarbai building when it came down early on Tuesday, police said.\n\nPeer Mohammed, who lives in the building next door, says he heard a huge sound about 11:40 local time (06:10 GMT).\n\n\"I ran outside and saw that people were stuck under the rubble. We rescued four people, but many others are still trapped, \" he told BBC Marathi's Janhavee Moole.\n\nTwo of Mr Mohammed's relatives - his brother and his brother's daughter-in-law - died in the accident. Two other members of his family were injured.\n\nMr Mohammed, his family and his neighbours - many of whom live in Dongri's crumbling buildings - want to know who will be held responsible.\n\nState housing minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil says there will be an inquiry into what caused the building to collapse and \"strict action\" will be taken against any officials who were found responsible for negligence.\n\nThe Kesarbai building is reportedly 100 years old.\n\nWhile the cause in this particular instance still remains unclear, Mumbai administrators say the building's owners added a section to the original structure illegally, without securing the necessary permits.\n\nThis, they say, is the part that collapsed, while the original building is largely still standing.\n\nThe ANI news agency has since shared a 2017 official notice from the Maharashtra housing and area development authority asking residents to evacuate the building for demolition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officials estimate around 2,000 people in India die each year when buildings collapse\n\nMr Mohammed confirms that such a notice was indeed issued in 2017. \"But we need somewhere else to stay. We need help or where will we go with our family?\"\n\nThis is a familiar story. Some 14,000 of Mumbai's buildings are more than 70-80 years old. And they are especially vulnerable during the monsoon season, between June and September.\n\nAnd dozens of them have collapsed in recent years, often during the monsoon season.\n\nBut occupants refuse to leave despite the threat of demolition or a possible collapse. Many of them have been living in the same place for generations and have nowhere else to go.\n\n\"Some provision should be made for maintaining old buildings,\" says Harshad Bhatia, an architect and town planner. He says many old buildings have been declared \"heritage\" structures, increasing the bureaucratic hurdles standing in the way of renovation.\n\nHe adds that due to an archaic law which limits raising rents, owners cannot afford to invest in the upkeep of their buildings.", "For the first time, the BBC can show footage of the moment unarmed officers and members of the public came face to face with the three London Bridge attackers.\n\nThe footage was filmed by Paul Clarke, a member of the public who was at the scene of the attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane, and Youssef Zaghba ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing people at Borough Market. They killed eight people before they were shot dead by firearms officers.\n\nThis video was shown at both the inquest into the victims' deaths, and the inquest into the attackers' deaths which concluded that the three attackers were lawfully killed by the police.", "Blaenymaes is among the most deprived areas in Swansea, according to the 2014 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation\n\nAlmost two-thirds of teachers at schools that have trialled Wales' new curriculum feel it will not benefit poorer pupils, a survey has suggested.\n\nOnly 30% of 600 teachers at \"pioneer schools\" surveyed by Cardiff University thought it would be beneficial.\n\nHowever, 64% of 204 teachers at schools with higher numbers of deprived pupils felt it would help them.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said the new curriculum would \"make learning relevant to them\".\n\nThe new curriculum focuses on six areas including maths and numeracy, languages, literacy and communication, and expressive arts.\n\nIt is out to consultation until 19 July, with the final version due to be published in January ahead of a 2022 rollout in primary schools, followed four years later in secondary schools.\n\nNigel Newton from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research at Cardiff University told BBC Eye On Wales: \"This is shocking. What we don't want is for there to be a situation in 10 years' time, where pupils in some schools leave just not knowing the things other pupils know.\n\n\"This new curriculum could actually exacerbate the segregation within schools between different groups of pupils.\"\n\nLast year there were almost 65,000 children aged five to 15 in Wales on free school meals\n\nOnly 32% of pupils eligible for free school meals achieve five or more GCSEs at grade C or above - including English and maths - compared to 64% of those who are not eligible.\n\nPupil development grants were introduced in 2016, giving schools extra funds based on the numbers of pupils they take in with free school meals.\n\nMs Williams said: \"I don't think the size of your parents' pay cheque should determine your educational destiny and we have to take steps to address that.\"\n\nDr Newton said evidence showed engaging parents, supporting transition from primary to secondary school and moving away from setting pupils by ability could help close the attainment gap.\n\nBut he added: \"Yet when we asked teachers in pioneer schools, those things were not forefront of their minds. They weren't planning. And that's worrying, because without planning and forethought, those things won't happen.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said the new curriculum was about \"raising aspirations, supporting teaching and developing excellence in our classrooms\"\n\nMark Dennis, who teaches at Blaenymaes Primary School in Swansea said: \"If we're going to close the gap, now is the time with the new curriculum, to think why is the gap there, why hasn't what we've done before worked to close that gap, and what can we do now to make a difference.\n\nDale Duddridge, a teacher at Maesteg Comprehensive School in Bridgend county, said: \"I think it can be a dangerous notion to think that schools will use this curriculum as an excuse to dumb down and have lower aspirations for children from deprived areas. I passionately believe the opposite will happen.\"", "The Netflix hit Stranger Things has just begun a third series\n\nNetflix added fewer paid subscribers than expected in the last three months, with the streaming service blaming price rises.\n\nShares in the company sank 10% after Netflix added 2.7 million new customers worldwide in the April-June period, well below expectations.\n\n\"Our missed forecast was across all regions, but slightly more so in regions with price increases,\" it said.\n\nIt comes as competition increases from rivals such as Walt Disney and Apple.\n\nThe company, behind such hits at The Crown and Orange is the New Black, said in its statement: \"We don't believe competition was a factor since there wasn't a material change in the competitive landscape during [the second quarter] and competitive intensity and our penetration is varied across regions,\" the company said.\n\nThe additional 2.7 million subscribers fell far short of analysts' estimates of about five million.\n\n\"While our US paid membership was essentially flat in Q2, we expect it to return to more typical growth in Q3, and are seeing that in these early weeks of Q3,\" Netflix said.\n\nHowever, that failed to calm investors, who in after-hours trading on Wall Street bailed out of a stock that had risen by almost 35% so far this year.\n\nNetflix will be losing some of its hit shows such as Friends to rival platforms being launched in the coming months, but argued that it will make up for that with original content.\n\n\"Much of our domestic, and eventually global, Disney catalogue, as well as Friends, The Office, and some other licensed content will wind down over the coming years, freeing up budget for more original content,\" the company said in its statement.\n\n\"From what we've seen in the past when we drop strong catalogue content... our members shift over to enjoying our other great content.\"\n\nNet income fell to $270m in the second quarter ending 30 June, from $384m a year earlier. Total revenue rose to $4.92bn from $3.91bn.\n\nNicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Netflix could face tougher challenges as competition from rival streaming services intensifies.\n\n\"The performance in the next two quarters will be crucial. Fending off the likes of Disney and Apple with one hand while scooping in new customers with the other is a big ask,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier says Theresa May and her ministers never threatened to leave without a deal during negotiations\n\nThe UK will have to \"face the consequences\" if it opts to leave without a deal, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier told BBC Panorama the thrice-rejected agreement negotiated by Theresa May was the \"only way to leave the EU in an orderly manner\".\n\nHe also insisted Mrs May and her ministers \"never\" told him during Brexit talks she might opt for no deal.\n\nPublicly, Mrs May has always insisted no deal is better than a bad deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said the UK will fall into recession next year if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe fiscal watchdog said economic growth would fall by 2% by the end of 2020 if it left the bloc without an agreement.\n\nIn his first UK broadcast interview - conducted in May before the start of the Conservative leadership contest - Mr Barnier was asked what would happen if the UK \"just tore up the membership card\" for the EU.\n\n\"The UK will have to face the consequences,\" he replied.\n\nAsked whether the UK had ever genuinely threatened to leave in such a way with no deal, Mr Barnier said: \"I think that the UK side, which is well informed and competent and knows the way we work on the EU side, knew from the very beginning that we've never been impressed by such a threat.\n\n\"It's not useful to use it.\"\n\nPanorama: Britain's Brexit Crisis will be broadcast on Thursday at 21:00 BST.\n\nConservative Party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the fact the EU \"never believed that no deal was a credible threat\" was \"one of our mistakes in the last two years\".\n\nHe said while there will be economic consequences to no deal, \"we are much better prepared for no deal than we were before\".\n\nHe said the issue of the Northern Ireland border could be solved with \"existing technology\" and the controversial Irish backstop, which aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland, \"isn't going to happen\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, a key figure in Boris Johnson's leadership campaign, accused Mr Barnier of trying to \"threaten\" the UK.\n\nHe said Mr Barnier's remarks were an indictment of Britain's negotiating strategy and showed \"how useless\" Mrs May's approach had been.\n\nLeadership frontrunner Mr Johnson was asked for an interview by Panorama, but he declined.\n\nElsewhere in the programme, Mrs May's de facto deputy David Lidington revealed that a senior EU official made a secret offer to the UK to put Brexit on hold for five years and negotiate a \"new deal for Europe\".\n\nMr Lidington said the offer was passed on in 2018 by Martin Selmayr, a senior aide to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\n\"Martin sort of said, 'Look, why don't we have a deal whereby we just put all this on ice for five years?'\n\n\"Let's see how things go, let's get the UK involved with France and Germany, let's see how the dust settles and let's talk about whether we can come to a new deal for Europe.'\"\n\nIn his own interview for the programme - also recorded in May - Mr Selmayr said he was \"very certain\" the UK was not ready to leave without a deal before the original Brexit deadline in March this year.\n\n\"We have seen what has been prepared on our side of the border for a hard Brexit. We don't see the same level of preparation on the other side of the border,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timmermans: \"It's like Lance Corporal Jones: 'Don't panic, don't panic'... running around like idiots\"\n\nIn another interview for the programme, the EU Commission's First Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, said UK ministers were \"running around like idiots\" when they arrived to negotiate Brexit in 2017.\n\nMr Timmermans said while he expected a \"Harry Potter-like book of tricks\" from ministers, instead they were like a character from from Dad's Army.\n\nIn an interview in March 2019 with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Mr Timmermans said he found it \"shocking\" how unprepared the UK team was when it began negotiations.\n\n\"We thought they are so brilliant,\" he said. \"That in some vault somewhere in Westminster there will be a Harry Potter-like book with all the tricks and all the things in it to do.\"\n\nBut after seeing the then-Brexit Secretary David Davis - who resigned over his disagreements with the deal - speaking in public, his mind changed.\n\n\"I saw him not coming, not negotiating, grandstanding elsewhere [and] I thought, 'Oh my God, they haven't got a plan, they haven't got a plan.'\n\n\"That was really shocking, frankly, because the damage if you don't have a plan...\n\n\"Time's running out and you don't have a plan. It's like Lance Corporal Jones, you know, 'Don't panic, don't panic!' Running around like idiots.\"\n\nMr Timmermans - interviewed two months before Mrs May announced her resignation - also criticised Boris Johnson's approach to Brexit negotiations from when they began.\n\n\"Perhaps I am being a bit harsh, but it is about time we became a bit harsh. I am not sure he was being genuine,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always had the impression he is playing games.\"\n\nNegotiations between the UK and EU began in 2017 after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered the Article 50 process to leave the bloc.\n\nAt the end of 2018, a withdrawal agreement was settled between the two sides and EU officials said the matter was closed.\n\nBut MPs voted against the plan three times, which led to a number of delays to the exit date - now set for 31 October.\n• None Is the EU really united over Brexit?", "Police forces were aware of older people's increasing concerns about fraud, the report found\n\nOlder people who are victims of crime are being let down by police and prosecutors in England and Wales, a report has concluded.\n\nThe joint report by two watchdogs has looked for the first time at the treatment of victims aged over 60.\n\nIt found that care was not good enough in 101 of the 192 cases examined.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it accepted the findings. The College of Policing said it aimed to improve the protection of vulnerable people.\n\nThe report highlighted \"grave\" concerns regarding safeguarding measures and said: \"Much work is needed\".\n\nInspectors found 153 cases in England and Wales where a safeguarding referral should have been made by police to the local council.\n\nBut there were no such referrals in about half (77) of the incidents.\n\nPolice forces in Greater Manchester, North Wales, Dorset, Humberside, Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire were examined for the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI).\n\nThe report said: \"Crime against older people isn't well understood, despite the vulnerability of older people and the importance that society attaches to looking after people in their old age.\"\n\nAlthough police forces recognised fraud was an \"increasingly common concern\" for older victims, forces had only a \"superficial\" understanding of other problems, the report added.\n\nOfficers struggled to deal with the complex needs of older people and did not always take measures to keep them safe after they had reported a crime, the report found. Referrals to victim support services were also branded \"too inconsistent\".\n\nIn one example, a 75-year-old man who was said to be traumatised after being attacked and threatened was not contacted by police for three weeks after reporting the crime.\n\nAnother case concerned an 83-year-old robbery victim who lived alone and had mental health problems.\n\nInspectors said he was given no opportunity to record his evidence in advance of the trial. The case was later dropped because he was unable to testify in person in court.\n\nThe College of Policing, which sets standards for the police, said it would work to improve the protection of vulnerable people, whatever their age.\n\nHM Inspector of Constabulary, Wendy Williams, said older victims of crime presented a \"unique challenge\" to police officers.\n\nA spokesperson from the CPS said it accepted all of the report's recommendations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Langford had been in a relationship with Air Commodore Christopher Green for 15 years\n\nA woman has won the right to her late partner's military pension in a landmark ruling for unmarried couples.\n\nAir Commodore Christopher Green had been in a relationship with Jane Langford, 72, for 15 years when he died unexpectedly in 2011.\n\nThe RAF pension scheme allows unmarried partners of officers to receive their pension if they die.\n\nBut Ms Langford was disqualified because she had not formally dissolved her marriage to her husband.\n\nOn Wednesday the Court of Appeal unanimously held that this rule breached Ms Langford's human rights, in a move that is likely to have far-reaching consequences for other unmarried couples in the public sector.\n\nThe rule - which was held to be unlawful in Ms Langford's case - is found in most public sector schemes, including education, the police, fire service, NHS and civil service.\n\nAnyone who has been refused a surviving partner's pension because they had not divorced an ex-partner may now be able to bring a claim, including for back payments.\n\nLord Justice McCombe said the RAF's \"broad exclusionary rule\" barring married partners from receiving such compensation was \"a sledgehammer to crack a nut\".\n\nThe judge ruled that the discrimination in the rule was \"unlawful and cannot be justified or proportionate in Ms Langford's case\".\n\nSonia Bamford from Candey Solicitors, which represented Ms Langford, said the ruling was \"a gateway to justice\" for others who had been denied pension rights following the death of a partner.\n\nAir Cdre Green was a serving officer in the RAF when he died suddenly from a heart attack.\n\nMs Langford, who lives near Reading in Berkshire, was shocked when she was told she would not be eligible for his pension. She had been estranged from her husband for 17 years.\n\nShe said she struggled to pay her mortgage and was forced to rent out part of her home while she fought for eight years for the right to Mr Green's pension.\n\n\"I can't take it in,\" Ms Langford told the BBC following the judgement. \"I can't believe it's over and the worry I've had for the last eight years is gone.\n\n\"There hasn't been much spare money. Now I can have a holiday, I can have my friends and children to stay, I can buy Christmas presents for my children.\"\n\n\"I'm so pleased if it can benefit others in a similar situation,\" she added. \"I wouldn't like to see anybody treated the way I was treated.\"\n\nThe judge accepted it was a \"legitimate aim\" of the RAF pension scheme \"to achieve parity of treatment between married and unmarried partners of scheme members\".\n\n\"But such parity is in reality achieved not by imposing restrictions based on a partner's marital status, but by requiring the demonstration of a substantial, exclusive and financially dependent relationship in practice,\" he said.\n\nMs Langford previously claimed entitlement to an armed forces pension, but her claim was dismissed by the High Court in 2015.", "A 23-year-old man from Essex who broke his neck after an accident at a Spanish water park is having surgery, his family has told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nDavid Briffaut could be left paralysed after going on the Splash ride at Aqualandia in Benidorm.\n\nHis uncle Mark Pooley said: \"David is a wonderful young man who was enjoying an innocent day out with his girlfriend.\"\n\nAqualandia said it's \"very sad about what happened\" but added: \"The park is not responsible for the accident.\"\n\nDavid, who's from Benfleet, is on a life support machine in a Spanish hospital after breaking his neck in two places.\n\nHe went down the slide on his stomach - as you're supposed to - but lost consciousness after hitting the water in a pool at the bottom.\n\nA file picture of Splash - the white slide on the right\n\nDavid works as a green-keeper at a golf club in Essex and is a junior county golfer.\n\nHis uncle Mark told Newsbeat David had been at the water park with his girlfriend Penny Bristow to celebrate her completing her degree. They've been together for six years.\n\n\"We are praying for a miracle, but we have been told that the injuries he has sustained are very traumatic,\" Mark said.\n\n\"We cannot understand how this happened at a family tourist destination. David was behaving in the normal way, and he had not been drinking.\n\n\"We believe there should be a full investigation into the circumstances of what happened.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Aqualandia told Newsbeat: \"The ride Splash is completely safe, as are the rest of the slides at the park.\"\n\nThe park says the slides are checked by an external company every season and by staff each morning.\n\nIt also said: \"Video footage plainly shows how the 23-year-old man did not follow the guidelines for Splash. Our lifeguard team informed him of the rules of the ride and he didn't obey them.\"\n\nDavid's uncle told Newsbeat: \"We totally refute that, if you look at the video clips you see David going down the slide in a fashion that anyone would go down the slides, so that's just not true.\n\n\"David is a big guy - he's 6ft 4... but he was going down in accordance to the instructions at the top of the ride.\n\n\"It's just unbelievable he goes down the ride, there's a big splash and he ends up breaking his neck at the end,\" Mark added.\n\nDavid's mum and dad, Lorraine and Stephane, have flown to Spain to be with their son and hope to bring him home by air ambulance.\n\nThere are fears David's injuries mean he is left paraplegic - unable to use his legs\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"Our consular staff are assisting the family of a British man hospitalised in Alicante, including by providing details of local lawyers, visiting the family at the hospital and liaising with the local authorities.\"\n\nDavid's family have set up a crowdfunding page to raise £75,000 to help pay for his care when he returns home, which has so far raised more than £33,000.\n\nHis uncle Mark added: \"We are hoping that David's travel insurance will pay for him to be flown home, but after that he faces a very uncertain future.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Captain Gennadi Kukvinov said his crew was still waiting for their wages\n\nA Russian ship detained in Leith over unpaid wages and safety issues has had fresh food delivered by a charity.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) found \"several deficiencies\" with the Alexander Tvardovskiy ship.\n\nThe MCA also said wages had not been paid to the crew and there were other maritime labour convention issues.\n\nEmergency supplies were provided by the Apostleship of the Sea, a Catholic charity supporting sailors.\n\nEarlier, Captain Gennadi Kukvinov had said nine days had passed with no response to his pleas for supplies.\n\nHe said: \"I sent the request for food on 8 July.\n\n\"So now we have only some remainders of food.\n\n\"No fresh fruit, some pieces of meat, some pieces of bread.\"\n\nThe Alexander Tvardovskiy was built in 1995-96 and was previously flagged in Russia\n\nThe Alexander Tvardovskiy was formerly flagged in Russia but this was then changed to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.\n\nA representative of the Cook Islands is now travelling to Scotland to try to secure the release of the cargo ship.\n\nThe International Transport Workers Federation has told BBC Scotland that the ship's captain and another senior officer are now expected to receive their pay but it is unclear when the rest of the crew will.\n\nThe owners have not responded to requests for comment.\n\nA spokesman for the MCA said: \"The vessel has been detained for non-payment of seafarers' wages and other maritime labour convention issues. This is in addition to not having a ISM and international ship security certificates onboard.\n\n\"The detention will remain in place until the seafarers wages are paid and other identified deficiencies are rectified.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the Alexander Tvardovskiy has encountered trouble in UK waters.\n\nIn August 2012 the 90m-long ship collided with dredger UKD Bluefin and another general cargo vessel, Wilson Hawk, off Immingham in North East Lincolnshire.", "Scarlett was \"bubbly, clever, lively and intelligent,\" her family said\n\nAn Indian court has convicted one of the two men charged over the rape and killing of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa in 2008.\n\nThe high court in Goa found Samson D'Souza guilty of \"culpable homicide not amounting to murder\". It upheld the acquittal of Placido Carvalho.\n\nA lower court had acquitted both men in 2016 after a prolonged trial, but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appealed against the verdict.\n\nD'Souza will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nHe was found guilty of assault, destruction of evidence and providing narcotics to Scarlett, among other charges, the Keelings' lawyer, Vikram Varma, told the BBC.\n\nScarlett's mother, Fiona MacKeown, told the BBC she was \"delighted\" by the verdict but was sorry it had taken so long for justice to be obtained for her daughter.\n\nShe said the Indian authorities had put her family \"through hell\" and her heart went out to all the other families fighting for justice for loved ones who had been murdered abroad.\n\nMs MacKeown said she had been worried there would not be enough evidence for a conviction.\n\n\"I think he murdered her but culpable homicide is very close,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope that we can all put this behind us now and get on with our lives.\"\n\nShe said she would continue to campaign for justice for other families of people murdered in Goa.\n\n\"I think that people still need to take huge precautions,\" she said of the beach destination.\n\n\"It is still not safe until the tourist murders are taken seriously.\"\n\nScarlett's bruised and partially clothed body was found on a beach in Goa in February 2008. The 15-year-old from Bideford in Devon was on a six-month \"trip of a lifetime\" to India with her family when she died.\n\nPolice in Goa initially concluded her death was accidental but, after a campaign by her family, a second post-mortem examination in March 2008 revealed she had been drugged and raped before drowning in seawater.\n\nDelays in court saw a trial start in March 2010, but a verdict was not reached until 2016.\n\nMr Carvalho and D'Souza denied all charges and were acquitted by a judge at Goa Children's Court in September 2016.\n\nSamson D'Souza (left) and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious\n\nScarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach just after dawn on 18 February 2008.\n\nThe family had spent two months at the Goan resort before travelling down the coast to neighbouring Karnataka - but Scarlett was allowed to return to attend a Valentine's Day beach party.\n\nShe was left in the care of 25-year-old tour guide Julio Lobo, Ms MacKeown told media outlets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scarlett's mother Fiona McKeown showed the BBC's Justin Rowlatt where she found her daughter's clothes two days after she died\n\n\"That's the last memory I have of her, squealing and being excited because I said yes,\" Ms MacKeown said.\n\n\"I have to live with that every day that I let her go.\"\n\nTwo days after Scarlett's body was discovered, her mother found her sandals, pants and shorts close to the beach.\n\n\"There was no investigation,\" she said at the time.\n\nScarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa\n\nTraces of cocaine, ecstasy and LSD were found in her system and she suffered 50 separate injuries in the attack, the court heard.\n\nThe case was taken up by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and D'Souza and Mr Carvalho were arrested in March 2008.\n\nThe prosecution alleged the men were working at a beach-side shack near where Scarlett's body was found, had plied her with drugs and then attacked her.\n\nIt took two years for the trial to begin, in March 2010. With 72 witnesses to be called, the court case was expected to last a year - but prosecutor SR Rivonkar resigned the following February, causing further delays.\n\nBy December 2013, 30 witnesses had given evidence, with dozens more to go.\n\nScarlett's body is buried on the family's smallholding in Bideford, north Devon\n\nAlong with the delays in court, Ms MacKeown had to wait four and a half years to bury her daughter.\n\nShe was finally laid to rest in June 2012, in a garden at the family's home in Devon.\n\nThe 2016 acquittal of the two men prompted angry statements from Ms MacKeown.\n\nThe verdict also drew widespread criticism in Goa, leading to the CBI filing a petition for a retrial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC correspondent Daniel Sandford on the unseen footage of the London Bridge attacks\n\nThe three London Bridge attackers, who killed eight people in 2017, were lawfully killed by police, an inquest has found.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing people around Borough Market.\n\nThey were shot dead by firearms officers less than 10 minutes after the attack began.\n\nJurors concluded the attackers \"ignored clear warning shouts\" from the police.\n\nChief coroner Mark Lucraft QC had directed them that the only \"safe\" conclusion was that the three men were lawfully killed.\n\nHe told the court no-one during the inquest had criticised the officers involved and it was agreed using anything other than \"lethal force\" would not have been appropriate.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick welcomed the verdict and paid tribute to the \"tremendous courage and professionalism\" shown by armed officers on the night of the attack.\n\n\"Faced with an appalling and confused scene, they acted calmly, quickly, decisively, and in accordance with their training,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no greater responsibility for an officer than having to make the split-second decision whether or not to use lethal force.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe police commissioner said both armed and unarmed police officers should take \"great pride\" in having saved lives on the night of the attack.\n\n\"These dreadful events showed us the very worst of humanity, but it also showed us the very best as well,\" she said.\n\nDuring the inquest, accounts of \"tremendous bravery and compassion\" by both the public and emergency services stood out \"head and shoulders above all else\", she added.\n\nPreviously unseen footage released on Tuesday showed many people approach the attackers, including two bakers who threw crates and a broom at the knifemen.\n\nCity of London Police Commander Karen Baxter paid tribute to three armed officers from her force.\n\n\"They put themselves in the way of danger to protect and preserve life: a principle at the very core of policing,\" she said.\n\nThe response to the attack showed \"how officers from all forces have the courage and dedication necessary to defeat the hatred and fear that terrorists seek to sow in our community\", she added.\n\nDowning Street also praised the emergency services and members of the public who \"showed unstinting courage in the face of such danger and terror\".\n\nMany more people could have suffered were it not for the \"professionalism, speed and bravery of those who responded and defended themselves and others\", the prime minister's official spokesperson said\n\n\"Our police and security services work tirelessly every day to keep us safe and when they are called upon in the most difficult of moments their skill and fortitude must be commended,\" they added.\n\nDuring the inquest, jurors visited Stoney Street, where Butt, Redouane and Zaghba died, and heard accounts of their final moments.\n\nPC Bartek Tchorzewski, 36, one of the unarmed officers who tracked the attackers through Borough Market, said: \"We were just thinking about stopping them.\"\n\nBefore arriving at the scene of the attack, he said he had tried to anticipate what he may encounter, \"but to be honest nothing can prepare you for that\".\n\nOne armed officer who attended the scene, identified only as BX46, told jurors he shouted words to the effect of \"armed police, stand still, drop the knife\".\n\nHe said he thought he was in immediate danger as Butt came towards him with a knife.\n\n\"I believe his intention was to use the knife and stab me, kill me and get hold of my weapons,\" he said.\n\nHe said he then became aware of a belt around Butt's torso, which appeared to be a suicide vest.\n\n\"Now he was an even bigger threat, even with (a distance of) one or two metres, a detonation would be fatal to colleagues, members of the public, anyone in the location,\" he told the court.\n\n\"So I aimed my rifle towards the male and I was moving back quickly and I pulled the trigger.\"\n\nHis colleague BX44 also shot at Butt, but had to turn his attention to Redouane, who was moving towards another officer.\n\nBX44 said: \"I carried on firing until I had to deal with the third threat of Youssef Zaghba who was on top of me.\"\n\nHe said he was backing away from Zaghba when he fell backwards, and continued to fire from the floor through his legs up to the attackers' chest.\n\n\"I thought he was about to kill me,\" he added.\n\nPC Iian Rae, who went to handcuff Redouane as he moved on the ground, said: \"His arms and legs were moving and I knew he had an IED (improvised explosive device) strapped to him.\n\n\"I did not know they were fake. I had to make a split-second decision - if I don't go and do something there is going to be a lot more lives lost.\n\n\"I had to handcuff him and stop him from detonating that device, if they were real or not.\"\n\nBut firearms officers shouted at him to get away and he ran to safety.\n\nThey then used \"lethal force\" to avert the danger that the terrorists would detonate explosive devices, jurors heard.\n\nAn earlier inquest concluded the victims Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sebastien Belanger, 36, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39, were unlawfully killed.", "Simon Brown was killed on the Gatwick Express in August 2016\n\nA rail firm has been fined £1m after a man died leaning out of a train window.\n\nSimon Brown, 24, was killed when he hit his head on a steel gantry on the side of the track while on the Gatwick Express in London in August 2016.\n\nIn May, Govia Thameslink Railway admitted a health and safety breach because a sign saying not to lean out was not displayed clearly enough.\n\nThe rail regulator has written to firms demanding \"immediate action\" over trains with these types of windows.\n\nJudge Jeffrey Pegden QC, at Southwark Crown Court, said while there was a warning sticker on the door, it was \"jumbled\" around other notices.\n\n\"The signage around the window was confusing,\" he said, adding no risk assessment of the windows had been carried out.\n\nJudge Pegden said there was also no-one on the train to monitor the use of the window at the time.\n\n\"This was a tragic corporate blind spot in what is otherwise a well-run organisation,\" Judge Pegden said.\n\nThe Office of Rail and Road said there were about 1,500 of the \"droplight\" windows - which allow passengers to reach through to open doors from the outside once the train has stopped at a station - in circulation on the rail network.\n\nDirector of safety Ian Prosser, who is also HM Chief Inspector of Railways, said he had written \"to operators instructing them to take immediate action to prevent a similar tragedy happening again\".\n\nThe only warning sign to not lean out of the window is in yellow on the left\n\nThe accident happened on 7 August 2016 at Wandsworth Common station as the Class 442 train was travelling to London Victoria from Gatwick Airport.\n\nThe train was travelling at 61mph when Mr Brown suffered the fatal injuries.\n\nMr Brown, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, had been previously described by friends as a life-long railway fanatic who was working in the rail industry.\n\nHe first volunteered on the Bluebell steam railway in Sussex aged nine and was working as an engineering technician with Hitachi Rail Europe in Bristol.\n\nThe train stopped at Wandsworth Common station where paramedics tried to save Simon Brown\n\nThe regulator said \"droplight\" windows were mostly confined to old InterCity trains and \"charter\" rolling stock, and in most cases there were four windows per carriage.\n\nRail firms using carriages with these windows have been asked to carry out a risk assessment of their use.\n\nA report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch said the sticker on the door was \"cluttered\" with six other notices.\n\nThe RAIB has also made recommendations telling operators to \"assess the risk arising from reduced clearance outside those windows\".\n\nSimon Brown's family said in a statement: \"Irrespective of the penalty imposed, we hope, as a result of our tragedy, that operating companies up and down the country will take their responsibilities to the travelling public more seriously.\"\n\nAlong with the fine, the firm was ordered to pay £52,267 in costs.\n\nGovia Thameslink said it had taken the health and safety failings very seriously and pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.\n\nChief executive Patrick Verwer said: \"I am very sorry for the death of Mr Brown and the deep distress this tragic loss has caused his family and friends.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Brown's death, GTR took steps to \"minimise risk\" by putting hazard tape across on the droplight windows of its 14 trains that had them.\n\nIt also placed bars across the windows in such a way that it was still possible to lower the window.\n\nThe trains were withdrawn from service in 2017 across all of GTR's network.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The next prime minister should lower the salary threshold for foreign workers in the UK from £30,000 to £20,000, a group of business and education bodies has said.\n\nThey say that such a move would help to avoid \"acute\" skills shortages.\n\nCurrently any non-EU citizen working in the UK must earn at least £30,000, but under current proposals this will be extended to EU citizens after Brexit.\n\nThe Home Office said it was still consulting on the plans.\n\nThe extension of the threshold was proposed in last year's Immigration White Paper, which set out the government's vision for a post-Brexit immigration system.\n\nHowever, the coalition - including the British Retail Consortium, business advocacy group London First, Universities UK, and UK Hospitality among others - warned that more than 60% of all jobs in the UK were currently beneath the £30,000 cut-off.\n\n\"It is vital that the government does all it can to keep the country at full strength at a time of great uncertainty. The thousands of businesses we represent are clear that without a bold move now on immigration reform, the skills shortages many companies face risk becoming even more acute,\" said Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive at London First.\n\nThe coalition also called for more generous temporary and post-study work visas, following curbs in recent years to lower immigration.\n\n\"Without the ability to access international talent, many of our world-class sectors are at significant risk,\" they said in a letter to both prime ministerial candidates.\n\n\"As the UK prepares to leave the EU in the near future, it is imperative that the government puts in place measures that will avoid employers facing a cliff-edge in recruitment, and works towards building a successful economy that is open and attractive.\"\n\nA government target of net migration under 100,000 a year has never been met`\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - considered the underdog in the race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party - has said he would review the £30,000 salary threshold, while prioritising skilled workers.\n\nThe frontrunner to take over from Theresa May, Boris Johnson, has called for a new Australian-style points-based system.\n\nThis would consider factors such as whether an immigrant has a firm job offer and their ability to speak English.\n\nBoth men also oppose the government's target of bringing net migration down to under 100,000 people a year, which has never been met.\n\nAccording to the Migration Observatory, a think tank, the government is already issuing waivers to allow essential workers to bypass the £30,000 cut-off.\n\nRecent figures gleaned from freedom of information requests show that, despite Home Office rules, 90% of nurses, half of all medical radiographers, 10% of paramedics and a third of secondary schoolteachers earn below the minimum.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Our new skills-based immigration system is designed to attract the talented workers we need for the economy to continue to prosper, while also delivering on the referendum result following the end of free movement.\n\n\"We know there are a range of views about salary thresholds, and the home secretary has asked independent experts to advise on this issue before the proposals are finalised next year.\n\n\"The new system will reduce the burden on businesses by streamlining and simplifying our sponsorship system and we will create a new temporary work route to allow UK companies access to the employees they need to thrive.\"\n• None Rise in net migration from outside EU", "The two candidates to become the UK's next prime minister have made their final pitch to the Conservative Party.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt took part in the final leadership hustings at the London Excel Centre on Wednesday, in front of more than 2,000 Tory members.\n\nIt came ahead of the final day the 160,000 members can post their votes to choose their next leader.\n\nBrexit dominated the conversation, although feminism and hair-dye also made an appearance.\n\nThe winner of the contest will be announced on 23 July, and take office the following day.\n\nBoth candidates were asked about their views on the deal Theresa May negotiated with the EU - turned down by MPs three times - and what they would change.\n\nIt came after a head-to-head debate earlier this week, where Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt declared the Irish backstop - the insurance policy part of the deal to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - was \"dead\".\n\nMr Johnson said the outgoing PM's deal was \"effectively defunct\", but it was the backstop element that he found \"the most difficult\".\n\n\"We would see a division between the union between and Great Britain and Northern Ireland and I think that's an utterly intolerable choice,\" he added.\n\n\"So as far as I'm concerned the backstop won't work.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the whole withdrawal agreement was dead, Mr Hunt said: \"As it is now, yes.\"\n\n\"I want to get a deal and so we have got to make some profound changes to that withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nBut Mr Hunt said his plan didn't mean \"ripping up\" Mrs May's deal - instead it was the backstop that \"had to go\".\n\n\"If you are saying that we will remove any guarantees over not having hard border infrastructure in the island of Ireland, then no,\" he added.\n\n\"I think there is agreement in our party that we can never go back to a hard border in the island of Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt said the withdrawal agreement needs \"profound changes\"\n\nThe candidates said they were both feminists and backed equality between the sexes.\n\nHowever, they both ruled out championing all-female shortlists to get more female Conservative MPs.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I want to encourage young women to get into politics, join our party and to lead our party. That is the way it should be.\n\n\"But I am not certain introducing quotas, which are… by their nature discriminatory, is the way to solve the problem.\"\n\nMr Hunt said: \"I'm not in favour... because we are a meritocracy and I think the risk is that devalues the achievement that a woman makes when she achieves the job, if she thinks she got it because of her sex.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean there aren't a thousand other things we can do to help people reach their potential.\"\n\nIt was alleged by the compere, LBC presenter Iain Dale, that the talk among political journalists at the hustings was that Boris Johnson dyed his hair.\n\nBut Mr Johnson denied such an accusation, saying: \"Never. Outrageous suggestion. What with?\"\n\nFor a matter of \"balance\", Mr Dale asked the same question to Mr Hunt.\n\nHe also denied it, but added: \"I have got a few grey ones mind you. I might have to start.\"", "Skin cancer rates have \"soared\" in the UK over the last decade, particularly in men and younger adults, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has warned.\n\nIncidence of melanomas rose in men by 53% - from 19 per 100,000 in 2004-6 to 29 per 100,000 in 2014-16.\n\nAnd diagnoses in 25-49 year olds rose by 78% - from nine per 100,000 in the mid-90s to 16 per 100,000 in 2014-16.\n\nThe charity said that people needed to remember to protect their skin in the UK, as well as on holiday.\n\nMen are more likely to develop skin cancers on their chests and backs and women on their legs, probably because of what they wear in the sun. Men's risk can also be increased if they have a job that means they work outdoors.\n\nMelanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK - with just under 16,400 cases in 2016, with 3,400 of those among people aged 25-49.\n\nThe increase is being linked to the rise in cheap flights, which means people are more likely to go abroad more frequently.\n\nHowever, skin cancer is still more common in people over 65.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExperts say almost nine in 10 cases could be prevented by using a high factor sun cream.\n\nMichelle Mitchell, chief executive of CRUK, said: \"While some might think that a tan is a sign of good health, there is no such thing as a healthy tan, it's actually your body trying to protect itself from harmful rays.\"\n\nCRUK, which is launching its Own Your Tone campaign, says people can be complacent about risk in the UK.\n\n\"Sun safety is not just for when you're going abroad,\" says health information manager Karis Betts. \"The sun can be strong enough to burn in the UK from the start of April to the end of September.\n\n\"It's important that people are protecting themselves properly both at home and further afield when the sun is strong.\n\n\"We want to encourage people to embrace their natural look and protect their skin from UV damage by seeking shade, covering up and regularly applying sunscreen with at least SPF 15 and four or five stars.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"Although cancer survival is at a record high, more people are getting diagnosed with melanoma and nearly half a million people were urgently referred for skin cancer checks in the last year.\n\n\"So it's vital that people take every precaution possible to protect their skin, particularly in the summer months, by wearing sunscreen and spending time in the shade.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What are the roots of the women Trump told to \"go back\" - and how many Americans are from somewhere else?", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran for alleged spying, is now in a hospital psychiatric ward, her husband says.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said he feared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard could be isolating his wife in a Tehran hospital to press her to sign denouncements.\n\nIt comes after Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, went on hunger strike for 15 days last month in protest at her detention.\n\nShe was jailed in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nIn a press release, the Free Nazanin Campaign said it was not known what treatment she was receiving or how long she was expected to remain in hospital.\n\nHer father said he visited the hospital on Tuesday but was not allowed to see his daughter and that she had not been allowed to contact her family.\n\nThe campaign said before being transferred, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had told relatives: \"I was healthy and happy when I came to Iran to see my parents.\n\n\"Three and a bit years later and I am admitted to a mental health clinic.\n\n\"Look at me now - I ended up in an asylum. It should be an embarrassment.\n\n\"Prison is getting harder and harder for me. I hate being played in the middle of a political game. I just hate it.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe went on hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London\n\nHer transfer follows her hunger strike last month in protest at her \"unfair imprisonment\", during which time Mr Ratcliffe also did not eat and camped on the pavement outside the Iranian Embassy in London.\n\nIn January, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from London, went on a three-day hunger strike in protest against being denied specialist medical care.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he felt \"euphoric\" when he heard his wife had been moved to a hospital, thinking it could be a prelude to getting treatment or even her release.\n\nHowever, after her father was refused access to visit her in hospital or allowed to speak to her on the phone, the family grew increasingly concerned.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mr Ratcliffe said his fears could be misplaced, but added that when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were involved \"bad stuff happens\".\n\nHe said the last time she was alone with the guards, they pressured her to sign various denouncements. He said he had asked embassy officials to visit her as soon as possible.\n\nEarlier he said it was \"unnerving\" not knowing what was happening, adding he would follow up the case with the next prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nEarlier this year, foreign secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Jeremy Hunt granted Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection in a bid to resolve her case.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq, who is Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, thanked the government for granting her constituent protection, but asked whether the government had protested against her treatment, and questioned what further steps were being made to secure her freedom.\n\nShe said: \"The time for sentiment is over. This has gone on for too long and we need to see decisive action, right now, today.\"\n\nMs Siddiq also questioned whether Grace 1, the Iranian supertanker seized by Royal Marines and the authorities in Gibraltar, is linked to the latest developments in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case.\n\nIn response, Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison said: \"I don't believe the two are directly linked.\"\n\nHe said the UK is seeking consular access and wanted to appeal to the \"better nature\" of people in Tehran to \"do what is right for Nazanin\".\n\nIn 2017 Conservative leadership contender, Boris Johnson, apologised after saying that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran \"teaching people journalism\" - despite her family's insistence she was there to visit relatives.\n\nHe also told MPs the government was in \"no doubt that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran on holiday and that was the sole purpose of her visit\".\n\nHe has repeatedly said the responsibility for her continued detention lies with the Revolutionary Guard.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said it was \"extremely concerned about the welfare of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We urge Iran to allow family members to visit and check on her care as a matter of urgency. We will continue to call for her release at the highest levels.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport in April 2016 and has always maintained the visit was to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her relatives.\n\nThe couple's five-year-old daughter, Gabriella, has stayed in Iran with her grandparents since her mother's arrest.\n\nBefore being transferred, she was being detained in Tehran's Evin Prison.", "Dyson argued that consumers would not think the fan was cordless\n\nAn advert for one of Dyson's £400 fans has been labelled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nThe video, for the company's Pure Hot and Cool Fan, suggests the fan is cordless when it actually needs to be plugged in, it said.\n\nDyson told the ASA it did not think there was \"any reasonable prospect\" of consumers thinking a tower fan or purifier could be cordless.\n\nBut after examining the ad, the ASA ordered it should not be shown again.\n\nNo power sockets or electrical leads could be seen in the ad – until the final shot, when a cord appeared which was \"very thin and coloured grey on a light background\".\n\n\"The cord was the same colour, thickness and approximately the same length as the edge of the carpet which appeared opposite it on the screen,\" the ASA said.\n\nDyson had argued that its fans had been on the market for more than a decade.\n\n\"None of those products had ever been cordless nor been advertised as being so,\" Dyson told the ASA.\n\nDyson said if the fan were cordless, it would advertise the fact clearly\n\n\"If Dyson were to create a cordless purifier it was reasonable to assume that this would be one of the key features which they would advertise.\"\n\nThe ASA was not convinced.\n\nIt told Dyson in future not to imply that their fans were cordless unless they actually were.", "The bones were found in the village of Kempsey\n\nHuman remains have been found in a septic tank by police investigating an \"unexplained death\" in Worcestershire.\n\nWest Mercia Police are probing the disappearance of a woman from Kempsey in 1982, and had alerted investigators searching for missing Suzy Lamplugh nearby.\n\nBut the force said there was no link to the Met Police's search for Ms Lamplugh, eight miles away in Pershore.\n\nThe results from a post-mortem examination are yet to be revealed.\n\nWest Mercia Police said they are following \"many lines of inquiry\" after the discovery of the human remains in Kempsey at 16.30 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Included within this is to establish if this is connected to the disappearance of a woman from the village of Kempsey in the 1980s,\" West Mercia Police said.\n\n\"We are also aware there is some speculation that this discovery may be linked to the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh who also went missing in the 1980s.\n\n\"Although we don't believe it to be, until we have the post-mortem results we are not in a position to link the bones to any particular person at this stage and are keeping an open mind.\"\n\nSupt Damian Pettit, South Worcestershire's Local Policing Commander added: \"We are conducting a very thorough investigation and have multiple lines of enquiry to explore and one of which is into the disappearance of a woman from Kempsey that was launched in 1982.\"\n\nEstate agent Ms Lamplugh, 25, from London, disappeared in July 1986 and was declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1994.\n\nThe Met has confirmed that officers have found \"no evidence\" linked to her disappearance, after a two-week search in Pershore.\n\nA body has never been found and her killer never charged.\n\nSuzy Lamplugh went missing in 1986, aged 25, but her body has never been found\n\nOfficers from West Mercia Police had been assisting the Metropolitan Police with the latest search.\n\nIt was sparked following publicity about a search last year of a property in Sutton Coldfield, which once belonged to the mother of prime suspect John Cannan.\n\nThere have been previous searches in Worcestershire in connection with Ms Lamplugh's disappearance.\n\nPolice excavated a field near the former Norton Army Barracks in 2000 and 2001 and land near the village of Drakes Broughton in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dutch airline KLM has caused an uproar on Twitter after telling a customer it might ask mothers to cover themselves while breastfeeding.\n\nKLM told Heather Yimm that breastfeeding on flights is allowed, but if other passengers are offended they may be asked to cover up.\n\nThe airline's response has sparked a backlash on Twitter, with many people criticising the policy.\n\nKLM told the BBC it is trying to \"keep the peace on board\" its flights.\n\n\"Of course, breastfeeding is permitted on board KLM flights.\n\n\"However, not all passengers feel comfortable with breastfeeding in their vicinity, and sometimes these passengers complain to the cabin staff,\" said a KLM spokeswoman.\n\nThe spokeswoman said its aim in such cases was to \"try to find a solution that is acceptable to everyone and that shows respect for everyone's comfort and personal space\".\n\n\"This may involve a request to a mother to cover her breast,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKLM's response has sparked a flurry of requests from Twitter users asking other airlines, such as British Airways and EasyJet, about their breastfeeding policies.\n\nBritish Airways told the BBC that it would never look to stop a mother from breastfeeding, and would assist in providing privacy if requested.\n\n\"We carry thousands of infants and their families on our flights every year, and we welcome breastfeeding on board,\" said a spokesman.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet's official policy says that it \"supports breastfeeding mothers\", and passengers are welcome to feed their babies on board \"at any time\".\n\nLabour and Co-operative Party MP Stella Creasy tweeted that she felt KLM had gone \"beyond the pale\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None 'This is how we fed our babies'", "Donald Trump with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who declined to comment on the remarks\n\nAmid the uproar at Donald Trump's attack on four Democratic congresswomen - an attack which was widely described as racist - there was a notable silence from the president's Republican Party colleagues.\n\nWith a few exceptions, they kept quiet as the world reacted to his suggestion that the four Congresswomen - all women of colour - \"go back\" and \"fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came\".\n\nAll four women are US citizens; three - Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib - were born in the US, and one - Rep Ilhan Omar - came to the country from Somalia as a child refugee.\n\nFor many, the president's remarks went a step beyond anything he had previously said, despite a long history of accusations of racism that predates his political life. The language he used called on a well-established racist trope of telling citizens from minority backgrounds to \"go home\".\n\nBut for a Republican party increasingly aware that its electoral fortunes are tied to the president's national appeal, his remarks did not appear to go beyond the pale - rather the pale had been moved to accommodate them.\n\nThe president's tweets, published on Sunday, read: \"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.\"\n\nLeading Democrats were quick to condemn the remarks as racist. A handful of Republicans issued criticisms - Republican representative Will Hurd of Texas told CNN the comments were \"racist and xenophobic\"; Rep Fred Upton of Michigan said he was \"appalled by the President's tweets\"; Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski tweeted: \"There is no excuse for the president's spiteful comments - they were absolutely unacceptable and this needs to stop.\"\n\nBut the party's senior leadership and the majority of its rank and file stayed quiet or declined to call the remarks racist. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - the most senior Republican after the president and vice president - did not comment. The treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin said: \"I don't find them racist.\" Former Republican presidential candidate and Utah Senator Mitt Romney acknowledged that \"a lot of people have been using the word\", but he demurred.\n\nThe House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said: \"The President is not a racist\". \"It's really kind of a socialist battle versus a thing that we believe within America,\" he said.\n\nIt was an illustration of how far the party had travelled since hitching its wagon to Mr Trump's star. When Mr Trump said in 2016, as a candidate, that a Mexican-American judge would be automatically biased against him because of the judge's heritage, the party's most senior figures were unsparing in their condemnation. Majority Leader McConnell jumped to the judge's defence. \"This is a man who was born in Indiana. All of us came here from somewhere else,\" he said.\n\nRepresentative Ilhan Omar speaks at a press conference with her three Democratic colleagues\n\nAmong the Republicans who did criticise the president's remarks on Monday, there was a noticeable trend: criticism of the Democratic congresswomen too.\n\nSenator Lindsay Graham, a close ally of the Trump administration, suggested indirectly that the president \"aim higher\" but called the Democratic congresswomen a \"bunch of communists\" who \"hate our own country\".\n\nSenator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania acknowledged that the citizenship of the congresswomen was \"as valid\" as his own, but prefaced it by saying he \"couldn't disagree more\" with their views on \"virtually every policy issue\".\n\nRep Elise Stefanik of New York said: \"While I strongly disagree with the tactics, policies, and rhetoric of the far-left socialist 'Squad,' the President's tweets were inappropriate, denigrating, and wrong.\" Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Mr Trump's remarks were \"way over the line\", but called the congresswomen \"far-left\". Mr Romney said the congresswomen's views were \"not consistent with building a strong America\".\n\nThe president called them \"Radical Left Congresswomen\" and said they should apologise to the country and to him.\n\nDonald Trump has a long history of being accused of racism, predating his political life\n\nTaken together, the statements appeared to signal a Republican strategy ahead of next year's election of branding the Democratic Party and its four popular new House representatives as far-left and anti-American. Ms Pressley, Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Tlaib and Ms Omar - known affectionately by fans as \"The Squad\" - are already a lightning rod for conservatives seeking to sow fear over a progressive shift in the Democratic Party.\n\nThere may have been other goals behind Mr Trump's remarks. He is well versed in the politics of distraction, and immigration raids he had promised on the same day were not materialising. And in his tweets he attempted to aggravate an existing dispute between the four Democratic congresswomen and their party leadership; in the end his remarks produced a show of unity between the two factions.\n\nWhatever the aim, the relative silence from his own party's leadership over his remarks may have sent a clear signal to the president - that the party was with him in an electoral strategy that accommodated language widely regarded as racist. The president denies any kind of prejudice and has claimed several times to be \"the least racist person you've ever met\".\n\nThe Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced a resolution in the House to condemn the president's remarks. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would introduce a similar motion in his chamber. \"We'll see how many Republicans sign on,\" he said.\n\nCorrection: A quote from Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado was removed as it did not refer directly to the Congresswomen.", "Cairney and Jones spent 20 years pretending that Ms Fleming was still alive\n\nTwo carers who murdered a vulnerable teenager whose body has never been found have each been ordered to spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nEdward Cairney, 77, and Avril Jones, 59, killed Margaret Fleming, 19, between December 1999 and January 2000.\n\nJones then continued to claim £182,000 in benefits until it finally emerged Margaret was missing in October 2016.\n\nAt the High Court in Glasgow Lord Matthews told Cairney he must serve at least 14 years.\n\nJones' minimum life tariff was also set at 14 years.\n\nShe was also found guilty of benefit fraud as Margaret's money was paid directly into her account.\n\nLord Matthews told them: \"Only you two know the truth. Only you know where her remains are.\"\n\nMargaret Fleming was last seen when she was 19\n\nThe judge said it was obvious the motive for the murder and the cover-up was financial.\n\nHe added: \"Margaret Fleming was a vulnerable young woman with evident difficulties. She was in your care and you breached the trust placed in you.\n\n\"The manner in which you described her when you spoke about her was cruel and the fantastic web of deceit you spun was callous and calculating.\"\n\nThomas Ross QC, for Cairney, said his client uses a wheelchair and had his colon removed a few years ago after he contracted an infection.\n\nHe also suffers from hip damage and the after effects of breaking three vertebrate.\n\nMr Ross said: \"Mr Cairney continues to deny any involvement in the crime and, so far as he is concerned, he maintains that, to his knowledge, Margaret is still alive.\"\n\nIain Duguid QC, for Jones, said his client was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy, a condition which affects the nervous system, in 1994.\n\nThe court heard the case has left Jones, a former legal secretary and greenkeeper, \"isolated\" from her friends and family.\n\nThe QC said his client also maintains her innocence and that, as recent as their last contact in October 2017, Margaret was still alive.\n\nDespite a painstaking search of their dilapidated property in Inverkip on the Clyde coast, and its garden, no trace of Margaret has ever been found.\n\nTestimony from Avril's brother, Richard Jones, was used to pinpoint the last independent sighting of the teenager on 17 December, 1999.\n\nThree weeks later, on 5 January, 2000, Avril told her mother, Florence Jones, Margaret had run off with a traveller.\n\nThe couple, who had no previous convictions, then embarked on a cover up which involved bogus letters and erasing all trace of Margaret from the cottage where she had lived for around two years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edward Cairney and Avril Jones spoke to the BBC in 2017 about Margaret Fleming's disappearance\n\nThe catalyst for the teenager moving in with the couple was the death of her father in 1995.\n\nCairney, who was his friend, offered to help and took advantage of Margaret's strained relationship with her mother.\n\nAll ties between the pair were severed in November 1997 when Cairney assaulted Margaret Cruickshanks after she arrived at Seacroft to see her daughter.\n\nThereafter the couple took control of the teenager's life and subjected her to what police described as a \"living hell\".\n\nPolice and prosecutors narrowed the timeframe of the murder to a three-week period around the turn of the millennium.\n\nThe trial heard that a benefits investigator attempted to visit Ms Fleming in June 2012 but was told by Jones that she would not see her.\n\nThe investigator said a duty social worker should have visited the \"totally chaotic\" property to follow up on the young woman's welfare, but no-one did.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Matthews said the pair spun a \"web of deceit\" that was callous and calculating\n\nWhen police were finally alerted four years later it was as a result of an application for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - which had been filled out by Jones.\n\nIn it she wrote that Ms Fleming \"needs constant care\", had self-harmed and was \"caught eating out of a dog bowl\".\n\nA social worker phoned Jones to offer help and was told Ms Fleming had not been to the doctor, despite picking a hole in her head.\n\nWhen justice eventually caught up with the couple a year later they maintained Margaret was still alive and often returned to visit them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Paul Livingstone: \"If you have any decency left tell us where the body is.\"\n\nCairney even gave evidence in his defence, during which he was warned by the judge for insulting prosecutor Iain McSporran QC.\n\nBut an exhaustive investigation failed to find any trace of the teenager and the jury took just three hours to find the pair guilty.\n\nDet Supt Paul Livingstone, the officer who led the investigation, said: \"Margaret was a very vulnerable young woman when she was abused, neglected, manipulated and murdered by these two greedy, evil individuals.\n\n\"Margaret's family and friends will never know just what happened to her and they have been denied the right to pay their final respects to her at her funeral.\n\n\"I would say to Cairney and Jones - if you have a scrap of decency you will give the answers to the questions that Margaret's family deserve.\n\n\"I am willing to meet either of them so that they can tell me in order to provide some kind of comfort to her family and allow them to put her to rest finally.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The aim of the firm is to find ways to stimulate the brain in paralysed humans to allow them to control computers\n\nNeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialling its device on humans.\n\nThe system has been tested on a monkey that was able to control a computer with its brain, according to Mr Musk.\n\nThe firm said it wanted to focus on patients with severe neurological conditions.\n\nThe device the firm has developed consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads - thinner than a human hair - which can then monitor the activity of 1,000 neurons.\n\nThe advantage of this system, according to the firm, is that it would be able to target very specific areas of the brain, which would make it surgically safer. It would also be able to analyse recordings using machine learning, which would then work out what type of stimulation to give a patient.\n\nNeuraLink did not explain how the system translated brain activity or how the device was able to stimulate brain cells.\n\n\"It's not like suddenly we will have this incredible neural lace and will take over people's brains,\" Mr Musk said during his presentation. \"It will take a long time.\"\n\nBut he said, for those who choose it, the system would ultimately allow for \"symbiosis with artificial intelligence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet Elon Musk, the man who inspired Robert Downey Jr's take on Iron Man\n\nPreviously Mr Musk has suggested that AI could destroy the human race.\n\n\"Even in a benign AI scenario, we will be left behind,\" he said.\n\n\"With a high bandwidth brain machine interface, we can go along for the ride and effectively have the option of merging with AI.\"\n\nConnecting the brain to an interface would create a new layer of \"superintelligence\" in the human brain, he added, something people \"already have via their phones\".\n\nLater, during a question and answer session, he revealed that the device NeuraLink is working on has been tested on monkeys, with the animal able to control a computer with its brain, according to Mr Musk.\n\nNow the firm is putting together a submission to start human testing, which will need to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.\n\nMr Musk is also looking to recruit more scientists to the firm, which currently has about 100 employees.\n\nNeuraLink released a paper to coincide with the announcement, but it has not been peer-reviewed, something that is generally seen as a crucial part of any new scientific breakthrough.\n\nKrittika D'Silva, an AI researcher at the Frontier Development Lab, a partnership with Nasa attended the event, and said: \"The technology described by NeuraLink is exciting because it is significantly less invasive than prior work in this field.\n\n\"The plans they describe will require many years of work to deal with technical and ethical challenges, but the technology could be a big step in working to alleviate certain serious medical conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson's.\"\n\nThe Kording Lab Twitter account, for scientists from the University of Pennsylvania's neuroscience department, tweeted that there was \"nothing revolutionary but a range of really creative ideas\" which seemed to suggest the firm was \"on a great track\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by KordingLab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew Hires. assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Southern California, tweeted that the company had \"pushed forward\" the best of existing lab technology.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Andrew Hires This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNeuraLink is not the only firm building neural interfaces. Kernel, set up by tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, is attempting similar things to \"radically improve and expand human cognition\".\n\nMany of Mr Musk's ventures push at the boundaries of what is currently possible. Space X is exploring missions to Mars, while his Boring Company is looking to build tunnels underneath Los Angeles, and his Hyperloop project aims to reinvent travel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: \"I'm worried about the state of politics\"\n\nTheresa May has said the growth of an \"uncompromising absolutism\" in UK and global politics risks poisoning debate and undermining democratic values.\n\nIn her last major speech as PM, she said it was leading to a political culture based on \"winners and losers\".\n\nIf \"ill words\" went unchallenged, it could lead to \"ill deeds\" later on.\n\nShe admitted her own language had not always been \"perfect\" and she had been wrong to say EU nationals were \"jumping the queue\" in a speech in 2018.\n\nBut ex-Conservative chair Baroness Warsi said the outgoing PM had \"systematically failed to challenge xenophobic and racist language\" used by party members about British Muslims.\n\nMrs May will stand down as Tory leader and prime minister next week.\n\nShe was forced to quit after failing to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, she warned about the threat to the international order from populism and authoritarianism, and defended multilateral agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord and Iran Nuclear Deal, shunned by the US.\n\nUrging politicians to find \"common ground\" over Brexit and other urgent international challenges, such as climate change, she said compromise should not be seen as a dirty word.\n\nShe said the growing rancour and \"tribal bitterness\" of much contemporary debate risked undermining the \"enormous potential\" for public good and progress that politics offered.\n\nThe job of leaders, Mrs May continued, was to address the genuine concerns of people rather than making promises that could not be kept and \"telling people what you think they want to hear\".\n\n\"Being prepared to make compromises in order to make progress does not entail a rejection of our values and convictions by one iota. Rather it is exactly the way to defend them.\"\n\nShe said politics was at its best \"where persuasion, teamwork and a willingness to make mutual concessions are needed to achieve an optimal outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: Next PM must leave EU \"in a way good for the UK\"\n\n\"The alternative is a politics of winners and losers, of absolutes and of perpetual strife - and that threatens us all.\"\n\nOn Brexit, she said while the result of the 2016 referendum must be honoured, the process had been poisoned by a \"winner takes all approach to leaving or remaining\".\n\n\"Whatever path we take must be sustainable for the long term... and that must mean some kind of compromise,\" she said.\n\nWho could she have been talking about?\n\nTheresa May was careful not to name names, but her successor's main challenge will be the one that eventually brought her down - finding a way to deliver the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nTo that end, her cautioning against polarised debate driven by ideology will be seen by some as a warning to whoever moves into No 10 that they need to compromise.\n\nIndeed, Mrs May emphasised her belief the UK should leave with a Brexit deal - something which will require compromise in the Commons.\n\nSome of Mrs May's critics however might raise an eyebrow tonight - and ask if things might have been different if she'd pursued a cross-party approach after losing her majority at the snap general election in 2017.\n\nWarning of a general coarsening of political debate, she said \"some are losing the ability to disagree without demeaning the views of others\".\n\nWhile not mentioning President Donald Trump - whose comments about Democratic rivals has sparked a race row in the US - by name, she said that \"words have consequences\".\n\n\"Ill words that go unchallenged are the first step on a continuum towards ill deeds - towards a much darker place where hatred and prejudice drive not only what people say but also what they do.\"\n\nBut she conceded she had been clumsy in her use of language on sensitive issues, such as when last November she claimed freedom of movement had allowed EU citizens to \"jump the queue\" to enter the UK despite being legally entitled to do so.\n\n\"Has every phrase I used been as perfect as it should have been? No.\"\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mrs May called on Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for failing to get to grips with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in heated exchanges in Parliament.\n\nBaroness Warsi, who has accused Mrs May of having her \"head in the sand\" over the extent of Islamophobia in her own party, suggested the prime minister had also failed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sayeeda Warsi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Brexit MEP Martin Daubney said Mrs May was directly responsible for the populism that she was now bemoaning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Martin Daubney MEP ➡️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown CCTV footage of the defendant's car driving at cyclists before crashing into barriers\n\nA man who drove at cyclists and police officers outside the Houses of Parliament has been found guilty of attempted murder.\n\nStudent Salih Khater, 30, aimed his car at members of the public before swerving towards the officers in Parliament Square on 14 August 2018.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Khater wanted to cause maximum carnage and it was \"miraculous\" that no-one was killed.\n\nHe had denied two counts of attempted murder.\n\nCCTV of the attack shows Khater, of Highgate Street, Birmingham, plough his Ford Fiesta into a pedestrian and a group of cyclists who had stopped at a red light.\n\nHe then careers into a security lane and crashes into barriers as two police officers jump out of the way.\n\nKhater claimed he had gone to London to get a visa from the Sudanese embassy, but \"got lost\" around Westminster and panicked.\n\nKhater said he had panicked after getting lost, causing him to drive into pedestrians, cyclists and police\n\nThe jury deliberated over two days before rejecting his explanation and finding him guilty.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC said the attack had been \"premeditated and deliberate\", causing \"widespread fear and chaos\".\n\nKhater arrived in Parliament Square in the early hours of 14 August, and drove around Westminster before resting for four-and-a-half hours in Windmill Street, Soho.\n\nHe then returned to Westminster, where he made four laps of the square before launching the rush-hour attack.\n\nOne victim, pedestrian Paul Brown, was crossing the road when Khater's car \"came out of nowhere\" and hit him, causing bruising and grazes.\n\nCyclists Krystof Tokarski and Anya Breen were waiting at the crossing when Khater revved his engine and knocked them down.\n\nMr Tokarski suffered grazes and a broken little finger while Ms Breen was thrown over the bonnet, fracturing her collar bone.\n\nOther people were trapped under their bikes, with some screaming in pain, the court heard.\n\nKhater then made a sharp turn into a slip road, going 32mph, forcing officers Darren Shotton and Simon Short to dive out of the way.\n\nThe silver Ford Fiesta allegedly driven by Mr Khater smashed into a security barrier\n\nHe told jurors he \"got lost\" and \"panicked\" when he crashed into cyclists and was trying to pull over when he crashed into barriers in the security lane.\n\nHe said: \"I remember something made me panic. The car was not in my full control at the time.\"\n\nMs Morgan told jurors Khater's reason for the attack was unclear, but targeting officers guarding the Palace of Westminster suggested a possible \"terrorist motive\".\n\nMobile phone evidence showed he had looked up maps for 10 Downing Street and Westminster, described as potential \"deliberate targets\" by prosecutors.\n\nSudan-born Khater was granted asylum in Britain in 2010 after claiming he had been tortured in his home country.\n\nMrs Justice McGowan remanded him into custody to be sentenced on 7 October and ordered pre-sentence reports to help her determine Khater's potential dangerousness.\n\nIt was \"miraculous\" that no-one died as a result of the defendant's actions, the Old Bailey has heard\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saffie-Rose Roussos was a \"beautiful, sensitive soul with an amazing magnetic personality\", her mother Lisa said.\n\nShe was at the arena with eight-year-old Saffie and was injured in the attack, as was Saffie’s elder sister, Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nShe said she would watch Saffie “with wonder”, adding that she loved to dance and make people laugh and would “leave little notes of 'I love you' everywhere”.\n\nSaffie’s father Andrew said she was his “perfect, precious beautiful daughter” who \"melted people's hearts\" with \"those big brown eyes\", adding: \"It's like the best artists got together and drew her from top to toe.\"", "The Queen looks around the exhibition, which explores the life of her great-great grandmother\n\nQueen Victoria's modernisation of the Royal Family was a \"feminist transformation\", the curator of a major exhibition has said.\n\nThe show at Buckingham Palace marks 200 years since her birth.\n\nIt reveals how by transforming the building into a liveable home and opening it up for public events, Victoria revolutionised the monarchy.\n\nCurator Dr Amanda Foreman said it was significant a woman was responsible for these changes.\n\nVictoria created the palace balcony used today for public appearances and staged garden parties to recognise citizens.\n\nBy transforming the \"fabric of the building\" Victoria also created the \"traditions which we now associate with the modern monarchy\", Dr Foreman said.\n\n\"Whether it's the balcony, or garden party, or bringing people into this palace to celebrate very important national and public occasions.\n\n\"That kind of relationship is very much a female relationship, it's an expression of female power - it's about family, duty, loyalty and public service - not about military might.\"\n\nQueen Victoria had nine children and her reign saw the expansion of Buckingham Palace to accomodate her growing family\n\nThe centrepiece of the exhibition is the ballroom where the Queen loved to dance and socialise.\n\nJust 18 years old when she became Queen, Victoria was \"a very outgoing person\" and \"like any teenager, would embrace social life\", said Dr Foreman.\n\nThe room features holographic-type images of eight dancers in period dress performing a dance called a quadrille to the sounds of La Traviata.\n\nWhen she visited the exhibition, the Queen was left \"totally engrossed\" by the 3D recreation, Dr Foreman said.\n\nBut the Queen joked she was glad that style of dancing had died out, saying as she left the ballroom: \"Thank God we don't have to do that anymore.\"\n\nQueen Victoria moved into the palace in 1837, just three weeks into her reign. She married in 1840 and went on to have nine children.\n\nOther exhibits in the show include a casket filled with the baby teeth of Victoria's children, the casts the monarch had made of her offsprings' arms and legs, and costumes worn by Victoria and her family.\n\nThe exhibition - Queen Victoria's Palace - can be viewed during the summer opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, from 20 July to 29 September.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government is set to add the Paralympics to the 'crown jewels' list of sports events that must be screened live on free-to-air television.\n\nIt will be given the same status as the Olympics and other events including the men's football World Cup, Grand National and Wimbledon finals.\n\nThe government also wants to look into adding football's Women's World Cup and Women's FA Cup to the list.\n\nIt is the first time the list has been updated for 20 years.\n\nIt follows record television audiences for the Women's World Cup when it was broadcast on the BBC this summer.\n\nChannel 4, meanwhile, has shown the last two Paralympics and will do the same next year in Tokyo.\n\nEngland's win in the men's Cricket World Cup final was broadcast live on Channel 4 on Sunday after an agreement from Sky, who owned the UK rights to the tournament.\n\nHowever, there are currently no plans to add live cricket to the list.\n\n\"Sport has a unique power to unite the nation,\" said Jeremy Wright, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport.\n\n\"But to maximise its ability to inspire, our sporting crown jewels must reflect the diversity of sporting talent we have across the country.\n\n\"Adding the Paralympic Games to the list rightly puts it on the same footing as the Olympics.\n\n\"I also want to see greater equality in the coverage of women and men's sport on TV. Later this year, I will consult on adding the equivalent women's events to the men's events already on the list.\"\n\nOfficially known as the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, the so-called 'crown jewels' list was first created in 1991. It was then revised in 1999 and split into two categories, A and B, with events on the A list being those which must offer live rights to free-to-air broadcasters at a \"fair and reasonable\" cost. Events on the B list must offer highlights packages.", "A \"deeply hidden and disturbing side to rural life\" has been laid bare by an 18-month inquiry into domestic abuse in the English countryside.\n\nDomestic abuse victims there suffer for longer, are less likely to report abuse and struggle to get support, it said.\n\nVictims are isolated, unsupported and unprotected in a \"rural hell\" that protects the perpetrators, the National Rural Crime Network report found.\n\nThe government has just set out new plans to tackle the issue.\n\nThe researchers carried out 67 in-depth interviews with people who had experienced domestic abuse, and a set of separate interviews with those working in services supporting victims.\n\nThe inquiry also included a review of academic literature and a survey of a separate group of 881 abuse survivors, recruited for the research with the help of support services.\n\nIt sought to discover how the experience of domestic abuse in rural areas and getting help for it is different from urban areas and why.\n\nNational Rural Crime Network chairwoman Julia Mulligan described domestic abuse as \"the hidden underbelly of rural communities\".\n\n\"We have uncovered a deeply hidden and disturbing side to rural life.\n\n\"Far from the peaceful idyll most people have in their mind when conjuring up the countryside, this report bares the souls and scars of domestic abuse victims, who all too often are lost to support, policing and criminal justice services,\" she said.\n\nRural victims were half as likely to report their abuse to others, and experienced abuse for 25% longer, the report found.\n\nAnd rural isolation is often used as a weapon by abusers, it said.\n\n\"Physical isolation is arguably the best weapon an abuser has and has a profound impact on making the victim feel quite literally captive,\" the report said.\n\nIt cited evidence that abusers move victims to rural settings to further isolate them or systematically use isolation to their advantage if they already live in an isolated place.\n\nThis not only helped abusers control their victims while in the relationship, but made it harder for victims to escape that abuse, it added.\n\nIt also argued that while strong community spirit is one of the joys of rural life, close-knit rural communities facilitate abuse as they can be equally powerful in keeping domestic abuse hidden.\n\nOne abuse victim told the inquiry: \"I found it so hard to find anyone in the village to talk to. They are all perfectly nice people on the surface, but after he shouted at me in the pub that night it was like everyone took a step back from me.\"\n\nThe report also found the policing response is inadequate, with feedback from victims showing the response in rural areas is not as good as that in urban areas.\n\nSome of this is due to a lack of female police officers being available in rural areas, as well as fewer officers with appropriate domestic abuse training.\n\nAnother victim said they had never considered calling the police, adding: \"You don't really have a choice - the police are at least an hour away and if it happens on a Friday or a Saturday night, which it always did, they are busy dealing with other things.\"\n\nIt also found that the reduced availability of public services in rural areas also limited escape routes for victims.\n\nSupport services are scarce - less available, less visible and less effective in supporting victims, even if people do seek help, it said.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was committed to tackling the horrendous crime of domestic abuse.\n\n\"Whether it takes place in our rural communities or cities, we are supporting chief constables and police and crime commissioners so they can deploy resources as they best see fit to tackle crime, including domestic abuse.\n\n\"The new Domestic Abuse Commissioner will play an important role in monitoring the provision of services for victims of domestic abuse, including those in rural communities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aaron Singh wanted Wales to follow England and reverse the ban\n\nA ruling that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven will be overturned, Welsh Boxing has announced.\n\nAaron Singh, a Sikh, has welcomed the change as he had previously said the rule used by the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association (WABA) was discriminatory.\n\nThe 20-year-old Cardiff University student said he had \"missed out on a lot of experiences\" as he could not compete because of his faith.\n\nWelsh Boxing said the rule change would be introduced from 1 August.\n\nThe Sikh principle of Kesh prevents the removal of any hair on the body, because it is considered sacred and a gift from God.\n\nMr Singh, who is from the East Midlands but studies in Cardiff, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers it was a \"very significant change\".\n\n\"This means I can actually get my amateur career started as I wasn't able to before,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to thank the WABA for even considering what I have had to say and actually making a change.\"\n\nWABA chairman Derek McAndrew said: \"This is an important rule change, which is in line with the WABA board's strategy of inclusivity for boxing in Wales, and takes effect in time for the new domestic season.\"\n\nA WABA statement said the decision had been taken after receiving legal advice, consultation with the international regulatory body and an internal review of its domestic policies and rules.\n\nThe English amateur body, England Boxing, also reversed the ban following a campaign from Sikh and Muslim boxers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Brown was killed when he was travelling on the Gatwick Express on Sunday\n\nA man killed when he apparently leaned from a train window and was hit on the head was a life-long railway fanatic who worked in the rail industry.\n\nSimon Brown, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, died while travelling on the Gatwick Express in London on Sunday.\n\nThe 24-year-old first volunteered on the Bluebell Railway aged nine and was working as an engineering technician with Hitachi Rail Europe in Bristol.\n\nFriend Reuben Smith said: \"Railways were his life.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police believe Mr Brown may have been leaning out of a train door window when he suffered a blow to the head.\n\nOther passengers said he was looking out of the window when he was hit.\n\nThe train stopped at Wandsworth Common station where paramedics tried to save the man\n\nThe incident happened at Wandsworth Common station at about 17:30 BST on Sunday, as the train was travelling to London Victoria from Gatwick Airport.\n\nIt has been reported to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\nMr Smith, a railway conductor who had known Mr Brown since the age of 12, has launched a fundraising page to help cover the costs of his friend's funeral.\n\nWriting on the page, Mr Smith said: \"Simon was a great friend of ours and a real light in the railway world.\n\n\"He was always smiling, cheerful and would bend over backwards to help anyone.\n\n\"There's now a massive hole in our close-knit community where he was.\n\n\"He has been taken from us at the age of 24 - it's far too young.\n\n\"Please donate. I want to help ease the burden of the cost of the funeral for his parents.\"\n\nA transport police spokesman said: \"The death is being treated as non-suspicious and the circumstances, including what caused the head injuries, are still being investigated.\"\n\nMr Brown's family have been informed of his death and a file is being prepared for the coroner.\n\nA Gatwick Express spokesman said: \"The emergency services attended the scene at Wandsworth Common station and, despite their best efforts, they were unable to save him.\n\n\"We send our condolences to his family.\n\n\"We are co-operating fully with British Transport Police and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, who are investigating this incident.\"", "The flight to Dalaman was redirected to Stansted Airport\n\nA woman who allegedly caused a flight to be diverted due to \"extremely disruptive behaviour\" has been given an £85,000 bill by an airline.\n\nThe flight to Dalaman in Turkey was redirected back to Stansted Airport on 22 June.\n\nA 25-year-old woman from Maidenhead in Berkshire was arrested on suspicion of common assault, criminal damage and endangering an aircraft.\n\nAirline Jet2 said she has been billed £85,000 and given a lifetime ban.\n\nThe woman attempted to open the aircraft doors during the flight and displayed a \"catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour\" before being restrained by staff and passengers, according to the airline.\n\nSteve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2, said her behaviour had been \"one of the most serious cases\" the airline had experienced.\n\nHe said: \"She must now face up to the consequences of her actions, and we will vigorously pursue to recover the costs that we incurred as a result of this divert, as we do with all disruptive passengers.\"\n\nThe flight was escorted in to land by RAF Typhoon jets with residents reporting their houses shaking due to a sonic boom.\n\nThe woman was released on bail until 21 August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and has imposed ever tightening sanctions on the country in a move designed to force Tehran to curtail their nuclear ambitions.\n\nThe sanctions have led to increased prices and the local currency has fallen significantly. Iranians are being dragged into poverty and the poorest are feeling the effects.\n\nAs tensions rise between Iran, the United States and its allies, the BBC has been given rare access to Iran.\n\nBBC Middle East correspondent Martin Patience, has been in Tehran looking at the impact of sanctions. While in the country, filming access was controlled - as with all foreign media the team was accompanied by a government representative at all times.", "The incident happened on Tuesday evening on the Gellideg estate\n\nTwo boys aged 10 and 12 have been taken to hospital after a car crashed into a group of young people in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThe incident happened when a silver Audi left the road and hit the group at Heol Scwrfa on Gellideg estate on Tuesday at about 19:00 BST.\n\nThe driver, 32, has been arrested in connection with the crash and remains in custody.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the 12-year-old boy suffered serious injuries.\n\nHe is being treated at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\nOne neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: \"I was on my laptop when I heard a car horn which went on for three or four seconds.\n\n\"I thought it might have been aimed at a dog or something in the road. Then I heard loud revving so I looked out the window and saw a car had mounted the kerb and was dragging one lad with it before it hit the wall of the house opposite and came to a stop.\"\n\nThe car left the road on Heol Scwrfa\n\nThe neighbour said boys were always playing football and other games in that area.\n\n\"They were just sat down on the grass away from the kerb,\" he said.\n\n\"People started running out to help. I rang the ambulance. People were everywhere trying to help. Police had flood lights set up all night removing the debris and checking the road.\"\n\nA police statement said the car \"left the carriageway and collided with a number of youths at the location\".\n\n\"Officers wish to thank members of the public and local community who assisted at scene and for their patience during the road closure,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police and paramedics were called to Wandsworth Common station\n\nA man killed on a train may have been leaning from a window when he suffered a blow to the head, police have said.\n\nThe 24-year-old suffered serious head injuries while on board a Gatwick Express train at Wandsworth Common station at about 17:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious, and dismissed reports on social media that the man had been \"decapitated\".\n\nThe man, from East Grinstead, Sussex, was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nPolice said the man's next of kin had been informed and they were still looking at what caused his injuries.\n\n\"Our investigation remains at an early stage, but initial enquiries suggest the man may have been leaning out of a train door window when he suffered a blow to the head,\" police said.\n\nThe man was treated by ambulance crews but died at the scene\n\nInsp James Tyrrell added: \"We are aware of a number of reports on social media which say the man was decapitated as a result of this incident. However, this is not the case.\"\n\nKirstin Duffield said she was travelling on the train and stayed with the man as the carriage was evacuated at the station.\n\nShe said the man was \"apparently travelling alone\" and was \"looking out of the window\" when he was hit.\n\n\"There was no other train involved, it was the embankment side\", she said.\n\nBritish Transport Police have not confirmed whether this was the case or not.\n\nThe matter has been reported to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\nA Gatwick Express spokesman confirmed there had been an incident on board a train that was travelling from the airport to Victoria.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twelve Israelis have been arrested in Ayia Napa in Cyprus over an alleged rape of a British woman, reports say.\n\nLocal media said police were called in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nCypriot police confirmed that 12 arrests were made and said the suspects would appear in court in Paralimni on Thursday morning.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said it was \"supporting a British woman who was assaulted in Cyprus and are in contact with local police\".\n\nAn Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that 12 Israeli citizens were arrested and their families notified.\n\nThe Times of Israel said some of those involved in the alleged attack were boys, and that the alleged victim was 19.", "Street Valium is also known as Street Blues\n\nScotland's latest drug death figures are to be published on Friday - with the country expected to still have the highest rate in Europe.\n\nPublic health minister Joe FitzPatrick lost his job after figures released last year showed that 1,264 people died in 2019, which was even worse than the year before.\n\nIn January, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced £250m in extra funding over five years to tackle the rising number of fatalities after admitting that her government should have done more.\n\nBut almost three years after the deaths were declared a public health emergency, what can be done to tackle the problem?\n\nOpposition parties have accused the Scottish government of cutting rehab programmes in previous years, which they say has had a big part to play in the recent upward trend in the number of deaths.\n\nThere are currently 408 rehab beds in Scotland, with the Scottish government pledging to spend £20m a year for the next five years to increase that number across the country.\n\nCastle Craig rehab clinic, a private hospital near West Linton in the Scottish Borders, has treated people for alcohol and drug addiction for 30 years.\n\nOf its current patient list of 60, only two are NHS-funded. Around a quarter of its clients are Dutch - reflecting the value placed on its services by insurers in the Netherlands - with the remainder being privately funded or via health insurance.\n\nThe facility's medical director, Prof Jonathan Chick, said the proportion of Scottish patients - particularly those funded by the Scottish NHS - has fallen in recent years.\n\nThe weekly cost of treatment at the clinic ranges starts from £2,500, which Prof Chick said was out of the reach of most families - but not out of the reach of health services.\n\nCastle Craig currently has 60 patients but only two are funded by the NHS\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"They are providing quite expensive treatments for years and years and not looking at other opportunities.\"\n\nSeveral frontline charities and critics of the Scottish government's approach to tackling the crisis have backed the Scottish Conservatives' Right to Recovery Bill.\n\nThe Tories say it will enshrine in law individuals' right to their chosen drug treatment, including residential rehabilitation services, which the party says would help get people off drugs and recover rather than simply managing their addictions.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"This proposal has the backing of frontline groups and experts across the political spectrum. SNP MSPs are reportedly on board privately. We only need the government to wake up, stop stalling and support it.\"\n\nDrugs minister Angela Constance said the government was working hard to get more people into treatment that works for them as quickly as possible.\n\nShe added: \"Without treatment, there is little hope of recovery so we are funding as many community and third-sector initiatives as we can so that individuals have the widest possible choice and can opt for the support which suits them and their family.\"\n\nNaloxone can reverse the effects of an opiate overdose if used in time\n\nThe Scottish government set up a drugs deaths taskforce in response to the crisis, which met for the first time in September 2019.\n\nIt has spent time gathering evidence and proposing changes that it says could quickly save lives.\n\nThe main focus of this has been the distribution of Naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opiate-related overdose.\n\nUsers often die because they are unable to breathe and, if used in time, Naloxone can restore breathing and save their lives.\n\nDrug campaigners have been trying to get the kits into the hands of anyone who might have or be a witness to a drug overdose. This is mainly drug users and relatives but could also be anyone involved in services such as hostels or outreach workers.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of ambulance crews - who have been using Naloxone for many years - are now also able to distribute it to people who might need it, with the remainder due to be trained by the end of this year.\n\nPolice Scotland has also run a pilot project for its officers to carry Naloxone while on patrol.\n\nThe most significant harm reduction services are methadone and buprenorphine which are offered to heroin addicts to reduce the risk of fatal overdose.\n\nMethadone is controversial because it has been implicated in more drug-related deaths than heroin, the drug it is a substitute for.\n\nExperts point out that methadone is recognised by the World Health Organization as an essential medicine but say it is not always delivered effectively.\n\nDavid Liddell, of the Scottish Drugs Forum, said there was a \"massive issue\" around people on too low doses.\n\n\"We estimated around half of those on methadone are on too low a dose, so what is happening for individuals is they are then forced to top-up on street drugs,\" he said.\n\n\"That's fuelling the poly-drug use problem that we have and leading to deaths as a result.\"\n\nHe also said there were problems around access to methadone services and retention of drug users within treatment.\n\nHe said some countries such as Norway had a policy of \"no unplanned discharges\" and they would actively seek to bring people back into treatment.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced that Buvidal - an alternative to methadone that contains buprenorphine - would be rolled out across the country after a successful trial in prisons.\n\nIt allows patients to receive an injection every 28 days instead of having to visit a chemist every day to take their medication.\n\nIt is hoped this will allow patients to focus on improving their lives and overall health rather than managing their dependence.\n\nScotland's new drug tsar has called for a public health approach\n\nAll the experts who gave evidence to Westminster's Scottish affairs committee said the stigma around drug addiction was stopping people seeking treatment.\n\nProf Matheson said the people who needed help were the \"most marginalised in Scottish society\".\n\nShe said they were not willing, interested or engaged with services because they were stigmatised and did not want to come forward.\n\nProf Matheson said only about 40% of people who needed treatment were getting it.\n\nShe said: \"They don't want to go to their GP if they have health problems, they feel stigmatised if they have a criminal record and they are stigmatised about getting work.\n\n\"This is keeping people excluded from the help and the care they need.\"\n\nProf Matheson said that, as a result, older drug users - who have a range of respiratory, cardiac, liver and kidney issues - were not seeking treatment and were physically more vulnerable to an overdose.\n\nDenmark is among the countries to have introduced fix rooms\n\nIt is now more than four years since Glasgow City Council first proposed allowing users to take their own drugs under the supervision of medical staff at a special facility in the city.\n\nThe idea is to encourage users who inject heroin or cocaine on Glasgow's streets to enter a safe and clean environment.\n\nIt is hoped the special room would encourage addicts into treatment, cut down on heroin needles on city streets and counter the spread of diseases such as HIV.\n\nThe so-called \"fix rooms\" are already operating in some overseas countries but this would be the first of its kind in the UK.\n\nThey have the support of the Scottish government but drug laws are reserved to Westminster.\n\nThe House of Commons committee that investigated Scotland's drug crisis recommended new legislation to provide for safe drug consumption facilities but it was rejected in the UK government's response to its report.\n\nThe UK government said: \"We want to do all we can to stop people having access to drugs that could ultimately kill them. No illegal drug-taking can be assumed to be safe and there is no safe way to take them.\"\n\nGlasgow announced Scotland's first scheme giving drug addicts diamorphine, a pharmaceutical-grade form of heroin, in November 2019.\n\nThe Enhanced Drug Treatment Service (EDTS) aims to use the medically-licensed drug to treat patients with the most severe, long-standing and complex addictions.Six ways to tackle Scotland's drugs crisis\n\nThey will have to attend the clinic, which has been licensed by the Home Office, twice a day, every day.\n\nIt is hoped the facility will help reduce street drug use, overdose deaths and the spread of HIV in the city.\n\nThe Daily Record is campaigning for decriminalisation of drug use\n\nThe Daily Record newspaper launched a campaign two years ago calling for the decriminalisation of drug use.\n\nIt said Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Canada and, most notably, Portugal were among 25 nations to loosen the punitive attitude to drug possession to enable treatment programmes to succeed.\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) has also recently called for the Scottish and UK governments to seriously consider decriminalising drug possession.\n\nChanging the law to \"decriminalise\" does not mean class A drugs would be legal, but people would not be prosecuted for possession for personal use.\n\nAll UK drugs misuse legislation is currently reserved to Westminster.\n\nThe 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act bans the possession, supply, manufacture, import and export of controlled drugs except by licence.\n\nA cross-party Westminster committee - chaired by SNP MP Pete Wishart but including four Conservative MPs, three Labour members, two Lib Dems and two other SNP MPs - found that decriminalisation was a \"public health\" approach that could cut the stigma around problem drug use and encourage people to seek treatment.\n\nSchemes elsewhere channel drug addicts committing low level crimes into treatment instead of jail.\n\nPolice Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson called for radical reform, saying politicians should have the \"confidence and courage\" to decriminalise.\n\nHe said the criminal justice process was actually pushing people into a place where there was more harm.\n\nThe woman leading the Scottish government's drugs taskforce, Prof Catriona Matheson, told BBC Scotland the evidence for decriminalisation was strong.\n\nShe said: \"It is about not putting these marginalised drug users into prison because that further marginalises them and that makes the recovery all the more difficult.\"\n\nThe UK government later rejected the report's recommendation to reform the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act and decriminalise drugs for personal use.\n\nIt said decriminalisation would not \"eliminate the crime committed by the illicit trade, nor would it address the harms associated with drug dependence\".\n\nIt added: \"There is a strong link between drugs and crime, which is why we reject the assertion that the Department for Health and Social Care should lead on drug misuse. We know that people who regularly use heroin, cocaine or crack cocaine are estimated to commit around 45% of all acquisitive crime.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens have called for both the UK and Scottish governments to admit that the so-called \"war on drugs\" has failed, and to instead focus on \"restoring people's dignity and treating their addiction, rather than criminalising them\".", "Last updated on .From the section Fleetwood\n\nFleetwood Town manager Joey Barton has been charged with causing actual bodily harm following a post-match incident in the tunnel at Barnsley on 13 April.\n\nPolice say the incident, after the Tykes beat Fleetwood 4-2 in a League One game at Oakwell, left a man with facial injuries.\n\nThe 36-year-old has been bailed until 9 October.\n\nBarnsley complained to the Football Association and English Football League in April about the incident.\n\nAt the time, South Yorkshire Police also appealed for any witnesses with footage of the incident to come forward.\n\nBarton took charge of the team for the 1-0 defeat in their pre-season friendly away against Port Vale on Wednesday night.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of inventing a murderous VIP paedophile ring believed his claims to be true, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is on trial over claims he was a victim of the alleged network, which supposedly included MPs and members of the Army and intelligence services, in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nDefending Mr Beech, Collingwood Thompson QC said his client \"genuinely believed\" what he had told detectives.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHis allegations - including that he had witnessed three child murders at the hands of the group - prompted the Metropolitan Police to launch a £2m investigation known as Operation Midland.\n\nThe investigation, which ran between 2014 and 2016, ended without an arrest being made.\n\nDuring his closing speech at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday, Mr Thompson said: \"Mr Beech's case is that the allegations he made in his ABE (achieving best evidence) interviews are true.\"\n\nMr Thompson added that, even if jurors doubt the accuracy of the allegations, \"the defence case is that this man genuinely believed to be true what he was describing to the police\".\n\nHe added: \"We know that the Metropolitan Police, under the guise of Operation Midland, looked into the allegations made by Mr Beech and ultimately, in March 2016, took no further action on them because they took the view that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.\n\n\"It simply does not follow that just because the Metropolitan Police thought there was insufficient evidence, Mr Beech is guilty.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury Mr Beech found telling falsehoods \"as easy as starting the day with a cup of tea might be to some of you\".\n\nHe added: \"The defendant Carl Beech is a sophisticated paedophile. I make no apology for saying it, the evidence proves it.\n\n\"At some stage Carl Beech appears to have convinced himself that such behaviour is acceptable for whatever purpose he had.\n\n\"Spying on children, covertly filming [a child], gathering literally hundreds of images of the rape and abuse of children, each of them a criminal offence.\"\n\nThe court heard in May that Mr Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.", "At the Made in America showcase, the president responded to questions about the meaning behind his weekend tweets, which some critics say were racist toward four Democratic members of Congress.", "The Little Shop collectables can be stored in a special album\n\nMarks & Spencer says a controversial giveaway plastic toy campaign will continue despite protests from environment-conscious customers.\n\nThe retailer is offering miniature replicas of its most popular food items in a promotion called Little Shop.\n\nThere are 25 of the toys and shoppers get one free for every £20 spent.\n\nBut some shoppers have taken to social media to denounce M&S for producing needless plastic waste, while others have complained about the high cost.\n\nEach toy comes in a wrapper, making it impossible to see which one it is until it is opened.\n\nEven if it were possible to be sure of getting a different one every time, it would still be necessary to spend a minimum of £500 to get a complete set.\n\nThe store chain's head of sustainability, Carmel McQuaid, has appeared in a YouTube video in an effort to reassure customers that the promotion will not harm the environment.\n\nShe said that sustainability was \"at the heart\" of the Little Shop collectables and that M&S would recycle any unwanted toys.\n\nBut one customer commented: \"Major fail M&S who clearly are not listening to the public tide of anti-single use plastic.\"\n\nThe campaign has also been criticised on other social media platforms, including Facebook and Mumsnet.\n\nOne visitor to the M&S Facebook page said: \"M&S, you've completely missed the point. Yes, recycling is very important, but it's about stopping making the pointless plastic rubbish in the first place.\"\n\nAn M&S spokesperson told the BBC the toys were \"designed to be used again and again\", but there were collection boxes in every store for those who wanted to return them for recycling.\n\nThe retailer is also running swap events where people can exchange duplicates and obtain the toys they have missed.\n\nThe spokesperson said the promotion was part of M&S's strategy to be \"more relevant to the family customer\".\n\nAs for the high cost of collecting all the items, the spokesperson said M&S was planning additional promotions allowing shoppers to get more toys for a lower cost.", "The migrant was picked up a few miles north of Calais\n\nA migrant has been rescued as he tried to swim across the English Channel to the UK with flippers and a float.\n\nThe man - who was suffering from mild hypothermia - was picked up by the French authorities at 07:30 BST about three miles north of Calais.\n\nMeanwhile, 38 people were caught attempting the crossing in three boats before midday, the Home Office said.\n\nPictures showed a woman and children as Home Office officials processed the migrants in Dover.\n\nAnother photograph appeared to show some of the people wearing orange lifejackets as they were taken to shore in a Border Force rigid-inflatable boat.\n\nThe Home Office said a group of eight men and women were found after a boat washed ashore in Dungeness, Kent. They were medically-assessed and found to be well.\n\nA further two vessels were intercepted off the Sussex coast.\n\nThe two groups - made up of 12 and 18 men, women and children - were taken to Dover and transferred to immigration officials.\n\nDamian Collins, Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, said of the developments: \"People will almost certainly die trying to do this. I don't want to see people dying trying to make this crossing.\n\n\"We have got to do more to spot these people and stop them making these journeys before leaving the French coast.\"\n\nChildren were pictured among the migrants who were taken to Dover\n\nSo far this year more than 600 migrants have attempted the crossing.\n\nFormer coastguard Andy Roberts said of the lone swimmer: \"I've seen every kind of attempted unorthodox crossing of the Dover Strait. This one is absolutely incredible. Anyone who thinks with a rubber ring and some flippers they can swim 21 miles as the crow flies... is really asking for serious trouble.\"\n\nBBC South East reporter Simon Jones said: \"The fact that one migrant was prepared to try to go it alone will no doubt be of grave concern to the authorities.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh will battle it out off-screen for the best actress award at this year's Emmys.\n\nThe comedy thriller series has nine nominations in total at the ceremony.\n\nThe show's original writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also up for lead actress in a comedy series for Fleabag.\n\nHer show has 11 nominations in total, while Game of Thrones has 32, including acting nods for Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke.\n\nThat's the highest total for any programme in a single year, beating NYPD Blues which received 26 in 1994.\n\nHowever, mixed reviews for the final series of epic fantasy show could damage its chances outside the technical categories.\n\nGame of Thrones goes up against British series Bodyguard and Killing Eve for outstanding drama series, alongside Better Call Saul, Ozark, Pose, Succession and This is Us.\n\nComer, whose portrayal of Killing Eve's psychopathic assassin Villanelle won her a Bafta earlier this year, received her first Emmy nomination on Tuesday.\n\nShe failed to make the cut last year, when her co-star Sandra Oh lost the best actress category to Claire Foy, who played the Queen in Netflix's The Crown.\n\nThis year, both Comer and Oh are nominated alongside Clarke, Viola Davis (How To Get Away With Murder), Laura Linney (Ozark), Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Robin Wright (House Of Cards).\n\nHugh Grant is nominated for best actor in a limited series or movie for A Very English Scandal.\n\nHis competition, aside from Harington, is Mahershala Ali (True Detective), Benicio Del Toro (Escape at Dannemora), Jared Harris (Chernobyl), Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us) and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon).\n\nFleabag, a dark comedy about a Londoner grappling with the death of her best friend and her troublesome family, sees nominations for all five of its female stars - Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman, Sian Clifford, Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw - who picks up a second nomination for her role as MI6 chief Carolyn Martens in Killing Eve.\n\nWaller-Bridge, who created both Killing Eve and Fleabag, faces stiff competition in the best comedy actress category.\n\nJulia Louis-Dreyfus, who already holds the record for the most Emmy awards for a single role, will be hoping to pick up a seventh prize for her portrayal of vainglorious US President Selena Meyer in Veep.\n\nVoters may be persuaded to honour the star for her last outing in the HBO series, which ended earlier this year.\n\nLast year's winner, Rachel Brosnahan, is also a favourite for Amazon Prime's comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, in which she plays an aspiring comedian in 1950s New York.\n\nAlthough the BBC's ratings hit Bodyguard, is nominated for best drama series - there is nothing for the show's star, Richard Madden, who picked up a Golden Globe for his performance earlier this year.\n\nThis year's Emmy ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 22 September.\n\nThe nominations and winners are voted for by the 25,000 Emmy members and recognise the best of television. The awards are the biggest TV awards show in the US.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prosecutors in the US state of Massachusetts have dropped a criminal case against Kevin Spacey.\n\nMr Spacey, 59, was accused of groping an 18-year-old man at a bar in 2016.\n\nBut indecent assault and battery charges were dropped on Wednesday after the accuser refused to testify about a missing phone, which the defence said could prove the actor's innocence.\n\nMr Spacey has faced several sexual misconduct accusations but this was the only one to result in a criminal case.\n\nThe claims date back three years, when the accuser says Mr Spacey bought him alcohol and groped him at a bar on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.\n\nThe accuser was ordered to take to the stand this month after he said he lost the phone he had used on the night of the alleged assault. Mr Spacey's lawyers had accused the man of deleting text messages and said the phone could be used to prove their client's innocence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"To Kevin Spacey: Shame on you for what you did to my son\"\n\nHowever, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said the \"unavailability of the complaining witness\" had led them to drop the case.\n\nThe announcement comes after the accuser earlier this month said he was dropping a civil case against the actor.\n\nThe accuser's lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, said in a statement on Wednesday that his client had \"shown an enormous amount of courage under difficult circumstances.\"\n\nThe allegations in the case came after an actor accused a then 26-year-old Mr Spacey of climbing on top of him on a bed when he was just 14.\n\nMr Spacey apologised for any inappropriate conduct, which he said he could not remember.\n\nIn May, Mr Spacey was questioned over allegations of sexual assault in the UK between 1996 and 2013. Metropolitan Police officers travelled to the US to speak to him. Inquiries in the case are ongoing.\n\nAmid multiple allegations of misconduct, the Oscar-winning actor was dropped from Netflix series House of Cards in 2017 and had his scenes edited out of the film All the Money in the World.\n\nThe Nantucket case was one of few criminal cases to be brought as a result of Hollywood's #MeToo scandal.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt urged to consider the impact of a no-deal Brexit on UK research.\n\nThe president of the Royal Society has warned the Tory leadership candidates that UK research could be damaged by a bad deal or no-deal Brexit.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan has presented them with an analysis showing that the UK collaborates with the EU much more than previously thought.\n\nIt shows that a third of UK research papers are co-authored with the EU scientists.\n\nThis compared with less than a fifth from the US.\n\nProf Ramakrishnan added that without a new visa arrangement it will be much more expensive for researchers from the EU to work in the UK compared with other countries.\n\nBritish science is one of the biggest winners of the UK's membership of the European Union. It receives tens of millions of pounds more each year than it puts into the EU research budget. Membership also allows UK researchers easy access to collaborations with the best laboratories in Europe.\n\nIn a letter to Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, Professor Ramakrishnan says that those benefits will be lost and with them risks the UK's pre-eminent position in research, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Royal Society's new analysis indicates that links with the EU are of growing importance to UK science.\n\n\"The loss of support from European research grants and collaborations would have an immediate impact on innovation in the UK and stop valuable research in its tracks,\" Prof Ramakrishnan wrote to both leadership candidates.\n\nHe has also provided data which shows that it is substantially more expensive for researchers to get work visas in the UK than other nations. Currently, EU researchers working in UK labs have to pay nothing, but without a proper arrangement in place, those applying in future will have to pay thousands.\n\nMore than 1,600 IT specialists and engineers offered jobs in the UK were denied visas between December and March\n\n\"How the UK approaches immigration directly impacts our attractiveness as a place to work or train as a researcher. As well as tackling the immediate costs barrier, we need a cultural shift within the immigration system that makes us more human and welcoming in the way we handle cases,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the UK's leading research bodies urged the Conservative leadership candidates to make a pledge to put scientific research at the heart of their economic policy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs approved two significant changes to the Northern Ireland bill - intended to make it harder for a new prime minister to prorogue Parliament and force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey endorsed last night's Lords amendment, to ensure Parliament sits for a fortnightly debate - on government updates on the restoration of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd they backed the Burt-Benn amendment by 315 to 274 votes, to ensure that debates and ministerial statements on this topic go ahead, even if Parliament has been suspended.\n\nThe Leader of the House of Commons set out the business for next week, saying:\n\nQuote Message: I feel sure that there will be an opportunity for the House to hear from the new prime minister next week, although clearly I cannot comment on the precise circumstances that may pertain to that; that will be a matter for him, whoever he is. from Mel Stride Leader of the House of Commons I feel sure that there will be an opportunity for the House to hear from the new prime minister next week, although clearly I cannot comment on the precise circumstances that may pertain to that; that will be a matter for him, whoever he is. Leader of the House of Commons\n\nNext week will also include any necessary consideration of Lords amendments, and a debate on Tuesday 22 July on on body image and mental health. Mr Stride said that, at the conclusion of business on Thursday 25 July, Parliament would rise for the summer recess and return on Tuesday 3 September.\n\nIf you want to know more about the day's events, tune into Today in Parliament on BBC Radio 4, at 11:30pm.", "Salman Abedi has been named by police as the Manchester bomber\n\nPolice have named 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi as the person who carried out the suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena on 22 May.\n\nIt is thought many of his actions prior to the attack were carried out alone, but police have yet to rule out whether he was part of a larger network.\n\nWhat more do we know about him?\n\nAbedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve 1994 to Libyan parents. They fled Libya after becoming opponents of Colonel Gaddafi's regime.\n\nHaving spent a few years in London, the family moved to Manchester where Abedi's father did the call to prayer at a mosque in Didsbury.\n\nFriends remember him as a good footballer, a keen supporter of Manchester United and a user of cannabis. He had a sister and two brothers.\n\nAbedi attended Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester between 2009 and 2011, before going to The Manchester College until 2013. He went to Salford University in 2014.\n\nHe also attended football coaching sessions put on by the Manchester United Foundation. The foundation, which runs street projects, said it could not comment for \"data protection reasons\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ramadan Abedi, the father of the Manchester suicide bomber, spoke to Reuters two days after the attack\n\nA former classmate of Abedi told the BBC \"he was a very jokey lad\" but at the same time was \"very short tempered\", and would lose his temper over \"the littlest thing\".\n\nThe man, who does not want to be identified, said: \"What I realised was he had a short temper but apart from that was a very sound lad.\"\n\nHe said Abedi was \"away at random times throughout the year - but I don't know if that was because he was out the country, or just didn't show up to school, because he did hang around with the wrong crowd and was very, very gullible\".\n\n\"You could tell him anything and he would pretty much fall for it,\" he added.\n\nAnother, who also did not want to be named, told the BBC Abedi did not \"come across as an intelligent person\".\n\nAsked whether he thought Abedi might have been manipulated by more intelligent people, he replied: \"A hundred percent... I can't imagine the idea that he would be able to go through with such a complicated procedure. He must have had help.\"\n\n\"I wasn't shocked,\" the classmate added. \"He fits the profile for a suicide bomber.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Salman Abedi's cousins say the bomber \"betrayed his family\"\n\nThe bomber's two cousins, Isaac and Abz Forjani, were both arrested the day after the attack and questioned by police for seven days.\n\nThe pair said Abedi had never admitted extremist views, and thought that he may have been radicalised abroad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Newsnight understands Abedi fought against the Gaddafi regime in Libya\n\nAged 16, Abedi is believed to have fought against the Gaddafi regime with his father Ramadan during the school holidays, according to BBC Newsnight.\n\nA Libyan businessman, Adel Alrayni, told BBC Arabic that Abedi's father supported the radical cleric, Abu Qatada, and used to meet him in London.\n\nAbu Qatada was deported from Britain in 2013, but was later cleared of terrorism charges in Jordan.\n\nBy the time Abedi left Burnage Academy for Boys - formerly Burnage High School - in 2011, he had become \"more and more religious\", later cutting ties with former classmates.\n\nIt was while at Manchester College two people who knew Abedi made separate calls to an anti-terrorism hotline to warn police about his extremist views.\n\nA community support worker, who did not wish to be named, said they contacted the authorities after he publicly said \"he was supporting terrorism\" and \"being a suicide bomber is OK\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it had not found a record of the phone calls, but added had been arrested in 2012 for minor offences including theft and assault.\n\nHowever, he said he had not been known to the government's Prevent anti-extremism scheme, which aims to deradicalise young people or prevent others from being radicalised.\n\nAbedi's family lived at more than one address in the city, including a property at Elsmore Road, in the Fallowfield area, that was raided by police on 23 May.\n\nHis mother and father are now back living in Libya, where his father and younger brother Hashem, 20, are being held by special forces linked to the interior ministry in the Libyan capital Tripoli.\n\nFor a while Abedi left the UK too, but he returned in the days before the bombing. During his trip back from Libya he briefly stopped off at Düsseldorf Airport, having reportedly been in Prague, but remained in the airport's transit zone.\n\nThe BBC also understands Abedi was in Manchester earlier this year, when he told people of the value of dying for a cause and made hardline statements about suicide operations and the conflict in Libya.\n\nGreater Manchester Police would not comment on the claims.\n\nHis sister, Jomana, has said she believed her brother may have been reacting to US-led strikes in the Middle East.\n\n\"He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge.\n\n\"Whether he got that is between him and God,\" she reportedly told the Wall Street Journal.\n\nIt is also being reported that a Libyan government spokesman said 15 minutes before he blew himself up, Abedi called his mother and brother.\n\nManchester is home to one of the largest Libyan communities in the UK. Neighbours have talked about the family having a Libyan flag flying in its house at certain times of the year.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton said the area was known to have been home to a number of Islamist extremists in recent years; some with links to Syria and Libya; some alive and some dead.\n\nA property in Whalley Range, Manchester, was among two addresses searched by police on Tuesday\n\nHamid El-Sayed, who worked for the UN on tackling radicalisation and who now works at the University of Manchester, said Abedi had a \"really bad relationship\" with his family.\n\n\"Eventually he was doing very bad at his university, at his education, and he didn't complete, and they tried to take him back to Libya several times. He had difficulties adjusting to a European lifestyle,\" he said.\n\nA trustee of the Manchester Islamic Centre, also known as the Didsbury Mosque, told the Press Association it was likely Abedi had attended there.\n\nFawaz Haffar said while Abedi's father used to perform the call for prayer at the mosque, one of his brothers had also been a volunteer there.\n\nMr Haffar described the mosque as moderate, modern and liberal, and said he was a member of an organisation liaising with police.\n\nSalman Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve 1994 to Libyan parents\n\nMohammed Saeed El-Saeiti, the imam at the Didsbury Mosque, remembers Abedi as a dangerous extremist, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reports.\n\n\"Salman showed me the face of hate after my speech on Isis [an acronym for the Islamic State group],\" said the imam.\n\n\"He used to show me the face of hate and I could tell this person does not like me. It's not a surprise to me.\"\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins said Abedi had been part of a network of collaborators and Home Secretary Amber Rudd confirmed he had been known to security services.\n\nHowever, the police investigation has found it most likely that Abedi assembled the bomb himself.\n\nIt is less clear whether he acted alone in buying the components needed to make the device.\n\nAbedi left Britain on 15 April and travelled to Libya before returning to the UK on 18 May.\n\nIt seems he was intent on committing the attack within days of his return, as CCTV has shown him purchasing more items for the bomb soon after he came back.\n\nThese included nuts from a DIY store that were used for shrapnel, said Russ Jackson, head of the North West counter terrorism unit.\n\nAbedi was also tracked going to and from the Banff Road area of Rusholme, where a white Nissan Micra was found.\n\nThe Micra - which was bought on 13 April - contained materials for bomb making and Abedi is forensically linked to the car, say police.\n\nMeanwhile a search is continuing at a landfill site for a blue suitcase thought to contain items Abedi discarded after assembling the device.\n\nA Whitehall source said Abedi was one of a \"pool\" of former subjects of interest whose risk remained \"subject to review\" by the authorities.\n\nThe self-styled Islamic State group issued a statement after the attack claiming it had been carried out by one of its members, but that has not been verified.", "Aaron McKenzie has been remanded into custody\n\nThe ex-partner of a heavily pregnant woman stabbed to death in her own home has accepted responsibility for her killing, the Old Bailey has heard.\n\nAaron McKenzie, 25, is charged with the murder of Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant.\n\nHe is also accused of the manslaughter of her baby, Riley, who was delivered at the scene but died in hospital four days later.\n\nMr McKenzie is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nA plea hearing was set for 2 October with a provisional trial date of 2 December.\n\nMr McKenzie, from Peckham, south London, was remanded into custody.\n\nRoyal Mail worker Ms Fauvrelle was attacked in her bedroom on the ground floor of the family home in Thornton Heath on 29 June.\n\nHer mother, two brothers, sister and her sister's baby son were all in the house.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle's baby was delivered by paramedics but died later in hospital\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adding more ethanol to the UK's fuel mix would cut carbon by as much as taking 700,000 cars off the roads, according to a group of MPs.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group for British Bioethanol says the swift introduction of E10 fuel would also help the £1bn British biofuel industry.\n\nE10 is a mixture of 10% ethanol with 90% petrol, double the current permitted maximum.\n\nThe MPs say that Brexit has distracted the government from taking action.\n\nOne of the unintended consequences of 2015's diesel emissions scandal has been a jump in the sales of petrol cars, with a knock-on effect on sales of the fuel.\n\nThis has contributed to the first increase in emissions of CO2 from new cars in two decades recorded in 2017.\n\nA significant plank of the government's plan to reduce carbon on the roads has been the introduction of biofuels made from crops, which soak up CO2 as they are grown.\n\nAt present, ethanol made from wheat or sugar beet is blended into petrol to a maximum of 5%.\n\nThe report's authors say that while electric cars and vehicles are the long-term solution to emissions from transport, E10 represents a big advance that could be achieved right now.\n\n\"For many reasons it is absolutely a no-brainer,\" said Nic Dakin MP, the chairman of the all-party group.\n\n\"On the environmental front, it's a cleaner, greener fuel at a time when we're trying to address air pollution and tackle climate change.\n\n\"Cars aren't going to all switch to battery power overnight and if they did there isn't the capacity in the National Grid to power all of our transportation.\n\n\"This must be a top priority for the government and we renew our call for a mandate to introduce E10 by 2020 at the latest.\"\n\nIn other European countries, the change to E10 has been fully embraced. France introduced the fuel in 2009 and last year it was the largest volume petrol grade sold, with 47% of the market.\n\nGermany, Belgium and Finland have also introduced E10, with other countries including China and India set to do the same. In Brazil the minimum ethanol content is now 27%.\n\nThe report says that without the introduction of E10 fuel the UK's bioethanol producers, based in the North of England, will struggle to survive.\n\nLast September Vivergo, one of the three main producers of the biofuel announced it would close its facility on Humberside with the loss of 150 jobs.\n\nThe introduction of E10 would likely secure and strengthen the industry which has the potential to support approximately 6,000 jobs in the UK.\n\nWheat is one of the crops that is used for making ethanol in the UK\n\n\"We built a plant in 2010, we've had four periods when the plant has been offline, and the reason for that is lack of demand,\" said Grant Pearson from Ensus, one of the UK's three ethanol production companies.\n\n\"We expected that demand would be at least twice what it is, and that move from E5 to E10 would just get us back on track.\"\n\nLast year the government issued a consultation on the idea of increasing this to 10%, but since then nothing has happened, a decision that MPs describe as \"baffling\" and likely due to the distraction of Brexit.\n\n\"It is bonkers that the Department of Transport has yet to publish its consultation on the introduction of E10,\" said Nic Daikin.\n\n\"The British bioethanol industry is in a state of collapse, and ministers can not allow the fog of Brexit to distract them any longer from saving a £1bn industry that will not only make our cars cleaner and greener, but provide thousands of green jobs in the North and prove that the government is serious about championing the green economy.\"\n\nIn response, a Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We are committed to supporting cleaner and greener fuels, and we recognise the important role they have to play in decarbonising transport.\"\n\n\"Following our call for evidence on E10, we intend to publish our next steps in due course.\"\n\nCritics of the introduction of E10 say that it is not certified to run in some older cars, principally those manufactured before 2000.\n\nOne of the UK's bioethanol plants near Middlesbrough\n\nThe report says that this threat is minimal and that there is no evidence from Europe or the US where E10 is widely used of the fuel causing any significant damage to to any vehicle manufactured before the turn of the century.\n\nIndeed the report says that the fuel industry has \"given express assurances that were E10 to be mandated, motorists would still be able to purchase E5 (as octane 98) at many forecourts. Thus any older cars which are not expressly warrantied for E10 can still have access to fuel that is compatible with their engines.\"\n\nOther critics of the switch are worried that going for extra ethanol in the mix might push up prices on the forecourt.\n\n\"The cost impact is minuscule,\" said Grant Pearson.\n\n\"The price of ethanol compared to petrol varies over time, we've had periods where ethanol has been cheaper than petrol. There's a tiny reduction in terms of potential mileage but its less than 1%, so depending on how heavy your shoe is you wouldn't see it in the mileage that your are doing.\"\n\nIf the bioethanol industry flounders, the report says, the UK would likely have to increase imports of biofuel from overseas, including used cooking oil from China, which is likely boosting the use of palm oil from deforested lands.", "Labour is pledging to end in-work poverty within its first five years in office if it wins the next election.\n\nIn a speech in London, John McDonnell promised to tackle the issue with a \"structurally different economy\", \"public services free at the point of use\" and a \"strong social safety net\".\n\nThis includes a \"real living wage\" and stopping the Universal Credit roll-out.\n\nBut the Conservatives said the policies would \"harm the people [Labour] claim they want to help the most\".\n\nPoverty among people who are working has risen since the mid-1990s.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the proportion has gone up from 13% in 1994-95 to 18% in 2017, meaning about eight million people living in working households are in relative poverty.\n\nA household is defined as being in relative poverty when its income is less than 60% of the average - less than £17,040 a year, on the most recent figures.\n\nThe IFS research said the rise had been partly driven by higher housing costs and lower earnings growth.\n\nSpeaking at the Resolution Foundation, the shadow chancellor said his goal was to eradicate poverty, since \"nothing less should be the aim of a socialist government\".\n\nWhile the next Labour government would re-distribute income between the richest and poorest, he said this would only \"paper over the cracks\" unless there were major changes in the way the economy worked to address inequalities in opportunities and productivity.\n\nHe listed a number of policies - some which have been announced before - that he says will see a Labour government achieve their goal within a Parliamentary term of five years.\n\n\"Behind the concept of social mobility is the belief that poverty is OK as long as some people are given the opportunity to climb out of it, leaving the others behind,\" he said.\n\n\"I reject that completely, and want to see a society with higher living standards for everyone as well as one in which nobody lacks the means to survive or has to choose between life's essentials.\"\n\nPledging to end the \"modern-day scourge\" of in-work poverty, he added. \"As chancellor in the next Labour government, I want you to judge me by how much we reduce poverty... how much we create a more equal society... by how much people's lives change for the better.\"\n\nWhile immediately ending the most \"damaging\" aspects of Universal Credit, he said Labour would not seek to replicate the system of tax credits, designed to top up the incomes of the lowest-paid, introduced by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor.\n\nInstead, a future government would \"take a step back\" and looking at designing a welfare system that helped people \"find work and progress in work\".\n\nThe main way poverty is assessed is by using a relative measure - \"relative poverty\".\n\nIt's calculated by taking the median income in the country - that's the midpoint where half of the overall population have income more than that amount and half have less. It was £507 a week in 2017-18, or £437 after housing costs.\n\nThen you take 60% of this middle amount and anyone who has less income than this is considered to be living in relative poverty.\n\nIn 1998-99, 34% of children in the UK were living in relative-poverty households. Today, this proportion is 30%, which represents about 4.1 million children.\n\nStatistics on income after housing costs and benefits received are more widely used as this gives a better idea of how much disposable income someone might have.\n\nBut, some say relative poverty is flawed as a measure because the poverty line moves when average income changes. In times of recession, for example, when lots of people's wages decrease, relative poverty rates improve.\n\nCampaigners say the benefit freeze in place for most of the past decade has been the biggest factor in exacerbating poverty levels among working families with children.\n\nRather than rising each year in line with inflation, to reflect the rising cost of living, most working-age benefits and tax credits have been frozen in value each year.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation says this has pushed 200,000 people into poverty since 2016 and a further 200,000 could follow by 2020.\n\nClaire Ainsley, the organisation's executive director, said ending in-work poverty should be the government's \"number one priority after Brexit\".\n\n\"In-work poverty is the problem of our times as millions have been swept into poverty through low wages, low hours and rising costs,\" she said.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"essential\" that the freeze is lifted next year although she had acknowledged it will be up to the next prime minister.\n\nBut Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis dismissed Labour's wider pledge, saying its plans for the economy \"would lead to worse living standards\".\n\nHe added: \"Just this week we have seen wages rise by their fastest in 11 years, giving people more money in their pockets, and record numbers of people getting the security of a wage.\n\n\"Thanks to (the Conservatives') balanced approach, we've also cut taxes for 32 million people, taking millions of the lowest paid out of paying income tax altogether, and taken action to reduce the cost of living.\"", "Joanne Edwards captured this image of the Moon over Flintshire\n\nSkywatchers across the UK have witnessed a partial lunar eclipse, 50 years to the day since the US mission to put men on the Moon lifted off.\n\nThe surface of Earth's satellite appeared red or dark grey at the height of the eclipse at about 22:30 BST.\n\nLunar eclipses occur when the Earth crosses between the Sun and Moon - casting a shadow on the lunar surface.\n\nThe Apollo 11 mission carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on 16 July 1969.\n\nFour days later Armstrong became the first man to step on to the Moon's surface.\n\nDuring a partial eclipse, some - but not all - of the Moon passes through the darkest area of shadow behind the Earth, the central region called the umbra.\n\nThe Moon was clearly visible over Blackheath in south east London\n\nThe partial eclipse was seen from Avon beach in Mudeford, Dorset\n\nThe Moon appeared red above London as the Earth came between it and the Sun\n\nMostly clear skies also allowed the partial lunar eclipse to be seen from Stoodley Pike in West Yorkshire\n\nBBC Weather was expecting mostly clear skies, meaning the eclipse could be seen across much of the UK.\n\nThe spectacle could be seen from Tynemouth Priory on the north-east coast of England\n\nThe event was visible across Europe and was also expected to be seen from Africa, much of Asia, the eastern part of South America, and western Australia.\n\nLunar eclipses can only occur on the night of a full moon.\n\nThe next partial lunar eclipse is not expected until 19 November 2021.\n\nThe partial eclipse could be seen across the world including in Brasilia, Brazil\n\nThe Moon appeared red ahead of the partial eclipse in Speyer, Germany\n\nThe last total lunar eclipse - sometimes known as a \"super blood wolf moon\" - was visible in the UK in January.\n\nSkywatchers in the UK will not get the chance to see another until 2029 - weather permitting.", "Mathew Bell directed the attacks from his home in Irvine\n\nBritish authorities failed to arrest a paedophile for 18 months after a tip-off about him, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe National Crime Agency was first warned about the activities of Matthew Bell, 51, in September 2016 - but he was not arrested until March 2018.\n\nBell continued to pay to watch the abuse of Filipino children until at least April 2017, court papers show.\n\nThe NCA said there was not enough evidence to arrest him initially, but it \"acted swiftly\" when more emerged.\n\nHowever, the chairwoman of the House of Commons home affairs committee said the case was \"deeply worrying\".\n\nMatthew Bell, from Irvine, North Ayrshire, is thought to be the first man in Scotland to be convicted of live streaming the sexual abuse of children.\n\nEarlier this month he pleaded guilty to five offences - the judge describing his crimes as being \"of the utmost depravity\".\n\nBell would pay as little as 93p to watch on a webcam from his home as children in the Philippines were forced to carry out sex acts.\n\nBut we can now reveal the NCA was first warned about Bell in September 2016 - 18 months before he was eventually arrested.\n\nThe NCA says it didn't have enough information to make an arrest in 2016, but after BBC News brought forward extra material officers were able to \"develop intelligence\" about the case and \"act quickly\".\n\nInvestigative journalist Peter Dupont took this picture of Bell on his webcam\n\nThis story starts not in Scotland but a small town near Brussels, Belgium, and a man called Peter Dupont.\n\nHe is an investigative journalist who wanted to find out more about the live-streaming gangs in the Philippines who abuse children for the benefit of Western paedophiles watching via webcam.\n\nIt's a huge and growing problem. Children, even babies, are being sexually exploited for cash often by their own families.\n\nSo Mr Dupont went undercover and infiltrated a group based in Iligan in the south of the Philippines.\n\nMr Dupont was called by an unknown Skype number and stumbled into a group Skype session.\n\nOn screen was Bell, sitting in his flat, 25 miles from Glasgow, directing the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl.\n\n\"That was one of the most gruesome things - he was enjoying it very much, he was laughing the whole time,\" Mr Dupont told the BBC.\n\nHorrified, the journalist took several screenshots of Bell and dropped the call.\n\nMr Dupont first contacted the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command in 2016\n\nMr Dupont continued his work, gathering evidence on numerous foreign paedophiles. He was also writing a book and making a documentary with the help of two non-governmental organisations (NGOs).\n\nIn April 2015, he took all the information he gathered to the police in the Philippines. Five adults were arrested in Iligan and 12 children were rescued.\n\nHe continued to work with the Philippine National Police and a US charity called the International Justice Mission. But he wanted Bell to face justice too.\n\nIn January 2016 Mr Dupont gave an interview to the Daily Mail about his investigation - a picture of Bell only partially disguised appeared in the paper.\n\nThe journalist said he expected British police to get in touch - but they didn't. From then, he tried to make contact with the British authorities. Here is a timeline:\n\nIn January 2018, the BBC heard about the case and travelled to Belgium to interview Mr Dupont.\n\nHe did not understand why no action had been taken against Bell. \"It's a huge shame,\" he told us. \"It's pure negligence.\"\n\nA month later we took all the information we had gathered to Ceop, and on 21 March 2018 Bell was arrested.\n\nThat arrest took place 18 months after Mr Dupont says he first passed enough information to identify Bell to authorities.\n\nOn 2 July this year, Bell pleaded guilty to five offences. However, court documents show that he was still abusing children in April 2017, more than a year after his image appeared in the Daily Mail and seven months after Ceop's initial tip-off.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper said the case was \"really worrying\"\n\nThe NCA said: \"In September 2016 we received information from Mr Dupont which, despite researching and developing, provided insufficient evidence for action to be taken against Bell and the case remained open.\n\n\"We thank the BBC for their visit in February 2018, after which we continued to develop intelligence enabling us to act swiftly in partnership with Police Scotland to arrest and convict Bell.\"\n\nIt said an internal review found there was \"no referable or recordable conduct\" and no need to involve the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner, which investigates serious incidents involving the police.\n\nBut questions about this case and the wider issues facing the NCA are now being asked at Westminster.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, who is chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, described the case as \"incredibly disturbing\".\n\n\"To have delays in a case like this, which is so serious with such a vile crime against children, is really worrying.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've been concerned for many years that there just aren't enough resources going into this given the scale of the escalating problem we face.\"\n\nBell will be sentenced next week, but questions remain for the NCA about why it took so long to catch him - and how many children were left at risk.", "SeaWorld has faced criticism over the way it treats cetaceans\n\nSeaWorld has hit back after Virgin Holidays said it had stopped selling tickets to the US theme park chain's captive whale and dolphin experiences.\n\nSeaWorld said it was \"disappointing to see Virgin Holidays succumb to pressure from animal activists\".\n\nIt said the activists were people \"who mislead and manipulate marine mammal science to advance their agendas\".\n\n\"No company does more to protect marine mammals and advance cetacean research, rescue and conservation,\" it added.\n\nSeaWorld's statement came a day after Virgin Holidays said it was removing the attractions from its line-up.\n\nIn a blog, Virgin boss Richard Branson said the firm would \"end the sales and promotion of tourism attractions that involve captive cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins.\"\n\nAnimal rights activists say keeping cetaceans in captivity restricts their movement and can lead to aggressive behaviour, illness and even death.\n\nVirgin said it had been working towards its goal since 2014 when it sold tickets to about 20 captive whale and dolphin experiences.\n\nThe firm, which sells tickets to various attractions as part of its holiday packages, said the final destinations to be axed were:\n\nHowever, it said it would still sell tickets to the hotels at the Atlantis resorts.\n\nIn its response, SeaWorld said: \"Virgin's own corporate mission is having a measurable purpose that positively impacts communities and the environment. SeaWorld is the epitome of that mission.\n\n\"With more than 35,000 animal rescues and decades of meaningful scientific contributions, we are proud to be a recognised global leader in marine mammal science, education and, in particular, providing preeminent care to all of our marine mammals.\n\n\"With rising threats to our oceans and their inhabitants, supporting independently accredited zoological facilities is more important than ever. No company does more to protect marine mammals and advance cetacean research, rescue and conservation than SeaWorld.\"", "Police said no arrests had been made following the crash on Friday morning\n\nA woman riding an electric scooter has been killed in a crash with a lorry in south London.\n\nThe 35-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene at the Queen Circus roundabout, Battersea following the crash at about 08:30 BST.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said her next of kin had yet to be informed and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn July last year a cyclist was killed at the roundabout after being hit by a bin lorry.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We sent an advanced paramedic, two ambulance crews, an incident response officer and two medics in cars to the scene, with the first of our medics arriving in under four minutes.\n\n\"Sadly, despite the extensive efforts of medics, a woman died at the scene.\"\n\nElectric scooters are illegal to ride on public roads\n\nTransport for London and Wandsworth Council redesigned the roundabout in 2015, which trialled the use of raised kerbs and separate traffic lights to keep cyclists and vehicles segregated at junctions.\n\nConcerns had been raised that the new layout was too complicated.\n\nWhile the cause of the crash is unknown, e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads, including in cycle lanes or on the pavement.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"We extend our deepest sympathies to all those involved in this tragic incident, and fully support the police as they carry out their investigations.\n\n\"Safety is at the heart of all our road laws and it is important that retailers continue to remind people at the point of sale that it is illegal to ride e-scooters on public roads.\"\n\nAn electric scooter, or e-scooter, is similar to a traditional children's scooter but has a motor attached.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Philadelphia police say the suspected carjacking happened on Thursday\n\nA couple have been questioned by police and may face charges after a suspected carjacker was beaten by a mob and died in the US city of Philadelphia.\n\nPolice say the man who died had tried on Thursday to steal a woman's car with her three young children inside.\n\nThe woman's boyfriend, the father of two of the children, managed to chase the car when it got stuck in traffic.\n\nThe suspect, 54, was then pulled out of the vehicle and beaten by the boyfriend and some local residents, police say.\n\nThe suspected carjacker was unconscious when emergency services arrived at the scene shortly afterwards. He later died in a local hospital.\n\nThe couple who were questioned by police are both aged 25. They have not been identified.\n\n\"I'm not a fan of street justice,\" Philadelphia Police Capt Jason Smith was quoted as saying by CBS.\n\n\"I think everything should play out through us as it comes to criminal actions,\" he added.\n\nThe city's medical examiner's office is yet to determine how the suspected carjacker died.\n• None Two more men jailed for carjack death", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nAn Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released.\n\nBritish Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nA court in Gibraltar has ruled the ship can be detained for a further 14 days.\n\nIran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to complain about what it said was a \"form of piracy\".\n\nMohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies \"without hesitation\".\n\nMr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: \"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help detain Grace 1 and its cargo.\n\nGibraltar said there was reason to believe the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous.\n\nThe territory was initially able to detain the ship for 72-hours, but Gibraltar's Supreme Court granted a 14-day extension on Friday.\n\nIran's Foreign Ministry condemned the initial seizure of the vessel as illegal and accused the UK of acting at the behest of the United States.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office dismissed claims of piracy as \"nonsense\".\n\nSpain's Acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said, on Thursday, Spain - which disputes British ownership of Gibraltar - was studying the circumstances of the action, but said it followed \"a demand from the US to the UK\".\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said, while Britain has been keen to suggest it was an operation led by the Gibraltar government, it appears the intelligence came from the US.\n\nIran's threat to retaliate against the impounding of its super-tanker is an indication of how hurt Tehran is by the UK's action.\n\nIn the eight years of war in Syria this appears to be the first time Iran's supply of oil to its ally has been interrupted, even though EU sanctions have existed for almost the whole duration.\n\nThe episode also reflects worsening relations between Iran and the UK over a range of issues - particularly the continued imprisonment of British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe tanker and its cargo are probably worth more than $200m (£160m).\n\nIran is looking for ways to respond to what it sees as illegal and an act of piracy. It has the capability to take over a British ship in the Gulf and would see such a move as proportionate.\n\nOn Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker said the seizure of tanker was proof the UK \"lacks honour\" and takes orders from the US.\n\nMostafa Kavakebian, who leads the Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, tweeted that the seizure was \"a form of piracy and illegal hostility towards Iran\".\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have been exacerbated by the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nWhite House national security advisor John Bolton said the seizure was \"excellent news\". He added that the US and its allies would continue to prevent regimes in Tehran and Damascus from \"profiting off this illicit trade\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the swift action would deny valuable resources to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's \"murderous regime\".\n\nThe Baniyas Refinery, where the Iranian tanker was believed to be taking the oil, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products - a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nThis latest row comes at a time of escalating tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration - which has pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme - has reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nIts European allies, including the UK, have not followed suit.\n\nNonetheless, there have been growing tensions between the UK and Iran too, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe UK has also been pressing Iran to release British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police has launched a criminal investigation into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the UK ambassador in the US, which were critical of the Trump administration.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a \"clear public interest\" in bringing those responsible to justice.\n\nSir Kim Darroch stepped down as ambassador on Wednesday, saying it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nPresident Trump had earlier said the US would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nAnnouncing the criminal investigation, Mr Basu said he was satisfied the alleged leak had damaged UK international relations.\n\nHe urged whoever was responsible to turn themselves in and \"face the consequences\".\n\n\"I would say to the person or people who did this, the impact of what you have done is obvious,\" he said.\n\n\"However, you are now also responsible for diverting busy detectives from undertaking their core mission.\"\n\nAnyone with information about the alleged leak or those responsible should contact the police, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe advised individuals and the media not to publish leaked government documents, warning this could be a criminal matter, and to instead hand them over to the police or return them to their rightful owner.\n\nThe investigation was launched by the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command, which takes national responsibility for investigating allegations of criminal breaches of the Official Secrets Act, Mr Basu said.\n\nThe government had already opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos.\n\nBBC correspondent Dan Johnson said the involvement of counter-terrorism officers gave \"an indication of just how complicated this investigation could be - and how long it may take\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim's resignation prompted widespread support for him - as well as criticism of Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson failed to fully support him during a TV debate on Tuesday night.\n\nMr Johnson said he had spoken to Sir Kim on Thursday to express his sadness over his resignation and the ambassador told him he had not watched the TV debate.\n\nBut on Friday, Mr Johnson told the BBC a \"misrepresented\" account of his remarks later relayed to Sir Kim had been \"a factor\" in his decision to step down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: 'I wish the British ambassador well'\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Sir Kim's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" and public servants should be able to give \"full and frank advice\".\n\nShadow foreign minister Liz McInnes said Sir Kim Darroch was \"just doing his job\" and the criminal investigation was \"welcome\".\n\nOn Friday, President Trump said he wished the former ambassador well and that he had been told Sir Kim had actually said \"some very good things\" about him.\n\nIn the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true.", "Hundreds have attended screening sessions to find a stem cell match for a toddler with leukaemia.\n\nOne-year-old Phoebe Ashfield, from Gornal, Dudley, needs a transplant to treat a rare form of the illness.\n\nOrganisers hoped to collect more than 2,000 samples from the donor drive at two locations in the Black Country on Saturday.\n\nMother Emma Wyke said it was \"overwhelming\" to see so many people turn up for her daughter.\n\nHundreds attended donor screening sessions in the Black Country on Saturday\n\nPhoebe suffers from Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, an aggressive condition which affects white blood cells.\n\nAbout 650 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with the illness, according to the NHS.\n\nMs Wyke said chemotherapy was not working for her daughter, and doctors at Birmingham Children's Hospital have told the family a stem cell transplant is her best chance for survival.\n\n\"If you don't save my little girl's life then you could save another child's life,\" added Ms Wyke.\n\nThe sessions, during which cheek swabs were taken from potential donors, were held at Tesco Extra in Dudley and Tipton Sports Academy.\n\nDKMS charity volunteer Kam Arora said there had been a good response to the family's appeal\n\nDKMS, a charity which places people on the stem cell register, co-ordinated the appeal.\n\n\"It's a very very simple way of helping to save someone's life,\" said Kam Arora, a volunteer from the organisation.\n\nFurther donor sessions are being planned to help save Phoebe, said her family.\n\nBlood cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer in the UK, according to DKMS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Since October, almost 700,000 people have been detained crossing the border from Mexico into the US, a huge jump on previous years.\n\nThe reasons people give for trying to reach the US are varied - family, better economic opportunity, or the chance to escape the threat of violence.\n\nIn the interactive bot below, we have focused on the story of one woman, Maria, who represents many of those seeking to make the journey.\n\nMaria is fictional. But everything that happens to her here is based on the real experiences of migrants who have travelled to America, experiences that have been documented by rights groups, journalists and lawyers.\n\nSee for yourself the decisions and dangers a migrant like Maria may face.", "Facebook has more than two billion active users worldwide\n\nSocial media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic of Ireland since the European Union's new data protection regulation came into force a year ago.\n\nMost of the major US tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox, are registered for processing personal data in Ireland.\n\nIreland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 statutory investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nTwitter and LinkedIn are also under investigation, and last week the commission launched a probe in to Google over the way it uses personal data to provide targeted advertising.\n\nThis follows on from Google's €50m ($56m; £44m) fine imposed by French data regulator CNIL for \"lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation\".\n\nGoogle is appealing against the decision.\n\nSo the responsibility for policing their compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which started in May 2018 - falls on the country's Data Protection Commission (DPC).\n\nNine of the DPC's investigations were launched after complaints from individuals or businesses, while 10 have been instigated by the DPC itself.\n\nThe most common concerns are about the legal basis for processing personal data, lack of transparency about how a company collects personal data, and people's right to access their data.\n\n\"There has been a huge increase in awareness among individuals about their data rights since GDPR came in,\" says Graham Doyle, the DPC's head of communications.\n\nThis has led to a steep rise in complaints, with the number increasing from 2,500 in 2017 to more than 6,500 now, says Mr Doyle.\n\nAn office of 27 staff has had to be beefed up to more than 130. Mr Doyle expects the number to rise eventually to more than 200 over the next year or so.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said: \"We spent more than 18 months working to ensure we comply with the GDPR.\n\n\"We made our policies clearer, our privacy settings easier to find and introduced better tools for people to access, download, and delete their information. We are in close contact with the Irish Data Protection Office to ensure we are answering any questions they may have.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018 and gives EU citizens more rights over how their personal data is collected, used and stored.\n\nWe have the right to demand a copy of our personal data from companies, and they have to comply within a month.\n\nThat data must be easy to understand and should also be presented in a machine-readable format, so that a customer could transfer all their data to a competitor.\n\nWe can ask for any incorrect data to be corrected or for the whole lot to be deleted if we want.\n\nAnd companies have a responsibility to keep our data safe. If any is stolen or unwittingly shared with unauthorised organisations - and this could pose a risk to people's rights and freedoms - companies have to inform the national data regulator within 72 hours.\n\n\"Big tech is well and truly in the spotlight at the moment following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and other well-publicised data breaches,\" says Anthony Lee, data privacy expert and partner at law firm DMH Stallard.\n\n\"A lot of these big tech companies are consumer facing so handle a lot of personal data, but come from the US which doesn't have as strong privacy laws as Europe,\" he adds.\n\n\"If they weren't well attuned to the requirements that GDPR imposes, they certainly are now.\"\n\nAccording to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), fines levied for GDPR breaches now top €56m. Fines can be as high as €20m or 4% of annual turnover.\n\n\"In the first year, we've seen tens of thousands of complaints and data breaches,\" says Omer Tene, the IAPP's vice president and chief knowledge officer.\n\n\"But we've yet to see much evidence that the GDPR has led to an improvement in organisations' data practices.\"\n\nIAPP estimates that organisations have appointed more than 500,000 data protection officers with specific responsibility for handling GDPR-related issues.\n\nAnn Bevitt thinks the real effects of GDPR have yet to be felt by businesses\n\nBut it thinks many companies still need to do much more to bring themselves fully into compliance.\n\nAnd Ann Bevitt, partner at law firm Cooley, believes that while some companies have instigated a \"wholesale change in their culture around privacy and data protection\", many others have simply engaged in \"a box-ticking exercise with little to no embedded change in practice\".\n\nA year after GDPR came in to force, she warns that \"to some extent, the impact has yet to be felt, in that we haven't yet seen significant enforcement activity, both in terms of volume and amount\".\n\nThis is likely to change over the next year as the number of completed investigations - and potential fines - rises.\n\nThere is a time lag because investigations can take many months. All parties need to be consulted before the data protection authority can reach a conclusion. Then the decision has to be circulated to all the other EU data protection authorities for approval.\n\nAnd the company under investigation has the right to appeal against the final decision.\n\nIreland's Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, is expected to circulate her decisions on some cases by July or August, with final rulings made by the end of the year, Mr Doyle predicts.\n\nBig tech firms may be feeling the heat for some time to come.", "The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nRoyal Marines have boarded an oil tanker on its way to Syria thought to be breaching EU sanctions, the government of Gibraltar has said.\n\nAuthorities said there was reason to believe the ship - Grace 1 - was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in Syria.\n\nThe refinery is subject to European Union sanctions against Syria.\n\nBritain's ambassador in Tehran, Robert Macaire, has been summoned over the incident.\n\nIran's foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted on Iranian state TV as saying the ambassador had been summoned over the \"illegal seizure\" of the tanker.\n\nGibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, praised the marines who detained the ship.\n\n\"Be assured that Gibraltar remains safe, secure and committed to the international, rules-based, legal order,\" he said, thanking the police, customs and port authorities for their involvement in detaining the ship.\n\nThe British overseas territory of Gibraltar stands at the gateway to the Mediterranean\n\nGibraltar port and law enforcement agencies detained the super tanker and its cargo on Thursday morning with the help of the marines.\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help seize the tanker, at the request of the Gibraltar government.\n\nA defence source described it as a \"relatively benign operation\" without major incident.\n\nMr Picardo said he had written to the presidents of the European Commission and European Council to give details of the sanctions that have been enforced.\n\nThe Baniyas refinery, in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products, a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said she welcomed the \"firm action\" by the Gibraltarian authorities.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Egypt has opened to visitors the Bent Pyramid near Cairo, in a move that is part of a wider push to boost tourism.\n\nThe Bent Pyramid at Dahshur was built for pharaoh Snefru about 2,600BC, and was originally designed as a \"true\" pyramid with the steep 54-degree angle.\n\nBut the pyramid was being built on soft, silty clay - and there was a problem with stability and subsidence. This was solved by adjusting the angle to a flatter 43 degrees, 147ft (45m) up the face.\n\nThe angular shape contrasts with the straight sides of the Red Pyramid just to the north.\n\nVisitors can now clamber down a 79m narrow tunnel from a raised entrance on the Bent Pyramid's northern side to reach two chambers deep inside the structure.\n\nArchaeologists also presented mummies, masks and tools discovered during continuing excavation works that began near the Dahshur pyramids last year.\n\nTourism is an important source of revenue for the country.\n• None How were the pyramids made?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: The Spektr-RG mission is really two telescopes in one\n\nOne of the most significant Russian space science missions in the post-Soviet era has launched from Baikonur.\n\nThe Spektr-RG telescope is a joint venture with Germany that will map X-rays across the entire sky in unprecedented detail.\n\nResearchers say this information will help them trace the large-scale structure of the Universe.\n\nThe hope is Spektr-RG can provide fresh insights on the accelerating behaviour of cosmic expansion.\n\nIt should also identify a staggering number of new X-ray sources, such as the colossal black holes that reside at the centre of galaxies.\n\nAs gas falls into these monsters, the matter is heated and shredded and \"screams\" in X-rays. The radiation is essentially a telltale for the Universe's most violent phenomena.\n\nSpektr-RG is expecting to detect perhaps three million super-massive black holes during its service life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is one of the most significant Russian space science missions in the post-Soviet era\n\nThe telescope rode to orbit atop a Proton rocket which left the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:31 local time (12:31 GMT).\n\nIt will be many weeks however before the mission's work can begin in earnest.\n\nThe spacecraft must first travel to a popular observing position some 1.5 million km from Earth known as Lagrange Point 2.\n\nIt's here that Spektr-RG can enjoy a stable environment free from the shadowing and temperature swings it would otherwise experience if operating closer to our home planet.\n\nBut once testing is complete, the observatory can get on with the business of scanning the sky.\n\nThis has been a decades-long journey for Russian scientists\n\nTaking up most of the room on the spacecraft bus, or chassis, is the German-developed eRosita system. Nestled next to it is the Russian-built science hardware known as ART-XC.\n\nBoth use a cluster of seven tubular mirror modules to corral the X-ray light down on to sensitive camera detectors.\n\nWorking in tandem, eRosita and ART-XC will map the radiation as it floods across the cosmos in the energy range of 0.2 to 30 kiloelectron volts (keV).\n\nOver the course of six months, they should complete one full-sky survey, which will then be repeated again and again to improve on the detail.\n\nScientists expect the data to be a revelation. An all-sky X-ray map has never before been produced at the sought-after energies and at such fine resolution.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DLR This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nA key goal of Spektr-RG will be to investigate the mysterious cosmic components referred to as \"dark matter\" and \"dark energy\".\n\nThis duo make up 96% of the energy density of the Universe, but next to nothing is known about them. The former seems to pull on normal, visible matter gravitationally, while the latter appears to be working to drive the cosmos apart at an ever faster rate.\n\nSpektr-RG's insights will come from mapping the distribution of hot, X-ray-emitting gas.\n\nThis will illuminate the great clusters of galaxies that thread across the Universe. And in doing so, it will identify where the greatest concentrations of dark matter can be found.\n\n\"We're aiming to detect about 100,000 clusters, and in fact above a certain mass limit we expect to detect all the clusters in the Universe,\" explained Prof Kirpal Nandra from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.\n\n\"We then measure their masses, and see how the number of clusters of a given mass evolves over cosmic time. This gives us a potentially very accurate measure of the amount of dark matter, and how it clumps together,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Our sensitivity allows us to map all this out to huge distances, all the way back to more than half the age of the Universe. That means we see the large-scale structure not just as it is today, but back then as well. And we also see how it's evolved over time. That's what gives you the ability to test cosmological models and to see perhaps the influence of dark energy and whether this has changed over time.\"\n\neRosita: A cluster of seven mirror modules guides the X-rays down on to camera detectors\n\nSpektr-RG has taken decades to develop. Russian scientists have had to cope with inconsistent funding down the years and as a consequence the concept that launched on Saturday is quite radically different from what was originally envisaged.\n\nThe mission has been described as the most important astrophysics venture in post-Soviet Russia. Prof Nandra said his Russian colleagues certainly saw it that way.\n\n\"It puts them right at the forefront of X-ray astronomy; it's a massive opportunity for them,\" he added.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson says veterans should be protected from \"unfair prosecutions\"\n\nPotential prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged to end \"unfair\" prosecutions of Army veterans who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Tory leadership contender has joined rival Jeremy Hunt in backing a public campaign supporting soldiers who served during the Troubles.\n\nMany Conservative MPs have called for such a move in recent months.\n\nThe government is working on legislation to deal with the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nMr Johnson also reportedly promised on Thursday to appoint a veterans minister if he is chosen to lead the Conservative Party.\n\n\"We need to end unfair trials of people who served their Queen and country when no new evidence has been produced and when the accusations have already been exhaustively questioned in court,\" he told the Sun newspaper.\n\n\"We must protect people against unfair prosecutions. And I will.\n\n\"I totally support the principle of cross-government work to secure world-class care and support for veterans.\"\n\nSinn Féin legacy spokesperson Linda Dillon said Mr Boris Johnson was \"backing a campaign which is about giving these soldiers immunity from prosecution.\n\n\"His comments are a reckless and a highly offensive attack on the rights of victims of the conflict in their search for truth and justice and flies in the face of the views expressed in a public consultation on dealing with the legacy of the past.\"\n\nSix former soldiers are facing prosecution in connection with Troubles-era killings\n\nA number of Northern Ireland veterans are facing charges, including Soldier F, who has been charged in relation to the killings of two protesters on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nFormer Northern Ireland Police Chief Constable Sir George Hamilton has previously said official figures show that investigations are not unfairly focused on the armed forces and police.\n\nThe idea of a statute of limitations for former soldiers is backed by many Conservative backbenchers, including some who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it was withdrawn from a legacy consultation document published in May 2018, even though Prime Minister Theresa May had claimed the system for investigating the past was \"patently unfair\".\n\nLast week, the Northern Ireland Office published responses to its consultation, which showed a \"clear majority\" of respondents felt an amnesty for Troubles-related matters would be inappropriate.\n\nNo specific question was asked on the proposal for a so-called statute of limitations for military veterans.\n\nIt would prevent veterans from being prosecuted.\n\nSimon Hoare was elected as the chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in June\n\nHowever, the recently elected chairman of Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said he did not think it was right to put timeframes on bringing forward legislation.\n\nSimon Hoare told BBC News NI he had been asked to back the campaign but chose not to because of his committee role.\n\nThe Conservative MP for North Dorset said any solution that did not work for everyone would \"not last very long\".\n\n\"It's more important to get it right,\" he told the Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nMr Hoare said he did not support Mr Johnson's Tory leadership campaign as he found the former foreign secretary to be \"not be across the detail\" on many matters.\n\nMr Johnson is battling it out with the current foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to become the next prime minister.\n\nThey are trying to convince around 160,000 Conservative Party members to support them in the ballot for the top job, with the winner set to be announced on 23 July.\n\nHere's a quick guide to their positions on Brexit, immigration, tax, spending, health and social care and education.", "A railway company is to offer free train tickets to all students going to a university's open day.\n\nWest Midlands Railway will provide free travel to the University of Worcester this autumn.\n\nIt follows warnings that disadvantaged families were not able to go to open days because of travel costs.\n\nAnne-Marie Canning, director of social mobility at King's College London, said rail fares had become a major barrier to widening access to university.\n\nJon Harris, of West Midlands Railway, said this pilot scheme was part of a commitment to making rail travel \"accessible for all\".\n\nStudents can register with the university for a voucher for a free ticket for the next open day in September, which can be used on West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services.\n\nOpen days, where applicants can ask tutors about courses and look at accommodation, have been attracting tens of thousands of families in recent weeks.\n\nBut the BBC has highlighted concerns that the cost of getting to open days had become a significant limit on applying to university.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen long-distance rail tickets can cost £100 or £200, and students might want to see several potential universities, it can become unaffordable.\n\nMs Canning says her work with families in disadvantaged areas, looking at barriers to university, had found the cost of train tickets to open days had been raised by parents as one of the biggest worries.\n\nThe social mobility charity, the Villiers Park Educational Trust, had also warned that poorer youngsters were limiting their applications to the universities which they could afford to reach on open days.\n\nThere is no obligation to attend an open day, but they have become big recruitment events, where students get a chance to see where they would live and study and to view the facilities on offer.\n\nThe cost of train travel can make it difficult to get to open days, say social mobility charities\n\nThe charity found that young people saw going to university as a major financial commitment - and many would not consider applying to a place they had not visited.\n\n\"We know how important open days are for prospective students. It is a chance to ask questions, speak to lecturers and to get a feel for whether it is the place for them,\" said the University of Worcester's pro vice-chancellor, Ross Renton.\n\nHe said that everyone had a \"fundamental right to education\" and the offer from the rail company would \"help make travel costs less prohibitive for people\" wanting to visit the university.\n\nThe rail company's offer of tickets to open days follows another scheme providing free travel for those going to job interviews or to training courses for job seekers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Di Gilbert back at top camp after reaching the summit of Everest in May\n\nAfter Di Gilbert became the first British woman to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Everest 14 years ago she vowed she would never go back - but earlier this year she did.\n\nDi, originally from Alford in Aberdeenshire, is one of a very small group of women who have successfully led more than one expedition to the 8,848 m (29,029 ft) summit of the world's highest mountain.\n\nAt the end of May, Di successfully completed her second expedition, but she said the sight of so many who had died near the summit was \"horrendous\".\n\nBy the light of her head torch, Di counted 11 bodies on the day she reached the summit before she stopped counting.\n\nDi is one of a very small group of women to have successfully led more than one expedition\n\nHer team had to manoeuvre past one climber whose body was hanging on the famous \"second step\" both as they went up and back down the mountain.\n\n\"I don't climb mountains to see bodies,\" she told BBC Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams programme. \"I think it is a side of climbing mountains that people don't really appreciate.\"\n\nDi, who is based in Grantown-on-Spey in the Highlands, reached the peak from the Tibetan/Chinese side as a photograph emerged showing dozens of climbers queuing on the busier Nepal side of the mountain.\n\nShe says the \"traffic jams\" at the top are caused by a very short weather window and a large increase in the number of expeditions, especially from the Nepal side.\n\nAt that altitude, known as the \"death zone\", any delay can be fatal because low levels of oxygen can lead to weakness and exhaustion.\n\nDi told the programme her summit day could not have gone better, but when her team came away it felt \"as if we had come off a war zone because they were all traumatised\", she says.\n\nIt took days for them to start speaking about it because they had to take time to process what they had seen, she said.\n\nDi led her team from the Tibetan/Chinese side, which is travelled by far fewer people because permits are restricted.\n\nDi and her team in the lower elevations of Everest\n\nShe says there had been 11 reported fatalities on Everest this year and that nine were on the Nepal side, with some being due to not having enough oxygen.\n\nShe thinks most of the bodies she saw had been on the mountain from previous years.\n\n\"When you are working at these extreme altitudes you can't just put people in an ambulance and get them stretchered off a hill. It is a massive operation,\" she says.\n\nDi first reached the summit of Everest in 2005, which she says was an amazing experience.\n\nBut she always maintained \"they could never pay me enough money\" to go back.\n\nShe now says she thrives on the challenge of leading a big commercial expedition, and for her the return to Everest was about the journey rather than the summit.\n\n\"When you do summit you have been on the go for days in very hard conditions, you haven't eaten, you haven't drank and you have survived in the death zone for quite a few days,\" she says.\n\n\"On summit day you've been going for maybe nine hours and you get to the top and all you want to do is get back down.\"\n\nDi says it is only when you come back down to the lower elevations and consider what you have done that it really sinks in.\n\n\"Certainly on summit day, you are not thinking about anything bar getting off that hill,\" she says.\n\nMore than 900 people climbed Everest this year and Di says the average cost of taking part in an expedition is about US$45,000 (£35,900).\n\nShe says those prepared to pay the high cost split into two camps.\n\nThere are \"kindred spirits\", she says, genuine climbers who have dreamt about Everest all their lives and there are \"the selfie stick people\", who basically want to get a summit photograph.\n\nDi is a hugely experienced expedition leader who has climbed the highest mountains on every continent and completed all of Scotland's 282 Munros.\n\nShe says her heart lies in places like Ben Nevis and the Cairngorms and she jokes: \"I often say the Himalayas are good training for the Scottish hills.\n\n\"Everest is not the most difficult climb. There are certainly more technical climbs on the north face of Ben Nevis, for example, but in terms of altitude it is the big cream.\n\n\"Because it is so high there is nothing else on planet earth that can simulate that elevation. That's why it is such a unique mountain.\"", "Police are looking for two men after a woman was sexually assaulted at the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow.\n\nDuring the incident, a 32-year-old woman was grabbed by one man and then sexually assaulted by another during a concert at Glasgow Green.\n\nThe incident took place at about 22:00 as she made her way to the toilets, believed to be near the main stage.\n\nThree men who were walking by at the time shouted at the suspects, who then ran off.\n\nThe suspects are both described as white, 6ft tall, of medium build and dark hair.\n\nOne was wearing a black T-shirt with a small logo on the front and the other a white T-shirt with black writing.\n\nDet Sgt Euan Keil said: \"The woman was making her way to the toilets when she was grabbed by one man and pulled to the rear of the toilet block where another man sexually assaulted her.\n\n\"Her attackers fled when they were disturbed by three men who were walking by the area and who shouted at them.\n\n\"I don't think the three men realised what was actually going on or that their intervention probably stopped this attack from escalating.\n\n\"It is important that we trace them as what they saw could prove vital to us catching the two men responsible.\"\n\nA statement from the TRNSMT festival said: \"We are doing everything possible to help emergency services with their inquiries but our focus at this moment is the wellbeing of the person involved, and we are ensuring that they have all the support that they need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC TV, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and mobile app with text commentary online.\n\nSerena Williams will need to deal with \"pressure times 100\" when she faces Simona Halep in Saturday's Wimbledon final seeking to equal the all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles.\n\nThis is the challenge that got her back out on to the court after almost dying giving birth and the one that keeps her motivated at the age of 37.\n\n\"Serena has already beaten a lot of records but this is the ultimate one,\" coach Patrick Mouratoglou told the BBC.\n\nAustralian Margaret Court set her record for singles titles between 1960 and 1973 - at a time that spanned the amateur and Open era.\n\nWilliams already holds the record for the most Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era with 23 but it is not enough for her.\n\nStanding in her way is 27-year-old Romanian former world number one Halep, who says she has a new-found love of grass courts and a belief she can beat anyone and win a second Grand Slam title.\n\nWilliams has been stuck on 23 Grand Slam titles since winning the 2017 Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant.\n\nSince coming back from maternity leave in March 2018, she reached the Wimbledon and US Open finals last year.\n\nIn the defeat by Angelique Kerber here 12 months ago, her lack of mobility around the court was exploited, while against Naomi Osaka in New York the American lost her cool in dramatic scenes.\n\nHere she has been calm and happy, which Mouratoglou says makes her \"much more dangerous\".\n\n\"I definitely feel like I play better when I'm calm,\" Williams said. \"But it's definitely an effort. Not getting over-pumped, but at the same time not getting under-wound. I have to be in that right space.\"\n\nMouratoglou said that despite Williams claiming she was not thinking too much about the record, it was something they would be focussing on before the final.\n\n\"To possibly break a record and make history, the pressure is times 100,\" he said. \"If you try to put it aside it will come back and hit you stronger so you have to accept it, deal with it and talk about it. That's what we're going to do.\"\n\nWilliams came into the tournament after an injury-hit year, where she she was forced to withdraw from three tournaments in a row.\n\nBut here she has looked strong and says she has even been helped by playing mixed doubles with Britain's Andy Murray and getting more match time and volleying practice.\n\nShe has dominated with her serve - having notched 45 aces so far - and her percentage of first-serve points won reached almost 90% in her semi-final win over Barbora Strycova.\n\n\"You can't get to the big points because Serena is always ahead. It's the weapon of mass destruction I call it - the Serena serve,\" nine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova said.\n\nHow can Halep stop her?\n\nThis will be the 11th meeting between Halep and Williams, with the American having won nine of their previous encounters.\n\nBut the Romanian says that over the years she has learned that she will have her chances, and plans to take them.\n\n\"Of course, I respect a lot what she has done and what she's doing, but now I feel stronger mentally facing her,\" the seventh seed said.\n\n\"I think it's a great feeling to face Serena in a Grand Slam final. If you are able to win, it makes it sweeter.\"\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, who beat then defending champion Williams in the fourth round in 2011, said the best way to beat the American was to try to keep the rallies going as long as possible and hope she tires.\n\nBefore her semi-final victory over Barbora Strycova, Williams had completed 75% of her points within four strokes.\n\n\"The biggest chance is to extend the rally and, if you get a shorter ball try and attack it,\" Frenchwoman Bartoli told BBC television.\n\n\"Serena has to be fatigued to take some of the sting out of her serve.\"\n\n\"You have to try and hold your ground but it is so difficult. You feel like you are moving backwards because the ball is coming at you so hard.\"\n\nHalep has her own point to prove\n\nWhile Williams is chasing a place in the history books, Halep has her own points to prove.\n\nShe finally silenced the 'she's number one, when will she win a Grand Slam?' questions last year when she won her maiden major at the French Open, which came after three final defeats and with a reputation as a choker.\n\nBut since then she has lost the number one ranking and not come close to another Grand Slam title, falling in the third round at last year's Wimbledon and being stunned in the first round defeat of the US Open.\n\nHer Roland Garros title defence ended with a straight-set defeat by unseeded American teenager Amanda Anisimova.\n\n\"She finished the year number one twice in a row. I feel like she's back. She wants to prove that she can do it again,\" Williams said.\n\n\"You can't underestimate her. She's like a little powerhouse.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Cyclists have reported branches being arranged across tracks at head height\n\n\"Incredibly dangerous\" booby traps have been found on popular cycle paths in the Peak District.\n\nItems found in recent weeks include large rocks moved out of position, pins dropped on the road and branches arranged at head height across paths.\n\nChris Maloney, who runs a local cycling information blog, said while cyclists appeared to be the target, the obstacles could harm anyone.\n\nPolice said they had been made aware and appealed for information.\n\nThe traps have been spotted on trails and roads in Bradwell, Bamford and Aston, near the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border. There are no reports of anyone being injured.\n\nBlogger Chris Maloney, a member of mountain biking advocacy group Peak District MTB, said: \"The worrying thing is we don't know who it is who's doing this kind of stuff.\n\n\"It's somebody with a vendetta, someone who has something against we assume mountain bikers or riders - but the things they're putting out do not discriminate.\n\n\"It's an incredibly dangerous and reckless thing to do.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police said no official complaints had been made but said there have been previous incidents where tacks were placed on roads in and around some villages.\n\n\"Anyone acting in this manner is putting people at serious risk of injury and, potentially, even death. It is not just cyclists that could be affected - horses and their riders, walkers and other trail users could all be hurt,\" the force said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it was also aware of reports of alleged trail sabotaging.\n\nTraps have also been found at mountain biking trails elsewhere in the UK, including a plank of wood with 200 nails embedded in it, found in a forest path in Wales.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malik Hussain was pronounced dead at the scene of the stabbing in Baker Street, Sparkhill\n\nDashcam footage \"could be key\" to catching the killer of a man stabbed in an apparent targeted attack, police have said.\n\nMalik Hussain, 35, was found dead in Baker Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, at about 23:20 BST on Friday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was particularly keen to gather information about a car that sped from the area.\n\nDet Insp Nick Barnes said dashcam footage \"could be crucial\" in identifying the vehicle.\n\n\"We believe this could be key in helping us to catch the killer and would ask anyone who can help to come forward as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nPolice are keen to hear from motorists who were around Baker Street, Warwick Road, Stratford Road and the surrounding areas between 23:00 and midnight.\n\nDet Insp Caroline Corfield added: \"At this stage we believe this may have been a targeted attack and we're keen to hear from anyone with information which can assist our inquiries.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place in due course, the force said.\n\nThe man was discovered in Baker Street\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Agnew takes over tube announcements for the Cricket World Cup final.\n\nSports fans arriving by Tube for the final of the Cricket World Cup will find themselves greeted by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.\n\nAnnouncements read by the commentator will be relayed at St John's Wood - the north-west London Underground station that is closest to Lord's.\n\nAggers's passenger tips will include: \"To avoid being run out, please hold the handrail on the escalator.\"\n\nEngland take on New Zealand on Sunday with radio coverage on Radio 5 Live.\n\nIn another message, the BBC correspondent warns: \"For some reason St John's Wood is a very windy station so hold on to your hats.\"\n\nEngland fans will be hoping for a similar performance from their team as Thursday's semi-final\n\nSpeaking about recording the broadcasts, Agnew, who played for England in the 1980s, said it had been \"great fun spending time in the control room\".\n\n\"I accidentally played one of my announcements out over the Tannoy, which was a bit embarrassing - but I think I got away with it!\" he said.\n\nSt John's Wood station is likely to be considerably busier than this on Sunday morning\n\nBoth New Zealand and England, who were last in a World Cup final in 1992, will be aiming to win the competition for the first ever time.\n\nFor those who will not be at Lord's - and will not get to hear Agnew's announcements - the match is set to be the first of the tournament to be broadcast on free-to-air television in the UK after Channel 4 agreed a deal with rights holder Sky.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lesley-Ann Dodds, 21, denies aiding and abetting and perverting the course of justice\n\nAn engaged couple has appeared in court charged in connection with the murder of County Down man Pat McCormick.\n\nThe body of the 55-year-old father of four from Saintfield was found at a lake in nearby Ballygowan on Tuesday.\n\nDavid Gill, of Ballyglighorn Road in Comber, County Down, appeared at Newtownards Magistrates' Court on Friday, handcuffed and flanked by police.\n\nThe 26 year old denied a charge of murder and did not apply for bail.\n\nHis fiancée Lesley-Ann Dodds, 21, from Mountcollyer Avenue in Belfast, also appeared, charged with aiding and abetting and perverting the course of justice.\n\nShe denied involvement in the murder.\n\nA detective inspector told the court she could connect both defendants to the charges.\n\nFather-of-four Pat McCormick had been missing since 30 May\n\nMr McCormick was last seen alive in Comber on Thursday 30 May and police had carried out extensive searches for his body for several weeks.\n\nThe court heard there had been text message exchanges and phone calls between the trio before Mr McCormick met the couple at a flat on Castle Street in Comber on the night of 30 May.\n\nIt also heard Mr McCormick was anxious about the meeting as he feared he was being \"set up\".\n\nThe officer said CCTV footage showed Mr Gill leaving the property but Mr McCormick was never seen alive again.\n\nPolice were searching a lake at a former quarry when they found the body\n\nObjecting to Ms Dodds' bail application, police said she had been searching for cheap holidays the day after the murder and there were concerns she may interfere with witnesses.\n\nWhen asked by the defence, the officer accepted Ms Dodds had no physical involvement in Mr McCormick's murder or the disposal of his body.\n\nThe judge rejected bail due to the concerns raised by police.\n\nBoth of the accused are due to appear in court again in August.", "Simona Halep won her first Wimbledon title and crushed Serena Williams' latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam success with a devastating 56-minute display of athleticism.\n\nThe Romanian won 6-2 6-2 in front of an incredulous Centre Court, running after everything the American threw at her.\n\n\"It was my best match,\" the 27-year-old said after her second Grand Slam title following her 2018 French Open success.\n\nFor 37-year-old Williams, it was a third major final defeat in 12 months.\n\n\"She played out of her mind, it was a little bit deer in the headlights for me,\" she said.\n• None I played the match of my life - Halep\n• None Someone told me not to look at records - Williams\n\nHalep shows no nerves as expectation weighs on Williams\n\nWilliams, like in last year's final defeat by Angelique Kerber, seemed weighed down by public and personal expectations as she quickly fell 4-0 behind in the opening set.\n\nHalep had said beforehand that she had no pressure on her and that is exactly how she played.\n\nFrom the outset she looked relaxed and confident, attacking the Williams serve and keeping the rallies long and deep to force the American into errors.\n\nWhile Williams closed her eyes at changeovers to try to regroup, Halep kept her eyes on the prize and kept her cool to take the victory on her second match point, when the American sent a forehand into the net.\n\nHalep's level never dropped in an almost perfect display in which she made just three unforced errors to Williams' 26.\n\n\"I knew that I have to be aggressive, be 100% for every ball, and that I don't have to let her come back into the match because she's so powerful and so strong,\" Halep said. \"She knows how to manage every moment. So I knew that I have to stay there, which I did pretty well today.\"\n\nDefeat means Williams' wait for a first Grand Slam title since becoming a mum continues, as does her pursuit of an eighth Wimbledon singles title.\n\n\"I definitely knew that she was just playing her heart out,\" the American said. \"I felt like, OK, what do I need to do to get to that level?\n\n\"When someone plays lights out, there's really not much you can do. You just have to understand that that was their day today.\"\n\nSeventh seed Halep, in her first major final since winning the French Open last year and having lost her world number one ranking, flew under the radar at these championships while much of the focus was on Williams and her record chase.\n\nBut she executed the perfect gameplan - stifling Williams' biggest weapon in her serve - and it was credit to her returning ability that Halep restricted the American to just two aces when she had fired 45 during her other matches.\n\nHalep's movement around the court contrasted with a sluggish Williams - who at one point was urged to \"wake up\" by one shout from the crowd - and her tenacity in the rallies forced the American to overcook her shots through what felt like desperation at times.\n\nA break in the first game set the tone, with Williams firing wide before a Halep hold to love underlined her determination to win. The net helped Halep in the next game, with her shot scraping over but Williams' return bouncing back at the American.\n\nWith just 11 minutes on the clock Halep had won the first four games and she barely slowed, facing just one break point - which she saved.\n\nWilliams started to get herself a bit more into the match early in the second set but when she came to the net for a volley with the whole court at her disposal and only managed to find the net, giving Halep the break, she must have known it was not going to be her day.\n\nHalep won the next three games in a row, falling to her knees with her arms raised to the sky in celebration as Centre Court rose to its feet in appreciation of one of the greatest Wimbledon final performances.\n• None Halep won 83% of her first-serve points, compared to 59% for Williams\n• None Williams made 26 unforced errors, while Halep made just three\n• None Williams had more winners - 17 - than Halep (13), but Halep won 45% of receiving points compared to 26% for Williams\n• None Halep had lost nine of her previous 10 meetings with Williams\n• None Halep has now won the past two Grand Slam finals she has appeared in, having been defeated in the three before that. Williams has lost her past three\n• None Although 56 minutes is a quick victory, it is some way off the fastest Grand Slam final win - Steffi Graf's 34-minute French Open win of 1988\n• None Halep, who began the championships as world number seven, will rise to number four when the next rankings are published on Monday\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"At the start of the second set you could see that Simona Halep was still that bit better, actually a lot better. I don't think anyone is going to feel short-changed by the 56 minutes of tennis that they have seen today because they have seen one of the all time great Wimbledon final performances.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Tracy Austin on BBC TV: \"Unbelievable tennis from Simona Halep. She put herself in such a bubble mentally and she didn't let herself begin to think about the end of the match. She said this was a chill year. She really took the pressure off herself.\"\n\nThree-time Wimbledon singles champion John McEnroe: \"I'm shocked. She obviously is a tremendous and, at this stage in her career, superior athlete. But I didn't think it would intimidate Serena Williams as much as it did today. Halep completely and thoroughly outplayed her. It wasn't even a match. There's only a handful of times in your life when you feel as though you're in the zone like that and that was one of them.\"\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova: \"I think it's essential for Serena Williams to play more matches. You can't fake it. You need those matches. History can get in the way, and it can get difficult to get rid of those nerves.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Undocumented migrants are surrounded by police during the protest\n\nHundreds of undocumented migrants have stormed the Panthéon in Paris and demanded the right to remain in France.\n\nThe protesters, who were mainly from West Africa, surged into the building at around midday (11:00 GMT) on Friday.\n\nTourists were evacuated from the mausoleum, where many of France's most famous figures are buried.\n\nThe group called themselves the \"black vests\" - a reference to the yellow vest protest movement that spread through much of France earlier this year.\n\nThey waved papers in the air, chanted, and demanded to hold talks with Prime Minister Édouard Philippe over their immigration status.\n\nThe demonstrators held waved papers and chanted as they demanded the right to stay in the country\n\nThe Pantheon monument is a grand neoclassical building in the centre of Paris\n\nIn a statement, the protest group described themselves as \"the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic\".\n\n\"We don't want to negotiate with the interior minister and his officials any more, we want to talk to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe now!\" it said.\n\nBetween 200 and 300 migrants took part in the protest, a police spokesman told Reuters news agency. There were 37 arrests made.\n\nBut other estimates - from activist groups and witnesses - said as many as 700 people were involved in the demonstration.\n\nHundreds of mainly West African migrants took part in the protest\n\nSome of the demonstrators suffered minor injuries\n\nThe protesters remained in the Panthéon, a grand neoclassical building in the centre of the city, for several hours before they were evacuated by police.\n\nWriters Émile Zola, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, and scientist Marie Curie, are among those buried in the building.\n\n\"All of the people who gained entry to the Panthéon have been evacuated,\" Prime Minister Philippe said on Twitter. \"France is a country based on the rule of law which means... respect for public monuments and for the memory they represent,\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, dozens of riot police were pictured barricading the site to prevent people from entering while the protest was taking place.\n• None Who are the 'gilets jaunes'?", "Holidaymakers jetting off on summer breaks could be hit by strike action planned at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nMore than 4,000 workers at the airport - including customer service, engineering and security staff - have voted to strike over pay.\n\nStaff will walk out on 26 July, 27 July, 5 August, 6 August, 23 August and 24 August, which the Unite union said could create \"summer travel chaos\".\n\nHeathrow says it has contingency plans to remain open and operate safely.\n\nUnite said members had voted in eight ballots to support action after an 18-month pay rise offer averaging 2.7% was rejected.\n\nWayne King, the union's Unite regional co-ordinating officer, said: \"There is deepening anger over pay among workers who are essential to the smooth running of Heathrow Airport\".\n\nUnite said the dispute was also in part because of different pay rates for the same job, as well as discontent with the pay package of airport boss John Holland-Kaye.\n\nAccording to the company's annual report, last year the Heathrow boss banked a 103.2% pay increase, from £2.1m in 2017 to £4.2m in 2018, thanks largely to a long-term bonus scheme.\n\nThe union said the airport's current pay offer amounted to £3.75 a day extra for its lowest-paid workers.\n\nHeathrow urged the union to return to the bargaining table to resolve the pay dispute.\n\n\"We have proposed a progressive pay package giving at least a 4.6% pay rise to over 70% of our frontline colleagues. The total package offered is above RPI [Retail Prices Index] and is specifically designed to boost the wages of lower paid colleagues\".\n\nAs the dispute rumbles on, the airport said its contingency plans would ensure flights could still take off and land during one of the busiest period of the year.\n\n\"We will be working alongside our airline partners to minimise disruption caused to passengers as they look towards their well-deserved summer holidays,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has refused to guarantee that the UK will leave the EU before Christmas, but said he \"expects\" it to happen by then.\n\nHe would not say when Brexit would take place if he became PM, telling the BBC: \"I'm being honest with people\".\n\nRival Boris Johnson said the UK would leave by 31 October \"come what may\".\n\nHe also defended his remarks on the UK ambassador in Washington, who quit this week over leaked criticisms of Donald Trump.\n\nMr Johnson added he did not accept that his failure to support Sir Kim Darroch during a debate on ITV earlier this week had prompted him to resign.\n\nHowever, he said a \"misrepresented\" account of his remarks later relayed to Sir Kim had been \"a factor\" in his decision to step down.\n\nHe added: \"I stood up completely for the principle that civil servants should be allowed to say what they want to their political masters.\"\n\nUp to 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting for their next party leader - and UK prime minister - to replace Theresa May.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has interviewed both contenders for a programme broadcast on BBC One.\n\nMr Johnson, a former foreign secretary and mayor of London, is seen as the frontrunner in the contest.\n\nMr Hunt warned party members not to \"vote with their hearts instead of their heads\".\n\nHe added that the \"quickest way\" to leave the EU was \"to send to Brussels a prime minister who can negotiate a deal that will get through Parliament - and I'm that person\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt, who set up his own business before entering politics, was challenged on whether he had the skills to negotiate effectively with the EU.\n\nHe replied that being an entrepreneur had given him the \"basics\", adding: \"In government those same skills I used to negotiate very complex things - like the licence fee deal with the BBC, the NHS pay awards, the protracted dispute to try and get a peace process going in Yemen - that business of negotiation is something I have been doing all my life.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the main change he wanted to see to the UK's current withdrawal deal was to the Irish border backstop plan - an insurance policy which aims to guarantee there will not be a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nHe added that changes to this part of the Brexit withdrawal deal - which has been rejected three times by MPs - would \"broadly\" make it acceptable to the Commons.\n\nWhen pushed on what else he would alter, Mr Hunt said that \"there may be other elements\", but did not provide further details.\n\nOn Parliament's attempts to block a no-deal Brexit, he warned that the UK needed to be \"careful\" about the 31 October deadline, and said: \"I think I'm the best person to get a deal… but I can't control what Parliament does.\"\n\nAsked whether Brexit would have happened by Christmas, Mr Hunt said: \"I expect so.\"\n\nHe was then challenged on whether the UK would still be a member of the EU going into 2020, replying: \"I don't believe so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Johnson said he believed the UK would leave the EU on 31 October, and that if this did not happen it would lead to \"a huge erosion of trust in politics\".\n\n\"I think it is very odd that those who say they would delay even further can't set another date - I mean, how much further are we going to wait?\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's very, very important that we get ready to leave on 31 October, come what may, and we will.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he did not want to prorogue - suspend - Parliament to push a no-deal Brexit through, but he would not rule it out.\n\nThe UK's ambassador in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, resigned on Wednesday after a row over leaked emails critical of President Donald Trump's administration.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised in the aftermath for failing to fully support Sir Kim in the ITV leadership debate the evening before. This followed angry criticism of Sir Kim by Mr Trump.\n\nMr Johnson said he had spoken to Sir Kim on Thursday to express his sadness over his resignation and the ambassador told him he had not watched the TV debate.\n\nBut Mr Hunt said: \"I think we have to back our diplomats all over the world.\n\n\"Sir Kim was doing his job. He was giving his own personal but totally honest view about the country he was serving in.\"\n\nOn economic policy, Mr Hunt admitted that some of his spending pledges would take longer to deliver if the UK left the EU without a deal.\n\nBut he insisted that even in a no-deal scenario, he would push ahead with his plan to cut corporation tax - adding it would help firms cope with the resulting \"shock\" to the economy.\n\nWhen asked whether he would continue with the current government's self-imposed limits on borrowing, Mr Johnson pledged to \"continue to bear down on our national debt\".\n\n\"We will be setting out in a Budget and a spending review exactly what we will be doing on the fiscal rules and everything else,\" he added.\n\nThe result of the Conservative leadership contest will be announced on 23 July, with the winning candidate taking over from Mrs May on 24 July.", "Emily Hartridge built up a social media presence with her health and lifestyle advice\n\nStars including Davina McCall and Calum Best have paid tribute to TV presenter and YouTuber Emily Hartridge who has been killed in a crash in south London.\n\nShe is believed to be the victim of a crash involving an electric scooter and lorry in Battersea on Friday.\n\nA tribute on the 35-year-old's Instagram page described her as someone who \"touched so many lives\".\n\nShe had more than 340,000 YouTube subscribers to her channel and a big presence on Twitter and Instagram.\n\nHer channel offered health and lifestyle advice, and she founded the YouTube show '10 Reasons Why'. She had interviewed A-listers such as Hugh Jackman and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHartridge had also fronted a 4OD documentary on turning 30.\n\nA statement on Hartridge's Instagram page said: \"Emily was involved in an accident yesterday and passed away.\n\n\"We all loved her to bits and she will never be forgotten.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by emilyhartridge This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMcCall said in a response to the post on Instagram announcing the death: \"My heart goes out to Emily's family and friends. Such a shock. Sending you love and prayers.\"\n\nBest wrote that it was \"so sad and he was so sorry\".\n\nMonths prior to her death she had told The Sun of her decision to freeze her eggs and hopes of becoming a mum.\n\nOn Thursday she had shared a video of herself with a boyfriend on Instagram.\n\nA biography on the website of Insanity Group, her management agency, reveals she had a \"huge interest in mental health and fitness\".\n\n\"Following a very difficult period, she turned her life around,\" the bio said.\n\n\"One of the positive outcomes of her breakdown\" was that it became her \"mission to remove the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression\", it added.\n\nTV historian Greg Jenner tweeted he was \"deeply saddened\" by the death.\n\n\"I met @emilyhartridge on a train 5 years ago, and by the end of the journey we'd shared all sorts of things about our mental health and insomnia,\" he said.\n\n\"She was funny, kind, and open-hearted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people were struck by a car after leaving the Pig & Whistle pub on McNeil Street\n\nThree people were injured in an \"attempted murder\" after being hit by a car which had mounted a pavement.\n\nTwo men, aged 25 and 28, and a 63-year-old woman, were struck on Old Rutherglen Road in Glasgow after leaving the Pig & Whistle pub on McNeil Street at about midnight on Friday.\n\nAll three were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment.\n\nThe 25-year-old was later released. The 28-year-old man and 63-year-old women were described as \"stable\" in hospital.\n\nPolice have been trying to obtain a description of the car involved.\n\nDet Sgt Keith Runcie said: \"The car had driven up onto the pavement and therefore we are treating this incident as attempted murder.\n\n\"Officers had been called to a disturbance at the pub prior to the incident taking place and therefore we are trying to establish whether both incidents are linked.\n\n\"We are appealing for anyone who may have been in the Pig & Whistle pub on McNeil Street last night, or who witnessed the incident take place on Old Rutherglen Road to get in touch with us as soon as possible.\"", "Rival demonstrations have been held over the consumption of dog meat, a traditional part of South Korean cuisine, outside parliament in the capital, Seoul.\n\nA vocal group of dog farmers ate the meat and handed out leaflets touting its benefits.\n\nMetres away, US actor Kim Basinger was among animal rights protesters who carried models of emaciated dead dog and chanted slogans.", "Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib were giving evidence to the House Oversight Committee following their visit to detention facilities on the southern border.\n\nJust a few hours later, Vice President Mike Pence was touring a facility and reviewed the conditions there.", "This week's review is different. It is, as they say in the land of promotions, a two-for-one.\n\nWe are looking at Olafur Eliasson's new exhibition at Tate Modern from two perspectives: mine, and further down this page, Laura Hackett's (winner of the Radio 4 Today programme's student critic of the year award). We see things a bit differently…\n\nThere are few crystal balls as opaque as the one into which museum folk stare to see how many punters might turn up to a forthcoming exhibition. Words like \"blockbuster\" or \"niche\"' get bandied about by curators, marketeers, and Dave from finance (whose opinion is never sought and ignored when proffered).\n\nIn my time working at the Tate I sat in countless such meetings. Sometimes we got it about right. Sometimes we erred (too high for Dalí & Film, which was a turkey; too low for Edward Hopper).\n\nBut there was one occasion in 2003 when we truly excelled ourselves.\n\nOur guesstimate for an installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall by an unknown Nordic artist was so spectacularly wrong that we were left with no other choice but to blame Dave.\n\nWe thought around 100,000 people would come to see Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project during its six-month run. Of course, we hoped for a few more because it had been very expensive creating the giant sun effect in such a big space (lots of mirrors on the ceiling).\n\nBut we had to be realistic.\n\nThe Weather Project, 2003, saw representations of the sun and sky dominate the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern\n\nIn the end over two million visitors came to see and experience what would become the most famous piece of immersive art in the world.\n\nIt was epic in every sense: an instant masterpiece that was the making of both Tate Modern and Olafur Eliasson.\n\nSixteen years later he returns to Tate Modern with a career retrospective that doesn't include a re-installation of his giant, misty \"Sun\", to the huge and obvious disappointment of a couple of London cabbies to whom I was talking.\n\nHowever, it does have some other notable pieces of his signature immersive art.\n\nThe best of which by some distance is the aptly named Your Blind Passenger (2010), which is the Danish term for a stowaway. It consists of a long walkway of bright, white fog that makes seeing much beyond your outstretched arm impossible. If you're a skier or a hiker, you'd call it a white-out: if you live in Beijing now or were in London in the '50s it is reminiscent of dense smog: a peasouper.\n\nYour Blind Passenger, 2010, takes you through a corridor of dense fog, which the artist says helps \"you realise that you are not completely blind, you have a lot of other senses which start to kick in\"\n\nExcept, the environment Eliasson has created is sweeter (literally, the mist is sugar-based) and gentler.\n\nYou will be disorientated and restricted but the discombobulated feeling is more of purity and wonderment than fear or repulsion. Keep walking and the optical effects start happening.\n\nIf you see someone else the impact is severely diminished.\n\nIt is typical of Eliasson's thoughtful, quietly provocative art, which when at its best stimulates your senses and your mind.\n\nThat's the case with Your Uncertain Shadow (2010), another stand-out work in an otherwise slightly disappointing show.\n\nIt is exploring his primary artistic concerns of light and colour, environment and perception. You walk into a white-walled gallery that doesn't look much until you stand in front of five floor-mounted coloured spotlights and look on the back wall. There you will see, and be enchanted by, your silhouette writ large in five overlapping pastel shades.\n\nYour Uncertain Shadow (colour), 2010, challenges the way we see our environment\n\nWill Gompertz getting into Eliasson's art\n\nEliasson is at his best when there's an element of playfulness in his work, which is evident again in Beauty (1993), a black-box room with misty water falling from the ceiling through beams of light.\n\nHe is less convincing when being overly earnest, as with the scaffold waterfall situated outside the building.\n\nBeauty, 1993, evokes the meteorological phenomenon of a rainbow inside the show\n\nOn the terrace outside Tate Modern you see Waterfall, 2019, a new installation measuring over 11 metres in height\n\nThere's no doubt he is a very good artist with important things to say.\n\nBut this show somehow fails to capture his spirit. It feels disjointed and thin, which is incredible given how prolific Eliasson has been over the years.\n\nMaybe Dave has decided to flex his muscles and imposed some budget restrictions?\n\nEliasson's exhibition doesn't have an obvious entrance. There are doors, yes, but the viewer's experience begins long before that. Outside, you can't avoid his waterfall. With its scaffolding laid bare, the huge sculpture is a testament to the human power to get inside nature and remake it in our own image, but also nature's power to get inside us. Stand beside it and close your eyes, and the busy urban landscape is replaced by an elemental non-human scene.\n\nThe waterfall stands beside a Tate cafe, and if you're peckish you can enjoy a set menu created in conjunction with the chefs at Studio Olafur Eliasson - vegetarian offerings designed to be shared and eaten slowly. The philosophy behind this exhibition has entered you before you have really entered it.\n\nIf you take the lift, you might wonder whether the museum's lights are faulty, but you are in a rebirth of Eliasson's 1997 Room for one Colour - mono-frequency lamps reduce everything to yellow and black, and the uncanny atmosphere continues in the blindingly bright foyer.\n\nIn Room for one Colour, 1997, the space is bathed in light from mono-frequency lamps\n\nEliasson's art is not contained to the exhibition space; it spills outside, refusing the idea of a frame.\n\nInside the exhibition proper, some of the Scandinavian artist's best known pieces from the past 20 years find new meaning.\n\nThe giant moss wall, which will dry out, be watered, and re-grow over the course of the exhibition, has a new sense of urgency in the context of climate crisis. Its overwhelming size is concurrent with its vulnerability, and a sense of misplaced-ness in this pristine environment.\n\nBut often it's the viewer who feels out of place. Water trickles outside the windows, to simulate rain, serving as a reminder of the falsity of our constructed indoor worlds. Buildings are recalibrated as not only forces of protection, but also imprisonment, separating us from the natural world.\n\nOne room is empty, with bright white walls, until you walk in and your silhouette appears in five colours. This piece is titled Your Uncertain Shadow - you might create the art, but your silhouette is split up. You lose structural integrity. Another features a rotating irregular blotch of light which manages to be at once cosmic and embryonic, unbearably close and unimaginably distant.\n\nIf the posters are anything to go by, Your Uncertain Shadow is the leading image of the exhibition, but for me the stand-out piece was Beauty, a darkened room with a spotlight shining through falling mist. As you tip-toe around (this is a space which implicitly demands silence), you might catch a glimpse of a rainbow, and watch the mist change pattern and direction.\n\nEliasson says Beauty demonstrates our capacity to see different things but still be together. It does this, but even more powerfully, it manages to create a space which is both inside and outside, not simply in-between. It forms the climax of an exhibition whose resounding message is the mutual implication of mankind and our environment, an implication which Eliasson believes should be celebrated, but also recognised as a responsibility to protect the world we live in.", "Some convicted killers, sex offenders and drug dealers could have their records wiped under new plans to help them back to work.\n\nPeople sentenced to more than four years in prison currently have to disclose their conviction to employers for the rest of their working life.\n\nJustice secretary David Gauke wants to scrap this rule to \"break barriers\" to employment for reformed criminals.\n\nThe change will not apply to the most serious crimes - including murder.\n\n\"The responsibility, structure and support provided by regular work is an essential component of effective rehabilitation, something which benefits us all by reducing reoffending and cutting the cost of crime,\" said Mr Gauke.\n\n\"That's why we are introducing reforms to break barriers faced by ex-offenders who genuinely want to turn their lives around through employment.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the new legislation in England and Wales is most likely to apply to lower level, non-violent offences after a \"rehabilitation period\" - during which they do not reoffend - has passed.\n\nIt will not apply to those convicted of serious sexual, violent and terrorism offences, or where offences attract the most serious sentences, including life.\n\nHowever, it could be applied to people who have served sentences for offences including manslaughter, assault, robbery and some sex offences.\n\nThe exact length of these \"rehabilitation periods\" - the specified period after which the conviction will not have to be disclosed - will be decided after consultation with the justice sector, the MoJ said.\n\nPeople applying for sensitive roles, including working with children and vulnerable adults and positions of public trust will still be required to disclose any convictions, even those committed as a child.\n\nIn addition to the rule change for sentences of more than four years, the period of time for which shorter and community sentences have to be revealed to employers will be scaled back under the new proposals.\n\nThe MoJ said the new rules on disclosure will also stand for applications by ex-offenders for housing, adoption, education and insurance.\n\nMr Gauke said the reforms were intended to remove the stigma of convictions, insisting the government \"will never compromise public safety\".\n\n\"That is why separate and more stringent rules will continue to apply for sensitive roles, including those which involve working with children and vulnerable adults,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the MoJ, regular work is a major factor in breaking the cycle of crime but many ex-offenders find it impossible to get a job - and reoffending is on the rise in England and Wales.\n\nJust 17% of offenders are in employment a year after their release from prison, and half of employers say they would not consider hiring an ex-offender, research suggests.\n\nThe reforms set out will be introduced as new legislation when parliamentary time becomes available.\n\nPenelope Gibbs, chairwoman of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, said: \"Currently anyone convicted of shop-lifting twice aged 12 must disclose that when applying to be a traffic warden aged 55.\n\n\"Shortening rehabilitation periods should be a first step in reform of whole criminal records disclosure system.\"\n\nThe charity Unlock also welcomed the justice secretary's plans but questioned how effective the legislation will be when information remains online.\n\nChristopher Stacey, co-director of Unlock, said: \"The government needs to make sure that the legislation does what it is intended to do - give people a chance to live free of the stigma of their past.\n\n\"We look forward to working with the government so that law-abiding people with convictions have a real chance to move on positively with their lives without their criminal record hanging over them.\"\n\nThe Institute of Directors said the proposal \"merits serious consideration\" with employers being \"much more open to giving people a second chance than is often thought\".\n\n\"The details matter, of course, but this could fit with efforts by companies to find ways or removing bias from the recruitment process,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) also said ex-offenders who have changed their ways deserve a second chance.\n\nCraig Beaumont, FSB's director of external affairs and advocacy, said: \"With employment levels at record highs, and one in three smaller firms citing skills shortages as a major barrier to growth, it's critical that we bring those furthest from the labour market into our workforces.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The law changed, and made everyone feel safer'\n\nNew Zealanders have started handing over their semi-automatic weapons as part of a buyback scheme following a ban after the Christchurch attacks.\n\nGun reforms were enacted after a gunman shot dead 51 people at two mosques in March.\n\nSaturday's handover in Christchurch was the first of more than 250 collections to be held across the country.\n\nMore than NZ$433,600 (£230,000) was paid in compensation to 169 firearms owners, who handed in 224 weapons.\n\nThe weapons were then destroyed.\n\n\"Police recognise that this is a big change for the law-abiding firearms community and we are hearing really positive feedback from people as they come through today that they are finding the process works well for them,\" regional police commander Mike Johnson said.\n\nMore than 900 gun owners in the Canterbury region had registered to hand over 1,415 firearms, he added.\n\nOne gun owner, who requested anonymity, was pleased with the NZ$13,000 (£6,900) he received for his semi-automatic hunting firearm.\n\n\"I didn't think this would be a fair process at all - I wasn't particularly happy about it. But the outcome was good and they handled it well,\" he told the New Zealand Herald newspaper.\n\nHowever, not everyone was happy with the collection.\n\nChristchurch firearm owner Vincent Sanders told TV New Zealand that he would be staying away after being offered just $150 for his grandfather's 100-year-old gun.\n\n\"They've rushed through the entire process, they gave us two days for submissions, paid no attention - and forced it through,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand PM, Jacinda Ardern: \"These weapons were designed to kill\"\n\nThe government has pledged NZ$208 million (£110 million) for the scheme.\n\nThe gun reform bill was passed by 119-1 in April to prohibit military-style semi-automatic weapons and parts that can be used to assemble prohibited firearms.\n\nDelivering an emotional speech to parliament in April, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said: \"I cannot imagine circumstances where that is more necessary than it is now.\"", "Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender as part of a widely criticised plea deal\n\nWealthy US financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested on new sex trafficking charges connected to allegations from the early 2000s, reports say.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York and will appear in court on Monday, law enforcement officials told US media.\n\nIt comes amid renewed controversy over a plea deal he once reached to end a federal investigation against him.\n\nHis lawyer told Reuters news agency he would plead not guilty to any charges.\n\nLaw enforcement officers have not been authorised to discuss the case, but several have spoken to US media outlets.\n\nOne told the Associated Press the latest charges stemmed from allegations that Epstein paid underage girls for massages and molested them at his New York and Florida homes.\n\nThe same claims were made by sources quoted in other outlets, including The Daily Beast, which first reported Epstein's arrest.\n\nEpstein, 66, was previously accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls.\n\nThe wealthy financier - who was once friendly with Prince Andrew, former US President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump - reached a plea deal to avoid federal sex trafficking charges in the case.\n\nInstead, he pleaded guilty in 2008 to lesser state charges of soliciting and procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution\n\nThis averted a possible life sentence, and instead saw him spend 13 months in jail and register as a sex offender.\n\nEarlier this year, a Florida judge ruled that federal prosecutors broke the law by not informing Epstein's victims of the plea deal at the time.\n\nJudge Kenneth Marra is currently deciding whether the non-prosecution agreement that protected Epstein from the more serious charges should still stand.\n\nFollowing the ruling, the White House said it was also \"looking into\" Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta's role in the plea deal, which he approved in his previous role as a US attorney.\n\nEpstein in December deprived his alleged victims of the chance to testify against him for the first time by reaching a last-minute agreement to settle a civil lawsuit.\n\nBefore the criminal charges, New York-born Epstein was best known as a wealthy financier with connections to the business and political elite.\n\nAs a young man, he taught mathematics and physics at Manhattan's private Dalton School.\n\nHe moved into finance in 1976, working as an options trader for investment banking company Bear Stearns. Within four years, he was made a limited partner.\n\nHe then went on to found his own financial management firm J Epstein & Co, reportedly managing the assets of clients with more than $1bn (£798m) in net worth.\n\nIn 1996, he changed his company's name to The Financial Trust Co and based it in the US Virgin Islands for tax purposes.\n\nHis lavish lifestyle, along with the secrecy surrounding his client list and other details of his business, earned Epstein a reputation as a mysterious moneyman.\n\nHe was also known for his friendships with high-profile people, including Mr Trump and Mr Clinton.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Mr Trump said in the New York Magazine profile. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\"\n\nAlong with his wealth and high-profile friends, Epstein built a reputation as a philanthropist.\n\nIn 2003, he hit headlines for making a $30m donation to Harvard University for the founding of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics programme.\n\nReports of his current wealth vary, with his Virgin Islands-based firm generating no public records. According to Florida court records, cited by NBC News, Epstein maintains properties in the US Virgin Islands, New York, Paris, Mexico and Florida. He also has numerous luxury cars and motorbikes.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe United States won the Women's World Cup for a record fourth time as they eventually overpowered the Netherlands in Lyon.\n\nMegan Rapinoe's penalty and Rose Lavelle's fine run and finish gave the defending champions victory in the second half, after resilient first-half defending from the Dutch.\n\nVeteran winger Rapinoe's calmly-slotted opener came from a spot-kick awarded after a video assistant referee (VAR) review, at the end of a tournament in which the system has been a major talking point.\n\nBarcelona defender Stefanie van der Gragt's high boot caught USA striker Alex Morgan and French referee Stephanie Frappart pointed to the spot after assessing replays, and the holders did not look back after taking the lead.\n\nThe European champions, reaching the final in only their second World Cup, kept the favourites at bay in the first half as former Arsenal goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal produced four excellent saves.\n\nBut the USA, playing in their third consecutive final, continued their reign as the world's finest side as they added to their titles of 1991, 1999 and 2015.\n\nRapinoe's goal also meant she won the Golden Boot after finishing with six goals and three assists, while she also took the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.\n• None Reaction as the USA beat Netherlands to win the World Cup\n• None Rate the players from the final\n\nVictory for the USA saw their English-born boss Jill Ellis, from Hampshire, become the first coach to lift the trophy twice.\n\nHer side's second consecutive world title was a hard-fought one, but they have been the best side in a 24-team tournament that was fiercely contested, despite facing more serious trophy contenders than four years ago.\n\nThey laid down a daunting marker in their first match of the competition as they cruised to a 13-0 win over Thailand - the biggest-ever victory at the finals.\n\nComfortable successes over Chile and Sweden followed, before they faced three much more detailed tests of their title credentials in the knockout rounds but battled to a trio of 2-1 wins over Spain, hosts France and England.\n\nIn 2015's final in Canada, the USA took a 4-0 lead over Japan inside 16 minutes, as a Carli Lloyd hat-trick helped them win 5-2, but the Dutch posed a far stiffer test.\n\nSarina Wiegman's side, who beat Sweden in the last four on Wednesday, did well to absorb pressure from the USA in the first half and counter attack with pace when they could.\n\nHowever, the Oranje created very few clear chances over the 90 minutes and winger Tobin Heath spurned multiple opportunities to extend the USA's lead late on.\n\nChampions making headlines on and off the pitch\n\nThe Stars and Stripes became only the second nation to successfully defend a Women's World Cup title, after Germany did so in 2007.\n\nBut their outstanding squad of players have generated headlines off the field as well as on it during an absorbing 52-match tournament in France.\n\nRapinoe, who scored twice in their last-16 tie and did so again in the quarter-final, made front-page news during the tournament by saying she would reject a hypothetical invitation to the White House, for which she was criticised by US President Donald Trump.\n\nEllis's team were sometimes accused of being arrogant - and even branded disrespectful when striker Morgan celebrated her semi-final goal against England by pretending to sip a cup of tea - but their confidence has ultimately been fully justified by their impressive defence of their title.\n\nTheir 2-0 win in front of a capacity crowd of 57,900 at the Stade de Lyon saw them lift the title in Europe for the first time, after triumphs in China, on home soil and in Canada.\n\nScoring 26 goals over their seven matches in France, they set a new record for a single World Cup campaign, while 34-year-old Rapinoe became the oldest player to score in a final.\n\nHer penalty took her narrowly above team-mate Morgan and England's Ellen White to win the Golden Boot award.\n\nThat came after Van Veenendaal had kept the USA at bay in a frenetic spell towards the end of the first half, first saving from Julie Ertz's powerful strike - the final's first shot on target after 28 minutes - before denying Samantha Mewis and keeping out two Morgan efforts, the first of which hit the post.\n\n'They've made history' - what they said\n\nUnited States boss Jill Ellis, speaking to BBC Sport: \"This is an amazing group of players - they showed fantastic resilience.\n\n\"They put their hearts and souls into this journey, I cannot thank them enough. I could barely speak immediately after the game but I told them they had made history and to enjoy it.\"\n\nUSA co-captain Megan Rapinoe: \"It's unbelievable just to know all of the people in our group have put in so much work. We have all our friends and family here, it is surreal.\"\n• None USA attacker Megan Rapinoe is the second player in history to start three Women's World Cup finals (2011, 2015, 2019) after Germany's Birgit Prinz (1995, 2003, 2007).\n• None The USA scored 26 goals at the 2019 Women's World Cup, the most by a team at a single tournament in the competition's history.\n• None Rapinoe became the first player to score a penalty in a Women's World Cup final, as well as being the oldest scorer in a final (34 years and two days).\n• None This was a 12th consecutive victory at the Women's World Cup for the USA - the longest run in World Cup history (men's and women's).\n• None Netherlands goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal made eight saves in this match - the most by a goalkeeper in a knockout stage match at the 2019 Women's World Cup.\n• None Since failing against Australia in July 2017, the USA have scored in 45 consecutive matches in all competitions, netting 148 goals and scoring at least twice in each of their past 12 games.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Carli Lloyd (USA) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rose Lavelle.\n• None Attempt missed. Jill Roord (Netherlands) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Vivianne Miedema.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jill Roord (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lineth Beerensteyn.\n• None Attempt saved. Christen Press (USA) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rose Lavelle.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ali Krieger.\n• None Attempt missed. Sherida Spitse (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should 'get on with' changing its Brexit policy to support a second referendum, the shadow chancellor has told the BBC.\n\nJohn McDonnell said Jeremy Corbyn was \"rightfully\" trying to build consensus, but added the party needed to reach a position \"sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"I want to campaign for Remain,\" he said.\n\nHe also denied he had called for the Labour leader's advisors to be sacked, as reported in the Sunday Times.\n\nLabour had previously promised a vote on Brexit in certain circumstances, specifically if it could not get its own deal with the EU passed by MPs or if there was no general election.\n\nFollowing the party's poor performance in the European elections in May, Mr Corbyn appeared to go further, suggesting there \"had to be a public vote\" on any deal agreed with Brussels.\n\nHe has recently come under pressure from his own MPs to confirm that the party would call for another referendum, and would campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Mr McDonnell confirmed that he, personally, would campaign to Remain if there was a second referendum.\n\nHe said he wanted to \"get on with it\", but added that Mr Corbyn was \"much wiser\" and wanted to \"build consensus and then go for it\".\n\n\"That's what he's doing at the moment,\" he added.\n\n\"Jeremy and I go back 40 years, we're the closest of friends. We've minded each other's back throughout that period. Yes, we'll disagree on things, and then we'll come to an agreement.\"\n\nAsked if he and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott had called for Mr Corbyn's advisors - Karie Murphy and Seumas Milne - to be sacked, Mr McDonnell replied such stories were \"rubbish\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Barry Gardiner told Sky News' Sophy Ridge that his party is in talks with Conservative MPs who might support a no-confidence motion in the government in order to stop a no-deal Brexit. Conservative MP and ex-minister Sam Gyimah suggested \"30 plus\" Tory MPs would seek to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr McDonnell was also asked about reports in the Sunday Times that up to half a dozen Labour staff have ignored non-disclosure agreements (NDA) to speak to BBC journalists working on a Panorama programme about Labour and anti-Semitism.\n\nAccording to the Times, Labour, through the law firm Carter Ruck, has warned there could be legal action against those staff members.\n\nMr McDonnell said the Labour Party was \"reminding them of their confidentiality agreement\".\n\nHe argued this was important in cases where employees \"are dealing with individual cases, individual information and individual members\".\n\nHowever, he added the party would \"always protect anyone subject to harassment\".\n\nA number of Labour MPs criticised the reported action, including deputy leader Tom Watson who said \"using expensive media lawyers in an attempt to silence staff members is as futile as it is stupid\".\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting tweeted \"Labour opposes NDAs, yet seems to impose them. I'm protected by parliamentary privilege. I'll whistleblow in the House of Commons for anyone who needs me to do so. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. No more excuses or hiding places. You should promise the same Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Gardiner, shadow international trade secretary, has attacked the forthcoming Panorama programme - which will be aired next week - as neither balanced or impartial.\n\nIn response the BBC said: \"The Labour Party is criticising a programme they have not seen.\n\n\"We are confident the programme will adhere to the BBC's editorial guidelines. In line with those, the Labour Party has been given the opportunity to respond to the allegations.\"", "Two people have been charged with terrorism offences after police seized munitions and ammunition in County Antrim.\n\nA man, 33, and a woman, 31, were arrested after a search at a property on Cladytown Road in Glarryford, near Ballymena on Friday night.\n\nThey are charged with offences including possessing explosive substances and ammunition.\n\nThey are due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "An investigation is under way at the site\n\nParamedics assessed 28 Jaguar Land Rover workers after a suspected chemical incident at the firm's Solihull site.\n\nA number of staff felt unwell in Lode Lane, Solihull, after a floor sealant had been applied.\n\nOne person taken to hospital on Sunday had \"minor symptoms\" West Midlands Ambulance Service said. JLR said they were discharged later the same day.\n\nThe company said it was \"business as usual\" at the site on Monday.\n\nA spokesman said the incident had ended and there were \"several theories\" about the cause, but an investigation was under way.\n\n\"We can confirm that a small number of contractors and employees were triaged by West Midlands Ambulance Service,\" he said.\n\nThe ambulance service said it carried out its policy of \"remove, remove, remove\" and got people out of the building.\n\n\"Most staff felt symptoms reduce once out of the affected area and in fresh air,\" it said.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it advised on the incident but did not send crews.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justice Secretary David Gauke says he will resign if the next prime minister chooses to pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nHowever, Mr Gauke told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that a \"sizeable\" number of Conservative MPs believed the UK should leave with a deal.\n\nHis comments come as Tory MP Sam Gyimah said more than 30 Tory MPs could vote against a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe EU has set the UK a deadline of 31 October to leave the bloc.\n\nMr Gauke said he believed Parliament \"will find a mechanism\" between now and 31 October to prevent the UK leaving without a deal.\n\nWhen asked whether he thought he would be sacked from the cabinet if Mr Johnson became prime minister, he said: \"I suspect that I will possibly have gone before then.\"\n\nHe added: \"Assuming that he wins, if Boris's position is that he is going to require every member of the cabinet to sign up to being prepared to leave without a deal on 31 October, to be fair to him I can't support that policy - so I would resign in advance.\"\n\nFormer Tory leadership hopeful Mr Gyimah - who resigned as a minister over Theresa May's Brexit plan - said there were more than 30 Tory MPs looking at legislative options to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"I wouldn't want to announce them before they have been tested as being viable.\"\n\n\"But there is a real concern. The real concern here is not about Leavers or Remainers. The real concern here, is that this is not in the interest of our country.\"\n\nHe added: \"What all this is about is staving off economic mayhem.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-Remain Tory MP Dominic Grieve has suggested MPs could use a Commons vote on Northern Ireland on Monday to launch a fresh bid to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government has tabled a Bill to delay any new election to the Northern Ireland Assembly while talks to restore power-sharing are ongoing.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning government since 2017, when the power-sharing parties split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Grieve told Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics: \"The chances are, if Brexit goes through - a no-deal Brexit - it is going to be the end of Northern Ireland's union with the United Kingdom, with serious political consequences flowing from it.\n\n\"That's a Bill that is a perfectly legitimate place to start looking at how one might make sure no-deal Brexits are fully debated before they take place.\"\n\nAsked about the possible number of MPs who might back such a bid, Mr Grieve said he did not know.\n\nHe added: \"Like all these things, colleagues are pulled in different directions, perfectly understandably, by various considerations.\"\n\nLeader of the pro-Brexit European Research Group, Jacob Rees-Mogg, told 5 Live he thought the only way to stop no-deal was to pass a new law.\n\nHe added that he would be \"very surprised\" if that happened.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he is not bluffing over his promise to stick to the 31 October deadline for leaving the EU - even if that means walking away without a deal.\n\nAsked in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph if his commitment to 31 October was a bluff, Mr Johnson said: \"No ... honestly. Come on. We've got to show a bit more gumption about this.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's vital that our partners see that. They have to look deep into our eyes and think 'my god, these Brits actually are going to leave. And they're going to leave on those terms'.\"\n\nHis leadership rival Jeremy Hunt has also said he was willing to leave without a deal, although he told the Sunday Telegraph it was \"not the most secure way of guaranteeing Brexit\" because MPs would try to block it.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt have been travelling around the country as they seek to win backing from Conservative party members, ahead of the vote closing on 22 July.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has come out in support of Mr Johnson, saying the former foreign secretary was \"better placed\" than Mr Hunt to \"deliver what we need to do at this critical time\".\n\nTory MP Mr Rees-Mogg has suggested Mr Javid - along with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss - are the main candidates to become the next chancellor.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who is supporting Mr Johnson in the leadership contest, said both had \"very strong\" credentials.", "The man died on Lea Bridge Road in Leyton\n\nA man in his 20s has become the second to be shot dead in London this weekend.\n\nEmergency workers were called to Lea Bridge Road in Leyton, east London, just before 03:00 BST on Sunday following reports of gunshots.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics and officers, he was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nOn Friday evening, a man in his 30s was shot dead in Wembley, north-west London. Police have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said two cars appeared to be driving in tandem along Glenburn Road in Paisley\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died after being hit by a car speeding on the wrong side of the road in Paisley.\n\nThe teenager was crossing Glenburn Road, near Fereneze Drive, at about 02:00 when she was struck by a black car.\n\nPolice believe it may have been a VW Polo, travelling towards Gleniffer Road alongside another car.\n\nThe driver initially got out of the car before returning to the vehicle and driving off.\n\nThe girl was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow by ambulance but died a short time later.\n\nPolice are now trying to trace the drivers of both cars as well as passengers in the second car.\n\nDet Insp Allan Kelly said: \"The young girl was with four friends when she stepped on to the road and was hit by the car which was driving at speed on the wrong side of the road in tandem with another car.\n\n\"The driver initially got out of the car but then went back in and drove off towards Gleniffer Rd, Paisley.\n\n\"We know that the car, a small hatchback, possibly a VW Polo, was damaged as a result of the collision. It had a cracked windscreen and bumper.\"\n\nDet Insp Kelly added: \"I would appeal to the driver of the vehicle to come forward to police and to the occupants or the driver of either vehicle involved.\"\n\nHe also appealed for other witnesses and for any dashcam footage of the area around the time of the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe singer and composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s.\n\nReports say Gilberto died at home in Rio de Janeiro after a period of illness. His son confirmed the news of his death in a Saturday Facebook post.\n\n\"His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity,\" Marcelo Gilberto said.\n\nBorn in the north-east state of Bahia in 1931, Gilberto began singing aged 18.\n\nHis release of the record Chega de Saudade in the late 1950s was considered a game-changer for Brazilian music.\n\nGilberto's style - mixing traditional and modern musical influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, music and many other artists after him.\n\nIn 1964, he famously collaborated with America saxophone player Stan Getz. Their album sold millions of copies and won international praise, including a US Grammy for Album of the year.\n\nJoão Gilberto introduced bossa nova to the world in 1958: he created a new beat, with his unique guitar style, mixing traditional samba music with modern jazz influences.\n\nHis music depicted a period of huge optimism in Brazil: an urban, industrialised country that was building a new capital and dreaming of better times.\n\nHis versions of songs like Quiet Nights and The Girl from Ipanema became standards in world music.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Piper Perabo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the past decade, João Gilberto lived alone in Rio, struggling with mental health and financial issues.\n\nBernardo Araujo, a music journalist for Brazilian newspaper Globo, told AFP news agency last year his influence was \"incalculable\".\n\n\"He was the principal voice of the best known Brazilian style in the world and a revolutionary without even really meaning to be,\" Araujo said.\n\nThe influential musician had not been seen in public for several years.\n\nThe cause of his death has not yet been officially announced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the damage to Florida plaza\n\nA large explosion has ripped through a shopping and dining plaza in the US city of Plantation, Florida.\n\nLocal police say that about 22 people have been injured and are being treated at hospitals in the city, but none are in a critical condition.\n\n\"At this time we don't have any fatalities,\" Sergeant Jessica Ryan told reporters shortly after the blast.\n\nVideos on social media show people evacuating a nearby gym amid scattered debris and dozens of damaged vehicles.\n\nPolice have asked people to avoid the area while they continue to investigate. Search dogs are also at the scene.\n\nJoel Gordon, battalion chief for Plantation Fire, said they had not yet confirmed the cause and source of the explosion but ruptured gas lines were found in the rubble.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe explosion was reported at about 11:30 local time (15:30 GMT) on Saturday, officials say.\n\nLocal residents have told local news channel WPLG they felt and heard the blast several miles away from the scene.\n\nPlantation is in Broward County, just outside of Fort Lauderdale.\n\nThe plaza where the explosion happened contains a number of restaurants and businesses.", "Fifty years on from the Stonewall uprising in New York, London Pride 2019 was just as colourful as ever.\n\nOrganisers say up to 1.5 million people took to the streets for the parade, which started at Portland Place.\n\nThe parade went across Oxford Circus and down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square.\n\nOne man from Uganda spoke about how getting to this day \"meant the world\".", "Tributes have been paid to America's \"King of Coal\", Chris Cline, who died in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas.\n\nPresident Donald Trump described Mr Cline, a major Republican donor, as a \"great businessman and energy expert\".\n\nJim Justice, the governor of West Virginia where Mr Cline was born, described the 60-year-old tycoon as a \"WV superstar\" and a \"wonderful\" man.\n\nThe billionaire, his daughter Kameron, 22, three other women and two men died in the crash on Thursday.\n\nThe helicopter had been en route from Big Grand Cay, the Bahamas, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.\n\nIts wreckage was found on the ocean floor. The cause of the crash is being investigated.\n\nMr Cline began working in the mines of West Virginia in his early twenties.\n\nIn 1990, he set up his energy development company, the Cline Group, overseeing its rise as one of America's top coal producers.\n\nIn 2006, Mr Cline formed Foresight Energy to manage coal rights in the Illinois Basin. He later sold most of his shares in the firm for $1.4bn (£1.1bn).\n\nThe billionaire was a major supporter of the Republican Party. He gave $1m to Mr Trump's inauguration committee in 2017.\n\nHe also donated generously to West Virginia's Marshall University, where he studied.", "The sculptor called on BP to put half its profits towards renewable energy research\n\nSculptor Sir Antony Gormley has joined calls for London's National Portrait Gallery to end its sponsorship with BP.\n\nBP has sponsored the gallery's annual Portrait Award for 30 years, but the oil company has faced growing criticism over its environmental stance.\n\nSir Antony said BP was \"using culture to make us all feel this is a company that cares about the future of mankind, but it very clearly doesn't\".\n\nThe gallery said BP's support for the award means public admission is free.\n\nIt added that government funding only made up a third of its income, so it has to work with corporate partners.\n\nSir Antony is one of almost 80 artists - including five winners of the Turner Prize - to write the letter demanding an end to BP's sponsorship.\n\nIn the letter to Nicholas Cullinan, director of the gallery, the artists state that BP's ongoing sponsorship \"is lending credence to the company's misleading assurance that it's doing all it can, and so we, as artists, feel we must speak up\".\n\n\"We believe that, today, the loss of BP as a source of funding is a cost worth bearing, until the company changes course and enables future generations to make art in a world that resembles our own,\" the letter continues.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Antony said: \"Art is about giving a platform for sustainable futures... [it is] very clear that this is not a part of BPs remit\".\n\nSir Antony is best known for his Angel of the North sculpture in Gateshead\n\n\"We are in a crisis,\" he said, adding he would like to see the energy giant put half its profits towards renewable energy research,\n\n\"We are all immersed in a fossil fuel culture, we are all culpable. But there are a few organisations and governments that can do something about it.\"\n\nThe letter calls on the gallery not to renew its contract with BP when it expires in 2022 and, in the immediate future, to remove the BP representative from the award's judging panel.\n\nPeter Mather, head of BP in Europe, told the Today programme last week that the company was trying to help both the art world and the environment.\n\nHe said BP's 70,000 employees did not get up each day \"with the intention of destroying the planet\".\n\nHe added that BP was \"extremely proud\" of what it did in the arts, as well as what it contributed to the UK economy.\n\n\"We are focusing very much on reducing our own emissions. We are also improving - i.e. lowering - the carbon footprint of the produce that we supply.\"\n\nIt comes after artist and judge of this year's Portrait Award by BP Gary Hume said it was time to look elsewhere for sponsorship.\n\nHe said: \"BP could continue to support the National Portrait Gallery without putting their name anywhere, it could be an anonymous gift.\n\n\"Without the institutions such as BP making a concerted effort... we haven't got a chance.\"", "Reports say at least one of those injured required surgery\n\nThree people have been gored during the first bull run at the annual San Fermín festival in Pamplona.\n\nOfficials say those with gore injuries are two US citizens, aged 23 and 46, and a Spaniard.\n\nTwo others were taken to hospital with head injuries and a total of 48 others were treated by the Red Cross.\n\nFurther runs will take place every morning through the northern Spanish city's narrow streets until next Sunday.\n\nThose taking part, most dressed in white with red scarves, packed into the 850m (2790ft) course - which leads downhill to the town's bull ring.\n\nSix bulls are released daily, along with steers, before later facing professional matadors in public bull fights.\n\nInjuries at the event are common and at least 16 people have died taking part since 1910, when records began.\n\nThe last person to die at the festival, Daniel Jimeno Romero, was gored in the neck in 2009 during the fourth run of the festival.\n\nA 46-year-old Californian man gored in the neck on Sunday required surgery, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThe other injured American is reportedly a 23-year-old from Kentucky, who was gored in the thigh along with a 40-year-old Spanish man.\n\nThe runs take place at 08:00 local (06:00 GMT)\n\nGroups AnimaNaturales and PETA protested against the festivities on Friday\n\nThe festival attracts thousands of revellers from around the world.\n\nIt also involves religious processions, parties and concerts and was depicted in the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises.\n\nBull fighting and running is regularly criticised by animal rights activists. On Friday, they demonstrated on Pamplona's streets - dressed in horns and lying down with fake spears in their backs.\n\nAnyone over 18 can take part in the runs, but most participants tend to be men.\n\nA high-profile gang rape at the 2016 festival prompted nationwide protests and an ongoing review of rape laws in Spain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists say rage over the \"wolfpack\" case ignited a feminist revolution (Video from 2019)", "Flyadeal, the low-cost Saudi Arabian airline, has cancelled an order for 30 Boeing 737 Max aircraft.\n\nThe decision follows the crashes of two 737 Max jets, the first in Indonesia in October followed by one in Ethiopia in March, which killed 346 people.\n\nSince then the aircraft has been grounded and Boeing has been working on a fix that will satisfy regulators.\n\nBoeing said that flyadeal had decided not to go ahead with the provisional order because of \"schedule requirements\".\n\nThe deal, which included an additional option to purchase 20 more 737 Max aircraft, was worth $5.9bn at list prices, but the airline would have been offered a discount on that price tag.\n\nInstead flyadeal, which is controlled by state-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines, will operate a fleet of Airbus A320 planes.\n\nThe loss of Ethiopian Airlines' flight ET302 in March was the second fatal accident involving a 737 Max in the space of five months.\n\nA near identical aircraft, owned by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air, went down in the sea off Jakarta in October 2018.\n\nCrash investigators have concentrated their efforts on the aircraft's control system and Boeing has been working with regulators to roll out a software upgrade.\n\nThere is no date when the aircraft might be cleared to fly again.\n\nLast week Boeing announced that it would give $100m to help families affected by the two crashes.\n\nThe payment, stretching over several years, is independent of lawsuits filed in the wake of the disasters, which together killed 346 people.\n\nLast month IAG said it intended to buy 200 Boeing 737 Max aircraft.\n\nWhile not a firm order, it was seen as a boost for Boeing.\n\nThe planes would be used by IAG's airlines including British Airways, Vueling and Level.\n\nThe letter of intent was signed at the Paris Air Show.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh said at the time: \"We have every confidence in Boeing and expect that the aircraft will make a successful return to service in the coming months having received approval from the regulators\".", "The government has begun an inquiry into a leak of emails from the UK ambassador in Washington which deemed the Trump administration \"inept\".\n\nIn the messages, Sir Kim Darroch said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\" under Donald Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the memos reflected Sir Kim's \"personal view\", not that of the UK government.\n\nPresident Trump said Sir Kim had \"not served the UK well\".\n\nAsked about the leak, he told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the leak to the Mail on Sunday was \"mischievous\", but did not deny the accuracy of the memos. A spokesperson confirmed a formal leak investigation would be launched.\n\nIn the emails, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nHe questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe UK ambassador in Washington says Trump needs \"simple, even blunt\" arguments\n\nMr Hunt - who is fighting to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister - said while it was the UK ambassador's job to give \"frank opinions\", the memos expressed \"a personal view\".\n\n\"It is not the view of the British government, it's not my view,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to think that under President Trump the US administration is not just highly effective but the best friend of Britain on the international stage.\"\n\nEarlier, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said whoever was responsible for the leak must be prosecuted.\n\n\"Diplomats must be able to communicate securely with their governments,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.\n\nHowever, he defended Sir Kim, saying the job of the UK's ambassador is \"to represent the interests and wishes of the British people\" and not \"the sensibilities of the United States\".\n\nAlthough Sir Kim said Mr Trump was \"dazzled\" by his state visit to the UK in June, the ambassador warned that his administration will remain self-interested, adding: \"This is still the land of America First.\"\n\nDifferences between the US and the UK on climate change, media freedoms and the death penalty might come to the fore as the countries seek to improve trading relations after Brexit, the memos said.\n\nTo get through to the president, \"you need to make your points simple, even blunt\", he said.\n\nThe leader of the Brexit party, Nigel Farage, has criticised Sir Kim for his comments, branding the ambassador \"totally unsuitable for the job\" and saying the \"sooner he is gone the better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Justice Secretary David Gauke said it was very important that ambassadors gave \"honest and unvarnished advice to their country\".\n\nHe said: \"It is disgraceful that it's been leaked, but we should expect our ambassadors to tell the truth, as they see it.\"\n\nIn a message sent last month, Sir Kim branded US policy on Iran as \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nMr Trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an airstrike against Tehran with 10 minutes to go - that it would cause 150 casualties - \"doesn't stand up\", Sir Kim said.\n\nInstead, he suggested the president was \"never fully on board\" and did not want to reverse his campaign promise not to involve the US in foreign conflicts.\n\nSir Kim said it was \"unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon\" because \"this is a divided administration\".\n\nThe leaked files date from 2017 to the present day, covering the ambassador's early impressions that media reports of \"vicious infighting and chaos\" in the White House were \"mostly true\".\n\nThey also give an assessment of allegations about collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia, saying \"the worst cannot be ruled out\". The investigation by Robert Mueller has since found those claims were not proven.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the views of diplomats were \"not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid\".\n\nHe said ministers and civil servants would handle this advice \"in the right way\" and ambassadors should be able to offer it confidentially.\n\nThe UK embassy in Washington has \"strong relations\" with the White House and these would continue, despite \"mischievous behaviour\" such as this leak, the spokesman said.", "The Trump administration has been labelled \"inept\", insecure and incompetent in leaked emails from the UK ambassador to Washington.\n\nSir Kim Darroch said that the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\" under Donald Trump.\n\nBut he also warned that the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the leak of the memos to the Mail on Sunday was \"mischievous\" but did not deny their accuracy.\n\nThe White House has not yet responded to the revelation of the contents of the memos, but it could test the so-called \"special relationship\" between the US and UK.\n\nIn the messages, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nHe questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\".\n\nThe UK ambassador in Washington says Trump needs \"simple, even blunt\" arguments\n\nAlthough Sir Kim said Mr Trump was \"dazzled\" by his state visit to the UK in June, the ambassador warns that his administration will remain self-interested, adding: \"This is still the land of America First\".\n\nDifferences between the US and the UK on climate change, media freedoms and the death penalty might come to the fore as the countries seek to improve trading relations after Brexit, the memos said.\n\nTo get through to the president, \"you need to make your points simple, even blunt\", he said.\n\nThe leader of the Brexit party, Nigel Farage, has criticised Sir Kim for his comments, branding the ambassador \"totally unsuitable for the job\" and saying the \"sooner he is gone the better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Justice Secretary David Guake said it is very important that ambassadors give \"honest and unvarnished advice to their country\".\n\nHe said: \"It is disgraceful that it's been leaked, but we should expect our ambassadors to tell the truth, as they see it.\"\n\nIn a message sent last month, Sir Kim branded US policy on Iran as \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nMr Trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an airstrike against Tehran with 10 minutes to go - that it would cause 150 casualties - \"doesn't stand up\", Sir Kim said.\n\nInstead, he suggested the president was \"never fully on board\" and did not want to reverse his campaign promise not to involve the US in foreign conflicts.\n\nSir Kim said it was \"unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon\" because \"this is a divided administration\".\n\nThe leaked files date from 2017 to the present day, covering the ambassador's early impressions that media reports of \"vicious infighting and chaos\" in the White House were \"mostly true\".\n\nThey also give an assessment of allegations about collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia, saying \"the worst cannot be ruled out\". The investigation by Robert Mueller has since found those claims were not proven.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the views of diplomats were \"not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid\".\n\nHe said ministers and civil servants would handle this advice \"in the right way\" and ambassadors should be able to offer it confidentially.\n\nThe UK embassy in Washington has \"strong relations\" with the White House and these would continue, despite \"mischievous behaviour\" such as this leak, the spokesman said.", "The Department of Health and Social Care plans to spend £3m on no-deal Brexit measures to transport medication.\n\nIt wants to hire an \"express freight service\" to transport medicines, blood and transplant tissue.\n\nBut experts have warned that the deadline of 1 September set for the deal is a \"tight\" timeframe.\n\nThe government's current plan is to leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a trade deal.\n\nIt has smartened up its act on procurement after running up a bill of £80m trying to arrange ferry contracts in the event of a no-deal exit.\n\nSeaborne Freight had been awarded a £13.8m deal last year, which the BBC found had never run a ferry service.\n\nGus Tugendhat, founder of Tussell, a data provider on UK government contracts, which uncovered the latest move said timelines were \"still tight\".\n\nSome medicines have short shelf lives and may require refrigeration\n\nAndrew Dean, director of public law at Clifford Chance, a former government adviser and procurement law expert said there was sufficient time to run a compliant and robust procurement process, but it would be tricky, given the relatively short timeframe.\n\nLast weekend, it emerged that the Department for Transport was asking logistics companies to bid to provide extra freight capacity to be used in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe plan is to set up \"an express freight contingency arrangement to support continuity of supply of medicines and medical products,\" Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington told Parliament.\n\n\"This will be an urgent contingency measure for products requiring urgent delivery, within a 24-48 hour timeframe, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\"\n\nTogether with stockpiling and helping companies with paperwork at the border, the department hopes this will allow patients to receive the medicines they need, especially rarer ones with short shelf-lives, which may require specialist transport conditions such as refrigeration.\n\n\"Government will only pay for capacity as and when it is needed and used,\" Mr Lidington insisted.\n\nIt is understood that while larger pharmaceutical companies would have their own plans, smaller ones were likely to need help.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman confirmed that the contract was new, but said that the speed of the contract was \"within the usual guidelines\".", "The USPCA has called for an \"animal abusers register\"\n\nCourts in Northern Ireland banned 45 people from keeping animals in 2018 after they were convicted of animal cruelty.\n\nIt is an increase from the 26 people banned in 2015.\n\nThe Ulster Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) welcomed the news and renewed a call for an \"animal abusers register\".\n\nThe convictions included offences against wildlife, farm animals and pets.\n\nThe figures were obtained by the BBC from the Department of Justice.\n\nUSPCA Chief Executive Brendan Mullan said the figures showed the increased effectiveness of statutory agencies in enforcing the Animal Welfare Act.\n\n\"The increase in the number of prosecutions and banning orders begs the question, have we as a community in NI become more uncaring and cruel towards animals?,\" he said,\n\n\"Of course, the answer is no.\n\n\"Whilst welcoming this clearly improved enforcement, the USPCA remains concerned at the ineffectiveness of the bans as evidenced by recent court cases, where individuals who had been banned previously from keeping animals were up in court again for animal welfare offences.\n\n\"Banned one day and owning and abusing animals the next.\"\n\nThe USPCA has called for a register of people banned from keeping animals, accessible by reputable breeders and animal re-homing charities.\n\n\"Such a register may not completely solve the problem, but it would be a significant step to closing the current loophole,\" Mr Mullan said.\n\n\"As it stands, the ultimate penalty for the most serious animal welfare offences, is relatively ineffective.\"\n\nThere have been a number of high profile cases of animal cruelty in the past year.\n\nIn October 2018, a County Londonderry farmer with 19 previous animal cruelty convictions, who admitted causing unnecessary suffering to two pigs, was banned from keeping animals for life.\n\nMichael Agnew, 47, of Garvagh, was also sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years.\n\nThe judge at Londonderry Crown Court said Agnew \"should be kept miles away from every living creature\".\n\n\"Any animal seeing this man coming over the horizon would have a heart attack,\" he added.", "Iran insists that it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal\n\nIt has taken just a little over a year since the Trump administration abandoned the international nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, for Tehran itself to challenge the agreement.\n\nIts decision to intentionally breach the 300kg ceiling for the stock of low-enriched uranium that it can hold is but the first step of several that it is threatening.\n\nHowever, Tehran insists it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal itself. It just wants to be treated fairly under its terms.\n\nIran's case is that it has, all along, abided by the terms of the agreement. And Iran's \"good behaviour\" has been independently verified by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nBut now Iran is saying enough is enough. It has stuck to its side of the bargain but the Americans have not only walked away from the deal, they have re-imposed sanctions and are trying to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to trade with Tehran.\n\nThis policy of \"maximum pressure\" is acknowledged by the Trump administration. Its goal, its spokesmen insist, is to force Iran to the table to negotiate what in US terms would be a \"better\" deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump's critics argue that what his administration wants is more capitulation rather than negotiation. There is a strong whiff of regime change about some of Mr Trump's key advisers.\n\nIran - if you accept that it was behind recent attacks in the Gulf as the Americans insist - has already sought to push back against US pressure. It has many ways of doing so.\n\nAnd the fear is that the potential breakdown of the nuclear deal will not only encourage Iran to resume worrying nuclear activities, but it may also risk some kind of conflict in the Gulf, intentional or otherwise.\n\nSo the stakes surrounding the nuclear deal are huge. And this is going to condition many countries' responses to what is happening. There are already differences between Washington and its key European allies - Britain, France and Germany - who remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal and want to see it continue.\n\nCertainly they worry about many of Iran's regional activities and they share the Trump administration's concerns about Iran's active missile programmes.\n\nBut they believe that the JCPOA, whatever faults it may have had, contained one essential benefit.\n\nIt took the nuclear issue out of the game at least for the immediate future. It \"kicked the can down the road\". It did not resolve the disputes over Iran's past activities or place permanent restrictions on what it could do in this field. But it averted a crisis.\n\nRemember, before the deal was agreed in 2015, there were real fears of a possible US or Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure.\n\nBritain, France and Germany remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal\n\nIran is making a point. It says that breaching the low-enriched uranium threshold is not in contravention of the JCPOA deal.\n\nIndeed its text, at Iran's insistence, does contain wording to the effect that if others breach the deal's terms then Iran will feel able to do the same. That of course may not be how the other signatories see things. They may argue you are either in the agreement or - like the United States - you choose to leave it.\n\nIran's pressure tactic is intended to push the Europeans in particular to do more to relieve the US economic pressure that is building up. The EU has developed a special payments system - dubbed in Euro-speak INSTEX - to try to help facilitate trade in humanitarian supplies, which in any case are not covered by the sanctions. Deals here have been made more difficult because of many banks' reluctance to risk US action.\n\nBut INSTEX will not help with the key sectors of Iran's economy that are suffering the greatest pain, like the oil industry. Most independent experts say that INSTEX has been slow to get going and is unlikely to make a significant difference. It is largely about the Europeans sending diplomatic signals to Tehran.\n\nBut this may no longer be enough. At the end of the day it is, after all, individual companies that must decide to trade with Iran, not governments And if they have business in the US they are going to be wary of trading with Tehran.\n\nRussia and China are also deeply uneasy about the US position and would prefer the nuclear deal to remain in place. So the US does not have many friends here beyond Saudi Arabia and Israel, which have their own issues with Tehran.\n\nPresident Hassan Rouhani stressed that Iran was not pulling out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe next high stakes moment may come in just under a week when Iran is threatening to take further actions to breach the terms of the agreement. It has suggested that one of these might be to increase the level of enrichment from the current 3.67% to around 20%.\n\nThis will be a much bigger drama. Uranium enrichment is all about stripping away atoms of one type of uranium to boost the concentration of another type, or isotope, which can power a nuclear chain reaction.\n\nIf you take this enrichment to a 20% level you are in fact about 90% of the way to having material suitable for a bomb. There are many other things Iran could do to up the stakes but taking enrichment levels to 20% would send alarm bells around the world and would make it very difficult for the Europeans to keep supporting the nuclear deal.\n\nThe JCPOA has long been described as being on life-support. So a serious shock to the system could sweep it away with uncertain consequences. That spark could come from the Iranians effectively overturning it themselves or it could come from the Middle East, where Iran or its proxy forces and the US military operate, sometimes in close proximity.\n\nThe Syrian front too is a factor. Israel is engaged there in an air campaign against the Iranian military build-up in the country.\n\nThere have been some unusually intense Israeli air attacks recently near Homs and Damascus. Anything that goes wrong, any increase in tension could feed back into the nuclear debate and vice-versa.\n\nIran clearly believes the pressure can be relieved in some way. But it may be mistaken. President Trump is doing everything he can to ensure the JCPOA's demise.\n\nThe Iran nuclear deal is facing its most fundamental challenge yet and what Iran does over the next week or so could well seal its fate.\n• None What would a US-Iran conflict look like?", "Stevie Wonder, pictured at a show earlier this year, reassured fans he was \"all good\"\n\nStevie Wonder will have a kidney transplant later this year, he has announced.\n\nThe singer told the crowd about his medical condition as he finished his set at British Summer Time Hyde Park.\n\nHe said he had found a donor and would perform three more shows before the operation in September, saying: \"I'm all good, I'm all good.\"\n\nFans greeted the news with a loud, supportive cheer, applauding the 69-year-old singer as he left the stage.\n\nHe had just finished playing the song Superstition when he told the crowd he wanted to prevent \"rumours\" spreading about his health.\n\n\"I'm all good, I'm all good, all good, I have a donor and it's all good,\" he said.\n\n\"I want you to know, I came here to give you my love and thank you for your love. I love you and God bless you.\"\n\nThe NHS says the most common reason for needing a transplant is kidney failure or end-stage chronic kidney disease.\n\nIt is possible to donate a kidney while still alive as people only need one kidney to survive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aleem Maqbool This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWonder's support act at Saturday's gig was his friend Lionel Richie.\n\nIn 2017 Wonder paid tribute to the former Commodores front man by covering Easy at his Kennedy Centre Honours ceremony.\n\nRichie later remarked: \"I got into the business because I wanted to be like Stevie Wonder, so for all of a sudden for Stevie to be singing my song, it was surreal.\"", "Flowers were laid on the 7 July memorial\n\nMayor Sadiq Khan has laid a wreath at the 7 July memorial in Hyde Park to mark the 14th anniversary of the bomb attacks in London.\n\nFifty two people died and 700 were injured when four bombs went off across the capital city in 2005.\n\nThe heads of the British Transport Police, Metropolitan Police and City of London Police joined him at service.\n\nIn a speech, Mr Khan paid tribute to those who died as well as those who helped the injured.\n\nThe mayor praised Londoners' resilience while paying tribute to those that died\n\n\"We will never forget those innocent victims, and as we grieve for them we also pay tribute to the heroic efforts of the emergency services and first responders who selflessly ran towards danger to help others,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners showed resilience and unity in the face of huge adversity in 2005, and sadly our city has faced difficult times since then.\n\n\"But, standing together, we uphold the values that make this the best city in the world, united in defiance against terrorism.\"\n\n\"We will never forget the 52 lives that were lost & the hundreds injured in the 7/7 attacks. Fourteen years on, our strength & resolve in the fight against terror remains undimmed. #WeStandTogether,\" he tweeted.", "The crash happened near the Rivington services on the M61\n\nTwo people have been arrested over the death of a 12-year-old girl in a motorway crash.\n\nSana Patel, from Blackburn, died at the scene of the two-car collision on the M61 in Lancashire on Saturday. Police said one of the drivers fled on foot.\n\nThe child was a passenger in a Nissan Qashqai which crashed with a Vauxhall Corsa between junction eight and Bolton West/Rivington services.\n\nA 23-year-old woman and a man, 28, have been released under investigation.\n\nLancashire Police said the woman from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and the man, from Dewsbury were held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The man was also detained on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of an accident.\n\nThe force said five other people in the Qashqai suffered minor injuries, while those in the Corsa fled the scene.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin said: \"This was a tragic incident in which 12-year-old Sana Patel lost her life and our thoughts are very much with her family and friends at this unimaginably difficult time.\n\n\"We have now made two arrests but are very much still trying to establish what happened and are asking anybody who saw the collision or either vehicle in the moments before it happened to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nTauheedul Islam Girls' High School in Blackburn, where Sana was a pupil, said emotional support would be available for students and staff.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will remember Sana as a really friendly and cheeky girl who was always smiling and had a real zest for life and fun.\n\n\"She lit up the lives of so many around her and had so much to look forward to.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Sana and her family during this very distressing and difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A loyalist bonfire is being constructed in the car park at Avoniel Leisure Centre\n\nA leisure centre in east Belfast has been closed after its entrance was barricaded by men who were behaving in a \"threatening\" way to staff.\n\nIn a note sent to councillors, Belfast City Council said the decision to close Avoniel Leisure Centre was taken \"due to the potential threat\" to workers.\n\nA loyalist bonfire is being built in the leisure centre's car park.\n\nTensions have been building ahead of bonfires being lit before the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nBonfires are lit in some Protestant areas on 11 July, the evening before thousands of Orange Order members commemorate the Battle of the Boyne with parades across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe fires mark William of Orange's victory over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and supporters say they are an important part of loyalist culture.\n\nContractors removed tyres from a bonfire in south Belfast on Sunday morning\n\nThe \"barricade\" at Avoniel Leisure Centre came after:\n\nStaff opened Avoniel Leisure Centre for a short time on Sunday morning, having initially been prevented from doing so.\n\nBelfast City Council said \"very few customers were able to get into the centre\" and the decision was taken to close it at about 12:30 BST.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the gates were open and the site was quiet.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson said the actions of the men at the leisure centre were \"wrong and should not be a part of our, or any, community\".\n\n\"Leisure centre staff were going to work to provide a service to the people of east Belfast - they should not have been subjected to this criminal behaviour.\n\n\"Those responsible should face up to the consequences of their disgraceful actions - they are hurting their own community.\"\n\nAvoniel Leisure Centre closed early on Sunday due to the \"potential threat to staff\"\n\nIn its note to councillors, the council said the matter would be reviewed on Monday morning and it would remain in contact with police.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it would make inquiries.\n\nThe Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said the situation was \"absolutely disgraceful\".\n\n\"The community should not be deprived of facilities because of thuggery,\" added the MEP, who is based in east Belfast.\n\nThe SDLP councillor Séamas de Faoite said it was \"shameful behaviour we've long expected to be left in the past\".\n\nA few hours earlier, tyres from a nearby bonfire in the south of the city were taken away after an order from the council.\n\nContractors, accompanied by police, arrived at the site on London Road at about 07:00 BST, with Lismore Street cordoned off.\n\nPolice said they watched the removal of tyres \"to ensure that there was no breach of the peace\"\n\nThe action was being taken to remove tyres but not to dismantle the bonfire, according to the council.\n\nIn Belfast, dozens of people had gathered along Lismore Street on Sunday morning to watch tyres being removed from the London Road bonfire.\n\nBelfast City Council said its approach to \"managing bonfires\" is \"led by elected members\".\n\n\"A member-led decision-making process has been agreed to consider issues and make decisions on a site-by-site basis,\" it added.\n\nTyres should not be burned on bonfires, said the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) councillor John Kyle.\n\nDiscussions had taken place between the bonfire builders and the council and the builders were aware the tyres would be removed, he added.\n\n\"The council only removed tyres - the wood material is still there.\n\nResidents near a bonfire in Portadown have been advised to leave their homes\n\n\"We need so see the Environment Agency prosecuting the dealers who supply the tyres.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said its officers were present for the removal of the tyres \"to ensure that there was no breach of the peace\".\n\nResidents living near the growing bonfire on a large council-owned green in the Corcrain area of Portadown have been advised to leave their homes.\n\nThe South Ulster Housing Association, which owns three blocks of flats at the edge of the green, has written to residents, saying the bonfire \"poses a serious health and safety risk\".\n\nThe bonfire has been deemed to be too close to some of the flats.\n\nIn its letter to residents - a copy of which was posted on Twitter by Ulster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie - the housing association said the bonfire \"poses a risk of damage to your property\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to the association, the fire service states that a bonfire should be a minimum of five times its height away from the nearest property.\n\nAlternative temporary accommodation has been offered by the housing association \"due to the gravity of the situation\".", "Two photographs from the day, taken by fashion photographer Chris Allerton, were released on Saturday\n\nThe son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has been christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a private ceremony.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was baptised in front of close family and friends in the private chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended but were not thought to have their children with them.\n\nThe Queen did not attend due to a prior engagement.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were reported to have arrived at the ceremony by helicopter and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, also attended.\n\nA full list of the 25 guests has not been made public, but Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale - the sisters of Prince Harry's mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales - were pictured in an official photograph taken at the christening.\n\nA Royal Communications spokesperson said: \"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to share the happiness of this day, and would like to thank everyone around the world for their ongoing support.\n\n\"They feel so fortunate to have enjoyed this special moment with family and Archie's godparents.\"\n\nThe royal couple opted to exclude the press and the public from the day and chose not to reveal the names of Archie's godparents.\n\nInstead of having press photographers, fashion photographer Chris Allerton - who took their wedding photos - captured the special moment, with two pictures released to the public and posted on the couple's Instagram account.\n\nMr Allerton said he was \"honoured\" to take the official photographs and \"be part of such a joyous occasion\".\n\nMeghan's mother, Doria Ragland, and Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, the sisters of Diana, Princess of Wales, were among the guests (back row, left to right)\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan did follow some royal traditions, however.\n\nArchie wore a handmade replica of the royal christening robe which was made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.\n\nDevoted royal fans gathered outside Windsor Castle despite the christening being a private service\n\nOne royal superfan dressed their dog in a christening gown to celebrate the occasion\n\nThe robe, which has been worn by royal infants on the occasion of their christening for the last 11 years, was made by Angela Kelly, dressmaker to the Queen.\n\nThe ornate Lily Font, commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the baptism of their first child Victoria, Princess Royal, in 1841, was also used - as was water from the River Jordan.\n\nMembers of the St George's Chapel Choir performed at the ceremony.\n\nThose hoping for more than a glimpse of the royal christening today will have been disappointed.\n\nThere was no television coverage, nor have press photographers been invited.\n\nNormally a list of godparents would be released, but this time, says the palace, in keeping with the wishes of those chosen by Harry and Meghan, their names will be kept private.\n\nIt all points to a very different royal event, part of the continuing desire by the Duke and Duchess to raise their son Archie out of the spotlight.\n\nComing so swiftly after the revelation that almost £2.5m of taxpayers' money was spent renovating a property for Harry and Meghan - it has led to questions about visibility.\n\nThe previous understandings about public access to royal events appear to have been abandoned by a couple determined to do things their own way.", "Eton College will offer 12 free sixth form places to boys \"with tremendous potential but limited opportunity\".\n\nThe Orwell Award will be open to those who do not have the highest grades, recognising that their potential may have been limited by circumstances.\n\nThe places will be offered to Year 11 pupils at non-selective state schools and will cover full boarding fees.\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron and Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson are among Eton's alumni.\n\nBoth the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex were also pupils at the Berkshire school, which charges fees of more than £40,000 a year.\n\nHeadmaster Simon Henderson said the school had a tradition of offering free places \"to deserving pupils\" since it was founded in 1440, adding that there were more than 80 pupils currently in the school \"who pay no fees\"\n\n\"The Orwell Award will ensure that we continue this tradition by helping boys with tremendous potential but limited opportunity,\" said Mr Henderson.\n\n\"We are not targeting boys who will do well anyway.\n\n\"We're looking for applicants with vigour, talent and industry who, without proper support, will not be prepared for or even apply to the country's top universities.\"\n\nBoth the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge (pictured here in 2010) attended Eton College\n\nThe Orwell Award is named after Animal Farm author George Orwell, who was a scholarship pupil at Eton.\n\nIt is intended to give the recipients an educational experience they would not otherwise have been able to access.\n\nUnlike previous scholarship programmes, it will assess applicants against specific criteria such as attending a school which Ofsted has identified as requiring improvement or which is in special measures.\n\nIt will also consider if a boy has refugee status, is in council care or foster case, if he is in the first generation of his family to go to university or if he has been in receipt of the pupil premium funding for disadvantaged students.\n\nThe announcement of the 12 sixth form scholarships comes at a time of increasing pressure on private schools and top universities to diversify their intake.\n\nThis year, Oxford University announced it plans to increase the number of its students from disadvantaged backgrounds to 25% by 2023.", "The family of actor Cameron Boyce has confirmed the Disney star has died at the age of 20.\n\nA spokesperson said he passed away in his sleep after suffering a seizure.\n\nHe made his acting debut in the horror film Mirrors but is best known for roles in Disney's Descendants and the TV show Jessie.\n\nHis death was confirmed on the evening of Saturday 6 July and linked to \"an ongoing medical condition\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron,\" a spokesperson said on behalf of his family.\n\n\"He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.\n\n\"The world is now undoubtedly without one of its brightest lights, but his spirit will live on through the kindness and compassion of all who knew and loved him.\n\n\"We are utterly heartbroken and ask for privacy during this immensely difficult time as we grieve the loss of our precious son and brother.\"\n\nCameron Boyce played the role of Carlos de Vil in Disney's Descendants\n\nCameron Boyce was only nine years old when he appeared in Mirrors. He then went on to play one of Adam Sandler's children in the movie Grown Ups.\n\nHowever it was on the Disney channel show Jessie that he became most well known as the character Luke Ross.\n\nThat led to him playing the part of Carlos de Vil in Descendants, the popular TV movie series which follows the lives of the children of Disney baddies.\n\nTributes have been paid by his fellow actors and fans.\n\nAdam Sandler posted a message on social media saying Cameron Boyce was \"the nicest, most talented, and most decent kid around\".\n\nCameron's Jessie co-star Skai Jackson wrote an emotional tribute to her friend, who she starred alongside for four seasons.\n\n\"Cam, you were one of a kind. My heart will be forever broken,\" she wrote alongside a number of videos featuring him.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Disney Channel spokesman described him as an \"incredibly talented performer\".\n\nThey said: \"From a young age, Cameron Boyce dreamed of sharing his extraordinary artistic talents with the world.\n\n\"As a young man, he was fuelled by a strong desire to make a difference in people's lives through his humanitarian work.\n\n\"He was an incredibly talented performer, a remarkably caring and thoughtful person and, above all else, he was a loving and dedicated son, brother, grandson and friend.\n\n\"We offer our deepest condolences to his family, cast mates and colleagues and join his many millions of fans in grieving his untimely passing. He will be dearly missed.\"\n\nCameron Boyce had shared a black and white photo of himself on Instagram the day before he died.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None The power of Disney's nostalgia during a pandemic", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAndy Murray and Serena Williams began their blockbuster partnership with a confident win in the Wimbledon mixed doubles on a buzzing Centre Court.\n\nBritain's Murray and American Williams eased to a 6-4 6-1 win over unseeded Andreas Mies and Alexa Guarachi.\n\nThe high-profile pair had too much quality for their battling opponents and will meet 14th seeds Fabrice Martin and Raquel Atawo in the second round.\n\nBut several hours later, there were contrasting emotions for the Scot - the three-time Grand Slam singles champion - as he and 23-time major winner Williams breezed past their German-Chilean opponents in one hour and 16 minutes.\n\n\"After losing earlier in the men's doubles, all the energy is the focused now on the mix,\" Murray, 32, said. \"We played well, returned well and served well - it is a great start.\"\n\nWilliams, 37, added: \"I think it worked out well, We had never played together, so it is always a learning curve. We wanted to start fast and we take it very seriously.\"\n\nThe tantalising partnership between two of the sport's most recognisable stars has been one of the main talking points at Wimbledon since it was first mooted last week and then finally confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nAnticipation was bubbling around the grounds all day - particularly on Centre Court, where many ticket holders felt confident they were going to see Murray and Williams in tandem.\n\nThat was despite the match not being assigned to a court, and not to be played before 17:30 BST, as Wimbledon organisers waited until the picture became clearer on the main show courts before deciding where to put one of the most anticipated mixed doubles matches in years.\n\nQuick victories for Ashleigh Barty, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on Centre left the path clear and when their impending arrival was announced, shortly after the Swiss beat France's Lucas Pouille in straight sets, the 15,000-seater arena broke out into manic cheers.\n\nMore followed when they strode out into a court together where they have enjoyed some of the finest moments of their career and the party atmosphere continued throughout a win wrapped up in fading light about 20:30 BST.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nCan Ser-Andy go all the way?\n\nFor two-time Wimbledon singles champion Murray, the high-profile partnership represents another chance to win a title at SW19, this time less than six months after having hip surgery.\n\nAs well as being two of the leading singles players of their generation, both have rich doubles pedigree and gelled together seamlessly as they thrashed unseeded pair Mies and Guarachi.\n\nWilliams won the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1998, and has claimed six women's titles partnering older sister Venus, while Murray has also enjoyed success in the format, notably alongside his brother Jamie as they helped Britain win the 2015 Davis Cup.\n\nDespite only hitting together for the first time 24 hours earlier, the ease with which they quickly gained an understanding was an ominous sign for the rest of the field.\n\nTypically strong serving from Williams complemented Murray's returning game, while both players pounced around the net and produced some sharp volleying skills.\n\nWhile there were plenty of fun moments - notably when Williams broke into laughter as she scrambled on the floor trying to get up at the net - there was a steeliness which was to be expected by two of the game's most dogged players.\n\nA break in the opening game of the match was enough to take the first set, meaning 10 other missed chances were inconsequential, before they took four of their seven opportunities in a clinical second set.\n\n\"We're obviously here to do well, but have fun at the same time,\" Williams added.\n\nLaughing about her slip, she added: \"I was going to get back up. I saw a ball coming towards me, so I just kind of went back down. Then I couldn't get back up after that.\n\n\"So I decided to just stay down and let Andy do all the running.\"\n\nChanda Rubin, American former world number six, on BBC TV:\n\nAndy and Serena had a nice presence out there. You could see as the match went on they worked better and better together.\n\nThey started figuring each other out more, the shots each other liked to hit, complementing each other.\n\nIn the end they played some high quality tennis, served well, returns were firing and some nice moves at the net.\n\nMurray and Herbert fail to build on promising start\n\nMurray, 32, made a triumphant return when he and Herbert earned a men's doubles comeback win over Romania's Marius Copil and France's Ugo Humbert, recovering from a slow start to enthral a boisterous Court One on Thursday by winning in four sets.\n\nBut this time the mood on a packed court two, one of the smaller show courts at the All England Club, faltered as Murray and Herbert's second-round match swung in the opposite direction against Croatian sixth seeds Nikola Mektic and Franko Skugor.\n\nThe partnership failed to ignite in the same way that Murray's triumphant pairing with Spain's Feliciano Lopez did at Queen's, with an almost innate understanding between doubles specialists Mektic and Skugor proving too much as they won 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-2 6-3.\n\nInitially it looked as if it could be another positive outcome for Murray and Herbert, who edged an even first set after a crisp cross-court backhand winner from Murray swung the tie-break in their favour.\n\nBut 28-year-old Herbert, who has won all four Grand Slam doubles titles after success with his previous partner Nicolas Mahut, continued to struggle with his returning game in the second set and then crucially saw his serve taken for their opponents to level.\n\nFrom that point Mektic and Skugor took control as Murray and Herbert's service game waned, the Croatians breaking three more times in the next two sets to reach the third round.", "Police said the attacker was known to the victims\n\nAn 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a woman and three of her children were stabbed at a home in north London.\n\nA 44-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder following the \"appalling attack\" in Bounds Green, Enfield.\n\nPolice said the woman, in her 30s, and two girls, both aged under 12, are in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nBut a third child remains in a critical condition.\n\nPolice were called at 12:13 BST on Saturday to Livingstone Road, a residential street off the North Circular Road.\n\nOfficers said the attacker was known to the victims and they were not searching for anyone else.\n\nDet Sgt Joe Stewart, of Enfield Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said: \"This was an appalling attack on a woman and her young children.\n\n\"They have sustained very serious injuries. Our thoughts are with them as they continue to receive vital treatment in hospital.\n\n\"Attacks like this on such young people are extremely rare.\n\n\"The attacker was known to the victims. There is no further risk to the public at this time.\"\n\nA crime scene and road closures remain in place around the area.\n\nThe man remains in a north London police station for questioning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump claims army 'took over airports' in 1775\n\nUS President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going \"kaput\" for a glaring anachronism in his Independence Day speech.\n\nHe told crowds on 4 July the Continental Army \"took over the airports\" during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.\n\nObservers quickly pointed out there was no air travel in 18th Century America.\n\nExplaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.\n\nDuring his \"Salute to America\" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: \"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.\"\n\nCritics pointed out the rebels could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.\n\nIn the same sentence, Mr Trump also appeared to date a battle at Fort McHenry to the American Revolution, when it unfolded decades later during the War of 1812.\n\nTwitter users had some fun with the garble, using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.\n\nOutside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: \"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.\n\n\"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening.\"\n\nThe president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Salute to America event featured military flyovers and fireworks\n\nBefore winning the White House, Mr Trump used to criticise ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.\n\nThe president's Independence Day celebration saw military tanks transported into the nation's capital and a flyover by the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team.\n\nHis critics had pilloried the event as inappropriately partisan and a misuse of public funds.\n\nBut Mr Trump surprised some by steering clear of overt partisanship in his speech, instead celebrating patriotic themes and US history including civil rights.\n\nBefore a cheering crowd on the steps of the monument to Civil War era-president Abraham Lincoln, he said the story of America was \"the greatest political journey in human history\".\n\nHe was the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on the Fourth of July.\n• None Trump hails US military in 4th of July address", "Jones was photographed with his wife Tanya when they visited a hospital in 2002\n\nThe actor and former footballer was by his wife's side when she died at their home in Los Angeles on Saturday.\n\nA statement from his management said she passed peacefully while surrounded by Vinnie, their daughter and other family members.\n\nVinnie and Tanya married in 1994. She had a daughter, Kaley, by her former husband, and a son, Aaron, with Vinnie.\n\nJones, 54, a former midfielder player best known for being part of the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon, has previously spoken about how the couple had both been diagnosed with skin cancer.\n\nTanya underwent an emergency heart transplant at the age of 21 following the birth of Kaley and is also reported to have had cervical cancer.\n\nSporting figures and celebrities have sent messages of condolence on social media.\n\nFormer boxer Frank Bruno tweeted: \"I'm very saddened to hear the news of Vinnie Jones wife Tanya passing away. My thoughts are with Vinnie & his family at this difficult time\".\n\nAnd ex-Arsenal and Everton striker Kevin Campbell said: \"Deepest Condolences to you, your family and loved ones VinnieJones65\".\n\nAs well as Wimbledon, Jones played for Leeds United, Chelsea, Queen Park Rangers and Wales.\n\nAfter retiring from the game, he starred in films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Gone in 60 Seconds and X-Men: The Last Stand.", "Some Conservative members have been issued with more than one ballot paper to vote for the next party leader and prime minister, the BBC has learned.\n\nOne party insider estimated that more than a thousand voters could be affected.\n\nMembers are warned that voting twice will mean they are expelled, the Conservatives said.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has unveiled his crime policy, while Jeremy Hunt said cuts on policing had gone too far.\n\nBallot papers have been dispatched to around 160,000 Conservative Party members around the country to choose between Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt as the next leader - and the next prime minister.\n\nThe vote closes on 22 July, with the result announced the following day.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Today Programme has learned that some members have received two ballot papers, in some cases because members live and work in different constituencies and may have joined local Conservative Associations in both areas.\n\nPeople who have changed their name, after marriage for example, may also have been affected.\n\nThe BBC has seen duplicate ballot papers which have been issued to the same person at the same address.\n\nThe Conservative Party and the independent body hired to scrutinise the running of the leadership election were both unable to say how many ballot papers had been sent in error.\n\n\"The ballot holds clear instructions that members voting more than once will be expelled,\" the party said.\n\nSir Patrick McLoughlin, who is chairing Mr Hunt's leadership campaign, admitted that he receives two ballot papers as he is on two separate registers.\n\n\"It doesn't mean I vote twice, I don't,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nAsked whether the duplicate ballots need to be more heavily policed, he said: \"It's right there on the ballot paper saying you must only vote on one occasion and I expect people to do that.\"\n\nMr Johnson's campaign chairman Iain Duncan Smith said he believed the Conservative Party chairman had \"already been asked to look carefully at how they sift\" ballots.\n\nSpeaking at a hustings in Cardiff on Saturday evening, Mr Hunt urged party members who have received more than one ballot paper to only vote once.\n\n\"I know that they won't vote twice, however tempting it might be to back Hunt twice, I'm asking them not to because we want this to be an absolutely fair election.\n\n\"Of course I'm going to trust the result,\" he added.\n\nIn most elections, voting more than once would be illegal, but the leadership contest is only governed by the Conservative Party's internal rules. The Electoral Commission, the independent body which oversees UK elections to ensure their integrity, has no role in the leadership contest.\n\nAs they seek to win support from the party's members nationwide, both candidates addressed the Young Conservatives Conference in Nottingham earlier on Saturday.\n\nIt came after Mr Johnson set out his plan to reduce crime in the Daily Mail, saying he would permanently restore stop and search powers nationwide.\n\nStop and search powers were restricted by Theresa May when she was home secretary in 2014. The powers have already been restored in seven areas with high knife crime on a trial basis.\n\nMr Johnson promised a \"relentless focus\" on knife crime and criticised the 2014 measures brought in by Mrs May.\n\nBoris Johnson tells the conference in Nottingham he wants to champion the environment\n\nMr Johnson also plans to end the early release of violent offenders and address the causes of crime with a review of youth centre provision.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, Mr Duncan Smith - an ally of Mr Johnson - said police needed to be given \"the capabilities to do their job\", as well as there being an increase in police numbers.\n\nWhen asked how Mr Johnson intended on funding 20,000 extra police officers, he said: \"We've had to put the economy right from the terrible Labour crash that took place in 2007, but we are very much now back on track.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow policing minister Louise Haigh dismissed Mr Johnson's policies as \"meaningless\" branding them \"cheap headline-grabbing measures\".\n\nAt the Nottingham hustings, Mr Johnson said the Tories should be presenting itself as a party that is \"committed to social justice\".\n\nHe said that would also mean \"championing the environment\", with measures to promote cleaner air, protect wildlife and reduce the amount of plastic being used.\n\n\"Our modern Conservative agenda is not only right for the economy, it's deeply progressive,\" he said.\n\nJeremy Hunt says he thinks he can match Mr Johnson's pledge on police recruitment\n\nMr Hunt told the conference that government cuts had gone too far on social care and policing.\n\n\"I have been clear that we do have some headroom in our national finances that would allow us to find extra funding for those public services,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he \"thought he could\" match Mr Johnson's plan to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers.\n\nMr Johnson remains the frontrunner in the contest, with a recent YouGov poll of Tory members suggesting almost three-quarters of Conservatives back him.\n\nBut Sir Patrick said a \"broad brush of people right across the whole party\" have come out to support Mr Hunt.\n\nHe added that the foreign secretary was not wedded to leaving the EU by the \"magical deadline\" of 31 October, which he says is a \"do or die\" issue for frontrunner Mr Johnson.\n\nHe said Mr Hunt's \"10 point plan very clearly\" set out his plan for leaving the EU.\n\nSir Patrick said: \"By the end of September he would decide, along with the Cabinet... whether we move forward with no deal or whether there was a chance of getting a deal\".", "\"We're prepared to make tough cutbacks,\" said CEO Christian Sewing earlier this year\n\nUp to 20,000 jobs could be axed at Deutsche Bank in a radical reorganisation of Germany's biggest bank.\n\nThe investment bank is expected to be particularly hard hit, with many of the cuts set to affect London and New York.\n\nThe supervisory board of Deutsche Bank is expected to approve the plan on Sunday.\n\nThe reorganisation of the business follows the failure of merger talks with rival Commerzbank in April.\n\nThe German government had supported the tie-up, hoping it would create a national champion in the banking industry.\n\nHowever, both banks concluded that the deal was too risky, fearing the costs of combining might have outweighed the benefits.\n\nChief executive Christian Sewing, who took on the top job just over a year ago, told shareholders at the annual general meeting in May that he would \"accelerate transformation\" by focusing the bank on \"profitable and growing\" businesses.\n\n\"I can assure you: we're prepared to make tough cutbacks,\" he said.\n\nThe 20,000 job cuts would be equivalent to a fifth of the company's global workforce.\n\nWith almost 8,000 staff, London is the home of its biggest investment banking operation.\n\nDeutsche Bank has been struggling for years with the decline of its investment bank and has made several attempts to revamp its business.\n\nIt is thought that the latest plan will be the most ambitious so far and it has already prompted the resignation of one top executive.\n\nOn Friday, the bank announced that its head of investment banking, Garth Ritchie, was leaving.\n\nShares in the firm have fallen by a quarter over the last year. Last month they fell below €6 a share, but have recovered a little since then, and on Friday closed at €7.17.\n\nDeutsche Bank headquarters were raided by prosecutors last year\n\nAs well as poor financial performance, Deutsche Bank has also been caught up in banking scandals.\n\nLate last year prosecutors raided its headquarters in a money-laundering investigation.\n\nThey were looking into whether Deutsche Bank staff helped clients set up offshore accounts to transfer money from criminal activities.\n\nDeutsche has also been connected with another huge money-laundering scandal at Denmark's Danske Bank.\n\nLast year Danske Bank said that it had detected billions of dollars of suspicious payments at its Estonian operation.\n\nDeutsche Bank admitted it had processed some of Danske's Estonian transactions, but had terminated its relationship with with the bank in 2015 after \"identifying suspicious activity\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands gather on the streets of Hong Kong\n\nTens of thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of Hong Kong for the first time since the storming of parliament on 1 July.\n\nProtesters marched in an area popular with mainland Chinese tourists, in a bid to explain their concerns over a controversial extradition bill.\n\nHong Kong enjoys rights and freedoms not seen on mainland China, including free speech and the right to protest.\n\nLater on Sunday riot police charged a group of protesters with batons.\n\nPolice had warned the group to disperse. Demonstrators were seen using umbrellas to defend themselves from the charge.\n\nFootage from the scene showed police detaining several protesters.\n\nThe territory has seen multiple protests during the past month over a controversial extradition bill proposed by the government.\n\nThe government said the bill would plug legal \"loopholes\" that prevented it from extraditing criminals to certain countries - but critics said those in Hong Kong would be exposed to China's deeply flawed justice system.\n\nThe bill was suspended after a number of large protests - however demonstrators are calling for it to be scrapped completely, and demanding an investigating into alleged police brutality.\n\nHong Kong, a former British colony, is part of China but run under a \"one country, two systems\" arrangement that guarantees it a level of autonomy. It has its own judiciary, and a separate legal system, compared to mainland China.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters marched through the streets of Kowloon towards West Kowloon train station. The train station links Hong Kong to mainland China's high-speed rail network.\n\nIn a bid to attract attention from mainland tourists, demonstrators were heard chanting in Mandarin instead of Cantonese, the language used in Hong Kong.\n\nBanners were also written in simplified Chinese - the script used in mainland China - instead of traditional characters.\n\nAt one location, protesters could be heard singing the Chinese national anthem in a bid to attract attention from tourists.\n\nEddison Ng, an 18-year-old demonstrator told AFP news agency: \"We want to show tourists, including mainland China tourists, what is happening in Hong Kong and we hope they can take this concept back to China.\"\n\nProtest organisers say 230,000 people took part in the march, while the police said 56,000 were present at the protest's peak.\n\nProtesters are hoping to explain to tourists their reasons for protesting\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt reiterated on Thursday that China must honour Hong Kong's high level of autonomy from Beijing - as agreed in the 1984 treaty signed by the UK and Chinese governments.\n\nHe warned the Chinese government that it could face \"serious consequences\" over its treatment of protesters.\n\nDuring an unauthorised protest on 12 June, police used rubber bullets, beanbag shots and 150 canisters of tear gas against demonstrators.\n\nOn Sunday, China's ambassador to the UK said that China rejected the \"Cold War mentality\" from some British politicians over Hong Kong.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Liu Xiaoming said he had the confidence in Hong Kong to handle the situation and that it was the British government who had interfered in the city's internal affairs.", "Deutsche Bank will cut 18,000 jobs over three years as part of a radical reorganisation of the German bank.\n\nIt will also report a second quarter loss of €2.8bn to partly pay for the shake-up, which will significantly shrink its investment banking business.\n\nDeutsche Bank is yet to specify exactly where jobs will be lost.\n\nBut it said it intends to completely exit activities related to the buying and selling of shares, much of which is conducted in London and New York.\n\nWith almost 8,000 staff, London is the home to its biggest trading operation.\n\nDeutsche Bank said it will cut its global workforce to 74,000 by 2022 and that the restructure will cost €7.4bn over the next three years.\n\n\"Today we have announced the most fundamental transformation of Deutsche Bank in decades,\" chief executive Christian Sewing said.\n\n\"This is a restart for Deutsche Bank... In refocusing the bank around our clients, we are returning to our roots and to what once made us one of the leading banks in the world,\" he said.\n\nThe reorganisation of the business follows the failure of merger talks with rival Commerzbank in April.\n\nThe German government had supported the tie-up, hoping it would create a national champion in the banking industry.\n\nHowever, both banks concluded that the deal was too risky, fearing the costs of combining might have outweighed the benefits.\n\nWhat's bad for Deutsche Bank could be good for Barclays.\n\nThe once-mighty German firm's retreat from international investment banking leaves Barclays as the last European bank standing in a sector dominated by US giants like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.\n\nAs one Barclays insider told the BBC: \"Deutsche is where Barclays was five to 10 years ago. The difference is that we had a successful retail business (loans, mortgages, credit cards) to help us endure the most difficult times. Deutsche Bank hasn't got that.\"\n\nThe structure of the German banking sector is very different from the UK with lots of smaller regional banks grabbing most retail customers.\n\nBarclays has been picking up market share from Deutsche and other European banks for over a year now and will see this as a further opportunity to expand into the space vacated by the German retreat.\n\nWhile Barclays may pick up business, the real victors from Deutsche's demise are the US banks who have prevailed after many unsuccessful attempts (RBS, UBS, DB and others) to muscle into the so-called \"bulge bracket\" of international investment banks.\n\nWall Street is arguably more powerful than ever.\n\nDeutsche Bank has been struggling for years with the decline of its investment bank and has made several attempts to revamp its business.\n\nThe latest plan will be the most ambitious so far and it has already prompted the resignation of one top executive.\n\nOn Friday, the bank announced that its head of investment banking, Garth Ritchie, was leaving.\n\nUnder the plan, the bank wants to make cost savings of €17bn by 2022.\n\nIt is also creating a new unit to manage assets that belong to businesses it no longer wants.\n\nIt estimates those assets to be worth €74bn.", "Middle-aged people who feel dizzy when standing up from a lying-down position may be at a higher risk of dementia or a stroke in the future, a report says.\n\nThe light-headed feeling is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, which is known as orthostatic hypotension (OH).\n\nParticipants with the condition in the study of 11,709 people in the USA had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia or having a stroke.\n\nHowever, feeling dizzy sometimes is often not a sign of a serious illness.\n\nThe American Academy of Neurology studied people for an average 25 years. And the average age of the participants was 54.\n\nStudy author Andreea Rawlings said OH had been previously linked to heart disease, so her team wanted to know if it could also be responsible for brain conditions.\n\n\"Measuring orthostatic hypotension in middle age may be a new way to identify people who need to be carefully monitored for dementia or stroke,\" she said.\n\n\"More studies are needed to clarify what may be causing these links as well as to investigate possible prevention strategies.\"\n\nOne limitation of the study was that participants were tested for OH only during the initial examination, so it may not reflect any change in blood pressure over time.\n\nNone of the participants had any previous history of heart disease or stroke.\n\nDementia UK's chief executive and chief admiral nurse, Dr Hilda Hayo, told the BBC: \"This study adds to our recognition of low blood pressure as a potential risk factor for dementia in some people.\n\n\"The advice on keeping the heart and blood vessels healthy in order to delay or prevent the onset of dementia applies equally to people with low or high blood pressure.\"\n\nDr Shamim Quadir, research communications manager at the Stroke Association, told the BBC that because OH was measured only at the start of the study, it \"limits the conclusions we can draw\".\n\nHe said: \"We would like to see more research which could explain the associations observed between OH and stroke and dementia.\n\n\"The Stroke Association recommends that you get your blood pressure checked regularly, know what your numbers are and make sure you speak to your GP if anything changes or if you are concerned.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demi Lovato fans are sharing stories of how much the singer means to them using the hashtag #HowDemiHasHelpedMe.\n\nThe 25-year-old is in hospital in Los Angeles after a suspected drug overdose.\n\nDemi has struggled with addiction, eating disorders, bipolar and depression, which she's spoken about previously.\n\nA spokesperson for the pop singer told the BBC she is \"awake and with her family\".\n\nDemi announced she was \"not sober anymore\" on her new single Sober last month.\n\nIt wasn't clear from the song whether Demi was referencing breaking her sobriety in June or in the past.\n\nDemi Lovato and a fan at an event in California in May\n\nSome people have been sharing their stories of the impact she's had on their lives using the Twitter hashtag.\n\nOne of those people is 21-year-old Nicole Smith from Manchester, who says the Sorry Not Sorry singer helped her through anxiety and depression after she lost a close family member.\n\nNicole was at the Ariana Grande concert where the Manchester Arena bombing took place in May 2017.\n\nShe says going to Demi Lovato's concert last month helped her overcome her fear of going to live gigs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicole This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I had always been an anxious child and had suffered with different forms of anxiety, but in that time (after losing a relative) it was the worst it had ever been,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Through her music and knowing her past, it really helped me to open up about it and seek the help I needed at that time.\"\n\n\"I attended Demi's concert in Manchester and this was the first time since the Manchester attack.\n\n\"I was extremely nervous, but by the end of the concert I got that same enjoyment from a concert that I used to get before the attack, something I had not felt in a long time, and thought I had lost forever.\"\n\nFans are using the hashtag #HowDemiHasHelpedMe to share their stories\n\n23-year-old Laura from Melbourne, Australia has suffered from an eating disorder, anxiety and depression since age 15 and says Demi has \"always been there\" for her.\n\n\"Her music always speaks to me and helps me to keep going,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"I don't think I would be where I am today, so well healed and getting over my eating disorder so well, if it wasn't for her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaura also explains how important it is for celebrities like Demi to be so open about their mental health.\n\n\"Someone with such a positive platform that has been through it and has the platform to speak on it is good for the world to hear.\n\n\"Yes teenagers and young people are starting to open up about their mental health issues, but I think it's still an issue.\n\n\"She's helped me a lot with how she's advocated for mental heath.\"\n\nThe popstar has been praised by fans for speaking so openly about mental health\n\nAllie, 16, created a Twitter fan account dedicated to Demi after she helped her through \"dark times\".\n\nShe says hearing about Demi's relapse \"really saddened\" her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"To me she is an inspiring woman filled with strength and talent and she gives meaning to the words 'staying strong'.\n\n\"She helped me get better with my issues and with all my might I hope that she'll get better too.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Demi Lovato cancelled two shows in her UK tour in June\n\n\"The last time I did an interview this long, I was on cocaine.\"\n\nIt's clear from the first minute of Demi Lovato's official documentary, released last October, that the singer has no problem being open about her addictions.\n\nThe previous interview she refers to was for another documentary - 2012's Stay Strong - in which she spoke of her \"daily battle\" with eating disorders, self-harm and mental health issues, as well as addiction.\n\nLovato had \"Stay\" tattooed on one wrist and \"Strong\" on the other. She seemed to be keeping the demons at bay.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Demi Lovato This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe insisted she got clean soon after making that film.\n\nHowever, a month ago, fans discovered she had relapsed when she revealed in a new song: \"I'm not sober any more.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DemiLovatoVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSo her apparent overdose on Tuesday is a heart-wrenching twist for the 25-year-old and all those who had followed her on her rough journey from Disney star to troubled pop icon.\n\nThe pressures of being a teen star, a dysfunctional relationship with her father and bullying all contributed to the issues that have threatened to drag her under at various points in her career, those documentaries revealed.\n\nThe singer said her problems with food and suicidal thoughts began even before her big break on TV show Barney & Friends when she was 10 years old.\n\nAt the age of 12, kids in her class signed a petition encouraging her to kill herself.\n\nThe pressures were exacerbated when she found stardom in Disney Channel hits Camp Rock and Sonny with a Chance, before launching a pop career.\n\n\"I felt the pressure increase when the fame started to creep into my life,\" she said in the latest documentary. \"I started to feel pressure to look a certain way, to sing music that people would like rather than sing music that I would like.\n\n\"There was more pressure to succeed... I was a perfectionist and I really wanted to be the best of the best. It didn't let up at all. It just mounted more and more.\"\n\nLovato (right) with her former Disney co-star Selena Gomez in 2008\n\nShe first tried cocaine at the age of 17 when she was working on the Disney Channel. \"I felt out of control with the coke the first time,\" she said.\n\n\"My dad was an addict and an alcoholic and I guess I always searched for what he found in drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him and he chose that over a family.\"\n\nThe first public admission that anything was wrong came in 2010 when she dropped out of the Camp Rock 2 tour with the Jonas Brothers and went into rehab for what were described at the time as \"emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time\".\n\nThe breaking point had come when she and her backing dancers trashed their hotel one night after drinking and smoking weed.\n\nLovato was also taking Adderall, an addictive prescription stimulant - and she punched a backing dancer who told her parents and manager she was using the drug.\n\n\"I lived fast and I was going to die young,\" she said in 2016. \"I didn't think I would make it to 21.\"\n\nAt the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards in 2015\n\nAfter checking into treatment, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.\n\nWhen she came out, she continued using drugs like cocaine and Xanax. \"I wasn't working my program,\" she said. \"I wasn't ready to get sober.\n\n\"I was sneaking it on planes, sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night - nobody knew... I was either craving drugs or on drugs... I was not easy to work with.\"\n\nIn the documentary, she revealed she would even fake drug tests by handing over other people's urine, and on one occasion was taken to hospital after a suicide attempt.\n\nIt was only when she hit such lows that she made a concerted effort to get clean.\n\nShe was an X Factor judge alongside LA Reid, Britney Spears and Simon Cowell\n\nWhen she was a judge on the US X Factor in 2012 and '13, viewers had no idea she was living in a \"sober apartment\" - a place to live and get help with recovery. She had room-mates, no phone and had to do chores.\n\nThat sobriety lasted for six years, she said. In her documentary, she revealed that although she stayed off drugs and alcohol, she has never managed to \"fully conquer\" her bulimia.\n\nShe said: \"Food is still the biggest challenge in my life and it controls... I don't want to give it the power to say it controls my every thought, but it's something that I'm constantly thinking about.\n\n\"Body image, what I'm going to eat next, what I wish I could be eating, what I wish I didn't eat. It's just constant. I get envious towards people that don't struggle with an eating disorder just because I feel like my life would be so much easier.\"\n\nShe performed with Christina Aguilera (left) at the Billboard Music Awards in May\n\nFans believed her life was going in the right direction - until June 2018, when she posted the song Sober.\n\nShe sang: \"Momma, I'm so sorry, I'm not sober any more/And daddy, please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor/To the ones who never left me/We've been down this road before/I'm so sorry, I'm not sober any more.\"\n\nTwo weeks earlier, she had cancelled two shows of her UK tour.\n\nThe 2017 documentary had ended on a predictably upbeat note, with her transformation at that point described as \"a miracle\".\n\nThe documentary was titled Simply Complicated, and fans who have stuck by her know by now her story is rarely simple.\n\nBut they will hope she can get back to a point where she can live with her demons, even if taming them has proved a painful struggle.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Georgia lawmaker ridiculed for dropping his trousers and using racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? show has said he will resign.\n\nRepublican state representative Jason Spencer had initially refused to quit after the show aired on Sunday.\n\nMr Spencer is coaxed into an \"anti-terrorism training class\", using the n-word to ward off a kidnapper and baring his buttocks to scare off terrorists.\n\n\"If you want to win, you show some skin,\" Baron Cohen, disguised as an anti-terrorism expert, had urged him.\n\nThe office of the Speaker of Georgia's House of Representatives told the Washington Post that Mr Spencer had submitted his resignation, effective from 31 July.\n\nThe lawmaker had faced mounting calls to quit, with the Speaker, David Ralston, among them. He told CNN Mr Spencer's actions and language were \"reprehensible\", adding: \"Georgia is better than this.\"\n\nIn the episode, Baron Cohen invents the \"Israeli anti-terrorism expert\" Col Erran Morad, and convinces Mr Spencer to:\n\nMr Spencer had initially refused to quit over what he called a \"ridiculously ugly episode\".\n\nThe four-term representative was defeated in the Republican primary for his seat in May, but had intended to serve his remaining five months in office.\n\nHe said in a statement Baron Cohen had taken \"advantage of my paralysing fear that my family would be attacked\".\n\n\"My fears were so heightened at that time, I was not thinking clearly nor could I appreciate what I was agreeing to when I participated in his 'class',\" he said.\n\nMr Spencer apologised to \"my family, friends, and the people of my district\", adding: \"I deeply regret the language I used at (Baron Cohen's) request.\"\n\nThe Baron Cohen series airs on Showtime in the US and Channel 4 in the UK.\n\nOther duped \"guests\" include former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former US vice-president Dick Cheney.\n\nMrs Palin pre-empted the airing saying on Facebook: \"I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick 'humour' of the British 'comedian' Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime.\"", "US President Donald Trump has welcomed the outcome of a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Washington, saying it was a \"very big day for free and fair trade\".\n\nMr Trump said they had agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers between the US and the European Union. Mr Juncker said it was a \"good meeting\".", "Olympic rower Helen Glover announced she was pregnant with twins in March\n\nDouble Olympic champion Helen Glover has announced she has given birth to a boy.\n\nGlover and her husband, TV wildlife expert Steve Backshall, revealed the news in a series of posts on their social media accounts.\n\nThe gold medallist, from Cornwall, said she was \"excited to welcome Baby Boy Backshall\" to the world.\n\nThe Team GB rower had been expecting twins but lost one of the babies in April.\n\nSteve Backshall said on Instagram and Twitter: \"The biggest adventure begins.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by helenglovergb This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter sharing their news, the couple received hundreds of messages from well-wishers.\n\nAdventurer Ben Fogle was quick to respond to the Olympian's tweet, offering \"huge congratulations\".\n\nOlympic cyclist and double gold medal winner Joanna Rowsell-Shand also wished the couple well, while England international rugby player Ben Morgan responded to Steve Backshall's tweet, saying: \"Congratulations to you both, the fun begins!\"\n\nHelen Glover and Steve Backshall met at a Sport Relief event in 2014 and married in 2016\n\nGlover and her rowing partner, Heather Stanning, won Britain's first gold medal of the 2012 Olympics in London.\n\nShe took part in a victory parade in Penzance after the win and a Royal Mail postbox was painted gold in the town in honour of her winning performance.\n\nThe pair took gold again in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, becoming the first British female rowers to defend their Olympic title.", "Three major automakers have warned that changes to trade policies are hurting performance.\n\nFord and General Motors lowered profit forecasts for 2018, citing higher steel and aluminium prices caused by new US tariffs.\n\nFiat Chrysler also slashed its 2018 revenue outlook, after sales in China slumped as buyers postponed purchases in anticipation of lower car tariffs.\n\nShares in all three companies fell after they reported results.\n\nGeneral Motors shares ended the day about 5% lower, while Fiat Chrysler shares sank about 11%.\n\nShares in Ford, which reported its earnings to investors results later in the day, dropped about 4% in after hours trade.\n\nFord said tariffs, including on steel and aluminium, could cost it up to $1.6bn (£1.2bn), while General Motors said higher metals prices would add about $600m-$700m to costs.\n\nGeneral Motors chief executive Mary Barra said the firm had anticipated higher costs this year, but \"the challenge has become significantly greater than we expected\".\n\nAt Fiat Chrysler, executives said fixed price contracts have helped to shield it from some of the impact of higher metals prices, but they warned those expenses would rise in 2019.\n\nMs Barra said the firm had been in frequent contact with the White House about how trade policies would affect its business.\n\nIn addition to the metals tariffs, the Trump administration is considering placing new duties on foreign vehicles and car parts.\n\nCarmakers are also grappling with questions about the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).\n\nGeneral Motors said it is also worried that trade tensions could eventually put buyers in China off American brands. China is GM's biggest market after North America.\n\n\"We are in a very uncertain and volatile environment at this time,\" said GM chief financial officer Chuck Stevens.\n\nThe warnings came amid disappointing quarterly results.\n\nFord revenues slipped by 2.3% to $38.9bn, while profits nearly halved as sales in China fell and it halted some production due to a fire at a key parts supplier.\n\nAt GM, sales and revenue fell almost 1% to $36.8bn, despite gains in the US, where the number of vehicles sold to dealerships increased by 4.6% amid increased demand for pickup trucks.\n\nThe firm reported profit of about $2.4bn, down roughly 2.8% year-on-year.\n\nFiat Chrysler revenue increased 4% in the quarter to almost 29bn euros, but profits tumbled by 35%.\n\nThe firm said it expected sales in China to rebound, but faced future challenges as new emissions rules in the country come into effect.", "There are worries that too many pupils are being removed from mainstream classes\n\nToo many pupils are being pushed out of mainstream classes in England and abandoned with an inadequate education, says a report from MPs.\n\nThe education select committee warns of a \"Wild West\" approach to the education provided for pupils who have been excluded from school.\n\nThere were also concerns about schools removing pupils to boost their position in league tables.\n\nCommittee chair Robert Halfon warned of too many \"forgotten children\".\n\nHe said schools showed a \"lack of moral accountability\" in what happened to pupils after they had been moved out of mainstream lessons.\n\nThe report raises concerns about the excessive use of both formal and informal exclusions.\n\nIt warned of so-called \"off-rolling\", in which difficult pupils were taken off a school's register and moved to another setting, such as a pupil referral unit or home education.\n\nThe MPs were told that this could be driven by schools wanting to have better exam statistics in performance tables.\n\nBut there were concerns that once pupils had been moved away from school, there was too little scrutiny of the quality of lessons.\n\nMr Halfon warned that those losing out were often from families with greatest need, such as those in poverty, children in care and children with special educational needs.\n\nThe committee is calling for a \"bill of rights\" for parents, giving them more information about their entitlements if pupils are removed from mainstream lessons.\n\nIt also calls for more incentives for schools to keep supporting challenging pupils.\n\nThere have been warnings about rising numbers of pupils being excluded from school.\n\nOfsted has written to head teachers raising concerns about high levels of pupils being removed from secondary schools.\n\nOfficial figures published this month show a 15% increase in permanent exclusions.\n\nThe report from MPs suggested that as schools developed a \"zero tolerance\" approach to bad behaviour, more children were being excluded.\n\n\"We face the scandal of ever-increasing numbers of children being excluded and being left abandoned to a forgotten part of our education system which too often fails to deliver good outcomes for these young people,\" said Mr Halfon.\n\n\"Parents and pupils face a system which isn't designed for their needs, too often being left to a Wild West of exclusions,\" he said.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union. said: \"These are the young people on the margins, who are at most risk of severely reduced life chances, and we all have a moral responsibility to look after them.\"\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the report confirms warnings that \"some schools are seeking to improve their overall exam results by removing some of their most vulnerable children from the school roll\".\n\n\"Sadly, this often includes a high number with special education needs and disabilities, who have no option but to go into inappropriate alternative provision or home education because they are seen as \"too difficult\" or \"too expensive\" to teach,\" she said.\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: \"The number of children being excluded is lower than it was 10 years ago, but exclusions should only ever be used as a last resort.\n\n\"The rules are clear, that they should always be reasonable and justified. Where pupils are excluded, the quality of education they receive should be no different than mainstream settings.\n\n\"We are taking a range of actions to drive up the quality of alternative provision, and have launched an external review to look at how exclusions are used, and why certain groups are disproportionally affected,\" said the minister.", "Dr Kenneth Milner ran the hospital for nearly 40 years\n\nA doctor would have been interviewed for rape and child cruelty over claims a \"truth drug\" was used to carry out abuse at a hospital, had he been alive.\n\nDr Kenneth Milner ran Aston Hall psychiatric hospital in Derbyshire from 1947 to the 1970s, which former patients described as \"pure hell\".\n\nA report by police found 65 children were allegedly drugged to a zombie-like state, stripped and abused.\n\nPolice said there would have been \"sufficient evidence\" to pursue a case.\n\nThe vast majority of the allegations were made against Dr Milner, who died in 1975, and police said no inference should be drawn from the report other than the doctor would be questioned if he were here today.\n\nOther staff members accused of physical abuse have either been eliminated from the inquiry, have died or were unable to be identified.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Derbyshire force, under the direction of the area's safeguarding children's board, started an investigation in February 2016 after concerns were raised about the hospital which closed in the 1990s.\n\nAllegations first came to light in 2011 then 2014 and 2015. No allegations of sexual abuse were identified in 2011 by police.\n\nThen in July 2014 an individual made an allegation of rape followed by another person alleging abuse at the hospital in September of that year.\n\nA deserted Aston Hall hospital pictured in 2008, posted on the Project Mayhem website\n\nIn July 2015 another person came forward and said she was injected, gassed and woke up feeling sore between her legs while at the hospital.\n\nSome children, who were sent to the hospital between the 1950s and 1970s, also claimed they were put in straitjackets.\n\nAs well as the sexual abuse, the report found claims of patients being hit while trying to resist treatment, one having her head repeatedly forced under water, and another having her hair repeatedly pulled to force her to take medication.\n\nAston Hall was opened in the 1920s for those deemed to have mental health problems. It could cater for about 100 children of both sexes, but took adults as well.\n\nAllegations centred on the use of sodium amytal as part of \"narcoanalysis\" - the uncovering of repressed traumatic memories.\n\nSodium amytal, a so-called truth serum, was originally used on traumatised soldiers\n\nBut stories emerged, in part via social media, of children being isolated, stripped and abused sexually, physically and mentally.\n\nPolice collated 115 witness statements, recorded 77 crimes - including 33 instances of physical abuse and 40 sexual - and heard from 65 alleged victims.\n\nStephen Edwards, from law firm Bond Turner, which is representing 47 patients sent to the hospital in the 1960s and 1970s, said the \"horrific treatment\" had \"undoubtedly caused permanent, damaging effects\".\n\n\"Every doctor should have to demonstrate their accountability in treating patients, especially those as vulnerable as children,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was injected with drugs and abused at a mental health hospital as a teenager in the 1960s'\n\nAfter trying to take his own life Jason Stubbings, from Cornwall, was sent to Aston Hall in the 1960s, aged 14, where he said he was injected with drugs and abused.\n\nHe said he remembers being injected with what he now knows is sodium amytal, also known as the truth drug, as well as another drug which is still unknown to him.\n\nMr Stubbings said he was then taken back to a memory where his brother was beating him with a garden cane and it felt like he was being hit at the time.\n\nWhen he woke up, he found his hands had been tied and he had marks on his body.\n\nMr Stubbings also remembers looking out the window once and seeing \"a guy in the exercise yard in a straightjacket screaming\" and thinking he did not know if he was ever going to get out of there.\n\n\"It said on the administration form 'a slight timid boy', and they did that to me,\" he added.\n\nNo evidence of a conspiracy to supply children for abuse was found at Aston Hall\n\nThe report said there were consistent allegations of drugs being given to restrained children, with limited or no records being taken.\n\nCurrent medical opinion was these methods were not acceptable, even by the standards of the day, it added.\n\nBut officers said the length of time since the alleged crimes had proven a major issue - to the extent they had been unable to find out whether some members of staff were still alive.\n\nThe report said: \"Having regard to these difficulties and the scale of the alleged physical and sexual abuse that has emerged in the evidence; we do not consider that it would be either practicable or appropriate for us to attempt to reach firm conclusions on each specific allegation.\n\nMany stories about abuse at Aston Hall came out through social media\n\n\"There would have been sufficient evidence to justify interviewing Dr Milner under caution in relation to a number of potential offences.\"\n\nThe report said the offences would have namely been \"rape, indecent assault contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 1956, Child Cruelty and Assault contrary to Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and Offences Against the Person act 1861 respectively\".\n\nWhile it noted children were sent to Aston Hall from a variety of homes, the report found no evidence of a conspiracy to supply children for abuse.\n\nBarbara O'Hare, who claims she was abused by Dr Milner in the 1970s, told the BBC the report was positive.\n\n\"It gives recognition to what happened to me and others at the hospital and I'm very grateful to the police,\" she said.\n\nDerbyshire Safeguarding Children board said the treatment of children had radically changed and if a similar situation occurred today, there were clear routes for them to raise concerns.\n\nAt least 30 former patients who have submitted a claim for compensation to the Department for Health through a solicitor. Other claims are also believed to have been submitted.\n\nA spokesman for the department has said the matter was under investigation.\n\nAn NSPCC spokesman said the report was \"truly harrowing reading and shines a light on the decades of sickening abuse\".\n\n\"It is crucial that lessons continue to be learned from shocking cases like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Geraint Thomas extended his lead in the Tour de France as defending champion Chris Froome faltered on the final climb on stage 17.\n\nThe Welshman, 32, who is chasing his first Grand Tour victory, leads Team Sky team-mate Froome by two minutes 31 seconds with four stages left.\n\nThomas' closest general classification rival is now Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, who is 1:59 behind, with Froome in third.\n\nNairo Quintana held off Ireland's Dan Martin to win the 65km (40-mile) stage.\n\nFeaturing a Moto GP-style grid start, the shortest stage of the modern era from Bagneres-de-Luchon to the summit of the Col du Portet began with Thomas briefly on his own in front of the rest of the field.\n\nAfter three brutal climbs in quick succession, separated by twisting technical descents, he had strengthened his hold on the yellow jersey with a commanding ride that showed his all-round ability and no sign of weakness.\n• None Listen to BeSpoke at the Tour: Stage 17 review\n\nWith Thursday's day on the flat expected to end in a sprint finish, Friday's racing - which includes an ascent of the Col du Tourmalet - looks like being the last significant risk to Thomas' bid for the yellow jersey.\n\nIt is followed by an individual time trial, where his current advantage should be enough to hold world time-trial champion Dumoulin at bay, and the ceremonial final stage on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.\n\nAfter the stage, photos emerged showing Froome coming off his bike after a misunderstanding with a police officer as he rode to the Team Sky bus.\n\nHe avoided injury and is set to start stage 18 on Thursday.\n\nThomas has previously cracked at high altitude - most recently in April's Tour de Romandie - but he comfortably covered the attacks of LottoNL-Jumbo's Primoz Roglic and Team Sunweb's Dumoulin on the drag up the Col du Portet and the highest point of this year's race at 2,215m.\n\nAs Froome fell off the pace and was nursed home by team-mate Egan Bernal, Thomas used the speed developed during a glittering track career to strike out and claim third place behind Movistar's Quintana and UAE Team Emirates rider Dan Martin.\n\nThomas' third-place finish came with a time bonus of four seconds that further extended his overall lead, which stood at 1:39 before the stage.\n\nTwo days ago, Thomas and Froome presented a united front to the media, saying they were merely concerned with ensuring a victory for the team.\n\nHowever, barring the sort of extraordinary performance that saw him surge back into the lead on stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia in May, four-time Tour winner Froome seems set to spend the final days supporting Thomas.\n\nQuintana's stage victory showed the sort of aggression and climbing ability that has been too rare to make him a threat into the third week.\n\nThe Colombian reeled in early breakaway leader Tanel Kangert, before shaking off Rafal Majka and resisting Martin up the final climb to claim his second Tour stage win, five years after his first.\n\nRomain Bardet, the Frenchman who began the day in fifth, struggled in the final 5km of the 16km Col du Portet to slip to eighth overall, 5:13 behind Thomas.\n\nEarlier, Quick-Step's Julian Alaphilippe shored up his position at the top of the mountain classification as he crossed the Montee de Peyrangudes and Col de Val Louron-Azet second and first respectively, while nearest rival Warren Barguil missed the break.\n\nBy the end the destination of the yellow jersey also seemed to have come into similarly sharp focus.\n\nTomorrow's 171km (106 mile) stage is mostly flat and is expected to be contested in a sprint finish, although many of the specialists have been eliminated after falling foul of the time limit.", "Susan Margaret Stephos speaks about her experience of being caught up in the wildfires in Greece.", "Faïd abandoned a car with explosives in an underground car park north of Paris\n\nA French armed robber narrowly avoided capture more than three weeks after escaping from prison, police say.\n\nConvicted gangster Rédoine Faïd was spotted by patrol officers near Paris on Tuesday afternoon, police sources told AFP news agency.\n\nHe fled the scene and abandoned a car with explosives and fake number plates in a shopping centre car park.\n\nOn 1 July Faïd, 46, broke out of a prison with the help of armed accomplices who hijacked a helicopter.\n\nThe Jailbird King, as he is dubbed by French media, was serving a 25-year sentence for a failed 2010 robbery during which a police officer was killed.\n\nThis was Faïd's second jailbreak - in 2013, he escaped prison for six weeks after seizing four guards as human shields and blowing off several doors with dynamite.\n\nPolice have warned that \"beyond his charisma and aura, beyond the folklore, [Faïd] is a dangerous individual\".\n\nAround 16:40 local time (14:40 GMT) on Tuesday, police officers identified Faïd as one of two people in a car \"observing a service station\", AFP says.\n\nThe officers \"wanted to carry out a check on the people in the car\", when \"they fled the scene and drove towards Sarcelles\", a northern suburb of Paris.\n\nRedoine Faid was placed on Interpol's most-wanted list after his 2013 escape\n\nWhen police found the abandoned Renault Laguna with plastic explosives in an underground car park, authorities sealed off the shopping centre and bomb disposal experts were called in.\n\n\"We do not yet know where the explosives were being taken,\" a senior prosecutor told AFP.\n\nThis is the first sighting of the escaped convict since 1 July, despite some 2,900 police officers joining a national manhunt.\n\nA well-known criminal in France, Faïd was born in 1972 and grew up in a notoriously rough part of Paris.\n\nIn the '90s, he ran a gang involved in armed robbery and extortion in the French capital.\n\nHe has spoken of his love of Hollywood heist films, saying they inspire some of his schemes.\n\nHe once told France's Point magazine he had watched the 1995 gangster film Heat seven times at the cinema and \"a hundred times on DVD\" to dissect the scene of an armoured car robbery.\n\nFaïd then approached its director Michael Mann at a Paris film festival and told him: \"You were my technical adviser\".\n\nHis fame has been helped by his 2009 book, outlining his younger days on the streets of Paris and his descent into the life of a professional criminal.\n\nHe then claimed to have turned his back on crime, but police believe he was the mastermind behind the botched robbery he is now convicted of.\n\nOne of Faïd's most recent prison supervisors said he was never in conflict with guards, but that \"we must always be wary\".\n\n\"In the corner of his mind, he never lost the idea of escaping. Behind all his manners - he is very polite - he always hid his game,\" his supervisor said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Redoine Faid took four guards hostage and used explosives to blast his way past security doors", "Survivors say they ran into the sea to escape the devastating Greece wildfires, which have killed at least 74 people.\n\nMany are still thought to be missing after the Attica region around Athens was engulfed in flames.\n\nThe country's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has declared a three-day period of national mourning.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreek authorities are looking for dozens of people missing after the deadly wildfires near Athens.\n\nAt least 80 people have died, and a search continues for survivors who fled the blaze, including those who escaped to sea by boat.\n\nThe fire is thought to have been the deadliest on record in Greece.\n\nOne father, who is desperately looking for his nine-year-old twin daughters, said he had seen them on TV being rescued by a fishing boat.\n\nYiannis Philippopoulos has not heard from the girls, Sophia and Vasiliki or from their grandparents, who they were with on the day.\n\n\"We went to the hospitals and police and then the fire brigade said the last resort would be to look for them in the mortuary,\" he told Greek media.\n\nAfter visiting the mortuary and providing DNA, Mr Philippopoulos and his wife saw a TV report, showing two girls who resembled their daughters being rescued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HellasJournal.Com by mignatiou-com This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by HellasJournal.Com by mignatiou-com\n\nImages of the girls huddled on the boat were broadcast across Greek media on Wednesday in the hope of tracing them.\n\nHowever, later reports said the girls were believed to be the daughters of another man, who was onboard with his wife. The man went to the police on Wednesday after the image circulated.\n\nThere is no formal count of the missing. The fire brigade has received dozens of calls, but has been unable to verify the exact number.\n\nRelatives of those reported missing have posted photographs of more than 30 people online in the hope of tracing their whereabouts.\n\nCoastal patrol boats combed the shoreline on Wednesday, searching for survivors and bodies, while rescue teams searched houses and cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gavin Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHigh winds of up to 100km/h (60mph) spread the fire on Monday, trapping many in homes and vehicles and forcing others into the water as they tried to escape the flames.\n\nOn Tuesday, the bodies of 26 adults and children who apparently died embracing each other were found on a cliff top.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They had tried to find an escape route but unfortunately these people and their kids didn't make it in time. Instinctively, seeing the end nearing, they embraced, \" Nikos Economopoulos, head of Greece's Red Cross, said.\n\nThe mayor of Rafina, Evangelos Bournous, told the BBC that the dead could exceed 100. Fire brigade officials say that some of the missing may have died.\n\nBodies lay just 15m (50ft) from the sea, photographer Pantelis Saitas said.\n\nAmong those killed as the fires swept Eastern Attica were a Belgian tourist, and a Polish woman and her son. A British man and woman were treated in hospital for their burns.\n\nMore than 70 people were still being treated in hospital on Wednesday, and 10 were in a serious condition, Greek reports said.\n\nOthers have been evacuated to temporary accommodation.\n\nResidents have been told to abandon their homes\n\nPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared three days of mourning, and a state of emergency in Attica, saying all emergency services have been mobilised.\n\nItaly, Germany, Poland and France have all sent help in the form of planes, vehicles and firefighters, while Spain, Turkey, and Cyprus have also offered assistance.\n\nThe government in Athens as well as emergency services have faced claims that their response to Monday's emergency was too slow.\n\nA Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered a probe into the cause of the fire, amid allegations that there was no evacuation plan in place.\n\nRescuers continue their search of the area\n\nThe seaside resort of Mati is popular with foreign tourists and locals, especially pensioners and children attending holiday camps.\n\nGreek reports suggested that 1,500 homes had been damaged and many had been destroyed.\n\nFires are a recurring problem during the hot, dry summer months in Attica.\n\nOfficials have suggested the current blazes may have been started by arsonists looking to loot abandoned homes.\n\n\"Fifteen fires were started simultaneously on three different fronts in Athens,\" said government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos.\n\nGreece, he added, had requested drones from the US to \"detect any suspicious activity\".\n\nGreece's last major fire disaster was in 2007, when 77 people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula.\n\nWildfires are a major concern across Europe this summer. Sweden has also battled fires the length of the country, while Latvian authorities suspect arson was behind a major peat and forest fire in Valdgale County that burned for days.\n\nThe serious nature of such fires and their wide geographical spread has led to speculation that climate change may be the cause.\n\nWhile no individual weather event can be linked to climate change, a general correlation does exist between warmer global temperatures and the dry conditions that can spark several dangerous fires at once.\n\nAre you in Athens? How have you been affected by the wildfires? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The BBC has spoken to a close associate of the Brexit donor Arron Banks, discussions which have raised questions about whether he had business contacts with Russia.\n\nJames Pryor worked with Mr Banks on the Brexit campaign and helped to manage his businesses in Africa.\n\nHe said that Mr Banks had sought Russian investment for his South African diamond mines. He later refuted his claim on camera after being played recordings of his previous conversations he had had with the BBC reporter Manveen Rana.\n\nMr Banks denied seeking or having any Russia investors. He also rejected suggestions that he should give more detail about the source of the funding he provided for the Brexit campaign.", "The attack happened at a branch of Home Bargains in Worcester\n\nThe father of a boy who was the victim of a suspected acid attack is among five men who have appeared in court.\n\nThe three-year-old suffered serious burns at the Home Bargains store in Worcester on Saturday.\n\nA 39-year-old from Wolverhampton and four others appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey will next appear at Worcester Crown Court on 28 August.\n\nThe other men charged are Norbert Pulko, 22, from London, Jan Dudi, 25, and Adam Cech, 27, from Birmingham, and Jabar Paktia, 41, from Wolverhampton.\n\nThe father cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe alleged attack happened in the Tallow Hill area of the city at about 14:15 BST.\n\nThe child was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital for treatment to his face and an arm.\n\nHe was discharged on Sunday but the long-term implications of his injuries are not yet known.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video shows people taking refuge in the sea as they try to escape wildfires in the area of Rafina.", "24 July: Firefighters and volunteers try to extinguish flames during a wildfire at the Greek village of Kineta\n\nWildfires have been sweeping through coastal towns east of the Greek capital, Athens. Dozens of people - including families with children - have died as they tried to escape the flames.\n\nBut fires are also raging in Sweden, as far north as the Arctic Circle, and have caused huge damage in countries including Portugal, the UK and the US in recent months.\n\nSo what is happening to cause these infernos and how can we tackle them?\n\nFires can occur naturally in woodland or brush, ignited by heat from the sun or a lightning strike.\n\nHowever, the vast majority of wildfires - as many as 90% worldwide - are started by humans, according to experts.\n\nThe cause could be barbecue charcoal, a discarded cigarette or even arson. As long as there is fuel and oxygen available, the flames can take hold easily.\n\nGreece had an unusually dry winter and spring this year, leaving grass and scrubland particularly flammable, says Thomas Smith, assistant professor in environmental geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).\n\nAs well as a lack of rainfall, wind also determines how devastating the fire will be, depending on its strength and direction.\n\n\"Burning embers can travel quite far and start new fires that could spread for kilometres if they are big enough,\" says Smith.\n\n23 July: Dry grass burns as fire crews tackle the flames in Greece\n\nSurface fires - burning on a forest floor, for instance - tend to spread slowly and can be more easily controlled.\n\nIn fact some surface fires can be good, says Cathelijne Stoof, a wild land fire expert based in the Netherlands. \"It helps plants regenerate,\" she adds.\n\n\"The problem is when the flames can climb up low level branches and get to the tops of the trees. That's when you can't stop it.\"\n\n15 July: Due to the dry weather, about 80 wildfires have been burning in Sweden\n\nThe most dangerous part of a blaze is called the head fire, explains Thomas Smith.\n\nIt is driven forward by the wind and is very difficult to fight directly because it has long flame lengths.\n\n17 July: This aerial view provided by the European Space Agency shows smoke billowing from several fires between the west coast of Norway to central Sweden. Head fires burn with blacker smoke\n\nBut it is not just wood and grass that quickly become fuel for wildfires. Nearby homes and vehicles will combust because of the materials they contain, such as plastics and rubber.\n\nIn Greece, cars in the road caught fire before the surrounding verdant trees because they were more flammable. And they did not need to be directly licked by the flames to do so.\n\n\"It comes down to the amount of energy given off by the flames,\" says Smith. \"The cars could be tens of metres away and still be close enough to ignite.\"\n\n24 July: Burned cars are seen following a wildfire at the village of Mati near Athens\n\nSadly, people are often killed by wildfires as they attempt to escape.\n\nMany of the victims in Greece were trapped in traffic jams as people tried to flee as fast as possible, according to forest risk management expert Alexander Held. But this could have been avoided with better evacuation plans in place, he says.\n\nFine fuel such as dry shrubs should be cleared away from roadsides and houses to stop flames getting close, he adds.\n\n\"This was a bomb waiting to explode.\"\n\n23 July: The contents of a home, including dry wooden beams, go up in flames in Greece\n\nHeat and flames are the most immediate dangers people face in a wildfire.\n\nHowever, smoke can also be harmful if you have an existing condition such as asthma or lung disease, or are exposed for weeks or months.\n\n23 July: A road block is set up as smoke fills the air near Athens\n\nAlthough smoke from burning vegetation is toxic, it will usually disappear quickly.\n\nFumes produced by burning plastic or asbestos inside homes are much more hazardous.\n\n25 March: Ruins of a house are out of bounds after a bushfire in Tathra, Australia\n\nAs well as changing climates, the differing land use over the centuries has led to more wildfires in some places around the world, according to experts.\n\n\"There used to be small agricultural fields across Southern Europe and people would manage the land,\" says Cathelijne Stoof.\n\n\"But in the 20th Century people moved away and the land became overgrown. So when you do have a fire it spreads much more easily.\"\n\nIn the case of the huge fire near Saddleworth Moor in North West England, it was not just the vegetation that caught fire.\n\nAt its peak, the fire on Saddleworth Moor covered an area of 7 sq miles (18 sq km) and burned for three weeks\n\n\"This fire definitely did get into the soil,\" says Dr Thomas Smith. The moorland is made up of peat soil, which is carbon-rich and needs little oxygen to burn, he explains.\n\n\"The fire gets underground and smoulders away.... It makes it much more difficult to put out.\"\n\n28 June: Firefighters tackle a wildfire with beaters on Winter Hill near Bolton, UK\n\nFirefighters have a range of techniques to try to tackle a blaze by depriving it of oxygen or fuel. They need to have the right training to know which one will work the best.\n\nIn the recent UK wildfires, they used beaters and water hoses to extinguish the flames.\n\nDropping water and fire retardant containing fertiliser from planes and helicopters may also slow the spread of flames.\n\n7 December 2017: A plane drops fire retardant near a home near Los Alamos Road in Murrieta, California, last December\n\nExperts say one of the most effective methods of tackling wildfires is building firebreaks by clearing vegetation.\n\nBut this is \"dirty and hard work\", says Alexander Held, and not an option that is always popular in public opinion.\n\n\"You can send a lot of helicopters and planes but without crews on the ground you won't put it out,\" he insists.\n\nCathelijne Stoof agrees on the importance of creating firebreaks: in some places firefighters will create controlled fires to draw the energy out of the blaze they are battling.\n\nAnd she says fire prevention and land management should be \"sexier\" than it is now.\n\n21 July: Firefighters create a firebreak in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Yosemite National Park, California\n\nTeams with the right training can understand fire behaviour and choose the best way to respond, she says. But fire also behaves very unpredictably.\n\n\"It's dangerous. So I very much respect the people that put everything on the line to save others.\"\n\n1 July: A fire service vehicle is surrounded by flames as the Pawnee wildfire jumps across a road in California", "A trial where pregnant women were given an anti-impotence drug has been urgently stopped after 11 newborn babies died.\n\nWomen taking part in the Dutch study had been given the tablets to improve growth of their unborn children because they had poorly-developed placentas.\n\nIt appears the drug, which promotes blood flow, may have caused lethal damage to the babies' lungs.\n\nExperts say a full investigation is needed to understand what happened.\n\nThere is no suggestion that there was any wrong-doing.\n\nEarlier trials in the UK and Australia and New Zealand did not find any evidence of potential harm from the intervention. But they also found no benefit.\n\nAt that time, in 2010, researchers said the treatment should be used only in trials.\n\nFoetal growth restriction caused by an underdeveloped placenta is a serious condition that currently has no treatment.\n\nIt can mean babies are born prematurely, with a very low birth weight and poor chances of survival.\n\nA medication that could improve weight or prolong the time to delivery could have significant advantages for these very sick babies.\n\nThe latest Dutch study, which was due to run until 2020, was being carried out across 11 hospitals in the Netherlands, including the Amsterdam University Medical Centre.\n\nIn total, 93 women were given sildenafil (the non-brand name for Viagra) while the remaining 90 were given a dummy drug or placebo.\n\nTwenty babies developed lung problems after birth - three in the placebo group and the rest in the treatment group.\n\nEleven in the sildenafil group died from lung complications.\n\nThe drug used was not made by Pfizer, which manufactures Viagra, and the safety of the use of sildenafil for erectile dysfunction is not being questioned.\n\nProf Zarcko Alfirevic, from the University of Liverpool, who led part of the UK research into sildenafil in pregnancy that found no benefit in terms of improving baby growth, said: \"This finding in the Dutch study is unexpected.\n\n\"We need to be careful at this point to find out more.\n\n\"It needs a thorough investigation because the complications were not seen in the two other, similar trials that have already been done in the UK and Australia and New Zealand.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA British man is being treated for burns in hospital after being caught up in the wildfires in Greece.\n\nAt least 77 people have died as a result of the blaze, which began near the capital, Athens, on Monday.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said its staff in Greece were \"assisting a British man and his family following his hospitalisation\".\n\nThe government has advised UK citizens needing assistance in Greece to call the British Embassy in Athens.\n\nMeanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared three days of mourning as the search for survivors continues.\n\nThe British man being treated in hospital has not been named.\n\nRonan Grant, 19, from Manchester, was unharmed by the fire but was in Athens with two friends when it began.\n\n\"We looked up and we saw the sky was grey and red, almost as if there was a border between being stuck in [the fire] and reality,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"All the locals were coming out, we thought it was a natural happening or something.\"\n\nHe added that \"nobody had any idea what was going on\" until Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Susan Margaret Stephos is being treated in hospital\n\nBritish expat Susan Margaret Stephos, 71, escaped from the fire in Mati and is now recovering in hospital from burns and smoke inhalation.\n\nShe said she felt \"very grateful\" to have survived.\n\n\"When I was in the house and the fire was going over I thought 'I'm not going to make it, this is the end'. But prayers were answered and I managed,\" she said.\n\nGreece's prime minister has declared a state of emergency in Attica\n\nOn Monday night, hundreds of firefighters battled the flames, which were fanned by winds of up to 100km/h (60mph).\n\nCoastal patrol boats and private vessels picked up hundreds of those who managed to reach harbours or beaches.\n\nRescuers are now searching houses, cars and the coastline for survivors and victims of the fires, amid fears the death toll will rise.\n\nThere is no formal count of the missing. The fire brigade has received dozens of calls and has been unable to verify the exact number.\n\nRelatives of those reported missing have posted photographs of more than 30 people online in the hope of tracing their whereabouts.\n\nThe seaside resort of Mati, in Attica, is popular with local tourists, especially pensioners and children attending holiday camps.\n\nDespite the disaster, life in central Athens is continuing largely as normal, Mr Ronan said, but described the mood in the city as \"surreal\".\n\n\"We've been hearing sirens and stuff but people just seem to get on with their day-to-day lives,\" he said. \"We feel a bit detached from it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFires are a recurring problem during the hot, dry summer months in Attica.\n\nOfficials have suggested the current blazes may have been started by arsonists looking to loot abandoned homes.\n\n\"Fifteen fires had started simultaneously on three different fronts in Athens,\" said government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos.\n\nGreece, he added, had requested drones from the US to \"detect any suspicious activity\".\n\nGreece's last major fire disaster was in 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Use more apps in the NHS, new health secretary says.\n\nThere needs to be more use of apps in the National Health Service, the new health secretary says.\n\nMatt Hancock has told Newsbeat there is \"loads to do on that area\" when asked if they would help the NHS.\n\nHe was speaking as he gave more details of the government's plans to transform children and young people's mental health services.\n\nThe 39-year-old became the first MP to launch an app in his previous job as culture secretary.\n\n\"One of the things I've done in different parts of government is make sure that it's more tech savvy and digital,\" he told Newsbeat.\n\nMatt Hancock greets users on his app with a video message\n\n\"The NHS needs to be more convenient for you, but also to help clinicians so that doctors' and nurses' lives are easier.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMatt Hancock also admitted that the government is \"just getting going\" on mental health treatment.\n\nHe was speaking as he announced that hundreds of new mental health workers will work in and near schools and colleges from next year.\n\nThe move is part of the government's plan to try to transform children and young people's mental health.\n\nSeven higher education institutions in England will be offering courses from January to train people to help students with mental health issues.\n\nThe aim is they will be ready to go by the end of 2019.\n\nBut there's criticism of his comments about apps.\n\nLabour says: \"The Conservative government has made big cuts to some NHS budgets like capital funding, which has meant the NHS just hasn't been able to take advantage of new technologies.\"\n\n\"They need to fund the NHS properly so that NHS apps are safe and really accessible for everyone.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock insists embracing new digital technology is important.\n\n\"I've actually just come out of a meeting on doing exactly that, it's a real passion of mine and I think there's a real opportunity.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The 25-year-old has sung about her struggle with addiction in the past\n\nPop singer Demi Lovato is being treated in a Los Angeles hospital after a suspected drug overdose.\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department responded on Tuesday to a medical emergency in the Hollywood Hills, where the Sorry Not Sorry singer lives.\n\nThe 25-year-old was reportedly found unconscious and treated at the scene with naloxone, an anti-opioid medicine.\n\nShe is awake and breathing at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a family spokesman has said.\n\n\"Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support,\" the spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"Some of the information being reported is incorrect and they respectfully ask for privacy.\"\n\nLovato has struggled with substance abuse for years, and was feared to have relapsed in recent weeks.\n\nLast month she cancelled her show at London's O2 arena, announcing the news on Twitter hours before the concert was due to begin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a single released last month, Sober, she sings: \"Mommy, I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore. And daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor.\"\n\nThe song ends with the lines: \"I'm sorry that I'm here again, I promise I'll get help/It wasn't my intention, I'm sorry to myself.\"\n\nThe track release followed Lovato marking six years of sobriety in March this year.\n\nShe was due to complete the North American leg of her Tell Me You Love Me world tour with a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Thursday, but reports say that date has now been cancelled.\n\nHer fans say the singer's battles with bipolar disorder, bulimia and addiction - often documented in her music - have helped them with their own struggles.\n\nAs reports of her condition spread, there was an outpouring of support on social media from other celebrities and musicians. Within hours of the report, tens of thousands of people had tweeted the hashtag #PrayforDemi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ariana Grande This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brad Paisley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is unclear what drugs Lovato overdosed on. Early reports said it was heroin but this was later contradicted.\n\nFriends who found Lovato reportedly used Narcan - a brand name for naloxone - on her at the scene to help her breathe. Naloxone is an antidote to opioids including painkillers.\n\nThe US is in the grip of an opioid crisis. According to health officials, 115 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day and more than 250,000 Americans have died of them over the past decade.\n\nRaised in Dallas, Texas, Lovato first entered the spotlight on the children's TV series Barney & Friends.\n\nShe appeared alongside the Jonas Brothers in the 2008 Disney Channel movie Camp Rock.\n\nLovato released her first studio album, Don't Forget, in 2008.\n\nIn a YouTube documentary, Simply Complicated, released last October, Lovato revealed her drug use began when she first tried cocaine at the age of 17.\n\nDemi Lovato first entered the spotlight as a child on a children's TV programme\n\n\"I felt out of control the first time I did it,\" she said. \"My dad was an addict and an alcoholic.\n\n\"Guess I always searched for what he found in drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him and he chose that over a family.\"\n\nLovato went to rehab for the first time in 2010.\n\n\"I wasn't ready to get sober,\" she said in the documentary.\n\n\"I was sneaking it on planes, sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night\".", "Elin Ersson refused to sit until the Afghan was taken off the flight\n\nA stunt by a Swedish activist to stop the deportation of an Afghan refugee has been widely hailed on social media.\n\nUniversity student Elin Ersson had booked the same flight as the Afghan and refused to sit down unless he was taken off the plane on Monday.\n\nShe streamed her protest live on Facebook, showing a tense standoff with other passengers and airline crew.\n\nReactions have been largely supportive of her action, although some people are accusing her of grandstanding.\n\nThe video has since been widely shared and received almost two million views.\n\nMs Ersson explains to the other passengers and the viewers of Facebook that she does not agree with Swedish deportation policy, which classifies Afghanistan as a safe country and sends rejected asylum seekers back.\n\nShe says Afghanistan was a country where the man \"will most likely get killed\" and explains that \"I am doing what I can to save a person's life\".\n\n\"As long as a person is standing up the pilot cannot take off. All I want to do is stop the deportation and then I will comply with the rules here.\"\n\nThe video shows how first the airline crew and then several other passengers urge her to sit down and to stop filming.\n\nAs the standoff continues, she says several people in the plane also stood up, some in support, others to see what was going on.\n\nHer actions eventually had both her and the 52-year-old Afghan being taken off the plane.\n\nThe man had been escorted on board by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.\n\n\"Asylum cases are decided by the immigration office,\" press officer Ulf Mossberg told the BBC. \"If they make a decision that someone will be deported they hand the person to the national border police. The police then can ask us to perform that transportation.\n\n\"What happened on this flight was that the pilot of the plane decided that our personnel and the Afghan man were not allowed to fulfil the flight.\"\n\nMedia reports suggest the refugee is likely to be deported later and that the activist might face legal consequences over her actions. Plane passengers are obliged to follow the captain's orders.\n\nMigrant boats continue to try to make it across the Mediterranean\n\nThe deportation of migrants remains controversial across Europe.\n\nIn recent years the continent has seen an influx of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.\n\nBoats carrying people across the Mediterranean are facing increasing opposition and find it harder to find ports that allow them to dock.\n\nEarlier this month, the German interior minister came under pressure to quit after noting in a joking tone that 69 Afghans had been deported on his 69th birthday.\n\nOne of the group took his own life after being sent back.", "A TV advert for Heinz baked beans has been banned for comparing its nutritional value to a protein shake.\n\nThe commercial, seen in February, shows a woman implying a bowl of baked beans has as much protein, fibre and fat as her partner's drink.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said its regulations do not allow claims that one food has \"as much\" of a nutrient or nutrients as another food.\n\nHeinz Foods said it was \"disappointed\" but would not run the ad again.\n\nIt is the second time the ASA has upheld a complaint against what is effectively the same advert.\n\nIn the previous version, which was banned last year, the woman used the word \"same\" when replying to her partner's suggestion he was about to consume something high in protein and fibre but low in fat.\n\nThat word was removed from the second version, but the ASA said the message had not changed.\n\nThe agency said viewers would still understand the exchange to show baked beans were \"a tastier and more appetising, but nutritionally equivalent, alternative to consuming a protein shake\".\n\nA Heinz spokesman said its advert \"simply aimed to be a memory jogger about the goodness of beans in a humorous way\".\n• None Sexist adverts to come under scrutiny", "Nasa says organic matter found at the bottom of a crater on the Red Planet suggests there might have been life there once. Samples of the matter were analysed by a team of scientists, including Prof Sanjeev Gupta from Imperial College London. He told Today how significant the discovery is.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Gavin Lee reports from the seaside village of Mati where burnt wreckage lines the road\n\nIn the coastal resort of Mati, the welcome sign that had advertised what was once one of Greece's picture-postcard tourist villages was hanging down by the side of the road, charred and unreadable.\n\nMati has been strangely split by the inexplicable path the wildfires made as they raged through the town. There are hotels, homes and apartments scorched and destroyed on one side of the road, but on the other, many buildings are completely untouched.\n\nThe luckier residents peer out through unscathed windows, having narrowly escaped the fate of their neighbours.\n\nPeople have been walking around wearing medical facemasks, to protect from the stench and the smoke, as they work out what to do. Some have returned to their homes to check for pets and belongings, despite the government's safety advice to keep away in case their building collapses.\n\nIt's a small village. The main village hub, the Cavos bar, has been destroyed. Most people I speak to know someone who has died or been badly injured.\n\nKaterina Pantelidis (R) said her home was almost completely destroyed \"in seconds\"\n\nKaterina Pantelidis was watching the local news on Monday evening and says the report about wildfires spreading suggested that the wind direction meant Mati would avoid the flames. But, she says, minutes later she smelt burning and looked outside to see the pine trees on fire, and heard her windows smash.\n\nShe picked up her two cats, and attempted to pick up her dog, but had to leave him when he ran into a smoke-filled part of the house. She ran with her parents to the beach, along with hundreds of others escaping the flames and smoke. Her house was destroyed.\n\nMany swam into the sea, but Katerina remained on shore with her cats and elderly parents, breathing through their clothes and waiting five hours for the coastguard. Incredibly, the dog survived - Katerina later found him hiding in a back room underneath a broken window.\n\nAt the nearby Ramada hotel, staff had to evacuate hundreds of tourists, and although the building escaped the inferno, people are being advised not to stay here. Suitcases line the reception and forecourt as holidaymakers work out where to go, while staff and locals face the fact that their main source of income, tourism, will now be affected.\n\nTonight there's still no electricity, many roads are closed off and it is pitch black on the streets apart from the flashing lights of police cars and fire engines as they continue to survey the damage and try to prevent any secondary fires breaking out.\n\nDozens of Greek families who have been left homeless are gathering at the Marathon Beach Hotel, the makeshift relief centre, with volunteers bringing fresh food, water, clothes and comfort to those who have just lost everything.", "The attack happened at a branch of Home Bargains in Worcester\n\nFive men have been charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm following a suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy.\n\nThree men from London, aged 22, 25 and 26, and two from Wolverhampton, aged 39 and 41, are due in court later.\n\nThe boy suffered serious burns to his face and an arm at the Home Bargains store in Worcester on Saturday.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it would not be releasing the identities of the men who have been charged.\n\nThey are due to appear at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe suspected attack occurred in the Tallow Hill area of Worcester at about 14:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe child was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nHe was discharged the following day but the long-term implications of his injuries are not yet known.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A legal challenge against the use of automatic facial recognition technology by police has been launched by a civil liberties group.\n\nAutomatic Facial Recognition uses CCTV or surveillance cameras to record and compare facial characteristics with images on police databases.\n\nLawyers for Big Brother Watch argue the use of AFR breaches the rights of individuals under the Human Rights Act.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the technology will help keep London safe.\n\nThe system is being piloted in London, with three other forces - Humberside, South Wales, and Leicestershire - also trialling the technology.\n\nHowever, it has proved controversial, with one watchdog describing its use in public places as \"very intrusive\".\n\nCourt documents, seen by the BBC, also claim the Home Office has failed in its duty to properly regulate AFR's use.\n\nManufacturers of the systems say they can monitor multiple cameras in real time \"matching\" thousands of faces a minute with images already held by the police - often mugshots taken of suspects who have been taken into custody.\n\nHowever, Big Brother Watch says the Met's own research, published in May, shows that during trials only two genuine matches were made out of 104 system \"alerts\".\n\nThe group also takes issue with the length of time the images gathered by AFR are held.\n\nThe Met piloted the system at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017, at the Cenotaph on Memorial Sunday, and at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford last month.\n\nFurther trials are planned. The force says the technology is \"an extremely valuable tool\".\n\nMeanwhile, in South Wales, police used AFR at least 18 times between May 2017 and March 2018, according to court documents.\n\nCameras in Cardiff city centre and at a demonstration at an \"arms fair\" were used to gather the images of members of the public. As of April this year AFR generated 2,451 alerts with only 234 proving accurate.\n\nPolice officers stopped 31 people who had been incorrectly identified and asked them to prove their identity.\n\nLawyers for Big Brother Watch argue the use of AFR breaches the rights of individuals under the Human Rights Act, including the right to privacy and freedom of expression.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of the civil liberties group, said: \"When the police use facial recognition surveillance they subject thousands of people in the area to highly sensitive identity checks without consent.\"\n\n\"We're hoping the court will intervene, so the lawless use of facial recognition can be stopped. It is crucial our public freedoms are protected,\" she added.\n\nHowever, it is likely that the Met and other police forces will welcome the opportunity to argue the case for AFR - and begin to put it on a solid legal footing alongside other unique characteristics stored on databases, such as fingerprints and DNA.\n\nIt comes after the body that advises London Mayor Sadiq Khan on policing and ethics last week called on the Met to be more open about the use of AFR - and to set out where and when it will be used before undertaking any further pilots.\n\nDr Suzanne Shale, who chairs the London Policing Ethics Panel said: \"We have made a series of key recommendations, which we think should be addressed before any further trials are carried out.\n\n\"We believe it is important facial recognition technology remains the subject of ethical scrutiny.\"", "The EU, Canada and Mexico have announced retaliatory measures against the US tariffs\n\nThe US has slapped tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from its allies the EU, Canada and Mexico - but don't think they'll take it without a fight.\n\nAll three have already announced retaliatory measures as the US follows its new policy, which has been attacked as \"protectionism, pure and simple\" by the EU.\n\nRanging from serious to strange, these counter-tariffs could play a part in a growing trade battle.\n\nIt's too early to say how consumers will be hit in all the affected countries, but prices could rise throughout the world in light of these tariffs.\n\nRead on to see which American products each US ally plans to target.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau objected strongly to the announced tariffs, calling them an \"affront\" to their nations' military alliance.\n\nHe said Canada buys half of US steel exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanada plans \"trade-restrictive countermeasures\" on C$16.6bn ($12.8bn) of US goods, to come into effect on 1 July.\n\nThe country will impose a 25% tariff on assorted US steel products, including railway tracks, piping and steel sheets.\n\nBut Canada also plans a 10% tariff on more varied items:\n\nThe list, published by the Department of Finance, also includes a 10% tariff on candles - although, relax Canadians, \"not including those for birthdays, Christmas or other festive occasions\".\n\nSenior Canadian officials say the list is designed to exert political pressure on the US and make it take notice of how this will affect trade.\n\nAsked by reporters if he was ready to start a trade war with its southern neighbour, Mr Trudeau said Canada was \"ready for anything\".\n\nCanada is targeting a variety of US foods - including pizza\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he planned to take the US to the World Trade Organization over the American tariffs, a policy he called \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nMeanwhile, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom called the US measures a \"dangerous game\" and said the EU would not \"stay silent\".\n\nThe bloc released a list of tariffs in March - 10 pages of US goods it plans to target:\n\nThe EU plans to target iconic US goods, like Levi's jeans\n\nThe aim is to have the maximum political effect. Kentucky, home to bourbon whiskey, is Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's state.\n\nOrange juice, meanwhile, is a major export of Florida - a key US swing state.\n\nFrance's junior trade minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said he expects EU counter-measures to be completed by mid-June.\n\nAmerica's southern neighbour also swiftly released a list of products on which it would impose tariffs, \"up to an amount comparable to the level of damage\" of US tariffs.\n\nEconomy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said in a radio interview that the measures would target US products from districts that would cause political difficulties for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Guajardo said Mexico was the top buyer of US aluminium and the second-biggest buyer of US steel, and that \"this kind of thing does not benefit anybody\".\n\nUS tariffs could hit $4bn worth of trade between the two countries.\n\nIn 2009, Mexico imposed higher tariffs on dozens of US products such as apples, frozen potatoes and Christmas trees in a dispute over the access of Mexican trucks to US highways.", "Seven o'clock in the evening is a global sweet spot for wanting to order take-away food, says an international study of internet traffic.\n\nAcademics have examined patterns of looking for food online, such as pizza or Chinese meals, across the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India.\n\nThey found that a similar \"twin peaks\" pattern appeared in all countries - at 7pm in the evening and then at 2am.\n\nThe study suggests ancient \"foraging\" behaviour has now switched online.\n\nThis big data research from biologists at the University of Aberdeen, to be published by the Royal Society, has tracked how the search for food takes place online.\n\nThe study looks at how ancient human patterns of hunger and foraging have moved into the internet era, using Google searches for take-away curries, Chinese meals and pizzas.\n\nThe researchers found that despite big cultural differences, there was a remarkably consistent rhythm of people wanting to find food online at about 7pm.\n\nThere was a second peak of search for food online at 2am, consistent across seasons and geographical locations, say researchers Nicolas Alvarado and Tyler Stevenson from the University of Aberdeen.\n\nIt showed how human biology, such as wanting \"energy balance\" in terms of intake, had switched to the internet age.\n\nDr Stevenson says this 2am peak might raise public health concerns about obesity, with eating food late at night being linked to weight gain.\n\nBut he says the findings also show a new way of studying \"foraging behaviour\" and understanding human motivations about seeking food.\n\n\"All organisms have strategies to locate and consume nutrients and food necessary for survival,\" says Dr Stevenson.\n\nThat primeval hunting instinct has now moved to late-night searching on the wide plains of the internet. Not so much hunting and gathering, as hunting and Googling.", "Facebook shares tumbled by more than 20% on Wednesday after the social media network's revenue and user growth fell short of investor expectations.\n\nThe firm, which is facing backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end of June.\n\nThis was up 11% on June 2017, the slowest growth in more than two years.\n\nIt also warned investors that spending growth would outstrip revenue gains in 2019, pinching profits.\n\nFacebook said it expected revenue gains to slow, as people make use of new options to limit advertising and less profitable overseas markets drive growth.\n\nThe firm also plans to spend billions to improve the way it monitors content, tracks advertisers and treats user data - areas where it has faced regulator scrutiny.\n\nThe firm, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, is also investing in new features, such as virtual reality and video.\n\nShares in Facebook initially fell about 12% in after-hours trade in New York, but losses accelerated as the firm outlined its spending plans.\n\nDaniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights, said the firm's forecast was \"nightmareish\".\n\n\"They gave a very disappointing outlook for the second half of the year and 2019 and that's going to significantly weigh on the stock in the near term,\" he said.\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before regulators this year\n\nThis is hardly Armageddon for Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nOn the whole, people are apparently not deserting Facebook. Monthly active users - ie those who interact at least once a month - were steady in the US, down ever-so-slightly in Europe, and up everywhere else.\n\nBut for a company used to growing those numbers handsomely throughout the year, a lack of meaningful growth will cause concern, if not panic.\n\nSadly the company doesn't break down its Europe numbers into anything more granular - which means we can't see the effect the Cambridge Analytica scandal had on British users.\n\nAnalysts tell me they consider Cambridge Analytica a \"blip\" in Facebook's history, though another quarter like this one would be even more impactful than what we saw during Wednesday's after hours trading.\n\nDuring its earnings call, Facebook warned investors to brace themselves: it doesn't expect revenue growth to improve for at least the rest of this year.\n\nFacebook profits in the quarter were $5.1bn, up 31% from the same period in 2017.\n\nRevenue was $13.2bn, up 42% year-on-year, but expenses grew even faster, rising 50% to about $7.4bn.\n\nUser growth has flattened in the US and Canada, key markets for the company due to the high prices ads there command.\n\nThe number of EU users fell amid the rollout of tighter privacy regulations, though Facebook continued to attract new users in countries like Indonesia.\n\nMr Ives said the popularity of Instagram should help Facebook to blunt fallout from challenges at its namesake network.\n\nIn February, the research firm eMarketer estimated that the number of Facebook users under the age of 25 would fall by about 2 million this year.\n\nBut it forecast that Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, would add about 1.6 million users in that age range in 2018.", "Mrs A has spent tens of thousands of pounds a week in Harrods on luxury goods\n\nThe fugitive wife of a \"fat cat banker\" who's spent £16m in Harrods is battling to keep her London mansion after the UK's first use of a new power to combat international corruption.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is challenging a demand by the National Crime Agency that she reveal the source of her wealth or face losing her British properties.\n\nThe hearing at the High Court is the first time the agency has used an \"Unexplained Wealth Order\" to force a suspected corrupt foreign official and his family to account for their riches.\n\nThe NCA wants the couple to explain how two properties worth £22m were bought, amid suspicions the cash was stolen by the woman's husband while he was working for a state bank in their home country.\n\nIf the woman fails to overturn the court order, or fails to prove she is legitimately wealthy, the NCA can ask the courts to seize the homes.\n\nUnexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) came into force earlier this year to help investigators identify and seize British property suspected to have been bought by cash laundered by corrupt foreign politicians and officials.\n\nThe power was introduced because it's difficult for agencies to prove how these suspects obtained their wealth overseas - and that makes criminal prosecutions almost impossible.\n\nDuring the first challenge to an UWO, the High Court revealed that \"Mrs A\" is the wife of a state banker from a \"non-EEA country\", that also cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe couple have an estimated wealth of more than £55m ($72.5m), and 10 years ago, Mr A applied to settle in the UK under the visa scheme for wealthy investors.\n\nThe first London property was bought the following year - but Mr A was subsequently jailed overseas after being convicted of a major fraud.\n\nMrs A is also wanted for trial - but has been living what the court heard was an \"extravagant\" lifestyle in the UK, spending the vast sums her husband allegedly embezzled.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the NCA, told the court that Mrs A had spent £16m in Harrods over 10 years.\n\nMr and Mrs A cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nEach week, she'd spent tens of thousands of pounds on luxury goods. Her child has their own share fund worth £15m.\n\nMrs A has claimed in court papers that her wealth comes from her husband's successful overseas enterprises.\n\nBut the court heard this claim is not supported in confidential papers or online profiles of the banker.\n\nMr Hall said: \"It's an astonishing omission that if he were a titan of business, that there is no reference [on websites] to his successful business.\"\n\nJames Lewis QC, appearing for Mrs A, said the NCA's demand that she account for her wealth was unjustified and the agency had misrepresented her husband's career.\n\nFar from being a modestly-paid banker, Mr Lewis said that Mr A had been a stereotypical \"fat cat international banker\", similar to many others in the private sector.\n\nHe'd been the victim of an unfair trial and a major miscarriage of justice, the lawyer said.\n\n\"The reality is [the NCA] have to wait years for him to come out of prison. They cannot [seek to seize the homes] when he is unable to participate. She can't call the witness she needs.\"\n\nIf the UWO against Mrs A stands, it's likely to pave the way for more orders against suspects, including Russian oligarchs and corrupt former politicians from Africa, with property in Britain.", "It will take over a century for the poorest pupils to catch up with their classmates at GCSE level in England if things stay as they are, a study says.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute report found little change since 2011 in what is known as the disadvantage gap.\n\nWhen English and maths GCSE results are compared, the gap between those on the pupil premium and others shrunk by 0.1 of a month to 18 months in 2016-17.\n\nIn this study, the achievement gap is measured in months of achievement.\n\nThe score for 2017 indicates children who have been eligible for the pupil premium - those whose families earn less than £16,000 or are on certain benefits - are about a year and a half behind their more financially stable peers in their achievements.\n\nEPI researchers found the gap between these two groups of pupils was already at 4.3 months in the early years and had grown to 9.4 months by the end of primary school.\n\nIn secondary school, they based their study on GCSE results in English and maths, rather than a broader range of subjects, to mitigate against the effects of exam changes.\n\nThey said this was a more reliable indicator of the gap in recent years as GCSE entry patterns had been changing and had the potential to distort the results.\n\n\"In order to assess whether the gap is now closing faster or slower than previously, we have created a projection of how long it will take the GCSE English and maths gap to close based on the most recent five years of data,\" the report says.\n\n\"To put the latest year's reduction in the GCSE English and maths gap into context using our projections, if the gap had continued to close at the same rate as it did in the five years to 2016, we would have expected it to close entirely by 2103.\n\n\"But the slowing down in the five years to 2017 means that we would now expect it to close in 2155 - setting us back over 50 years.\n\n\"Based on current trends, it would take well over 100 years for the disadvantage gap in English and maths to close.\"\n\nTo tackle the situation, the report calls for equal access to high quality nurseries and childcare, a quality and stable teaching work force and a new priority on pupil wellbeing.\n\nIt also calls for \"early and sustained additional support for those who need it\".\n\nChildren and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi said closing the attainment gap to make sure every child fulfils their potential is a key priority for this government.\n\n\"In fact, the gap has closed by 3.2% in the last year alone - one of the highest reductions we've seen since 2011.\n\n\"To ensure this continues, we are targeting support at some of the poorest areas of the country with our £72m Opportunity Areas programme, our Social Mobility Action Plan is focusing £800 million of resources on helping disadvantaged children including new programmes to improve early language and literacy skills before they start school.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescuers are racing to find survivors after a dam in Laos collapsed late on Monday, flooding several villages and killing at least 20 people.\n\nAt least 100 people are still missing, and thousands have lost their homes.\n\nThe authorities in Attapeu province have been using helicopters and boats to try to evacuate stranded villagers.\n\nThe dam that collapsed is part of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project, which involves Laotian, Thai and South Korean firms.\n\nLocal authorities have appealed to government bodies and other communities to provide emergency aid such as clothing, food, drinking water and medicine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Villagers seek refuge on roofs of submerged homes in Laos\n\nFootage of the disaster has shown survivors huddled on roof tops of their submerged homes, or wading through water, holding children and their belongings.\n\nOne woman, seen in a video posted by ABC Laos news on Facebook, cried and prayed as she was evacuated on a boat, telling rescuers her mother was still stranded on a tree.\n\nThe dam that collapsed is an auxiliary dam called \"Saddle Dam D\". It is part of a network of two main dams and five subsidiary dams in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project.\n\nThe dam was 90% complete and had been set to start operating commercially next year.\n\nSK Engineering & Construction, a South Korean company with a stake in the project, said fractures were first discovered on the dam on Sunday, before it collapsed:\n\nRatchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, the main Thai stakeholder, said in a statement that the dam \"was fractured\" after \"continuous rainstorm[s]\" caused a \"high volume of water to flow into the project's reservoir\".\n\nAs a result, water \"leaked to the downstream area and down to Xe-Pian River\" about 5km (three miles) away, it added.\n\nLaos has in recent years invested heavily in hydroelectric power - which makes up about 30% of its exports.\n\nThe government plans to double current energy production by 2020 to become the \"battery of South East Asia\".\n\nBut groups warn of the project's impact on the environment and the nations the river supports.", "Katerina Pantelidis tells the BBC's Gavin Lee how she survived the devastating wildfires in Greece.\n\nHigh winds spread the fire, trapping many in homes and vehicles and forcing others into the sea as they tried to escape the flames.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab says there is some 'shifting of Whitehall deckchairs'\n\nTheresa May is taking personal control of Brexit talks with the EU, with Dominic Raab deputising for her.\n\nMr Raab was drafted in as Brexit Secretary to replace David Davis, who quit in protest at the prime minister's proposals for post-Brexit trade.\n\nA special unit in Mrs May's office has played an increasing role in Brexit talks during recent months.\n\nTuesday's announcement, in a written statement by Mrs May, formalises that shift in responsibility.\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman said: \"Dominic Raab has been sidelined by the prime minister before he has even had the chance to get his feet under the table.\"\n\nMr Raab, who was a leading figure in the Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum, insisted he had not been sidelined, telling MPs it had always been the case that Mrs May was in overall charge of the talks and the announcement amounted to some \"shifting of the Whitehall deckchairs\".\n\nHe said the prime minister had suggested the changes to him on the day he was offered David Davis's job and he had agreed to them.\n\nHe acknowledged there had previously been \"tensions\" between his department and the Cabinet Office and the changes would ensure there was \"one chain of command\" to \"get the best possible deal\".\n\nStewart Jackson, who was chief of staff for David Davis before he resigned two weeks ago, has previously accused Number 10 of running a \"shadow, parallel operation\" and keeping officials and ministers from the Brexit department \"in the dark\" about Brexit proposals.\n\nThe Europe Unit led by senior civil servant Olly Robbins in the Cabinet Office, which reports directly to the prime minister, will have \"overall responsibility for the preparation and conduct of the negotiations\", Mrs May said in her written statement.\n\n\"DExEU (the Department for Exiting the EU) will continue to lead on all of the government's preparations for Brexit: domestic preparations in both a deal and a no-deal scenario, all of the necessary legislation, and preparations for the negotiations to implement the detail of the Future Framework.\n\n\"I will lead the negotiations with the European Union, with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union deputising on my behalf.\"\n\nMrs May said that DExEU would recruit some new staff to work on preparations for Brexit, while a number of Cabinet Office officials would move over to the department.\n\nThere will be no net reduction to staff numbers in Mr Raab's department, she said.\n\nMr Raab told MPs on the Brexit committee, he would be going back out to Brussels shortly to continue talks with EU negotiator Michel Barnier, alongside Mr Robbins.\n\nConservative MP Craig Mackinlay suggested a \"coup\" had taken place to take control of the Brexit process away from David Davis.\n\nMr Robbins said: \"I honestly don't recognise the picture you are painting.\"\n\nTheresa May with EU negotiating chief Michel Barnier (right) in December\n\nIt comes as the government published a White Paper saying how the UK's EU withdrawal agreement will be put into law.\n\nMr Raab said the proposed Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill would deliver a \"smooth and orderly\" Brexit.\n\nHe said it would kick in only once MPs had given their backing to any deal struck with Brussels in the autumn. If there is no deal it will not be enacted.\n\nThe legislation would amend some parts of the EU Withdrawal Bill, passed last month after a series of knife-edge votes, to ensure the UK statute book continues to function during the 21 month transition period.\n\nIt would not end the supremacy of EU law altogether on 29 March next year, as promised in the EU Withdrawal Bill, with the continued jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice until December 2020, among other things.\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said it was now clear that the EU Withdrawal Act \"will need major surgery,\" adding that the 29 March Brexit day was a \"gimmick\" which had come \"unstuck\".\n\n\"I can't remember legislation which has needed such great revision and amendment before the relevant parts have even come into force,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe new bill would create a financial authority to manage \"divorce\" payments, which will total between £35bn and £39bn, to the EU - and aim to protect citizens' rights.\n\nMr Raab told MPs: \"It provides the clarity and certainty to EU citizens living here and UK nationals abroad that their rights will be properly protected.\n\n\"It will enact a time-limited implementation period, giving businesses greater certainty, giving the public finality with respect to our relationship with the EU and it provides for the appropriate means for paying the financial settlement.\n\n\"Above all, with 80% of the withdrawal agreement settled with our EU friends, the white paper is another key milestone on the UK's path to leaving the EU.\"\n\nHe said the publication of the white paper will allow \"maximum scrutiny\" of the government's plans by Parliament.\n\n\"It also sends a clear signal to the European Union that the United Kingdom is a reliable, dependable negotiating partner, delivering on the commitments it has made across the negotiation table,\" he told MPs.\n\nIn a separate development, the UK government guaranteed funding for EU programmes run by UK charities, businesses and universities up to the end of 2020, even if the UK left without a deal.", "Businesses, government and regulators are failing to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, say MPs.\n\nThe Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee has published a five-point plan to deal with the problem.\n\nIt follows a BBC survey that found 53% of women and 20% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment at work.\n\nChair of the committee, Maria Miller MP, said: \"Government, regulators and employers have been dodging their responsibilities for far too long.\"\n\n\"There is considerable focus on other corporate governance issues like protecting people's personal data and preventing money laundering.\n\n\"It's time to put the same emphasis on tackling sexual harassment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year's ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 suggests of those who had been harassed one in 10 women had been sexually assaulted, more than a quarter had suffered harassment in the form of inappropriate jokes or \"banter\" and nearly one in seven had suffered inappropriate touching.\n\nIt found that of the women who had been harassed, 63% said they didn't report it to anyone, and 79% of the male victims kept it to themselves.\n\nThe Committee heard evidence from experts on employment and law and also from Harvey Weinstein's former assistant, Zelda Perkins, who described the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) she had to sign after leaving the film company Miramax as \"morally lacking\".\n\nHarvey Weinstein's former assistant, Zelda Perkins gave evidence to the committee\n\nShe told the committee: \"There cannot be a legal document that protects criminal behaviour,\"\n\nThe report said that NDAs are used unethically by some employers and some members of the legal profession to silence victims of sexual harassment.\n\nMs Miller said: \"NDAs have their place in settling complaints, but they must not be used to prevent or dissuade victims from reporting incidents as is clearly the case now. We expect proper regulation of NDAs and that any unethical practices lead to strong and appropriate sanctions.\"\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"Sexual harassment has a huge impact on women's lives and careers. The TUC supports making employers responsible for preventing sexual harassment.\n\n\"It's good to see the committee recommend long-overdue reforms to the tribunal system so that it works for victims of sexual harassment, and a new code of practice for employers too.\"\n\nMs Miller said that enforcement through tribunals was inadequate. She said: \"The burden falls unacceptably on the individual to hold harassers and employers to account when they will already hesitate to do so due to fear of victimisation.\"", "Wildfires have killed at least 74 people in Greece.\n\nIt is Greece's worst fire disaster since 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula.", "(L-R) Alan McDonald, Brendan Bartley and Darryl Councillor are back in custody\n\nNine of 10 prisoners who escaped from an Australian jail on Tuesday have been recaptured, police say.\n\nThe men had broken out of Greenough Regional Prison, 400km (250 miles) north of Perth, during what staff described as \"a riot\".\n\nIt prompted police to send text messages to the public, warning them to treat the men as \"unpredictable\".\n\nPolice said on Wednesday that only one prisoner, 35-year-old Bradley Silvester, remained at large.\n\nThe 10 medium security inmates had used ladders to escape the jail during a disturbance late on Tuesday, prison officials said.\n\n\"[The disturbance] started with a cell fire and then there were a couple of other fires lit in the prison,\" Corrective Services Commissioner Tony Hassall told The West Australian newspaper.\n\n\"They broke into some staff offices, got some equipment and used that to cause some damage.\"\n\nHe said inmates had also assaulted prison officers with unidentified equipment. According to the officers' union, three guards were attacked with chemical spray.\n\n\"Our members are describing the incident as a riot,\" union secretary Paul Ledingham told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\n\"Reports this morning are there is extensive, extensive damage within the prison.\"\n\nMore than 150 extra police officers were deployed to the region to help track down the escapees.\n\nWestern Australia Premier Mark McGowan called it a \"very dangerous and very fluid situation\".\n\nLocals were sent late-night messages after the breakout, warning them to keep their homes and cars locked.\n\nFive prisoners were recaptured on Tuesday. Another four - Devon Comeagain, Alan McDonald, Brendan Bartley and Darryl Councillor - were returned to custody on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities did not say what sparked the disturbance. Union officials have alleged that the jail is overcrowded, with \"unsustainable\" levels of staffing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArron Banks paid thousands of pounds into a government minister's private bank account while seeking a licence to prospect for diamonds in the Kingdom of Lesotho, it has emerged.\n\nThe tycoon acknowledges he gave money to the politician but says it was to help fund his political campaigning.\n\nAn anti-corruption investigator is now probing the alleged link in light of evidence gathered by the BBC.\n\nPaul O'Sullivan, who has the authority to file a criminal case with the prosecutor, said there was a \"serious lack of transparency\".\n\nThe evidence discovered by the BBC focuses on the relationship Mr Banks had with the leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP), Thesele Maseribane.\n\nMr Maseribane - who is also a government minister - admitted that Mr Banks, the Bristol-based businessman, transferred £65,000 into his personal bank account in South Africa.\n\nHe defended the transaction, saying: \"Lesotho is overcome with corruption. I'm not saying my party is, but what I'm saying is we should try and practise a very fair policy.\"\n\nNot only did Mr Banks transfer money to the party leader in 2013, he also covered the costs of campaign rallies, spending £350,000.\n\nAt around the same time, Mr Banks was seeking a prospecting licence for his mining site along the Senqu River in the south of Lesotho.\n\nHe also financially supported Mr Maseribane whilst he was in exile following a military coup in 2014, paying for his accommodation and food.\n\nWhen the BBC visited the Senqu River site, its manager Dirk Veldtman said it was now closing because of a lack of diamonds. In fact, only six diamonds were found in three years, at an estimated value of £28,000.\n\nHe said it was very difficult to secure mining permits and that it helped to \"grease palms\" of various government officials.\n\nEmail excerpts seen by the BBC show that several weeks after £16,000 was transferred into Mr Maseribane's account, Mr Banks' application for a prospecting licence was approved in 2014.\n\nThe BBC showed these interviews to Mr O'Sullivan, a high-profile anti-corruption investigator based in South Africa.\n\nHe said: \"If you are paying the rent, buying food, and financially supporting politicians who could influence and further your own business interests, then there are clear signs of corruption at play.\n\n\"Putting money into the private bank account of a government minister also raises questions. There is a serious lack of transparency.\n\n\"I will be filing a docket, a criminal complaint here in South Africa and I will be sending a file to the Serious Fraud Office in the UK.\"\n\nMr Banks admitted financing Mr Maseribane, but denied that this amounted to corruption.\n\nHe said it was necessary to \"grease palms\" in Lesotho to get things done through government, but denied ever having done that.\n\nHe said his company had made four applications for mining licences, all of which are outstanding. However, he did not deny that Mr Maseribane had spoken to the mining minister on his behalf and that a prospecting licence had been granted in 2014.", "Wildfires in Greece's Attica region have killed dozens of people.\n\nMany of the victims were trapped in the village of Mati, 40km (25 miles) north-east of Athens, and died either in their homes or their cars. This village in the Rafina region is popular with tourists.\n\nSmoke rises over a motorway in Neo Voutsa, a suburb of Athens\n\nThe sky turned orange as smoke spread over the beach town of Kineta in west Attica\n\nA firefighting helicopter flies over the town of Rafina on Attica's eastern coast, where fires are a recurring problem in the summer\n\nGreece's prime minister has declared a state of emergency in Attica.\n\nThe government has asked other EU countries for helicopters and additional firefighters\n\nThe fire was particularly deadly in Mati, where 26 bodies were found just 15m (50ft) from the sea\n\nEmergency workers used boats and helicopters to evacuate residents and tourists stranded along the coast\n\nPeople ran into the water to escape the blaze\n\nWith temperatures set to soar again, Greece is in a race against time to get the fires under control\n\nA spokesperson for the International Federation of the Red Cross told the BBC some people had lost everything", "Fiona Onasanya was elected as the MP for Peterborough in 2017\n\nA Labour MP has been charged with perverting the course of justice over allegedly lying about who was behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 12 July charged with the offence.\n\nThe 34-year-old faces two counts of perverting the course of justice. Her brother Festus Onasanya, 33, faces three counts of the same offence.\n\nThey are both due to appear at the Old Bailey on 13 August.\n\nMr Onasanya, of Cambridge, is jointly charged with his sister on the two counts she faces relating to incidents on 24 July 2017 and 23 August 2017.\n\nThe charges allege they intended to pervert the course of justice by driving a vehicle in excess of the speed limit, falsely informing the investigating authorities that a third party had been the driver and enabling them, as a consequence, to avoid such prosecution and punishment.\n\nDuring the July incident, Ms Onasanya is alleged to have been driving - and during the August incident, her brother is alleged to have been driving.\n\nThe single count that Mr Onasanya faces relates to an incident on 17 June 2017.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the office of Ms Onasanya, who won her seat in 2017.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"It would not be appropriate to comment on an ongoing case.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was a solicitor before being elected to Parliament, is a Labour whip, meaning she is responsible for party discipline.\n\nShe won the Peterborough seat with a majority of just 607 votes, ousting Tory Stewart Jackson.\n\nMr Jackson then took up a role as David Davis's chief of staff until the then Brexit secretary quit earlier this month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Curiosity rover carries an onboard lab to measure the chemistry of the atmosphere\n\nIt may only be a very small part of Mars' atmosphere but methane waxes and wanes with the seasons, scientists say.\n\nThe discovery made by the Curiosity rover is important because it helps narrow the likely sources of the gas.\n\nOn Earth, those sources largely involve biological emissions - from wetlands, paddy fields, livestock and the like.\n\nNo-one can yet tie a life signature to Mars' methane, but the nature of its seasonal behaviour probably rules out some geological explanations for it.\n\n\"For the first time in the history of Mars methane measurements, we have something that's repeatable,\" said Dr Chris Webster, a US space agency (Nasa) scientist working on Curiosity.\n\n\"It's like trying to find a fault on your car. If it's intermittent you can never solve it, but if you've got some repeatability you've got some chance of understanding it,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane in Mars' atmosphere is a fascinating topic. The gas is short-lived so the fact that it persists in the planet's air points to a constant, on-going source - and given CH₄'s link to biology on Earth, scientists need to get to the bottom of this martian mystery.\n\nEver since it landed in the Red Planet's equatorial Gale Crater in 2012, Curiosity has been sniffing the air for methane.\n\nThe roving robotic laboratory has seen wafts where the concentration has risen upwards of seven parts per billion (ppb) (by comparison, on Earth it is about 1,860ppb). But over the past few years, the one-tonne vehicle has also been tracking the general background trend.\n\nIt is this behaviour that Dr Webster and colleagues report in Science Magazine this week.\n\nOn Earth, subsurface methane can be stored in a \"flammable ice\". On Mars?\n\nThey show methane rises from just above 0.2ppb in the northern hemisphere winter to a fraction over 0.6ppb in the summer.\n\nThe team's best explanation is that methane is seeping up from underground, perhaps from stored ices, and is then being released when surface soils are warmed.\n\nThe team cannot positively identify the origin of the methane, but the researchers think they can close down one particular mechanism for its production.\n\nThis involves sunlight breaking up carbon-rich (organic) molecules that have fallen to the planet's surface in meteorites.\n\nThe variation in ultraviolet light over the course of the seasons is not big enough to drive the scale of the change seen in the methane concentration, says Dr Webster.\n\n\"We know the intensity of the Sun and this mechanism should produce only a 20% increase in methane during the summer, but we're seeing it increase by a factor of three,\" he explained.\n\nArtwork: Esa has a new satellite in orbit designed to map methane across the planet\n\nAll this leaves open the question of what type of sub-surface reservoir is feeding the release - whether it derives from some other geochemical process or is the product of microbial activity; whether it is newly minted methane or some ancient store.\n\n\"We can't distinguish; but importantly we still can't rule out a biological contribution,\" Dr Webster told BBC News.\n\nThe European Space Agency (Esa) has a new satellite at Mars known as the Trace Gas Orbiter. This started a global search for methane in the atmosphere during the past fortnight.\n\nIt is possible the probe might be able to detect places on the planet where the gas is being emitted in larger quantities.\n\nIf such a location can be identified, some future mission could then visit it with the sensitive analytical tools needed to determine whether the CH₄ is the kind normally associated with life. On Earth, biology has a preference to incorporate the lighter form of carbon atom when making the molecule.\n\nA second paper published in the same edition of Science Magazine describes some of the new types of organic molecules that Curiosity has found inside Gale Crater's rocks.\n\nOnce again, like methane, organics are not a direct indicator of life - but life cannot exist without such molecules, DNA and proteins being good examples.\n\nThe story of organics on Mars is therefore of enormous interest if the presence of life is to be confirmed, if only in the long-distant past.\n\nThe Curiosity team has previously reported pretty simple carbon-rich compounds - what are termed chlorinated hydrocarbons because of their inclusion of chlorine atoms in their carbon-hydrogen structures. The new molecules, drilled from three-billion-year-old mudstones that were laid down in a lake environment, are more diverse and more complex.\n\nThey include thiophenes, which are a class that have sulphur atoms bonded into their structures; and that is important because the sulphur aids preservation.\n\nIf, as the team believes, the molecules Curiosity is seeing are mere fragments of much larger forms, this bodes well for those future missions that can drill deeper into the planet's surface. An Esa rover aims to do just this in 2021.\n\n\"ExoMars is going to go deep - 2m deep,\" explained the Science paper's lead author, Dr Jennifer Eigenbrode. \"That gives it the possibility of encountering rocks that have not been exposed to any significant (degradation from) ionising radiation at the surface.\n\n\"ExoMars has a chance of discovering extant life. But, even if it doesn't, just understanding the change of organic matter from the surface to what's at depth is going to be hugely revealing.\n\n\"I've no doubt that humans when they get to Mars are going to want to try farming. And if they do, they're going to need a source of organic matter,\" she told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The man who found the bottle of the nerve agent Novichok which killed his partner said it was in a glass bottle within an \"expensive-looking\" box.\n\nCharlie Rowley, who was also poisoned, said he gave his partner Dawn Sturgess the box - which he believed to be perfume - as a present.\n\nSpeaking to ITV News, he said Ms Sturgess grew ill within 15 minutes of spraying the substance on her hands.\n\nMs Sturgess, 44, died a week later on 8 July in Salisbury Hospital.\n\nMr Rowley was discharged from the same hospital on Friday, 20 July, three weeks after being exposed to the nerve agent.\n\nThe 45-year-old believes he had the glass bottle at his home for a couple of days before giving it to his partner.\n\nHe described the bottle as having a plastic dispenser which was held in a cardboard box with a plastic moulding.\n\nHe said it looked expensive and that Ms Sturgess recognised the brand on the box.\n\nIn an interview with ITV News, he said: \"I do have a memory of her spraying it on her wrists and rubbing them together.\n\n\"I guess that's how she applied it and became ill. I guess how I got in contact with it is when I put the spray part to the bottle... I ended tipping some on my hands, but I washed it off under the tap.\n\nPolice outside the home of Charlie Rowley in Amesbury, Wiltshire\n\n\"It had an oily substance and I smelled it and it didn't smell of perfume. It felt oily. I washed it off and I didn't think anything of it. It all happened so quick.\"\n\n\"Within 15 minutes Dawn said she had a headache.\n\n\"She asked me if I had any headache tablets. In that time she said she felt peculiar and needed to lie down in the bath.\n\n\"I went into the bathroom and found her in the bath, fully clothed, in a very ill state.\"\n\nHe said he felt to blame for what happened but also attacked the \"irresponsible people\" who left the poison behind for others to pick up.\n\n\"It was just so unfortunate. I'm very angry at the whole incident,\" added Mr Rowley who was himself hospitalised after coming into contact with the substance.\n\nRemembering his partner he said she was a \"lovely lady\" and a \"wonderful woman\" who had been planning to move to Amesbury from her sheltered accommodation in Salisbury.\n\nSergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are still recovering from exposure to Novichok\n\nThe poisoning of Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess came four months after the case of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.\n\nThe pair were found unconscious on a park bench having come into contact with Novichok.\n\nPolice are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Mr Skripal and his daughter.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Paul Mills of Wiltshire Police said on Tuesday that they may \"never be able to tell\" whether there is \"anything else out there\".\n\nHe said that police were using \"intelligence-led\" methods to uncover the places visited by people who have come into contact with Novichok, and then conducting \"meticulous\" searches.\n\nPublic Health England has advised people living in the Salisbury and Amesbury area not to pick up items such as syringes, needles, cosmetics or objects made of plastic, metal, or glass.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The trade war between the US and China is escalating\n\nThe Trump administration has unveiled a $12bn (£9.1bn) plan aimed at helping US farmers hurt by the intensifying trade war.\n\nThe aid is intended to protect the industry as countries raise taxes on US products such as soybeans in response to the president's new tariffs.\n\nThe US plans to provide subsidies to farmers and buy unsold crops, among other measures.\n\nMr Trump has said his tariffs - which he described on Tuesday in a tweet as \"the greatest\" - are intended to pressure countries to change their policies toward US exports.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday, he said farmers would be the \"biggest beneficiary\" of the disputes after countries strike new trade deals.\n\nBut the agriculture industry, which draws about 20% of its income from exports, said the president's approach is hurting demand for its goods and causing long term damage to relationships with buyers.\n\nPrices for soybeans have already fallen by more than 15% since April, when China - a major buyer of the crop - announced its plans to retaliate.\n\n\"Farmers need stable markets to plan for the future,\" said Brian Kuehl, executive director of the industry group Farmers for Free Trade, which represents pork producers, corn growers and others.\n\n\"As such, we urge the administration to take immediate action to stop the trade war and get back to opening new markets.\"\n\nMost of the $12bn in aid will go direct to farmers\n\nMarch: US announces tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium. The US imported roughly $46bn of the two metals in 2017.\n\nApril: China retaliates for metals tariffs by raising duties on $3bn-worth of US products.\n\nJune: Exemptions to US metals tariffs for EU, Canada and Mexico expire. The three countries retaliate with tariffs on a total of almost $20bn in US products.\n\nJuly: US and China impose tit-for-tat tariffs of $34bn on the other country's products. A second round of $16bn-worth of tariffs on goods is delayed.\n\nComing up: The US is also considering additional tariffs of more than $200bn on Chinese products, as well as duties on foreign cars and car parts, which represent more than $300bn in annual trade. Canada, Mexico and the EU have said they are prepared to respond.\n\nThe US Agriculture Department said it expects losses of about $11bn as a result of the trade disputes.\n\nMuch of the $12bn in emergency relief, which does not need congressional approval, will go towards direct payments to farmers of commodities such as soybeans, sorghum, and wheat, officials said.\n\nThe US also plans to buy crops such as fruits and nuts, distributing them to food banks and other government nutrition programmes.\n\nSome of the money will also go to boosting export efforts.\n\nThe first assistance is expected to be distributed by the beginning of September.\n\nThe programme, which will be deployed using powers created during the Great Depression, is not intended to extend beyond this year, officials said.\n\n\"This is a short-term solution that will give President Trump and his administration time to work on long-term trade deals that benefit agriculture and all sectors of the economy,\" US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.\n\nSome Republicans and even Democrats backed the aid package.\n\nBut industry groups that represent agriculture, as well as politicians from agricultural states, criticised the relief as a short-term solution to a self-inflicted problem.\n\n\"Time and time again I've heard from farmers that they want trade, not aid,\" said Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin.\n\n\"Instead of throwing money at a problem we've helped create, the better option is to take action to make it easier for our farmers - and manufacturers - to sell their goods at fair prices to consumers around the world.\"\n\nSenator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, tweeted on Tuesday: \"If tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers. The answer is remove the tariffs.\"\n\nSenator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, said in a statement: \"This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and White House's 'plan' is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches.\"", "Charlie Elphicke is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 6 September\n\nA Conservative MP has been charged with three counts of sexual assault against two women.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, is alleged to have assaulted one woman in 2007 and a second woman twice in 2016.\n\nMr Elphicke, 48, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 6 September.\n\nA Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said it had made the decision to charge Mr Elphicke \"after reviewing a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police\".\n\nMr Elphicke will sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons after the Conservative Party again suspended the party whip following the charges.\n\nThe whip was originally suspended in November 2017 after \"serious allegations\" against him were referred to police, but was reinstated in December 2018 ahead of a vote of confidence in Theresa May.\n\nThe Tories' majority in the Commons, where the party has the support of the DUP, is now down to two, with the prospect of a further cut if the party loses a by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire on 1 August.\n\nIn a statement, the MP's solicitor Ellen Peart said: \"Charlie Elphicke has said from the outset that he denies any wrongdoing.\n\n\"He will defend himself vigorously and is confident that he will clear his name.\"\n\nMr Elphicke has represented his constituency since 2010 and was a government whip from 2015 to 2016.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A cross-party group of MPs and peers has urged the home secretary to sanction supervised drug consumption facilities, or \"fix rooms\".\n\nGlasgow City Council first proposed the measure three years ago, but the plan has fallen foul of UK drug laws which are reserved to Westminster.\n\nThe idea is to encourage users to inject drugs in a safe and clean environment rather than on the street.\n\nThe Home Office said there were no plans to allow consumption rooms.\n\nThe appeal for a rethink comes after new figures revealed drug-related deaths in Scotland soared to 1,187 last year, a record level and the highest reported rate per head of population in the EU.\n\nTory Crispin Blunt, Labour's Jeff Smith and crossbench peer Baroness Meacher, along with seven Police and Crime Commissioners, have written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid urging him to allow local authorities to proceed with pilot schemes.\n\nMPs from the SNP, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats also signed the letter.\n\nGermany has a network of DCRs, including this one in Berlin\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Drug Policy Reform said in the letter that consumption rooms - also known as Overdose Prevention Centres (OPCs) - have been established in many countries with \"good public health results\" and an \"absence of the feared negative consequences\".\n\nThe politicians, who co-chair the group, wrote: \"We and many of our colleagues have been assessing their value as part of local strategies to reduce drug-related deaths and infections (primarily HIV and hepatitis), as well as incidences of public disorder and needle litter.\n\n\"We are supportive of areas that wish to proceed with their implementation.\n\n\"We therefore call on the government to allow the relevant local authorities the discretion to proceed with locally developed, closely evaluated pilots.\"\n\nThe APPG said a refusal to sanction evidence-based interventions which would bring down drug-related deaths appears to be \"complacent and dangerous\".\n\nFormer minister Mr Blunt said: \"The international evidence is clear - Overdose Prevention Centres save lives.\n\n\"We are facing a crisis of drug overdose deaths, and cannot afford to reject initiatives that will help bring the death rate down.\n\n\"Policymakers must urgently escape the simplicity of 'drugs are bad, they are banned' and engage in evidence-based policy and the complexities about how to reduce crime and save lives.\"\n\nThe Skyen drug consumption room is in Copenhagen\n\nOpposition whip Mr Smith added: \"Instead of condemning and marginalising people who use drugs, we need to support and encourage them into treatment, and give them a chance to turn their lives around.\n\n\"Overdose prevention centres (DCRs) are one proven means of doing so. Nobody has ever died of an overdose in one of these centres.\n\n\"If the government thinks there is not currently the legislative framework that would allow them to go ahead, it is their job to change that legislation.\"\n\nBaroness Meacher said: \"This week's shocking figures from Scotland, showing a 27% increase in deaths in just one year, prove that this is a public health crisis.\n\n\"Responsible local authorities are desperate to try new approaches, but are being prevented by a Home Office putting ideology before people's lives.\"\n\nThe Green Party's Caroline Lucas, Liberal Democrat Tom Brake, the SNP's Ronnie Cowan and peers including Baroness Neuberger and Lord Adebowale also signed the letter.\n\nThe Scottish government and a majority of MSPs in the Scottish Parliament have backed the idea of consumption rooms, but the UK government remains opposed, saying they would allow a range of offences to committed.\n\nThe SNP's Ronnie Cowan said: \"Safe consumption rooms are not a magic bullet, but the evidence for their use is overwhelming - with even the Scottish Tory health spokesperson this week admitting they could tackle overdoses.\n\n\"The Home Office's stubborn refusal to even consider trialling their use is a dereliction of duty and leaves the UK Government on the wrong side of history.\n\n\"If the UK government refuse to act to save lives, it's time they devolved the powers so that Scotland can take the steps necessary.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Any death related to drug misuse is a tragedy. Our drug strategy is bringing together police, health, community and global partners to tackle the illicit drug trade, protect the most vulnerable and help those with a drug dependency to recover.\n\n\"The causes of drug misuse are complex and need a range of policy responses and many of the powers to deal with drug dependency such as healthcare, housing and criminal justice are devolved in Scotland.\n\n\"The UK government has been clear that there is no legal framework for the provision of drug consumption rooms and there are no plans to introduce them.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nWomen's Ashes Test, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day four of four):\n\nAustralia will retain the Women's Ashes as the Test petered out into a draw.\n\nEngland avoided the follow-on and declared on 275-9, but they could not tear through the Australian batting line-up, which finished on 230-7.\n\nEllyse Perry (76 not out) again batted well as the tourists opted not to set England a fourth-innings target.\n\nEngland trail 8-2 in the multi-format series, but could still draw it if they win all three Twenty20 games, beginning in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nAustralia won all three one-day internationals to open up a 6-0 lead and the two points available for a draw in this four-day Test would guarantee their retention of the Ashes.\n\nThat knowledge was always at the back of their minds as they batted out the game before shaking hands with an hour of scheduled play remaining.\n\nAt the start of the day's play, all four results were still theoretically possible with England on 199-6 behind Australia's 420-8 declared, but as it turned out, the most crucial passage was first up in the best period of the entire Test.\n\nEngland needed 72 to avoid the follow-on and there was more intent to their batting than they had shown on the third evening when their dead-bat tactics were heavily criticised.\n\nThey did lose Shrubsole for 11 and Nat Sciver 12 short of a century, with England still 19 shy of the 271 target.\n\nBut Laura Marsh and Sophie Ecclestone combined stoically for the ninth wicket partnership to get them over the line.\n\nMarsh, who made a brave 28, survived a testing and hostile examination from young quick Tayla Vlaeminck before a cut for four off the left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux ensured Australia would have to bat again.\n\nMarsh took that positive impact with the bat into her bowling and in the space of five balls in the first over after lunch she removed openers Alyssa Healy for 13 and Rachael Haynes for one.\n\nWith Ecclestone causing problems at the other end with her left-arm spin, there were a few tricky moments for Australia.\n\nMeg Lanning and Perry eased any worries with a 50 partnership until the Australia captain somehow dispatched a filthy full toss from Kirstie Gordon straight to Georgia Elwiss at cover.\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight brought herself on for a rare bowl and claimed the wicket of Jess Jonassen (37) but Perry continued on her own serene way.\n\nShe eventually finished unbeaten on 76, and 192 runs for the match, after her first-innings century as she showed why she is a cut above the rest in women's cricket.\n• None How far are England behind Australia?\n• None Quiz: Test your knowledge of the Women's Ashes\n\nAustralia pass on chance to tee up drama\n\nAustralia were under no obligation to set any kind of target for England to chase in the fourth innings, but there was a slight disappointment about their cautious attitude.\n\nA run rate of 3.46 from 35 overs in the afternoon session when they had the chance to put their foot on their accelerator did not suggest a team in a desperate hurry to win the game.\n\nWhen they returned to bat after tea, their intentions were clear and the game drifted to its conclusion, in what was the first women's Test since these two sides met at North Sydney Oval in November 2017.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Prof Dame Sally Davies said people should not be taken in by vaccine myths on social media\n\nCountries must work together to tackle global health risks, England's outgoing chief medical officer has said.\n\nIn her final annual report, Prof Dame Sally Davies said focusing on domestic issues could risk failing to control global threats such as Ebola.\n\nAnd she said learning from other countries would also ensure the NHS was not left behind.\n\nAfter nine years as CMO, she is to become Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.\n\nProf Davies said: \"Investing in global health is the smart thing to do because it is in our mutual interest. It creates a better world for us and for future generations.\n\n\"It helps to keep our population safe.\n\n\"We should invest in systems and solutions that contribute to making health more equitable, secure and sustainable.\n\n\"What we learn abroad will improve our NHS and support our domestic efforts to make sure no-one in the UK is left behind.\"\n\nDame Sally cited last year's monkeypox outbreak in the UK - the first cases of the disease outside Africa since 2003.\n\nShe said UK collaboration with the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control helped to contain and manage the situation, and minimise the public health impact.\n\nAnd, as in the 2014 Sierra Leone outbreak of Ebola, UK experts are helping those dealing with the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nAnother focus for global health initiatives should be the rise of non-communicable diseases including heart disease, strokes and cancer, said Dame Sally.\n\nThey are set to be the leading causes of death across low-income countries by 2021.", "Carl Beech denied 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA convicted paedophile has been found guilty of making false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse against a string of public figures.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, was found guilty of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHis lies led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation which ended in no arrests or charges being made.\n\nBeech, who denied the charges, did not react as the verdicts were delivered. He will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nJurors at Newcastle Crown Court took a day to reach their verdicts following a 12-week trial.\n\nKnown in media reports as \"Nick\", Beech accused senior politicians as well as army and security chiefs of sadistic sexual abuse and said he had witnessed boys being murdered in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nOperation Midland, a two-year long Met investigation which resulted from the allegations by the former NSPCC volunteer, closed in March 2016.\n\nIn hours of tearful interviews with police, Beech falsely alleged a paedophile network consisting of establishment figures was operating in London and elsewhere during the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHe falsely claimed his late stepfather, an Army major, had raped him and passed him on to the public figures to be tortured at military bases and sexually abused.\n\nFormer prime minister Sir Edward Heath, former Labour MP Lord Janner and ex-MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield were among those he wrongly accused.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is due to be sentenced on Friday\n\nBeech also claimed he had been raped by DJ and prolific sexual abuser Jimmy Savile, fraudulently collecting £22,000 compensation.\n\nHe wrongly accused the former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor of being directly involved in the murder of two boys - and also falsely implicated the former head of MI5, Sir Michael Hanley, in one of them.\n\nBeech fabricated another claim about a boy being deliberately run over and suggested that he might have personally witnessed the killing of Martin Allen, who went missing as a teenager in 1979 and whose fate remains unknown.\n\nBeech's allegations led to the homes of several men being raided by police, including those belonging to Normandy veteran Field Marshall Lord Bramall, as well the late Lord Brittan and former Tory MP Mr Proctor.\n\nThe Met publicly described Beech's allegations at the time as \"credible and true\".\n\nLord Brittan died during the investigation without being informed that police had concluded there was no case against him. Lord Bramall's wife of more than 60 years also died in 2015 before she heard her husband had been cleared.\n\nSir Hugh Beach, another D-Day veteran and former general who was falsely accused, told the BBC: \"He is a man who has done enormous damage to totally innocent people who have done him no harm at all. An evil man.\"\n\nThe Met Police's deputy commissioner, Sir Stephen House, accepted his force \"did not get everything right\", but said all officers investigated by the police watchdog in relation to Beech's case had been found to have been working \"in good faith\".\n\nHe said the Met would strive to identify any additional lessons it could learn from the case - adding that sexual offences cases were a \"complex and challenging\" part of police work, particularly when allegations related to historic sex abuse.\n\nAfter a report into Operation Midland by a retired High Court judge, Beech was referred for investigation by Northumbria Police.\n\nDetectives discovered the former paediatric nurse, school governor and hospital inspector was himself a paedophile. In January this year, he pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of indecent images of children and voyeurism.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Mr Proctor called Operation Midland \"a truly disgraceful chapter in the history of British policing\"\n\nHe blamed it on \"internal failings at the highest level\" within the Met Police.\n\nMr Proctor said he had lost his home and his job while he was under suspicion.\n\n\"My livelihood was being torn apart, aided by the police,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also criticised Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, who met Beech in 2014 and discussed the allegations. Mr Watson \"gave oxygen\" to Beech's allegations, Mr Proctor claimed.\n\nMr Watson defended his role and said he hoped the case does not prevent survivors of child sexual abuse going to the police.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I can understand why Harvey Proctor is very angry and upset but I'm afraid I haven't got anything to apologise to him for.\"\n\nThere was \"absolutely no way\" that he applied pressure \"improperly\" on police and politicians to investigate the case, he said.\n\nMr Proctor also criticised the BBC's journalism on Beech's allegations.\n\nIn 2014, the BBC broadcast an interview with Beech - whose identity was kept hidden at the time - as well as with police investigating the case.\n\nIn a statement issued after the trial verdict, the BBC said it had \"reported serious allegations, in the public interest, which were the basis of a police murder investigation, and which the police later described as 'credible and true'\".\n\nIt added: \"Carl Beech has since been exposed as a fantasist and serial liar, not least by an investigation from the BBC's Panorama.\n\n\"We express our utmost sympathy to those falsely accused by Beech and to the family of Martin Allen.\"\n\nThe now-defunct Exaro news agency also came under attack from Mr Proctor.\n\nThe former MP said the court had heard that Beech had been shown images and locations by journalists Mark Watts and Mark Conrad to \"facilitate his fantasies\" during the investigation.\n\nHe said the journalists, from Exaro should be investigated for \"conspiracy to pervert the course of justice\".\n\nMr Conrad said he had \"every sympathy\" with those falsely accused, but said Beech was never shown any images of alleged abusers before he had named them.\n\nHe said Beech had \"meticulously researched\" his false claims, allowing him to \"misdirect and mislead\" journalists and the police.\n\nMr Watts said there was no evidence of criminal conduct by Exaro and Mr Conrad had shown the images to Beech \"before we knew that there was any prospect\" of police investigating.\n\nHe called for a public inquiry to ensure \"the right lessons\" are learned from the investigation.\n\nAfter the trial, prosecutors said Beech \"revelled in the attention that his tales were attracting\" and \"wanted to be a part of the scene that he was describing\".\n\nJenny Hopkins, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service said the case was \"unlike any other I have seen in my career\".\n\n\"He is not a fantasist, as some people have described him, nor is he a victim of abuse where there was insufficient evidence to prosecute,\" Ms Hopkins said.\n\nInstead, he was a \"very prolific and manipulative liar\" who \"thrived on being in the limelight\".\n\nShe said: \"He would quite happily have seen innocent men arrested and face the full weight of the law.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has cleared three detectives following an investigation into how the Met Police applied for warrants to raid the homes of Lord Bramall, the late Lord Brittan and Mr Proctor.\n\n\"The allegations Nick made were grave and warranted investigation and we believe those involved in applying for the search warrant acted with due diligence and in good faith at the time,\" the IOPC's Jonathan Green said.\n\nAt a time when his own paedophile activity was hidden, Beech went into primary schools and presented workshops and assemblies about children keeping themselves safe from abuse as a volunteer with the NSPCC.\n\nHe volunteered for the charity's school service department from November 2012 until July 2015, stopping more than a year before police began to investigate him for perverting the course of justice and fraud.\n\nThe NSPCC said Beech had no connection with the charity when the offences came to light.\n\nIt said its volunteers were subject to \"strenuous and thorough\" safeguarding checks, adding: \"We are shocked and appalled by today's verdicts and hope Beech's actions don't prevent other abuse survivors from getting the justice they deserve.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Gove says both leadership candidates care passionately about the planet\n\nMichael Gove has vowed to \"keep shtum\" over who he will vote for in the Tory leadership contest.\n\nThe environment secretary said both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt \"would do a great job for this country\".\n\nHe insisted he wanted to make sure he could give \"100% support\" to whoever becomes the next PM.\n\nMr Gove initially backed Mr Johnson in the 2016 Tory leadership race. Later, though, he decided he was not up to the job and chose to run against him.\n\nAt the time, Mr Gove said he decided to withdraw his support because Mr Johnson was \"not capable\" of leading the party or the country.\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Johnson pulled out of the leadership contest, which was eventually won by Theresa May.\n\nOne Johnson ally said at the time Mr Gove's actions were \"one of the biggest acts of treachery I have ever seen\".\n\nSpeaking in London on Tuesday, Mr Gove said Mr Johnson had \"championed the environment\" in all his previous roles.\n\n\"As foreign secretary, he's been a powerful and persuasive voice on safeguarding wildlife from exploitation, further protecting our oceans and fighting climate change.\"\n\nHe also praised the work of Mr Johnson's rival, Jeremy Hunt, whom he said had worked to \"safeguard oceans and help to put more international development assistance towards environmental projects\".\n\n\"I know they both would be great prime ministers and I want to affirm today that we can trust them both to do the right thing on every critical issue facing us and of course most critically on the environment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove on why he decided that: \"I should stand and Boris should stand aside\"\n\nConservative Party members are currently voting for their choice of leader via postal ballot.\n\nThe winner and next prime minister will be announced on 23 July.\n\nAsked to say who he wanted to win, Mr Gove replied: \"I won't say which of the two candidates I am going to vote for.\n\n\"I want to give whoever wins 100% support so for that reason I'll keep shtum.\"", "Dozens of masked men armed with batons stormed a train station in the Hong Kong district of Yuen Long on Sunday.\n\nFootage posted on social media showed the masked men, all in white T-shirts, violently attacking people on platforms and inside train carriages.\n\nForty-five people were injured, with one person in a critical condition.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran for alleged spying, was kept in solitary confinement and chained to a bed in a psychiatric ward in Tehran, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said his wife was returned to prison after being discharged from hospital on Saturday.\n\nHe says she described her treatment on the ward as \"proper torture\".\n\nLast month she went on hunger strike for 15 days to protest her detention.\n\nIt comes amid escalating tensions between the UK and Iran over the seizure of oil tankers.\n\nIn a press release, the Free Nazanin Campaign said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, told her husband she was \"broken\" by the experience.\n\nSpeaking to him on the phone on Sunday and Monday, he said she told him: \"They did all they could to me - handcuffs, ankle cuffs, in a private room two by three metres, with thick curtains, and the door closed all the time.\n\n\"I wasn't allowed to leave the room, as I was chained to the bed. It was proper torture. It was tough, and I was struggling.\"\n\nHe said she continued: \"I never thought I would end up there. I always found myself strong, and then finding myself there - it was really traumatising.\n\n\"There was no justification for it. I am cross at them. I am not scared. The amount of scars I got. I have been put through hell.\"\n\nShe was transferred back to Evin prison after breaking out of her bindings and telling security guards she was at risk of self-harming if she had to stay in the hospital, Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nSpeaking before her return to jail, he said he felt \"euphoric\" when he heard his wife had been moved to a hospital, thinking it could be a prelude to having treatment or even to her release.\n\nHowever, after her father was refused access to visit her in hospital or allowed to speak to her on the phone, the family grew increasingly concerned.\n\nHer admission to the mental health unit came after she went on hunger strike for 15 days last month in protest against her \"unfair imprisonment\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe joined her protest, camping on the pavement outside the Iranian Embassy in London and not eating.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe went on hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London\n\nIn November 2017, then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson faced criticism for suggesting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training journalists while in Iran - remarks he later apologised for and clarified, saying he had no doubt she was on holiday there.\n\nFormer Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan, who resigned on Monday over the prospect of Boris Johnson as prime minister, said in his resignation letter he was \"deeply upset\" that discussions about her possible release had come to \"an abrupt halt\" during his time in government.\n\nEarlier this year, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt granted her diplomatic protection in a bid to resolve her case.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq, who is Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, last week questioned whether the detention of the Iranian Grace 1 oil tanker by Royal Marines was linked to the developments in her case.\n\nIn response, Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison said: \"I don't believe the two are directly linked.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport in April 2016 and has always said the visit was to introduce her daughter to her relatives.", "G4S made profits of more than £2m per year for running an immigration centre where detainees were filmed being mistreated by staff, a report says.\n\nThe National Audit Office found the security firm made £14.3m profit running Brook House from 2012 to 2018.\n\nThe findings raise serious questions about the Home Office's handling of sensitive contracts, MPs said.\n\nThe Home Office said it had been working to improve leadership, management and training at the centre.\n\nPanorama footage broadcast in September 2017 showed alleged assaults, humiliation and verbal abuse of detainees by officers at the centre, near Gatwick Airport.\n\nIn total, 21 members of staff were identified as part of the Panorama allegations - 12 were later dismissed and three resigned.\n\nThe NAO report found G4S has been making \"significant profits\" on the Brook House contract.\n\nBetween 2012 and 2018, G4S made £14.3m gross profits, (before deducting a share of company overheads, such as human resources), with gross profit rates of between 10% and 20% each year.\n\nIt also pointed to the fact that under the terms of its contract G4S cannot be penalised if staff use excessive force or inappropriate language.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said the findings raised \"serious questions\" about the Home Office's handling of sensitive contracts and claimed the department's monitoring should have picked up problems sooner.\n\nShe said: \"For G4S to be making up to 20% gross profits on the Brook House contract at the same time as such awful abuse by staff against detainees was taking place is extremely troubling.\n\n\"Given that profits reduced when G4S had to increase staffing and training after the Panorama programme, this raises very serious questions about G4S's running of the centre to make higher profits whilst not having proper staffing, training and safeguarding systems in place.\"\n\nShe confirmed that the committee will further pursue both G4S and the Home Office.\n\nDespite the problems, the NAO found that G4S \"broadly delivered\" on the terms of the contract.\n\nCovert footage was filmed inside Brook House, near Gatwick Airport, for BBC Panorama\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was making \"significant changes\" to the contracting model.\n\nThey said: \"The Home Office and G4S have been working together and we remain committed to improving leadership, management and training at Brook House.\"\n\nJohn Whitwam, managing director of G4S custodial and detention services, said: \"Building on the significant progress already made at Brook House IRC, we continue to work closely with the Home Office to improve further the services we provide.\"\n\nAccording to the NAO, the Home Office has now concluded that the Brook House contract as written is no longer fit for purpose, given the lack of scope to impose financial penalties and enforce improvements in conditions and treatment.\n\nAny new contract is expected to include new performance measures covering staff recruitment, induction, training, mentoring and culture, and establish a contractual role for the Home Office to monitor the appropriateness of the use of force against detainees and the care of staff and detainees following an incident.", "Jeremy Corbyn has proposed changes to Labour's complaints system to speed up the expulsion of members over anti-Semitism.\n\nHe told his frontbench team he wanted to \"confront this poison\", but the process sometimes took too long.\n\nA statement from shadow cabinet said they supported the proposals, but still backed \"independent oversight\" as well.\n\nLabour said eight party members were expelled in the first six months of 2019 over anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nSome 625 complaints were also received in that same period.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour peers have decided against voting on a no-confidence motion in Mr Corbyn over the issue.\n\nThe developments come as the party launched \"education materials\" - including a leaflet and webpage- to help members confront anti-Semitism.\n\nMr Corbyn said that while only a \"small number\" of members held anti-Semitic views, a larger number did not recognise stereotypes and conspiracy theories.\n\nThe current process for dealing with anti-Semitism allegations sees a disciplinary panel meet to examine claims. If they think there is a case against a member, they refer it to Labour's National Constitutional Committee, which then has the power to suspend or expel individuals.\n\nCritics, including deputy leader Tom Watson, have said the process takes too long and there should be an option to automatically expel people.\n\nA number of members have also called for the process to be made independent from the party.\n\nEarlier this month, the BBC's Panorama revealed claims from a number of former party officials that some of Mr Corbyn's closest allies tried to interfere in disciplinary processes involving allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nLabour has rejected claims of interference in its disciplinary processes and described the Panorama programme as \"seriously inaccurate\" and \"politically one-sided\".\n\nThe options Mr Corbyn presented to shadow cabinet were:\n\nHe told shadow cabinet he favoured the second option and it would allow for more rapid expulsion in the most serious of cases.\n\nThe shadow cabinet released a statement after the meeting, saying they backed his plan, but the issue of independence had not gone away - although there was a lack of clarification on what this would entail.\n\n\"As part of tackling anti-Semitism, the shadow cabinet has today supported the proposal for summary exclusion outlined by the Labour leader, which he will put to the National Executive Committee,\" they said.\n\n\"The shadow cabinet also supports the proposal to introduce independent oversight of our processes, and will continue to seek to engage with Jewish community organisations to build confidence.\"\n\nJewish groups reacted sceptically to the proposals. Mike Katz, the chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said he did not trust the National Executive Committee to act impartially.\n\n\"Nothing short of a fully independent process, first asked for by the Jewish community way back in April 2018, is even going to begin to suggest that the party leadership really cares about tackling institutional anti-Jewish racism,\" he said.\n\nBetween January and June 2019, Labour received 625 complaints about members relating to anti-Semitism, and a further 658 complaints about people who weren't in the party.\n\nAfter six NEC meetings in the same period, the committee referred 97 members to the NCC over their cases, handed out 41 official warnings and a further 49 \"reminders of conduct\".\n\nAnd over those six months, the NCC expelled eight people, gave out three extended suspensions, and issued four warnings.\n\nAnother 12 members left the party after being referred to the NCC, and one member's case was unproven.\n\nA Labour spokesman said publishing the figures showed the party's \"commitment to transparency in its efforts to root out bigotry and racism\".\n\nHe added: \"These figures provide a complete and accurate picture and demonstrate that we are taking decisive and robust action against anti-Semitism.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Corbyn wrote to members about the new education materials regarding anti-Semitism and said it would be the first in a series on \"a number of specific forms of racism and bigotry\".\n\nHe said the scale of the problem within Labour had been exaggerated by \"some of the media\", but the party was \"not immune\" from the problem of anti-Jewish hatred.\n\nLord Desai - a member of the party for 48 years - said it was \"too late now [for] the leadership to start pontificating about what a terrible thing anti-Semitism is\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had \"no confidence in the leadership\", and was \"very unhappy with the way the Labour Party is going\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, Labour peers as a whole decided on Monday not to pursue a no-confidence vote in Mr Corbyn - although they said the option \"lies on the table\".\n\nIn a statement, the peers said: \"We continue to be dismayed and ashamed by the handling of the anti-Semitism crisis by our party leadership as there is no question that the number of cases has soared over the last four years.\n\n\"We will as a group continue to speak out against anti-Semitism and stand shoulder to shoulder with our Jewish colleagues and brave former staff members and with all those fighting injustice.\"\n\nThe peers have also given their full backing to Baroness Hayter, who was fired from her role as shadow Brexit minister after she compared the leadership' team's refusal to acknowledge criticism to \"the last days of Hitler\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: Ireland would have to protect its place in the EU single market\n\nIf the new UK prime minister wants to \"tear up\" the existing withdrawal agreement with the EU \"we're in trouble\", Ireland's deputy PM has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the decision for a no-deal Brexit would be the UK's but added checks \"of some sorts\" would be needed in the Irish Republic.\n\nIreland would have to protect its place in the single market, he told the BBC.\n\nBoth men vying to become UK PM say they want to change the withdrawal deal and, in particular, the so-called backstop.\n\nMr Coveney warned: \"That's a little bit like saying, 'Give me what I want or I'm going to burn the house down for everybody.'\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he hoped the UK and EU would negotiate a future relationship that would mean the backstop - designed as an insurance policy to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland - could be avoided.\n\nHowever, he warned it could not be removed from the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"The EU has made it very clear that we want to engage with the new British prime minister, we want to avoid a no-deal Brexit but the solutions that have been put in place to do that haven't changed,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\n\"If the British government forces a no-deal Brexit on everybody else, the Republic of Ireland will have no choice but to protect its own place in the EU single market. That would fundamentally disrupt the all-Ireland economy.\"\n\nHe said the all-Ireland economy had helped maintain peace on the island of Ireland but that protecting it would \"not be possible\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHowever, he added that contingency plans were being drawn up with the European Commission to try to minimise the disruption.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have said they would keep no deal on the table to strengthen negotiations\n\nBut former Tory leader and Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith said both the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and the Irish prime minister had told him there would be no hard border with Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"I asked, well, lay out what your proposals are - and we'd already proposed alternative arrangements - and basically what was described to me was alternative arrangements - the same thing we'd been talking to them about which would alleviate the idea of necessary checks on the island of Ireland based on what exists at the moment,\" Mr Duncan Smith said.\n\nAnd DUP leader Arlene Foster said she was \"disappointed, but not surprised\" by what Mr Coveney had said, and accused him of trying to \"look tough\" in the eyes of the incoming prime minister.\n\nThe DUP, whose 10 MPs are crucial for the Conservative Party's majority, has said it does not want the UK to leave the EU without a deal, but believes ruling out no-deal would damage the UK's negotiating hand.\n\nMuch of what Simon Coveney had to say today mirrored his warnings in the past.\n\nNo time limit on the backstop, there is wiggle room on the political declaration and no deal would be a disaster for the economy.\n\nBut there was one key difference this time - his intended recipient of the message.\n\nThe Irish government is acutely aware that the incoming prime minister is likely to want to make good on his Brexit strategy.\n\nNo deal is still on the table.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has managed to keep the EU on board and its backstop argument has not changed - but can it hold the line?\n\nThis was also the clearest interview from Mr Coveney yet - stressing if a no-deal Brexit does happen, the blame rests with Westminster, not Dublin.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster hit back that the Irish deputy prime minister was trying to \"look tough\" to the new PM.\n\nIn the coming days, we will likely see much more \"tough talk\" emerging from both sides.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement has been rejected three times by MPs in the Commons, with the backstop a key sticking point among Brexiteers.\n\nThe two men vying to become the next prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, have said the backstop is \"dead\" - a position seen as increasing the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf MPs fail to support a Brexit deal agreed between UK and EU by 31 October, the legal default is to leave with no deal on that date.\n\nBoth contenders to be the next prime minister have said they want to leave on that date and renegotiate with the EU, leaving with a deal.\n\nBut Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson have also said they would keep the possibility of no deal on the table to strengthen negotiations, despite Parliament voting to rule the option out.\n\nMr Johnson has also refused to rule out suspending Parliament to force a no-deal Brexit through.\n\nThis week, MPs backed a bid to make it harder for a new prime minister to do this.\n\nA majority of 41 approved the amendment, with four cabinet ministers, including Chancellor Philip Hammond, abstaining.\n\nDo you have any questions about what would happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Thousands of people are marching in Hong Kong in the latest of a series of protests by pro-democracy campaigners.\n\nProtesters ignored the designated finish line, continuing on to China's government headquarters in Hong Kong, where anti-China graffiti was sprayed.\n\nThe BBC's Stephen McDonell was amid the pro-democracy protesters as tear gas began to be fired.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Alan Duncan has quit as a Foreign Office minister in protest against a possible Boris Johnson victory in the Conservative leadership race.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Alan described Brexit as \"a dark cloud\".\n\nHe told the BBC he quit to demand an emergency Commons debate to give MPs a chance to say whether they supported Mr Johnson's \"wish to form a government\".\n\nThe request for a debate - which would not constitute a binding no-confidence vote - was rejected by the Speaker.\n\nMr Johnson is the frontrunner in the contest which has seen him go head-to-head with Jeremy Hunt for Tory Party members' votes.\n\nThe ballot closes at 17:00 BST - the winner will be revealed on Tuesday morning and will become prime minister on Wednesday.\n\nSir Alan told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he did not have any personal animosity towards Mr Johnson and \"wanted him to succeed\".\n\nBut he said he was worried by the ex-foreign secretary's \"fly by the seats of his pants, haphazard\" style and feared Mr Johnson was going to go \"smack into a crisis of government\".\n\nMr Johnson's ability to command the support of a majority of MPs was \"untested and in doubt\", his former colleague said.\n\nBy establishing this one way or another on Tuesday - after the leadership contest result was announced but before the winner took office - Sir Alan said it would prevent \"complete constitutional mayhem\" at a later date.\n\n\"If he (Mr Johnson) has got the numbers to govern, then he can and should govern. But if he has not, in our constitution he cannot.\"\n\nSir Alan said he was \"bewildered\" by the Speaker's decision to refuse his request.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Bercow said requests for emergency debates were \"strictly private\" and the Speaker's Office never confirmed nor denied them.\n\nSir Alan's resignation came after Chancellor Philip Hammond and Justice Secretary David Gauke said they also intended to quit if Mr Johnson was elected Tory leader.\n\nIn his resignation letter to Theresa May, Sir Alan said it was \"tragic\" her government had been dominated by \"the dark cloud of Brexit\" - which he said had stopped the UK becoming the \"dominant intellectual and political force\" in the world.\n\nHe praised Mrs May for her \"faultless dignity and an unstinting sense of duty\", adding that she \"deserved better\" than to have her time in office \"brought to an end\" in such circumstances.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Alan also discussed his own record at the Foreign Office in the letter, and said he remained \"deeply upset that some fruitful discussions I had initiated about the possible release of Nazanin Ratcliffe were brought to such an abrupt halt\".\n\nAs Foreign Secretary, Mr Johnson was criticised for his handling of the case of Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman serving a five-year sentence in Iran for alleged spying.\n\nTheresa May thanked Sir Alan for \"the support you have shown me, not just during the last three years, but over the many years we have known each other\", and praised his \"devoted and energetic service\".\n\nSir Alan has long been a vocal critic of Mr Johnson, once describing himself as his \"pooper scooper\" at the Foreign Office, clearing up mess he had created.\n\nMost recently, Sir Alan attacked his former boss over the resignation of Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US, who stepped down after comments criticising President Trump's administration were leaked.\n\nSir Alan said Mr Johnson - by failing to give his support to the ambassador - had \"basically thrown our top diplomat under the bus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. He's \"thrown our top diplomat under a bus\" - Sir Alan on Boris Johnson\n\nHe has also previously said Mr Johnson was \"the last person on Earth who would make any progress in negotiating with the EU at the moment\".\n\nAnd in 2018, he described an article - in which Mr Johnson said Theresa May had \"wrapped a suicide vest\" around the British constitution - as \"one of the most disgusting moments in modern British politics\".\n\nThe BBC's Norman Smith said that in the resignation of Sir Alan - and the promises to quit by Mr Hammond and Mr Gauke - we were beginning to see the basis of a Tory opposition to Mr Johnson on the backbenches.\n\nHe said they - and potentially others to come - felt they could not support a prime minister comfortable with no deal and so it was better to walk now than be pushed later.\n\nIn an interview with Conservative Home, Mr Johnson said every member of his cabinet would have to be \"reconciled\" with the policy of leaving on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nMr Hunt has said he too is prepared to leave with no deal, but would accept a further delay, if required, to get a new withdrawal deal.\n\nSir Alan's resignation was criticised by Tory MP and ex-minister Greg Hands, who tweeted: \"In my view, pre-emptive ministerial resignations (If reports are true) in case your own democratically-elected party leader is not to your liking are absurd.\n\n\"And I say that as a committed Jeremy Hunt supporter. Such moves make a Corbyn government one step more likely.\"\n\nHe became MP for Rutland and Melton in 1992 and served as a shadow minister between 1998 and 2010.\n\nWhen the coalition government came to power, he was appointed international development minister - a position he served in until 2014.\n\nIn 2016, Theresa May made him a Foreign Office minister - where he served under Boris Johnson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"All the polling suggest Boris Johnson will win... and I am making my plans accordingly\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next PM.\n\nHe said a no-deal Brexit, something Mr Johnson has left open as an option, was \"not something I could ever sign up to\".\n\nAsked if he thought he would be sacked next week, Mr Hammond said he would resign on Wednesday to Theresa May.\n\nHe said he intends to quit after Prime Minister's Questions but before Mrs May steps down.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hammond said it was important the next PM and his chancellor were \"closely aligned\" on Brexit policy.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK must leave the EU by the new Brexit deadline of 31 October \"do or die, come what may\".\n\nHis leadership rival Jeremy Hunt has said a no-deal exit cannot be ruled out, but he is prepared to further delay Brexit if required to get a new withdrawal deal.\n\nMr Hammond said the situation \"might be more complicated\" if Mr Hunt wins the Tory leadership contest, but \"all the polling\" suggested Mr Johnson would succeed.\n\n\"That is what is likely to happen, and I'm making my plans accordingly\", he said, adding he would wait until the result is announced on Tuesday to \"see for sure\".\n\nMr Hammond said he understood committing to leave by this date, even with no deal, would be a condition for serving in Mr Johnson's cabinet.\n\nHe said: \"That is not something I could ever sign up to. It's very important that a prime minister is able to have a chancellor that is closely aligned with him in terms of policy\".\n\nHe added that Jeremy Hunt's position regarding a no-deal Brexit was \"more nuanced\", and he had not demanded a \"loyalty pledge\" on the exit date from prospective ministers.\n\nMr Hammond said he would support either man in their pursuit of a new Brexit deal, but it would not be possible to agree this before the end of October.\n\n\"A genuine pursuit of a deal will require a little longer\", he added.\n\nEither Jeremy Hunt (l) or Boris Johnson (r) will become PM next week\n\nMr Hammond has been a prominent critic of the idea of a no-deal Brexit, recently indicating he may vote to bring down the next PM to stop such a scenario.\n\nHe had said he could \"not exclude anything\" when asked whether he would back a motion of no-confidence in the government.\n\nAsked whether he would go against the next PM in a vote of no confidence, he said: \"I don't think it will get to that\".\n\n\"I am confident that Parliament does have a way of preventing a no-deal exit on October 31 without parliamentary consent\".\n\n\"I intend to work with others to ensure Parliament uses its power to make sure that the new government can't do that\", he added.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary David Gauke reiterated his intention to resign from government should the next prime minister pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Gauke told the Sunday Times: \"If the test of loyalty to stay in the cabinet is a commitment to support no-deal on October 31 - which, to be fair to him, Boris has consistently said - then that's not something I'm prepared to sign up to.\"\n\nThe votes haven't been counted - but already Westminster is preparing for Prime Minister Johnson.\n\nIt's not a surprise that Philip Hammond has decided not to serve in a Johnson government.\n\nBut the manner of the announcement - live on television, hammering Mr Johnson's key policy on Brexit so publicly - shows just how deep divisions in the Tory Party run.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke has confirmed he'll quit too if Mr Johnson wins - and others are likely to follow.\n\nThere is an element of jumping before they are pushed.\n\nBut it's also a reminder the next PM will face the same huge challenge Theresa May faced - how do you manage discipline in a bitterly divided party, with such a slender working majority in Parliament?\n\nNobody knows the answer for sure.\n\nMeanwhile, the Irish deputy prime minister said the Irish Republic would have \"no choice\" but to protect its place in the EU's single market if the UK \"forces a no-deal Brexit on everybody else\".\n\nAlso speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Simon Coveney warned that if the incoming Conservative prime minister chose to \"tear up\" the Brexit withdrawal deal, then \"we're in trouble\".\n\n\"That's a little bit like saying, 'Give me what I want or I'm going to burn the house down for everybody\".\n\nSome 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting in a postal ballot to elect the next leader.\n\nBallots must be returned by 17:00 BST on Monday, with the winner of the contest due to be announced on Tuesday.", "Ireland's Shane Lowry claimed a first major championship win with a dominant six-shot victory on 15 under par amid raucous scenes at The Open.\n\nLowry started the celebrations early, his arms aloft as he squeezed through the crowds who swarmed the 18th fairway at Northern Ireland's Royal Portrush.\n\n\"This feels like an out-of-body experience,\" said the 32-year-old.\n\nLowry held his nerve in the wind and rain to shoot a one-over 72, with Tommy Fleetwood second on nine under.\n\nEngland's Fleetwood briefly threatened but a double bogey on the 14th effectively ended his challenge as he finished with a three-over 74.\n\n\"I can't wait to wake up on Monday morning and find out what it's going to feel like then. It's just going to be incredible,\" added Lowry who was mobbed before he reached the green on the last hole.\n• None 'How Lowry became Pied Piper of Portrush'\n• None The Cut podcast: Lowry Open win is 'for the island of Ireland'\n\nThousands of partisan fans lined the 18th to cheer Lowry's victory procession and as he turned to embrace his caddie Brian 'Bo' Martin after hitting his second shot to the green, hundreds flooded the fairway ahead of him.\n\nLowry and Martin were shepherded through the crowds and under a rope by marshals to allow them safe passage.\n\nThere will also have been a sense of redemption for Lowry following his final-round capitulation at the US Open three years ago when, like on Sunday, he started with a four shot lead but a 76 saw him fall away as Dustin Johnson won.\n\nAmerican Tony Finau carded a one-over-par 71 to end third on seven under, his best finish at a major.\n\nAn up-and-down round for England's Lee Westwood saw him card a two-over 73 for a share of fourth that guarantees him a place at next year's Masters. He finished six under overall alongside world number one Brooks Koepka who struggled to a 74.\n\nThere was little doubt about who the vast majority of the fans were behind from the first moment until the last, with huge cheers greeting Lowry's name when it was read out over the speakers as he arrived at the first tee.\n\nHe had looked calm while out on the practice green but nerves appeared to take their hold when he tugged his opening tee shot into the rough before hitting his second into a greenside bunker.\n\nLowry escaped with a bogey but the nerves were there for Fleetwood too as he missed a birdie putt that would have cut the lead to two.\n\nThe 28-year-old, bidding to become the first Englishman to win the Open since Sir Nick Faldo in 1992, then overhit his par putt on the third and the bogey meant Lowry's advantage was four once again.\n\nThat seemed to give Lowry the confidence boost he needed and he holed two successive birdie putts from the fourth. Heavy rain and wind arrived soon after and Lowry, battling both the elements and nerves, struggled after the turn, bogeying four of the five holes from the ninth.\n\nFrom then on it was about digging in and not giving Fleetwood the glimmer of hope of taking it down to the wire. Lowry holed a couple of crucial par putts before celebrating a birdie on the 15th with a big fist pump. It was a putt that appeared to signal the moment Fleetwood's fleeting hopes of staging a comeback were ended.\n\nLowry's name was already being engraved on the Claret Jug as he approached the 18th green as he soaked up the adulation from the thousands gathered to witness the biggest win of his career.\n\nWestwood, runner up at 2010 The Open, will have arrived at Portrush on Sunday quietly confident of mounting a challenge as he looked to break his major duck.\n\nThe 46-year-old Englishman made a poor start with a bogey on the first but recovered with three birdies over his next four holes.\n\nHowever, every time he looked like threatening the leading pair, the chance to close the gap passed him by. He left a birdie putt hanging on the edge of the seventh hole before missing another opportunity on the eighth.\n\nHis challenge effectively ended around the turn with bogeys on the ninth, 11th and 12th and he finished six under overall after carding a two-over 73.\n\nWestwood's compatriot Justin Rose had an even tougher day. He shanked a shot almost sideways in the midst of the heavy rain while on the ninth and did not pick up a birdie until the 12th hole. But three bogeys in his last six holes saw him return to the clubhouse with an eight-over 79 to end one under.\n\nIn contrast, Scotland's Bob MacIntyre and England's Tyrrell Hatton were the only two golfers who finished in the top six to fire under-par rounds on Sunday.\n\nMuch of that will be down to their earlier start time and missing the stormy weather. MacIntyre, making his major debut, hit a three-under-par 68 while Hatton finished on two under.\n\nBack-to-back titles never on for Molinari\n\nFrancesco Molinari, the 2018 winner, never really got his defence going, although he did finish on a high by shooting the best round of the day.\n\nThe Italian, who won by two shots at Carnoustie last year, shot a five-under 66, which included an eagle on the 12th.\n\nAsked if he had enjoyed his week as defending champion, Molinari, who had opened with a three-over 74 in round one, said: \"I can't lie - some bits of it yes, some bits of it no.\n\n\"But I was not managing my expectations well enough unfortunately. On Sunday I was playing more freely, just enjoying the support from the crowd.\"\n\nThe parties in Portrush will go long into the night, but one person who will not be in the mood for any celebrations any time soon is JB Holmes.\n\nThe American led at the halfway stage of the tournament and was third on 10 under at the start of the final day, primed to challenge for the victory.\n\nHowever, he endured a horror round of 87 that included six bogeys, four double bogeys and one triple bogey, finishing 16 over for the day and six over for the tournament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Mall shopping centre has 66 stores on one level and restaurants on another level\n\nFirefighters spent more than four hours tackling a blaze that has left an east London shopping centre badly damaged.\n\nOne woman was taken to hospital after the fire broke out at the Mall shopping centre in Selborne Road, Walthamstow.\n\nUp to 150 firefighters were sent to the scene of the fire, which police declared a \"major incident\" after it broke out at 07:40 BST.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said the fire - which is under investigation - was brought under control by about 12:15.\n\nFirefighters remain at the scene \"damping down\" and people have been told to continue avoiding the area.\n\nSmoke could be seen rising from the Mall in footage recorded in Canary Wharf\n\nSabrina said her store was \"gone\"\n\nA manager of one of the shops in the Mall, who only gave her name as Sabrina, told BBC Radio London: \"I can see my store is already on fire, it's gone.\n\n\"So there's nothing for me to go back to. I'm really upset.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam French This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Mall has 66 stores across one floor, including Clarks, Asda, Boots and TK Maxx, with a small upper area for restaurants.\n\nThe fire broke out at about 07:40 BST\n\nOne woman has been taken to hospital\n\nUp to 150 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nStella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, said the \"damage is pretty extensive\".\n\nShe praised the \"massive effort\" between the local council, LFB, the police, ambulance service and Transport for London in dealing with the disruption the fire caused.\n\n\"We have to see what the damage now is... you could see that the roof had gone on big chunks of it, even from a distance - so that doesn't bode well,\" Ms Creasy said.\n\nImages and videos posted on social media show smoke rising into the air and flames in part of the roof.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWitness Alex de Lange said: \"There's massive amounts of black smoke billowing from the Mall.\n\n\"There's a helicopter and lots of fire engines and sounds like some explosions too. The bus station has been evacuated.\"\n\nFrom my position on the edge of the cordon, I can see the part of the roof that was on fire has caved in.\n\nThe fire brigade says the fire is now under control and they don't think there's any danger of more of the roof collapsing. They've been using a drone to assess the damage.\n\nFire crews who've been here all morning are now being replaced with fresh crews. I've just seen an engine arrive from Hillingdon.\n\nAn assistant manager of one shop told me doesn't think the fire reached her store, but the clothes will have been damaged by the smoke. She told me she's devastated for the smaller businesses.\n\nLFB commissioner Dany Cotton is also on scene, acting as second in command.\n\nElly Gresham-Scott said the \"air was hazy\" with ash particles.\n\nFreddie Joyce said there were \"massive high flames spreading at high speed\".\n\nThere were 25 fire crews at the scene\n\nPolice declared a \"major incident\" after the blaze broke out\n\nWalthamstow Central Tube station was evacuated, but has since reopened. Walthamstow bus station is closed and diversions for local bus services will likely remain in place until Tuesday, according to TfL.\n\nPeople have been advised to follow @TfLBusAlerts or check tfl.gov.uk for travel updates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by TfL Bus Alerts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWaltham Forest Council said it was working with the businesses affected, as well as centre owners Capital and Regional, to \"give immediate support during this difficult time\".\n\nCouncil leader Clare Coghill said: \"We have provided temporary office space in nearby Hoe Street so that Capital and Regional have a base from which to operate and our business support team are on hand to see where we can support retailers.\"\n\nShe added that it would \"not be known how long the centre would be closed for, as structural engineers have to gain access to the site and then assess the damage to the structure\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"We can seek to persuade... but we can't control\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has warned the UK will not be able to control key elements of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC Panorama that if the UK leaves without a deal, then the EU will control many of the levers - including what happens at the French port of Calais.\n\nEx Brexit Secretary David Davis told the programme that Whitehall never believed a no-deal Brexit would happen.\n\nThe EU has set the UK a deadline of 31 October to leave the bloc.\n\nBut despite spending £4.2bn on Brexit preparations, Mr Hammond warned that the government has limited influence on how a no-deal scenario might look.\n\nAsked if the UK can control Brexit, he said: \"We can't because many of the levers are held by others - the EU 27 or private business. We can seek to persuade them but we can't control it.\"\n\nHe added: \"For example, we can make sure that goods flow inwards through the port of Dover without any friction but we can't control the outward flow into the port of Calais,\" he told Panorama.\n\n\"The French can dial that up or dial it down, just the same as the Spanish for years have dialled up or dialled down the length of the queues at the border going into Gibraltar.\"\n\nFrench officials have previously rejected suggestions they could resort to a \"go-slow\" policy at Calais if there is no Brexit deal - insisting that closing the port would be \"economic suicide\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond and John McDonnell agreed on the threat posed by no deal\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Hammond told MPs a no-deal Brexit could cost the Treasury up to £90bn and said it would be up to them to ensure that \"doesn't happen\".\n\nHe has also said it was \"highly unlikely\" he would still be in his job after Theresa May stands down next month.\n\nThe Panorama programme - entitled Britain's Brexit Crisis - will outline the tensions in government during Theresa May's time at Number 10 when it is broadcast on Thursday.\n\nMr Davis, who quit as Brexit secretary last year, told the BBC that the Treasury wanted to avoid talking about the prospect of leaving without a deal.\n\nHe concluded that many in Whitehall did not believe it would ever happen - despite two years of planning.\n\n\"I've got to be able to say to you 'if this doesn't work we'll leave anyway' and you've got to believe it.\n\n\"And for you to believe it I've got to believe it. And I don't think Whitehall really ever believed that they would actually carry out the plans we laid so carefully over two years.\"\n\nDavid Davis quit as Brexit secretary, saying the PM had \"given away too much too easily\"\n\nTory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nHis rival Jeremy Hunt has said he can negotiate a new deal for the UK \"by the end of September\" - and that he \"expects\" the UK will leave the EU before Christmas.\n\nVoting among the party's 160,000 or so members is under way, with a winner expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nBritain's Brexit Crisis is on BBC1 this Thursday, July 18, at 9pm.\n\nDo you have any questions about what would happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "There are also calls for an independent regulator to target rule-breaking bailiffs\n\nBody-worn cameras are to be compulsory for bailiffs under government plans to improve the treatment of people in debt.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said the move, which only affects England and Wales, should help protect those in debt from \"intimidation and aggression\" used by some bailiffs.\n\nBut Citizens Advice said the cameras would do \"nothing\" to protect people.\n\nIt wants an independent regulator to crack down on the industry.\n\n\"Bailiff body cameras will do nothing to protect people while there is no industry regulator to oversee how they are used,\" said Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy.\n\n\"While it's encouraging the government has committed to further action, its next step must be the creation of an independent regulator to crack down on rule-breaking bailiffs.\"\n\nThe body cameras will have to be worn by around 2,500 certificated enforcement agents, or bailiffs, who collect all sorts of debts including those related to council tax, traffic penalties and rent arrears.\n\nHigh Court enforcement officers will also wear the cameras, but the measure will not apply to county court bailiffs.\n\nThe MoJ says it will work with the industry to make the cameras compulsory as soon as possible.\n\nDebt collection saw major reform in 2014 but campaigners say more action is needed.\n\nCitizens Advice has highlighted numerous issues, including bailiffs refusing to set up offers of affordable payments, charging excessive fees and misrepresenting their rights of entry.\n\nThe government is holding a consultation on how to tackle aggressive tactics in the industry, as well as finding ways to protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"The use of intimidation and aggression by some bailiffs is utterly unacceptable, and it is right we do all we can to tackle such behaviour,\" said Justice Minister Paul Maynard.\n\n\"Whilst most bailiffs act above board, body-worn cameras will provide greater security for all involved - not least consumers who are often vulnerable.\"\n\nThe Civil Enforcement Association, which represents bailiff firms, said: \"This decision offers reassurance to the public that standards are consistently high and gives protection to our agents who do a difficult job on behalf of local authorities.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been seriously injured and taken to hospital after being hit by a car at a cemetery in County Louth.\n\nThe incident happened at St Patrick's Cemetery in Dundalk on Sunday afternoon.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said a \"dark coloured car drove at a number of people\".\n\nThe car then drove out of the cemetery onto the public road and collided with a number of parked cars before coming to a stop.\n\nA man in his late 20s, believed to be the driver, was arrested at the scene.\n\nIrish national broadcaster RTÉ reported that the cemetery was crowded at the time.\n\nSeveral other people received minor injuries, gardaí said.\n\nThe injured man was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.\n\nIt happened during the annual blessing of the graves at about 15:40 local time.\n\nAn eyewitness who spoke to RTÉ said some people had to jump out of the path of the car.\n\nThe priest taking the service told RTÉ it was a \"very frightening\" experience.\n\nFr Mark O'Hagan said the incident happened towards the end of the service.", "EU leaders have heard a lot of slogans from Boris Johnson and \"now await substance\", the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says.\n\nDiplomats were \"listening with one ear\" to Mr Johnson's first speech as prime minister, since they saw it as a \"rallying cry\" aimed at the UK's domestic audience, she said.\n\nOur editor said one EU diplomat told her he did not like the “bullying tone” of Mr Johnson.\n\nBut she said they were not going to “rush to the cameras tonight to say so”.", "The UK's telecom regulator has said Three is the only major UK mobile network to have \"refused\" to automatically cut its customers' monthly charge at the end of their contract's lock-in period.\n\nAs a result, Ofcom said, the firm's subscribers would \"overpay\" unless they took action to change to another deal.\n\nThe watchdog said it had challenged the industry to treat users more fairly.\n\nBut Three said that an automatic fee change could backfire.\n\n\"We do not believe Ofcom's proposal will encourage engagement amongst consumers,\" said a spokesman for the Maidenhead, Berkshire-based network.\n\n\"Instead, it risks creating a stagnant market whereby consumers are not encouraged to shop around for the best deal at the end of their minimum term.\"\n\nBy contrast, Ofcom said that the other major mobile companies had given it the following commitments regarding out-of-contract customers:\n\nIn all cases, changes to monthly bills will only be made if they result in a lower charge. This addresses a concern that some customers might actually face higher fees by being switched to a Sim-only deal.\n\nThe pledges are set to come into effect by February 2020.\n\nThe regulator said it hoped the moves would help address a situation in which the industry was overcharging the public by a total of about £182m.\n\nAccording to Ofcom's estimates, 1.4 million out-of-contract mobile phone users are currently spending an average of nearly £11 more per month than they would if they had been switched to a comparable Sim-only deal.\n\nThis situation had arisen, it explained, because initial deals typically covered both the cost of a handset and its usage.\n\n\"We're introducing a range of measures to increase fairness for mobile customers, while ensuring we don't leave existing customers worse off,\" said Ofcom's consumer group director, Lindsey Fussell, in a statement.\n\n\"All the major mobile companies - except Three - will also be reducing bills for millions of customers who are past their initial contract period.\"\n\nThe charity network Citizens Advice - which has long campaigned against what it has described as being a \"loyalty penalty\" - welcomed the development.\n\n\"Most mobile phone providers have now realised the game is up,\" said it chief executive Gillian Guy.\n\n\"Three needs to step up and if it doesn't, then stronger action is needed to make these changes compulsory. If Ofcom is unable to do this, then government needs to intervene.\"\n\nOfcom's announcement follows an earlier decision to force mobile phone operators - among others - to text, email or send a letter to alert subscribers when their contracts are about to expire and to inform them of alternative deals.\n\nIn addition, the watchdog has said it plans to make companies tell customers what it would cost to buy a phone and its airtime separately, to help them judge whether a bundle truly offers better value.\n\nIt has also proposed a new rule that would prevent firms offering split contracts - in which fees for the phone and airtime are separated - where the handset element lasts longer than 24 months.", "David Briffaut had been at the water park with his girlfriend to celebrate her completing her degree\n\nThe mother of a man who broke his neck in an accident at a Spanish water park says the family \"want to know why and how it happened\".\n\nDavid Briffaut, 23, was left seriously injured after going on the Splash ride at Aqualandia in Benidorm on 8 July.\n\nHis mother Lorraine Briffaut said it made a \"huge difference to know that people are there supporting us and understanding how we are feeling\".\n\nAqualandia said the park was \"not responsible for the accident\".\n\nMr Briffaut, from Benfleet in Essex, had been at the water park with his girlfriend Penny Bristow to celebrate her completing her degree.\n\nHe lost consciousness after hitting the water at the bottom of the Splash ride and suffered catastrophic injuries to his spinal cord - breaking his neck in two places.\n\nMr Briffaut has been left paralysed but the extent of his injuries are still being assessed and he is in a stable condition in a hospital in Alicante.\n\nLorraine Briffaut said she could not understand how her son could injure himself on a water slide\n\nMrs Briffaut and her husband Stephane have flown to Spain to be with their son and hope to bring him home by air ambulance.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Look East from Spain, Mrs Briffaut said the family had been \"overwhelmed\" by the support it had received, which she described as \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\n\"You feel that your life has stopped. You feel that your life has been completely turned upside down. It's horrible, it's horrendous,\" she added.\n\nMr Briffaut works as a green-keeper at a golf club in Essex and is a junior county golfer.\n\nHis mother said he was \"wonderful, funny and kind and lives for his sport\".\n\nMr Briffaut was left seriously injured after going on the Splash ride\n\nMrs Briffaut praised hospital staff and people who have donated to a crowdfunding page which has raised about £72,000 to help pay for his care when he returns home.\n\nBut she said she could not understand how her son could injure himself on a water slide.\n\n\"We want to know why and how it happened,\" she added.\n\nAqualandia said it was \"very sad\", but added: \"The park is not responsible for the accident.\"\n\nMrs Briffaut said her son could be \"quite stubborn\" and added: \"He is going to need to be because of what lies ahead.\"\n\n\"My focus is on David, in getting him home and getting him the best care I can,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to be there for him and will be there to support him every step of the way.\"", "Voting has closed in the Conservative leadership contest, with the UK's next prime minister set to be announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe next occupant of Number 10 will be either Boris Johnson - regarded as the frontrunner - or Jeremy Hunt.\n\nThe winner and successor to Theresa May is due to take office on Wednesday.\n\nBefore the polls closed, Sir Alan Duncan quit as a Foreign Office minister in protest against a possible Boris Johnson victory.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told the BBC on Sunday he intends to resign as chancellor if Mr Johnson becomes prime minister.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke also reiterated in the Sunday Times that he would also resign this week for the same reason.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the ministers could not stomach the prospect of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October, which they think Mr Johnson is increasingly likely to oversee.\n\nMr Johnson has said the UK must leave the EU by the deadline of 31 October \"do or die, come what may\". Mr Hunt has said he too is prepared to leave with no deal, but would accept a further delay, if required, to get a new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said it will not re-open negotiations on the deal agreed with Mrs May.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson insisted a deal could be reached by 31 October if the country \"rediscovers its sense of mission\".\n\n\"We can come out of the EU on 31 October, and yes, we certainly have the technology to do so,\" he wrote. What we need now is the will and the spirit.\"\n\nThat message of optimism was echoed by one of his supporters, former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the leadership frontrunner had the national self belief\" the country needed.\n\n\"We've risen to greater challenges before in the past. We should manage the risk but also grasp the opportunities which we don't get a chance to talk enough about,\" Mr Raab added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced on Sunday that he intends to resign\n\nMeanwhile, two former Labour prime ministers have warned about what they see as the dangers of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nWriting in the Times, Tony Blair said a no-deal exit could range from being \"very difficult\" to \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"No-one knows with certainty the impact of no deal for the simple reason that no developed nation has ever left overnight its preferential trading arrangements in this manner,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Blair added that there was \"no prospect\" of a new deal with the EU that Mr Johnson would approve of, arguing that instead, another Brexit referendum was the solution.\n\nGordon Brown, meanwhile, is to claim in a speech in London that leaving without a deal would push the British economy \"off a cliff\".\n\nThis is the week where everything changes, and, perhaps, nothing changes at all.\n\nA week where the old establishment becomes the new rebels; where the crowd-pleasing showman throwing rhetorical rocks at the leadership becomes, in all likelihood, the leader himself.\n\nThe differences in temperament and character between the outgoing prime minister and her likely successor, Boris Johnson, could hardly be more stark.\n\nBut while a change in personnel is coming, so many of the fundamentals remain the same.\n\nWhere Mrs May looked nervously over her shoulder at rebels like Brexiteer Jacob Rees Mogg, Mr Johnson may do the same at opponents of the no deal Brexit he's willing to contemplate - their capacity to be awkward is turbo charged because their party has a barely existent majority.\n\nSo there is one big question: Can Boris Johnson, if it is him, succeed where Theresa May failed? And if he can, what will success look like?\n\nLast week, MPs approved measures aiming to stop the next prime minister suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Hunt has ruled this out as a way to ensure Brexit takes place before the end of October - but Mr Johnson has not done the same.\n\nOn Sunday, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith - who is managing Mr Johnson's campaign - said the issue was a \"complete red herring\".\n\nHe said the suspension - or prorogation - of Parliament was not \"the real debate\" because MPs had already fixed the 31 October exit date in law.\n\nEither deputy leader Jo Swinson or former Energy Secretary Ed Davey will be announced as the Lib Dems next leader on Monday\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Swinson has become the first female Liberal Democrat leader, after decisively beating Sir Ed Davey in a poll of party members.\n\nThe 39-year old, who succeeds Sir Vince Cable, said she was \"over the moon\" to have been elected and was \"ready for the fight of our lives\".", "A former steelworker who was infected with hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood has said his diagnosis was like \"another death sentence\".\n\nToni Olszewki, 66, needed blood transfusions and multiple operations after being hit by a train while riding his motorbike home from work.\n\nHe only discovered he had been given the liver disease 12 years later.\n\nThe infected blood inquiry takes place in Cardiff from 23-26 July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt calls the seizure of the Stena Impero “state piracy\"\n\nThe foreign secretary has repeated his call for the release of a British-flagged ship and its crew detained in the Gulf by the Iranian military.\n\nThe Iranian Revolutionary Guard captured the Stena Impero and its 23 crew members in the Gulf on Friday.\n\nJeremy Hunt told MPs it was an act of \"state piracy\".\n\nMr Hunt said the UK would develop a maritime protection mission with other European nations to allow ships to pass through the area safely.\n\nThe foreign secretary secured support for the initiative from both French and German foreign ministers on the phone on Sunday evening, the BBC has been told.\n\nAddressing the Commons after a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee, Mr Hunt said he spoke with a \"heavy heart\" but if Iran continued to act as it had, it would have to accept a \"larger Western military presence\" along its coastline.\n\nThe seizure of the Stena Impero in the key shipping route of the Strait of Hormuz came after Tehran said the vessel violated international maritime rules.\n\nCrew members on the British-flagged vessel are Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino\n\nIran's state-run news agency said the tanker was captured after it collided with a fishing boat and failed to respond to calls from the smaller craft.\n\nMr Hunt said the ship was illegally seized in Omani waters and forced to sail into Bandar Abbas port in Iran, where it remains.\n\nAlthough the crew and owners are not British, the Stena Impero carries the British flag so the UK owes protection to the vessel, maritime analysts said.\n\nThe seizure was the latest in a string of acts leading to escalating tensions between Iran and the UK and US.\n\nEarlier this month Royal Marines helped to seize tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, because of evidence it was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nRoyal Marines helped to detain a ship suspected of carrying Iranian oil to Syria in early July\n\nMr Hunt said that vessel was detained legally, but Iran said it was \"piracy\" and threatened to seize a British oil tanker in retaliation.\n\nIn a statement to MPs in the Commons, Mr Hunt said the UK would seek to create a European-led mission to ensure safe passage of international vessels in the Gulf.\n\n\"Freedom of navigation is a vital interest of every nation,\" he said.\n\nUS Central Command said it was developing a multinational maritime effort in response to the situation.\n\nBut the UK's protection mission would not include the US because, Mr Hunt insisted, Britain was not part of President Trump's policy of \"maximum pressure\" on Tehran.\n\nThe initiative would build on existing structures in the region such as the US Navy-led Combined Task Force 150, the BBC has learned.\n\nInstead of focusing on tackling terrorism and the illegal drugs trade like the Combined Task Force 150, the new scheme would have a mandate to ensure freedom of navigation of international ships, the Foreign Office explained.\n\nThe mission would be implemented \"as quickly as possible\" but in the meantime the destroyer HMS Duncan has been sent to help keep British ships and crews safe in the region, Mr Hunt told the Commons.\n\nIran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker followed the detention of an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar\n\nMr Hunt said the UK had sought to de-escalate the situation but there would be \"no compromise\" on freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nBob Sanguinetti, CEO of the UK Chamber of Shipping, welcomed the announcement of the mission but said it was \"imperative\" the government protected British-flagged ships in the Gulf in the meantime.\n\nMr Hunt encouraged commercial shipping companies in the region to follow advice issued by the Department for Transport to help reduce \"risks of piracy\", because it was \"not possible for the Royal Navy to provide escorts for every single ship\".\n\nBritain needs help in the Gulf if it is to ensure the safety of its merchant shipping.\n\nA concerted effort with other countries doesn't just bring extra warships, it also dilutes the sense of bilateral confrontation between London and Tehran.\n\nAnd in fairness, given the wider tensions in the region, there is a more general threat to merchant vessels plying the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe proposed European maritime force also has the benefit of not being organised by the US.\n\nThe Trump administration has been touting its own plans for a maritime protection force for several weeks with few takers.\n\nCountries do not want to be seen as joining what might appear to be a US coalition against Iran. However, as the foreign secretary notes, there will be a need to see how this European effort might complement US proposals.\n\nWashington has intelligence and surveillance capabilities that might prove essential. This though remains an idea rather than a fully-fledged plan of action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways pilots have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, threatening a walkout over the key summer holiday period.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) said 93% of its members had voted in favour of industrial action.\n\nA strike would be likely to cause severe disruption, as Balpa represents about 90% of the airline's pilots.\n\nBA said it was \"very disappointed\" with the decision, and is seeking an injunction to halt potential strikes.\n\nThe union said it did not yet have any dates for a potential strike, adding it still hoped that the dispute could be resolved.\n\nBritish Airways said it remained open to working with the union to reach an agreement and continued to \"pursue every avenue to find a solution to protect our customers' travel plans and avoid industrial action\".\n\nPilots have rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which the airline says is \"fair and generous\".\n\nHowever, Balpa argues that its members deserve a better offer, as BA has been making healthy profits.\n\nThe vote in favour of action comes after three days of negotiations between the airline and pilots' union with conciliation service Acas.\n\nBalpa general secretary Brian Strutton said the strong result in favour of action showed \"the resolve of BA pilots\" and said BA \"must table a sensible improved offer if a strike is to be averted\".\n\n\"We do not wish to inconvenience our customers, which is why we have tried to resolve this matter through negotiation starting last November. It is BA who has regrettably chosen to drag this out into the summer months,\" he added.\n\nBritish Airways is seeking an injunction on Tuesday in the High Court to halt any potential strike action.\n\nThe union would have to give British Airways a minimum of two weeks' notice of any action, meaning the earliest any action could could take place is 6 August.\n\nBalpa said the High Court hearing meant any further negotiations \"are on hold while we prepare to defend our right to take this action\".\n\nThe union argues that the the cost to BA to settle the dispute in full is \"significantly less than the cost would be of even a single day's strike action\".\n\n\"We currently do not have dates for any potential strike action and will issue an update on this in due course. We remain hopeful that this dispute can be resolved before strike action, but we remain committed to action if necessary,\" added Mr Strutton.\n\nBritish Airways is part of International Airlines Group (IAG), which also owns Spanish carrier Iberia. Last year, it reported a pre-tax profit of €3bn, up almost 9.8% on the previous year.\n\nBritish Airways contributed £1.96bn to that, up 8.7% on 2017.\n\nIt also rewarded investors with a total dividend payout of €1.3bn.", "Farmers in France are claiming that electromagnetic fields created by wind farms and other electrical installations are leading to low productivity and high rates of mortality.\n\nBut scientists who’ve looked into it have failed to detect any chain of cause and effect.\n\nThe BBC went to western France to investigate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJo Swinson or Sir Ed Davey will be named as the next leader of the Liberal Democrats later, replacing incumbent Sir Vince Cable.\n\nThe result of the pro-EU party's leadership contest is expected at around 16:00 BST on Monday.\n\nMs Swinson, the MP for East Dunbartonshire, has been the party's deputy leader for two years and is the bookmakers' favourite.\n\nShe is up against ex-energy secretary Sir Ed, MP for Kingston and Surbiton\n\nBoth candidates are backing another EU referendum.\n\nChuka Umunna, who joined the party as an MP in May, said both candidates would make a good prime minister.\n\nHe told the BBC voters \"look at two main parties consumed with division\" and they want a \"solution\".\n\nMr Umunna added: \"Our leadership contest is a good advert for what we can do for the nation.\n\n\"There is a unity of purpose, and unless you can come together and run yourselves effectively, you cannot run the country [that way].\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats began the process of choosing their next leader in May, as Sir Vince - who has served as leader since July 2017 - announced he would be handing over a \"bigger, stronger party\".\n\nUnder Sir Vince, the Lib Dems have been at the forefront of the campaign for another EU referendum as a means of stopping Brexit.\n\nThe party now has 12 MPs and won 20% of the vote share in the European elections.\n\nIn the English local elections in May, they were the biggest winners of the night.\n\nThe other leadership contest may have been taking place slightly under the radar in recent weeks, but Ed Davey and Jo Swinson have been taking part in hustings up and down the country trying to win votes.\n\nMs Swinson is widely seen as the frontrunner, but it's a close call, and in policy terms, there's really not a huge amount between them.\n\nEd Davey makes a lot of his record on climate change and the environment - his experience of working on that issue in the coalition government. Jo Swinson, on the other hand, says she's a fresh face - and as a dynamic female leader she'll better be able to cut through in the media.\n\nIt'll come down to whether Lib Dem members prefer a more experienced, older hand or a newer, younger figure, less associated with some of the controversial decisions made by the coalition.\n\nMs Swinson has previously suggested that the election of Boris Johnson as Tory leader could be an excellent recruiting tool for the Lib Dems.\n\nShe believes Mr Johnson - the favourite to replace Theresa May - would be disastrous as PM, but a \"silver lining\" would be that it would be good for her party.\n\nThe result of the Tory battle for Number 10 will be announced on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, setting out his pitch, Sir Ed previously said the UK needs \"a new economic model\" and \"making capitalism turn green so Britain is a world green finance capital\".\n\n\"That means being tough on our banks, on the stock exchange, on the pension funds, so they take account of climate risk.\"\n\nExpectations were low when Sir Vince became leader in July 2017. The party was still in the political wilderness after its hammering in the 2015 general election.\n\nIt hadn't made the progress it had hoped for in 2017's snap poll, and Tim Farron had quit suddenly as leader amid uncomfortable questions over his views on faith and homosexuality.\n\nMPs weren't exactly queuing up to replace Mr Farron - Sir Vince was elected unopposed. He inherited a party that seemed to be going nowhere, fast.\n\nAlmost two years later, the picture couldn't be more different. His successor - who will be announced on Monday - will take over a party with a real spring in its step and genuine optimism about the future.\n\nSo how did the turnaround happen and how much credit should the outgoing leader get for it?", "Prince George is seen smiling in an England football shirt for official photographs released to mark his sixth birthday.\n\nKensington Palace published three pictures taken recently by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe third in line to the throne turns six on Monday.\n\nTwo of the images show the prince wearing a white England home shirt and grinning in the garden of his home at Kensington Palace.\n\nA third shows him on a family holiday, wearing a green polo shirt and striped blue and white shorts.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex took to Instagram to wish their nephew a happy birthday.\n\nWriting from their official account, the royal couple commented: ''Happy Birthday! Wishing you a very special day and lots of love!\"\n\nThe England football team also sent their well-wishes to the young royal, complimenting the prince on his Three Lions t-shirt.\n\nThe official account for the England team wrote on Twitter: \"Great choice of shirt! Have a brilliant birthday, Prince George!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was born in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nHe appeared in front of the world's media one day later, when Prince William and Catherine stood cradling him on the hospital steps.\n\nThis year, he has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony and at his mother's Chelsea Flower Show garden.\n\nBy George, how you've changed! Clockwise: Prince George on his six birthdays\n\nEarlier this month, the young prince received a tennis lesson from Roger Federer at the home of Kate's parents in Bucklebury, Berkshire.\n\nThe sports star said George was \"cute\" and had a \"good\" technique.\n\nThe prince's first appearance, when he was only a day old\n\nA great-grandchild to the Queen, George is expected to take the throne after his grandfather and his father.\n\nThe prince has completed Year 1 at the private Thomas's Battersea school.\n\nHe will begin Year 2 this September, his final year in the lower school before he moves to the middle school.\n• None In pictures: George's first five years", "A lack of funding is having a devastating impact on Northern Ireland's schools, the chairman of a Westminster committee has said.\n\nThe NI Affairs Committee has carried out an inquiry into education funding.\n\nIt concluded that a growing funding crisis in Northern Ireland's schools has led to unmanageable pressures on school budgets.\n\nIt also found there was not enough resources for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) pupils.\n\nAs a result, many were receiving \"delayed care and limited hours of specialist support\".\n\nThere are around 80,000 pupils with some form of special needs, almost a quarter of the total number of pupils, and a majority of them are educated in mainstream schools.\n\nThe committee called for the education budget to be increased to reflect the rising costs associated with caring for pupils with SEND.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has published a report into education funding in Northern Ireland\n\nThe Northern Ireland Affairs Committee launched an inquiry into education funding in August 2018, due to the lack of scrutiny taking place in the absence of an assembly.\n\nIt heard oral evidence and received written submissions from principals, schools, unions and sectoral bodies, as well as the Department of Education (DE) and the Education Authority (EA).\n\nThe DE resource budget for 2018-19 was £1.98bn, \"a 0.6% increase on the previous year's allocation and a reduction in real terms\", according to the committee.\n\nIt said the department's resource budget for 2019-20 also saw a real-terms cut.\n\n\"We recommend that future budget allocations to DE rise not only in line with inflation, but in proportion to the number of pupils in the school system in order to reflect increasing pupil numbers and the associated demand for additional staff,\" the report said.\n\nIt also said teachers in Northern Ireland had seen their pay \"stagnate\" compared to their counterparts in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"This is deeply unfair to Northern Ireland's teachers and must be corrected,\" the report said.\n\n\"Stagnant funding is evidently having a devastating impact on the ability of Northern Ireland's schools to provide the education and support their pupils deserve.\"\n\nBut it said schools could not afford to fund any pay rise and recommended that the secretary of state approve a pay rise, funded centrally by government.\n\nIt also called on the secretary of state to take key decisions relating to education in the absence of an assembly.\n\nIt recommends, for instance, that if the executive is not reformed by October that Karen Bradley should implement SEND reforms previously agreed by the assembly in 2016.\n\nSimon Hoare MP, who chairs the committee, said schools were facing \"unmanageable pressures\".\n\n\"Stagnant funding is evidently having a devastating impact on the ability of Northern Ireland's schools to provide the education and support their pupils deserve,\" he said.\n\n\"Without an executive or assembly, budgeting challenges have mounted into a crisis.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Education said: \"The department welcomes the publication of this report and will carefully study all of its conclusions and recommendations.\"\n\nMaghaberry Primary School principal Graham Gault, who previously told MPs that parents were \"donating toilet roll\" at his school, appealed to the Northern Ireland secretary to \"take it [the report] seriously\".\n\n\"Our children can bear the brunt of the financial circumstances that our government are imposing on our schools no longer,\" he said.\n\n\"I would beg the secretary of state and our politicians to put our children first.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nNew Zealand stunned holders and 11-time champions Australia to win the 2019 Netball World Cup in Liverpool.\n\nThe final was tense throughout and came down to the dying seconds and just one goal, as the Kiwis prevailed 52-51.\n\nIt was the Silver Ferns' fifth world title but their first since 2003 as they finally ended the Diamonds' dominance.\n\nEngland clinched bronze with a 58-42 victory over South Africa in their play-off match earlier on Sunday.\n\nThe Roses' win was routine compared with the drama which followed between the Trans-Tasman rivals who were competing against each other for the sixth consecutive World Cup final.\n\nIn a final that was evenly poised at half-time, New Zealand came out firing in the third quarter as they powered into a seven-goal lead with the 8,000-strong crowd behind them.\n\nAustralia reached the final unbeaten, defeating the Silver Ferns in their last group game by a single goal, and they brought the score back to that margin in the fourth quarter as Liverpool prepared for a spectacular finish.\n\nBut then they wilted under the pressure. With three minutes remaining, a mistake between the usually reliable shooter Caitlin Bassett and wing attack Kelsey Browne left the Diamonds flustered and New Zealand secured the turnover.\n\nThe Silver Ferns held their nerve and ran the clock down to snatch the trophy from their long-time rivals.\n\nIt gave a number of players the perfect send off, with Kiwi veteran defender Casey Kopua and international centurions Laura Langman and Maria Folau likely to bow out as world champions.\n\nKiwi coach Noeline Taurua, who took charge 11 months ago, suggested that her more experienced players were central to the victory. She said: \"Our fossils stood up and led from the front.\n\n\"I was actually quite speechless. Every day was going to be a challenge for us. To do the final is massive for the Ferns, for the sport and the community at home.\"\n\nAustralia coach Lisa Alexander chose to start captain Bassett after resting her for the semi-final against South Africa and she said after their defeat: \"There are hundreds of things you could change to make a difference but I'm proud of our efforts. We just didn't bring our A game.\n\n\"We'll look at everything but you don't have a knee-jerk reaction on a one-goal loss. It shows how close world netball is.\"\n\nThe Diamonds have now lost back-to-back major finals following their defeat by England in the Commonwealth Games in 2018, which also ended 52-51.", "A previous challenge on Brexit was taken to the European Court of Justice\n\nA cross-party group of MPs and peers has said it is planning legal action in Edinburgh to prevent parliament being \"closed down\" in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nIt will go to the Court of Session seeking what is called a declarator that the prime minister cannot lawfully advise the Queen to suspend parliament.\n\nBackers include parliamentarians from Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green party.\n\nThey have written to to Lord Keen, Advocate General for Scotland.\n\nThe legal team taking the action on behalf of the parliamentarians has had previous success, when it established that the UK had the power to revoke Article 50 - the mechanism which started the Brexit process.\n\nThat ruling was challenged, unsuccessfully, by the UK government at the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.\n\nThe latest action is likely to begin at the Court of Session - Scotland's highest civil court - next week.\n\nIts backers hope to have the Court of Session's decision before parliament returns from its summer break.", "Shane Lowry says he realised a childhood dream as he claimed his first major by winning The Open at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Irishman, 32, finished on 15 under par to win by six shots from England's Tommy Fleetwood amid a raucous atmosphere on the Dunluce Links.\n\nLowry was followed through wind, rain and heavy storms by thousands of fans roaring him on to lift the Claret Jug.\n\n\"I grew up holing putts to win The Open. It was always The Open,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just incredible to be sitting here with the trophy in front of me. Look at the names on it. I couldn't believe it was happening.\"\n• None 'How Lowry became Pied Piper of Portrush'\n• None Fleetwood, Fowler and Reed - watch the best shots of the final round\n• None The Cut podcast: Lowry Open win is 'for the island of Ireland'\n\nThe world number 33 had said after Saturday's scintillating course record eight-under-par 63, that saw him take a four-shot lead into Sunday, that he would go to bed \"thinking about holding the Claret Jug\".\n\nHowever, he revealed he struggled to sleep and woke up in the night thinking about what lay before him.\n\nThree years ago he had the same advantage going into the final day at the US Open - but fell away as American Dustin Johnson won at Oakmont.\n\nHe admitted that, before the round, he did not believe he could win a major and did not relax until the job was almost complete.\n\n\"I hit my tee shot on 18 and I knew I was home and hosed,\" added Lowry, who says the Claret Jug will live on his kitchen table.\n\n\"I knew I was going to have to fight to the very end, and I did. I let myself think about it on 17, enjoy it. But you're still hitting shots. It's links golf, there are bunkers, rough, all sorts can happen out there.\n\n\"I let myself really, really enjoy it going down 18. It was incredible. The crowd was going wild singing 'ole ole'. I couldn't believe it was happening to me.\n\n\"I tried to soak it in as much as I could. It was hard because it was a very surreal experience going down there.\"\n\nLowry was cheered on by fans from all over the island and says many friends made the last-minute trip from the Republic of Ireland to see him when it became clear he would be leading in the final round.\n\n\"It's huge for Irish golf. It's big for Irish sport. People will have watched golf that never watched golf before,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm home now. To be able to win it at home where it was so easy for people to make the trip up to watch me, to be able to go out and celebrate with local people is just very nice.\"\n\nNow he wants to use his maiden major success as a springboard to being picked for Europe to take on the United States at next year's Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.\n\n\"The one thing you want to do is back up your success,\" said Lowry. \"In the short term I'm going to enjoy this.\n\n\"My big goal still remains the same and that is to be on the plane going to Whistling Straits next year - hopefully that involves a couple of wins along the way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has begun demolishing a cluster of Palestinian homes it says were built illegally too close to the separation barrier in the occupied West Bank.\n\nSecurity forces moved in to Sur Baher, on the edge of East Jerusalem, to tear down buildings said to house 17 people.\n\nResidents said they had been given permits to build by the Palestinian Authority, and accused Israel of an attempt to grab West Bank land.\n\nBut Israel's Supreme Court ruled that they had violated a construction ban.\n\nIsrael captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war and later effectively annexed East Jerusalem. Under international law, both areas are considered to be occupied territory, though Israel disputes this.\n\nSome 700 Israeli police officers and 200 soldiers were involved in Monday's operation in the village of Wadi Hummus, on the edge of Sur Baher.\n\nThey moved in at about 04:00 (01:00 GMT) along with excavators, which began tearing down the 10 buildings the UN says were earmarked for demolition.\n\nNine of the Palestinians who have been displaced are refugees, including five children, according to the UN. Another 350 people who owned homes in buildings that were unoccupied or under construction are also affected.\n\nOne of the residents, Ismail Abadiyeh, told AFP news agency his family would be left \"on the street\".\n\nAnother man who owned an unfinished house said he was \"losing everything\".\n\n\"I had a permit to build from the Palestinian Authority. I thought I was doing the right thing,\" Fadi al-Wahash told Reuters news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Palestine PLO-NAD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Palestinians would complain to the International Criminal Court (ICC) about the \"grave aggression\".\n\n\"This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands - a war crime and a crime against humanity,\" he added.\n\nBut Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Israel's Supreme Court had ruled that \"the illegal construction constitutes a severe security threat\".\n\n\"The court also ruled unequivocally that those who built houses in the area of the security fence, knew that building in that area was prohibited, and took the law into their own hands,\" he added.\n\nUN officials warned that Israel's actions were \"not compatible with its obligations under international humanitarian law\".\n\n\"Among other things, the destruction of private property in occupied territory is only permissible where rendered absolutely necessary for military operations, which is not applicable. Furthermore, it results in forced evictions, and contributes to the risk of forcible transfer facing many Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,\" they said.\n\nThe European Union urged Israel to immediately halt the demolitions, saying they were the continuation of a policy that undermined the prospect for lasting peace.\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court said the structures were built illegally and posed a security risk\n\nThe demolitions in Wadi Hummus are particularly controversial because the buildings are situated in part of the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority's (PA) jurisdiction but on the Israeli side of the separation barrier.\n\nThe barrier was built in and around the West Bank in the wake of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which began in 2000. Israel says the barrier's purpose is to prevent infiltrations from the West Bank by Palestinian attackers, but Palestinians say it is a tool to take over occupied land.\n\nIn 2004, when the barrier was under construction, residents of Wadi Hummus asked the Israeli military to change its planned route so that the village was on the Israeli side of the fence.\n\nThey wanted to maintain the geographical integrity of Sur Bahir, most of which lies within the East Jerusalem municipal area, and preserve access to an area where additional residential construction could be carried out.\n\nResidents said they had been given permits to build by the Palestinian Authority\n\nThe barrier route was subsequently changed, but the PA continued to have authority over civil affairs in Wadi Hummus, including planning and zoning.\n\nPermits for the buildings in the village were reportedly issued by the PA's planning ministry about 10 years ago. But in 2012, the Israeli military ordered a halt to the construction work because they were within 250m (820ft) of the barrier.\n\nLawyers for the residents argued at the Supreme Court that the Israeli military had no jurisdiction over the area, but the judges said in June that the buildings would \"limit [military] operational freedom near the barrier and increase tensions with the local population\".\n\n\"Such construction may also shelter terrorists or illegal residents among the civilian population, and allow terrorist operatives to smuggle weapons or sneak inside Israeli territory,\" they added.", "A decision on whether controversial Chinese firm Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of 5G mobile phone networks in the UK has been postponed.\n\nCulture secretary Jeremy Wright said the government is \"not yet in a position\" to decide what involvement Huawei should have in the 5G network.\n\nMr Wright said the implication of the recent US ban on its companies from dealing with Huawei was not clear.\n\nUntil it was, he said the government would be \"wrong\" to make a decision.\n\n\"We will do so as soon as possible,\" he told the House of Commons.\n\nThe US banned companies from selling components and technology to Huawei and 68 related companies on 15 May, citing national security concerns.\n\nIt later issued a temporary licence that enabled some companies to continue supporting existing Huawei networks and devices.\n\nMr Wright said the US decision \"could have a potential impact on the future availability and reliability of Huawei's products, together with other market impacts, and so are relevant considerations in determining Huawei's involvement in the network\".\n\nLast week, MPs said the government needed to make a decision on Huawei as \"a matter of urgency\", warning continued delays were damaging international relations.\n\nHuawei has repeatedly denied claims the use of its products presents security risks, and has said it is independent from the Chinese government.\n\nHuawei, vice president Victor Zhang said it was confident \"that we can continue to work with network operators to rollout 5G across the UK.\"\n\n\"After 18 years of operating in the UK, we remain committed to supporting BT, EE, Vodafone and other partners build secure, reliable networks.\"\n\n\"The evidence shows excluding Huawei would cost the UK economy £7bn and result in more expensive 5G networks, raising prices for anyone with a mobile device,\" he added.\n\nSo yet again the key question about the UK's 5G future has been delayed.\n\nThe government says it is still not clear what the Trump administration's blacklisting of Huawei really means. If there is going to be an all-out ban on US firms working with the Chinese company then that could make its products - which use some American components - unreliable in the longer term.\n\nMeanwhile UK mobile operators are getting on with the rollout of 5G - all of them using Huawei equipment.\n\nIn doing so they are taking a risk because a government ban would mean they had to rip out equipment and start again at great cost.\n\nSo the operators are increasingly impatient for some certainty - although it looks as though that could be some time coming unless the new Prime Minister decides that it is right at the top of his in-tray.\n\nBritain's National Security Council, chaired by outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, met to discuss Huawei in April and a decision was made to block the firm from all critical parts of the 5G network over security concerns, but still allow it restricted access to less sensitive parts.\n\nThe final decision on Huawei was then supposed to have been made public in the review of the telecoms supply chain led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was published on Monday.\n\nThe decision on 5G equipment vendors will now be made by the next prime minister.\n\nShadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport Tom Watson said the government's handling of Huawei's involvement in the future of the UK's 5G network had been defined by \"confusion\".\n\n\"Whether the government needs to ban Huawei for security reasons or not, the government has a rollout target to meet, 5G for the majority of the country by 2027. So we need clarity one way or another and government should have a plan B for meeting this target if necessary,\" he added.\n\nMark Newman, analyst at tech research firm ConnectivityX, said so far only Vodafone and EE had switched on their 5G networks and both had used Huawei to supply their radio access networks.\n\n\"Huawei is the world's biggest supplier of telecoms equipment and leads the race in the development of 5G networks. 5G services could be impacted with the continued uncertainty over the future of Huawei in the UK,\" he said.\n\nLast month, China's ambassador to the UK warned that excluding Huawei from Britain's 5G network \"sends a very bad signal\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Newsnight, Liu Xiaoming said Chinese businesses planning to invest in Britain may be put off dealing with the UK if Huawei's equipment is not used for the network.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some people attempted to extinguish fires near their homes\n\nHundreds of firefighters have spent the day battling wildfires in a forested, mountainous area of central Portugal.\n\nEight firefighters and 12 civilians have been injured in the Castelo Branco region, according to the interior ministry.\n\nOne badly burned civilian was evacuated by helicopter to the capital Lisbon.\n\nHelicopters and tanker planes have been used to douse three major blazes in the region, with two now said to have been brought under control.\n\nThe biggest operation - involving 800 firefighters, 245 vehicles including bulldozers, and 13 planes and helicopters - is tackling a fire in the municipality of Vila de Rei.\n\nHe added that an investigation had been launched to discover whether the fires might have been started deliberately.\n\n\"There's something strange. How is it that five such large fires broke out in areas that are so close to each other?\" said Mr Cabrita.\n\nThe Portuguese army said it had sent soldiers and machinery into the area to open routes for firefighters.\n\nPresident Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa expressed his \"solidarity with the hundreds fighting the scourge of the fires\".\n\nThe fires started on Saturday afternoon and were fanned by strong winds.\n\nVillages were evacuated as a precaution, and several major roads were closed.\n\nWildfires are an annual problem in Portugal. The country is warm, heavily forested, and affected by strong winds from the Atlantic.\n\nDozens of people were killed in huge fires there in 2017.\n\nSix regions in central and southern Portugal are currently on high alert for fires.", "Mike Taggart said \"everything was pretty normal, but looking back it was not normal at all\" with his mother Donna Crist\n\n\"There was this pop of air and that was her last breath pretty much, there was nothing they could do... I lost my whole world.\"\n\nMike Taggart was 15 when his mother Donna Crist was brutally murdered in August 1997 by her husband at her flat in Rhyl, Denbighshire, after suffering years of domestic abuse.\n\nNow 37, he works to prevent other women going through what his mother with a role in the domestic abuse unit for North Wales Police and is spearheading a campaign of training people who work in the hair and beauty industry to help them recognise the signs of domestic abuse.\n\nHis family moved from Liverpool to north Wales when he was three and his mum soon met and married Derek Evans.\n\nBut his stepfather gradually turned against the family, getting drunk and shouting at him and his sister Becci.\n\nHis mother would \"always be wearing long sleeves and baggy clothing\" in order to hide her bruises and marks of abuse.\n\nWhen Mike was in his early teens, his stepfather took him into the garage of their house.\n\n\"I'd said I wanted to dance or sing - he told me that only poofters dance and sing so he hung a teddy over the beams and told me that I should punch it - that boys box, boys don't dance.\n\n\"He was extremely intoxicated and he was frothing at the mouth and spitting in my face.\"\n\nOn one occasion, Donna, who worked as a one-to-one tutor for Mencap, stopped for a cider after work with her friend.\n\nEvans \"took a dislike\" to this.\n\nWhen she returned home, her husband \"ran out into the street and lifted her dress over her head and slapped her thighs in front of the street.\n\n\"I think the humility of the hidden abuse - as it is normally - took another turn and I think the shame of that was probably what pushed her into thinking 'I can't stay'.\"\n\nDonna Crist was killed when she was 36 years old\n\nDonna made the decision to leave her abusive husband and when she told her mother, she said: \"You've signed your death warrant.\"\n\nDespite this, she told Evans, then aged 54, she wanted a divorce and he agreed to it.\n\nThey talked about splitting assets and one day, he went round to her flat and stabbed her to death.\n\nDonna's mother went round to see her daughter. When she arrived, she saw her daughter on the floor covered in blood.\n\nThinking she had been punched in the face, she went to get help from a neighbour who kicked the door in.\n\n\"There was this pop of air and that was her last breath pretty much, there was nothing they could do... She was pronounced dead at the scene,\" Mike said.\n\n\"My nan was next door with these kids just sat round the table and I'll never forget her just sat there looking into nothing, stunned.\"\n\nEvans launched an unsuccessful appeal against his conviction, in which Mike and his family had to hear him claim to the appeal court in London that their mum was the abuser.\n\nIn total, Evans served 11 years and was released in 2010.\n\nPC Mike Taggart has been motivated by his experiences to help other domestic abuse victims\n\n\"It was the last year of GCSEs and I went a bit off the rails, I lost my whole world in one fell swoop,\" Mike said.\n\n\"I'm really fortunate I had grandparents who took me in and looked after me, that made a massive change to me, I think I'd have been screwed without them to be honest.\n\n\"It comes back to haunt you, I think, as a kid, you don't appreciate the magnitude of things, it comes back and hits you like a big tonne of bricks when you're an adult.\"\n\nMike joined the police in his mid-20s, having spent time fulfilling a dream of singing and dancing in a touring band.\n\nSpurred on by his experiences, he secured a role as strategic domestic abuse officer and now offers training to beauty professionals.\n\n\"We are not asking people to do our job - we want them to be the eyes and ears,\" he said.\n\n\"While having their treatments women do disclose information to professionals, because they trust them.\"\n\nSalon owner Julie Howatson-Broster has taken part in training to help spot signs of domestic abuse\n\nAnn Williams from the Live Fear Free domestic abuse helpline said 112 women in England and Wales were killed last year as a result of domestic abuse.\n\nJulie Howatson-Broster, 46, the owner of Visage Beauty Salon in Denbigh, has taken part in the training.\n\n\"You've got to remain professional, we're not qualified, but we've been given contacts, apps, that are out there.\n\n\"It was invaluable for us, so even if you're just slipping someone something in front of them saying 'there you are, there's details there'.\n\n\"It's important that they know they have somewhere they can go and that we're not going to run off and blab.\n\n\"They [clients] build trust in you, it's so they know that in these four walls, it's not going to go anywhere.\"\n\nMike added: \"If something like that was available to mum at the time... It may well have encouraged her to get the help she needed.\"\n\nFor details of organisations which offer advice and support, go to BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A recording of radio exchanges between a British warship and an Iranian armed forces vessel has been released, revealing the moments before a British-flagged oil tanker was seized in the Gulf.\n\nIn the audio the Iranian vessel can he heard instructing the tanker, the Stena Impero, to change direction. The Iranian vessel then tells the Royal Navy frigate that its intention is to inspect the Stena Impero, for \"security reasons\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson: \"I will do whatever it takes to stop Brexit.\"\n\nJo Swinson has become the first female Liberal Democrat leader, after decisively beating Sir Ed Davey in a poll of party members.\n\nShe won 47,997 votes, against her opponent's 28,021.\n\nThe 39-year old, who succeeds Sir Vince Cable, said she was \"over the moon\" to have been elected and was \"ready for the fight of our lives\".\n\nShe told activists the UK's future lay in the European Union and she would do \"whatever it takes to stop Brexit\".\n\nAs well as being the first woman to take charge of the party, Ms Swinson is also its youngest ever leader.\n\nDescribing Boris Johnson, the frontrunner in the contest to be the next Conservative leader, as \"unfit to be prime minister\", she said her party was ready to return to government.\n\n\"I stand before you today not just as leader of the Lib Dems, but as a candidate to be prime minister. There is no limit for my ambition for our party, our movement and our country.\n\n\"I am ready to take my party into a general election and win it.\"\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said Ms Swinson's victory speech was met with rapturous applause.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Parker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Swinson, who has been the party's deputy leader since 2017, was a business minister in the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition government.\n\nJust 25 years old when she was first elected to Parliament in 2005, she regained her East Dunbartonshire seat in the 2017 general election after losing it two years earlier.\n\nShe told supporters her party, which came second in the recent European elections on the back of its support for another Brexit referendum, had enjoyed a remarkable turnaround over the last two years and it was clear \"liberalism is alive and thriving\".\n\nShe said the UK's vote to leave the EU marked a \"retreat\" from the world and a challenge to the \"liberal values\" and \"fundamental freedoms\" her party had historically championed.\n\n\"We champion freedom - but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe,\" she said.\n\n\"We value openness - but Britain is in retreat, pulling up the drawbridge.\"\n\nThe party said 72% of its about 106,000 members had voted.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Swinson appealed to disillusioned Conservative, Labour and independent MPs, saying her \"door was always open\" to those determined to fight the rise of \"nationalism and populism\".\n\n\"This is the time for working together. This is not the time for tribalism.\"\n\nIn response, a number of former members of Change UK, who have been linked with the Lib Dems since quitting the breakaway party, offered their congratulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Heidi Allen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking at a rally on Monday evening, Sir Ed congratulated his rival on her victory and said the party was \"totally united\" behind her.\n\n\"These are historic times and we are needed more than ever before,\" he said. \"With Boris Johnson about to become prime minister, we need to raise our game even more.\"\n\nExpectations were low when Sir Vince became Lib Dem leader in July 2017.\n\nThe party was still in the political wilderness after its hammering in the 2015 general election. It hadn't made the progress it had hoped for in 2017's snap poll, and Tim Farron had quit suddenly as leader amid uncomfortable questions over his views on faith and homosexuality.\n\nMPs weren't exactly queuing up to replace Mr Farron - Sir Vince was elected unopposed. He inherited a party that seemed to be going nowhere, fast.\n\nAlmost two years later, the picture couldn't be more different. His successor takes over a party with a real spring in its step and genuine optimism about the future.\n\nSo how did the turnaround happen and how much credit should the outgoing leader get for it?\n• None Who is new Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson?", "Nearly four years ago, we took the first steps on a path of enormous change in our politics.\n\nConventions frayed. Those who had held the reins for years in our major political parties lost their grip.\n\nIn September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn stormed the Labour leadership, exciting a phalanx of new and old Labour supporters.\n\nDespite the signs that were blatantly obvious during that campaign the result was an intense shock to most people who worked in and around Westminster.\n\nIn the chaos that followed, Theresa May found her moment and moved in to Number 10.\n\nThen in June 2017, again, the public reminded the political class who was in charge, and surprised them by removing the Tories' majority, making a tricky job of governing precarious, changing everything for the Prime Minister who held on, only just.\n\nWe are now on the verge of the fourth moment of transformation in those four years: Tomorrow morning the name of the new prime minister will be announced.\n\nThe UK is set to have its third prime minister in little more than three years\n\nUnless Conservative members are an entirely duplicitous bunch, the name that is read will be Boris Johnson.\n\nA man whose career has been at the top, then in the trash, but whose ultimate belief in himself, and his ability to get others to buy into that, is about to land him in the very highest office in the land.\n\nA man whose dream of power, which he has tried continually to deny, has been obvious for more than a decade.\n\nA man who many voters adore, but who repels others.\n\nA man who some, even in his own party, believe is a nightmare.\n\nA man who has what might politely be described as an \"unusual relationship with the truth\", as one official told me.\n\nBut he captures the attention of voters in a way so few politicians do, prompting members of the public to be near him, whether to scream insults or to shake his hand.\n\nBut just as there are wildly varying interpretations of his character, his values, and motivations, so there are wildly varying guesses as to how he will answer the big questions that will face him in office, if, as expected, he walks across the threshold of Number 10 on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMost intense among the demands are how he will cope with Brexit. That is the conundrum that has given him this chance. And the conundrum that may yet be impossible to solve.\n\nIs there really any chance of getting a different deal with the EU despite their repeated protestations to the contrary?\n\nIf he cannot, would he really launch the country out of the union with no formal arrangement in place, given the warnings about the risks of doing so?\n\nWould he be willing to send MPs home and close down Parliament temporarily to get round the howls of protest from the green benches if he tries?\n\nWould he call an election to get his way?\n\nMr Johnson has spent the last few weeks selling his standard brew of gags and promises in the campaign, and has visibly tried to keep options as open as he can, other than sticking firmly to the vow to leave the EU at Halloween.\n\nThat has been the main difference between him and Jeremy Hunt, his rival candidate.\n\nAnd in a campaign that came about because of a failure to leave the EU, it is not surprising that the concrete guarantee to do that is the one absolute promise he has given.\n\nFor his most ardent Brexiteer supporters, they have him exactly where they want him, \"in a box\", as one describes, with sticking to the deadline \"his only way out\", even if it means leaving with no formal arrangement to start with.\n\nWhen it comes to those other questions, the answers make less compelling headlines, but the truthful responses are: It depends.\n\nMr Johnson says he wants a different deal with the EU.\n\nThey say overtly there is no chance of reopening the existing withdrawal agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is asking for something else - what his backers describe as a basic free trade deal, perhaps even a four-page statement of intent about how the EU and the UK would do business with each other in the future.\n\nOnce that is done, so the plan goes, there would be a \"standstill\", or a period where not that much changes but the UK leaves the union at the end of October.\n\nIn its most basic sense, we leave in a few months' time, both sides agree to do business sensibly with each other, and promise to sort out the hard stuff, like the Irish border, over a period of a few years.\n\nBefore you scream, there is a very long list of quibbles with this plan. Not least, you might wonder, if it is that easy, why on earth has it not been done already?\n\nThe EU has said repeatedly that they would not and could not accept any kind of deal without a solution for the Irish border being settled first.\n\nAnd there are also disagreements inside the varied tribes that make up Team Johnson these days, even if their man can persuade the EU to think again.\n\nSome of them believe that during the standstill period in the UK it would be fair enough, and worth the political pain, to accept the oversight of the European Courts for a while.\n\nFor others that is absolutely toxic.\n\nSome of his supporters believe it is possible that an outline deal could get through Parliament in time with a straightforward thumbs up or thumbs down vote - an un-amendable statutory instrument, to use the technical term.\n\nOthers cannot believe that is workable.\n\nBut a new prime minister will bring a new mandate at home and creates a new political moment abroad.\n\nOne senior EU diplomat told me \"we see Boris as an opportunity\".\n\nDon't get me wrong, they are not champing at the bit to tear up two years of hard work and make things happen for the former foreign secretary who perplexed them.\n\nA blimp of Boris Johnson was deployed at a protest directed against Brexit and the leadership frontrunner\n\nBut there is an acknowledgement that the political situation is about to be reset and those on the other side of negotiating table have of course been thinking about possible ways through.\n\nIt is going to take a lot more than a mini-break to Berlin, a weekend at President Macron's fort in the baking heat of the Cote D'Azur, or a few Pimms on the terrace at Chequers.\n\nA new kind of deal, that could get then get through Parliament in 100 days, seems very unlikely, but it is not completely out of the question - it depends.\n\nWith the chances of a new agreement so small and the promise to leave on 31 October so big, other vexed questions arise about how Parliament would react to a prime minister determined to take us out.\n\nWould they be able to stop a still hypothetical Prime Minister Johnson ramming through departure without a formal deal?\n\nA band of new rebels are lying in wait, leading to the bizarre spectacle of cabinet ministers chucking themselves over board before they get shoved.\n\nSome ardent backers of Mr Johnson believe that even so, he might be able to get Parliament on side for such a departure, or at least they could run the numbers close.\n\nThere is a sprinkling of Labour MPs committed to getting it done, and do not underestimate the passions on the Tory side, including among some who think it is all a nightmare but they just want it to be over.\n\nIt is impossible right now to predict how every MP would vote, but a Johnson government trying to take us out without a deal would at the very least meet very fierce resistance.\n\nThat is why there has been frantic speculation about whether he would even consider temporarily closing down Parliament in order to get Brexit done.\n\n(That sounds crazy, but as the law stands we are leaving on 31 October, and if MPs are not sitting in the House of Commons they cannot change the law to stop it).\n\nTeam Johnson will not rule that out, as they will not rule out any of the emergency rip cords they might have to pull to stick to their deadlines.\n\nThe way to get round it may be much less dramatic, if almost as controversial, in the Commons.\n\nSeveral in Johnson's circle admitted they do not plan to send Parliament home, but instead hardly to put forward any legislation, if indeed any at all.\n\nOne of his senior backers suggested they in fact would not try to have any discussion or votes on any laws at all before Halloween. That sounds technical.\n\nBut the government controls what new laws are voted on in the House of Commons.\n\nAnd if they do not put any forward before 31 October, including none that could possibly have anything Brexit related tagged on to it, or amended, then MPs who want to stop us leaving without a formal deal simply will not have the chance to vote to do so.\n\nThat is why earlier this year there was such controversy when Labour MP Yvette Cooper and others tried to grab control of the business in the Commons, so they could decide what got voted on and passed.\n\nAnd it is why one of Team Johnson joked last week that their chief whip might find ways of keeping MPs busy with general debates on all sorts of trivia, but they would not give them anything to vote on, so they would not have a chance to block Brexit from happening on time.\n\nAnd it is why others in his camp say there is a vigorous debate inside over what bits of legislation would be absolutely vital if we are to leave without a deal, and what you could do without.\n\nSo would Boris Johnson suspend Parliament for a while to get Brexit done? The answer again seems, in one way or another, it depends.\n\nAnd because the answers to those still hypothetical questions still are \"it depends\", it is likely that he will before long find himself in a similar kind of agony to Theresa May - without a plan that can pass Parliament.\n\nThat is why there is also frenzied speculation over whether he is planning secretly to bring about an election.\n\nGuess what? Here, too, there are different tribes of opinion.\n\nCertainly, there has been discussion that, without a majority, with Labour in despair, with a rocky road ahead on Brexit, it would be wise to move into a campaign as soon as possible, using the new mandate and new moment of change to try to improve the odds of success.\n\nBut more voices in Johnson's camp caution against pursuing a public vote until Brexit has actually happened. It is familiar to hear a plan of chunky spending promises in the autumn, a departure from the EU however it happens, then an election that \"becomes viable from the spring\".\n\nBut if Parliament defies the new government in the autumn, the circumstances could feel different, indeed.\n\nWhat we do know is after four years we are entering perhaps an even more unpredictable period - whether you are thrilled or horrified, understand, we are on the edge of another great change.\n\nOne of the cabinet ministers who is likely to be packing up their office shortly quipped as they talked in disbelief about the mess of the last few years, that \"by Christmas it might be Johnson, Corbyn, even prime minister Cooper, Letwin or Swinson\" - knowing, as they tried to make light of their despair, that they weren't really joking at all.\n\nThe answer, of course - it depends.", "Volvo is recalling almost 70,000 cars in the UK over concerns that they could catch fire.\n\nIt is part of a global recall of more than half a million diesel vehicles that suffer from a fault.\n\nThe Swedish carmaker said that \"in very rare cases\" a plastic part of the engine can \"melt and deform\" and in \"extreme cases\" catch fire.\n\nThe issue affects some cars made in the past five years. Volvo said it is contacting affected customers.\n\nThe carmaker said in \"the most extreme cases\" the fault, involving the engine manifold, had caused a fire.\n\nVolvo did not say how many fires had been recorded, but said that there had been no reports of injuries related to the fault.\n\nThe problem affects cars from the models years 2014 to 2019 with four-cylinder diesel engines.\n\nIt is not clear how long it will take for the company to fix the affected vehicles but Volvo said: \"We will do our utmost to perform this action without any unnecessary inconvenience.\"\n\nVolvo said it was contacting all customers whose vehicles are affected to alert them to the issue.\n\nDrivers are being told it is \"safe to continue to use your car\" if it does not show any signs of a problem, such as an engine warning light illuminating, a lack of power or an \"unusual smell\".\n\nA second letter will be sent confirming when a solution to the problem is available.\n\nVolvo said it notified the relevant authorities about the issue \"as soon as it was identified\".\n\nIt apologised to customers for the inconvenience caused, stating that it is taking \"full responsibility to ensure the highest quality and safety standards of our cars\".\n\nVolvo makes 600,000 cars each year, of which around 50,000 are sold in the UK - fewer than are being recalled in the country.\n\nLast year, Toyota announced a recall of more than 2.4 million hybrid vehicles worldwide because of a fault in their systems that could cause them to lose power.\n\nAnd in April, it emerged that Vauxhall is recalling 235,000 Zafira cars for a third time after a new source of fires was discovered. It followed earlier recalls in 2015 and 2016.", "Australian swimmer Mack Horton has publicly reignited his feud with Chinese rival Sun Yang, years after accusing him of being a \"drug cheat\".\n\nSun pipped Horton to claim gold in the 400m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in South Korea on Sunday.\n\nHorton later refused to share the medal podium with Sun - who has faced fresh claims of violating doping protocols.\n\nAfterwards, Sun told reporters: \"Disrespecting me was OK, but disrespecting China was unfortunate.\"\n\nHe added: \"I feel sorry about that.\"\n\nHorton, the defending Olympic champion, had also declined to shake hands with Sun or pose for photos with him. He happily posed beside Italian bronze medallist Gabriele Detti.\n\nSun served a three-month suspension in 2014 for testing positive for a banned stimulant trimetazidine, which he said had been for a heart complaint.\n\nThe pair's enmity goes back to the 2016 Rio Olympics when Horton accused Sun of deliberately splashing him in a training session, saying: \"I ignored him, I don't have time or respect for drug cheats.\"\n\nLater, he added: \"I just have a problem with athletes who have tested positive and are still competing.\"\n\nHorton won gold in Rio, but Sun has otherwise dominated the event in recent years - his win on Sunday in Gwangju is his fourth consecutive world title.\n\nHorton also declined to shake hands with Sun\n\nAfter claiming silver, Horton was asked how he felt and replied: \"Frustration is probably it. I think you know in what respect.\"\n\n\"I don't think I need to say anything. His actions and how it has been handled speaks louder than anything I could say.\"\n\nSun said he was \"aware of the rumours\" but did not elaborate, saying \"I will keep trying to put a lot of effort in my swimming\".\n\nHis comment about \"disrespecting\" China follows much antipathy from his fans towards Horton in 2016, when the Australian's social media accounts were flooded with abuse.\n\nOther swimming figures have expressed support for Horton's actions in Gwangju.\n\n\"Absolutely awesome to see @_mackhorton protesting clean sport by not getting up on the podium next to Sun Yang,\" tweeted Horton's ex-teammate David McKeon.\n\nSun faces a fresh hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in September, after the World Anti-doping Agency appealed against a decision to clear him of a separate doping offence.\n\nReports have alleged that he avoided a drugs ban after destroying blood samples. Sun has denied the allegations.\n\nLast week, Australia's Daily Telegraph posted a leaked 59-page report by the Fina doping panel following a hearing at which Sun said he refused to comply with a drugs test because of doubts over a testers' accreditation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heart disease and mental health: What are the health risks of doping?\n\nChinese swimming officials demanded an apology from Horton after his comments in 2016, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said he was \"entitled to express a point of view\".\n\n\"He has spoken out in support of clean athletes. This is something he feels strongly about and good luck to him,\" the AOC said at the time.", "The waters of Loch Ness are deep and cold, the RNLI has warned\n\nA suggestion for a mass search for the Loch Ness Monster later this year has gone viral on social media, and caused concern for the RNLI.\n\nOn Facebook, about 18,000 people say they are going to a Storm Loch Ness event with 38,000 \"interested\".\n\nIt has been inspired by Storm Area 51, an idea tens of thousands of people could storm a US Air Force base to uncover the truth to a UFO conspiracy.\n\nBut Loch Ness RNLI is warning of the dangers of the loch's deep water.\n\nConcerned that hundreds, or even thousands, of people head out on to the loch for Storm Loch Ness on 21 September, the volunteer crew said it could not match the resources being used by the US military to deal with Storm Area 51.\n\nLoch Ness RNLI says its \"impressive lifeboat\" would struggle if large numbers of people got into difficulty\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"With no US Army involved, Loch Ness looks a little less hazardous than storming Area 51, but here we have our own set of problems.\n\n\"Our Atlantic 85 lifeboat has an impressive survivor-carrying capacity, but even that will be stretched by the 'attendees' of this event.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said \"jokes aside\" some \"quick facts\" about Loch Ness revealed how dangerous its water can be.\n\nThey include its depth being almost two and a half times the height of the Big Ben tower, and the temperature being an average 6C.\n\nShe also said that conditions could deteriorate quickly on the loch with wave heights of 4m (13ft) recorded and, because it is freshwater, it is less buoyant than the sea if someone ends up in the loch and tries to float.\n\nLoch Ness RNLI crew has signed off its warning with: \"Nessie 1 - 0 Bandwagon.\"\n\nTens of thousands have indicated interest in \"storming\" Loch Ness to find Nessie", "Mabuse said she was \"thrilled and overjoyed\" to be joining Strictly\n\nMotsi Mabuse, elder sister of Strictly Come Dancing star Oti, has been named as Dame Darcey Bussell's replacement on the BBC One show's judging panel.\n\nOriginally from South Africa, Motsi is a former South African champion and German Latin champion and a judge on Strictly Come Dancing's German version.\n\nMabuse, 38, said she was \"absolutely overjoyed\" to be joining the panel and hoped to \"add her own bit of sparkle\".\n\nHer sister Oti has been a professional on four editions of the hit BBC show.\n\nCharlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, said Motsi Mabuse would be \"a brilliant addition to the show\" when it returns for its 17th series later this year.\n\n\"She is a wonderful dancer in her own right and already has years of experience as a judge under her belt,\" she continued. \"We're all looking forward to welcoming her to the Strictly family.\"\n\nSarah James, Strictly's executive producer, echoed her sentiments, saying the new judge's \"natural warmth, energy and passion for dance\" would make her \"the perfect addition\".\n\nMabuse started out as a professional dancer and competed on Let's Dance, the German version of Strictly, before becoming one of its judges.\n\nShe will join Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel-Horwood and Bruno Tonioli on the BBC show's panel.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Mabuse said Let's Dance would \"always have a place in her heart\" and that she would not be \"going anywhere soon\".\n\n\"Exciting times ahead,\" she continued, adding: \"I can't wait to meet all of @bbcstrictly team.\"\n\nOti - recently seen as a dance captain on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer - has been confirmed as one of the professional dancers on Strictly this year.\n\nMotsi Mabuse (second from left) has judged her sister's performances on Let's Dance\n\nThe 28-year-old previously competed on two seasons of Let's Dance when her sister was a judge.\n\nIn the 2016 season, Oti and her celebrity partner were among the first to be eliminated, thanks in part to a score of three out of 10 from her sister.\n\nOti has described sister as her first coach and an inspiration for her own dance career.\n\nThe younger Mabuse responded to her sibling's new role with a \"Yayyy!!!\" and a typographical rendition of the hit show's theme tune.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oti Mabuse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStrictly professional Katya Jones said Mabuse was \"a brilliant choice\", while her husband Neil called her \"one [of] the greatest female dancers of her time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Who might replace Darcey on Strictly?", "Credit score agency Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) as part of a settlement with a US regulator following a data breach in 2017.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission had alleged the Atlanta-based firm failed to take reasonable steps to secure its network.\n\nThe records of at least 147 million people were exposed in the incident.\n\nAt least $300m will go towards paying for identity theft services and other related expenses run up by the victims.\n\nThis sum will expand to a maximum of $425m, if required to cover the consumers' losses.\n\nThe rest of the money will be divided between 50 US states and territories and a penalty paid to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.\n\nIt represents the FTC's largest data-breach settlement to date, topping a $148m penalty Uber agreed to last year.\n\n\"Equifax failed to take basic steps that may have prevented the breach,\" said the FTC's chairman Joe Simons.\n\n\"This settlement requires that the company take steps to improve its data security going forward, and will ensure that consumers harmed by this breach can receive help protecting themselves from identity theft and fraud.\"\n\nThe agency added that among the stolen information, the hackers copied:\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office has already issued the company with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during the same attack.\n\nEquifax had been warned in March that one of its databases - the Equifax Automated Consumer Interview System (ACIS) - suffered from a critical vulnerability, the FTC said.\n\nThe ACIS was used by members of the public to check their own credit reports. But because of the way that Equifax's IT systems had evolved, it also provided a means for hackers to access other unrelated records stored by the firm.\n\nThe FTC alleged that Equifax's security team ordered that the vulnerable systems be patched within 48 hours after being informed of the discovery in March 2017.\n\nBut the watchdog added that the firm failed to check that this was done, and that as a consequence multiple hackers were able to exploit the flaw and steal consumers' personal details over a period of several months.\n\nTo make matters worse, it said, much of the sensitive information had been stored unencrypted in plain text.\n\nAs part of the settlement the FTC said that Equifax had also agreed to:", "A 13-year-old girl who shot to prominence after being seen crying and singing throughout the set of Sigrid at Glastonbury Festival has finally met her idol.\n\nThe Norwegian singer spotted Nina at the festival last month and a social media appeal was then launched to find her.\n\nNina was tracked down and was invited to see Sigrid perform on Sunday at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk.\n\n\"It's such a moment that I'll definitely remember for a long time,\" said the schoolgirl, from South Hampstead, north London.", "India successfully launched its second lunar mission on Monday a week after halting the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag.\n\nIndia hopes the $150m (£120m) mission will be the first to land on the Moon's south pole.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nCoverage: Highlights on BBC Two, updates on BBC R5L Sports Extra, and reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nGreat Britain's Adam Peaty has won the 100m breaststroke at the World Championships in South Korea - his third successive gold in the event.\n\nThe 24-year-old clocked 57.14 seconds to comfortably beat compatriot James Wilby, with China's Yan Zibei in third.\n\nPeaty is unbeaten in five years over the distance in major competitions, and will compete in the 50m on Tuesday.\n\nThe semi-final saw him break his own world record, becoming the first man to swim the event in under 57 seconds.\n\nHe aimed to beat Sunday's record-breaking time, but said he was still \"over the moon\" with 57.14.\n\n\"I had to be a better version of myself. Unfortunately I made a tiny little mistake on that first length, trying to force the speed a bit too much,\" he said.\n\n\"But the most important lesson is I'm still learning. It's not like I've gone 56 and never have to learn again.\n\n\"I'm always learning, always trying to improve and that's the most important thing we can have going into the Olympics next year.\"\n\nThe Briton has set the 15 best times in the 100m breaststroke, and has become the first male swimmer to achieve a trio of world titles in the event.\n\nPeaty previously shared the record of two 100m world titles with American Brendan Hansen and Hungary's Norbert Rozsa.\n\nMonday's performance means he has also become the first man to win five world championship medals in breaststroke events.\n\nHe recently revealed he practises \"active meditation\" to aid his mental health after suffering a dip following his gold-medal winning performance in the 100m breaststroke at Rio 2016 and has since backed mental health campaigns.\n\nWilby, who qualified in third place behind Zibei, achieved his first world medal, clocking 58.46.\n\nPeaty broke his first 100m world record in 2015 at the British Championships, with his time of 57.92, making him the first man to swim the distance in under 58 seconds.\n\nElsewhere, Britain's Luke Greenbank knocked two-tenths of a second off his personal best with a 53.75 swim in the 100m backstroke semi-final.\n\nMolly Renshaw also smashed her personal best for the second time on Monday with a time of 1.06.73 effort to qualify for the women's 100m breaststroke final.\n\nDuncan Scott is into the 200m freestyle final on Tuesday, but compatriot James Guy missed out on a place in the same event.\n\nBritain's Ben Proud failed to defend his world title, finishing seventh in the 50m butterfly final.\n\nSiobhan-Marie O'Connor finished seventh in the women's 200m individual medley - which was won by Hungary's Katinka Hosszu - and Georgia Davies missed out on a place in the women's 100m backstroke final after a 12th-place finish in the semi-final.\n\nMeanwhile, Australian swimmer Mack Horton publicly reignited his feud with Chinese rival Sun Yang, years after accusing him of being a \"drug cheat\".\n\nSun pipped Olympic champion Horton to claim gold in the 400m freestyle on Sunday.\n\nHorton later refused to share the medal podium with Sun - who has faced fresh claims of violating doping protocols.\n\nYou can't see where or why he's going to slow down. From where he won his first world title as a teenager, physically he will have changed so much and he has certainly got bigger.\n\nYou can't get much bigger or much stronger but the experience that he has and how he can swim his races: you look and think 'if I can just tweak a little bit there' - he was out a tiny bit quicker and paid for it in the closing stages - you're just tweaking those little bits and you think those barriers are there to be broken each time by making tiny little margins of difference.", "Football star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face charges after being accused of sexual assault, US prosecutors say.\n\nKathryn Mayorga, 34, had alleged that the Juventus player raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.\n\nShe reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with the Portuguese star in 2010, but sought to reopen the case in 2018. He denied the allegations.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Las Vegas prosecutors said the claims could not \"be proven beyond reasonable doubt\".\n\nThe Clark County District Attorney's office said the victim reported an assault in 2009, but refused to state where it had happened or who the attacker was. As a result police were unable \"to conduct any meaningful investigation\".\n\nIn August 2018, Las Vegas police investigated the alleged crime again at the request of the victim.\n\nBut the statement added: \"Based upon a review of information at this time, the allegations of sexual assault against Cristiano Ronaldo cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Therefore, no charges will be forthcoming.\"\n\nGerman weekly magazine Der Spiegel, first published a story about the allegation last year.\n\nIt said that in 2010, she reached an out-of-court settlement with Ronaldo involving a $375,000 (£288,000) payment for agreeing never to go public with the allegations.\n\nMs Mayorga's lawyer said she had been inspired to re-open the case by the #MeToo movement.\n\nRonaldo has not denied that the two met in Las Vegas in 2009, but said that what happened between them was consensual.\n\nAt the time, Ronaldo was playing for Manchester United, and about to join Real Madrid, where he spent the next nine years.\n\nRonaldo moved to Juventus last July. He has won the Ballon d'Or - awarded to the world's best footballer - in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic saved two championship points in Wimbledon's longest singles final to retain his title in a thrilling win over Roger Federer.\n\nOn a Centre Court, with an atmosphere that felt at times more akin to football than tennis, Djokovic won 7-6 (7-5) 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 13-12 (7-3).\n\nAs the clock ticked to four hours 57 minutes, Federer hit a ball high to hand the Serb victory.\n\nThe world number one has won 16 Grand Slams - and four of the last five.\n\n\"It's quite unreal,\" Djokovic said after winning his fifth Wimbledon title.\n\nFederer, who at 37 was chasing a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title, added: \"It was a great match, it was long, it had everything. Novak, congratulations, man, that was crazy.\"\n• None From war to Wimbledon: How Belgrade bombings shaped Djokovic\n• None When the crowd is chanting 'Roger' I hear 'Novak', says Djokovic\n\nA meeting of the greats serves up a classic\n\nA highly anticipated final between two of the sport's greats always had the potential to go the distance - and this did that and more.\n\nWith fans unable to watch at times, while leaping to their feet and chanting at others, a nerve-jangling final set turned this into a classic.\n\nWhen Federer had two championship points at 8-7, Djokovic held his nerve to save both and then break back, eventually taking it to the new tie-break at 12-12.\n\nThe Serb - who for extended periods of the match had been second best - had won the match's previous two tie-breaks and he did so again, snatching victory when Federer scooped a return high.\n\nThe Swiss had been seeking to become the oldest Grand Slam champion of the Open era but instead found himself part of a different record as the match time surpassed Wimbledon's longest final - the four hours 48 minutes of play in 2008 as he lost to Rafael Nadal.\n\n\"Like similar to '08 maybe, I will look back at it and think, 'well, it's not that bad after all'. For now it hurts, and it should, like every loss does here at Wimbledon,\" Federer said.\n\n\"Epic ending, so close, so many moments. Yeah, I mean, sure there's similarities [between this and 2008]. I'm the loser both times, so that's the only similarity I see.\"\n\nThe incredible fifth set lasted more than two hours - you could have fitted in two of Saturday's women's singles finals in the time of that set alone.\n\nDown in the stats - but up in the match\n\nAnyone looking only at the stats for this match would simply not fathom how Djokovic came out on top.\n\nThe Serb trailed the Swiss on first-serve points won, winners made, aces, break points converted, games won and total points won and led him on double faults.\n\nBut he won the key points - and none more so than in the final set.\n\nA diving volley winner at 5-5 and 15-30 prevented Federer establishing two break points, while having let the Swiss take an 8-7 lead with an opportunity to serve for the match, he immediately broke back.\n\nIgnoring the increasingly vocal \"Roger, Roger\" chants from the partisan crowd and the cheers for some of the top seed's double faults, Djokovic surged 6-3 ahead in the tie-break.\n\nThere was more drama when the final point had to be replayed after a Hawk-Eye challenge, but Djokovic finally celebrated victory - albeit in muted fashion - when Federer sent a forehand off the frame of his racquet.\n\nThere was no wild jumping up and down, just a smile to himself as he walked to the net to shake hands with Federer after becoming the first man to win a Wimbledon singles final having been down match point since 1948 when Bob Falkenburg saved three match points and came back to beat John Bromwich.\n\nAn emotional Federer looked over towards his wife and children in his box during the trophy presentation, perhaps an acknowledgement that less than four weeks from his 38th birthday his opportunities for more Grand Slams may be limited.\n\nWhile the match will be remembered by many for its thrills, Federer said: \"I will try to forget. I had my chances, so did he. We played some great tennis.\"\n\nHow Federer won on paper but Djokovic won the match\n\nHow the drama unfolded in fifth set\n\n4hrs 7mins - Federer goes a break up at 8-7 with a forehand winner\n\n4hrs 10mins - An ace brings up two championship points for Federer\n\n4hrs 12mins - Djokovic saves both match points, then breaks back to level match\n\n4hrs 39mins - Successful Federer Hawk-Eye challenge brings up break point, but Djokovic fends it off to lead 12-11\n\n4hrs 47mins - Code violation for Djokovic for swinging his racquet towards umpire's chair\n\n4hrs 56mins - More drama as Djokovic successfully challenges a ball called out and point is replayed\n\n4hrs 57mins - Federer skies a return and Djokovic wins his fifth Wimbledon title\n\nBBC Sport tennis commentator Andrew Castle: \"What a treat this has been. The top seed triumphs and it can surprise no one. Novak Djokovic has beaten Roger Federer in the longest final in Wimbledon history. And he's beaten Roger Federer in all three Wimbledon finals that he has played him in. Roger Federer can look back with such pride on his effort.\"\n\nFormer British number one Tim Henman on BBC TV: \"I am still in a slight daze on Roger Federer's behalf. Federer played all the tennis in the first four sets, he could have won all of them. And to then have two Championship points on his own serve, which is one of the most efficient. He tried to be bold on the second, but Novak Djokovic came up with the pass.\"\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It was a rollercoaster ride. It was amazing to see a tie-break in the end. There was nothing in that match in the end. You have to compliment both players. I was glad I got to witness this.\"", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "Divers have swum with a huge barrel jellyfish off the coast of Cornwall.\n\nLizzie Daly, a biologist with Wild Ocean Week, said the creature was as big as her body.\n\nIt is the largest species of jellyfish which is found in British waters, with the average diameter being about 40cm (16 inches).", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland beat New Zealand to win the men's World Cup for the first time after one of the most amazing games of cricket ever played was tied twice.\n\nIn an emotional and electric atmosphere at Lord's, both sides scored 241 in their 50 overs and were level on 15 when they batted for an extra over apiece.\n\nIt meant England were crowned world champions by virtue of having scored more boundary fours and sixes - 26 to New Zealand's 17 - in the entire match.\n\nThat it even got to that stage was astonishing in itself and came as a result of a barely believable conclusion at the home of cricket - the first tie in a World Cup final.\n\nEngland required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and then benefited when a throw from the deep hit his bat and was deflected for four overthrows.\n\nHe could not get the two needed from the last ball - Mark Wood was run out coming back for the second - but ended 84 not out and joined Jos Buttler for the super over.\n\nIn glorious evening sunshine, they were roared on by a febrile crowd that belted out Sweet Caroline in the change of innings.\n\nWhen New Zealand replied, Jimmy Neesham hit Jofra Archer's second ball for six, then scrambled to leave Martin Guptill needing two from the last delivery.\n\nAs Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebration.\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup\n\nEngland were all but out of the game at 86-4, squeezed by New Zealand's skilful bowling, sharp fielding and smart tactics.\n\nGradually, they were dragged back into contention by Stokes and Buttler through patience, calmness and a little fortune.\n\nButtler was the more fluent, scooping and driving, but when he was caught at deep point for 59, England still needed 46 from 31 balls.\n\nIt was at this point that Stokes, the man who was hit for four sixes in the final over in England's 2016 World T20 final defeat and was cleared of affray 11 months ago, took control.\n\nAfter Liam Plunkett was held at long-off in Neesham's 49th over, Trent Boult carried the ball over the boundary for a Stokes six before Archer was bowled.\n\nThat left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.\n\nDiving for his ground to complete a second run, Stokes' bat was inadvertently struck by the throw and deflected the ball for four overthrows to make six in total.\n\nWith three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.\n\nThe drama of the finale was at odds with almost all of the match, which was an attritional affair on a tricky surface.\n\nNew Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.\n\nThe value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.\n\nMatt Henry had Roy caught behind, the miserly Colin de Grandhomme ensured Joe Root suffered a similar fate, Lockie Ferguson got Jonny Bairstow to play on, then took a wonderful catch to hold Eoin Morgan at deep point.\n\nEngland were floored, then came Stokes, the tie, the super over, and an unforgettable conclusion.\n\nIt can be argued that in just getting to the final, and therefore ensuring that it would be broadcast on free-to-air television, England had already given cricket in the UK an invaluable boost.\n\nBut those who did watch witnessed the greatest World Cup final of all-time and one of the most memorable moments in British sporting history.\n\nAs spectators streamed from St John's Wood station on Sunday morning, they were greeted by drummers, jugglers and dancers on roller skates.\n\nInside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems.\n\nThat, though, was nothing compared to the emotion of the final hour, one of the most dramatic passages of sport you could ever wish to see.\n\nThe explosion of noise when England sealed victory was deafening and as the trophy was lifted, the crowd rightly sang that cricket was coming home.\n\nThis was the day that English cricket had been building to for four years, going back to when England were dumped out of the last World Cup in the first round.\n\nOff the field, a renewed focus was placed on one-day cricket through the vision of former director of cricket Andrew Strauss.\n\nOn it, captain Morgan and coach Trevor Bayliss gave the players a new freedom and they responded with some spectacular performances, particularly with the bat.\n\nThey began the World Cup as favourites and the number one ranked side, but at one stage found themselves one defeat from elimination.\n\nMorgan's men reversed their fortunes and swept into the final with three successive victories, including a memorable semi-final demolition of Australia.\n\nIn the final, the rollercoaster continued, only for the heroics of Stokes to leave England as worthy champions, matching the achievement of the England women's team on the same ground two years ago.\n\nAnd Morgan, the architect of it all, joined immortals Bobby Moore and Martin Johnson as men to have lifted a World Cup for England.\n\n'Written in the stars for Stokes' - reaction\n\nEngland batsman Joe Root: \"Wow! It's hard to sum it up. What a day, what a tournament. Everyone has done everything asked of them. We have performed under pressure.\n\n\"It was almost written in the stars for Ben Stokes. He's had such a tough time. I'm so proud of him and pleased for him and his family.\"\n\nEngland bowler Jofra Archer: \"I was pretty sure I was going to bowl it [the super over]. My heart is still racing! It's the biggest thing I've ever won. A great bunch of fellas, a really good family to me.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"There wasn't a lot in that game. I'd like to commiserate Kane Williamson and his team. The fight they show is worth aspiring to, the example they set is commendable to all. It was a hard, hard game where people found it hard to score.\n\n\"This has been a four-year journey, we have developed a lot. We find it hard to play on wickets like that and today was about getting over the line. Sport is tough at times. I was being cooled down by Liam Plunkett, which is not a good sign! I was up and down like a yo-yo.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran's representative to the UN: Europeans \"are not honouring their commitments\" on nuclear deal\n\nThe US has accused Iran of a \"crude and transparent attempt to extort payments from the international community\" by violating the 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nThe US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no credible reason for Iran to breach two key commitments on uranium enrichment.\n\nIran has said the steps were a response to the sanctions the US reinstated when it abandoned the deal last year.\n\nIt has vowed to reverse them if it is given compensation for economic losses.\n\nEuropean powers still party to the deal have set up a mechanism for facilitating legitimate trade without direct financial transactions that they hope will circumvent the US sanctions. However, Iran has said it does not meet its needs.\n\nIran's representative to the UN in New York told the BBC that the Europeans could do more, and that if they did not Iran would take further steps.\n\n\"If nothing happens in the next 60 days we will have to go to the third phase. The elements of the third phase are not known yet, but when it comes to that we will announce what we are going to do,\" Majid Takht-Ravanchi warned.\n\nIran's president told a French envoy \"the path of diplomacy and talks\" was \"completely open\"\n\nAt Wednesday's special meeting of the IAEA board of governors in Vienna, diplomats were reportedly told that the global watchdog's inspectors had verified Iran was enriching uranium to 4.5% concentration - above the 3.67% limit set by the nuclear deal.\n\nThe country announced the step three days ago, saying it wanted to be able to produce fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant.\n\nThe IAEA was also said to have verified that Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium had grown since the 300kg (660lb) limit was exceeded on 1 July.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nExperts have said the breach of the stockpile limit does not pose a near-term proliferation risk, but that enriching uranium to a higher concentration would begin to shorten Iran's so-called \"break-out time\" - the time required for it to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.\n\nIran insists it has never sought to develop a nuclear weapon. But the international community does not believe Iran, and negotiated a nuclear deal to prevent it from doing so.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the deal did not go far enough to restrict Iran's nuclear programme and unilaterally withdrew from the accord in May 2018.\n\nHe wants to replace it with one that would also curb Iran's ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts. But Iran has so far refused.\n\nUS ambassador Jackie Wolcott said it was imperative that Iran's \"misbehaviour\" not be rewarded\n\nAt the IAEA meeting, US ambassador Jackie Wolcott said Iran's recent actions and statements were deeply concerning, and affected security and stability.\n\n\"Iran's current nuclear posture is clearly aimed at escalating tensions rather than defusing them, and underscores the serious challenges Iran continues to pose to international peace and security,\" she said.\n\n\"Such brinkmanship and extortion tactics will neither resolve the current impasse nor bring Iran sanctions relief. The path the regime is now on will only deepen its international isolation and raise the dangers it faces.\"\n\nMs Wolcott said it was imperative that Iran's \"misbehaviour\" not be rewarded.\n\n\"For if it is, Iran's demands and provocations will only escalate - as has happened all too often in the past,\" she warned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ambassador called on Iran to reverse its nuclear steps and halt any plans for further advancements in the future.\n\n\"The United States has made clear that we are open to negotiation without preconditions, and that we are offering Iran the possibility of a full normalisation of relations,\" she added.\n\nIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran's actions were \"lawful\" under the deal, which allows one party to \"cease performing its commitments… in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by other parties.\n\nPresident Trump later alleged in a tweet that Iran had been \"secretly 'enriching' uranium in total violation\" of the deal made by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and promised that sanctions would \"soon be increased, substantially\".\n\nMr Trump did not give any further details. But the IAEA had repeatedly verified Iran's compliance with the deal until this month and Iran's ambassador to the agency, Kazim Gharib Abadi, said it had \"nothing to hide.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the top diplomatic adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron held talks in Tehran with Iranian officials to try to avoid further escalation.\n\nEmmanuel Bonne was told by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that Iran had \"kept the path of diplomacy and talks completely open\" and that it hoped other parties to the nuclear deal would be able to \"use this opportunity properly\".", "The A911 Leslie Road near Riverside Park was closed for six hours\n\nA man and a woman have died in Glenrothes after being hit by a car near a park.\n\nA grey Ford Fiesta hit two pedestrians, a 59-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man at about 10:10 on Saturday. Both died at the scene.\n\nThe car was travelling northwest on the A911 Leslie Road, between the Rothes and Leslie roundabouts, close to Riverside Park.\n\nThe road was closed for six hours while investigation work took place\n\nPolice said inquiries are ongoing into the circumstances of the collision.\n\nSgt Ewan Pearce said: \"Tragically, as a result of this collision two people have lost their lives and our thoughts are with their family and friends at this difficult time.\n\n\"I would ask anyone who may have been travelling on the A911 Leslie Road, Glenrothes at the time of the collision on Saturday morning and who witnessed what happened to come forward to assist our investigation.\n\n\"I would specifically ask that the drivers of a blue Kia Sportage (or similar) and a vehicle drawing a horsebox who are believed to have been in the area at the time of the collision to contact the police.\n\n\"Anyone who may have dash-cam footage of the vehicle or pedestrians immediately prior to the collision, and has not yet spoken to officers, are asked to get in touch to provide this at their earliest opportunity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The police vehicle was responding to a call at the time of the crash\n\nA woman has been seriously injured in a crash involving a police car in the Borders.\n\nThe collision took place on the A72 at Horsbrugh Ford near Peebles at about 19:20 on Saturday.\n\nThe marked police vehicle, which was responding to a call, hit a BMW car before coming to rest on its side.\n\nA 36-year-old woman who was a passenger in the BMW was taken to Borders General Hospital after the crash. She has since been released.\n\nThe 44-year-old man who was driving the BMW and two children, aged five and one, were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe 25-year-old driver of the police car was treated in hospital for minor injuries.\n\nPolice Scotland has said inquiries are under way to establish the full circumstances of the crash.\n\nA spokesman said: \"As is standard procedure when there is an incident that involves the serious injury of a person following contact with the police, the incident has been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.\"", "Philadelphia police say the suspected carjacking happened on Thursday\n\nA couple have been questioned by police and may face charges after a suspected carjacker was beaten by a mob and died in the US city of Philadelphia.\n\nPolice say the man who died had tried on Thursday to steal a woman's car with her three young children inside.\n\nThe woman's boyfriend, the father of two of the children, managed to chase the car when it got stuck in traffic.\n\nThe suspect, 54, was then pulled out of the vehicle and beaten by the boyfriend and some local residents, police say.\n\nThe suspected carjacker was unconscious when emergency services arrived at the scene shortly afterwards. He later died in a local hospital.\n\nThe couple who were questioned by police are both aged 25. They have not been identified.\n\n\"I'm not a fan of street justice,\" Philadelphia Police Capt Jason Smith was quoted as saying by CBS.\n\n\"I think everything should play out through us as it comes to criminal actions,\" he added.\n\nThe city's medical examiner's office is yet to determine how the suspected carjacker died.\n• None Two more men jailed for carjack death", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nAn Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released.\n\nBritish Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nA court in Gibraltar has ruled the ship can be detained for a further 14 days.\n\nIran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to complain about what it said was a \"form of piracy\".\n\nMohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies \"without hesitation\".\n\nMr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: \"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help detain Grace 1 and its cargo.\n\nGibraltar said there was reason to believe the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous.\n\nThe territory was initially able to detain the ship for 72-hours, but Gibraltar's Supreme Court granted a 14-day extension on Friday.\n\nIran's Foreign Ministry condemned the initial seizure of the vessel as illegal and accused the UK of acting at the behest of the United States.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office dismissed claims of piracy as \"nonsense\".\n\nSpain's Acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said, on Thursday, Spain - which disputes British ownership of Gibraltar - was studying the circumstances of the action, but said it followed \"a demand from the US to the UK\".\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said, while Britain has been keen to suggest it was an operation led by the Gibraltar government, it appears the intelligence came from the US.\n\nIran's threat to retaliate against the impounding of its super-tanker is an indication of how hurt Tehran is by the UK's action.\n\nIn the eight years of war in Syria this appears to be the first time Iran's supply of oil to its ally has been interrupted, even though EU sanctions have existed for almost the whole duration.\n\nThe episode also reflects worsening relations between Iran and the UK over a range of issues - particularly the continued imprisonment of British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe tanker and its cargo are probably worth more than $200m (£160m).\n\nIran is looking for ways to respond to what it sees as illegal and an act of piracy. It has the capability to take over a British ship in the Gulf and would see such a move as proportionate.\n\nOn Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker said the seizure of tanker was proof the UK \"lacks honour\" and takes orders from the US.\n\nMostafa Kavakebian, who leads the Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, tweeted that the seizure was \"a form of piracy and illegal hostility towards Iran\".\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have been exacerbated by the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nWhite House national security advisor John Bolton said the seizure was \"excellent news\". He added that the US and its allies would continue to prevent regimes in Tehran and Damascus from \"profiting off this illicit trade\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the swift action would deny valuable resources to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's \"murderous regime\".\n\nThe Baniyas Refinery, where the Iranian tanker was believed to be taking the oil, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products - a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nThis latest row comes at a time of escalating tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration - which has pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme - has reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nIts European allies, including the UK, have not followed suit.\n\nNonetheless, there have been growing tensions between the UK and Iran too, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe UK has also been pressing Iran to release British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website. Live TV coverage on Channel 4 & Sky Sports\n\nEngland's men will attempt to win the World Cup for the first time when they meet New Zealand in Sunday's final at Lord's.\n\nThe hosts, playing in their first final for 27 years, will start as favourites against the 2015 runners-up.\n\n\"It would mean everything to win it,\" England captain Eoin Morgan said.\n\n\"The good faith, support and enthusiasm we've been shown in the tournament has been brilliant. It's a huge privilege to play in a World Cup final.\"\n\nMorgan's men will be looking to emulate the England women's team, who won the World Cup on the same ground two years ago.\n\nThey will do so at the end of a tournament which has taken in 11 venues across England and Wales and been watched by more than 675m people worldwide.\n• None Where the World Cup final will be won and lost\n• None World Cup final a crucial moment for cricket in this country - Agnew\n• None Quiz: How well do you know England's World Cup finalists?\n\nThe final, beginning at 10:30 BST, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4 LW, with in-play highlights on the BBC Sport website.\n\nAs well as TV coverage on Sky Sports, it will be shown free-to-air on Channel 4 and More 4.\n\n\"It is an opportunity to win the World Cup, but also an opportunity to sell this great game that we love on a huge platform,\" said Morgan.\n\nEngland's run to the final is a remarkable turnaround, given both their short-term and long-term World Cup history.\n\nFrom reaching the most recent of their three finals in 1992, they had not won a World Cup knockout match until Thursday's semi-final victory over Australia.\n\nAmid a catalogue of World Cup failures, the worst was arguably four years ago, when they were dumped out in the first round.\n\nSince then, they have climbed to the top of the one-day international rankings through a renewed focus on limited-overs cricket.\n\nOff the field, former England director of cricket Andrew Strauss took steps to put greater emphasis on the one-day side with the stated aim of winning the World Cup, while on the field, Morgan has encouraged his team to play with freedom, with the outcome being some spectacular performances, particularly with the bat.\n\nOf the transformation, Morgan, who was also captain in 2015, said: \"When you look back four years ago, it's incredible. It's two different teams, really, in the way we play.\n\n\"Guys embrace every challenge we come up with, whereas before we might have shied away from it.\n\n\"We really look forward to big games or big moments in games. One of those is tomorrow, and we're excited about it.\"\n\nEven though they began the tournament as the number-one ranked side, England have not had a straightforward passage to the final.\n\nBack-to-back group-stage defeats by Sri Lanka and Australia left them on the verge of being eliminated.\n\nThey responded with wins against India, New Zealand and a phenomenal semi-final performance to hammer Australia.\n\n\"We've gone from strength to strength since the India game,\" said Ireland-born batsman Morgan.\n\n\"Probably the best we've played was in the last game against a very strong Australia team. It's great because it means we go into the final feeling quietly confident.\"\n\nEngland beat New Zealand by 119 runs in their final group game just over a week ago, only for the Black Caps to then stun India in the semi-finals.\n\nThey too are looking to win the World Cup for the first time, having being swept aside by Australia in their only final four years ago.\n\nOn being regarded as underdogs in the final, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said: \"A lot of people have said that on a number of occasions, which is great. England rightly deserve to be favourites.\n\n\"Heading into this tournament they were favourites and they've been playing really good cricket.\n\n\"Whatever dog we are, it's important we focus on the cricket we want to play. It's shown over the years that anybody can beat anybody, regardless of breed of dog.\"\n\nBoth teams are likely to be unchanged from their semi-final wins. England batsman Jonny Bairstow required treatment on a leg at Edgbaston, but will be fit to play.\n• None Anything possible in final - Williamson\n• None The miracle of New Zealand and their unassuming conductor\n\nThe weather looks good for Sunday's World Cup final. Although it may start out cloudy with a little light drizzle first thing in the morning, rain isn't likely to cause any interruption to play at all. Most of the day should be dry, with sunny spells breaking through by the afternoon. The wind will be light and temperatures will climb to around 20C.\n• None England have won seven of their past nine ODIs against New Zealand, including a 119-run victory in the group stage of the World Cup.\n• None Before England's triumph over New Zealand in this tournament, they had not beaten the Black Caps in the World Cup since 1983, suffering five consecutive defeats.\n• None This will be England's seventh World Cup match at Lord's. They have won four of their previous six games but lost their solitary fixture at this venue in this World Cup (a 64-run defeat by Australia).\n• None England have played one more match than New Zealand at this year's World Cup (India v New Zealand in the group stage was abandoned), yet England have still hit more than 1,000 more runs than the Black Caps, including 100 more fours and 53 more sixes.\n• None The team winning the toss have lost four of the past five World Cup finals, Australia's win over Sri Lanka in 2007 the exception.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inventor Franky Zapata got the parade off to a flying start\n\nPolice in Paris have fired tear gas at protesters near the Champs-Elysées shortly after France's annual Bastille Day military parade.\n\nEarlier, yellow-vest protesters booed President Emmanuel Macron as he was driven down the boulevard.\n\nPolice said they had detained more than 150 people, including two yellow vest leaders accused of staging an unauthorised demonstration.\n\nThe parade also saw a French inventor zoom past on a futuristic flyboard.\n\nFranky Zapata - a former world jet ski champion - soared above the avenue and the assembled dignitaries.\n\nMore than 4,000 members of the armed forces marched down the avenue in a tradition that dates back to the years following World War One.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel was among the foreign leaders present for the event, while German, Spanish and British aircraft took part in the fly-past.\n\nMr Macron announced on Saturday that France would set up a new space defence command in September - following similar moves by the US, China and Russia.\n\nHe said that the command would help to \"better protect our satellites, including in an active way\".\n\nThere had been calls on social media for so-called yellow-vest protesters to use the national day celebrations to renew their demonstrations against President Macron.\n\nBefore the shocked gaze of tourists and other onlookers, groups of protesters - some masked - dragged metal crowd-control barriers into the centre of the Champs-Elysées to form barricades, and set fire to bins.\n\nRiot police who had been deployed en masse were ready for trouble and dispersed the initial demonstrations with tear gas and baton charges, but pockets of trouble continued flaring up.\n\nIt's reminiscent of some of the yellow-vest disturbances from a few months ago - though it's hard to say how many of today's protesters are far-left activists or opportunist trouble-makers.", "Since October, almost 700,000 people have been detained crossing the border from Mexico into the US, a huge jump on previous years.\n\nThe reasons people give for trying to reach the US are varied - family, better economic opportunity, or the chance to escape the threat of violence.\n\nIn the interactive bot below, we have focused on the story of one woman, Maria, who represents many of those seeking to make the journey.\n\nMaria is fictional. But everything that happens to her here is based on the real experiences of migrants who have travelled to America, experiences that have been documented by rights groups, journalists and lawyers.\n\nSee for yourself the decisions and dangers a migrant like Maria may face.", "Hundreds have attended screening sessions to find a stem cell match for a toddler with leukaemia.\n\nOne-year-old Phoebe Ashfield, from Gornal, Dudley, needs a transplant to treat a rare form of the illness.\n\nOrganisers hoped to collect more than 2,000 samples from the donor drive at two locations in the Black Country on Saturday.\n\nMother Emma Wyke said it was \"overwhelming\" to see so many people turn up for her daughter.\n\nHundreds attended donor screening sessions in the Black Country on Saturday\n\nPhoebe suffers from Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, an aggressive condition which affects white blood cells.\n\nAbout 650 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with the illness, according to the NHS.\n\nMs Wyke said chemotherapy was not working for her daughter, and doctors at Birmingham Children's Hospital have told the family a stem cell transplant is her best chance for survival.\n\n\"If you don't save my little girl's life then you could save another child's life,\" added Ms Wyke.\n\nThe sessions, during which cheek swabs were taken from potential donors, were held at Tesco Extra in Dudley and Tipton Sports Academy.\n\nDKMS charity volunteer Kam Arora said there had been a good response to the family's appeal\n\nDKMS, a charity which places people on the stem cell register, co-ordinated the appeal.\n\n\"It's a very very simple way of helping to save someone's life,\" said Kam Arora, a volunteer from the organisation.\n\nFurther donor sessions are being planned to help save Phoebe, said her family.\n\nBlood cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer in the UK, according to DKMS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to reports of a fight\n\nSeveral people were injured when a car was driven into them on a road during a fight in London on Saturday night.\n\nFive men have been arrested on suspicion of affray after the crash in Lombard Road, Battersea, at about 23:15 BST.\n\nOne man in his 20s suffered a broken leg while another had head injuries from the crash, the Met Police said.\n\nTwo other people were taken to hospital treatment and \"a number of others\" were treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nPolice are looking for the driver of the car, who \"fled the scene\" before officers arrived.\n\nPolice said the driver of the car fled the scene\n\nIt is understood the altercation began after a group of people left a nearby hotel, and police are not treating the crash as terrorism-related.\n\nAmbulance crews were also called to the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of New York's subway stations were plunged into darkness\n\nPower has now been restored to all customers after a power failure in New York halted subway trains and trapped people in lifts on Saturday evening.\n\nEnergy company Con Edison said more than 70,000 homes and businesses lost power in Manhattan, the most densely populated of the city's five boroughs.\n\nThe outage lasted for about five hours.\n\nIt came on the anniversary of a massive power failure in 1977 that plunged the New York skyline into darkness and triggered widespread looting and arson.\n\nShortly before midnight (04:00 GMT Sunday) Con Edison head John MacAvoy said all six networks which had been affected were now up and running.\n\nHe said the problem appeared to have originated at a substation, but the cause was being investigated.\n\nThe widespread power cut extended from Fifth Avenue west to the Hudson River, and from West 42nd north to 72nd Street, the fire department said.\n\nThe blackout brought traffic to a standstill in parts of New York\n\nIt put street lights and traffic lights out of action and forced the evacuation of buildings across the borough.\n\nMayor Bill de Blasio said the New York Police Department had confirmed there was no foul play. \"This was a mechanical issue,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAlex Hammerli, 26, was on his way to a bar when the blackout began.\n\n\"No subway for 45 blocks and half the trains not running. It's kind of annoying. I'm also surprised that people aren't unleashing their crazy [side] yet. The cops are just trying to shut down the roads,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Saturday night shows were cancelled, with theatregoers left waiting in the streets outside venues.\n\nThe cast of the musical Hadestown entertained people waiting outside the Walter Kerr Theatre.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by angela pinsky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinger Jennifer Lopez said she was \"devastated and heartbroken\" that the blackout forced her to call off a performance at Madison Square Garden. Thousands of fans had to be evacuated from the venue after the power went out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jennifer Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) advised travellers to avoid sub-surface trains, after some passengers were stranded below ground for over an hour.\n\n\"We were stuck for about 75 minutes,\" Jeff O'Malley, 57, told Reuters news agency. \"It's completely dark, people were coming up using their flashlights on their phones.\"\n\nVideo footage was shared on Twitter of the power being restored in some of the affected areas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Quentin Alexandre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"We can seek to persuade... but we can't control\"\n\nPhilip Hammond has warned the UK will not be able to control key elements of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC Panorama that if the UK leaves without a deal, then the EU will control many of the levers - including what happens at the French port of Calais.\n\nEx Brexit Secretary David Davis told the programme that Whitehall never believed a no-deal Brexit would happen.\n\nThe EU has set the UK a deadline of 31 October to leave the bloc.\n\nBut despite spending £4.2bn on Brexit preparations, Mr Hammond warned that the government has limited influence on how a no-deal scenario might look.\n\nAsked if the UK can control Brexit, he said: \"We can't because many of the levers are held by others - the EU 27 or private business. We can seek to persuade them but we can't control it.\"\n\nHe added: \"For example, we can make sure that goods flow inwards through the port of Dover without any friction but we can't control the outward flow into the port of Calais,\" he told Panorama.\n\n\"The French can dial that up or dial it down, just the same as the Spanish for years have dialled up or dialled down the length of the queues at the border going into Gibraltar.\"\n\nFrench officials have previously rejected suggestions they could resort to a \"go-slow\" policy at Calais if there is no Brexit deal - insisting that closing the port would be \"economic suicide\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond and John McDonnell agreed on the threat posed by no deal\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Hammond told MPs a no-deal Brexit could cost the Treasury up to £90bn and said it would be up to them to ensure that \"doesn't happen\".\n\nHe has also said it was \"highly unlikely\" he would still be in his job after Theresa May stands down next month.\n\nThe Panorama programme - entitled Britain's Brexit Crisis - will outline the tensions in government during Theresa May's time at Number 10 when it is broadcast on Thursday.\n\nMr Davis, who quit as Brexit secretary last year, told the BBC that the Treasury wanted to avoid talking about the prospect of leaving without a deal.\n\nHe concluded that many in Whitehall did not believe it would ever happen - despite two years of planning.\n\n\"I've got to be able to say to you 'if this doesn't work we'll leave anyway' and you've got to believe it.\n\n\"And for you to believe it I've got to believe it. And I don't think Whitehall really ever believed that they would actually carry out the plans we laid so carefully over two years.\"\n\nDavid Davis quit as Brexit secretary, saying the PM had \"given away too much too easily\"\n\nTory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nHis rival Jeremy Hunt has said he can negotiate a new deal for the UK \"by the end of September\" - and that he \"expects\" the UK will leave the EU before Christmas.\n\nVoting among the party's 160,000 or so members is under way, with a winner expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nBritain's Brexit Crisis is on BBC1 this Thursday, July 18, at 9pm.\n\nDo you have any questions about what would happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Vueling Airlines is the least punctual major airline flying from airports in the UK, new research shows.\n\nThe Spanish carrier's UK departures were delayed by an average of 31 minutes last year, according to analysis of Civil Aviation Authority data by the PA news agency.\n\nThomas Cook also performed poorly, with average delays of 24 minutes, followed by Wizz Air on 23 minutes.\n\nVueling said it had been \"hugely affected\" by strikes in France.\n\nThe research, which covered more than 40 airlines flying from UK airports, found the average delay across all flights was 16 minutes.\n\nOther poor performers included Norwegian Air UK, a subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, and Eurowings, both of which had average delays of 22 minutes.\n\nCathay Pacific Airways was the most punctual carrier, although its flights still typically took off eight minutes behind schedule.\n\nAirline passengers faced chaos last summer as French air traffic controllers staged a series of strikes.\n\nVueling, which serves UK airports such as Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh, said its flights in and out of Barcelona had been hit by action in Marseille.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flight delay compensation: When can you claim?\n\n\"During these strikes, Vueling flights to and from Barcelona and the UK could not fly straight across France but instead flew south of the Pyrenees and into the Atlantic, before looping back towards Britain,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The location of Vueling's [Barcelona] hub close to Marseille means it has been particularly badly affected.\"\n\nThe carrier, which is owned by International Airlines Group - which also owns British Airways - also saw its own pilots walk out in May, leading to hundreds of cancellations.\n\nUnder EU rules, airline passengers are only entitled to compensation if they arrive at their destination more than three hours late.\n\nHowever, consumer magazine Which? said flight delays could leave holidaymakers \"hundreds of pounds out of pocket because of missed connections, transfers and fines for picking up their hire car late\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of trade body Airlines UK, which represents UK-registered carriers, said too many flights are affected by the country's \"antiquated airspace\".\n\nHe added: \"We support government in its efforts to introduce much-needed modernisation so we can continue to safely and effectively accommodate the ever rising demand for air travel.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry on anti-Semitism: \"I want us to sort this out\"\n\nThe BBC has been told there will be a concerted push for Labour to adopt an independent process for dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism.\n\nA group will make the demand at Monday's regular meeting of MPs.\n\nBut political correspondent Iain Watson said it would also, crucially, be made at the next meeting of Labour's ruling national executive later this month.\n\nEmily Thornberry said earlier Labour must heed \"the message\" on anti-Semitism, not attack the \"messengers\".\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr \"nobody can pretend there isn't an ongoing problem\" within the party and with \"our processes for dealing with it\".\n\nLabour has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over anti-Semitism within its ranks, which has led nine MPs and three peers to leave.\n\nLast week, Panorama revealed claims from a number of former party officials that some of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies tried to interfere in disciplinary processes involving allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nLabour's disputes team is supposed to operate independently from the party's political structures, including the leader's office.\n\nThe party has insisted the claims are inaccurate and made by \"disaffected\" former staff.\n\nOn Sunday, Jewish Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge told Sky News the party was at \"a tipping point\" on the issue, and it was \"intolerable and unacceptable\" for the leadership to attack those who went public with concerns.\n\n\"If the leadership doesn't start to listen now there will be many more people who will feel so uncomfortable within the Labour Party that they can no longer remain,\" she said.\n\nDame Margaret also said Labour must urgently adopt \"a totally independent complaints mechanism, because it is clear that the current mechanism has been abused, it has been abused by political influence\".\n\nThat call was echoed by the Tribune group of Labour MPs - which is on the centre left of the party and includes former frontbenchers.\n\nThey urged the National Executive Committee (NEC) to set up an independent investigation into the allegations aired by Panorama, and to create \"an independent complaints procedure with representation from the Jewish community, which is totally independent from the leadership of the Labour Party\".\n\nThe intervention of the Tribune group of MPs is significant.\n\nThe group includes Yvette Cooper, a minister in the last Labour government.\n\nBut many of the other members are to the left of the old Blair/Brown axis - and include Ed Miliband's former chief of staff Lucy Powell.\n\nThey feel that if the party is to detoxify the anti-Semitism row then it's not enough for the complaints system to be independent of the leadership, it must be seen to be independent.\n\nThey want to see allegations of political interference in the current system investigated, too.\n\nIn the past, when a more independent system was mooted, senior staff were concerned about data protection and of 'outsourcing' investigations to a new body which may have little practical experience of Labour's rules.\n\nBut as the corrosive row continues, a wider group than just the Tribune MPs are privately calling for more radical action.\n\nIn fairness, the Labour leadership feel they are getting very little credit for pouring more resources in to the existing system and speeding up the complaints process.\n\nBut it will be for the party's ruling body - the NEC - to decide whether a whole new approach should now be attempted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jewish Labour Party members told the BBC’s Panorama about their experiences of anti-Semitism in the party\n\nEarlier, Ms Thornberry said she found the Panorama episode \"awful\" - both the programme itself and \"more importantly the revelations\".\n\nShe said she understood the party had concerns about how the investigation was conducted, but \"the message.... is what is important\".\n\nIn May, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) launched a formal investigation into whether Labour had \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nMs Thornberry said it was \"a shame and a disgrace\" that the EHRC had been brought in \"but they have and we should welcome it\".\n\nShe said the party needed to set up a complaints process \"that is tough and that works and is an example of good practice\", and should be asking the commission: \"Can you help us?\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend things were improving.\n\n\"I think we are sorting it out actually. I think we've got a new general secretary, we've put in place a system now,\" he said.\n\n\"There's always lessons to be learnt, but I think the way Jennie Formby, our general secretary, has operated - implemented the measures - is getting on top of this.\"\n\nLabour has rejected claims of interference in its disciplinary processes and described the Panorama programme as \"seriously inaccurate\" and \"politically one-sided\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Since Jennie Formby became general secretary the rate at which anti-Semitism cases have been dealt with has increased more than four-fold.\n\n\"We will build on the improvements to our procedures made under Jennie Formby, and continue to act against this repugnant form of racism.\"", "The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nRoyal Marines have boarded an oil tanker on its way to Syria thought to be breaching EU sanctions, the government of Gibraltar has said.\n\nAuthorities said there was reason to believe the ship - Grace 1 - was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in Syria.\n\nThe refinery is subject to European Union sanctions against Syria.\n\nBritain's ambassador in Tehran, Robert Macaire, has been summoned over the incident.\n\nIran's foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted on Iranian state TV as saying the ambassador had been summoned over the \"illegal seizure\" of the tanker.\n\nGibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, praised the marines who detained the ship.\n\n\"Be assured that Gibraltar remains safe, secure and committed to the international, rules-based, legal order,\" he said, thanking the police, customs and port authorities for their involvement in detaining the ship.\n\nThe British overseas territory of Gibraltar stands at the gateway to the Mediterranean\n\nGibraltar port and law enforcement agencies detained the super tanker and its cargo on Thursday morning with the help of the marines.\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help seize the tanker, at the request of the Gibraltar government.\n\nA defence source described it as a \"relatively benign operation\" without major incident.\n\nMr Picardo said he had written to the presidents of the European Commission and European Council to give details of the sanctions that have been enforced.\n\nThe Baniyas refinery, in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products, a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said she welcomed the \"firm action\" by the Gibraltarian authorities.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Guto Bebb was elected MP for Aberconwy in May 2010\n\nAn MP says he will not stand for reselection as a Conservative candidate in the next general election as he is unhappy with the party's direction.\n\nAberconwy MP Guto Bebb said the Conservative Party was \"appealing to the type of nationalism that has seen UKIP grow in the past, and the Brexit Party now\".\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Cymru that Boris Johnson would be a \"disastrous\" prime minister.\n\nMr Bebb was elected in May 2010.\n\nHe expects there to be another general election by spring, because he believes whoever is in Number 10 will not be able to secure a Commons majority in favour of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Bebb said he would not be able to \"with any conscience\" offer himself as a candidate who agrees with either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt.\n\nTory party members are voting for either Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister\n\nIn the election for the new leader of the Conservative party Mr Bebb returned his ballot paper without casting a vote for either candidate.\n\nThe EU referendum vote has \"meant that there is a tendency within the party to appeal to the extremes,\" he said.\n\nA former member of Plaid Cymru, Mr Bebb added that he has no intention of re-joining the party.\n\n\"I don't think Plaid Cymru has changed that much,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't believe in some of their economic principles. I consider myself Welsh, I can be completely comfortable with being part of an Union in Britain and the European Union.\n\n\"What's not possible for someone like me is to believe in the type of English nationalism that we are now seeing within the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I don't believe in nationalism at its worst in any context and certainly the nationalism I see in the Conservative Party currently concerns me.\"\n\nIn July last year, Mr Bebb, who voted remain in the 2016 EU referendum, resigned as minister for defence procurement.\n\nThis was in order to vote against the government on amendments it accepted to its Brexit Customs Bill.", "The annual Bastille Day parade, marking the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, has been taking place in Paris.\n\nOver 4,000 military personnel and more than 100 aircraft took part in ceremonies, with crowds entertained by inventor Franky Zapata and his futuristic flyboard.\n\nBut there were also clashes between police officers and some protesters, with more than 150 arrests made.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, as a row over leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration escalates.\n\nTheresa May said Sir Kim's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" after the ambassador said it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nTory leadership candidate Boris Johnson has faced strong criticism for failing to fully support him.\n\nPresident Trump said on Monday that the US would not deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president had branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nIn a letter to the Foreign Office, Sir Kim said he wanted to end speculation about his position: \"The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.\"\n\nHis resignation has prompted widespread support for Sir Kim as well as criticism of Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson refused to support him during the Tory leadership debate on Tuesday night, said BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale.\n\nMr Johnson was asked repeatedly by fellow leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt whether he would keep Sir Kim in post if he became prime minister, but refused to answer.\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson spoke to Sir Kim on the phone on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said that he praised Sir Kim's dedication and hard work and claimed the conversation was warm and cordial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nFollowing Sir Kim's resignation, Mr Johnson said he was \"a superb diplomat\" and whoever was responsible for the leak \"has done a grave disservice to our civil servants\".\n\nAsked why he was not more supportive of Sir Kim, he said it was \"wrong to drag civil servants into the political arena\".\n\nEurope Minister Sir Alan Duncan - who backs Mr Hunt in the leadership contest - said it was \"contemptible negligence\" of Mr Johnson not to support Sir Kim.\n\n\"He's basically thrown this fantastic diplomat under a bus to serve his own personal interests,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Sir Michael Fallon - a supporter of Mr Johnson - told BBC Newsnight Sir Kim's position became untenable \"long before the debate on Tuesday night\" and he understands the ambassador did not watch it.\n\nThe backlash against Mr Johnson was \"a shabby attempt to politicise\" the affair and the leadership contender had \"made it clear he supports all our diplomats\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Alan Duncan says Boris Johnson has \"thrown our top diplomat under a bus\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Johnson wanted a \"sweetheart trade deal\" with the US and his lack of support for Sir Kim \"shows he won't stand up to Donald Trump\".\n\nTory MP and chairman of the Commons' foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat said in a tweet: \"Leaders stand up for their men. They encourage them to try and defend them when they fail.\"\n\nFellow Tory leadership candidate and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt told the BBC Sir Kim was \"doing his job\" and his resignation was \"a black day for British diplomacy\".\n\nMrs May said Sir Kim had had the full backing of the cabinet and he was owed an \"enormous debt of gratitude\" for his \"lifetime of service\" to the UK.\n\nPublic servants should be able to give \"full and frank advice\", she added.\n\nSo was it Boris Johnson what done it? Was the failure of the former foreign secretary to defend Sir Kim in last night's Tory leadership debate the crucial factor in the ambassador's decision to resign?\n\nWithout Sir Kim speaking publicly on the subject, we are reliant on others to speak for him.\n\nAnd certainly, according to well-placed sources in Whitehall, Mr Johnson's decision to avoid criticising President Trump and his lack of support for Sir Kim was said to be the straw that broke the camel's back.\n\nIf you are an embattled diplomat under fire from your host country, you need cover from London. And if that is lacking from the man tipped to be your next boss, you realise the writing is on the wall.\n\nCertainly, there is genuine anger across Westminster and Whitehall at Mr Johnson's refusal six times last night to come to the aid of our man in Washington.\n\nMr Johnson's supporters have offered varying counter theories. Some have accused Mr Hunt's supporters of politicising the resignation.\n\nOthers have insisted that the decision had been made before the debate, once Mr Trump declared he would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nRealising they were on the receiving end of potentially damaging criticism, Mr Johnson's aides also let it be known that he called Sir Kim this afternoon and praised his dedication and hard work.\n\nThe problem is that few in Westminster were giving much credence to these defences.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Theresa May pointedly urged MPs to \"reflect on the importance of defending our values and principles, particularly when they are under pressure\".\n\nIt was not hard to decipher what she was talking about.\n\nHead of the diplomatic service Sir Simon McDonald said it was the first time in his career that a head of state had refused to work with a British ambassador.\n\nHe described the leak as \"malicious\" and told Sir Kim: \"You are the best of us.\"\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham - a supporter of President Trump - said Sir Kim had done \"an outstanding job\" as ambassador and his resignation was \"a chilling moment\".\n\n\"Ambassadors need to be able to talk to their governments without fear of being compromised,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson pictured with Sir Kim in 2017 while he was in Washington DC as foreign secretary\n\nIn a letter to Sir Kim, Cabinet Secretary and civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill said that while he understood his reasons for resigning it was \"a matter of enormous regret that you were put in this position after a shocking betrayal of trust\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington said he was \"enraged\" by the situation and morale in the senior ranks of the civil service had taken \"a very heavy blow\".\n\nFormer head of the civil service Lord O'Donnell told the BBC Sir Kim's successor could be chosen within two weeks - while Mrs May is still prime minister.\n\nPresident Trump could well wake up this morning thinking he has the power to veto who the UK has as its ambassador.\n\nIt wasn't his more colourful remarks on Twitter that really ended Sir Kim's time, but Mr Trump's public announcement that he would no longer work with him.\n\nThe effects of that were felt immediately. There was a banquet that Sir Kim was immediately dis-invited from. Next, he couldn't attend an event with minister Liam Fox.\n\nIt was clear he was being frozen out and for an ambassador access is everything. Without it, it's impossible to do the job.\n\nMore broadly, it's like this... There's never been parity in the special relationship between the UK and US - it's never been a relationship of equals but right now it seems particularly lopsided.\n\nThe US knows that Britain is fairly isolated right now internationally and needs the US more than ever. Donald Trump has wielded that power mercilessly in this row.\n\nIn the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true.\n\nThe government has opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos and police have been urged to open a criminal investigation.\n\nDowning Street confirmed there had been some \"initial discussions\" with police regarding the leak and if there was concern about criminal activity they would become involved \"more formally\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said it was \"deeply worrying\" diplomatic cables had ended up in the public domain.", "Police are looking for two men after a woman was sexually assaulted at the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow.\n\nDuring the incident, a 32-year-old woman was grabbed by one man and then sexually assaulted by another during a concert at Glasgow Green.\n\nThe incident took place at about 22:00 as she made her way to the toilets, believed to be near the main stage.\n\nThree men who were walking by at the time shouted at the suspects, who then ran off.\n\nThe suspects are both described as white, 6ft tall, of medium build and dark hair.\n\nOne was wearing a black T-shirt with a small logo on the front and the other a white T-shirt with black writing.\n\nDet Sgt Euan Keil said: \"The woman was making her way to the toilets when she was grabbed by one man and pulled to the rear of the toilet block where another man sexually assaulted her.\n\n\"Her attackers fled when they were disturbed by three men who were walking by the area and who shouted at them.\n\n\"I don't think the three men realised what was actually going on or that their intervention probably stopped this attack from escalating.\n\n\"It is important that we trace them as what they saw could prove vital to us catching the two men responsible.\"\n\nA statement from the TRNSMT festival said: \"We are doing everything possible to help emergency services with their inquiries but our focus at this moment is the wellbeing of the person involved, and we are ensuring that they have all the support that they need.\"", "Watch the moment Eoin Morgan and England lift the Cricket World Cup trophy after a dramatic sudden-death super over against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nWATCH MORE: The moment England won the World Cup\n\nREAD MORE: England win their first men's Cricket World Cup in dramatic finale\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan says he \"never allowed\" himself to imagine lifting the World Cup before his side's astonishing victory over New Zealand in a thrilling final at Lord's.\n\nThe game went to a super over after both sides scored 241 from 50 overs.\n\n\"I've said incredible 50 times since lifting the trophy,\" Morgan told Test Match Special.\n\n\"The planning, hard work, dedication, commitment and the little bit of luck really did get us over the line.\"\n\nMorgan said he was \"very thankful\" that - despite England's three defeats in the group stage - \"people believed because we believed\".\n\nBut he added: \"I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!\"\n• None Relive the best reaction and highlights from Lord's\n\nBen Stokes, man of the match in the final, said: \"So much hard work has gone in, this is what we aspire to be.\n\n\"I don't think there will ever be a better game in cricket than that.\n\n\"There was no chance I wasn't going to be there at the end. Those are the sorts of moments you live for as a professional cricketer.\"\n\nAll-rounder Stokes scored 84 with grit and determination on a tricky pitch to anchor England, and his composure in both the final over and the super over helped claim a historic win.\n\nVictory brought a sense of redemption for Stokes - in the World Twenty20 final four years ago he was hit for four sixes by Carlos Brathwaite as West Indies beat England in the final over.\n\nMorgan described Stokes as \"super human\", adding: \"He really carried the team and our batting line-up.\"\n\n'I encouraged them to laugh, smile and enjoy'\n\nThis was an astonishing day in front of a packed crowd, who stayed long after the final ball had been bowled.\n\nIn a see-sawing match, England slipped to 86-4 and struggled to find boundaries in the middle order.\n\nBut a 110-run partnership between Stokes and Jos Buttler dragged the hosts back into contention before a dramatic finale resulted in the scores being tied and England winning because they had scored more boundaries during the match.\n\nWhen asked what he told his team as they huddled before the super over, Morgan said: \"I encouraged them to smile, laugh and enjoy because it was such a ridiculous situation.\n• None Quiz: How well do you know England's winners?\n\n\"It was a matter of trying to put smiles on the guys' faces to release a bit of tension and they responded brilliantly to that.\"\n\n\"I can't believe what's happened in the last hour,\" bowler Chris Woakes told Test Match Special.\n\n\"I thought it was gone. I am lost for words. World champions, I can't get my head around it.\"\n\nFor England, this was the culmination of four years of completely overhauling their one-day game after they were humiliated in 2015.\n\nThe victory was the culmination of four years of work in completely overhauling their one-day game after humiliation in 2015, when they were knocked out in the group stage.\n\nThe Queen - head of state for both nations - said: \"Prince Philip and I send our warmest congratulations to the England men's cricket team after such a thrilling victory in today's World Cup final.\n\n\"I also extend my commiserations to the runners-up New Zealand, who competed so admirably in today's contest and throughout the tournament.\"\n\n'In 10 years we'll see kids playing cricket in the street'\n\n\"This is exactly what cricket needed,\" ex-England captain Michael Vaughan said. \"This is the moment that, in five, 10 years time, we'll see kids playing cricket in the street [as a result].\n\n\"We've had great days in Test cricket - but this is another level. This is something I've never experienced.\"\n\nThe game was watched by a sold out-crowd at Lord's who lived every ball, and was also shown on free-to-air TV on Channel 4, as well as Sky.\n\n\"The best final I've ever seen, the best game I've ever seen,\" said England all-rounder Moeen Ali.\n\n\"This has changed cricket in our country.\"\n\n'Win or lose, today will not define me' - reaction\n\nEngland bowler Jofra Archer, who was entrusted with defending 15 runs in the super over: \"'Stokesy' came over and told me, win or lose, today will not define me as a player.\n\n\"The boys did so well to give us 15, I am so grateful they gave us the opportunity to compete.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes: \"I don't know what it is about finals that produce moments like that. It's incredible. Amazing.\n\n\"I hope we have inspired people to want to do this in the future.\"\n\nEngland bowler Liam Plunkett: \"It's not sunk in - I've had a sip of champagne, which is my first drink for five months.\n\n\"Everyone got to watch the game on TV - I hope they get a buzz for cricket like the 2005 Ashes.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss: \"These guys have put in so much hard work and it's come to fruition. A lot of people behind the scenes have done a fantastic job and this feels fantastic.\n\n\"I tried to be as calm as I can but I was very nervous on the inside - let me tell you.\"", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death at her house in Raymead Avenue, Croydon\n\nA man has been accused of murder after a pregnant woman and her baby died.\n\nAaron McKenzie, 25, is charged with killing Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant when she was fatally stabbed at home in Croydon.\n\nMr McKenzie, of Peckham Park Road, Peckham, London, is also accused of the manslaughter of her son Riley, who was delivered by paramedics but died in hospital.\n\nHe is one of three men held over the deaths, after the attack on 29 June.\n\nA 37-year-old was released with no further action while a 29-year-old was bailed until a date in August.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle - her baby was delivered by paramedics\n\nPolice were called by the London Ambulance Service at 03:30 BST to Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, where Ms Fauvrelle was in cardiac arrest.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics, she died at the scene.\n\nMs Fauvrelle's family - including her mother, two brothers, sister and sister's baby son - were all at the home at the time of the attack.\n\nRiley was delivered at the scene but died in hospital, on 3 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malik Hussain was pronounced dead at the scene of the stabbing in Baker Street, Sparkhill\n\nDashcam footage \"could be key\" to catching the killer of a man stabbed in an apparent targeted attack, police have said.\n\nMalik Hussain, 35, was found dead in Baker Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, at about 23:20 BST on Friday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was particularly keen to gather information about a car that sped from the area.\n\nDet Insp Nick Barnes said dashcam footage \"could be crucial\" in identifying the vehicle.\n\n\"We believe this could be key in helping us to catch the killer and would ask anyone who can help to come forward as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nPolice are keen to hear from motorists who were around Baker Street, Warwick Road, Stratford Road and the surrounding areas between 23:00 and midnight.\n\nDet Insp Caroline Corfield added: \"At this stage we believe this may have been a targeted attack and we're keen to hear from anyone with information which can assist our inquiries.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place in due course, the force said.\n\nThe man was discovered in Baker Street\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simona Halep won her first Wimbledon title and crushed Serena Williams' latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam success with a devastating 56-minute display of athleticism.\n\nThe Romanian won 6-2 6-2 in front of an incredulous Centre Court, running after everything the American threw at her.\n\n\"It was my best match,\" the 27-year-old said after her second Grand Slam title following her 2018 French Open success.\n\nFor 37-year-old Williams, it was a third major final defeat in 12 months.\n\n\"She played out of her mind, it was a little bit deer in the headlights for me,\" she said.\n• None I played the match of my life - Halep\n• None Someone told me not to look at records - Williams\n\nHalep shows no nerves as expectation weighs on Williams\n\nWilliams, like in last year's final defeat by Angelique Kerber, seemed weighed down by public and personal expectations as she quickly fell 4-0 behind in the opening set.\n\nHalep had said beforehand that she had no pressure on her and that is exactly how she played.\n\nFrom the outset she looked relaxed and confident, attacking the Williams serve and keeping the rallies long and deep to force the American into errors.\n\nWhile Williams closed her eyes at changeovers to try to regroup, Halep kept her eyes on the prize and kept her cool to take the victory on her second match point, when the American sent a forehand into the net.\n\nHalep's level never dropped in an almost perfect display in which she made just three unforced errors to Williams' 26.\n\n\"I knew that I have to be aggressive, be 100% for every ball, and that I don't have to let her come back into the match because she's so powerful and so strong,\" Halep said. \"She knows how to manage every moment. So I knew that I have to stay there, which I did pretty well today.\"\n\nDefeat means Williams' wait for a first Grand Slam title since becoming a mum continues, as does her pursuit of an eighth Wimbledon singles title.\n\n\"I definitely knew that she was just playing her heart out,\" the American said. \"I felt like, OK, what do I need to do to get to that level?\n\n\"When someone plays lights out, there's really not much you can do. You just have to understand that that was their day today.\"\n\nSeventh seed Halep, in her first major final since winning the French Open last year and having lost her world number one ranking, flew under the radar at these championships while much of the focus was on Williams and her record chase.\n\nBut she executed the perfect gameplan - stifling Williams' biggest weapon in her serve - and it was credit to her returning ability that Halep restricted the American to just two aces when she had fired 45 during her other matches.\n\nHalep's movement around the court contrasted with a sluggish Williams - who at one point was urged to \"wake up\" by one shout from the crowd - and her tenacity in the rallies forced the American to overcook her shots through what felt like desperation at times.\n\nA break in the first game set the tone, with Williams firing wide before a Halep hold to love underlined her determination to win. The net helped Halep in the next game, with her shot scraping over but Williams' return bouncing back at the American.\n\nWith just 11 minutes on the clock Halep had won the first four games and she barely slowed, facing just one break point - which she saved.\n\nWilliams started to get herself a bit more into the match early in the second set but when she came to the net for a volley with the whole court at her disposal and only managed to find the net, giving Halep the break, she must have known it was not going to be her day.\n\nHalep won the next three games in a row, falling to her knees with her arms raised to the sky in celebration as Centre Court rose to its feet in appreciation of one of the greatest Wimbledon final performances.\n• None Halep won 83% of her first-serve points, compared to 59% for Williams\n• None Williams made 26 unforced errors, while Halep made just three\n• None Williams had more winners - 17 - than Halep (13), but Halep won 45% of receiving points compared to 26% for Williams\n• None Halep had lost nine of her previous 10 meetings with Williams\n• None Halep has now won the past two Grand Slam finals she has appeared in, having been defeated in the three before that. Williams has lost her past three\n• None Although 56 minutes is a quick victory, it is some way off the fastest Grand Slam final win - Steffi Graf's 34-minute French Open win of 1988\n• None Halep, who began the championships as world number seven, will rise to number four when the next rankings are published on Monday\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"At the start of the second set you could see that Simona Halep was still that bit better, actually a lot better. I don't think anyone is going to feel short-changed by the 56 minutes of tennis that they have seen today because they have seen one of the all time great Wimbledon final performances.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Tracy Austin on BBC TV: \"Unbelievable tennis from Simona Halep. She put herself in such a bubble mentally and she didn't let herself begin to think about the end of the match. She said this was a chill year. She really took the pressure off herself.\"\n\nThree-time Wimbledon singles champion John McEnroe: \"I'm shocked. She obviously is a tremendous and, at this stage in her career, superior athlete. But I didn't think it would intimidate Serena Williams as much as it did today. Halep completely and thoroughly outplayed her. It wasn't even a match. There's only a handful of times in your life when you feel as though you're in the zone like that and that was one of them.\"\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova: \"I think it's essential for Serena Williams to play more matches. You can't fake it. You need those matches. History can get in the way, and it can get difficult to get rid of those nerves.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The network suffered an outage on Friday due to what has been described as a \"technical incident related to its ground infrastructure\".\n\nEngineers worked around the clock over the weekend but there is no update yet on when the service will resume.\n\nThe problem means all receivers, such as the latest smartphone models, will not be picking up any useable timing or positional information.\n\nThese devices will be relying instead on the data coming from the American Global Positioning System (GPS).\n\nAnd depending on the sat-nav chip they have installed, cell phones and other devices might also be making connections with the Russian (Glonass) and Chinese (Beidou) networks.\n\nGalileo is still in a roll-out, or pilot phase, meaning it would not yet be expected to lead critical applications.\n\n\"People should remember that we are still in the 'initial services' phase; we're not in full operation yet,\" a spokesperson for the European GNSS Agency (GSA) told BBC News.\n\n\"This is something that can happen while we build the robustness into the system. We have recovery and monitoring actions, and we are implementing them, and we are working 24/7 to fix this as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe GSA issued a notification on Thursday warning users that Galileo's signals might become unreliable. An update was then sent out at 01:50 Central European Time on Friday to say that the service was out of use until further notice.\n\nThe search and rescue function on Galileo satellites that picks up the distress beacon messages from those at sea or up high mountains is said to be unaffected by the outage.\n\nGalileo is a multi-billion-euro project of the European Union and the European Space Agency. The EU owns the system, and Esa acts as the technical and procurement agent.\n\nThere are currently 22 operational satellites in orbit (another two are in space but in testing), with a further 12 under construction with industry. In addition to the spacecraft, Galileo relies on a complex ground infrastructure to control the network and monitor its performance.\n\nEurope's alternative to GPS went \"live\" with initial services in December 2016 after 17 years of development. The European Commission promotes Galileo as more than just a back-up service; it is touted also as being more accurate and more robust.\n\nAn outage across the entire network is therefore a matter of significant concern and no little embarrassment.\n\nSince its launch in 1978, GPS has become integral to the functioning of all modern economies.\n\nUsage goes far beyond just finding one's way through an unfamiliar city. The system's timing function has now become ubiquitous in many fields, including in the synchronisation of global financial transactions, telecommunications and energy networks.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Emily Hartridge built up a social media presence with her health and lifestyle advice\n\nStars including Davina McCall and Calum Best have paid tribute to TV presenter and YouTuber Emily Hartridge who has been killed in a crash in south London.\n\nShe is believed to be the victim of a crash involving an electric scooter and lorry in Battersea on Friday.\n\nA tribute on the 35-year-old's Instagram page described her as someone who \"touched so many lives\".\n\nShe had more than 340,000 YouTube subscribers to her channel and a big presence on Twitter and Instagram.\n\nHer channel offered health and lifestyle advice, and she founded the YouTube show '10 Reasons Why'. She had interviewed A-listers such as Hugh Jackman and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHartridge had also fronted a 4OD documentary on turning 30.\n\nA statement on Hartridge's Instagram page said: \"Emily was involved in an accident yesterday and passed away.\n\n\"We all loved her to bits and she will never be forgotten.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by emilyhartridge This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMcCall said in a response to the post on Instagram announcing the death: \"My heart goes out to Emily's family and friends. Such a shock. Sending you love and prayers.\"\n\nBest wrote that it was \"so sad and he was so sorry\".\n\nMonths prior to her death she had told The Sun of her decision to freeze her eggs and hopes of becoming a mum.\n\nOn Thursday she had shared a video of herself with a boyfriend on Instagram.\n\nA biography on the website of Insanity Group, her management agency, reveals she had a \"huge interest in mental health and fitness\".\n\n\"Following a very difficult period, she turned her life around,\" the bio said.\n\n\"One of the positive outcomes of her breakdown\" was that it became her \"mission to remove the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression\", it added.\n\nTV historian Greg Jenner tweeted he was \"deeply saddened\" by the death.\n\n\"I met @emilyhartridge on a train 5 years ago, and by the end of the journey we'd shared all sorts of things about our mental health and insomnia,\" he said.\n\n\"She was funny, kind, and open-hearted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch the moment that Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win England the World Cup.\n\nFOLLOW REACTION: England beat New Zealand to win first World Cup title\n\nWATCH MORE: Wood run out off the last ball as World Cup final ends in a tie\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "A crane lifted a section of the bridge from its footings\n\nA 110-year-old landmark bridge in Swansea has been lifted to be taken for restoration.\n\nPreparation work has been under way for weeks and the Bascule Bridge near the Liberty Stadium was moved on Sunday.\n\nMore than 20 workers, a 53m (174ft) crane and and a truck performed the manoeuvre.\n\nThe 70-tonne Grade II listed bridge will then be assessed and restored at Afon Engineering, Swansea Vale, and re-installed next year.\n\nThe Bascule Bridge was built in 1909 to strengthen Swansea's copper industry\n\nThe bridge was pivotal to the area's time as the world copper capital, and its hinged steel structure would lift to allow for river traffic to pass through.\n\nRobert Francis-Davies, of Swansea council, said: \"This is big news for the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks area - which is undergoing an exciting regeneration - and for Swansea which is so proud of its industrial past.\n\n\"Work is essential at this time to prevent further decay and risk of loss of this Grade II listed bridge which is also an officially scheduled historic monument.\n\nThe bridge has been fenced off to members of the public since 1999\n\n\"Any further delay would result in the loss of this valuable heritage that forms a critical part of Swansea's story.\"\n\nAlso known as the Morfa Bridge, it was built in 1909 to strengthen Swansea's copper industry by providing a rail link between the Morfa and Upper Bank works.\n\nDue to safety concerns the bridge has been fenced off to the public since 1999, and nearby Brunel Way road bridge will shut for the work to take place.\n\nIt forms part of a project to develop a tourist destination at the copper works, including restoring the Powerhouse for use as a Penderyn Distillery visitor attraction with £3.75m of Heritage Lottery funding.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Before turning to politics, Rod Richards worked as a journalist at BBC Wales\n\nRod Richards, the former Welsh Office minister and Conservative leader in the assembly, has died aged 72.\n\nHe came to prominence as a newsreader with BBC Wales, following a period with the Royal Marines.\n\nIn 1992 he was elected to Parliament, but lost his seat five years later, and switched to the Welsh Assembly.\n\nHe died on Saturday night at the Marie Curie Hospice in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, after a long battle with cancer, his family said.\n\nIn a statement, they said he passed away peacefully and was surrounded by his family.\n\n\"Rod's friends and family will remember his quick wit, kindness and love,\" it added.\n\n\"Dad dedicated much of his life to the service of a country he loved and felt passionate about.\n\n\"Rod's surviving three children and eight grandchildren will greatly miss their wonderful father and dadcu.\n\n\"The family wish to thank the hospice for their incredible care and compassion, and would ask the media for privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Richards was elected MP for Clwyd North West in 1992\n\nMonmouth Conservative MP David Davies said the pair became close friends in the 1990s.\n\n\"His sense of humour never failed and he was able to raise a chuckle when I visited him hours before he passed away,\" he said.\n\n\"His outspokenness did not always win him friends but was a refreshing contrast to the 'tell everyone what they want to hear' approach which seems to have become a hallmark of many in politics since the Blair era.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns tweeted: \"Very sad to learn of the passing of Rod Richards - a man with a great passion for politics. I had enormous respect for the political ability he demonstrated. My condolences go out to his friends and family.\"\n\nPaul Davies, Welsh Conservative assembly leader, added: \"He was an able and talented politician whose career had its ups and downs but he made in indelible mark on Welsh politics and devolution.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this time.\"\n\nMr Richards briefly led the Conservative group in Cardiff Bay before being forced to stand down, and he quit the assembly in 2002 due to his problems with alcohol.\n\nIn 2013 Mr Richards decided to join UKIP, saying he was \"disillusioned with mainstream parties\".\n\nA controversial character, Mr Richards was born in Llanelli in 1947.\n\nAfter two previous attempts to reach Parliament, success came in the 1992 general election when he was elected MP for Clwyd North West.\n\nHe was appointed a junior minister in the Welsh Office but was forced to resign in 1996 following allegations about his private life.\n\nIn the Commons, his combative style got him in trouble with the Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, for shouting \"liar\" at the Neath MP Peter Hain. He was forced to apologise to both Mr Hain and Ms Boothroyd.\n\nAnd his boss, the Welsh Secretary John Redwood, was forced to apologise on his behalf when he called Labour councillors \"short, fat, slimy and corrupt\".\n\nIn the 1997 Labour landslide he lost his parliamentary seat and turned his sights to the new National Assembly for Wales.\n\nIn the 1999 election he was defeated in his constituency seat but became an AM via the regional top-up list.\n\nMr Richards, pictured in the Welsh Assembly, was known for his combative style\n\nGareth Hughes, political commentator and former ITV Wales journalist, said Rod Richards was a \"passionate politician\".\n\n\"If you crossed Rod Richards, you knew you had,\" he said.\n\nThe politician was to the right of the \"old Conservative party\", said Mr Hughes, \"and would have been very comfortable in the current Conservative party\".\n\n\"He was very much an establishment person. He certainly didn't want devolution, that was clear. He regarded Westminster as very important. In that sense he was a loyalist to the union.\"\n\nMr Richards was the first AM to be sworn in on 10 May.\n\nIn a ballot of Welsh party members he became the Conservative party leader in the assembly.\n\nBut his tenure was short lived, having to stand down after begin charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a young woman, a charge he was later cleared of.\n\nHe was a combative politician, dubbed the \"rottweiler\", antagonising not only other parties but also his own.\n\nHis relationship with the Conservative group in the assembly was a fractious one, especially with the then new leader, Nick Bourne.\n\nHe sat as an \"independent Conservative\" until 2002 when he resigned his seat due to problems with alcohol.\n\nA year later he was declared bankrupt which he again linked to his alcoholism.", "The Duchess of Cornwall has sent a cake to the BBC's Test Match Special team during the World Cup final between England and New Zealand.\n\nThe iced elderflower and lemon sponge features both teams' helmets, a World Cup trophy and figures of captains Eoin Morgan and Kane Williamson.\n\nCommentator Jonathan Agnew said it was \"incredible... a work of art\".\n\nJulie Brownlee started baking seven days ago, but with the finalists only known on Thursday had her work cut out.\n\nIt was \"probably two weeks' work in one week\", she told the radio programme from the commentary box at Lord's.\n\nA note on Clarence House paper sent with the cake reads: \"I hope this cake will bowl you over! With my best wishes, Camilla.\"\n\nAgnew told TMS listeners the cake's helmets had \"absolutely perfect crests\" while a cricket ball featured an \"astonishingly accurate seam in white\".\n\nIt also features cricket bails made from sugar and the flags of all 10 nations who took part in the competition.\n\nJulie Brownlee told Jonathan Agnew the cake took a week to complete\n\nStroud-based Brownlee said she received a telephone call from the Duchess of Cornwall's private secretary with the order, adding Camilla had requested the flavour and was closely involved with the design.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall is a TMS fan and so was aware of the tradition of listeners sending cakes to the commentary team.\n\nShe is the second member of the Royal Family to do so, after the Queen presented them with a Dundee cake in 2001.\n\nAnother TMS listener to follow the tradition was Prime Minister Theresa May, who delivered homemade brownies when appearing on the programme during a test at Lord's in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The manta ray was helped by divers after being seen in distress last week\n\nWhen Freckles the manta ray approached divers Jake Wilton and Monty Halls in Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, they were shocked to see fishing hooks embedded under her right eye.\n\nMore surprising was that she stopped near them, appearing to ask for help.\n\nJake dived down several times, each time swimming up close and removing the hooks from her skin. Freckles waited patiently for him to finish.\n\nJake has since checked in on Freckles and told BBC News that she's doing well, and may even have recognised him.\n\n\"I went down for a dive [to check up on her] and she stopped and hung around for about 30 seconds above me - it was pretty wild,\" he said. \"They have self-awareness and can recognise individual manta rays, so she could have recognised me.\"\n\nFreckles - so-named because of a unique pattern of freckles on her belly - is thought to be about 30 years old, making her a venerable old lady in manta ray years.\n\nJake says it's likely she had been skimming the sea bed to scoop up plankton when the discarded hooks, used in recreational fishing, got caught near her eye.\n\nThe manta ray is called Freckles because of the unique markings on her belly\n\nIt's a common problem in Coral Bay, he says, although he adds that \"this is the first time we've had one actually approach us and try and get [the hooks] out\".\n\n\"It's all purely accidental, but a lot of the reefs out in the bay are areas where manta rays visit to be cleaned by little wrasse [fish], to keep them healthy,\" he explains. \"People fish on those cleaning stations, and then accidentally hook the manta rays.\"\n\nBoats are another big danger for manta rays in the area - most of the injuries the divers see are caused by boat propellers.\n\nJake says he and his colleagues are trying to push for areas of protection on the reef, \"to at least give [the manta rays] some safe spots\".\n\n\"All of the residential manta rays, who were already established here before tourism, are coming to the end of their lifespan,\" he says.\n\n\"So the biggest worry now is, when these guys go, the new manta rays that are coming in... are they going to call this place home, or are they going to come here and think, 'Oh this isn't a very good place to get cleaned, there are too many boats, too many tourists'?\"\n\nManta rays aren't dangerous - in fact, they're widely considered gentle giants of the sea. Jake adds that they're extremely intelligent, and that they have great memories.\n\n\"Over their life they'll have certain areas that they visit at certain times of the year, and they remember those spots and have relationships with other manta rays,\" he says.\n\n\"That's why it's so important to protect those areas, because they have to return to them.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC One from 12:45 and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra from 13:00 plus live text on the BBC Sport website and mobile app.\n\nRoger Federer must \"take it up a level\" to beat Novak Djokovic and claim a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title, says three-time champion John McEnroe.\n\nSwiss Federer, 37, produced a stellar performance to beat long-time rival Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals.\n\nSerbia's defending champion and world number one Djokovic, 32, is seen as the favourite by many to win a fifth title.\n\n\"It is going to be a tough task.\"\n\nTop seed Djokovic, 32, has won three of the past four Grand Slams, while Federer's most recent major triumph came at the 2018 Australian Open.\n\nFederer, the second seed, has won Wimbledon more times than any other man and will equal Martina Navratilova's all-time record with a ninth triumph.\n\nIt is the first Wimbledon final between the top two men's seeds since Djokovic and Federer met in 2015.\n\nThe pair are meeting for the 48th time in their illustrious careers - only Djokovic and Nadal have played more often.\n\nHow they reached the final\n\nDjokovic and Federer have looked on top of their grass-court games on their way to the final.\n\nDjokovic has dropped only two sets, although he has not faced an opponent seeded in the top 20.\n\nUp until his three-hour battle against Nadal, Federer had only dropped sets against Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori and, more surprisingly, South African debutant Lloyd Harris in the opening round.\n\nWhat they say about each other\n\n\"We all know how good he is anywhere, but especially here. This surface complements his game very much.\n\n\"He loves to play very fast. He takes away the time from his opponent.\n\n\"He just rushes you to everything. So for players maybe like Nadal or myself that like to have a little more time, it's a constant pressure that you have to deal with.\n\n\"I've played with Roger in some epic finals here a couple years in a row, so I know what to expect.\"\n\n\"If I think of Novak, one thing that jumps out at me is his jump back and to the left.\n\n\"It's how he's able to defend on that side, which I think has won him numerous matches and trophies.\n\n\"He does that better than anybody. Nobody else really has it as consistent and good as he has.\"\n\nCan Djokovic close the gap on Federer in the 'GOAT' race?\n\nDjokovic's semi-final win over Roberto Bautista Agut ensured it would be a Wimbledon final between two of the 'big three' in the men's game for the first time since 2015.\n\nFederer has won 20 Grand Slam titles - a record for a male player, Djokovic 15 and Nadal 18.\n\nA fifth Wimbledon triumph for Djokovic, who won the 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2018 titles, would take him closer than he has ever been to Federer's tally.\n\nAlmost six years younger than Federer, Djokovic could add plenty more barring a loss of form or fitness.\n\nHis pursuit of Federer and Nadal is made more remarkable by the fact he won his first major in 2008 - when Federer had claimed 13 and Nadal five - and only added a second three years later.\n\nFederer, widely considered the greatest grass-court player to have graced Wimbledon, had the backing of the majority of the 15,000 crowd in his semi-final win over Nadal.\n\nDjokovic has struggled to earn the same level of popularity as Federer and Nadal throughout his career and appeared to get tetchy when Centre Court supported Bautista Agut.\n\nHe threw his hands into the air when they cheered Bautista Agut winning the second set, then put his fingers to his lips and cupped his ear after winning a 45-shot rally on a break point.\n\n\"Regardless of who's across the net or what is happening around, I'll definitely give it my all,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"It won't be the first time playing against Nadal nor Federer on the Centre Court. I've had that experience more than once. I know what to expect.\n\n\"I had enough support here over the years, so I don't complain.\"\n\n'I see Novak winning in four sets'\n\nWhat I really respect about Novak Djokovic is that he inspires himself [by geeing up the crowd] and plays better. That's what really matters.\n\nHe is one of the all-time great movers on a tennis court. He gets to a lot more balls than people expect. He makes you hit so many extra shots and it drives you nuts.\n\nAs for Roger, can you imagine five or six years ago that he would be trading forehands with Rafa Nadal at his age? It's unthinkable.\n\nCan Federer do it? Of course he can. But I see Novak winning in four sets.\n\nTim Henman, former British number one and four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist\n\nFederer has got to play even better but the crowd will have a big part to play. The crowd will be massively on his side.\n\nFederer has to get off to a good start but Djokovic is the favourite.\n• None Djokovic will stay as world number one regardless of Sunday's outcome, while Federer will rise to second in the rankings if he wins.\n• None It will be the 48th meeting between the number one and two seeds in a Grand Slam men's singles final in the Open era, with the top seed prevailing 24 times.\n• None It will be the 15th meeting between the number one and two seeds at Wimbledon, wit the top seed prevailing eight times.\n• None Federer is bidding to become the second player to beat Djokovic and Nadal in the same Grand Slam, following in the footsteps of Swiss Stan Wawrinka at the 2014 Australian Open\n• None At 37 years 340 days, Federer is bidding to become the oldest player in the Open era to win a Grand Slam men's singles title", "The man fell nearly 200 feet, but miraculously survived\n\nNiagara Falls Park Police say a man was \"swept over\" a waterfall, but survived the drop of roughly 188ft (57 metres) into the raging river below.\n\nThe man \"was observed to climb over retaining wall\" around 04:00 (09:00 GMT) on Tuesday before falling over the cliff, police said on Twitter.\n\nAfter searching beneath the falls, police found the man \"sitting on rocks\" with non-life threatening injuries.\n\nThe man, who police have not identified, was taken to hospital.\n\nThe man was near the brink of Horseshoe Falls - the largest of the three falls that make up Niagara Falls, officials say.\n\nHe was found on the side of the river near the Journey Behind the Falls observation platform, according to Buffalo News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMayor Jim Diodati of Niagara Falls, Ontario, told the newspaper that he believes \"all-time high [water] levels\" may have contributed to saving the man's life.\n\n\"When Lake Erie is higher and flowing more robustly to Lake Ontario, there is a better chance of missing the massive boulders under the Horseshoe Falls,\" Mr Diodati said.\n\n\"The only way you would ever have a chance to survive that kind of a fall was to overshoot the large rocks below,\" he continued, adding: \"In this case, for this individual, hopefully he will see it as a blessing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe park - which contains North America's largest waterfall and sits on the US-Canada border - draws tens of millions of visitors each year.\n\nAccording to the Niagara Parks website, more than six million cubic feet of water rush over the crest of the falls every minute.\n\nThe features, the park says, \"may be the fastest moving waterfalls in the world\".\n\nMany have died going over the falls, but a handful have managed to survive in the past.\n\nAccording to Buffalo News, an estimated 25 people kill themselves by going over the falls each year.\n\nFrom Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911\n\nYou can contact the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or the Crisis Test Line by texting HOME to 741741\n\nYoung people in need of help can call Kids Help Phone on 1-800-668-6868\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can call the Samaritans on 116123", "A man has been arrested after climbing over Buckingham Palace's front gates in the middle of the night, police have said.\n\nThe 22-year-old was held on suspicion of trespass at around 02:00 BST on Wednesday by specialist royal officers, the Metropolitan Police Service said.\n\nThe Queen was in residence at the time, a palace spokeswoman confirmed.\n\nThe intruder was not carrying a weapon and the incident is not being treated as terror-related, the force said.\n\nThe palace spokeswoman declined to say whether the Queen had been informed of the incident.\n\nAt their lowest point the gates are several metres high.\n\nThe man has been released under investigation, Scotland Yard said.", "Donald Trump has been \"disrespectful\" towards the prime minister and the UK, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHis comments come after President Trump called Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.\n\nHe went on to criticise Theresa May over Brexit, saying she had ignored his advice and gone her \"own foolish way\".\n\nOn Sunday emails revealed the ambassador had called the Trump administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nMeanwhile, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox's scheduled meeting with the US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the US was cancelled on Tuesday.\n\nMr Hunt responded to Mr Trump's latest outburst by tweeting: \"Friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country.\"\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful also said he would keep Sir Kim in his post until he retires at Christmas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US in a TV debate\n\nDuring a televised debate, Boris Johnson, the current Tory leadership frontrunner, was pushed on whether he would keep the ambassador, but said he \"wouldn't be so presumptuous\" as to think he would be in a position to do that.\n\nMr Johnson said he had \"a good relationship\" with the White House and that it was important to have a \"close partnership\" with the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the row was a reminder of the \"tricky and sensitive\" nature of the UK's relationship with the US and the challenge facing the Tory leadership hopefuls in dealing with a president \"who seems to love stirring up controversy\".\n\n\"It's Jeremy Hunt, normally seen as the more cautious of the two, who's speaking much more plainly and directly to Donald Trump on the matter, while Boris Johnson has said only that he's not embarrassed about being close to the White House,\" she said.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's comments on Monday that the US would \"no longer deal\" with Sir Kim, the US State Department said it would continue \"to deal with any accredited individuals until we get any further guidance from the White House or the president\".\n\n\"We have an incredibly special and strategic relationship with the United Kingdom that has gone on for quite a long time - it's bigger than any individual or government,\" the department added.\n\nA spokesman for Theresa May said that Sir Kim is \"a dutiful, respected government official\" and confirmed there were no plans for Mrs May and Mr Trump to hold a call to discuss relations following the leak.\n\nNumber 10 also confirmed that Sir Kim would not be attending a meeting between Ivanka Trump and the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox in Washington.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"He isn't attending that meeting but he is supporting Liam Fox in other ways on his trip.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday Mr Trump tweeted: \"The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy.\n\n\"He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was handled.\n\n\"I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster!\n\n\"I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far...and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger...Thank you, Mr. President!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNumber 10 previously called the leak, reported in the Mail on Sunday, \"unfortunate\" and has begun a formal investigation. It said the UK and US still shared a \"special and enduring\" relationship.\n\nConfidential emails from the UK's ambassador contained a string of criticisms of Mr Trump and his administration, and said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and divided under his presidency.\n\nSir Kim, who became ambassador to the US in January 2016 about a year before Mr Trump took office, also questioned whether the White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned that the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The former prime minister says it would be \"unacceptable\" to force through a-no deal\n\nFormer prime minister Sir John Major has told the BBC he would seek a judicial review in the courts if the new prime minister tried to suspend Parliament to deliver a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSir John said such a move would be \"utterly and totally unacceptable\".\n\nUsing a judicial review, anyone can apply to challenge the lawfulness of decisions made by the government.\n\nBoris Johnson - the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race - has refused to rule out proroguing Parliament.\n\nA source close to Boris Johnson told the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith that Sir John \"has gone completely bonkers\" and had \"clearly been driven completely mad by Brexit\".\n\nThey said the threat of court action was \"absurd\" and risked dragging the Queen into politics.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's deal. Currently, the date for exit is 31 October.\n\nIf that date is reached without a deal being agreed on the separation process, then the UK will leave without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nProrogation ends a parliamentary session, meaning MPs can no longer vote on legislation. A new session opens with the State Opening of Parliament and the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe question of prorogation was raised during a lTV debate between Mr Johnson and his rival in the race to lead the Conservative Party Jeremy Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt categorically ruled it out but Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n\nJohn Major says proroguing Parliament would put the Queen amidst \"a constitutional controversy\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Sir John said: \"In order to close down Parliament, the prime minister would have to go to Her Majesty the Queen and ask for her permission.\"\n\nHe said it would be \"inconceivable\" the Queen would refuse his request and that she would be put \"amidst a constitutional controversy\".\n\n\"The Queen's decision cannot be challenged in law, but the prime minister's advice to the Queen can, I believe, be challenged in law - and I for one would be prepared to seek judicial review to prevent Parliament being bypassed,\" he said.\n\nSir John also criticised the \"artificial\" Brexit deadline of 31 October which he said \"had a great deal more to do with the election of leader for the Conservative Party than the interests of the country\".\n\n\"National leaders look first at the interests of the country - not first at the interests of themselves,\" he added.\n\nConservative MP and Boris Johnson supporter Chris Philp described Sir John's threat as \"a stunt\" adding \"I don't think it is a serious proposition\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Prorogation is not the plan A or even plan B or plan C. The main plan is to get a deal agreed with the European Union.\"\n\nHowever, Labour peer and Remain supporter Lord Falconer said Sir John had \"accurately set out the legal position\".\n\nThe former justice secretary said that \"to advise the Queen to prevent Parliament from doing its job would be to cut out the most basic part of our constitution and therefore would be unlawful.\"\n\nSir John's comments give you an idea of the distrust, hostility and division now gripping the Tory party in this contest.\n\nThat prospect of a judicial review opens up an entirely new front in the campaign to halt no deal.\n\nWe know already a number of Tory MPs - like Dominic Grieve - are trying to devise parliamentary mechanisms to thwart no deal - so far with no success.\n\nNow we have John Major opening up an entirely new judicial route to stop Boris Johnson from proroguing parliament.\n\nIt points to the key dividing line in the party. It is not the backstop, not the Northern Ireland border, not the date we leave.\n\nThe real dividing line is over attitudes to no deal. It is clear Boris Johnson's supporters are pretty sanguine about it.\n\nOn the other hand figures like John Major and Philip Hammond believe there are profound risks - and that is the crunch dividing line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran's representative to the UN: Europeans \"are not honouring their commitments\" on nuclear deal\n\nThe US has accused Iran of a \"crude and transparent attempt to extort payments from the international community\" by violating the 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nThe US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no credible reason for Iran to breach two key commitments on uranium enrichment.\n\nIran has said the steps were a response to the sanctions the US reinstated when it abandoned the deal last year.\n\nIt has vowed to reverse them if it is given compensation for economic losses.\n\nEuropean powers still party to the deal have set up a mechanism for facilitating legitimate trade without direct financial transactions that they hope will circumvent the US sanctions. However, Iran has said it does not meet its needs.\n\nIran's representative to the UN in New York told the BBC that the Europeans could do more, and that if they did not Iran would take further steps.\n\n\"If nothing happens in the next 60 days we will have to go to the third phase. The elements of the third phase are not known yet, but when it comes to that we will announce what we are going to do,\" Majid Takht-Ravanchi warned.\n\nIran's president told a French envoy \"the path of diplomacy and talks\" was \"completely open\"\n\nAt Wednesday's special meeting of the IAEA board of governors in Vienna, diplomats were reportedly told that the global watchdog's inspectors had verified Iran was enriching uranium to 4.5% concentration - above the 3.67% limit set by the nuclear deal.\n\nThe country announced the step three days ago, saying it wanted to be able to produce fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant.\n\nThe IAEA was also said to have verified that Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium had grown since the 300kg (660lb) limit was exceeded on 1 July.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nExperts have said the breach of the stockpile limit does not pose a near-term proliferation risk, but that enriching uranium to a higher concentration would begin to shorten Iran's so-called \"break-out time\" - the time required for it to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.\n\nIran insists it has never sought to develop a nuclear weapon. But the international community does not believe Iran, and negotiated a nuclear deal to prevent it from doing so.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the deal did not go far enough to restrict Iran's nuclear programme and unilaterally withdrew from the accord in May 2018.\n\nHe wants to replace it with one that would also curb Iran's ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts. But Iran has so far refused.\n\nUS ambassador Jackie Wolcott said it was imperative that Iran's \"misbehaviour\" not be rewarded\n\nAt the IAEA meeting, US ambassador Jackie Wolcott said Iran's recent actions and statements were deeply concerning, and affected security and stability.\n\n\"Iran's current nuclear posture is clearly aimed at escalating tensions rather than defusing them, and underscores the serious challenges Iran continues to pose to international peace and security,\" she said.\n\n\"Such brinkmanship and extortion tactics will neither resolve the current impasse nor bring Iran sanctions relief. The path the regime is now on will only deepen its international isolation and raise the dangers it faces.\"\n\nMs Wolcott said it was imperative that Iran's \"misbehaviour\" not be rewarded.\n\n\"For if it is, Iran's demands and provocations will only escalate - as has happened all too often in the past,\" she warned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ambassador called on Iran to reverse its nuclear steps and halt any plans for further advancements in the future.\n\n\"The United States has made clear that we are open to negotiation without preconditions, and that we are offering Iran the possibility of a full normalisation of relations,\" she added.\n\nIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran's actions were \"lawful\" under the deal, which allows one party to \"cease performing its commitments… in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by other parties.\n\nPresident Trump later alleged in a tweet that Iran had been \"secretly 'enriching' uranium in total violation\" of the deal made by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and promised that sanctions would \"soon be increased, substantially\".\n\nMr Trump did not give any further details. But the IAEA had repeatedly verified Iran's compliance with the deal until this month and Iran's ambassador to the agency, Kazim Gharib Abadi, said it had \"nothing to hide.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the top diplomatic adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron held talks in Tehran with Iranian officials to try to avoid further escalation.\n\nEmmanuel Bonne was told by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that Iran had \"kept the path of diplomacy and talks completely open\" and that it hoped other parties to the nuclear deal would be able to \"use this opportunity properly\".", "People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced.\n\nFrom this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the official NHS website when UK users ask for health-related advice.\n\nThe government in England said it could reduce demand on the NHS.\n\nPrivacy campaigners have raised data protection concerns but Amazon say all information will be kept confidential.\n\nThe partnership was first announced last year and now talks are under way with other companies, including Microsoft, to set up similar arrangements.\n\nPreviously the device provided health information based on a variety of popular responses.\n\nThe use of voice search is on the increase and is seen as particularly beneficial to vulnerable patients, such as elderly people and those with visual impairment, who may struggle to access the internet through more traditional means.\n\nUnder the partnership, Amazon's algorithm uses information from the NHS website to provide answers to questions such as, \"How do I treat a migraine?\" and, \"What are the symptoms of chickenpox?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was right for the NHS to \"embrace\" technology in this way, predicting it would reduce pressure on \"our hard-working GPs and pharmacists\".\n\n\"We want to empower every patient to take better control of their healthcare,\" he added.\n\nHe said it was the latest step in a technological revolution in the NHS.\n\nDirector Silkie Carlo said: \"Any public money spent on this awful plan rather than frontline services would be a breathtaking waste.\n\n\"Healthcare is made inaccessible when trust and privacy is stripped away, and that's what this terrible plan would do.\"\n\nAmazon told the Times that it did not share information with third parties, nor does it build a profile on customers.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All data was encrypted and kept confidential. Customers are in control of their voice history and can review or delete recordings.\"\n\nThe government has set up a unit, NHSX, to boost the use of digital technologies in the health service.\n\nAmong the measures already being pursued are an expansion of electronic prescribing and the use of artificial intelligence to analyse scans.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, of the Royal College of GPs, said the move had \"potential\", especially for minor ailments.\n\nBut she said it was vital that independent research was done to make sure the advice being given was safe or it could \"prevent people seeking proper medical help and create even more pressure\".\n\nAnd she added it was important to remember that not everyone was comfortable using such technology, or could afford it.", "There was a lot of finger pointing, a lot of flailing, and a lot of squabbling between the two powerful politicians locked in the race to become our next prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson, who has been dreaming of this moment for years through a career of highs, and profound lows, with No 10 nearly in his grasp.\n\nAnd Jeremy Hunt, a politician who has held high office for nearly a decade, but who started this race believing that his bid for the biggest job was a long shot.\n\nThere was, inevitably, the usual sprinkling of attempted jokes from Boris Johnson. After weeks of holding it together he could not quite tame the instinct to jibe.\n\nJeremy Hunt was punctilious and precise in his usual manner.\n\nBut in a curious way they swapped sides too tonight. Hunt trying to provoke, to land spiky points and Mr Johnson trying hard not to offend, whether it was his ally in the White House, or the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth teams will leave Salford content with their candidates' performance.\n\nThe gaffe prone former foreign secretary avoided slipping on any banana skins, and managing not to commit on some of the more controversial issues before him. And the current foreign secretary managed to land his blows on his opponent.\n\nThere was perhaps though no jaw dropper, no moment that turned this race upside down.\n\nMr Johnson arrived the favourite and leaves in the same position. Mr Hunt turned up keen to show that he is ready to use sharp elbows to scrap and to make himself heard with attacks on his rival that are a contrast to his normal careful style.\n\nTheir respective status as the front runner and challenger may not have changed.\n\nYet while Jeremy Hunt may not, from this performance alone, manage to stop Boris Johnson's journey to No 10, he has at least shown that if he gets there, he is likely to face a very tricky time.\n\nConservative party members have their ballots now, and many will already have voted.\n\nBut there is technically still nearly two weeks for those forms to be filled in and put into the post. While the shouting is over for now, the decision is not yet done.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed the body was Pat McCormick's at a press conference\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of Pat McCormick have found his body in Ballygowan in County Down.\n\nThe 55-year-old father of four was last seen on Castle Street in Comber in County Down at about 22:30 BST on 30 May, driving his black car.\n\nSearches for Mr McCormick, who is from nearby Saintfield, have been taking place around the Ards peninsula.\n\nAt a press conference, Det Ch Insp Pete Montgomery confirmed the body was that of Mr McCormick.\n\nMr Montgomery said that at 14:20 BST on Tuesday, police recovered Mr McCormick's body in a lake in the Ballygowan area, following a planned search.\n\nHe said his thoughts were with Mr McCormick's family.\n\n\"As a result of information received, I conducted a number of searches in lakes over three days and subsequently recovered Pat's body,\" he added.\n\n\"If that information came as a result of someone calling Crimestoppers, I would like to thank that person and ask them if they want to speak to me directly.\n\n\"If not, I will respect your position.\"\n\nPat McCormick, who is originally from Saintfield, had been missing since 30 May\n\nMr Montgomery renewed his appeal for information about Mr McCormick's murder and said how he was killed and the motive form part of his investigation.\n\nHe said he was keen to trace the movements of a blue Ford Transit van, registration number JLZ 1672, with distinctive silver wings at the front.\n\nHe said on Thursday 30 May at approximately 23:30 the van was seen heading country bound on the Killinchy Road.\n\nThe same vehicle was in Comber on Friday 31 May in the car park at the back of Supervalu at about 08:15. Mr Montgomery said the van was seen leaving at 10:15 and heading country bound on the Killinchy Road in the direction of Lisbane.\n\nThe vehicle was also seen on the Old Ballygowan Road later on Friday 31 May heading in a country bound direction.\n\nPolice are keen to trace the movements of a blue Ford Transit van registration JLZ 1672\n\nMr Montgomery said Mr McCormick's phone \"remained outstanding\", an iPhone SE with a distinctive black and red cover.\n\nHe said he had conducted 38 searches to date and spoken to 235 witnesses.\n\nMr Montgomery also read out a statement from Mr McCormick's brother Harry on behalf of the family.\n\n\"The last six weeks have been devastating for his parents, brothers, wife and his beautiful four children, however, we are grateful to now have Pat home for our final goodbyes and burial,\" the statement said.\n\nMr Montgomery said Mr McCormick's wife, Alison, thanked the Comber community for \"all their help and information that they have given police to help recover Pat\" .\n\nCCTV footage released by police shows Pat McCormick before he disappeared\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place to establish how Mr McCormick died.\n\nPolice previously said thousands of hours of CCTV footage had been gathered as part of the investigation.\n\nA number of people have been arrested in relation to Mr McCormick's murder, but no-one has been charged.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I always dread the beginning of a new term'\n\nSchools in Wales are being urged to have uniforms which are more affordable, accessible and gender neutral, by new statutory guidelines.\n\nPrevious 2011 guidance from the Welsh Government was non-statutory, meaning schools were not legally required to have regard to it.\n\nThe changes will come into force from September.\n\nParents will be able to make formal complaints to schools that do not take the guidelines into account.\n\nThe government said ways of reducing the costs of the uniform could include stipulating basic items and colours but not styles, which would mean clothing could be bought from different shops.\n\nWhether or not school logos were \"strictly necessary\" and if uniforms needed to differ for summer and winter were also points expected to be considered by schools.\n\nA consultation was launched last autumn following the summer heat wave, in which some parents claimed that uniform policies were too strict.\n\nNew policies are also expected to be gender neutral, meaning that items like trousers would not be described as \"for boys\".\n\nThe changes are set to come into place in September\n\nJulie Ann Richards, whose daughter is a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg in Rhondda Cynon Taff, said the current cost of a new uniform for a single parent like herself was prohibitive.\n\nThe school, and its primary feeder school, will be closing at the end of term and re-opening as one school for three to 19-year-olds - with a new uniform, which Ms Richard expects to cost about £200.\n\n\"For me, as a single mother, that is a lot of money and it means the difference between a holiday this year or not,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried about those parents who have more than one child at the school,\" she said.\n\nTrystan Edwards, the head teacher, said there were numerous suppliers available to parents to purchase uniform.\n\n\"As well as that, there is a transitional year for the first year of the new school, and an additional year for PE kit, and therefore there is ample opportunity there to be using existing uniform.\n\n\"We have also set aside some funds to give assistance to all the families claiming free school meals, but also those who are on that poverty line who wish to have further assistance,\" he said.\n\nMr Edwards said that in general the new guidelines were to be welcomed.\n\nBut he added: \"It's very difficult for us to react, and be mobile as far as governing body approval, to such guidelines so late in the academic year.\n\n\"We could have done with this in midwinter in order for us to prepare as schools.\"\n\nTrystan Edwards said it was difficult for schools to react so late in the academic year\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said it was \"signalled a significant time ago what the Welsh Government intended to do\".\n\nShe explained that school leaders and governing bodies will still decide their own policy, but added that they will be required to take the issues of affordability into consideration.\n\nMs Williams added that parents will be able to make formal complaints to schools if they feel that the guidelines have not been taken into account.\n\nMother-of-three Sarah Hoss, from Pembrokeshire, said the new guidelines were \"a really good idea\".\n\n\"I think so many parents struggle when you have to buy the official uniform... It's frankly ridiculous because the price is very, very different.\"\n\nShe added: \"In my case there were no hand-me-downs to be had because they were all in separate schools and there was a big age gap too.\"\n\nThrough the pupil development grant, the Welsh Government provides £125 for students eligible for free school meals to buy uniforms and other equipment.\n\nEligible year seven pupils are also entitled to a grant of £200 to help with the costs when beginning secondary school.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said parents will be able to make formal complaints to schools if they feel they have not taken the guidelines into account", "Apidima 1 (shown here in a reconstruction) has all the characteristics of a modern human skull\n\nResearchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa.\n\nA skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by the Neanderthals.\n\nThe sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Nature.\n\n\"It's about five times older than any other evidence of modern humans in Europe. And obviously it's older even than Misliya from Israel (a 150,000-year-old early modern human fossil). The shape of the back of the skull is very modern looking and it's potentially the oldest fossil that shows this modern look to the back of the skull,\" Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News.\n\nThe earliest proposed Homo sapiens, a 300,000-year-old skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, does not show this rounded, high back.\n\nThe latest evidence was uncovered at the site of Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s. Two skulls were found; one was very distorted and the other incomplete, however, and it took computed tomography scanning and uranium-series dating to unravel their secrets.\n\nThe more complete skull appears to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a rounded back to the skull, diagnostic of modern humans.\n\nWhat's more, the Neanderthal skull was younger.\n\n\"Now our scenario was that there was an early modern group in Greece by 210,000 years ago, perhaps related to comparable populations in the Levant, but it was subsequently replaced by a Neanderthal population (represented by Apidima 2) by about 170,000 years ago,\" said Prof Stringer.\n\nApidima 2 appears to be a Neanderthal and is later than the modern human skull\n\nPeople living outside Africa today trace their ancestry to a migration that left the continent 60,000 years ago.\n\nAs these modern humans expanded across Eurasia, they largely replaced other species they encountered, such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans.\n\nBut this wasn't the first migration of modern humans (Homo sapiens) from Africa.\n\nHomo sapiens fossils from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel were dated in the 1990s to between 90,000 and 125,000 years ago.\n\nThese were viewed as anomalies - a brief foray outside our African homeland that came to very little.\n\nHowever, in recent years, we've come to understand that our species ranged outside Africa even earlier and further than we'd previously believed.\n\nIn the last few years, palaeontologists have discovered modern human fossils from Daoxian and Zhirendong in China dating to between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago.\n\nDNA studies have turned up signs of early interbreeding between African humans and Neanderthals. Evidence from German Neanderthals shows that mixing occurred between 219,000 and 460,000 years ago, although it's not clear if Homo sapiens was involved, or another early African group.\n\n\"The movement of the people into Europe, that was actually was a warm stage - Marine Isotope Stage 7 - when it did warm up. So that may have been a reason why the population was able to expand into Europe at that time,\" said Prof Stringer.\n\n\"Soon afterwards, we get a much colder stage starting. Possibly, climate change was a reason why the group died out and Neanderthals re-established themselves.\"\n\nOn the affinities of the Apidima 1 skull, Prof Stringer says: \"It's obviously only on the parts preserved. We have to be careful, it is only on the back of the skull, the front might have been more primitive, who knows. But going on what we've got it can be diagnosed as a modern human going on the parts preserved.\n\n\"If we're right about it, there must be some more evidence of this population and ones like it, still to be discovered.\"", "Dr Tisha Rowe said she felt \"policed for being black\" and curvaceous\n\nAmerican Airlines has apologised after allegedly telling a female passenger to wrap herself in a blanket to hide her outfit.\n\nDr Tisha Rowe said the incident happened on 30 June on a flight to Miami from a family holiday in Jamaica.\n\nThe 37-year-old said online she felt body-shamed and humiliated after being told to cover her \"assets\".\n\nA tweet she shared of the playsuit she was wearing has been shared thousands of times since.\n\nDr Rowe was flying from Kingston with her eight-year-old son when the incident occurred.\n\nShe alleged a flight attendant first asked her to step off the plane, then described her outfit as \"inappropriate\" to fly and asked if she had a jacket to \"cover up\" with.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tisha Rowe MD, MBA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tisha Rowe MD, MBA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter attempts to defend her outfit apparently failed and her son become upset, Dr Rowe said she felt forced to wrap a blanket around her waist and return to her seat feeling \"humiliated\".\n\n\"To me, there was never an ounce of empathy, an ounce of apology, any attempt to maintain my dignity throughout the situation,\" she told Buzzfeed News.\n\nDr Rowe has also accused the airline of racial bias and discriminating against her body type.\n\n\"We are policed for being black,\" she said in one tweet. \"Our bodies are over sexualized as women and we must ADJUST to make everyone around us comfortable.\"\n\n\"I've seen white women with much shorter shorts board a plane without a blink of an eye.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the airline said they had apologised to Dr Rowe and her son and refunded their travel.\n\n\"We were concerned about Dr Rowe's comments, and reached out to her and our team at the Kingston airport to gather more information about what occurred,\" a spokeswoman said in a statement to US media.\n\n\"We are proud to serve customers of all backgrounds and are committed to providing a positive, safe travel experience for everyone who flies with us.\"\n\nIn 2017 the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) issued a \"national travel advisory\" about American Airlines, citing \"possible racial bias\" and \"disturbing incidents\".\n\nThey later lifted the advisory in 2018, after working with them for a year on initiatives like implicit bias training.", "Fiona Bruce was due to present the Question Time special\n\nA BBC Question Time special with the two Conservative leadership candidates \"now looks unlikely to go ahead\".\n\nThe programme was scheduled for Tuesday, but a spokeswoman said the BBC had not been able to \"reach agreement\" with Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson.\n\nIt is understood one had concerns about the format - half of the audience would be Tory supporters and the other would represent alternative political views.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted: \"Can confirm I am not said candidate.\"\n\nThe news comes a day after Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson faced each other for a head-to-head debate on ITV.\n\nThe pair clashed in a lively and occasionally bad-tempered debate, discussing topics including Brexit and the UK's relationship with the US.\n\nThe BBC will still be showing two one-on-one interviews with the candidates, hosted by Andrew Neil, on BBC One this Friday at 19:00 BST.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We've already hosted a leadership debate and Andrew Neil's interviews on Friday will ensure both candidates are given forensic examination on prime-time BBC One.\n\n\"While the BBC is keen to host a Question Time special as well, we have not so far been able to reach agreement on the format and it now looks unlikely we'll be able to go ahead with this additional programme.\"", "The Swedish prison where ASAP Rocky is being held is in \"good condition\", its governor has told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nFredrik Wallin was responding to claims on website TMZ, reportedly from a US Embassy official, that walking into Kronoberg prison is like \"walking into a toilet\".\n\nThe website had claimed the rapper is being held in a \"disease-ridden\" prison where the food is \"inedible\".\n\nASAP Rocky was arrested last week on suspicion of assault.\n\nHe's being held while Swedish authorities investigate a fight he's alleged to have been involved in.\n\nMr Wallin told Newsbeat he's not able to comment on individual prisoners.\n\n\"However, I am able to talk about the general conditions in the remand prison which apply to all prisoners,\" he said in a statement.\n\nKronoberg remand prison, where ASAP Rocky is being held awaiting trial\n\nTMZ's report mentioned Rocky being held in a cell next to someone with \"severe mental issues who slams his head against the concrete wall and hurls faeces every which way... faeces that are not cleaned up\".\n\nA source reportedly told them he was being made to sleep on a yoga mat with no blanket, drink water that was not clean, and had only been given an apple to eat each day during his first five days at the prison.\n\nSeparately, ASAP Mob member ASAP Ferg claims Rocky is being held in solitary confinement.\n\nThe claims have led to concern among ASAP Rocky's friends and fans, as well as a petition to free him.\n\nBut Mr Wallin says prisoners at Kronoberg normally live in cells that contain a desk, a bed with a mattress, and a TV.\n\nHe says the prison was renovated in the last few years, with all the prison cells being reconstructed, leaving the prison in \"good condition\".\n\nKronoberg authorities say this is representative of its prison cells\n\n\"I have no knowledge on any current diseases in the remand prison,\" Mr Wallin told Newsbeat.\n\nThe governor says that all prisoners in Swedish remand prison - where people stay while awaiting trial - receive three meals each day, and that a professional cleaning company \"immediately sanitises\" and cleans an area following food spillages or accidents that result in blood.\n\n\"This is done for the sake of the prisoners as well as for our staff, for them to have decent working conditions.\"\n\nSwedish remand prisons do contain some solitary cells - but the Swedish Prison and Probation Service says they're not commonly used and can only be reserved for violent prisoners, after a formal written decision has been made.\n\nASAP Rocky is being held in prison while Swedish prosecutors investigate a fight he was allegedly involved in.\n\nThe American had been in Stockholm to perform at a festival, but was arrested afterwards.\n\nVideo posted to his Instagram account showed Rocky and his crew asking two men to stop following them.\n\nOne of the men accused the 30-year-old's team of breaking his headphones.\n\nIn the caption for the first video ASAP Rocky wrote: \"We don't know these guys and we didn't want trouble. They followed us for four blocks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tyler, The Creator This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Tyler, The Creator\n\nIn the second, he accuses the man of hitting his security guard \"in the face with headphones\".\n\nA separate video published by TMZ following his arrest reportedly showed Rocky punching someone.\n\nOn Friday, following a hearing, Swedish authorities decided to keep Rocky in custody for an extra two weeks while the investigation is ongoing.\n\nIt meant the rapper couldn't attend Wireless festival in London, where he was headlining. He'd already missed scheduled slots at Longitude in Dublin and Open'er Festival in Poland.\n\nThat reportedly represents a more than $1 million loss in earnings for the rapper.\n\nSwedish authorities have the option of detaining Rocky for a further two weeks - after another hearing - if the investigation isn't completed during the time they initially requested.\n\nThe situation has led to friends of ASAP like Tyler, The Creator, ScHoolboy Q and Lil Yachty saying they are boycotting the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by cookin up LB3 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 2 by cookin up LB3\n\nTyler is going on tour later this year, which includes two dates in London (where he's recently had a ban overturned), but no other European dates.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted ASAP Rocky's team and the US Embassy in Sweden for comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "One of the stars of BBC comedy This Country, Michael Sleggs, has died at the age of 33.\n\nThe actor from Cirencester, played the character Slugs in BBC Three's Bafta-winning sitcom.\n\nEarlier this year, he revealed on social media that he had been in and out of hospital and was receiving palliative care for heart failure.\n\n\"We are completely heartbroken,\" the show's co-creators and stars Charlie and Daisy May Cooper wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Michael was utterly unique. He was kind, he was caring, he was loving. One of the most considerate, generous and gentle friends you could ever wish for and funny.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlie Cooper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe WTAF A This Country podcast's official Twitter account initially shared the news, posting: \"We are devastated!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by WTAF A THIS COUNTRY PODCAST This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by WTAF A THIS COUNTRY PODCAST\n\nHis friend and actor Camilla-Alicia Bates said Sleggs had died on Tuesday. \"So grateful I got to spend his final resting with him and so glad he is out of pain and at peace. I love you forever,\" she posted on Twitter.\n\nThe mockumentary chronicled the lives of people living in a small village in the Cotswolds. In the show, Sleggs - a personal friend of the Coopers - had terminal cancer and drew up a bucket list, which included playing Laser Quest.\n\nThe show's producer Simon Mayhew-Archer said Sleggs \"encapsulated the spirit\" of the show and \"brought tremendous joy to all who knew him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Simon Mayhew-Archer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShane Allen, controller of BBC Comedy, added that he was \"crushed by this sad news\".\n\nHe said: \"Michael was a true one off and an idiosyncratic part of the show's distinctive world. His work and spirit will endure as part of the ongoing popular legacy of this much-loved show. Our hearts go out to family and friends at this poignant time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Michael Sleggs: 'He dealt with an awful lot'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt traded jibes in a feisty debate on ITV\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have clashed on Brexit and UK relations with Donald Trump in a lively and occasionally bad-tempered TV debate.\n\nMr Hunt accused his rival of not being willing to \"put his neck on the line\" by saying he would quit as PM if he did not hit the 31 October deadline.\n\nMr Johnson said he admired his rival's ability \"to change his mind\" so often - a dig at the fact Mr Hunt voted Remain.\n\nMr Johnson declined to condemn Mr Trump for his response to the emails row.\n\nHe refused to confirm whether he would keep the UK's top diplomat in the US, Sir Kim Darroch, in his post until his scheduled retirement in December, after Mr Trump said he was no longer prepared to deal with him.\n\nThe US president has lambasted Sir Kim, and criticised Theresa May, after the diplomat described the White House as \"inept and dysfunctional\" in leaked cables.\n\nWhile stressing the value of the \"special relationship\" with the US, Mr Johnson insisted that only he, as prime minister, would take \"important and politically sensitive\" decisions such as who should represent the UK in the US.\n\nDuring the first head-to-head debate of the leadership campaign, the two clashed over their different Brexit strategies, political styles and why they were best equipped to be prime minister.\n\nThe exchanges were pointed and personal in nature at times, with former Mayor of London Mr Johnson dismissing his opponent's \"managerial\" style of politics and accusing him of flip-flopping on certain issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt said the UK needed a leader not a \"newspaper columnist\" - a reference to his rival's work for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHe joked that he admired Mr Johnson's \"ability to answer the question\", adding: \"He puts a smile on your face and you forget what the question was, a great quality for a politician but not necessarily a prime minister.\"\n\nAfter an opening speech from each contender, the foreign secretary immediately went on the attack over Brexit, pressing his rival on whether he would quit Downing Street if he failed to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October.\n\nHe said by failing to answer the question, Mr Johnson - who previously said the deadline was a \"do or die\" issue for him - showed he was motivated by personal ambition not leadership.\n\n\"It is not do or die,\" Mr Hunt said. \"It is Boris in Number 10 that matters.\"\n\nAccusing his rival of not being straight with the electorate, he said: \"Being prime minister is about telling people what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear.\"\n\nMr Johnson, in turn, said it was clear his rival was \"not absolutely committed\" to the deadline himself, branding him \"defeatist\".\n\nHe urged Mr Hunt to guarantee that Brexit would happen by Christmas, adding that the EU would not take a \"papier mache deadline\" seriously.\n\n\"If we are going to have a 31 October deadline, we must stick to it,\" he said. \"The EU will understand we are ready and will give us the deal we need.\n\n\"I don't want to hold out to the EU the prospect that they might encourage my resignation by refusing to agree a deal.\n\n\"I think it is extraordinary we should be telling the British electorate we are willing to kick the can down the road.\n\n\"I would like to know how many more days my opponent would be willing to delay.\"\n\nBoth men have said they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal, but Mr Johnson has been far more relaxed about the impact that could have.\n\nMr Hunt suggested his rival was \"minimising the risk of a no-deal Brexit\" and \"peddling optimism\", but Mr Johnson said the UK had had a \"bellyful of defeatism\" and the UK could look forward to a bright future outside the EU.\n\nThe pair also disagreed over whether they might be prepared to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal exit - so-called prorogation.\n\nWhile Mr Hunt categorically ruled this out, Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n\nBoth teams will leave Salford content with their candidates' performance.\n\nThe gaffe prone former foreign secretary avoided slipping on any banana skins, and managing not to commit on some of the more controversial issues before him.\n\nAnd the current foreign secretary managed to land his blows on his opponent.\n\nThere was perhaps though no jaw dropper, no moment that turned this race upside down.\n\nMr Johnson arrived the favourite and leaves in the same position. Mr Hunt turned up keen to show that he is ready to use sharp elbows to scrap and to make himself heard with attacks on his rival that are a contrast to his normal careful style.\n\nTheir respective status as the front runner and challenger may not have changed.\n\nYet while Jeremy Hunt may not, from this performance alone, manage to stop Boris Johnson's journey to No 10, he has at least shown that if he gets there, he is likely to face a very tricky time.\n\nOn the escalating diplomatic row with the US, Mr Hunt said the president's criticism of Sir Kim Darroch had been ill-judged and he would, if he became PM, not be forced into recalling the diplomat early.\n\nHe also took issue with Mr Trump for saying the prime minister had failed to listen to his advice and been made to look \"foolish\" over Brexit.\n\n\"His comments about Theresa May were unacceptable and I don't think he should have made them,\" he said, remarks which prompted audience applause.\n\nMr Johnson said the US president had been \"dragged into a British political debate\" not of his making, but did suggest his outburst on Twitter - in which he called Sir Kim a \"pompous fool\" - had \"not necessarily been the right thing to do\".\n\nWhile civil servants must be able to give confidential advice, he declined to comment on Sir Kim's future, only asking Mr Hunt to rule out \"extending his term out of sympathy\".\n\nBoth men have been criticised for making uncosted spending promises and offers of tax cuts during the campaign.\n\nMr Hunt sought to make capital out of Mr Johnson's pledge to give a tax cut to higher earners by raising the threshold at which people pay 40% tax from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\n\"It was a mistake, tax cuts for the rich,\" he said. \"I have spent my life trying to persuade people that we are not the party of the rich.\"\n\nMr Johnson defended what he said was a \"package\" of measures to reduce the tax burden for both low and middle earners and which he said would boost the economy.\n\nThe show, entitled Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, was hosted by journalist Julie Etchingham in front of a studio audience of 200 people at MediaCityUK in Salford.\n\nIt took place as 160,000 or so party members get the chance to vote by post on who should succeed Theresa May.\n\nThe winner and next PM will be revealed on 23 July - it will be the first time a sitting prime minister has been chosen by party members.", "The 59-year-old molecular biologist worked for the world-renowned Max Planck Institute\n\nThe body of an American scientist has been found inside a World War Two bunker on the Greek island of Crete.\n\nSuzanne Eaton, who went missing more than a week ago after going on a run, died of suffocation, police confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThey say they are investigating the case as a criminal act.\n\nThe 59-year-old molecular biologist from the world-renowned Max Planck Institute in Germany had been attending a conference on the island.\n\nShe was found on rough and rocky terrain inside the abandoned bunker about 10km (six miles) away from where she was last seen, according to police in the port city of Chania, where the conference was being held.\n\nShe was reported missing on 2 July and a large search effort was launched.\n\nSix days later, her body was discovered by two locals exploring the bunker, which is a system of manmade caves used by the Nazis during the occupation of Crete in World War Two.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suzanne Eaton's body was found in the north-east of the island\n\nAccording to Cretalive news website, a forensic autopsy found she had been suffocated but there was no other indication of trauma.\n\nPolice are investigating whether Suzanne Eaton was killed inside the bunker or moved there after the event, it adds.\n\nThe Greek Reporter website said her body had been covered in burlap, a rough cloth, leading Greek authorities to conclude she had been killed.\n\nAccording to a local official speaking to ABC News, the area around the bunker, which lies to the north-west of the island, is a popular tourist spot.\n\nThe scientist's family, friends and colleagues had launched a Facebook page co-ordinating search efforts and offering a €50,000 ($56,000; £45,000) reward for information on her whereabouts.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Searching for Suzanne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by Searching for Suzanne\n\nThe Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics said in a statement: \"It is with enormous sadness and regret that we announce the tragic demise of our dearest friend and colleague, Suzanne Eaton... We are deeply shocked and disturbed by this tragic event.\"\n\nSuzanne Eaton was married with two sons.", "Joy Watson is recovering at home in Salford with her husband Tony\n\nA woman with dementia was punched in the face while she was wearing a badge saying \"I have Alzheimer's please be patient\".\n\nJoy Watson, 61, has been left with a broken eye socket following the attack on Sunday in Bridlington, East Yorkshire.\n\nMrs Watson, of Eccles, Salford, said a man had attacked her after she told him he was mistreating his dog.\n\nHumberside Police has confirmed it is investigating.\n\nMrs Watson, who was given a Points of Light award by former Prime Minister David Cameron for her volunteer work, was at a roadside cafe having breakfast at about 10:00 BST.\n\nShe complained to the man about his treatment of the animal and urged him to be more gentle but was told \"it's none of your business\".\n\nMrs Watson said she warned the man again when she saw him putting the dog on the seat of his car without a belt.\n\nBut the man swore at her and then punched her.\n\nMrs Watson, who was visiting Bridlington to watch some friends take part in a cycle race, said: \"He gave me one massive hit - a huge thump to which I fell and hit my back on the concrete.\n\n\"He left me without knowing whether I was alive or not.\"\n\nPolice said the suspect was in his 60s and wearing fawn and brown coloured clothing.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The victim, who is in her 60s and from the Manchester area, saw what she reported as a man mistreating his dog.\n\n\"She confronted the individual who then allegedly assaulted her, leaving her with an eye and head injury which required hospital treatment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, as a row over leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration escalates.\n\nTheresa May said Sir Kim's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" after the ambassador said it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nTory leadership candidate Boris Johnson has faced strong criticism for failing to fully support him.\n\nPresident Trump said on Monday that the US would not deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president had branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nIn a letter to the Foreign Office, Sir Kim said he wanted to end speculation about his position: \"The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.\"\n\nHis resignation has prompted widespread support for Sir Kim as well as criticism of Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson refused to support him during the Tory leadership debate on Tuesday night, said BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale.\n\nMr Johnson was asked repeatedly by fellow leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt whether he would keep Sir Kim in post if he became prime minister, but refused to answer.\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson spoke to Sir Kim on the phone on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said that he praised Sir Kim's dedication and hard work and claimed the conversation was warm and cordial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nFollowing Sir Kim's resignation, Mr Johnson said he was \"a superb diplomat\" and whoever was responsible for the leak \"has done a grave disservice to our civil servants\".\n\nAsked why he was not more supportive of Sir Kim, he said it was \"wrong to drag civil servants into the political arena\".\n\nEurope Minister Sir Alan Duncan - who backs Mr Hunt in the leadership contest - said it was \"contemptible negligence\" of Mr Johnson not to support Sir Kim.\n\n\"He's basically thrown this fantastic diplomat under a bus to serve his own personal interests,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Sir Michael Fallon - a supporter of Mr Johnson - told BBC Newsnight Sir Kim's position became untenable \"long before the debate on Tuesday night\" and he understands the ambassador did not watch it.\n\nThe backlash against Mr Johnson was \"a shabby attempt to politicise\" the affair and the leadership contender had \"made it clear he supports all our diplomats\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Alan Duncan says Boris Johnson has \"thrown our top diplomat under a bus\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Johnson wanted a \"sweetheart trade deal\" with the US and his lack of support for Sir Kim \"shows he won't stand up to Donald Trump\".\n\nTory MP and chairman of the Commons' foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat said in a tweet: \"Leaders stand up for their men. They encourage them to try and defend them when they fail.\"\n\nFellow Tory leadership candidate and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt told the BBC Sir Kim was \"doing his job\" and his resignation was \"a black day for British diplomacy\".\n\nMrs May said Sir Kim had had the full backing of the cabinet and he was owed an \"enormous debt of gratitude\" for his \"lifetime of service\" to the UK.\n\nPublic servants should be able to give \"full and frank advice\", she added.\n\nSo was it Boris Johnson what done it? Was the failure of the former foreign secretary to defend Sir Kim in last night's Tory leadership debate the crucial factor in the ambassador's decision to resign?\n\nWithout Sir Kim speaking publicly on the subject, we are reliant on others to speak for him.\n\nAnd certainly, according to well-placed sources in Whitehall, Mr Johnson's decision to avoid criticising President Trump and his lack of support for Sir Kim was said to be the straw that broke the camel's back.\n\nIf you are an embattled diplomat under fire from your host country, you need cover from London. And if that is lacking from the man tipped to be your next boss, you realise the writing is on the wall.\n\nCertainly, there is genuine anger across Westminster and Whitehall at Mr Johnson's refusal six times last night to come to the aid of our man in Washington.\n\nMr Johnson's supporters have offered varying counter theories. Some have accused Mr Hunt's supporters of politicising the resignation.\n\nOthers have insisted that the decision had been made before the debate, once Mr Trump declared he would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nRealising they were on the receiving end of potentially damaging criticism, Mr Johnson's aides also let it be known that he called Sir Kim this afternoon and praised his dedication and hard work.\n\nThe problem is that few in Westminster were giving much credence to these defences.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Theresa May pointedly urged MPs to \"reflect on the importance of defending our values and principles, particularly when they are under pressure\".\n\nIt was not hard to decipher what she was talking about.\n\nHead of the diplomatic service Sir Simon McDonald said it was the first time in his career that a head of state had refused to work with a British ambassador.\n\nHe described the leak as \"malicious\" and told Sir Kim: \"You are the best of us.\"\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham - a supporter of President Trump - said Sir Kim had done \"an outstanding job\" as ambassador and his resignation was \"a chilling moment\".\n\n\"Ambassadors need to be able to talk to their governments without fear of being compromised,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson pictured with Sir Kim in 2017 while he was in Washington DC as foreign secretary\n\nIn a letter to Sir Kim, Cabinet Secretary and civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill said that while he understood his reasons for resigning it was \"a matter of enormous regret that you were put in this position after a shocking betrayal of trust\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington said he was \"enraged\" by the situation and morale in the senior ranks of the civil service had taken \"a very heavy blow\".\n\nFormer head of the civil service Lord O'Donnell told the BBC Sir Kim's successor could be chosen within two weeks - while Mrs May is still prime minister.\n\nPresident Trump could well wake up this morning thinking he has the power to veto who the UK has as its ambassador.\n\nIt wasn't his more colourful remarks on Twitter that really ended Sir Kim's time, but Mr Trump's public announcement that he would no longer work with him.\n\nThe effects of that were felt immediately. There was a banquet that Sir Kim was immediately dis-invited from. Next, he couldn't attend an event with minister Liam Fox.\n\nIt was clear he was being frozen out and for an ambassador access is everything. Without it, it's impossible to do the job.\n\nMore broadly, it's like this... There's never been parity in the special relationship between the UK and US - it's never been a relationship of equals but right now it seems particularly lopsided.\n\nThe US knows that Britain is fairly isolated right now internationally and needs the US more than ever. Donald Trump has wielded that power mercilessly in this row.\n\nIn the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true.\n\nThe government has opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos and police have been urged to open a criminal investigation.\n\nDowning Street confirmed there had been some \"initial discussions\" with police regarding the leak and if there was concern about criminal activity they would become involved \"more formally\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said it was \"deeply worrying\" diplomatic cables had ended up in the public domain.", "Lucy McHugh was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and upper body, the court has heard\n\nThe man accused of murdering schoolgirl Lucy McHugh told a court her claims he had got her pregnant were \"nonsense\".\n\nLucy, 13, was found stabbed to death in woodland at Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre in July 2018.\n\nStephen Nicholson told jurors the teenager said she would tell her mum she was carrying his child as she was \"trying to cause trouble\".\n\nMr Nicholson, 25 denies the murder and rape of Lucy and a series of sexual offences against her and another girl.\n\nThe jury at Winchester Crown Court had previously been told there is no evidence that Lucy was or ever had been pregnant.\n\nJurors have been shown CCTV of Stephen Nicholson on the day of the alleged murder\n\nMr Nicholson began lodging at the Southampton house where Lucy and her family lived in 2017, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Nicholson said he received a message on Facebook from Lucy the night before her death, saying she would tell her mother he had got her pregnant unless he met her at a nearby park.\n\n\"She was just making stuff up, trying to cause trouble - it was nonsense,\" he told the court.\n\nHe said he responded by saying \"yeah whatever\" before deleting and blocking her.\n\nMr Nicholson told the court he did not get on with Lucy.\n\nHe said he had blocked multiple attempts by her to add him on Snapchat and he did \"not see eye-to-eye\" with the girl.\n\nLucy McHugh was found stabbed to death in woodland at Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre\n\nHis belongings would go missing and his clothes had been found in Lucy's room, he said.\n\n\"She would follow me around the house, always trying to get in my way and get involved with stuff that wasn't anything to do with her,\" he told jurors.\n\nHe said on one morning in March 2018, Lucy had tried to push him down a flight of stairs and he subsequently sent a string of angry text messages to her mother.\n\nThese included him saying he would \"pay a bunch of girls at Lucy's school to beat her up\", jurors were told.\n\nAsked by defence barrister James Newton-Price QC why he sent the messages, Mr Nicholson said he had been \"angry\" and was \"venting\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The jury has been shown CCTV footage during the murder trial\n\nHe told the court he had been unaware of notes written by Lucy and conversations with her friends in which she described him as her \"boyfriend\".\n\n\"It was nonsense,\" he said.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of a cyclist at the sports centre on the day Lucy went missing.\n\nBut Mr Nicholson said it was not him and the person in the footage was wearing different grey trainers to his.\n\nMr Newton-Price asked the defendant how bloodstained clothes allegedly dumped in woodland at Tanner's Brook came to contain his and Lucy's DNA.\n\n\"I do not know,\" replied Mr Nicholson.\n\nHe said he had been there on the day Lucy went missing but only to meet a man, whose identity he did not know, to sell cannabis.\n\nThe court heard Mr Nicholson's mobile phone internet history showed he later searched for \"what time can you start a bonfire in Southampton?\".\n\nThis was because he was planning to burn some belongings from his shed he no longer needed and \"wanted to make sure it was all above board\", he told the court.\n\nHe said he burned a number of items that day, including the trainers he was wearing.\n\nConcluding his questioning, Mr Newton-Price asked: \"Did you ever have a sexual relationship with Lucy McHugh?\"\n\n\"Did you kill Lucy McHugh?\" asked Mr Newton-Price. Mr Nicholson responded: \"No.\"\n\nEarlier, the judge directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict on one count of sexual activity with a child after the prosecution decided it had insufficient evidence.\n\nCare worker Mr Nicholson, formerly of Mansel Road East, Southampton, denies murder, three charges of raping Lucy when she was 12 and one count of sexual activity with a child once she had turned 13.\n\nHe also denies a count of sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl in 2012.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the Commons, Theresa May said UK ambassador Sir Kim Darroch's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" after the ambassador said it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nMrs May said Sir Kim had had the full backing of the cabinet and he was owed an \"enormous debt of gratitude\" for his \"lifetime of service\" to the UK.\n\nLater, the leak was described as \"malicious\" by head of the diplomatic service Sir Simon McDonald.\n\nHe told the Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee it was the first time in his career that a head of state had refused to work with a British ambassador.", "Sir Kim Darroch has resigned as British Ambassador to the United States. Here is the full text of his letter to Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office:\n\n\"Since the leak of official documents from this Embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and the duration of my remaining term as ambassador. I want to put an end to that speculation. The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.\n\n\"Although my posting is not due to end until the end of this year, I believe in the current circumstances the responsible course is to allow the appointment of a new ambassador.\n\n\"I am grateful to all those in the UK and the US, who have offered their support during this difficult few days. This has brought home to me the depth of friendship and close ties between our two countries. I have been deeply touched.\n\n\"I am also grateful to all those with whom I have worked over the last four decades, particularly my team here in the US. The professionalism and integrity of the British civil service is the envy of the world. I will leave it full of confidence that its values remain in safe hands.\"\n\n\"On behalf of the Diplomatic Service, I accept your resignation with deep personal regret.\n\n\"Over the last few difficult days you have behaved as you have always behaved over a long and distinguished career, with dignity, professionalism and class. The Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and whole of the public service have stood with you: you were the target of a malicious leak; you were simply doing your job. I understand your wish to relieve the pressure on your family and your colleagues at the Embassy; I admire the fact that you think more of others than yourself. You demonstrate the essence of the values of British public service.\n\n\"I want to stress my deep appreciation for all you have done over the last four decades. In a series of demanding roles - including National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative to the European Union - you have loyally served the government of the day without fear or favour. We have been lucky to have you as a friend and colleague. You are the best of us.\"", "The current round of talks to restore power sharing at Stormont has not led to a breakthrough\n\nMPs have begun debating legislation that would allow the Northern Ireland Office to extend its legal power to delay a fresh assembly election.\n\nIt would push back the Northern Ireland secretary's obligation to call a poll until 21 October.\n\nKaren Bradley told the Commons the bill would give the Stormont parties \"more time and space\" to reach a deal.\n\nShe said it was a \"huge disappointment\" that after 10 weeks of negotiations, no agreement had been reached.\n\nThe Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill, if approved, would push back the prospect of a Stormont election until 21 October, with the option of a further delay to 13 January 2020.\n\nThe provision, originally contained in an act that became law last November, was previously due to expire in March.\n\nBut the law gave the Northern Ireland secretary the ability to order an extension, which ends on 25 August.\n\nThe bill is to be brought through all stages of the House of Commons this week, with a second day of debate scheduled for Tuesday.\n\nShadow NI Secretary Tony Lloyd said Labour would support the bill - but added that they would not back a further extension after October.\n\nHe said MPs had been told it was meant to be an emergency measure, but that its repeated use was becoming a concern.\n\nThere have been calls for Westminster to legislate for issues like same-sex marriage and abortion in NI, if Stormont does not return\n\nA number of amendments have been tabled to the bill, but it will be up to the Commons deputy speakers to decide whether to select any for further stages of debate on Tuesday.\n\nLabour MP Conor McGinn, who is originally from south Armagh, has put forward an amendment calling on Parliament to make same-sex marriage legal in Northern Ireland, if an executive has not been restored by 21 October.\n\nHis party's frontbench has also tabled several amendments relating to same-sex marriage and abortion law in Northern Ireland, and compensation for victims of historical institutional abuse.\n\nIt is not clear if any of them will be selected.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds described Labour's decision to table amendments to the bill as \"deeply unhelpful\" to the talks process at Stormont.\n\nHe said it was wrong for MPs at Westminster to try to take control of issues including same-sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the narrow point of the legislation was to keep a \"standstill position\" in Northern Ireland for another few months.\n\nFormer Attorney General Dominic Grieve has also tabled an amendment that seeks to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe bill also provides legal clarity for decisions taken by Stormont civil servants, in the absence of power-sharing.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government for more than two and a half years, after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nStormont's political parties have been engaged in a talks process since May 2019, although they are not nearing an agreement.\n\nThere have already been several failed talks processes.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nRoger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet at Wimbledon for the first time since the 2008 final after both advanced to the semi-finals.\n\nFederer beat Kei Nishikori 4-6 6-1 6-4 6-4 for his 100th match win at the All England Club, while Nadal beat Sam Querrey 7-5 6-2 6-2.\n\nIn 2008, Nadal won 9-7 in the fifth set against Federer in a rain-affected final that spanned nearly seven hours.\n\nTogether, they have won 10 Wimbledon titles between them.\n\nFour-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will face Roberto Bautisa Agut in Friday's other semi-final.\n\nIt is the first time for 12 years that Djokovic, Nadal and Federer have all made the last four.\n• None Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer's 2008 final - what made it so special?\n\n\"We have a lot of information on Rafa, as does he on us,\" said eight-time champion Federer, who in beating Japanese eighth seed Nishikori became the first player in history to win 100 men's singles matches at a single Grand Slam event.\n\n\"So you can dive into the tactics like mad for two days, or you say 'it's grass court tennis so I'm going to come out and play my tennis'.\n\n\"People always hype it up. It was a joy to play against Rafa on his court at the French Open and [I'm] very excited to play him here.\"\n\nSpaniard Nadal said: \"It's great. It's difficult to imagine again being in that situation.\n\n\"I'm excited to play against Roger again here at Wimbledon.\"\n\nNishikori defeated Swiss great Federer in straight sets in their most recent meeting at the ATP Finals in 2018 but had been beaten by the 20-time Grand Slam champion in seven of their 10 previous matches.\n\nYet few in the Centre Court crowd knew how to react when Federer was broken in the very first game, before going 2-0 down as Nishikori held serve, and only just clinching the third game as Nishikori scuppered three break points.\n\nIn an error-strewn first set, in which Federer double-faulted on three occasions and hit 12 unforced errors, it was Nishikori who looked most at home despite his opponent's previous success on the Wimbledon grass, almost breaking Federer again at 3-1 up before the remainder of the set went with serve.\n\nThe second set, however, proved the polar opposite to the first, with Federer breaking Nishikori early to help him to a 3-0 lead.\n\nHe went on to serve to love twice before breaking Nishikori once more and seeing out the set in just 23 minutes.\n\nFederer missed break point in the opening game of a topsy-turvy third set but eventually took a game from Nishikori's grasp to go 4-3 up, although he needed four break points to do so.\n\nAfter wrapping up the third set on his second set point, Federer had five opportunities to break Nishikori in the fourth but it was not until 4-4 that he was able to do so.\n\nAnd, in stylish fashion, he sealed the win to love with an ace - his 12th of the match - to book his spot in a 13th semi-final at Wimbledon.\n\nTwenty-five days short of his 38th birthday, Federer becomes the oldest man to make a Grand Slam semi-final since Jimmy Connors in 1991 who, at 39 years and six days, reached the last four at the US Open.\n\nIn total, Federer has reached 45 Grand Slam men's singles semi-finals, nine ahead of Wimbledon defending champion Novak Djokovic, who also advanced to the last four on Wednesday.\n\nNadal keeps his side of the bargain\n\nAt the same time Federer was in action on Centre Court, Nadal was keeping his side of the bargain on Court One.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam champion had gone an early break up against big-serving American Querrey but faltered to drop serve for 5-5 despite having four set points before that.\n\nBut he re-established his advantage in the very next game and then fended off three break points to avoid a tie-break.\n\nThe cheers from Centre Court celebrating Federer's victory could be heard on Court One and just a few seconds later there were matching celebrations when Nadal took the second set with a volley at the net.\n\nThe Spaniard apologised to Querrey for that winning shot, having been standing very close to the American at the time, when either the racquet or the ball was in danger of crashing into him.\n\nWhile Querrey continued to bombard Nadal with aces - notching a total of 22 - the Spaniard sped through the third set and a forehand winner wrapped up the victory that put him into his seventh Wimbledon semi-final.\n\nNadal's win means there are two Spaniards in the Wimbledon men's semi-finals for the first time after compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut beat Argentina's Guido Pella to set up a meeting with world number one Djokovic.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The penthouse flat has views across Singapore\n\nSir James Dyson has bought what is thought to be Singapore's biggest and most expensive penthouse flat.\n\nThe purchase comes after his company, best known for its vacuum cleaners, moved its HQ from the UK to Singapore.\n\nSir James, a prominent advocate for Brexit who has said leaving the EU with no deal would \"make no difference\", was accused of hypocrisy after the move.\n\nThe property is at the heart of the city's business district and spans three floors and has five bedrooms.\n\nOfficial records show Sir James and his wife Lady Deirdre Dyson are joint tenants of the apartment at the prestigious Wallich Residence.\n\n\"Given the decision to locate the headquarters in Singapore and the growing focus of the company's business in the region, of course James Dyson has bought a property there,\" a Dyson spokesperson said in a statement.\n\nSir James took ownership of the property in June, the records show.\n\nThe view from the terrace of the Wallich Residence\n\nAccording to marketing documents, the property is the largest \"non-landed residence\" in Singapore and has its own swimming pool, jacuzzi room and bar facilities.\n\nSingapore's Business Times reports Sir James paid $73.8m Singapore dollars ($54m, £43m) for the \"super penthouse\", which has views of the city's Marina Bay Sands and the financial district.\n\nThe price tag is likely to make it Singapore's most expensive flat.\n\nThe company has said moving its headquarters to Singapore was for commercial reasons, and had nothing to do with Brexit.\n\n\"It's to make us future-proof for where we see the biggest opportunities,\" chief executive Jim Rowan said at the time.\n\nDyson has been building its presence in Singapore, announcing last year it would build a new electric car plant there.\n\nAs well as vacuum cleaners, Dyson is also known for making air purifiers and hair care products like hair dryers.\n\nMost of Dyson's products are designed in the UK, but manufactured in Asia.", "The problem affects anaesthetic machines used in many hospitals around the world\n\nA type of anaesthetic machine that has been used in NHS hospitals can be hacked and controlled from afar if left accessible on a hospital computer network, a cyber-security company says.\n\nA successful attacker would be able to change the amount of anaesthetic delivered to a patient, CyberMDX said.\n\nAlarms designed to alert anaesthetists to any danger could also be silenced.\n\nGE Healthcare, which makes the machines, said there was no \"direct patient risk\".\n\nBut CyberMDX's research suggested the Aespire and Aestiva 7100 and 7900 devices could be targeted by hackers if left accessible on hospital computer networks.\n\nAnd analysis by BBC News found multiple references online to the Aespire and Aestiva machines being used in NHS Hospitals.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust confirmed to the BBC that \"a small number\" of the devices were currently in use at its facilities, but were being phased out.\n\n\"None of the anaesthetic machines are connected to the internet or the NUH network so there is very little risk around these machines within NUH,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nNHS Digital said it could not confirm the extent to which the machines were still in use across the NHS.\n\n\"We are currently assessing the volume of these particular anaesthetic machines in use across England and we will be sharing any subsequent advice with trusts in the coming days,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nElad Luz, head of research at CyberMDX, said he was aware of hospitals in the US and Asia that also used the devices.\n\nGE Healthcare said it was satisfied a cyber-attack would \"not introduce clinical hazard or patient risk\".\n\nIt said this was because anaesthetic devices were \"attended\" by anaesthetists and would be monitored for any errors.\n\nThe company told BBC News it did not plan to release any security updates for the anaesthetic machines but hospitals should use secure network protocols to protect them from would-be hackers.\n\nCyber-security expert Ken Munro agreed that medical devices should be isolated within computer networks but added: \"It's not, frankly, the case in many hospital networks.\"\n\nAnd he said GE Healthcare should bear some responsibility for the issue.\n\n\"GE absolutely have a part to play in this and they absolutely should be building devices with strong security,\" Mr Munro added.\n\nGE Healthcare has responded to the reports of a problem with its machines\n\nA malicious hacker may try to gain access to a hospital's network, locate one of the machines and then adjust its settings, said Prof Harold Thimbleby, an expert in medical device cyber-security, at Swansea University.\n\nAnd he gave the example of WannaCry, a ransomware outbreak that spread through NHS computer networks in 2017, to illustrate how an attack could unfold.\n\n\"As with WannaCry, a phishing attack can gain access and then an attacker can do what they like,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Given the worldwide profile of WannaCry, it is amazing vulnerabilities like this are still around.\"\n\nThe likelihood of harm being caused to a patient through any hacking of the devices was \"incredibly small\" said Dr Helgi Johannsson, consultant anaesthetist and Royal College of Anaesthetists Council Member.\n\n\"Patients should be reassured that their anaesthetist will be monitoring them constantly, and will have received many years of training to rectify immediately the situation of a device failure.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said reports of the cyber-security vulnerability were now part of an \"ongoing area of investigation\".\n\n\"Patient safety is our highest priority and where necessary we will take action to protect public health,\" she added.\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has published an advisory notice about the vulnerability.", "Brittany Ferries was one of three suppliers which had a contract to provide extra ferry services\n\nThe government's Brexit ferry programme was \"rushed and risky\", according to a cross-party group of MPs, who confirmed the botched project had cost £85m.\n\nA procurement process to provide extra ferry services was held in anticipation of the UK leaving the EU on 29 March.\n\nBut MPs said taxpayers had \"little to show\" for the cost after the UK failed to leave the EU on that date and had to cancel deals reached with three firms.\n\nThe government defended the contracts, calling them an \"insurance policy\".\n\nThe contracts had to be cancelled after the date for Britain to leave the EU was pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee report confirmed that cancelling the contracts with Seaborne Freight, DFDS and Brittany Ferries had cost the Department for Transport (DfT) £51.4m.\n\nThe DfT also had to pay a £33m settlement with Eurotunnel after the group said it was excluded from the tendering process.\n\nThe BBC discovered that Seaborne Freight, which was awarded a contract worth £13.8m, had never actually run a ferry service.\n\nIn its report, the committee said: \"Prior to the previous planned departure date of 29 March, we had raised concerns with a number of departments about the rate of progress with the preparations.\n\n\"With little lead time left, the Department for Transport undertook a rushed and risky procurement of additional ferry capacity which opened it to a court challenge from Eurotunnel, which had been excluded from the procurement.\"\n\nAttention has been focused on how to keep vital trade routes across the English Channel flowing as smoothly as possible.\n\nAs part of the settlement, the DfT secured extra capacity with Eurotunnel to keep freight and customers moving between the UK and France after Brexit.\n\nIt also ensures that essential medicines will reach the NHS in the event of a no-deal departure.\n\nEurotunnel also agreed to make improvements to its terminal at Folkestone in Kent.\n\nBut committee chairwoman Labour MP Meg Hillier said public benefits from the settlement \"amount to little more than window dressing\".\n\n\"The department needs to keep a close eye and ensure that Eurotunnel delivers what is promised,\" she said.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee has grilled senior civil servants throughout the Brexit ferry procurement saga, and many of its members have betrayed a growing frustration with the DfT's stewardship of taxpayers' money.\n\nBut key to this latest report is Ms Hillier's verdict on the DfT's rationale for the £33m Eurotunnel settlement, rebuffing the government's attempt to point to a silver lining.\n\nPresumably to avoid further blushes, the department has no plans to settle with P&O Ferries, which is now challenging the settlement with rival Eurotunnel - and will defend itself in court.\n\nThe committee also issued another caution to the DfT.\n\nIn order to ensure that any ferry operators have enough time to be operational for a 31 October Brexit, the procurement of additional capacity \"may need to be completed by the end of July\", it says, which puts no-deal planners in Whitehall on a very tight deadline.\n\nThe committee's report said the DfT \"must learn from this episode and use its time well, should it be required to re-procure ferry capacity ahead of the new October deadline\".\n\nIt added: \"We are, however, concerned that departments appear to be waiting for clear instructions on what they should now plan for on Brexit.\"\n\nThe DfT said: \"The freight capacity contracts were taken out as an insurance policy for the UK to ensure that key medical supplies could be guaranteed in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"Two weeks ago the department outlined a new framework proposal to provide a list of operators capable of delivering this vital freight capacity without the government committing to any agreements at this stage, with market engagement already under way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade Thomas was left hundreds of pounds out of pocket by a universal credit fraudster\n\nVictims of a Universal Credit scam may still have to repay money fraudulently claimed on their behalf, the government has insisted.\n\nWork and Pensions minister Justin Tomlinson had told MPs his team would \"protect vulnerable people\" who would not be expected to pay back the cash.\n\nBut later his department said its position had not changed and claimants would need to repay some of the money.\n\nThe SNP's welfare spokesman described it as an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\nA BBC investigation has found tens of millions of pounds is believed to have been stolen by criminals exploiting a loophole in the benefits system.\n\nAn estimated 42,000 people may have fallen victim to the scam.\n\nResponding to an urgent question in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Tomlinson claimed that \"where it is clear that they have been a victim of fraud through no fault of their own, no, we would not expect them to pay it back.\"\n\nBut a spokeswoman from the Department for Work and Pensions later told the BBC that victims of the scam would have to repay any money they'd kept.\n\n\"If someone's details are fraudulently used to claim an advance but they do not themselves receive this payment, we will not recover the money from the claimant,\" she said.\n\n\"[But] if the individual receives some of the advance, we will only seek to recover this amount from them and will pursue the fraudster for any remaining payment.\"\n\nThe SNP's Neil Gray MP tweeted: \"When ministers and the DWP know these people have been ripped off by criminals without their knowledge as they hoped to access hardship funds they desperately need to survive, UK Gov will now plunge them further into debt and destitution. Disgusting.\"\n\nMr Tomlinson described the fraudsters as \"parasites targeting some of the most vulnerable people in society\".\n\nThe frauds represented about 1% of the total 4.4 million claims and are being investigated, he added.\n\nA team of about 120 Department for Work and Pensions staff were working to spot and investigate fraudulent claims, he said.\n\nMr Tomlinson promised \"the full force of the law\" would be used where appropriate.\n\nHe also told MPs that those whose claims for universal credit were found to be fraudulent may be able to return to their old benefits.\n\nThe scam pushed Jade Thomas into rent and council tax arrears\n\nEarlier, Jade Thomas, 31, had told the BBC how she ended up owing more than £1,500 after a loan was arranged for her by a fraudster.\n\nAfter the DWP paid over the money into her bank account, she had to pay the fraudster £1,000 for setting it up - but was still liable for the full £1,500 amount.\n\nOne official said more than a third of claims in one job centre are currently suspected of being bogus, while £100,000 of fraudulent activity each month was recorded at another branch.\n\nAnother official said the government estimates 10% of the 100,000 or more advances paid monthly are potentially bogus.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people across Britain currently receive benefits through universal credit.\n\nWhen it was introduced in 2013, one of the original goals of universal credit was to save about a billion pounds in fraud and error.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children at one primary school in Wales have been emulating behaviour they see in Love Island\n\nA primary school headmaster has sent a letter to parents complaining pupils as young as eight were emulating behaviour seen on TV show Love Island.\n\nAled Rees said Year 4 pupils at Ysgol Gymraeg Teilo Sant had been commenting on each other's appearance and \"pairing individuals together\".\n\nHe told parents the show's contestants were \"no role models for our children\".\n\nITV said the show aired after the 21:00 watershed and was not aimed at primary school children.\n\nMr Rees said the fact a number of children had been watching the show came to light following an investigation into name-calling at the school in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.\n\nLove Island is a popular reality dating show set in a Spanish villa where contestants are encouraged to \"pair up\" with each other in order to win a cash prize.\n\nHeadmaster Aled Rees said the show's contestants were \"no role models for our children\"\n\nMr Rees wrote in his letter: \"I am of the opinion that primary school pupils aren't mature enough to watch a programme of this nature where a person's appearance is more important than their personality.\n\n\"The influence of the programme has led to pupils commenting on others' appearance and pairing individuals together as they are a good 'match'.\n\n\"I am sure that there are better ways to spend time with your children and more appropriate programmes they could be watching.\"\n\nParents were generally supportive of his position, Mr Rees said, and he defended attempting to influence what children watched at home.\n\nYsgol Gymraeg Teilo Sant is a primary in school in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire\n\n\"When what pupils are doing at home impacts on their behaviour at school, it is important that we at least communicate that with parents to make them aware of how pupils are behaving in school as a result,\" he explained.\n\nSimone, a parent to two daughters aged eight and 10 who attend the school, said she supported Mr Rees.\n\n\"It is something we have said to the children - it is not appropriate for them to watch. It has an adult theme,\" she said.", "The airport stopped all flights at 17:08 BST\n\nFlights at Gatwick Airport were suspended for about two hours due to an issue with its air traffic control systems.\n\nTwenty-eight flights were cancelled and 26 diverted to other airports after the problems began at about 17:00 BST.\n\nThe airport said it had experienced a problem in its control tower.\n\nFlights are still delayed by an hour or more, with cancellations expected throughout the evening, Gatwick said.\n\nSome passengers were stuck between the boarding gate and the plane\n\nThe effects were felt at airports across Europe, with many inbound flights to Gatwick cancelled and others expected to be delayed by about three hours.\n\nPassengers due to travel to or from the airport have been advised to check for updates with their airline.\n\nEasyJet said Gatwick was operating at a \"reduced rate\" and apologised for the disruption, which it said was \"outside of our control\".\n\nA spokesman said the airport aimed to return to a full schedule on Thursday without delays, adding: \"The ambition is it should run as usual.\"\n\nStaff had told passengers to prepare for delays of up to four hours\n\nColin Franks, who was due to board an EasyJet flight to Palma, Spain, at 18:00 said he was \"trapped between the boarding gate and the air bridge\".\n\nHe said the plane's pilot had spoken to passengers, adding: \"He said they had been given a provisional [take off] time of 10pm.\n\n\"At the moment, everybody is talking to one another and it's quite cheery. There are a lot of children here.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by c ❤️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by c ❤️\n\nIn December flights were suspended for 30 hours after drone sightings, causing chaos for 140,000 passengers.\n\nA senior Sussex Police officer said the airport was not prepared for an attack by more than one drone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nNew Zealand reached the World Cup final as they produced the bowling performance of the tournament to edge out a crestfallen India by 18 runs in a sensational match at Old Trafford.\n\nIndia, chasing 240 to win, were reduced to 24-4 and 92-6 before Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni produced a 116-run partnership to drag the 2011 winners back in contention.\n\nJadeja in particular was superb but, with 37 runs needed from the final 18 balls, Jadeja hit Trent Boult high into the air and to Black Caps captain Kane Williamson to fall for 77.\n\nDhoni struck a six off the first ball of the 48th over but was then superbly run out by Martin Guptill to realistically end India's slim chances.\n\nThe final wicket - last man Yuzvendra Chahal edging behind - was greeted with shock by an India heavy crowd, as New Zealand gathered into a huddle.\n\nMake no mistake, this was a stunning, surprising, unexpected win by New Zealand, with India heavily tipped from the start to win the tournament.\n• None India exit World Cup but memories of Kohli, Rohit & fans live on\n\nWith play going into the reserve day after rain ended play on Tuesday, the bowlers were superb up front, defending what seemed to be meagre target.\n\nBoult swung the ball, Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson bowled with pace and Guptill and Jimmy Neesham produced two outstanding bits of fielding to put New Zealand into the final.\n\nThey will play either England or Australia in Sunday's final, with those two sides set to meet at Edgbaston on Thursday.\n\nGoing into a reserve day, this match could have been played out in front of an empty stadium - but that was not the case, with Old Trafford full of vibrant, noisy India fans.\n\nWith New Zealand adding 28 runs off 23 balls to reach 239-8 in their rain-affected 50 overs on Wednesday morning, India looked to be in the ascendency, but a brilliant start by the Kiwi bowlers soon put paid to that.\n\nBoult and Henry were all over the batsmen; Rohit Sharma, the tournament's leading run-scorer, edged Henry behind before talismanic captain Virat Kohli was trapped lbw by Boult.\n\nKohli was visibly unhappy at the decision and reviewed it but the ball was shown to be hitting and Kohli stood, aghast, on the pitch before walking off.\n\nIndia were in further trouble when KL Rahul nicked Henry through to wicketkeeper Tom Latham to leave them 5-3.\n\nAs is so often the case, when things are going one side's way, everything seems to stick in the hands. Neesham pulled off a superb, one-handed take at backward point to dismiss Dinesh Karthik and leave India reeling.\n\nIt is a credit to New Zealand that they kept their nerve in the final overs when Jadeja and Dhoni, one of the best finishers in the game, had the target down to a manageable total.\n\nHowever, Williamson's superb catch to a steepling offering off Jadeja was the inspiration New Zealand needed. Guptill's run out a handful of deliveries later just showed what a sharp side this Black Caps team are.\n\nAnd the idea of this bowling attack, at Lord's, with a slope to help the ball swing, will worry both England and Australia.\n\nJadeja has not been a regular feature in this India side but his fielding to run out Ross Taylor and catch Tom Latham on the boundary edge brought New Zealand's reply to a halt.\n\nAnd with the bat he came so close to putting India into the final. His name was chanted at every opportunity by the fans and his fitness, allowing him to take quick runs, was crucial for India's chase.\n\nHe targeted New Zealand's change bowlers; Neesham was crunched over long-on for six while a superb pull off a Henry slower ball put him within touching distance of his 50.\n\nHe celebrated his half-century, brought up from 39 balls, with a trademark, Zorro-like swish of the bat and a fist pump towards the dressing room - a retort to criticism that he is a \"bits and pieces cricketer\".\n\nWhile he and Dhoni were there, the crowd believed. New Zealand's bowlers were wary and their fielding stuttered.\n\nBut Williamson's catch ended that superb partnership and, ultimately, India's hope of reaching the final.\n\n'45 minutes of bad cricket cost us' - what they said\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"I'm very disappointed. We played outstanding cricket throughout this tournament.\n\n\"To go out on 45 minutes of bad cricket is saddening. It breaks our heart because you work so hard to build momentum, finish number one in the table, then a spell of bad cricket and you're out of the tournament, but you have to accept it.\n\n\"We will come out better cricketers because of this setback.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson: \"It's a different feeling to last time (2015). We've had to skin it over the round-robin, so it's been quite different.\n\n\"A lot of heart has been shown by the guys so far but we're keeping our feet on the ground.\n\n\"It was a great semi-final and we're happy to be on the right side of it.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Matt Henry: \"We talked about just making sure we did the best we can and just taking it to them at the top of the innings. We wanted to create as much pressure as we could.\n\n\"We pride ourselves on always giving ourselves a chance. They have world-class finishers and they were very dangerous, we knew we'd have to bowl them out to win today.\n\n\"It's special to be going to Lord's on Sunday. Thank you to the fans today, the support has been brilliant.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boat's skipper said it had hit a submerged tree, damaging the back of the vessel\n\nTwenty-three people have been rescued from a sinking boat which hit a submerged tree off the Welsh coast.\n\nThe coastguard said it received a mayday message from a small pleasure boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire at about 19:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe vessel was taking on water \"rapidly\" while on a trip off North Bishop island, near Ramsey Island.\n\nTwo other passenger boats, two lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter were involved in the rescue.\n\nThe 21 passengers and two crew are safe and were taken back to St Justinian's, near St Davids, the coastguard said.\n\nSkipper Joanne Ayris, of Thousand Island Expeditions, told BBC Radio Wales's Breakfast programme: \"We were about an hour into the trip when we hit a submerged tree, which managed to find its way into the sand there, which damaged the back of the boat, that quite quickly allowed us to take on quite a bit of water.\n\nThe Gower Ranger was successfully brought back to shore\n\nThe boat was escorted back to shore by the RNLI\n\nTree branch which caused the damage to the Gower Ranger\n\n\"We were lucky everybody stayed calm and [we] got everyone into lifejackets and there were other boats nearby so we were able to calmly transfer passengers across.\n\n\"That's when I made the mayday call and the lifeboats came and helped us out.\"\n\nShe said the vessel's bilge pumps were not coping with the amount of water and three or four people were manually bailing quite a lot of water to keep the level in the boat even.\n\n\"Once the lifeboats arrived, they used their generator to have a more powerful pumping out system.\n\n\"Everybody who came to help and our passengers were incredible, so big thanks to everybody who came out,\" she added.\n\nThe Bishops and Clerks are a series of small islands about three miles (5km) off St Davids Head.\n\nCoastguards had requested St Davids and Fishguard RNLI lifeboats to launch and bring pumps.\n\nA coastguard rescue helicopter from Newquay in Cornwall was also scrambled.\n\nThe two lifeboats provided safety cover while the passengers and crew were evacuated on to one of the other passenger vessels.\n\nRNLI coxswain Dai John, who attended the rescue, said they arrived about 20 minutes after they were called.\n\n\"The other passenger boat had taken all the passengers off it, but the crew were still trying to save the vessel at the time.\n\n\"So we put a couple of our crew and a salvage pump on board to drain as much of the water as we could.\"\n\nBoat owner Cindy Pearce said she had been able to drive the boat to harbour for repairs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I couldn't believe it was 166 weeks'\n\nA County Antrim woman who was told she would have to wait 166 weeks to see an orthopaedic consultant has said she is shocked and distressed.\n\nSandra Condon, who is a nurse, said she is in chronic pain.\n\nMrs Condon said she could not believe that she would have to wait more than three years to be seen \"and then potentially three to four years after that for surgery\".\n\n\"I honestly had to ask the girl to repeat that,\" she said.\n\nHer comments come after a report from the Nuffield Trust, an independent think tank, said that Northern Ireland's political deadlock and a \"top-down approach\" are frustrating efforts to help sick people.\n\nA patient in Northern Ireland is nearly 50 times as likely to be waiting over a year for care than one in Wales, the next worst performer, according to the report.\n\nThe worsening waiting list situation is further underlined in South Eastern Health Trust figures, seen by BBC News NI.\n\nThey show that children who may have a life-threatening allergy are being expected to wait 232 weeks to see a consultant.\n\nMeanwhile, the BMA in NI said it was are concerned that doctors are starting to refuse to work beyond their contracted hours.\n\nIt is because of unexpected tax bills following new pension rules in 2016.\n\nDr Alan Stout, the chairman of the BMA's GP Committee, said: \"In Northern Ireland we are very reliant - particularly with the waiting lists as they are - on consultants doing extra shifts and trying to clear the back-log, also across the health service on GPs doing out of hours shifts.\n\n\"So something that stops people doing that is going to have an inevitable consequence on those waiting times.\"\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said they were closely monitoring the situation.\n\n\"Concerns about potential impacts on service provision have been raised with us by trusts and the BMA.\n\n\"Taxation - including pension taxation - is a reserved matter and decisions on tax relief on pension contributions are taken by the Treasury.\n\n\"Department of Health officials are in close contact with counterparts in England and Wales on this issue. \"\n\nThe Department of Health in England said it wanted to make NHS pensions more flexible for senior clinicians.\n\nThe spokesperson also said important progress had been made in transforming health and social care services in spite of political and budgetary uncertainty.\n\nThe hard-hitting Nuffield Trust report included information from clinicians and health service leaders from both inside and outside Northern Ireland.\n\nOn leadership, it highlights a culture of \"tight command and control at the heart of the system\", with contributors suggesting a top-down approach does not allow for change.\n\nIt said the \"political deadlock and culture of centralisation\" are \"impending reform\".\n\nIt's been three years since the Bengoa review, which outlined how to improve Northern Ireland's health service.\n\nPace of change has been slow despite all political parties at Stormont signing up to the transformation of how services are delivered.\n\nThe Department of Health insisted much work was going on behind the scenes and that \"significant investment\" is required to address the waiting list backlog.\n\n\"The department cannot spend money it does not have,\" it said.\n\nThe report's co-author and Nuffield Trust policy analyst Mark Dayan said officials are committed to change but \"to keep on pushing from the top risks making things worse\".\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan, the report's co-author, said the waiting lists were a \"national scandal\"\n\nMr Dayan said that without elected leaders \"things grind to a halt because officials don't have the legitimacy to make tough calls\".\n\nCo-author Prof Deirdre Heenan said the \"spiralling waiting lists in Northern Ireland represent a major breach of public trust in the NHS\".\n\nShe told the BBC that the waiting list figures are a \"national scandal\".\n\nPeople like Mrs Condon say they are forgotten about.\n\n\"We don't have Stormont sitting at the moment so who is taking this forward? Who is fighting for the people who need to be seen?\" she asked.\n\nCommenting on Mrs Condon's treatment, the Belfast Health Trust said that in most cases patients are seen in chronological order in terms of urgency but that if a specialist deems a referral \"clinically urgent\", then patients will be seen within 10 weeks.\n\nIt said \"demand to see a shoulder surgeon greatly outweighs\" the trust's capacity but that it had hired a specialist physiotherapist to run \"clinics with shoulder surgeons\" to increase capacity.\n\n\"We would like to take this opportunity to apologise again to the significant and growing numbers of patients who remain on the current waiting lists,\" it added.\n\nGrainne Doran, from the Royal College of GPs, said people are becoming accustomed to lengthy lists.\n\n\"We now need to step back and say we need to urgently get rid of the long lists and work out how we can stop them happening again,\" she added.\n\nLong waits are causing more people to go private, with demand so high that it has pushed two of Northern Ireland's private hospitals into the top 20 busiest in the UK for dealing with joint surgery.\n\nKingsbridge Private Hospital is 9th while the Ulster Independent Clinic is 16th, in the National Joint Registry's list of over 200 private hospitals.", "Joe Rylands says some NHS staff are in \"disbelief\" at what he considers to be the expansion of NHS charging\n\nCharging overseas patients for NHS care in England must be suspended until it is clear it is not harming women, the Royal College of Midwives has said.\n\nA couple whose baby died following an emergency Caesarean were not given the body as they were unable to pay £10,000 in medical fees, one doctor has said.\n\nJoe Rylands said the expansion of charging had caused \"disbelief\" among many colleagues.\n\nThe Department of Health said the charges had raised £1.3bn since 2015.\n\nIn 2018, Dr Rylands was working in a maternity hospital when a woman from Western Europe on holiday in the UK came in - she was eight months pregnant and had started bleeding. Obstetricians performed an emergency Caesarean but the baby died.\n\nWhen she and her partner were recovering on a ward, they were interviewed by an overseas visitors manager, in charge of billing.\n\nBecause they did not have a valid European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) they were told they had to pay £10,000 for the care they received - which they could not do.\n\n\"There's a service the NHS offers when you've had a miscarriage or when your baby has died - they can present it to you, the body in a bassinet, you take it home to have a funeral,\" Dr Rylands explains.\n\n\"That can be a really important process in grieving and recovery. And this couple were not allowed to have the body because they hadn't paid the [treatment] bill.\"\n\nThe hospital trust involved in the case declined to comment.\n\nIt was following the guidelines in billing the parents.\n\nSince 2017, service providers have had a duty to check the eligibility of patients and charge them before non-urgent treatment in a bid to clamp down on so-called \"health tourism\". There are exceptions - such A&E - where treatment is free until a patient is either admitted to hospital or given an outpatient appointment.\n\nPatients from inside the European Economic Area with a non-UK EHIC are treated for free, with the government applying to their home countries to cover the cost.\n\nThose from elsewhere will be charged for the cost of their treatment.\n\nThere is growing opposition to the policy, with the British Medical Association calling for it to be abandoned completely.\n\nThe Royal Colleges of Physicians, Paediatrics and Child Health, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Faculty of Public Health have written to ministers urging them to suspend the system.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives told the BBC maternity care should be exempt from charges.\n\nSean O'Sullivan, head of health and social policy, said: \"It could put off women who need care but are frightened that they may not be able to pay in the longer term. This is potentially dangerous for the woman and her developing baby.\"\n\nDiane Abbott called on the government to publish its review into the changes\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott described upfront charging as \"immoral\" and said it should be suspended.\n\n\"Let's find out what the size of the problem is, but also we need to look at how people may be suffering.\"\n\nThe Department of Health has conducted a review of the 2017 amendments and said there was no significant evidence they have \"led to overseas visitors being deterred from treatment\".\n\nThis review has not been published.\n\nEngland's Health Secretary Matthew Hancock told Victoria Derbyshire this was because of concerns over patient confidentiality.\n\nHe described the policy as a whole on charging overseas patients as \"extremely reasonable\" with \"strong public support\", but said that it needed to be implemented properly.\n\nMr Hancock said the rules were clear that maternity care should be free for couples who are not expecting to give birth in the UK. He added that he would look further into what happened with the couple who were unable to take their baby's body home,\n\n\"We must treat people with humanity and respect,\" he added.\n\nOne former NHS worker, who left his job in the overseas visitors department at a large London hospital last year, said he received no formal training in how to issue bills.\n\nHe said rules were not applied consistently - and \"easy targets\" were made of those less likely to \"kick up a fuss\".\n\n\"I think potentially at the moment the way it's being done is discriminatory,\" the man - who we are not naming - adds, targeting those with \"foreign-sounding names\" who were perceived to be less likely to be resident in the UK.\n\nNasar Ullah Khan's family have continued to be billed following his death\n\nHe described how he informed patients about fees when they had only just recently stabilised in intensive care.\n\nLast December, Nasar Ullah Khan was receiving end-of-life care when he was handed a bill for £16,000 in his hospital bed.\n\nHe had suffered heart failure - but was ineligible for a transplant because he was not in the UK legally.\n\nMr Khan had tried and failed to legalise his status - and just before he fell ill, had applied to the Home Office for voluntary return to Pakistan.\n\nLiz Bates, a Birmingham GP who volunteers at the charity Doctors of the World, was contacted to help the family and says: \"Almost as soon as they knew Nasar wasn't eligible for free NHS care they started talking to him about billing.\"\n\nThe family were posted another bill for £32,000, and another for £23,000, which Ms Bates said had caused them deep stress and was \"totally unnecessary\" because Mr Khan would never be able to pay the bills.\n\nA spokesman for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said it was obliged by law to implement the charging regulations.\n\n\"Further guidance published by the Department for Health and Social Care also states that patients must be fully informed about the charges they might face, therefore one initial invoice was provided to Mr Khan, with two further invoices issued to a home address.\"\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"British taxpayers support the NHS so it is only right that overseas visitors also make a contribution to our health service so everyone can receive urgent care when they need it and, since 2015, charges for people who are not UK residents have secured an extra £1.3bn for front-line NHS services.\n\n\"Importantly, our guidance is clear that urgent treatment must never be withheld, if someone cannot pay.\"\n\nBut campaigners against the charges argue that, in practice, decisions about urgency are not clear cut. James Skinner, from campaign group Medact, says many healthcare workers do not know the guidelines.\n\n\"Doctors are not well trained to assess a person's immigration status, and overseas managers are not trained to make clinical judgements - we regularly see people with cancer who are denied treatment.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Women surrounded the loyalist bonfire in Avoniel as part of a protest on Tuesday\n\nHundreds have gathered outside Avoniel Leisure Centre in east Belfast to protest at a council decision to remove a bonfire from its grounds.\n\nIt came after Belfast City Council said its initial decision to remove bonfire material had not been reversed.\n\nBonfire builders said removing tyres, reducing its size and moving it away from buildings meant there was no need for the council to take action.\n\nA barricade has been erected at the leisure centre gates.\n\nProtesters told BBC News NI they have tried to compromise with authorities but are now determined that the Eleventh night event will go ahead.\n\nTensions have been building ahead of bonfires being lit before the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nBonfires are lit in some Protestant areas in Northern Ireland on 11 July, the night before Orange Order members commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne with parades across Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at the protest, senior Orangeman Rev Mervyn Gibson said that there was \"no need for the tension that has arisen around this bonfire, but sadly we have a republican-dominated council who have failed their first real test at openness and compromise\".\n\nHe said bonfire builders had removed tyres, then reduced the height of the bonfire, but \"no matter what this community did it was not enough to appease those who oppose us\".\n\nHe added: \"I would appeal for calm at this bonfire - do not react, and I know that's going to be difficult, because there's anger here.\"\n\nA barricade of tyres and bins was erected at the gates to Avoniel Leisure Centre\n\nAlso speaking at Tuesday's protest were loyalist Jamie Bryson and Robert Girvin, from a group calling itself the East Belfast Cultural Collective, which represents a number of bonfire builders.\n\nAt Avoniel Leisure Centre, which closed early on Tuesday, the bonfire has been rebuilt after tyres were voluntarily removed.\n\nOrganisers say they have reduced the height of the bonfire to about 20 feet (6m).\n\nIt has also been moved further away from buildings in an attempt to meet council criteria.\n\nThe centre also closed early on Sunday after its entrance was barricaded by men said to have been acting in a \"threatening\" way towards staff.\n\nTranslink said that due to some potential disruption that there would be a diversion for east Belfast Glider services on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, in other developments:\n\nIt is estimated there are 80-100 bonfires in Belfast this year, with 35 signed up to an official scheme funded by the city council.\n\n\"Efforts have been ongoing for several months to encourage bonfire builders to be mindful of the need to protect life and property,\" the city council said.\n\nEarlier, Mr Girvin said: \"We promised the young people if they took the tyres out they could have their bonfire.\n\n\"All that was done and still the council says no.\"\n\nHe said he would meet councillors from any party to address concerns over the Avoniel bonfire.\n\nLoyalist graffiti has appeared next to the site at Avoniel threatening contractors alleged to be involved in the removal of bonfire material\n\n\"Have dialogue with us. Tell us exactly what your issue is with this bonfire,\" he said.\n\n\"It follows Northern Ireland Fire Service guidelines. The tyres have been removed. He said complaints about other bonfires had been about \"the potential to damage property, life or the environment\".\n\n\"None of that is here. There's no potential for any of that so why remove the bonfire?\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Ciaran Beattie insisted the problem was just not the tyres but the height and mass of the bonfires and the threat posed to nearby buildings.\n\nHe insisted the council should still take action at Avoniel.\n\n\"Nothing has changed as far as we are concerned, bar the tyres being removed,\" he said.\n\n\"There is still a dangerous bonfire on that site\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mervyn Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor George Dorrian, Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) councillor John Kyle and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor Jim Rodgers said they were disappointed by Belfast City Council's decision.\n\n\"[Councillors] chose not to build on the progress made by bonfire builders when they removed the tyres yesterday evening from Avoniel bonfire,\" they said.\n\n\"This year has seen a dramatic improvement in the situation around bonfires throughout Belfast.\n\n\"We have spent months engaging with groups across the city and real progress is being made.\n\n\"We are confident that the community will fully enjoy the celebrations peacefully and respectfully.\"", "Silver gulls are the most common type of seagull\n\nSeagulls all over Australia are carrying superbugs resistant to antibiotics, scientists say.\n\nThey found more than 20% of silver gulls nationwide carrying bacteria such as E. coli, which can cause urinary tract and blood infections and sepsis.\n\nThe research has raised fears that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria- similar to superbugs which have hit hospitals - could infect humans and other animals.\n\nScientists have described it as a \"wake-up call\".\n\nThe birds are believed to have contracted the bugs from scavenging in rubbish and sewage.\n\nThe scientists who conducted the research on behalf of Murdoch University in Perth have said it is \"eye-opening\", The Guardian reported.\n\n\"I think that it is a wake-up call for all government and various agencies, like water treatment and big councils that manage waste, to properly work collaboratively to tackle this issue,\" said Dr Sam Abraham, a lecturer in veterinary and medical infectious diseases.\n\nHumans could contract the bacteria if they touched the seagull faeces, but the risk is considered low if they wash their hands afterwards.\n\nThe study showed some bugs found in the faeces were resistant to common antibiotic medications such as cephalosporin and fluoroquinolone.\n\nOne sample showed resistance to carbapenem, which is a last-resort drug used for severe and high-risk infections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The birds! How one Welsh town is tackling seagull litter", "Nicki Minaj is known for her provocative and highly sexualised performances\n\nRapper Nicki Minaj has cancelled a scheduled performance in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBT community.\n\nHer headline billing at the festival in Jeddah triggered an outcry from critics of the country's human rights record.\n\nOthers questioned how her revealing outfits and explicit lyrics would go over in the ultra-conservative kingdom.\n\nSaudi Arabia has been trying to ease restrictions on entertainment and to encourage growth in its arts sector.\n\nScrutiny of the country's human rights record intensified after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.\n\nIn March, the kingdom drew further criticism when it put 10 women's rights activists on trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Saudi women still can't do\n\n\"After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my scheduled concert at Jeddah World Fest,\" the singer said in a statement.\n\n\"While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression.\"\n\nOn Friday, the US-based Human Rights Foundation wrote an open letter to Minaj urging her to withdraw from the 18 July festival.\n\nIt called on her to \"refuse the regime's money\" and use her influence to demand the release of the detained women activists.\n\nLast week some on social media described the singer's decision to perform in Jeddah as hypocritical, contrasting her appearances at gay pride events with Saudi Arabia's stance on gay rights. Homosexuality is banned in Saudi Arabia.\n\nMinaj was not the first performer to cause controversy by accepting an invitation to perform in Saudi Arabia.\n\nEarlier this year, Mariah Carey defied calls from human rights activists to cancel her performance in the kingdom, while last December rapper Nelly came under fire for performing a \"men only\" concert.\n• None With French help, Saudis to embrace opera", "The two contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party, vying to be the UK's next prime minister, have argued over the date the UK will leave the EU.\n\nJeremy Hunt says his worry is the UK is setting a \"fake deadline\" with 31 October.\n\nBoris Johnson says the EU will not take the UK seriously if no-deal is off the table.\n\nThey were both speaking on Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, the final televised debate of this contest.", "Swift's new album, Lover, comes out in August\n\nPop singer Taylor Swift is the world's top-earning celebrity, according to an annual countdown of highest-paid stars.\n\nForbes estimates the 29-year-old singer made $185m (£148m) in pre-tax earnings in the year beginning 1 June 2018.\n\nSwift last topped Forbes' Celebrity 100 in 2016, when her pre-tax earnings were calculated to be $170m (£136m).\n\nThe news follows Swift accusing music mogul Scooter Braun of \"stripping her of her life's work\" by acquiring her former record label Big Machine.\n\nThe bulk of Swift's 2018/19 earnings is likely to derive from her Reputation stadium tour, which Forbes adjudged to be the highest-grossing tour in US history.\n\nSwift's new album Lover - her first release with her new record label Republic Records - comes out in August.\n\nKylie Jenner is ranked one place higher than she was last year\n\nSocial media and reality TV star Kylie Jenner is ranked second on the list with an estimated pre-tax pay packet of $170m (£136m).\n\nEarlier this year, Jenner earned a place on Forbes' list of the world's richest self-made women thanks to an estimated net worth of around $1 billion (£800m).\n\nHer inclusion on the list proved controversial, with many claiming her \"billionaire\" status derived in part from her famous family.\n\nMost of her fortune derives from her best-selling beauty business.\n\nJenner, who turns 22 next month, was ranked third in last year's Celebrity 100 countdown, below boxer Floyd Mayweather and actor George Clooney.\n\nRapper Kanye West earns third place in this year's rundown, having made an estimated $150m (£120m) in 2018/2019.\n\nThe 42-year-old's top-three ranking, derived in part from his Yeezy sneaker empire, comes three years after he claimed on Twitter he was $53m (£42m) in debt.\n\nEd Sheeran is the highest-ranked Briton in this year's countdown\n\nFootballers Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar also feature in a top 10 alongside rock veterans The Eagles and TV personality Dr Phil.\n\nEd Sheeran, who is placed fifth in the list, is the highest-ranking Briton with estimated pre-tax earnings of $110m (£88m).\n\nNew entries in this year's countdown include South Korean group BTS at 43, Ariana Grande at 62 and actor Paul Rudd, who is ranked joint 83rd.\n\nThe 50-year-old is adjudged to have made as much as the Rolling Stones - an estimated $41m (£32m) - in a year that saw him star in both Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Endgame.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Renewables may be booming but the Committee on Climate Change says the government isn't moving fast enough\n\nThe UK has been dealt a \"brutal reality check\" on its climate change ambitions, environmentalists have said.\n\nThe government's official climate change advisers warn ministers are failing to cut emissions fast enough, and adapt to rising temperatures.\n\nCommittee on Climate Change chair John Gummer likened them to the hapless characters in 1970s comedy Dad's Army.\n\nThe government said it would soon set out plans to tackle emissions from aviation, heat, energy and transport.\n\nThe prime minister recently announced that the UK would lead the world by cutting almost all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - so-called net zero.\n\nTheresa May also aspired to the UK hosting a hugely important global climate summit next year.\n\nBut the CCC said that the UK was already stumbling over measures needed to achieve the previous target of an 80% emissions cut.\n\nIts report says new policies must be found to help people lead good lives without fuelling global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nPolicies are needed to ensure that people living in care homes, hospitals and flats can stay cool in increasingly hot summers.\n\nAnd ministers must show how funds will be found to protect critical infrastructure - like ports - from rising sea levels.\n\nThe committee said unless it delivered on these issues, the government would not have the credibility to host a global climate change summit of world leaders, likely to be held in the UK next year.\n\nDoug Parr from Greenpeace UK said: \"This is a truly brutal reality check on the government's current progress in tackling the climate emergency.\n\n\"It paints the government as a sleeper who's woken up, seen the house is on fire, raised the alarm and gone straight back to sleep\".\n\nThe committee's deputy chairwoman Baroness Brown told BBC News: \"There's an increasing sense of frustration that the government knows what it has to do - but it's just not doing it.\"\n\nThe committee said the government's 2040 goal to eliminate emissions from cars and vans was too late.\n\nNew ways must be found to nudge some drivers into walking, cycling and taking public transport, it believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: Why are governments taking so long to take action?\n\nThere's palpable annoyance from the committee that their recommendations are often ignored.\n\nIn the list of actions needed to meet emission targets, such as improving insulation of buildings and increasing the market share of electric vehicles, the committee found only seven out of 24 goals were on track.\n\nOutside the power and industry sectors, only two indicators were on track.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Deben, the former agriculture minister John Gummer, said: \"The whole thing is really run by the government like a Dad's Army. We can't go on with this ramshackle system.\"\n\nAt current rates of global emissions cuts, the world may be heading for a temperature rise of more than 3C by the end of this century - but the report says England appears unprepared for even a 2C rise in global temperature.\n\nIt warns that the UK is failing to insulate itself from the knock-on effects of climate change overseas, such as colonisations by new species, changes in the suitability of land for agriculture or forestry, and risks to health from changes in air quality driven by rising temperatures.\n\nThe report says: \"Last June, we advised that 25 headline policy actions were needed for the year ahead. Twelve months later, only one has been delivered by the government in full.\"\n\nIt complains that in some ways the UK is going backwards.\n\nGreen space in parks and gardens cools cities and helps reduce flood risks. But as more homes are crammed into cities, green spaces have shrunk from 63% of urban area in 2001 to 55% in 2018.\n\nHeat magnifies the production of pollutants, so more people are expected to suffer breathing problems.\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of hard surfaces in towns has risen by 22% since 2001, even though they make floods worse.\n\nThe report says the government's planning should consider the risks that the world may warm by as much as 4C by 2100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nIt warns that the new net zero target requires an annual rate of emissions reduction that is 50% higher than under the UK's previous target.\n\nIt is 30% higher than what's been achieved on average since 1990 - a period when the UK has benefited from a relatively simple switch from coal to gas for electricity.\n\nThe report says: \"The need for action has rarely been clearer. Our message to government is simple: 'Now, do it.'\"\n\nAs new homes have been built green spaces have shrunk in urban areas over the past 20 years\n\nA government spokesman said the UK had cut emissions faster than any other G7 country and set a strong example for other countries to follow.\n\n\"We know there is more to do - and legislating for net zero will help to drive further action, as well as further measures to protect the environment from extreme weather, including flood protection, tree planting and peat-land management,\" the spokesman added.\n\nShadow business and energy secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the government efforts were lagging far behind what is required.\n\nShe said the report was a \"remarkable, damning assessment\".\n\nFriends of the Earth's Mike Childs said: \"Theresa May keeps talking about the need for climate action, while giving the green light to fracking and more roads and runways.\n\n\"Reining in the rogue Department for Transport is crucial. Billions of pounds are being squandered on gas-guzzling developments, while trams, trains, buses and cycling are starved of investment.\"\n\nClimate change policy is devolved. Scotland faces slightly tougher targets for emissions cuts than England, and Wales faces a slightly more lax target. Northern Ireland polices are not yet determined.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAndy Murray and Serena Williams wowed Wimbledon again as their box office partnership continued with another straight-set win in the mixed doubles.\n\nBritain's Murray, 32, and American Williams, 37, moved into the last 16 with a 7-5 6-3 win over 14th seeds Fabrice Martin and Raquel Atawo.\n\nWilliams produced ruthless returning to win crucial break points in each set.\n\nThey now play top seeds Bruno Soares - the former men's partner of Murray's brother Jamie - and Nicole Melichar.\n\n\"We're in the groove of things so it's feeling good,\" Williams said. \"I'm having a blast, it has been really fun and it's a great atmosphere playing out there with Andy.\"\n\nMurray added: \"She returned brilliantly especially at the end of the first set, and the start of the second, hitting clean winners and making my job easy, but then I was missing mine on break points.\n\n\"We both played well and if she keeps returning like that we'll have a good chance.\n\n\"All matches are great for me, doubles especially, for the reactions and reflexes which has helped me and once I've finished here, hopefully on Sunday, I will get back and start practising some more singles.\"\n• None Murray column: 'Serena was making me laugh out there'\n• None Williams reveals she had therapy following US Open outburst\n\nThe stellar pairing between Britain's three-time Grand Slam singles champion, and a 23-time major winner widely regarded as the sport's greatest female player, has breathed new life into the mixed doubles at the All England Club.\n\nTheir match, again scheduled on Centre Court, was watched by a near-capacity 15,000 crowd who were given plenty of entertainment and responded by providing a crackling atmosphere.\n\nMurray opened the match to excited cheers from the home fans, many who probably thought they would never see him again on the court where he has won two singles titles.\n\nThe Scot, who had serious hip surgery in January, started with a solid service game which was finished by Williams hammering a stinging volley straight at Martin's calf - she quickly held both hands up in apology.\n\nBut it was a sign that the partnership - which Williams said has been christened 'Mur-rena' - meant business in this fun format.\n\nWilliams was back on Centre little over two hours after she beat Alison Riske to reach the semi-finals of the women's singles, yet looked far from fatigued as she turned the match in her team's favour.\n\nWilliams' backhand winner off a 138mph serve set up a fourth break point - this time on Martin's serve and for the set - only for Murray to dump a forehand into the net and the chance to disappear.\n\nMurray's returning game - usually his hallmark - was not quite on the same level as he sent another set point into the net at 6-5.\n\nBut it did not matter as the quality of his partner shone through moments later.\n\nWilliams hit a dipping cross-court winner to set up another chance and then hit almost the same shot to seal the opening set - greeting it with another loud roar and a twirl on the spot.\n\nWilliams continued to dismantle the big-serving Martin at the start of the second set, earning another break point when she reached to successfully convert a forehand winner which left even her pulling a face of shock.\n\nThat proved enough to take the set - and the match - when Murray delivered a clean ace out wide to win the match in one hour and 37 minutes.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Jones appeared in Emmerdale from 2005 to 2018\n\nTributes have been paid to the British actor Freddie Jones, known to millions as Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale, following his death at the age of 91.\n\nHis agent Lesley Duff said he died on 9 July after a short illness.\n\nShe remembered Jones - the father of fellow actor Toby - as \"a much loved and admired actor, known for his triumphs in theatre, film and TV.\"\n\nHis many feature films include the David Lynch films Dune, Wild at Heart and The Elephant Man.\n\nIn the latter he played Bytes, the circus ringmaster who cruelly exploits the physically deformed John Merrick.\n\nHe also appeared in such horror films as Frankenstein Must be Destroyed and The Satanic Rites of Dracula as well as 1983 sci-fi Krull.\n\nHis other roles included Sir Pitt Crawley in a 1987 adaptation of Vanity Fair\n\nJones was most recently known for playing Woolpack regular Sandy in Emmerdale, a role he played for 13 years.\n\nHe made his final appearance on the ITV soap last year after saying he could no longer justify staying.\n\n\"The company generously offered me another 12 months,\" he told the Radio Times.\n\n\"But I just thought, 'I have no idea what I'm going to do in another bloody year!'\"\n\nKatherine Dow Blyton - Harriet Finch in Emmerdale - said she felt \"so lucky\" to have worked with him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katherine Dow Blyton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMark Charnock, aka Marlon Dingle, said Jones was \"an amazing man\" who \"would light up the set with his wit and charm\".\n\n\"People like Freddie don't come along very often and everyone at Emmerdale knew what it meant to have him in our cast.\"\n\nCharlotte Bellamy, who plays Sandy's daughter-in-law Laurel, said she spent her time working with him \"in awe of his professionalism, humour and his zest for life\".\n\nThe programme posted its own tribute, remembering Jones as \"one of the show's most brilliant actors and favourite human beings\".\n\nJones started out as a laboratory assistant before turning his love of amateur theatre into a professional career.\n\nAfter working in repertory theatre and television, he made his film debut in Peter Brook's Marat/Sade in 1967.\n\nToby Jones (left) has been acting since the early 1990s\n\nJones was married for more than 50 years to actress Jennie Heslewood, with whom he had three sons.\n\nBoth Toby and Caspar followed him into the acting profession, while Rupert became a director.\n\nIn 2009 Freddie and Toby Jones appeared together on The Film Programme to discuss the art of being a character actor.\n\nSpeaking to broadcaster Matthew Sweet, Jones senior said the secret of making an impression was \"not leaving it on the page, but lifting it up and flying it a bit\".\n\nHe also revealed he had initially turned down The Elephant Man because he found it \"over-larded with mawkish sentimentality\".\n\n\"It didn't need it,\" he said of the film's script, which went on to be nominated for an Oscar and a Bafta. \"The man [John Merrick] was a living tragedy.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says a vote by MPs to legalise same-sex marriage and liberalise Northern Ireland's abortion law has \"breached the devolution settlement\".\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy says the government has a responsibility to deliver rights in Stormont's absence.", "MPs have voted by the thinnest of margins for a process that would make it more difficult for a future prime minister to prorogue Parliament.\n\nTory MP Dominic Grieve wanted to amend the Northern Ireland Bill to stop a future PM forcing through a no-deal Brexit by suspending Parliament.\n\nHis amendment - to require ministers to regularly report on the situation in Northern Ireland - passed by one vote.\n\nIt could provide a tool for MPs to block a no-deal Brexit in October.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the approval of Mr Grieve's proposal was a \"tight but important victory\".\n\nHe tweeted that it \"makes it much harder for incoming prime minister to suspend Parliament\".\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's deal. Currently, the date for exit is 31 October.\n\nIf that date is reached without a deal being agreed on the separation process, then the UK will leave without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nMr Grieve had sought to get MPs' backing for a package of measures he hoped would require Parliament to sit through October in the run up to the UK's departure.\n\nOne amendment, stating that MPs should be recalled to debate reports on Northern Ireland if Parliament is closed, wasn't selected for debate by Speaker John Bercow - although it could be introduced in the Lords later.\n\nThat took some of the force out of Mr Grieve's efforts.\n\nHowever, two other amendments designed to make prorogation harder were put to a vote.\n\nThe first - approved by 294 votes to 293 - requires the government to produce fortnightly reports from October until December on the progress towards restoring the power sharing arrangements in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe second - which would have required the government to schedule debates on those progress reports - was defeated by 293 votes to 289.\n\nWhile the success of that one amendment probably won't block prorogation, it could make it more difficult - especially if the House of Lords subsequently revives Mr Grieve's more forceful attempt to stop Parliament being temporarily suspended.\n\nDuring the debate on Tuesday, Mr Grieve said: \"If the other place (House of Lords) in its wisdom decides to look at the totality of our amendments and decides that the amendment new clause 14 (on preventing prorogation) would add value and places it in, this House will have an opportunity before this Bill goes through in order to consider that and either reject it or accept it.\"\n\nMr Grieve said he did not think democracy would survive Parliament being prorogued to allow for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Heaven knows, if I've tried to do anything during this Brexit process it's to try to encourage a sound process and to prevent catastrophic cliff edge moments and to enable this House to make reasoned decisions.\"\n\nDuring the debate, Northern Ireland minister John Penrose said the government disagreed with Mr Grieve's suggestion for regular fortnightly reporting, with a vote on each occasion, calling it \"an excessive and unnecessary level of procedure\".\n• None Why there's more to the Northern Ireland bill", "Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton says he is trying to \"steady the ship\" after the fashion retailer reported an £85m annual loss.\n\nMr Dunkerton returned to the firm in April, after a lengthy campaign against the previous management, who he said had a \"misguided\" strategy.\n\nAs well as reporting a steep loss for last year, Superdry warned that sales could fall in the current financial year.\n\nIn 2018 it reported profits of £65.3m.\n\n\"My first priority on returning to Superdry has been to steady the ship and get the culture of the business back to the one which drove its original success,\" Mr Dunkerton said.\n\nHe said he planned to return the brand to its \"design-led roots\", paving the way for a return to profitability over the next three years.\n\nCustomers will be offered greater choice in stores and online, he said.\n\nThere will be less discounting, a website redesign and a change in marketing strategy as part of the new strategy.\n\nThe firm will aim to renegotiate better terms with landlords, as a large proportion of its leases come up for renewal over the next two years, he added.\n\nHowever there could also be a \"minimal\" number of store closures in the UK and the US.\n\nSuperdry, which started out as a market stall in Cheltenham 16 years ago, was set up by by Mr Dunkerton and James Holder, and went on to enjoy huge commercial success.\n\nBut its shares have lost nearly 70% over the past year against a tough retail backdrop and in March the company announced it would cut up to 200 jobs.\n\nMr Dunkerton is leading the company while it searches for a new permanent chief executive.\n\nKate Culvert, retail analyst at Investec, said: \"With so many moving parts, these types of recovery stories rarely go smoothly and management faces a very long uphill struggle given how challenging the competitive backdrop is\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAndy Murray and Serena Williams' memorable Wimbledon run is over after they lost to top seeds Bruno Soares and Nicole Melichar in the mixed doubles.\n\nBritain's Murray, 32, and American Williams, 37, have illuminated SW19 with their blockbuster partnership but came unstuck in a 6-3 4-6 6-2 defeat.\n\nThe loss means the Scot's Wimbledon return - almost six months after serious hip surgery - is over.\n\nNow he must decide the next step as he ultimately hopes to play singles again.\n\nOn Tuesday, Murray said playing singles at the US Open in September looks \"pretty unlikely\" as he continues to take his recovery cautiously.\n\nAfter their exit on Wednesday, the former British number one said: \"I think I achieved a lot.\n\n\"I got on the court and considering the lack of matches, I did OK. The most positive thing is that my body felt good.\"\n\nWilliams still has a chance of silverware as she plays Czech Barbora Strycova - British number one Jo Konta's conqueror - in the singles semi-finals on Thursday.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam champion said she has \"loved the support\" from playing alongside Murray at the All England Club.\n\n\"Hopefully I can still have it,\" she added.\n\n\"I think to play on this stage with Andy, who has done so well here for so many years, is literally just a lifetime experience. I'm so happy that I got to experience it.\"\n• None Serena was making me laugh out there - Andy Murray column\n\n'Mur-rena' out but plenty of positives for Sir Andy\n\nThree-time Grand Slam winner Murray has spoken of his pleasure at being back playing competitively after having a hip resurfacing operation from which no player has returned to singles action.\n\nFew would have thought they would see the 2013 and 2016 champion playing Wimbledon so soon and, despite seeing the chance of another title alongside Williams disappear, he will look back on the past month with plenty of positives.\n\nMurray made a winning return by taking the Queen's doubles alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez and has continued to look sharp for this stage of his recovery at the All England Club.\n\nThe partnership with Williams, christened by the pair as 'Mur-rena', has wowed the Wimbledon crowds but they could not recover after dropping their first set of the tournament against Soares and Melichar.\n\nDogged defending from Williams at the net ended in a volleyed winner on the way to a break point at 3-3, but the pair could not convert and were punished in the next game when Soares and Melichar broke for 5-3 and served out the first set.\n\nA tight second set swung the way of Murray and Williams after Soares produced three double faults on what proved to be the final game.\n\nThe Brazilian, who used to partner Murray's brother Jamie in the men's doubles, made amends by sealing a break in the first game of the decider with a forehand winner placed in-between his opponents.\n\nThat proved key as the top seeds began to run away with the set, taking their first match point to reach the quarter-finals when Murray drilled a forehand into the net.\n\nMurray and Williams continued to smile, however, as they left a packed court two to a standing ovation.", "The UK economy returned to growth in May after shrinking in April, but the news failed to allay fears of a future slowdown.\n\nThe economy grew 0.3% from the month before, after declining 0.4% in April, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nGrowth for the three months to May was 0.3%, with all sectors showing growth.\n\nBut economists say that June's growth figures will have to be strong to avoid contraction in the second quarter.\n\nA partial recovery in car production, which had fallen sharply in April, was the main reason for the economy's upturn in May, said Rob Kent-Smith, head of GDP at the ONS.\n\nFactory shutdowns designed to cope with disruption from a March Brexit had slashed UK car production in April by nearly half.\n\nHowever, despite this rebound, the levels of output in the car industry are below those seen in the months leading up to April 2019, the ONS said.\n\n\"GDP grew moderately in the latest three months, with IT, communications and retail showing strength. Despite this, there has been a longer-term slowdown in the often-dominant services sector since summer 2018,\" Mr Kent-Smith added.\n\nIn May, growth in services was flat, following growth of 0.1% in April.\n\nA return to work in car factories that shut down in preparation for a no-deal Brexit drove a return to growth in the economy in May of 0.3%. But that rise did not make up for all the fall in the previous month.\n\nMonthly figures are volatile and should be taken with a pinch of salt. However, against a backdrop of a marked softening in a slew of surveys of manufacturing, services and retail, there is an indication of an economy stalling and possibly contracting in the second quarter that has just ended, between April and June.\n\nIn the three months till May, however, growth was higher than expected because of a better March than had been previously calculated.\n\nThe impact of stockpiling, though, can clearly be seen in the big economic figures. Sterling has fallen more than 5% in recent weeks against the world's three major currencies, on expectation of lower interest rates for longer, political uncertainty and rising expectations of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBen Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the latest figures suggested the economy grew overall in the second quarter, although probably at a much slower rate than the 0.5% recorded in the January-to-March period.\n\nThose second-quarter figures, covering April to June, are due to be released on 9 August.\n\n\"Storm clouds look to be gathering over the UK economy, as consumers and business remain hamstrung by Brexit uncertainty,\" he added.\n\nLast month, the Bank of England said it expected economic growth to be flat in the second quarter of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Merkel is seen shaking for a third time in a month\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has been seen shaking for a third time in a month.\n\nVideo footage shows Mrs Merkel trembling, shaking back and forth alongside Finland's prime minister during a ceremony in Berlin on Wednesday.\n\nAfter the incident, Mrs Merkel said she was \"very well\" and there was \"no need to worry\".\n\nA government spokesperson said she would continue meetings as planned.\n\nMrs Merkel, 64, was last seen trembling two weeks ago ahead of a trip to Japan for the G20 summit. She told journalists at the summit she was fine.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor gripped her hands as she tried to control her shaking, standing alongside Prime Minister Antti Rinne.\n\nAccording to the Focus website, the shaking affected her whole body and lasted over a minute.\n\nShe was first seen shaking last month during a welcome ceremony in Berlin for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nIn a press conference on Wednesday, Mrs Merkel said she was \"working through what happened during the military honours with President Zelensky.\"\n\nShe added: \"This process is clearly not finished yet but there is progress and I must live with this for a while but I am very well and you don't need to worry about me.\"\n\nMrs Merkel's spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer, was questioned by German media as to why the government had not provided any information on her health. Ms Demmer said she had \"nothing to add\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first incident was attributed to dehydration\n\nThe chancellor's office has repeatedly dismissed concerns about her health.\n\nBut asked by the Focus website what might be wrong this time, leading Bavarian GP Jakob Berger said the chancellor should undergo urgent health checks. \"Her doctors must now press for some research,\" he said.\n\nFollowing her second shaking incident, another health specialist, Dr Christoph Specht, said that the chancellor could have contracted an infection. He said shivering indicated an infection that was flaring up again.\n\nGerman media have reacted with alarm to Mrs Merkel's health scare. \"The health of Angela Merkel is now a political issue,\" an editorial in the Bild newspaper read.\n\nMrs Merkel is now in her fourth term as chancellor, a role she first began in November 2005. She has said she will leave politics when her current term ends in 2021.\n\nShe has been in good health while in office, and even worked from home after a knee operation in 2011. She also suffered a fall while skiing in 2014. Her absences were only brief on those occasions.", "The leak on the £3.1bn carrier was first identified during sea trials on Tuesday\n\nThe UK's new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has returned from sea trials early after a leak was found.\n\nThe Royal Navy's future flagship left Portsmouth Naval Base last month for five weeks of sea trials and training.\n\nA Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokeswoman described the leak as \"a minor issue with an internal system\" on Britain's biggest warship.\n\nThe £3.1bn ship returned to Portsmouth as a precautionary measure after the leak was found on Tuesday.\n\nThe warship is expected to be the Navy's flagship for at least 50 years\n\nWater leaked into an internal compartment, where it was contained.\n\nIt was pumped out and the 900ft (280m) long warship returned to port.\n\nThe MoD said: \"An investigation into the cause is under way.\"\n\nThis latest problem follows a number of other issues including a shaft seal leak, which caused the ship to take on 200 litres of water every hour, and the accidental triggering of the sprinklers in the hangar.\n\nIn May the captain of the aircraft carrier was removed from the ship amid claims he misused an MoD car.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have previously voted five times on whether or not to introduce same-sex marriage\n\nThere are two ways to read what just happened in parliament.\n\nThe first, how many campaigners see it, is that this is a watershed moment towards legalising same-sex marriage and liberalising abortion laws in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe other take is that this is the biggest step yet by Westminster when it comes to implementing direct rule in NI.\n\nThat's something that might cause more than a rumbling of worry when it comes to the current talks process at Stormont.\n\nThe socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) voted against both of the divisive amendments, arguing parliament was overstepping the mark and the matters should remain devolved.\n\nMPs critical of that logic said there hasn't been a functioning government in Northern Ireland since 2017 - and they now had a duty to back a law change.\n\nIt bears repeating that the amendments are subject to one big caveat.\n\nThey will only take effect if Stormont is not restored by 21 October (the next obligatory date by which the NI secretary must call an assembly election).\n\nSo could we see a fast breakthrough by the Stormont parties, to take back control of the issues?\n\nLabour MP Conor McGinn tabled the amendment that sought to legalise same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland, if devolution is not restored\n\nSome believe Tuesday's developments could rather serve to hold back the process and affect the political mood music.\n\nAny final agreement on a deal has to come between the DUP and Sinn Féin, who are diametrically opposed on a number of sticking points, including same-sex marriage.\n\nSinn Féin has previously campaigned for same-sex marriage to be legalised in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party might now think restoring the assembly could remove the chance of same-sex marriage becoming legal in NI any time soon - and could potentially put it at odds with many Sinn Féin voters.\n\nWhen it comes to the DUP, one theory is that the party would privately like Westminster to pass legislation on the issue and remove it from the negotiations.\n\nIt's faced criticism for calling for Northern Ireland to remain fully aligned with Great Britain after Brexit, while defending Northern Ireland being unique on other issues - citing the power of devolution.\n\nAs the only main political party in NI to remain opposed to same-sex marriage, to allow it to progress through Westminster could get the DUP out of a tricky spot.\n\nThe DUP voted against the amendments, arguing MPs had hijacked the process of devolution\n\nBut what the party remains aware of, is what all this could mean for other issues that should be under control of the assembly, which could now end up before Parliament at some point.\n\nThe two big parties will have some thinking to do in the coming days about their next moves.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of the latest parliamentary antics have the deputy speaker's office to thank.\n\nFew had anticipated that the amendments would even be selected for debate, given how much controversy they had the potential to stir up.\n\nIt's perhaps a nod to the overarching power of politics - that it can bring about change on issues many people feel strongly about, one way or the other - and a reminder of what has been missing from politics at Stormont for two and a half years now.", "In October, the BBC met Yusra and her family in war-torn Yemen. She had an aggressive tumour in her left eye, but couldn’t get the life-saving treatment she needed.\n\nNow she’s been fitted with a prosthetic eye in Jordan and is returning to her homeland.\n\nShe is now cancer-free but has a genetic condition, so follow up checks are being arranged in Yemen.\n\nInternational Correspondent Orla Guerin reports for the BBC News at Ten.", "Lord Turnberg, Lord Triesman and Lord Darzi have resigned the Labour whip\n\nThree peers have left the Labour group in the Lords, accusing the party of anti-Semitism, Newsnight has learned.\n\nLord Triesman, general secretary between 2001 and 2004, accused Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism and said the party was no longer \"a safe environment\" for Jewish people.\n\nLord Darzi, meanwhile, will sit as an independent and Lord Turnberg said he feared \"for the future\" of the party.\n\nLabour said it \"completely rejects these false and offensive claims\".\n\n\"The Labour Party at all levels is implacably opposed to anti-Semitism and is determined to root out this social cancer from our movement and society,\" a party spokeswoman said.\n\nFormer Health Minister Lord Darzi said that as an Armenian descendant of a \"survivor of the Armenian genocide\", he had \"zero tolerance to anti-Semitism,\" adding that his decision to resign the whip \"has not been lightly taken\".\n\nFormer president of the Royal College of Physicians Lord Turnberg told BBC Newsnight that his differences \"lie with the party leadership and machine and not with my very supportive colleagues in the Lords who share my values\".\n\n\"It is not just the policies on foreign affairs... and Brexit vacillation and bypassing parliamentary opinion but the overt anti-Semitism that permeates the party machine that is no longer possible for me to tolerate,\" he said.\n\nLabour said it was taking \"decisive action against anti-Semitism\" and had doubled the number of staff dedicated to dealing with complaints and cases.\n\n\"Our records show that anti-Semitism cases that have gone through the stages of our disciplinary procedures since September 2015 account for about 0.06% of the party's membership,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This represents a tiny minority - but one anti-Semite is one too many and we will continue to act against this repugnant form of racism.\"\n\nBut, in his resignation letter to Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Smith, Lord Triesman said Mr Corbyn \"and his circle are anti-Semitic, having never once made the right judgement call about an issue reflecting deep prejudice\".\n\n\"My sad conclusion is that the Labour party is very plainly institutionally anti-Semitic,\" he wrote.\n\nAnti-Semites were \"shielded\", while \"serious party members are thrown out unceremoniously\", he said. \"The experience of life in the party has become sickening.\"\n\nThe remarks represent the strongest personal attack on the Labour leader from within the party since Margaret Hodge reportedly called Mr Corbyn an anti-Semitic racist last year.\n\nLord Triesman told Newsnight the party had been \"a central plank of my political life for over 50 years\".\n\nBut it had now \"slipped into the familiar gutter of so many of the hard left\".\n\n\"It is a painful decision,\" the former trade union leader told Newsnight.\n\n\"I remain completely aligned to the values I've had over all these years but I can no longer take direction from a leadership that is institutionally anti-Semitic.\"\n\nLord Triesman wrote: \"I always said it was worth hanging on to fight so long as there was a prospect of winning.\n\n\"I now don't believe with this leadership there is.\"\n\nHe said hoping \"something will turn up to change it all\" was a \"unicorn delusion\".\n\nThe resignations came as Labour's disputes panel met to discuss the suspension of MP Chris Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson was suspended earlier this year after saying Labour had \"given too much ground\" over anti-Semitism.\n\nIn February, nine MPs quit Labour, some citing the leadership's handling of anti-Semitism as their reason for leaving.\n\nLuciana Berger said she had come to the \"sickening conclusion\" the party had become institutionally anti-Semitic and she was \"embarrassed and ashamed\" to stay.\n\nJoan Ryan claimed Labour's leadership had allowed \"Jews to be abused with impunity\".\n\nAnd Ian Austin said Jeremy Corbyn was \"incapable\" of dealing with anti-Semitism.\n\nIn his letter, Lord Triesman also cited Labour's policy position on Brexit, which he said had \"encouraged xenophobia\", and on defence and Nato, which he called \"worse than ambiguous\".\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n• None Labour must 'act more quickly' on anti-Semitism", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Watch in-play clips & highlights on the BBC Sport website & app; live Test Match Special radio and text commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live sports extra & BBC Sport website\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan believes his England side could not be better prepared for their World Cup semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston on Thursday.\n\nThe hosts lost to Australia in the group stage, but reached their first semi since 1992 with wins against India and New Zealand.\n\n\"The last two games we managed to produce something near our best performances,\" Morgan told BBC Sport.\n\nEngland began the World Cup as favourites and the number-one ranked team, but were on the verge of going out after being beaten by Australia at Lord's.\n\nTo make it to the last four, they had to defeat both India and New Zealand, the two sides that contested the other semi-final.\n\n\"We're delighted to be here,\" added Morgan, whose side are bidding to face New Zealand in Sunday's final at Lord's.\n\n\"Throughout the group stage, it looked in question, but I don't think we could be better prepared. We're extremely excited and looking forward to it.\n\n\"Looking back, it hasn't worked out badly at all.\"\n• None We expect the Aussies to be in our faces, but we're ready for semi-final - Mark Wood column\n\nWhile England have not won a World Cup knockout game for 27 years, Australia have won four of the past five tournaments.\n\nWhen they met at Lord's, England were outplayed to lose by 64 runs, but Morgan claimed his side are a different proposition now.\n\n\"I don't think we can completely ignore it, we do have to learn a little bit about Australia,\" said the Dublin-born batsman. \"But, given it was three games ago, we look a different team.\"\n\nDuring that game, Morgan was out hooking a bouncer from Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc.\n\nAt the time, former England batsman Kevin Pietersen tweeted that Morgan looked \"scared\".\n\nThe following day, Pietersen again tweeted, saying: \"I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was showing his stumps because Starc attacks them. I may be wrong though? Or I may be right?\n\nWhen asked about Pietersen's comments, Morgan said: \"When Kevin Pietersen comes out with a comment, it's very similar to comments I address from Geoffrey Boycott.\n\n\"They are not ones that are considered good for a team environment and don't take the best interests of the team or the player at heart. Guys are trying their heart out to do well for their country, trying to learn, trying to get better.\n\n\"We have critics being critics. They need to do that, that's their job, so let them be.\"\n\nAustralia were top of the group for most of the round-robin phase and were set to play in the first semi-final at Old Trafford until they were beaten by South Africa on Saturday.\n\nThey now must play at an Edgbaston ground where England have won 10 consecutive matches across all formats and where Australia have not won a one-day international since their famous 1999 World Cup semi-final against South Africa - and even that was tied.\n\nOn the reception his side will receive, Australia captain Aaron Finch said: \"It's a great crowd to play in front of, regardless whether you are on the receiving end of some good banter.\n\n\"It is always a great atmosphere and a pleasure to play here. I think although they can be quite parochial at times, it is always good fun, they sing some good tunes out there.\"\n\nAustralia have already confirmed that batsman Peter Handscomb, in the squad as a replacement for Shaun Marsh, will play his first game of the tournament.\n\nMatthew Wade has also replaced Usman Khawaja and could come into the side.\n\nEngland are likely to be unchanged, meaning Liam Plunkett continues as one of four frontline pace bowlers and off-spinner Moeen Ali misses out.\n\nThere have been some concerns that Edgbaston may not be full given that it seemed likely that India were set to be in this semi-final, only for their fans to have to turn their attention to Old Trafford.\n\nThe International Cricket Council have urged fans with unwanted tickets to resell them on their official site.\n\nAs of Wednesday afternoon, there were still tickets available on the ICC website.\n\nEngland and Australia meet in the World Cup semi-final just three weeks before the first Ashes Test, which is also at Edgbaston on 1 August.\n\nBut which would Australia prefer to win?\n\nFormer Australia captain Steve Waugh told the Test Match Special podcast: \"I think if you asked the coach, Justin Langer, he would prefer the Ashes over the World Cup but having said that he would love to win the World Cup and so would all of the players as well.\n\n\"I don't think it will be crucial [for the Ashes to win the World Cup]. They are totally different games but it doesn't hurt if you win the World Cup.\n\n\"Confidence will be high in the camp. It is a long tour. It is important to keep winning on long tours so it is important for Australia to do well here.\"\n\nBBC Weather's Billy Payne: \"It's now looking mostly cloudy through both the morning and afternoon with occasional light showers possible, but a few bright or sunny interludes may develop.\n\n\"Highs of 22C (72F). Winds W to SW'ly at 10-12mph.\"", "What is the perfect way to celebrate your 100th birthday?\n\nFor Tommy Hodgson it was skydiving over the Cumbrian hills.\n\nNow he hopes to set a world record by repeating the feat in three years' time.", "The first and only head-to-head TV debate between conservative leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt was peppered with feisty exchanges and personal jibes.\n\nMr Johnson repeatedly accused Mr Hunt of being \"defeatist\" over Brexit, while Mr Hunt said his rival was \"unrealistic\" and \"peddling optimism\".\n\nThe two contradicted, harangued and spoke over each other at several points, with ITV host Julie Etchingham forced to intervene to restore order.\n\nBut towards the end they had to respond to a challenge from an audience member - for each to identify a characteristic they admired in the other, what did they say?", "The safety of the public is being put at risk by thousands of prisoners being released without proper assessments, the government has been told.\n\nPeter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, also found suicides had risen by 15% in a year in England and Wales.\n\nIn his 2018-19 annual report, Mr Clarke described the rising number of prisoner suicides and self-harm as a \"scandal\".\n\nHe also found the response to the \"deluge of drugs\" in prisons had been \"too slow\" and \"unsophisticated\".\n\nIn his report, Mr Clarke said thousands of prisoners who were potentially a \"high risk of harm\" to the public were being released \"without proper assessment\".\n\nAn inmate's assessment should be regularly updated, he said, but sometimes there was no document at all or the paperwork was out of date.\n\nHe added that the response to the problem, which had been raised repeatedly, had been \"poor\".\n\nThere were 83 suicides in male prisons in 2018-19, an increase from 72 the previous year, the report said.\n\nMr Clarke said levels of self-harm were \"disturbingly high\", rising in two thirds of the adult male prisons inspected.\n\nHe suggested that it was time for an independent inquiry to tackle the \"scandal\" of people dying in state care in \"preventable circumstances\".\n\nMr Clarke said he would \"never forget\" the squalid conditions he encountered on a visit to Birmingham prison.\n\nHe recalled a blood-stained shower, which was littered with rat droppings.\n\nBirmingham had the worst examples of living conditions, his report said, with cells \"dirty, cramped and overcrowded\".\n\nVulnerable prisoners were found living in squalid cells which were not fit for habitation.\n\n\"Rubbish was left lying around in bags and there were problems with fleas, cockroaches and rodents,\" the report said.\n\nOne prisoner lived in a \"filthy flooded cell\" and the blood of another - who had self-harmed two days earlier - had not been cleaned from the floor.\n\nThe report warned the \"appalling impact\" of illicit drugs in prisons had been underestimated.\n\nMr Clarke said there was a \"reluctance\" to invest in available technology to detect drugs which was a \"great shame\" given their \"destructive impact\".\n\nMr Clarke praised the \"bravery\" of prison staff, saying their work was \"difficult, often dangerous, largely unseen by the public and, as a result, little understood\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it had improved its \"risk assessment and sentencing planning processes\" and high-risk prisoners were subject to \"various strict risk assessments\".\n\nIt also said it had improved the provision of mental health support and trained staff on how to care for inmates at risk of self-harm.\n\nDeborah Coles, director of charity Inquest, said \"self-harm, violence and deaths\" were endemic in the prison system and recommendations were \"systemically ignored\".\n\nShe called for urgent action to reduce the use of prison, redirect resources into community alternatives and \"hold those involved legally accountable for deaths across all state institutions\".", "Passengers were stranded at Gatwick and others due to land were redirected\n\nPolice at Gatwick Airport were not prepared for an attack by more than one drone, a senior officer has said.\n\nFlights were suspended for 30 hours after the drone sightings in December, causing chaos for 140,000 passengers.\n\nSussex Police Supt Justin Burtenshaw said its \"drone plan\" had been based \"around a single drone incursion and not a multiple one\".\n\nHe said the airport industry was left \"playing catch up\", but Gatwick's defences were \"now fit for purpose\".\n\n\"We have now got the mitigation technology in place, I wish we had that in December,\" he added.\n\nAnti-drone equipment was deployed by the RAF at Gatwick Airport\n\nSupt Burtenshaw was speaking to Philip Ingram, a former British Army intelligence officer, at the Interpol World conference in Singapore on 3 July.\n\nHe said: \"We had a number of witnesses who saw two drones at the same time, so we're happy that on at least a couple of those occasions there were two drones flying.\"\n\nNo-one has been charged over the disruption, described as a \"sustained\" drone attack.\n\nSupt Burtenshaw said this was a \"reflection of how complex it is\" and was \"certainly not a failing in my officers\".\n\nThe officer also said that \"jamming technology\" - intended to remotely bring down a drone - was \"just not tested\".\n\n\"All this stuff is built for theatre of war. We are introducing something that is great in a desert into an urban environment and saying we are not quite sure what it's going to do,\" he said.\n\n\"I still don't know what effect a jamming technology is going to have on a hospital that is four kilometres away, so we have to be really careful.\"\n\nSupt Burtenshaw said the technology, which was installed in January at a cost of £5m, would only be used if there were \"no aircraft in the sky\".\n\nHe added: \"[It's] not something we would use very quickly.\"\n\nFootage of Supt Burtenshaw being interviewed by Mr Ingram had been uploaded on YouTube, but was removed after a journalist contacted Sussex Police.\n\nThe force said the interview had been carried out \"on the understanding that it would be shared only among those attending the private conference\".\n\nIt added: \"Once the organisers realised their error in broadcasting the interview on YouTube, they removed it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A report into the culture in the House of Lords has found that staff were \"bullied and harassed\" by peers.\n\nAn inquiry conducted by Naomi Ellenbogen QC said \"unacceptable behaviour\" by \"known offenders\" in the House of Lords had been tolerated.\n\nThe report documented complaints of inappropriate touching and haranguing behaviour.\n\nLords Speaker Lord Fowler said \"bullying and harassment\" had no place in the House.\n\nThe inquiry was launched in 2018 after allegations of bullying and harassment in Parliament hit the headlines.\n\nPublishing her report, Ms Ellenbogen wrote: \"The prevailing culture and behaviours in the House of Lords, as a place of work, have not been conducive to an open and supportive culture to ensure that all those working there are treated with dignity and respect.\n\n\"Staff have bullied and harassed other staff. Members have bullied and harassed staff.\n\n\"On the whole, staff who have experienced bullying and harassment have tended not to complain, formally or otherwise, in the belief that nothing will happen and/or for fear of reprisal.\n\n\"The existence of this culture is unworthy of any institution.\"\n\nShe wrote there existed in the House of Lords \"a culture of undue deference, fear and hierarchy that has put members and clerks at the top, and everyone else below\".\n\nAccording to the report, that meant \"staff can become institutionalised, bad habits can become entrenched, poor behaviour can go unchecked, urban myths can develop and beliefs which may once have been justified can survive and flourish when no longer warranted.\"\n\nThe report found that 20% of staff had reported experience of bullying or harassment - nine points higher than the level across the civil service, but only marginally higher than in the House of Commons.\n\nThe inquiry took 180 contributions from staff who had worked for the Lords within the past six years.\n\nNaomi Ellenbogen QC has made 19 recommendations to improve the Lords' culture\n\nThe report said it received \"very few contributions\" relating to sexual harassment, but added: \"The status of those of whom the behaviour was alleged were, however, particularly troubling.\"\n\nExamples of harassment included one peer grabbing someone's bottom and another trying to kiss a staffer.\n\nSome female contributors provided accounts of comments made by \"male (usually senior) colleagues including 'gosh, you look grown up'\".\n\nThe report did not name the alleged perpetrators, but noted that \"with depressing predictability, the same members of the House were named by contributor after contributor as 'known offenders'\".\n\nOf one peer a contributor said she \"is parliamentary royalty in many people's minds - never meet your heroes, I've decided. She has a reputation, but she's untouchable. She is very rude and no-one knows how to deal with her.\"\n\nAnother described a different peer as \"awful to the staff - hideous, rude and haranguing over basic information\".\n\nA recurrent theme identified by the report was the difference in treatment between clerks and other employees.\n\nOne contributor said: \"Clerks are favoured in every aspect and behave inappropriately without repercussions, with other staff being sidelined on important decisions regarding their work, scapegoated to protect clerks' reputations and generally made to feel inferior in a multitude of other ways.\"\n\nClerks are involved in the running of parliamentary business, including providing advice on procedural matters and maintaining records of proceedings.\n\nOne contributing factor to the workplace culture identified by the report was politeness.\n\nThe report suggested that politeness could \"hinder people's willingness to engage in straightforward, constructive and courageous conversation\", particularly in relation to difficult subjects.\n\nMs Ellenbogen even suggested that, in her own dealings with the House of Lords, \"courtesy was proffered as a substitute for the substantive information requested, in the hope (possibly subconscious) of masking its absence, or reducing the risk of any negative conclusion that I might draw.\"\n\nShe also said while the length of service of many staff had positive aspects, it also meant employees \"have tended to become institutionalised, partly because 'this is the way that things have always been done'.\"\n\nShe suggested modernisers either \"tend to leave, when their ideas are knocked back, or get drawn into the traditional way of doing things (whether by choice or subliminally) in order to progress through the ranks\".\n\nThe report calls for \"root and branch reforms\" to tackle \"systemic cultural issues\", and makes 19 recommendations focused on changing \"the various toxic behaviours\" and improving \"the options available to address inappropriate behaviour\".\n\nThe recommendations include compulsory training for both members of the House of Lords and their staff, the creation of a unified cross-parliamentary human resources team, and the appointment of a director general of the House of Lords.\n\nLord Fowler said the report was \"an important step\" towards ensuring that bullying and harassment were eradicated from the institution, and the House of Lords Commission would consider Ms Ellenbogen's recommendations.\n\nThe inquiry - which started last year - was instigated by the House of Lords Commission. It came after a damning report by High Court judge Dame Laura Cox found lewd, aggressive and intimidating behaviour by MPs and senior House of Commons staff had been \"tolerated and concealed\" for years.\n\nA report into the treatment of those employed by MPs, rather than House of Commons staff, is due to be published on Thursday.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said \"it is really important that the House leadership responds fully and properly to the concerns in today's report.\"", "Leadership hopefuls Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt clash on Brexit and UK relations with Donald Trump in a lively TV debate.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "Libya is a main departure point for migrants hoping to reach Europe (file image)\n\nAt least 80 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia.\n\nFour people were rescued from the inflatable vessel - which sank in waters near the town of Zarzis - but one died later in hospital, reports said.\n\nThe three Malians who were rescued said that they had set out from Zuwara in Libya.\n\nThe country is a main departure point for migrants hoping to reach Europe.\n\nThe survivors of the wrecked boat are now receiving medical treatment\n\nOne of the rescued migrants told Reuters that the boat had taken three hours to sink as it filled with water.\n\nThe four who were rescued survived by holding onto some wood that they had extracted from the boat.\n\n\"We, four people, sat on the wood,\" the man said. \"The waves are hitting us. We had two days of that - sitting on that piece of wood.\"\n\n\"There were a lot of dead people,\" he added.\n\nLibya has been torn by violence and division since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011.\n\nThousands of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, are being held in detention camps in the country.\n\nOn Wednesday at least 53 migrants were killed when a detention centre in Tripoli was hit by an air strike.\n\nIn May at least 65 people drowned when their boat set off from Libya and sunk off the Tunisian coast.", "MIF volunteers rehearsing their bell-ringing in front of a photo of Yoko Ono\n\nBells will ring out to open the Manchester International Festival after Yoko Ono called on thousands of people to make \"an incredible vibration\".\n\nFestival organisers hope a \"people's orchestra of bells\" will take part in her event, titled Bells For Peace.\n\n\"When I was a little girl and we wanted to celebrate, we always made sure to use the bell,\" the Tokyo-born artist said. \"Peace is a celebration.\"\n\nCelebrating peace will be noisy, though, and ear-plugs will be provided.\n\nThe venue for the event, Cathedral Gardens, is a stone's throw from Manchester Arena, where 22 people were killed in a suicide bombing after an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.\n\nOno, 86, has been unable to travel to Manchester, but will appear on screens to lead the attendees through a series of instructions from 18:00 BST before the massed ring-a-thon.\n\nShe told BBC News by email she wanted to be involved \"because Manchester has strength and energy\". The event would have \"an incredible vibration\" that \"might just change the world\", she added.\n\nBells For Peace co-ordinator Emily Lim said the artist and musician \"didn't want this to feel like something people were passive in\".\n\nLim said: \"She doesn't feel or think of peace as a passive thing. She wants this moment to feel like something that is really active and energised, and that people feel like 'we have to do something' to be part of this moment of action for peace.\n\n\"People should expect something quite physical, and it's very accessible, everyone can do it. But the ringing of our bells is going to feel like something that takes effort, and our ambition is that it's a moment that people feel really united in.\"\n\nThe festival has had 4,000 hand-engraved bells made to hand out to those who turn up, and has held bell-making workshops with 400 participants from across the city. People have also been asked to bring their own bells, from hand bells to bicycle bells - or, failing that, phone ringtones.\n\nBells For Peace will kick off the 18-day biennial arts festival. Elsewhere, grime star Skepta has created an homage to rave culture, Maxine Peake will play tragic 1960s chanteuse Nico, and composer Philip Glass has co-created a performance exploring life, loss and inspiration.\n\nThere will be a major exhibition of the art of film-maker David Lynch - but, like Ono, he is not travelling to Manchester.\n\nA shadow was cast over the opening on Tuesday when two writers who worked on Tree, a theatre show credited to Idris Elba and Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, said they had been \"pushed off\" the project and had suffered \"intimidation and disrespect\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widdecombe: \"I stand by what I said\"\n\nBrexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe has been criticised for comparing the UK leaving the EU to \"slaves\" rising up \"against their owners\".\n\nShe made the remarks during her maiden speech in the European Parliament on Thursday, which critics branded \"disgusting\" and \"offensive\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy described her words as \"ahistorical\".\n\nBut Ms Widdecombe told the BBC's Newsnight people had interpreted her speech in a \"melodramatic fashion\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP and shadow home secretary was one of 29 Brexit Party candidates who won European Parliament seats in May.\n\nShe began her first speech to fellow MEPs by attacking the EU for the way it appoints its leaders. This followed heads of member states nominating five candidates for the top jobs in Brussels - including the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission - earlier this week.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen was nominated to replace the current European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker - becoming the first woman to take the role - and Belgian liberal Prime Minister Charles Michel was nominated to replace European Council President Donald Tusk.\n\nCritics of the selection process say the European Parliament's own contest for the main job - the \"Spitzenkandidaten\" (lead candidate) process - was ignored, and that four of the main jobs went to western Europeans, with no nominees from eastern Europe.\n\nMost of the roles must now be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ann Widdecombe: \"Oppressed people turning on the oppressors – slaves against their owners\"\n\nMs Widdecombe, one of six MEPs representing the South West of England, said the process of choosing the leadership of the EU had convinced her that \"the best thing for Britain is to leave here as soon as possible\",\n\nShe went on to say: \"There is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on the oppressors - slaves against their owners, the peasantry against the feudal barons, colonies... against their empires, and that is why Britain is leaving.\n\n\"And it doesn't matter which language you use - we are going and we are glad to be going.\"\n\nShe added: \"Nous allons. Wir gehen. We're off!\"\n\nIn response, EU Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt said Ms Widdecombe was giving her party leader, Nigel Farage, \"stiff competition as chief clown\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan tweeted: \"It is disgusting that Ann Widdecombe would reference slavery and colonisation to describe our relationship with the EU.\n\n\"Her and Farage are bankrolled by elites - she's part of the establishment which has created such a divide in this country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Lammy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat MEP Martin Horwood called for Ms Widdecombe to withdraw her comments and apologise.\n\n\"Ann Widdecombe has not only embarrassed herself, but she has embarrassed the nation she represents,\" he said.\n\nBut Ms Widdecombe defended her speech, telling Newsnight: \"If people want to interpret what I've said in a particular way, that is not my responsibility.\n\n\"I said we had been oppressed, I stand by that. I used three examples, not just slavery... and I stand by what I said.\n\n\"I definitely want the UK to be free of the EU shackles, now complain about that\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Arron Banks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Brexit Party spokesman added: \"Those who have raised this hue and cry seem to desire nothing more than a cleansing of our language of historical perspective and even metaphor.\n\n\"Ms Widdecombe was right to talk about the great sweep of history, and the simple fact that those who are oppressed will always strive for freedom.\"\n\n\"Would they also ban Rule Britannia? The Last night of the Proms?\" he added.", "Changing Places toilets are bigger disabled toilets with a hoist, a changing bed and more space around the toilet for someone who needs assistance.\n\nThe UK government wants to make these toilets mandatory in new large public buildings.\n\nFiona from Bolton who has muscular dystrophy and Lorna from North Lincolnshire tell the BBC's Ellis Palmer why such toilets are necessary for them to do the things many take for granted.\n\nFilmed, produced and edited by Ellis Palmer and Rachel Schraer for BBC News and BBC Reality Check", "The firearms officer who shot dead the ringleader of the 2017 London Bridge attack thought he would be killed when he challenged him, a jury has heard.\n\nThe officer told the Old Bailey inquest into the deaths of the attackers that he feared Khuram Butt would \"stab me, kill me and get hold of my weapons\".\n\nButt and two other men had just driven at pedestrians on the bridge and attacked people with knives in Borough Market - killing eight and injuring 48.\n\nAll three were shot dead by police.\n\nThe inquest is expected to go on for three weeks and, under law, must be heard by a jury.\n\nIn just 10 minutes, Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, ploughed down pedestrians on the bridge and brought chaos to Borough Market, carrying knives and wearing fake suicide belts.\n\nAddressing the court anonymously, the officer identified only as BX46 said that as he arrived at the scene in an armed response vehicle at the end of a 12-hour shift, he was armed with a Glock 17 pistol, a Taser and a G36 carbine rifle.\n\nHe said he \"feared the worst\" when the call came in, and that as he approached with his window down, he could hear people saying \"they're stabbing people\".\n\nHe said he then saw an Asian man in a blue Arsenal top holding a large knife in a threatening manner.\n\nAlthough he couldn't recall the exact words he used, he said he believed he would have shouted: \"Armed police, stand still, drop the knife\".\n\nKhuram Butt was finally shot dead in Stoney Street, bringing an end to the attack\n\nHe said the attacker did not obey the command, so he moved back to create some space between them. But the attacker - later identified as Khuram Butt - came towards him, raising his knife.\n\n\"I believe his intention was to use the knife and stab me, kill me and get hold of my weapons. The knife was in a raised position, which gave me great concern,\" he said.\n\nThe officer said he then noticed Butt was wearing what looked like an improvised explosive device.\n\n\"They looked like vertical tubes, grey, around his chest. He was one to two metres away, a threat to me. Detonation would be fatal,\" he told the court.\n\nThe officer said he was not aiming for a particular part of the body when he pulled the trigger. He fired a number of shots and stopped when the attacker fell to the ground.\n\nThe court also heard from a second officer, identified as BX44, who told jurors that the incident at London Bridge was his first firearms incident.\n\nHe said he had been tasked with handing out weapons from the Armed Response Vehicle, but that as he got out of the car, he saw three Asian men coming towards the group, carrying knives.\n\nHe said he fired first at Butt because he thought he was about to kill BX46.\n\n\"The red dot [from the gun's sights] was on him but there was very little reaction and I was surprised he was still coming.\"\n\nHe said he continued to track him with his weapon, but he had to break away because he feared another of the attackers, Rachid Redouane, was about to kill another colleague, codenamed BX45.\n\n\"The red dot was on him. I fired shots and there was no immediate reaction. I carried on firing until I had to deal with the third threat of Youssef Zaghba.\n\n\"I was backing away trying to create a reactionary gap when I fired and fell backwards, and as I fell backwards I fired, and from the floor I fired through my legs up to his chest.\n\n\"I thought he was about to kill me.\"\n\nAfterwards, he kicked Zaghba's hand away from his chest, because he assumed he was about to detonate what he thought was an explosive belt, before moving on to support BX46, he said.\n\nBX44 said he thought Butt was dead, but minutes after the first burst of gunfire he saw his chest rise and fall.\n\n\"I did not see his hands but his arms started to move down slowly towards the suicide vest,\" he said. \"I thought he was going to detonate. I fired shots. They were aimed shots.\"\n\nBX44, who fired 17 shots, went on to help search for a fourth possible attacker and carried a woman who was having a seizure to safety.\n\nHe said he found three people in a cupboard during a search of the Black and Blue restaurant nearby.", "Smoking was shown 262 times during season two of Stranger Things\n\nNetflix says it's going to cut back on how often smoking is shown in its original shows.\n\nIt's after a report said programmes on the streaming site showed \"much more tobacco\" than on US TV or cable.\n\nNetflix says smoking in programmes aimed at younger people will only be allowed for \"reasons of historical or factual accuracy\".\n\nIn other shows it will only be shown if \"it's essential to the creative vision of the artist or character-defining\".\n\nIt added: \"We also recognise that smoking is harmful and when portrayed positively on screen can adversely influence young people.\"\n\nThe report found the number of times smoking is seen in shows like Orange is the New Black is going up\n\nThe new rules came as report was released into cigarette use on screen by the US group Truth Initiative - which campaigns for people to lead \"tobacco-free lives\".\n\nIt compared the number of times tobacco products were seen in different series of Netflix shows that are popular with 15-to-24-year-olds.\n\nThey included Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things and House of Cards.\n\nThe report found - in all the Netflix shows it studied - cigarettes were more common in the later series than the earlier series.\n\nThe report also found, on the whole, smoking is being shown more on Netflix than on popular shows on US cable TV - like The Big Bang Theory and The Walking Dead.\n\nEven in those shows, though, the rate is still rising.\n\nTruth Initiative does say it only focused on Netflix because it's so popular - and shows on other streaming services, like Amazon Prime, show similar trends.\n\n\"Smoking on the small screen has gone from common to nearly unavoidable,\" the report says.\n\n\"While smoking in TV programmes has not been studied as extensively as tobacco imagery in movies, it is reasonable to conclude a similar harmful impact is possible.\"\n\nLove Island got rid of its on-screen smoking area in 2018\n\nIn the UK, shows broadcast on TV have to follow rules put in place by a organisation called Ofcom.\n\nThey say that smoking in shows likely to be seen by under-18s \"must generally be avoided and in any case must not be condoned, encouraged or glamorised\".\n\nAnd even in shows designed for adults it can be controversial.\n\nMore than 70 people complained about seeing smoking on Love Island in 2017 and the issue even got raised in the House of Lords.\n\nThe show has since got rid of its on-screen smoking area.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralian Alek Sigley who went missing in North Korea last week has been \"released and safe\", Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said.\n\nIt comes after a meeting between officials from the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang and the North Korean government.\n\nAustralia does not have its own embassy in the North Korean capital.\n\nMr Sigley, 29, was pursuing a master's degree and running a tourism business in Pyongyang.\n\nIt is not known why the student, a fluent Korean speaker, had been detained.\n\nThe news of his release was first reported by specialist website NK News which said he was safely in China and would travel on to Japan.\n\n\"I'm ok, yeah, I'm good, I'm very good,\" Mr Sigley is seen saying on footage reportedly showing his arrival in Beijing, according to Australian media.\n\nThe 29-year-old's father later told local news outlets that their family was \"over the moon that he is safe and sound\".\n\n\"Last week has been very difficult... we're just happy that the situation has been resolved. He tried to ring me a few minutes ago, I will talk to him some time today,\" Gary Sigley told local outlets outside their family home in Perth.\n\nNews of Mr Sigley's release was announced by Mr Morrison to parliament on Thursday. He said it was the result of \"discreet, behind the scenes work of officials in resolving complex and sensitive consular cases\".\n\n\"We are pleased to announce that Mr Alek Sigley has today been released from detention in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He is safe and well.\" Mr Morrison said.\n\nHe said Swedish authorities had met with senior officials from the DPRK on Wednesday and \"raised the issue of Alek's disappearance on Australia's behalf\".\n\n\"I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the Swedish authorities for their invaluable assistance.\"\n\nSweden is one of few Western countries that have an embassy in North Korea and often acts as an intermediary for countries that don't.\n\nThe relief felt by Alek Sigley's family, and many others across Australia, is obvious.\n\nWith no embassy in Pyongyang and no direct contact with North Korea, the Australian government was left to depend on the good-will of others to help find him. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was glowing in his praise for the way in which Swedish officials worked to secure his release.\n\nClearly there were concerns that publicly confronting North Korea would prove provocative and potentially harmful to Mr Sigley. Instead, careful and discreet diplomacy got the desired result.\n\nOf course, we do not know what, if anything, was offered in return. But for now the focus is on celebrating that he is safe and well.\n\nMr Sigley was one of very few foreigners living in North Korea.\n\nOriginally from Perth, for the past year he had been pursuing a degree in Korean literature at Kim Il-sung University.\n\nHe also ran a business providing tours for Western tourists visiting the totalitarian, communist state.\n\nIn March, he described himself as \"the only Australian living in North Korea\" in a piece published by The Guardian.\n\nLast week, his family and friends lost contact with him, sparking fears he might have been detained.\n\nMr Sigley had been living and studying in Pyongyang\n\nSeveral foreigners have previously been detained in North Korea, sometimes for illegally entering the country or for what Pyongyang terms \"hostile criminal acts against the state\".\n\nUS student Otto Warmbier was jailed in North Korea in 2016 after being accused of stealing a propaganda sign during an organised tour.\n\nHe spent 17 months in detention, and later died days after he was returned to the US in a coma.", "Fixed-odds betting terminals - found in bookmakers' shops - have been called the \"crack cocaine\" of the gambling world. Punters lose nearly £2bn a year playing them, and now the government has announced plans to restrict the maximum stake to £2. So, what are they?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth meets Uighur parents in Turkey who say their children are missing in China\n\nChina is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research.\n\nAt the same time as hundreds of thousands of adults are being detained in giant camps, a rapid, large-scale campaign to build boarding schools is under way.\n\nBased on publicly available documents, and backed up by dozens of interviews with family members overseas, the BBC has gathered some of the most comprehensive evidence to date about what is happening to children in the region.\n\nRecords show that in one township alone more than 400 children have lost not just one but both parents to some form of internment, either in the camps or in prison.\n\nFormal assessments are carried out to determine whether the children are in need of \"centralised care\".\n\nAlongside the efforts to transform the identity of Xinjiang's adults, the evidence points to a parallel campaign to systematically remove children from their roots.\n\nThe Hotan Kindness Kindergarten, like many others, is a high security facility\n\nChina's tight surveillance and control in Xinjiang, where foreign journalists are followed 24 hours a day, make it impossible to gather testimony there. But it can be found in Turkey.\n\nIn a large hall in Istanbul, dozens of people queue to tell their stories, many of them clutching photographs of children, all now missing back home in Xinjiang.\n\n\"I don't know who is looking after them,\" one mother says, pointing to a picture of her three young daughters, \"there is no contact at all.\"\n\nAnother mother, holding a photo of three sons and a daughter, wipes away her tears. \"I heard that they've been taken to an orphanage,\" she says.\n\nIn 60 separate interviews, in wave after wave of anxious, grief-ridden testimony, parents and other relatives give details of the disappearance in Xinjiang of more than 100 children.\n\nThey are all Uighurs - members of Xinjiang's largest, predominantly Muslim ethnic group that has long had ties of language and faith to Turkey. Thousands have come to study or to do business, to visit family, or to escape China's birth control limits and the increasing religious repression.\n\nBut over the past three years, they have found themselves trapped after China began detaining hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities in giant camps.\n\nThe Chinese authorities say the Uighurs are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" in order to combat violent religious extremism. But evidence shows that many are being detained for simply expressing their faith - praying or wearing a veil - or for having overseas connections to places like Turkey.\n\nFor these Uighurs, going back means almost certain detention. Phone contact has been severed - even speaking to relatives overseas is now too dangerous for those in Xinjiang.\n\nWith his wife detained back home, one father tells me he fears some of his eight children may now be in the care of the Chinese state.\n\n\"I think they've been taken to child education camps,\" he says.\n\nNew research commissioned by the BBC sheds light on what is really happening to these children and many thousands of others.\n\nDr Adrian Zenz is a German researcher widely credited with exposing the full extent of China's mass detentions of adult Muslims in Xinjiang. Based on publicly available official documents, his report paints a picture of an unprecedented school expansion drive in Xinjiang.\n\nCampuses have been enlarged, new dormitories built and capacity increased on a massive scale. Significantly, the state has been growing its ability to care full-time for large numbers of children at precisely the same time as it has been building the detention camps.\n\nAnd it appears to be targeted at precisely the same ethnic groups.\n\nIn just one year, 2017, the total number of children enrolled in kindergartens in Xinjiang increased by more than half a million. And Uighur and other Muslim minority children, government figures show, made up more than 90% of that increase.\n\nAs a result, Xinjiang's pre-school enrolment level has gone from below the national average to the highest in China by far.\n\nIn the south of Xinjiang alone, an area with the highest concentration of Uighur populations, the authorities have spent an eye watering $1.2bn on the building and upgrading of kindergartens.\n\nMr Zenz's analysis suggests that this construction boom has included the addition of large amounts of dormitory space.\n\nXinhe County Youyi Kindergarten has space for 700 children, 80% of whom are from Xinjiang's minority groups\n\nXinjiang's education expansion is driven, it appears, by the same ethos as underlies the mass incarceration of adults. And it is clearly affecting almost all Uighur and other minority children, whether their parents are in the camps or not.\n\nIn 2018 work began on a site for two new boarding schools in Xinjiang's southern city of Yecheng (known as Kargilik in Uighur).\n\nDragging the slider reveals the pace of construction - the two middle schools, separated by a shared sports field, are each three times larger than the national average and were built in little more than a year.\n\nIn April last year, the county authorities relocated 2,000 children from the surrounding villages into yet another giant boarding middle school, Yecheng County Number 4.\n\nGovernment propaganda extols the virtues of boarding schools as helping to \"maintain social stability and peace\" with the \"school taking the place of the parents.\" And Mr Zenz suggests there is a deeper purpose.\n\n\"Boarding schools provide the ideal context for a sustained cultural re-engineering of minority societies,\" he argues.\n\nJust as with the camps, his research shows that there is now a concerted drive to all but eliminate the use of Uighur and other local languages from school premises. Individual school regulations outline strict, points-based punishments for both students and teachers if they speak anything other than Chinese while in school.\n\nAnd this aligns with other official statements claiming that Xinjiang has already achieved full Chinese language teaching in all of its schools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Xu Guixiang, a senior official with Xinjiang's Propaganda Department, denies that the state is having to care for large numbers of children left parentless as a result.\n\n\"If all family members have been sent to vocational training then that family must have a severe problem,\" he says, laughing. \"I've never seen such a case.\"\n\nBut perhaps the most significant part of Mr Zenz's work is his evidence that shows that the children of detainees are indeed being channelled into the boarding school system in large numbers.\n\nThere are the detailed forms used by local authorities to log the situations of children with parents in vocational training or in prison, and to determine whether they need centralised care.\n\nMr Zenz found one government document that details various subsidies available to \"needy groups\", including those families where \"both a husband and a wife are in vocational training\". And a directive issued to education bureaus by the city of Kashgar that mandates them to look after the needs of students with parents in the camps as a matter of urgency.\n\nSchools should \"strengthen psychological counselling\", the directive says, and \"strengthen students' thought education\" - a phrase that finds echoes in the camps holding their parents.\n\nIt is clear that the effect of the mass internments on children is now viewed as a significant societal issue, and that some effort is going into dealing with it, although it is not something the authorities are keen to publicise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China\n\nSome of the relevant government documents appear to have been deliberately hidden from search engines by using obscure symbols in place of the term \"vocational training\". That said, in some instances the adult detention camps have kindergartens built close by, and, when visiting, Chinese state media reporters have extolled their virtues.\n\nThese boarding schools, they say, allow minority children to learn \"better life habits\" and better personal hygiene than they would at home. Some children have begun referring to their teachers as \"mummy\".\n\nWe telephoned a number of local Education Bureaus in Xinjiang to try to find out about the official policy in such cases. Most refused to speak to us, but some gave brief insights into the system.\n\nWe asked one official what happens to the children of those parents who have been taken to the camps.\n\n\"They're in boarding schools,\" she replied. \"We provide accommodation, food and clothes… and we've been told by the senior level that we must look after them well.\"\n\nIn the hall in Istanbul, as the stories of broken families come tumbling out, there is raw despair and deep resentment too.\n\n\"Thousands of innocent children are being separated from their parents and we are giving our testimonies constantly,\" one mother tells me. \"Why does the world keep silent when knowing these facts?\"\n\nBack in Xinjiang, the research shows that all children now find themselves in schools that are secured with \"hard isolation closed management measures.\" Many of the schools bristle with full-coverage surveillance systems, perimeter alarms and 10,000 Volt electric fences, with some school security spending surpassing that of the camps.\n\nThe policy was issued in early 2017, at a time when the detentions began to be dramatically stepped up. Was the state, Mr Zenz wonders, seeking to pre-empt any possibility on the part of Uighur parents to forcibly recover their children?\n\n\"I think the evidence for systematically keeping parents and children apart is a clear indication that Xinjiang's government is attempting to raise a new generation cut off from original roots, religious beliefs and their own language,\" he tells me.\n\n\"I believe the evidence points to what we must call cultural genocide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I want to be able to choose when I die'\n\nA woman facing a painful death said she wants the law changed to give the terminally ill assistance to die.\n\nKay Smith, 54, has a lethal mix of untreatable conditions which means she can expect to die from sepsis.\n\nShe said she does not want her family to watch her suffering as she dies.\n\nShe is supporting a campaign being launched on Tuesday which is calling for legislation to allow patients to make an informed decision over when they die.\n\nThe pressure group behind the campaign, Dignity in Dying, defines assisted dying as allowing a terminally ill person to have a choice over the manner and timing of their imminent death.\n\nOpponents of the moves say more money should be spent on palliative care\n\nIn contrast to euthanasia and assisted suicide, assisted dying would only apply to terminally ill people.\n\nSimilar attempts to change the law have previously failed to get through the Scottish Parliament - and opponents have argued that the risks are too high.\n\nDignity in Dying said patients should be allowed a prescription which could end their life, and be allowed assistance to take it if necessary, without the risk of any prosecution.\n\nIt said a poll it commissioned suggested almost 90% of Scots believed dying people should not be forced to suffer at the end of their lives.\n\nKay Smith does not want her family to watch her suffer\n\nMs Smith, a former palliative care nurse who is now a palliative patient herself, has Lupus - Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - as well as a condition that makes her severely allergic to pain medication and antibiotics.\n\nShe knows that she is likely to contract an infection and die of sepsis that could not be treated because of her fatal reaction to medication.\n\nAt the campaign launch on Tuesday, she will urge Holyrood to introduce safe and compassionate laws to allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults the choice of an assisted death.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland ahead of the launch, she said she respects that assisted dying was \"not everybody's choice\", and that \"some people will allow nature to take its course\".\n\nMs Smith, of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, said: \"I could have the choice to have an assisted death and be surrounded by love and go before it got too bad.\n\n\"Instead of my body rotting away from my extremities up, and my children and husband having to watch that... sepsis is not a nice death.\"\n\nWithout a change in the law, she says she could face up to 10 \"extremely awful\" days at the end of her life, during which she would endure great pain.\n\nShe wants to avoid these last days of pain by choosing to end her life just before this.\n\nBecause of her health conditions, doctors may be able to sedate her but would not be able to offer painkillers.\n\nShe fears the experience of watching their mother die in such circumstances would traumatise her children.\n\n\"I don't want to leave that legacy. The last thing I want to do is leave them with a permanent horrible memory of my death\", she said.\n\nIt is estimated one person every eight days travels from the UK to the Swiss clinic Dignitas to end their life. But many people seeking an assisted death cannot afford the £10,000-trip, and some are too ill to make the journey.\n\nAlly Thomson, Scottish director of Dignity in Death, said clinics abroad were not the answer: \"Dignitas absolutely outsources this problem, really - the current law is broken when people need to go to Switzerland to have a safe and dignified death.\n\n\"Most families want their loved ones to stay around for as long as possible - it's the person themselves who doesn't wish to have a bad death and doesn't want to leave things until the last minute and suffer that pain that can happen at the end of life.\"\n\nMargo MacDonald campaigned for a change in the law\n\nAttempts to change the law on this issue were made by the late MSP Margo McDonald.\n\nThe idea was put before Holyrood twice, but her bills failed to receive parliamentary backing. One concern was that vulnerable people could be pressured by relatives, or even clinicians, to take an irrevocable decision.\n\nMs Thomson said: \"We know from international examples... that that simply isn't the case.\n\n\"Once our decision-makers look at the evidence, we think they'll be very satisfied on that point.\"\n\nHowever, Gordon Macdonald, the chief executive of the Care Not Killing umbrella group which is opposed to assisted suicide, said the last vote on the issue had seen a bill from Green MSP Patrick Harvie defeated by 82 votes to 36.\n\n\"Most members realised then that the risks of legalising assisted suicide were too high and would put vulnerable people at risk of harm,\" he said.\n\nHe more money should instead be made available for palliative care.\n• None What is assisted suicide and euthanasia?", "The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nRoyal Marines have boarded an oil tanker on its way to Syria thought to be breaching EU sanctions, the government of Gibraltar has said.\n\nAuthorities said there was reason to believe the ship - Grace 1 - was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in Syria.\n\nThe refinery is subject to European Union sanctions against Syria.\n\nBritain's ambassador in Tehran, Robert Macaire, has been summoned over the incident.\n\nIran's foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted on Iranian state TV as saying the ambassador had been summoned over the \"illegal seizure\" of the tanker.\n\nGibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, praised the marines who detained the ship.\n\n\"Be assured that Gibraltar remains safe, secure and committed to the international, rules-based, legal order,\" he said, thanking the police, customs and port authorities for their involvement in detaining the ship.\n\nThe British overseas territory of Gibraltar stands at the gateway to the Mediterranean\n\nGibraltar port and law enforcement agencies detained the super tanker and its cargo on Thursday morning with the help of the marines.\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help seize the tanker, at the request of the Gibraltar government.\n\nA defence source described it as a \"relatively benign operation\" without major incident.\n\nMr Picardo said he had written to the presidents of the European Commission and European Council to give details of the sanctions that have been enforced.\n\nThe Baniyas refinery, in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products, a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said she welcomed the \"firm action\" by the Gibraltarian authorities.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\n\"I lost my wife Carole, my three children Ryan, Kelly and Ruby and I also lost my mum-in-law. I feel so lonely. I look at people. I see them with their children playing outside and I cannot have my children - I'll never be able to see their faces again or hear their voices.\"\n\nPaul Njoroge lost his entire family when Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa on 10 March. 157 people died.\n\nPaul is now living between friends' houses, unable to return home. He can't bear to see his children's shoes still in the hall where they last left them. \"I can still see their feet inside them. I'm never going back.\" He's waiting for relatives to pack up the home.\n\nWhen ET302 crashed it was the second Boeing 737 Max to crash in four months.\n\nThe first happened in Indonesia in November 2018. Preliminary reports revealed that the same flight control system was at fault in both crashes. Now families around the world want to know why 157 people died in a second crash.\n\nThey are asking, why weren't the jets grounded after the first crash?\n\nPaul Njoroge's family were killed in the 737 Max 8 crash\n\nChris and Claryss Moore's daughter Danielle was also killed. One corner of their suburban Toronto home is now a bright but emotive shrine to their lost child. She smiles down from a dozen pictures on the wall, surrounded by orchids and lilies.\n\nDanielle was heading to a UN environmental conference in Kenya.\n\n\"This should not have happened, four months after another crash happened. They tell us this is one of the safest planes - it's not - it took away the lives of the people we love so much and no matter what they're going to say, our normal lives will never be the same.\n\nThis is our normal life, struggling to wake up every single day and that's hard. It makes me very angry.\"\n\nThe Moore family has created a shrine to Danielle\n\nAn international blame game is now under way. American Congressman Sam Graves alongside other voices in the US have blamed \"foreign pilots\" for the crash, saying they believe American pilots would have handled the jet.\n\nBut both preliminary reports have stated the flight control system (MCAS) as being at fault.\n\nFamilies of those killed are now lining up to ask whether the Boeing 737 Max was airworthy and safe when the crash happened.\n\n\"My family died because of Boeing's negligence, arrogance, management disfunction and lack of internal oversight and the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration),\" says Paul Njorogre.\n\n\"They had a chance to ground these planes in November and they didn't. Instead they focused on foreign pilot error fallacy. 157 people died including my family because of them making them poor decisions. If they really cared about human life and safety they would have grounded those planes in November and they would have fixed the problem. They allowed the planes to fly as they tried to fix the problem. They didn't fix it by 10th March.\"\n\nSamya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302\n\nNadia Milleron and her husband Michael Stumo live in Western Massachusetts, USA. It's peaceful.\n\nTheir family home is enveloped by forests and mountains. Their daughter Samya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302.\n\nShe is the second of the couple's four children to die. They also lost a son to cancer.\n\n\"It's been like a horrible dream,\" says Nadia. \"And I keep thinking all these people I'm meeting, going to Washington, all these experiences I'm having, they're awful because they mean Samya is gone. And I don't want that to be the case. I keep thinking I am going to wake up.\"\n\nNadia was listening to BBC World Service radio when reports first came in about the crash. She knew Samya was on board. She'd had a Whatsapp message from her only an hour earlier giving her flight information.\n\n\"I just started shaking, and I couldn't stop myself from physically shaking,\" she told me. \"I just couldn't tell the other people in the house.\"\n\nMichael Stumo (right) and Nadia Milleron, who believes their daughter died because Boeing put profit over safety\n\nWithin a month, Nadia and Michael turned their overwhelming sense of loss and grief into a remarkable force of energy.\n\nThey're now committed to finding out why Boeing didn't ground the planes after the first crash, whether Boeing cut corners in regards to safety of the 737 Max and why the FAA certified it as safe to fly.\n\nTo date, they've met more than 25 Congressmen and women in Washington, as well as being a powerful presence at US Government aviation hearings.\n\nThey've not been allowed to testify but they want to ensure families are included in how investigations develop.\n\nCritics are asking whether the development and launch of the Boeing 737 Max was rushed. They claim Boeing was losing out to a plane from Airbus and suggest corners were cut to get the Max into service.\n\n\"Definitely my daughter died because of the profit of Boeing and I don't want anyone else to die for that reason. I want these planes to be safe and [for Boeing to] invest in the company and the hardware and infrastructure to make our aviation industry safe,\" said Nadia.\n\nThe BBC approached Boeing for an interview and comment in regards to all of these allegations. They declined.\n\nIn a statement Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, said: \"We're sorry for the tragic loss of life in these accidents and extend our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of all those on board. Any loss of life on our airplanes is unacceptable, and this will continue to weigh heavily on our hearts for years to come. The safety of the flying public is our highest priority and we are focused on re-earning their trust and confidence in the months ahead.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Boeing announced they were offering $100m to \"family and community needs of those affected by the tragic accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"These funds will support education, hardship and living expenses for impacted families.\"\n\nThe families we've spoken to are not impressed. They don't want money. They want answers.\n\nChris Moore believes criminal charges should be brought. \"If there is any type of personal culpability they should be charged under criminal laws. If I cost someone's life on a building site I would have to prove myself in a criminal court as innocent, why are Boeing different?\"\n\nPaul Njoroge believes the crash of ET302 was preventable, \"but these individuals knew that they would not be held criminally liable, they would not face years in prison. But if they knew they'd face years in prison they would have grounded these planes in November.\"\n\nThe families of victims are all now searching for answers.\n\nSome are dealing with their grief in private, still too overwhelmed by what's happened.\n\nOthers have the power and resolve to speak out - and it's starting to prove uncomfortable for Boeing.", "Aibota Serik says her father has disappeared into China's network of detention centres\n\nThe Chinese government calls them free \"vocational training centres\"; Aibota Serik, a Chinese Kazakh whose father was sent to one, calls them prisons.\n\nHer father Kudaybergen Serik was a local imam in Tarbagatay (Tacheng) prefecture of China's western Xinjiang region. In February 2018 the police detained him and Aibota hasn't heard from her father since then.\n\n\"I don't know why my father was imprisoned. He didn't violate any laws of China, he was not tried in a court,\" she says, clutching a small photo of him, before breaking down in tears.\n\nI met Aibota together with a group of other Chinese Kazakhs in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city. They gathered in a small office to petition the Kazakh government to help secure the release of their relatives who had disappeared in \"political re-education camps\".\n\nThe UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has heard there are credible reports that around one million people have been detained in internment camps in Xinjiang. Almost all of them are from Muslim minorities such as the Uighurs, Kazakhs and others.\n\nThere are more than a million Kazakhs living in China. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, thousands moved to oil-rich Kazakhstan, encouraged by its policy to attract ethnic Kazakhs. Today, these people feel cut off from their relatives who stayed in China.\n\nNurbulat Tursunjan says the Chinese authorities have confiscated his parents' passports\n\nNurbulat Tursunjan uulu, who moved to the Almaty region in 2016, says his elderly parents are unable to leave China and come to Kazakhstan because the authorities took away their passports.\n\nAnother petitioner, Bekmurat Nusupkan uulu, says that relatives in China are afraid to talk on the phone or on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat. And they are right to be afraid, he says.\n\n\"My father-in-law visited me in February 2018. From my place, he called his son in China, he asked how he was and so on. Shortly after that his son Baurzhan was detained. He was told that he had received phone calls from Kazakhstan two or three times and was sent to a political camp.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch says detainees are held \"without any due process rights - neither charged nor put on trial - and have no access to lawyers and family\".\n\nChina insists its detention centres, such as this one in the city of Kashgar, are for \"vocational training\"\n\nOrynbek Koksybek is an ethnic Kazakh who spent several months in camps.\n\n\"I spent seven days of hell there,\" he says. \"My hands were handcuffed, my legs were tied. They threw me in a pit. I raised both my hands and looked above. At that moment, they poured water. I screamed.\n\n\"I don't remember what happened next. I don't know how long I was in the pit but it was winter and very cold. They said I was a traitor, that I had dual citizenship, that I had a debt and owned land.\"\n\nNone of that was true, he says.\n\nA week later Mr Koksybek was taken to a different place where he learnt Chinese songs and language. He was told he would leave if he learnt 3,000 words.\n\nOrynbek Koksybek says he was thrown into a pit\n\n\"In Chinese they call it re-education camps to teach people but if they wanted to educate, why do they handcuff people?\n\n\"They detain Kazakhs because they're Muslims. Why imprison them? China's aim is to turn Kazakhs into Chinese. They want to erase the whole ethnicity,\" he says.\n\nIt is not possible to independently verify Orynbek Koksybek's story, but his account is similar to many documented by Human Rights Watch and other activists.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has not replied to the BBC's request for comment, but the Chinese authorities have been quoted in state media as saying the camps are \"vocational training centres\", which aim to \"get rid of an environment that breeds terrorism and religious extremism\".\n\nThe Kazakh government says that any restrictions on Chinese citizens in China are their internal matter, and it does not interfere. However, Kazakhstan says it will try to assist any Kazakh citizens who are detained in China.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nCoco Gauff's fairytale introduction to Wimbledon continued with a second-round victory over Magdalena Rybarikova that belied her years.\n\nThe 15-year-old American qualifier needed just one hour nine minutes to beat her Slovakian opponent 6-3 6-3 under Court One's new roof.\n\nGauff, who beat five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams on Monday, will play Slovenia's Polona Hercog next.\n\n\"I'm still shocked I am even here,\" Gauff told BBC TV.\n\n\"I played well on pressure points. She was serving amazing. I've not been able to relax, there is so much going on.\n\n\"I believe I can beat anyone across the court.\"\n\nShe becomes the youngest player to reach the last 32 at Wimbledon since fellow American Jennifer Capriati, who reached the semi-finals in 1991, also aged 15.\n• None Edmund and Watson lose in second round\n• None Chance to play with Serena once in a lifetime - Murray\n• None Day three at Wimbledon as it happened\n\nAt such a tender age, Gauff is only eligible to play 10 tournaments at professional level between her 15th and 16th birthdays yet she appears to be taking the grand occasion of Wimbledon in her stride.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, she had trained briefly under the gaze of 18-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal before being approached for a chat by Roger Federer, an eight-time winner here, more than six hours before she finally got to play.\n\nAfter a late court switch, the match finally got under way just after 20:00 BST, but Gauff looked at home straightaway against the world number 139, who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon two years ago.\n\nShe broke 30-year-old Rybarikova's serve to love to go 4-2 up, losing just five points on her own serve throughout the entire first set.\n\nRybarikova, somewhat unsettled by the crowd's fierce support for Gauff, had her serve broken once again early in the second set.\n\nBut, showing glimpses of the form that saw her formerly become the world number 17, Rybarikova started to rally, twice defying Gauff on break point.\n\nYet this was always to be Gauff's night, and she saw out the win by breaking serve once again in front of a delighted crowd and in front of her ecstatic parents Corey and Candi.\n\nSpeaking after the match Gauff revealed that she has been using social media to help relax between matches and cope with her newfound fame.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting any of this. A lot of celebrities were messaging, posting me. I'm kind of star struck. It's been hard to reset. I don't know,\" she said.\n\n\"Surprisingly social media kind of relaxes me before the match. That's what I kind of do. Right now I'm going to keep everything the same because it's been working.\"\n\nOn a day for the youngsters, Felix Auger Aliassime, 18, progressed to the third round of the men's singles by beating France's Corentin Moutet 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-2.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n'Gauff is the favourite against Hercog'\n\n\"Hopefully her parents will handle this success well. There will be enormous offers and sponsorships galore.\n\n\"The way she's playing at the moment and the way she's acting - there aren't many players she will lose to.\n\n\"Gauff is the favourite going into the match against Hercog.\"\n\nGauff possible route to the final\n\nSo who could the 15-year-old face en route to a possible dream final a week on Saturday?\n\nIf she beats Hercog, then she could come up against former world number one Simona Halep in the fourth round.\n\nAnd if she passes that challenge then 2018 Australian Open winner Caroline Wozniacki might await her in the quarter-final followed by the possibility of a semi-final match against the wily Karolina Pliskova.\n\nAnd in the final? Current number one Ashleigh Barty or maybe one of her idols, Serena Williams.", "China has warned the UK not to \"interfere in its domestic affairs\" amid a growing diplomatic row over the recent protests in Hong Kong.\n\nIts UK ambassador said relations had been \"damaged\" by comments by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and others backing the demonstrators' actions.\n\nLiu Xiaoming said those who illegally occupied Hong Kong's parliament should be \"condemned as law breakers\".\n\nThe ambassador was later summoned to the Foreign Office over the remarks.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under secretary and head of the diplomatic service, told the ambassador his comments were \"unacceptable and inaccurate\".\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Theresa May said she had raised concerns with Chinese leaders.\n\nWeeks of mass protests in the territory over a controversial extradition bill exploded on Monday, when a group of activists occupied the Legislative Council building for several hours after breaking away from a peaceful protest - raising the colonial-era British flag.\n\nCritics say the extradition bill could be used to send political dissidents from Hong Kong to the mainland.\n\nDemonstrators have also broadened their demands to include the release of all detained activists and investigations into alleged police violence.\n\nIn the middle of the demonstrations, Mr Hunt pledged his \"unwavering\" support to the ex-British colony and its citizens' freedoms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a series of broadcast interviews and posts on social media, Mr Hunt repeated the message that the protesters should refrain from violence, but urged China to listen to the concerns of the Hong Kong people.\n\nBeijing has made a formal complaint about Mr Hunt, accusing the Conservative leadership contender of \"colonial-era delusions\".\n\nBut Mr Liu said he was \"disappointed\" by the UK's response.\n\nHe said the countries' relationship was based on mutual respect and suggested there would be further \"problems\" if the UK did not recognise China's sovereignty over Hong Kong, its \"territorial integrity and principle of non-interference in domestic affairs\".\n\nHe said it was \"hypocritical\" of UK politicians to criticise the lack of democracy and civil rights in Hong Kong when, under British rule, there had been no elections nor right to protest.\n\nThe recent unrest, he added, was \"not about freedom but about breaking the law\".\n\nIn response, Mr Hunt said good relations between countries were based on \"honouring the legally binding relationships between them\" - a reference to a 1984 treaty between the UK and China which paved the way for sovereignty over the territory to pass back to Beijing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Joint Declaration, signed by Margaret Thatcher and the then Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, set out how the rights of Hong Kong citizens should be protected in the territory's Basic Law under Chinese rule.\n\nHong Kong has, since 1997, been run by China under a \"one country, two systems\" arrangement guaranteeing it a level of economic autonomy and personal freedoms not permitted on the mainland.\n\nThe ambassador gave the British government both barrels at his press conference earlier.\n\nWhat's fascinating is there was no pretence, no attempt to gloss this over at all. This was visceral and system-wide. This is merely the British side of things, the same message is coming from Beijing and Hong Kong too. There is definite push-back from the whole Chinese machine.\n\nThe British are so infuriated that they've summoned the ambassador almost immediately to give him a dressing down.\n\nWhat was a war of words now risks becoming a substantial issue between the two countries.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it continues to make it clear to the Chinese government, both in public and private, that the rights of Hong Kong residents must be fully respected.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Theresa May said she had raised her concerns directly with Chinese leaders at the recent G20 meeting.\n\n\"It is vital that Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and the rights and freedoms set down in the Sino-British joint declaration are respected,\" she told MPs.\n\nSuccessive UK governments have heralded a \"golden era\" in economic relations with China, with growing levels of trade and foreign investment.\n\nBut critics say this has come at the expense of turning a blind eye to human rights violations in China and Beijing's increasing economic nationalism.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring has told a court he saw a school friend deliberately mown down by a car and killed.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, said after his friend was hit, Mr Beech, a child at the time, was bundled into a car and never saw the other boy again.\n\nHe told Newcastle Crown Court he had been too afraid to report what happened, not even telling his dog.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe is accused of inventing allegations that a group of powerful figures sexually abused and murdered three boys in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHis allegations led to a £2m Scotland Yard inquiry that ended without any arrests or charges.\n\nIn his second day giving evidence, Mr Beech told the jury former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, who died in 2005, had cuddled and comforted him in his yacht cabin when he was upset.\n\nHe also accused the late Leon Brittan of raping him over a bath, saying the former home secretary \"liked violence\" and seeing boys in pain.\n\nMr Beech went on to tell the court about the alleged murder, saying he had met a boy he knew \"by the name of Scott\" in the playground of his Kingston school, in south-west London, in the late 1970s.\n\nThe boy was \"quiet, like me, but friendly\" and the two became friends, meeting once or twice a week, he told the court.\n\nOne day he and Scott were walking side by side along the pavement in the Coombe Hill area of Kingston when he heard a loud \"engine noise\" behind him, the court heard.\n\n\"The car hit him - he went over the front of the car and into the road,\" Mr Beech said.\n\n\"I ran over to him. His leg was bent in a funny direction and there was blood on his head,\" Mr Beech told the court.\n\nHe then described being bundled into the back of the car, and trying to kick his way out.\n\n\"I remember something in my arm and I don't remember anything else after that,\" he added.\n\nMr Beech never saw Scott again, the court heard.\n\nAsked why he believed the alleged death happened, he said: \"I believe because of the threats that were issued that 'the group' was responsible.\" He describes the alleged VIP paedophile ring as \"the group\".\n\nHe said the late Sir Michael Hanley, a one-time head of MI5, threatened him that he \"wasn't to have friends\".\n\nHe said he could not tell anyone what had happened, adding: \"I didn't even say anything to my dog.\"\n\nJurors have previously heard Mr Beech claim that Sir Michael was involved in the abduction of his pet dog, Heron.\n\nWhen defence barrister Collingwood Thompson QC said it had been suggested the alleged hit and run was a figment of his imagination, Mr Beech said: \"I know what happened. I was there and I know it took place\".\n\nThe court has heard that two police forces found no evidence of such an incident ever taking place in the area and had traced and accounted for everyone called Scott from the school.\n\nThe court also heard allegations of two further murders Mr Beech claims to have witnessed.\n\nIn one, he described being taken to a London house in a chauffeur-driven car with another boy.\n\nHe told the court Harvey Proctor, the former Conservative MP, opened the front door.\n\nHe then claimed that Mr Proctor stabbed and strangled the boy to death. Mr Proctor told the court last month that Mr Beech's allegations against him were false, horrendous and \"an absurd fantasy\".\n\nMr Beech said he could not remember how the incident ended and never told anyone out of fear.\n\nHe said he later came to believe the allegedly murdered boy was Martin Allen, who went missing in London nearly 40 years ago.\n\nThe court has heard police investigated whether Martin was that boy after Mr Beech apparently identified him in a photo shown to him by a BBC reporter.\n\nMr Beech told jurors the third alleged death occurred when he and three boys were at an alleged London abuse session with Lord Brittan, Mr Proctor and Sir Michael Hanley.\n\nHe claimed Sir Michael told the boys one of them would die that night and they had to choose.\n\nThe defendant said sexual abuse followed before they singled out one boy. \"He was crying and they told him that he could save himself if he chose one of us instead.\"\n\nHe said the child refused to reply so they started hitting him. He claimed the boy ended up \"just like a doll - he wasn't moving, he was just left there\".\n\nIn his evidence, Mr Beech also described \"pool parties\" during which he claimed powerful men frolicked with boys, sometimes performing sexual acts in the water.\n\nHe also told jurors about alleged \"Christmas parties\", in which the boys were the \"present\" and would be \"unwrapped\" until they were naked.\n\nMr Beech said punishments were dished out by his abusers involving snakes and wasps.\n\nHe told the jury that on one occasion he was shut in a dark cupboard and a snake was thrown in, which bit him.", "Britain's oldest building firm, R Durtnell and Sons, has ceased trading, putting more than 100 jobs at risk.\n\nThe company was founded in 1591, and has been run by 13 generations of the same family.\n\nIt was working on a £22m project to refurbish parts of the Royal Pavilion Estate, when it failed.\n\nThe firm, based in Brasted in Kent, started building in the time of Elizabeth I and built timber-framed houses.\n\nThey started as carpenter-builders, who didn't build in brick or stone, but exclusively in wood.\n\nThe business built Poundsbridge Manor in Kent in 1593. It is still standing, and is a short distance from Brasted.\n\nThe timber-framed house was one of several built by family ancestor Bryan Darknal for Elizabethan merchants.\n\nThe family remained as carpenter-builders until the 1800s, when Richard Durtnell bought a much larger premises.\n\nHe set himself up as a general builder, and the business flourished.\n\nThe last family member to run the firm was Alex Durtnell.\n\nThe firm specialised in churches, private schools, art galleries and luxury houses.\n\nR Durtnell & Sons made a loss before tax of £679,877 in the year ended 31 December 2017, according to documents submitted to Companies House.\n\nIt said economic conditions had been \"very challenging\".\n\nThe documents show it took a charge of £648,279 on the closure of its joinery business, which had been substantially cut during the recession.\n\nThe firm had financial injection of £1.5m after cash flow difficulties in 2018.\n\nIt also warned about competitive pressures and risks in contract tendering and management.\n\nOne of the company's major projects was the refurbishment of the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, which was originally built as the Prince Regent's stable block more than 200 years ago.\n\nBrighton & Hove City Council said it was \"committed\" to the project, which included renovating the Studio Theatre.\n\n\"The council has taken back the site and made it secure,\" it said.\n\n\"We are committed to completing the refurbishment of these unique buildings to protect their long-term future in the cultural heart of the city.\"\n\nSince the recession of 2008, more than 7,000 British building firms have gone bust.", "Founder and former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson was cheered by supporters as he arrived at the Old Bailey in London\n\nEx-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson's Facebook Live broadcast of defendants in a criminal trial was \"reckless\", High Court judges have been told.\n\nMr Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is accused of committing contempt of court by filming defendants accused of sexual exploitation.\n\nThe hour-long broadcast, at Leeds Crown Court in May 2018, was seen by around 10,000 people, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nLawyers for Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC said reporting restrictions had been put in place postponing the publication of any details of the case until the end of a series of linked trials involving 29 defendants.\n\nMr Robinson broadcast the footage from outside Leeds Crown Court on 25 May 2018, while the jury in the second trial of the series was considering its verdict.\n\nMr Robinson addressed supporters outside the court ahead of the Old Bailey hearing\n\nOutlining the prosecution case, Andrew Caldecott QC told the court there were \"inconsistencies\" between various accounts Mr Robinson had given of his efforts to check about reporting restrictions before the broadcast.\n\nMr Caldecott said Mr Robinson had been at court and could have easily discovered the details of reporting restrictions the day before his broadcast.\n\n\"Even if he did not know for certain the terms of the order he knew the existence of such an order was likely and again was subjectively reckless,\" he said.\n\nMr Robinson claims he took steps to establish if there was a reporting restriction but Leeds Crown Court did not inform him that it existed.\n\nTommy Robinson told a crowd \"he could not talk about proceedings\"\n\nHe responded that he could not remember, when Mr Caldecott asked if he recalled being directed to the court's general office by a security officer to check if reporting restrictions were still in place.\n\nMr Caldecott suggested Mr Robinson had not gone to the office because he wanted to film the defendants.\n\nMr Robinson replied: \"I took the view that it didn't matter if I wasn't going to report on the details of the case, and that if I was only going to stick to details in the public domain, it didn't matter.\"\n\nMr Caldecott asked why Mr Robinson had not mentioned checking reporting restrictions in his evidence prepared ahead of the hearing.\n\nMr Robinson said he was in prison at that time and \"didn't think I was coming out of there\".\n\n\"I genuinely was under the impression that I had been put in jail to be killed, so I had given up,\" he said.\n\nMr Robinson confirmed he knew the jury was deliberating its verdict at the time of his broadcast.\n\nHe told the court he believed images of defendants accused of such serious crimes should be made public.\n\nHe added: \"My total purpose is to raise awareness of these issues.\"\n\nBut he insisted he had said in the video that the defendants were innocent until proven guilty \"at least six times\", adding: \"I make that point so clear.\"\n\nHe told the court his training with law firm Kingsley Napley had taught him \"not to assume guilt\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joss Stone posted a video from the airport on Kish Island\n\nBritish singer Joss Stone says she was denied entry to Iran - the last country she had to visit as part of a five-year, 200-stop \"total world tour\".\n\nThe 32-year-old posted a video from Kish Island in which she said: \"We got detained and then we got deported.\"\n\nShe said that she knew Iran did not allow women to perform solo concerts.\n\n\"However, it seems the authorities don't believe we wouldn't be playing a public show, so they have popped us on what they call the 'blacklist'.\"\n\n\"After long discussions with the most friendly, charming and welcoming immigration people, the decision was made to detain us for the night and to deport us in the morning,\" she added. \"Of course I was gutted. So close yet so far.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jossstone This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKish Island, which is in the Gulf off the southern Iranian coast, is the only place in Iran that foreigners can visit without needing a visa.\n\nShe said immigration officials at the island's airport had encouraged her to go to the Iranian embassy in the UK to \"sort it all out and come back\".\n\nIran's state broadcaster, Irib, cited a police statement as saying that Stone did not have the required documentation to enter the country when she arrived on a flight from Oman on 29 June.\n\nThe statement denied that the singer was arrested and said she was deported on a flight to the United Arab Emirates the next day \"in line with travel regulations\".\n\nEarlier this week, Stone posted pictures from what she said was a trip to Yemen, which has been devastated by a four-year civil war.\n\nShe said she was given permission to perform before an audience of men and women by the governor of al-Mahra province, which borders Oman and is far from the fighting between Yemeni government forces and the rebel Houthi movement.\n\nThe 198th stop on her world tour was Tripoli, Libya, where the UN-backed Libyan government is battling forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStone set out in 2014 to visit and perform in every country in the world, and to collaborate with local musicians playing indigenous music.\n\nThe UN currently has 193 member states and two observer non-member states.", "Police investigating the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh are searching land in Worcestershire after receiving \"new information\".\n\nThe body of Ms Lamplugh, who disappeared from London in 1986, has never been found and her killer never charged.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers are now searching areas of land in Pershore.\n\nMs Lamplugh's family has been notified and police will remain at the scene until a \"thorough search\" is complete.\n\nThere is a large police cordon along the road next to the field police are investigating\n\nThe new information followed publicity about the search last year of a property in Sutton Coldfield which once belonged to the mother of prime suspect John Cannan.\n\nCannan, 64, who is serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of Bristol newlywed Shirley Banks, was named as a suspect in Ms Lamplugh's murder in 2002.\n\nPolice searched the former home of John Cannan's mother last year\n\nOfficers from West Mercia Police are supporting the latest search, which the Metropolitan force said was not connected to the owner of the land.\n\nThere have been searches for Ms Lamplugh - who was officially declared dead in 1994 - in Worcestershire previously, when police excavated a field near the former Norton Army Barracks in 2000 and 2001 and land near the village of Drakes Broughton in 2010.\n\nThe 2010 site is near to the latest area of interest but that search was called off after no evidence connected to the case was found.\n\nThe search in Pershore is expected to last about two weeks, a police spokesperson said.\n\nThere is a large police cordon along the main road, the B4084, on the outskirts of Drakes Broughton in Pershore, and a mechanical digging device was checking sections of the field along with a dog unit.\n\nA neighbour who lives across the road from the site told the BBC the \"whole area is in a state of shock\" at the latest development.\n\nA digger could be seen in the field as police search for Ms Lamplugh's remains in Pershore\n\nMs Lamplugh's parents, Paul and Diana, who died without finding out what happened to their daughter, set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust four months after her disappearance to support victims of stalking.\n\nIn a statement, the Trust said: \"We hope that the current investigations will be successful and provide some resolution to Suzy's case.\"", "The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang.\n\nAuthorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for the people inside it.\n\nOur World: Inside China's Camps can be seen on BBC World News at varying times during the week from Saturday 13 July 2019.", "A chef at a whale meat restaurant in Tokyo shows off a chunk off red meat\n\nWhale meat in Japan has been sold at auction for sky-high prices following the first commercial hunt since a ban was lifted.\n\nMeat cut-offs from two minkes sold for up to 15,000 yen ($140; £110).\n\nJapan left the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on 30 June to resume hunting and argues it can be done sustainably.\n\nDespite international outcry, Japan now intends to catch 227 whales for meat before the end of the year.\n\nThe minke was captured on Monday in the first commercial hunt since the ban was introduced in 1986\n\nMembers of the IWC agreed to a ban on hunting to protect whales in 1986, as some species remain endangered.\n\nBut Japan has continued to hunt the species in the name of scientific research. Last year 333 whales were caught.\n\nCritics say the meat, which is popular in Japan and a strong part of its culture, still ended up being served in restaurants.\n\n\"It is five times lower in calories than beef, 10 times lower in cholesterol, two times less fat than chicken,\" Mitsuo Tani, a chef in one of Japan's most famous whale restaurants, told AFP.\n\n\"It's packed with iron. But abroad, people do not know this,\" he added.\n\nYoshifumi Kai, head of the Japan Smally-type Whaling Association, told Reuters that the whale caught on Monday was \"splendid\".\n\n\"We're not at all embarrassed by what we do, it's only natural,\" Kai said, arguing that the amount of whales Japan planned to hunt would not pose a threat to their population.\n\n\"This is a sad day for whale protection globally,\" said Nicola Beynon of Humane Society International, accusing Japan of beginning a \"new and shocking era of pirate whaling\".\n\nIn 2015, the Environmental Investigation Agency said it found unsafe levels of mercury from ocean pollutants in all the whale and dolphin meat samples it tested.", "Richard Selley and his wife, Elaine, look back over old photographs in their home in Glenalmond, near Perth\n\nA terminally ill man who is preparing to travel to Switzerland to end his life is calling for assisted death to be legalised in Scotland.\n\nRichard Selley, 65, has chosen to die in Zurich in September after a four-year battle with Motor Neurone Disease.\n\nThe former teacher, of Glenalmond, near Perth, described the laws in Scotland as \"cruel, outdated and discriminatory\".\n\nBut opponents have argued that the risks of reform are too high.\n\nOne concern is that vulnerable people could be pressured by relatives, or even clinicians, to take an irrevocable decision.\n\nPrevious attempts to introduce new legislation have failed to get through the Scottish Parliament.\n\nBut Mr Selley, who has chosen an assisted death at the Dignitas clinic, will use the last weeks of his life to campaign for reform.\n\nIn an open letter to MSPs, published in The Times, he reveals his plans to leave Scotland for the last time.\n\nMr Selley, who was diagnosed with MND in March 2015, wrote: \"I have chosen to have an assisted death as I am now fully in the grip of terminal Motor Neurone Disease.\n\n\"After four years of decline I am now a prisoner in my body.\"\n\nMr Selley said critics of assisted dying should \"spend one day in my shoes\"\n\nMr Selley praised the \"outstanding care\" he has received and even proved he still has a sense of humour.\n\nHe added: \"As I enter the final stages of this journey, and the prospect of total paralysis, I have decided that I would prefer to leave this world before too much longer.\n\n\"To use the terminology of Brexit, I have had my own little referendum, and decided that I wish to leave rather than remain.\n\n\"I don't wish to crash out in an undignified manner, so I am hoping to negotiate a withdrawal agreement that will not require a long transition period.\"\n\nMr Selley, who has to talk-type to communicate, told BBC Scotland it will cost about £10,000 to travel to Switzerland to end his life.\n\nHe said: \"I am fortunate that I can afford this, but most people cannot.\n\n\"Having to be able to fly means that I am choosing to die earlier than I would prefer.\"\n\nAsked what he aims to achieve, Mr Selley said: \"I hope that my letter to members of the Scottish Parliament might persuade more of them to support an assisted dying bill in the future.\n\n\"I think the momentum for a change in the law is growing.\n\n\"It will be too late for me but I hope that some time soon people in my position will have a chance to have a peaceful death at a time of their choosing.\"\n\nRichard and Elaine have been married since 2011 and have five children between them\n\nMr Selley also said he would not contemplate an assisted death if his wife, Elaine, was at risk of prosecution.\n\nFor that reason he must organise everything, from obtaining medical records to prove he has a terminal illness to booking his final flight.\n\nMr Selley said: \"If I make it to Zurich, I will need to have two interviews with Swiss doctors to show that I am sound of mind and acting of my own free will, and I have to convince Dignitas that I can somehow administer the drug that will end my life.\n\n\"As I can no longer swallow, it will need to be done via my feeding tube. I practice the movement required each night.\"\n\nMr Selley wrote a memoir about his experiences, the proceeds of which will be donated to MND Scotland\n\nHis letter to MSPs concluded: \"If the choice of an assisted death was available to me here in Scotland so many of my worries would have been eased and my remaining time would have been spent in better ways than burdensome and complex admin. Instead, that precious time would be spent with my wife, my family and my friends.\n\n\"The current laws (and lack of laws) around assisted dying in Scotland are cruel, outdated and discriminatory.\n\n\"I intend to spend the next eight weeks working with Dignity in Dying Scotland trying to change them.\"\n\nMr Selley regularly updates his own blog, Moments with MND.\n\nHe is also the author of a book, Death Sits on My Shoulders, about his life with the progressive and terminal illness, which affects the function of nerves and muscles.\n\nMrs Selley has watched her husband lose the ability to walk, talk and swallow\n\nHis wife, Elaine, said she respects his decision as the condition often leaves him \"tormented\".\n\nMrs Selley, a former warden of Glenalmond College, said: \"I am spending the last few months of Richard's life watching him die very slowly before my eyes but, as well as that, I am watching him go through this process which is incredibly stressful.\n\n\"I would much rather be with friends and family here when it's his time than in a foreign country that's a transactional business arrangement and it's not with the people that I love.\"\n\nShe also believes it should be a \"human right\" for individuals to end their life at a time of their choosing.\n\nMr Selley added: \"I think if those who oppose assisted dying could spend just one day in my shoes they would change their view.\"\n\nJames Mildred, of Christian charity CARE, said assisted dying could prove to be a \"slippery slope\"\n\nJames Mildred, communications manager for Christian charity CARE, said he has enormous sympathy for Mr Selley and his family but warned MSPs would have to consider the \"wider societal harms\".\n\nHe said: \"There is no way that we could have a law that is entirely safe from abuse and exploitation.\n\n\"This is also about making sure that people don't think they are a burden.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned that any assisted suicide legislation would put pressure on thousands upon thousands of elderly men and women and all of a sudden the right to die will become a duty to die.\n\n\"That is not something we should be doing as a society.\"\n\nMargo MacDonald MSP, who died in 2014, campaigned for a change in the law\n\nAttempts to change the law on the assisted dying issue were made by the MSP Margo MacDonald, who died in April 2014 after a long fight against Parkinson's.\n\nThe idea was put before Holyrood twice, but her bills failed to receive parliamentary backing.\n\nIn Scotland, there is no specific crime of assisting a suicide.\n\nSuicide was not historically criminalised in Scotland, so there was no equivalent to the 1961 Suicide Act, which decriminalised suicide in England and Wales but simultaneously criminalised assisted suicide, which can be punishable with up to 14 years in jail.\n\nBut it is possible that helping a person to die could lead to prosecution for murder, culpable homicide or reckless endangerment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tammy Minshall had been on a placement with West Midlands Ambulance Service since May\n\nA \"promising\" student paramedic has died after the ambulance she was in was involved in a crash with a car.\n\nTammy Minshall, 31, was airlifted to hospital and later died after the crash in Needwood, near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, on Wednesday.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) said it was \"tragic that someone died doing the job they loved\".\n\nTwo other crew members and the driver of a BMW were treated for injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Minshall, from Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent, who was a first year student at Staffordshire University, was travelling in the back of the ambulance.\n\nShe was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she died of her injuries.\n\nThe other crew, who were in the front of the vehicle were assessed at the scene and taken to hospital for a check-up, but later discharged.\n\nA woman driving the car was also taken to hospital with a leg injury.\n\nThere was no patient in the ambulance at the time of the crash. No arrests were made, but police appealed for witnesses including those with dashcam footage of the crash.\n\nFloral tributes to Ms Minshall are being left at the scene of the crash\n\n\"When it's one of your own, it really hurts and we as an ambulance service are hurting now,\" Nathan Hudson, from WMAS, said.\n\n\"We have been overwhelmed with the kindness and support of people who have sent messages of condolence.\n\n\"It is truly humbling and reflects the high esteem that people in our profession, like Tammy, are held in.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Ambulance Trust's chief executive Anthony Marsh said the death \"will affect every member of our staff\".\n\n\"Our staff deal with difficult incidents every day, but to lose one of your colleagues will always make it that much harder.\n\n\"We are very lucky to have so many student paramedics who want to work with us and it is tragic that someone who showed so much promise has died doing the job that they loved.\"\n\nDr Ann Ewens, dean of the school of health and social care at Staffordshire University, added: \"This has come as a huge blow to our university and our thoughts are with the family and friends of Tammy who has tragically lost her life.\"\n\nThe damaged ambulance was lifted on the back of a low loader\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJaguar Land Rover (JLR) is investing hundreds of millions of pounds to build a range of electric vehicles at its Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham.\n\nInitially the plant will produce an electric version of the Jaguar XJ.\n\nJLR says the move will help secure the jobs of 2,700 workers at the plant.\n\nThe news follows January's announcement, when the firm said it would cut 4,500 jobs, with the majority coming from the UK. That followed 1,500 jobs lost in 2018.\n\nJLR has not announced when it will launch the battery version of the XJ, but it will replace the petrol and diesel versions which have been made since 1968.\n\nThe company's chief executive, Professor Ralph Speth, called on the government to put more effort into providing charging points for electric cars.\n\n\"The current charging infrastructure is not really sufficient to cover the country, nor the hotspots of the cities,\" he said in an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"The government has to govern the process,\" he added.\n\nJLR's announcement comes a day after a report showed that in June sales of low emission cars had fallen for the first time in more than two years.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said efforts to sell such cars were being undermined by confusing policies and \"premature\" removal of subsidies.\n\nIn response, the government said its focus on zero emission models had been a success, with registrations of battery electric vehicles up over 60% this year compared with the same period in 2018.\n\nAccording to another report, even if the nation switches to electric vehicles, car use will still need to be curbed.\n\nThe Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) warned that electrifying cars will not address traffic jams, urban sprawl and wasted space for parking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe investment decision by JLR appears to contradict previous warnings by the firm that investment in the UK would be threatened by Brexit, and in particular a no-deal scenario.\n\nHowever, industry experts say that JLR could not wait to see the outcome of the Brexit, as it needed to update its range of vehicles.\n\n\"Given where it is in its product lifecycle it [JLR] has to make this decision. The capacity is at Castle Bromwich and there's research and development nearby as well, so they've basically run out of time on this decision,\" David Bailey, a professor of business economics at Birmingham Business School, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nHe added that without the new investment the Castle Bromwich plant would \"effectively be dead\".\n\nThe plant also produces the Jaguar XF, XE and F-Type.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said: \"Today's announcement is a vote of confidence in the UK automotive industry - protecting thousands of skilled jobs.\n\n\"It reflects our determination for the UK to be at the forefront of the development and manufacturing of the next generation of electric vehicles.\"\n\nJLR is investing to produce an electric version of the XJ model\n\nInvestment in the UK car industry fell 47% last year from 2017 and the country is attracting a tiny fraction of the global investment in electric cars.\n\nVW alone is investing £70bn in Europe, the US and China.\n\nA no-deal Brexit would see new tariffs imposed on components and parts moving between the EU and the UK.\n\nVauxhall's parent company said that without a deal it would not make the next generation Astra at Ellesmere Port.", "Nkululeko Zulu said he suffered racist abuse after asking for early holiday\n\nA former paratrooper was racially abused in the Army and heard a soldier call Nelson Mandela a terrorist, an employment tribunal has been told.\n\nNkululeko Zulu, who served as a lance corporal in the Parachute Regiment, also said he felt he had been held back for promotion due to his race.\n\nMr Zulu and former colleague Hani Gue have taken the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to a tribunal alleging they suffered racial discrimination.\n\nThe MoD is contesting the claims.\n\nMr Zulu served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para), based at Merville Barracks in Colchester, the tribunal in central London heard.\n\nHe said he had been racially abused by a sergeant in 2014 after asking for early holiday to return to South Africa to visit family.\n\nMr Zulu said there had been a series of events where he felt racially harassed and discriminated against throughout his time in the Army, which he joined in June 2008.\n\nBut the tribunal was told matters had escalated during a six-week exercise in Kenya in 2017.\n\nA corporal had referred to Kenyan soldiers as \"African animals\" and racist slurs were used to describe heard the local population, the former paratrooper said.\n\nDuring a platoon conversation Mr Zulu claimed a private said \"Nelson Mandela is a terrorist\" which was supported by a corporal.\n\nHe said: \"Both the corporal and private knew that Nelson Mandela, who fought for the liberation of black people under the evil apartheid regime in South Africa, was a big part of my life and South Africa's history.\"\n\nMr Zulu said after he reported the abuse, people in his unit stopped talking to him and were \"turning a blind eye to the racism\".\n\nFormer paratrooper Hani Gue told a tribunal he was subjected to racist abuse in the Army\n\nHe told the tribunal he left the Army in 2018 as he could no longer go on serving a \"racist institution\".\n\nSimon Tibbitts, for the MoD, said after an apology from the sergeant, Mr Zulu had accepted he was happy with the outcome but the former paratrooper said this was because he was of a junior rank and keen to progress his career.\n\nThe tribunal has already heard from Mr Gue, who claimed soldiers had decorated their barracks with Nazi flags and pictures of Adolf Hitler.\n\nThe MoD said the armed forces took such complaints seriously and at least one was referred to the Royal Military Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One in five people admitted to a UK hospital drinks alcohol in a harmful way and one in 10 depends on it, a study suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers want people with issues caused by drinking to be screened. They are also calling for more trained staff to give support.\n\nAlcohol can cause a large number of medical conditions, which costs the NHS in the UK around £3.5bn a year.\n\nBut many may not be receiving appropriate treatment, they said.\n\nHarmful alcohol use is 10 times higher and dependence eight times higher in hospital inpatients than in other people, the study suggests.\n\nThe study was published in the Addiction journal. It looked at 124 past studies and more than 1.5 million patients to estimate how many had any of 26 conditions related to heavy alcohol use.\n\nThe patients were in general wards, intensive care units, A&E departments or mental health inpatient units.\n\nThe report's lead author, Dr Emmert Roberts, said many doctors knew the problems were common among inpatients.\n\nBut he warned: \"Our results suggest the problem is much bigger than anecdotally assumed.\"\n\nAlcohol abuse was most common among patients in mental health units, the report found. Dependence was more common among people in A&E departments.\n\nDr Roberts said the findings were the most reliable to date.\n\nHe said dedicated inpatient alcohol care teams were needed to tackle the issue.\n\nEarlier this year, NHS England announced plans to put alcohol care teams in the 50 hospitals with the highest alcohol-related admissions.\n\nAt the time, Simon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, said it would give patients \"the support they need\".\n\nKate Oldridge-Turner, head of policy and public affairs at the World Cancer Research Fund, said the figures were worrying.\n\n\"We have a social culture in the UK which can be very focused on alcohol.\n\n\"We need the government to empower people to drink less by making our daily environments healthier. Information alone won't lead to large-scale change in behaviours.\"\n\nShe called for a minimum unit price and better urban planning to \"give people more social spaces that do not revolve around alcohol\".\n\nA minimum price for alcohol was introduced in Scotland in May last year. A recent report suggests there has been a substantial fall in the volume of alcohol sold at very low prices.", "Egypt's government has called for the auction to be cancelled\n\nA 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun bust that Egypt claims was stolen has fetched £4.7m ($6m) at auction.\n\nEgypt earlier called on auction house Christie's to cancel the sale of the relic depicting ancient boy-king Tutankhamun.\n\nThe country's foreign ministry says that the bust was probably stolen from an Egyptian temple during the 1970s.\n\nChristie's says Egypt has not expressed concern about the bust in the past, despite it being exhibited publicly.\n\nThe brown quartzite, 28cm (11in) relic comes from a private collection of ancient art that Christie's last sold for £3m in 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Christie's said: \"The object is not, and has not been, the subject of an investigation.\" The auction house said it would never auction an object over which there were legitimate concerns.\n\nChristie's also published a chronology of the relic's owners for the past 50 years. The bust is understood to have been acquired from German aristocrat Prinz Wilhelm von Thurn between 1973 and 1974.\n\nThe auction house also said that the bust's existence had been known for a considerable time and it had been on display for a number of years.\n\nEgypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP news agency: \"We think it left Egypt after 1970 because in that time other artefacts were stolen from Karnak Temple.\"\n\nEgypt introduced laws in 1983 banning the removal of artefacts from the country.\n\nTutankhamun died over 3,000 years ago aged 19. His remains were found in 1922.", "The National Trust has announced that it will sell off the shares it holds in fossil fuel companies.\n\nAt present, 4% of its £1bn stock market investment is in such firms.\n\nThe Trust, the biggest conservation charity in Europe, said it wanted to invest in green start-ups and portfolios that benefited nature and the environment.\n\nIt said it had set a three-year timescale for the change, but most shares would be sold within a year.\n\nUntil now, the Trust had been prepared to invest in firms that derived less than 10% of their turnover from the extraction of thermal coal or the production of oil from tar sands.\n\nThat same threshold was also adopted by the Church of England in 2015. A year ago, however, the Church's General Synod voted to withdraw investment from companies that do not meet the terms of the Paris climate agreement by 2023.\n\nAnd last month, the Norwegian parliament approved plans for the country's sovereign wealth fund, which manages $1tn (£786bn) of the country's assets, to sell coal and oil investments worth $13bn and invest in renewable energy projects instead.\n\n\"Over the years, we've gradually evolved our investment strategy to reduce our carbon footprint,\" said the Trust's chief financial officer, Peter Vermeulen.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he added: \"As a conservation charity [we] believe that after decades' worth of lobbying not enough has been done by the oil and gas companies, and for that reason we're looking to withdraw our investment and invest in companies that are looking to deliver environmental benefits as well as financial returns.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that oil giants such as BP and Shell were investing in renewable energy, but said that while their investments were \"not insignificant\", they were \"too small as a proportion of their total capital investment\".\n\n\"Still less than 10% of the oil major's investment is on low-carbon technologies and we believe that's not sufficient,\" he said.\n\nThe Trust said it analysed the carbon footprint of its investment portfolio every six months.\n\nIt said it also required all its investment managers to be signatories of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.\n\nThe National Trust is responsible for the upkeep of 248,000 hectares of land, 780 miles of coastline and more than 500 historic buildings and parks across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt has 5.2 million members and more than 60,000 volunteers.", "Facebook says glitches affecting its platforms have now been resolved.\n\nUsers across the world had been unable to upload or view photos, videos and other files.\n\nThe problems had affected its Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp apps.\n\n\"The issue has... been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone,\" it tweeted. It added that an unspecified issue had been accidentally \"triggered\" during \"routine maintenance\".\n\nFacebook has more than 2.3 billion monthly active users and Instagram has one billion.\n\nIn some cases, users were shown grey boxes annotated with text explaining what the firm's image analysis software had suggested to be the contents of the original photos.\n\nRival platform Twitter also had issues, with some users not able to send direct messages or receive notifications for a time.\n\nThe company apologised for the inconvenience, tweeting at about 23:00 BST: \"We're almost at 100% resolved. There may be some residual effects for a small group of people, but overall your DMs should be working properly now. We appreciate your patience!\"\n\nIn March, Facebook and Instagram suffered their longest period of disruption ever. Problems also struck both apps as well as WhatsApp in April.\n\nThe latest problems followed earlier disruption on Tuesday when Cloudflare - a company that provides internet security to website operators - suffered a fault of its own that caused thousands of websites to display \"502 errors\" when visited. The US firm has since published a blog blaming a flawed software deployment.\n\n\"Our testing processes were insufficient in this case and we are reviewing and making changes to our testing and deployment process to avoid incidents like this in the future,\" it said.", "Fans watching the singer's Glastonbury set on TV said Nina's joy made them cry, too\n\nNorwegian singer Sigrid will meet a 13-year-old fan who cried throughout most of her Glastonbury set, following an appeal on social media to find her.\n\nSigrid saw Nina singing \"all the words\" during the Other Stage gig on Saturday.\n\nThe singer said she had wanted to meet Nina straight away but logistics had proved \"difficult\".\n\nFollowing her appeal on Twitter to find the young fan, Sigrid invited her and her \"cool dad\" Adam to see her perform at Latitude Festival later this month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany fans commented on Sigrid's tweet - saying the girl's joy made them cry, too, that her \"living and loving the music\" was \"lovely to see\", and praising her as a \"No. 1 fan\".\n\nSigrid has risen to fame over the last two years, winning BBC Music's Sound of 2018.\n\nInfluenced by Lorde, Robyn and Joni Mitchell, the star has become known for catchy, quirky and literate pop songs.\n\nA friend of Nina's replied to Sigrid's post with a picture of the super fan smiling broadly as she clutched Sigrid's set list - a present from the security team at the end of the gig.\n\nThe BBC saw the message and managed to put Nina's father Adam in touch with Sigrid's publicist.\n\nNina put her high emotions down to being \"so close\" to one of her favourite artists.\n\nSigrid, 22, said Nina was \"on fire\" throughout her show on Saturday\n\nA member of the security team gave Nina the set list used by Sigrid during the gig\n\nThe schoolgirl from South Hampstead, north London, told the BBC: \"When she saw me singing along... I think she pointed at me, or kind of waved, and I was like 'oh my god, this is crazy'.\"\n\n\"It was the fact I was at the front, that she was there, and that she saw me,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm a very emotional person I think in general,\" Nina added.\n\nAdam, 47, who has taken his daughter to gigs and festivals before but \"nothing as big as Glastonbury\", said the whole experience was \"amazing\".\n\nHe described the kindness of fellow festival-goers who made space for the pair of them at the front, and of the security worker who ensured Nina got the set list.\n\nAdam and Nina had been to lots of gigs and festivals together before but \"nothing as big as Glastonbury\"\n\nNina said she was \"already so overwhelmed\" and \"so happy\" that she had not even begun to hope she might meet the singer.\n\nSigrid has arranged Latitude tickets for the pair and said she \"can't wait\" to meet them.\n\nThe singer-songwriter, whose full name is Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, told the BBC: \"I spotted this girl in the front row, she was singing all the songs and looked like she knew all the words.\"\n\n\"I really wanted to get to meet her but logistically it was difficult since it's such a big festival,\" she said.\n\n\"Thanks to Twitter and the help of the BBC we managed to find the dad, Adam, and I can't wait to meet Nina and Adam at Latitude Festival in the next few weeks.\"\n\nThe Don't Kill My Vibe singer, 22, will perform at the Obelisk Arena at Latitude on 21 July.\n• None 13 things we'll never forget about Glastonbury 2019\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen met researchers and scientists when she formally opened Bush House - although some students were not welcome\n\nKing's College London (KCL) has apologised and admitted it was wrong to ban a group of students from campus during a royal visit.\n\nThe Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the university's Strand Campus on 19 March to open Bush House.\n\nOne staff member and 13 students linked to campaigning groups were denied access to the campus, causing one student to fear he would miss an exam.\n\nThe acting principal said KCL's actions that day \"did not meet our values\".\n\nProf Evelyn Welch added that a report into the university's actions was \"uncomfortable to read\" and that the leadership team \"apologise wholeheartedly\".\n\nThe investigation found the university had breached its own policies regarding protection of personal information and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nFollowing protests at university events on both 4 March and 18 March, police contacted the university's head of security to express concerns of an \"increased risk\" during the royal visit.\n\nThe Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the campus the day after a protest at the university's council meeting\n\nThe card access for a list of people linked to groups including the Intersectional Feminist Society and Action Palestine was then blocked, without those individuals being told.\n\nOne student reported he was worried he would miss an exam but \"fortunately\" security staff reinstated his card in time, the report said.\n\nIt added that another student was late for an assessed presentation and had to \"beg to the point of tears to be let in\".\n\nThe day after the royal visit there were protests outside KCL's Strand Campus.\n\nThe report concluded that the Estates and Facilities team had \"overstepped the boundaries of their authority\".\n\nProf Welch said it was \"clear how the decisions taken in the run-up to and on 19 March have hurt our community\".\n\nShe added: \"The report shows that we need to take some actions to ensure that the values we uphold are applied consistently across our organisation.\n\n\"While individuals are identified, they should not be singled out as those who were solely responsible; as such we will be looking at the systemic underlying issues that we need to address at King's going forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouthern California was hit by its strongest earthquake in two decades on Thursday.\n\nThe epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude tremor was near the city of Ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Los Angeles.\n\nTremors continued to be felt on Friday, as emergency crews fought fires and provided medical assistance to people.\n\nThe quake was felt from Las Vegas in Nevada to Los Angeles on California's Pacific coast.\n\nIt hit at 10:33 local time (18:33GMT) on the US Fourth of July Independence Day holiday.\n\nOn Friday morning at 04:15, a tremor measuring 5.4 struck. Los Angeles fire officials said there were no immediate reports of additional damage.\n\nThere was significant damage in Ridgecrest, which lies south-west of the epicentre, local geophysicist Professor John Rundle told the BBC.\n\nThe epicentre of the earthquake was near the city of Ridgecrest\n\nHe added that it was fortunate the quake had happened far away from major population centres.\n\nRoads were cracked and broken and power lines fell to the ground after the earthquake, which also shattered glass and cracked the walls of some homes in the region.\n\nFire burned some homes in the city of Ridgecrest\n\nThe Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was evacuated, the Kern County Fire Department said. The service has responded to nearly two dozen incidents ranging from medical assistance for minor injuries to fires.\n\nThe quake also struck near China Lake - the bomb testing facility of the US Navy, where weapons and aircraft are put to through their paces. One official from the facility told AFP news agency there was \"substantial damage\" – including fires, water leaks, and hazardous materials spills.\n\nBrad Alexander, a spokesman for California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, said on Thursday that fire engines and search and rescue teams were going to assist in the Ridgecrest area, where he believed there were a number of buildings on fire.\n\n\"This may not be over. There could be more earthquakes happening in the area and anyone listening that's in that region should be prepared to drop, cover and hold on,\" he warned.\n\nA man cleans up a supermarket that was damaged by the earthquake\n\nGovernor of California Gavin Newsom declared an emergency for the areas affected, as concern for potential aftershocks ramped up.\n\nIn interviews, he called on California residents to have a plan in place in case more earthquakes strike.\n\nMayor of Ridgecrest Peggy Breeden said that some people had been struck by objects falling from buildings and gas lines had been broken.\n\n\"We are used to earthquakes but we're not used to this significance,\" she said.\n\nLos Angeles' early warning system did not send an advance alert to many residents in the region, the LA Times reports - because the forecast did not meet the threshold of severity for Los Angeles County. In the end, the shaking was worse than expected for some people.\n\nStephen Sykes, who lives in Ridgecrest, was in the shower when his house started to shake.\n\n\"The whole house shook violently and we both ran out into the street. This went on for about 10 to 15 seconds, we were really scared,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Currently we are getting ready in case there's another one. We are moving items onto the floor and have turned off the gas supply. We will probably sleep outside tonight,\" he added.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that the situation was under control.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLucy Jones, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey, told reporters the epicentre was in a relatively uninhabited area.\n\nShe said there would likely be a number of aftershocks, some powerful.\n\nOne man tweeted images from inside a supermarket in Ridgecrest, which has a population of about 28,000 people, showing the aisle floors covered with fallen items.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nick Graehl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "December, 1987: A tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war\n\nTankers blazing in the Gulf. American warships answering distress calls. Warlike rhetoric sparking fears of a wider conflict.\n\nWe've been here before: 28 years ago, America and Iran came to blows in the same waters. Ships were attacked, crew members killed and injured.\n\nBefore it was over, an Iranian airliner had been shot out of the sky, by mistake.\n\nThe \"tanker war\" was a moment of high international tension at the end of revolutionary Iran's eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nThe two sides had been attacking each other's oil facilities since the mid-1980s.\n\nSoon neutral ships were being hit too, as the warring nations tried to exert economic pressure on the other side. Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi oil were especially vulnerable.\n\nThe US, under Ronald Reagan, was reluctant to get involved. But the situation in the Gulf was becoming increasingly dangerous – a fact underlined when an American warship, the USS Stark, was hit by Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet – though Iraqi officials later claimed this was accidental.\n\nBy July 1987, re-registered Kuwaiti tankers, flying the US flag, were being escorted through the Gulf by American warships. In time, it became the biggest naval convoy operation since World War II.\n\nOctober 1987: An escort from the USS Guadalcanal watches a tanker in the Persian Gulf\n\nThen, as now, America and Iran were at loggerheads.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had been calling America \"The Great Satan\" since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.\n\nWashington was still smarting from the humiliation of seeing 52 of its diplomats held hostage in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 – 1981.\n\nSo even though Iran and Iraq were both responsible for the crisis, the tanker war was quickly part of the simmering, long-running feud between Iran and America.\n\nIt's a feud that has never gone away and which has flared once more in the wake of Donald Trump's decision to apply \"maximum pressure\" after walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOnce again, the waters either side of the Strait of Hormuz have become the arena in which this almost pathological contest plays out.\n\nWhat, if anything, has changed?\n\n\"Both sides have expanded their capabilities,\" says Dr Martin Navias, author of a book on the tanker war.\n\nIran, he says, is more capable than ever of using mines, submarines and fast boats to attack and damage commercial and military shipping.\n\nAnd it's not just a battle at sea: Iran's ability to shoot down a sophisticated American surveillance drone points to another battle, high overhead.\n\nThe US military identified the drone as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nCould the US and Iran start to exchange serious blows?\n\nIf attacks on tankers escalate, we could see another US-led reflagging and escort operation.\n\nOn 24 July 1987, a re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker hit an Iranian mine on the very first convoy mission. The US deployed more forces and more ships. The two sides were now on a collision course.\n\nIn September, American helicopters attacked an Iranian ship after watching it lay mines at night.\n\nIn the months that followed, more tankers, and a US frigate, were hit. American forces responded with ever greater firepower, destroying Revolutionary Guard bases and attacking Iranian warships.\n\nEventually it ended – but not before an American missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook an Iranian Airbus A300 for an attacking jet and shot it down, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290\n\nThe official report into the incident said that \"stress, task fixation (and) an unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role\".\n\nThe US navy invested heavily in technology and training to avoid such catastrophic mistakes in the future.\n\nBut Nick Childs, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says today's environment, with rivals also exchanging angry salvoes on social media, makes for a febrile atmosphere.\n\n\"The information space has changed,\" he says. \"People get jittery. The danger is that each side is misreading the other.\"\n\nDonald Trump and Hassan Rouhani both say they don't want a war. Hardliners, on both sides, are a little more ambiguous.\n\nDr Navias says we're not yet heading for another tanker war.\n\n\"We're not seeing an anti-shipping campaign, but a signalling campaign,\" he says. \"The Iranians are signalling to the Americans that they could escalate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nFor all the drama of those months in 1987 and 1988, very few tankers were actually sunk and shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz was never seriously disrupted.\n\nNow, 30 years on, the US is far less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Iran has far more to lose, in terms of imports and exports, from a closure of the Strait.\n\nFor now, another tanker war seems unlikely. But the fact that neither side really wants an all-out confrontation doesn't mean it won't happen.\n\nDr Navias says the dangers are real.\n\n\"This kind of environment is pregnant with possibilities.\"", "A fire in Kentucky that has destroyed two Jim Beam warehouses containing 45,000 barrels of bourbon may have been caused by a lightning strike.", "Kim Kardashian-West has won $2.7m in damages after accusing Missguided USA of ripping off her outfits.\n\nShe took the fashion brand to court in the US, claiming it was using her name to sell clothes and was \"notorious\" for \"knocking off\" designer items she wore.\n\nIt didn't defend itself and was told to pay out $2.7m (about £2.1m).\n\nIt has also been banned from using the reality star's \"trademarks in connection with the sale, marketing or distribution of its products\".\n\nKim has spoken before about how, when she's pictured in a dress, almost-identical designs will appear on fast fashion sites within hours.\n\nShe's known for wearing clothes by some of the highest profile designers in the world - including her husband Kanye West.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMissguided, which was founded in Manchester in 2009, hasn't always been shy about what it does.\n\nHours after Kim posted an image showing her wearing a gold dress designed by Kanye on Instagram, the company put up a photo of a model in a similar dress along with the caption: \"The devil works hard but Missguided works harder.\"\n\nIn this lawsuit, Kim Kardashian-West said Missguided USA doesn't just \"replicate the looks of celebrities\" but \"systematically uses the names and image\" of stars to promote its website.\n\nIn February, the star spoke out against fast fashion companies who she claimed ripped off the hard work and original ideas of \"true designers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Missguided said: \"We note the view of the California Court. The legal process has not yet reached a conclusion.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Government said there are plans to recruit \"over 3,500 extra officers and staff\"\n\nPublic safety could be at risk unless urgent reforms are made, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary has said.\n\nIn his annual report Sir Thomas Winsor also branded the criminal justice system \"dysfunctional and defective\".\n\n\"Bold and long-term decisions\" were needed to improve policing and forces need to work closer together, he said.\n\nThe Government said it was \"working hard to address pressures\" on the justice system.\n\nIn his annual assessment of policing in England and Wales, Sir Thomas said there had been a 19% drop in police funding since 2010-11.\n\n\"There are indications that some forces are straining under significant pressure as they try to meet growing complex and high-risk demand with weakened resources\", he said.\n\nHis proposals to improve policing included \"considerable investment in technology to keep up with and get ahead of emerging online offending\".\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick wants investment in resources, technology and expertise to drive up clear-up rates\n\nIt comes after Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said too many crimes are being left unsolved.\n\nDuring a speech about the future of policing in England and Wales, Cressida Dick admitted that national detection rates for some offences were \"woefully low\".\n\nShe added: \"The courts are emptying, not filling. It is not good and I am not proud of it.\"\n\nSir Thomas also said rehabilitation of criminals needed to be taken more seriously, with people released from prisons being \"guaranteed proper support\" in dealing with benefits and finance.\n\nIn the report, Sir Thomas added that there was \"continued controversy\" about the 43-police force structure in England and Wales.\n\nHe also said there was a need for the police service to function as part of a single law enforcement system.\n• None State of Policing – The Annual Assessment of Policing in England and Wales 2018 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Please use your device horizontally in order to use this experience!", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He always had a smile on his face\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the two railway workers who died after being hit by a train on Wednesday.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, from Kenfig Hill and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, from North Cornelly, were hit by the Swansea to Paddington train near Margam.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said the men may have not heard the train coming as they had ear defenders on.\n\nMr Delbridge was called an \"absolutely fantastic guy\" while the family of Mr Lewis said he was \"loved by everyone\".\n\nA third worker was treated at the scene for shock, but was not injured.\n\nFlowers for the victims were placed near the scene\n\nIn a statement, Mr Lewis's family said: \"We would like to thank everyone so much for their support during this difficult time and ask that we are now given the space we need to grieve.\"\n\nAlan Gitsham, a former railway worker who used to work with both men, said: \"Mike was great, a tidy fella. I'm devastated, I can't believe he's gone.\"\n\nKenfig Hill Rugby Club said earlier Mr Delbridge was a long-standing member and \"an absolutely fantastic guy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The train hit the men while they were on the tracks near Margam\n\nGary Chappell, the club's treasurer, said Mr Delbridge's death was \"more than devastating\".\n\n\"He was an absolutely fantastic guy. He always had a smile on his face,\" he said.\n\n\"He always had time to say hello to you.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Delbridge, who was known as \"Gazza\", was an \"absolute staunch\" Kenfig Hill supporter and was well known at the club.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kenfig Hill RFC This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRay Giles, club secretary, described Mr Delbridge as a \"big family man\" and \"a really, really likeable lad\".\n\n\"Cheerful, never down, always bags of fun,\" he added.\n\nMr Giles went on to say Mr Delbridge was an excellent sportsman when he was younger and it was \"such a tragedy to lose someone so dear\".\n\n\"We were all just stunned, lost for words, and just grieving at the moment.\"\n\nThe Reverend Gordon Sollis, from North Cornelly Methodist Church, said it had opened its doors for those who want to pray or reflect on the incident.\n\n\"I'll be here if people want to talk about anything or just be here,\" he said.\n\nMr Delbridge and Mr Lewis died at the scene following the incident shortly before 10:00 BST and an investigation is under way.\n\nBTP Supt Andy Morgan said: \"Following a number of urgent inquiries into this tragic incident, it has been established that the three people were railway workers who were working on the lines at the time.\n\n\"The initial stages of the investigation suggest that the two men who died had been wearing ear defenders at the time and, tragically, could not hear the passenger train approaching.\n\n\"We have a number of officers who remain in the area and we are continuing to work alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the full circumstances of what happened in the moments before this incredibly sad, fatal collision.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police is working to establish the identity of the victims.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch said it will proved further details of what happened and information about its investigation in the coming weeks.\n\nIt said its investigation was independent to any by the railway industry, BTP or the industry's regulator, the Office of Rail and Road.\n\n\"We will publish our findings, including any recommendations to improve safety, at the conclusion of our investigation,\" it said.\n\nThe deaths come just three months after the branch warned there were \"too many near misses in which railway workers have had to jump for their lives\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Trafnidiaeth Cymru / Transport for Wales\n\nIn 2018, there was one death on the mainline railway and 6,641 injuries, of which 164 were major.\n\nBill Kelly, Network Rail's route managing director for Wales, said: \"We are fully co-operating with the British Transport Police and Rail Accident Investigation Branch.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the families of our colleagues and our members of staff who will be affected by this tragic loss, and we will provide all the support we can.\"\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) said about 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident and they were transported by buses to Port Talbot and Cardiff about three hours later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers on the train which killed two rail workers describe how events unfolded\n\nGWR said everyone at the company was \"incredibly saddened\" to learn two railway colleagues died and it was working with BTP, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and Network Rail to find out how the \"tragic accident\" happened.\n\nStephen Lester, who was on board the train, said: \"[I] looked out of the window and saw people standing around looking at the floor.\"\n\nHe said the blinds had to be pulled down as there were about 30 secondary school children from Swansea in the carriage who were due to go on a trip to London.\n\nAbout 180 passengers were on the train at the time of the incident, Great Western Railway said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tourists watch the explosion from a beach on the island of Lipari\n\nA volcano has erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli, killing one person and sending frightened tourists fleeing.\n\nThe victim is a male hiker who was hit by a falling stone, while other people were injured.\n\nThe navy has been deployed for a possible mass evacuation, with 70 people already evacuated.\n\nThe volcano is one of the most active on the planet and has been under a regular state of eruption since 1932.\n\n\"Unfortunately one man is dead, there are a few injured, but none seriously,\" emergency worker Calogero Foti told Italy's Rai television.\n\nThe victim was a 35-year-old man from Sicily who was hiking when the volcano erupted twice. His Brazilian friend was discovered dehydrated and in a state of shock, the AGI news agency reported.\n\nAsh rising from Stromboli after the eruption\n\nFirefighters are battling flames on the island.\n\n\"We saw the explosion from the hotel. There was a loud roar,\" said Michela Favorito, who works in a hotel on the island.\n\n\"We plugged our ears and after this a cloud of ash swept over us. The whole sky is full of ash, a fairly large cloud,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Columns of ash rise from the eruption of the volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli.\n\nFiona Carter, a British tourist on the island of Panarea, some 17 miles from Stromboli, heard the eruption.\n\n\"We turned around to see a mushroom cloud coming from Stromboli. Everyone was in shock. Then red hot lava started running down the mountain towards the little village of Ginostra,\" she said.\n\nView of the volcano from the nearby island of Panarea\n\nHolidaymakers were reported to have run into the sea after seeing ash rising from the volcano. The island is a popular location for holiday homes of the rich and famous.\n\nStromboli is known as the \"Lighthouse of the Mediterranean\" and has a population of around 500. The last major eruption was in 2002, when a blast destroyed local buildings and piers, injuring six.\n• None Mount Etna erupts for first time this year", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said she is \"accountable\" for what happens in the health service, after a last-minute delay in opening a hospital.\n\nThe new Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh has problems with its ventilation system.\n\nThe £150m building in Little France was due to open on Tuesday, but is now subject to indefinite delays.\n\nThe announcement was made the day before patients and equipment were to begin moving to the site.\n\nLast-minute inspections found national safety standards were not being met in the critical care wards.\n\nMs Freeman told The Nine: \"At the end of the day, I am accountable for what happens in our health service and it will be for others to decide whether, at the end of the day, I am ultimately responsible for what has happened here.\n\n\"I don't believe that is the case but that is not my decision.\n\n\"That is a decision for others.\"\n\nThe minister said she is \"accountable\" for what happens in the health service\n\nMs Freeman has directed the health board to act as quickly as possible to ensure all aspects of the hospital, including the ventilation system, meet the necessary national standards.\n\nNHS Lothian has been instructed to set out their plan to phase the move from the old hospital to the new site once it is safe to do so.\n\nMs Freeman said: \"There is no greater responsibility of the NHS than to ensure the clinical safety of their patients, not least when those patients are children.\n\n\"In order to be absolutely sure that patient safety is delivered, I have no choice but to postpone NHS Lothian's planned move to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.\n\n\"It is vital that patient safety remains paramount, which is why I have asked the health board to stop all moves until assurances have been given that the new site is entirely compliant with the relevant health technical standards.\"\n\nThe new hospital had been due to open in autumn 2017\n\nThe minister has also asked for an investigation as to why the problem was only identified five days before the official opening.\n\nShe added: \"While this issue has been caught by the final safety checks, I am disappointed and deeply concerned that this was not identified earlier.\n\n\"I have asked that Health Facilities Scotland undertake an investigation to determine how the hospital got to this advanced stage before it was discovered that the ventilation system fell below the standards expected. This work will cover both technical and governance aspects of the project.\n\n\"We will continue to be in close contact with the health board throughout this period to ensure the health and safety of patients remains the key focus.\"\n\nTim Davison, NHS Lothian chief executive at the new The Royal Hospital for Sick Children\n\nNHS Lothian chief executive, Tim Davison said: \"Patient safety is paramount, and following the handover of the new hospital NHS Lothian has continued to monitor facilities at the new site to ensure all systems are operating to national standards.\n\n\"Following advice from an independent advisor, I fully accept the Health Secretary's decision to reschedule the move to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.\n\n\"The air environment is extremely important and can help prevent the occurrence and spread of infection in patients who are already vulnerable.\n\n\"We are extremely disappointed that we cannot move as planned and I am very sorry for the disappointment this will cause to patients, their families and staff affected by this delay. However, patient safety must always come first.\"\n\nUnison Scotland expressed disappointment at the timing of the move.\n\nThomas Waterson, chair of the union's Scottish health committee, said: \"We are shocked that this announcement has come at such a late stage and frustrated that the cabinet secretary for health has put out a press release before any staff had been informed.\n\n\"Obviously patient safety is paramount but if there are health and safety issues then the appropriate action was required long before this late stage.\n\n\"The Scottish government has spent years planning this move, so to have further delays, particularly at this late stage, for health and safety is simply unacceptable.\"\n\nThe new 233-bed hospital will form part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh campus, providing care for children and young people to around 16 years of age.\n\nLast month BBC Scotland was allowed inside for a preview of the new hospital.\n\nThe new hospital had been due to open in 2017 but a series of problems pushed that back.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt It's 'all to play for'\n\nTory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has said it is \"all to play for\" in the race against Boris Johnson to be the UK's next prime minister.\n\nHe said his team had believed his chance to be \"a very long shot\" at the start, but that had changed.\n\nThe foreign secretary said he believed \"so many people\" had switched to support him after hearing him speak.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has been pledging to support the \"wealth creating sector\" in the UK.\n\nOn a visit to a sausage factory in North Yorkshire, he said companies in the UK showed \"incredible diversity and resilience\".\n\nHe added that boosting business was the \"way to pay for great public infrastructure, social care, all the things we need\".\n\nBoris Johnson visited a sausage factory in North Yorkshire and was given a unique packet of \"Boris Bangers\"\n\nTory members have begun to vote for their choice, after receiving their polling papers earlier than expected.\n\nThe winner of the contest will be announced on 23 July and will take over from Theresa May on 24 July.\n\nTalking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Hunt said: \"I think at the start of the campaign the people around me thought this was a very long shot. Now it feels like much more of a contest.\n\n\"We've had some surprises. We had the surprise of Trump. We had the surprise of Brexit. I think we could have the surprise of the Conservative Party leadership election too. I think there's all to play for.\"\n\nHe said he believed some Tory members had switched support from frontrunner Mr Johnson.\n\n\"It's just a question of whether we've done enough in the short time we've had, but I think it's completely doable,\" he said.\n\nJeremy Hunt says Tory members want to see him - and Boris Johnson - in action\n\nMr Hunt also said he \"would like longer\" to campaign for the leadership, adding that he was \"disappointed that Boris hasn't wanted to do head-to-head TV debates until after most people would have voted\".\n\n\"I think members would have liked to have seen us both in action,\" he said. \"But that's his choice.\"\n\nThe candidates are set to face each other in an ITV debate on 9 July and at an event hosted by the Sun newspaper and talkRADIO on 15 July.\n\nThey will also be interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One on 12 July.\n\nMr Hunt has offered MPs a free vote on lifting the ban on fox hunting in England and Wales if he becomes prime minister.\n\nHe said he was \"just being honest\" about how he had voted on the issue in the past, \"but that's not what I'm going to change as prime minister\".\n\nHe said his priorities included rural broadband and protecting farmers in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Hunt repeated that he would leave the EU without a deal \"if there isn't a deal to be done\" and that decision would be made by the end of September.\n\nLater, at a leadership hustings in York, Mr Hunt said councils needed more money for social care and there needed to be incentives for people to save for their futures, \"just as we save for a pension\".\n\nHe said the government should also consider incentives to encourage people to look after elderly relatives in the family home.\n\n\"There are 420,000 households in our country that are three-generation households where granny, mum and dad and the kids all live under the same roof. I think that is a good thing,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not saying we all want to live with our mother-in-law. But I think that three-generation families are a wonderful thing.\"\n\nWhen asked about a committee report that called for an immediate £8bn cash increase and a move to a free, NHS-based system, for social care, Mr Johnson said the report was \"thought-provoking\".\n\n\"There's no question that they're putting their finger on an issue that we have to address,\" he told the hustings.\n\n\"It simply cannot be fair that Alzheimer's or dementia are not properly funded in the way that other illnesses at the end of life are under the NHS.\"\n\nPressed on whether he would commit to a green paper on the topic, he said: \"I will certainly commit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have appointed former midfielder Frank Lampard as their manager on a three-year deal.\n\nLampard, 41, has left Championship side Derby County to take over at a club where he spent 13 years as a player.\n\nHe succeeds Maurizio Sarri, who left Stamford Bridge in June to take charge of Italian champions Juventus.\n\nLampard led Derby to the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa, in his first season as a manager.\n\nThe former England international made 648 Chelsea appearances, winning 11 major trophies with them.\n\nHe takes over with Chelsea under a transfer embargo after the club were given a two-window transfer ban by world governing body Fifa - a decision they are appealing against at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n• None •Quiz: Can you name the managers Lampard has played under?\n• None Will Lampard risk pay off for Blues owner Abramovich?\n\n\"I am immensely proud to be returning to Chelsea as head coach,\" said Lampard.\n\n\"Everyone knows my love for this club and the history we have shared. However, my sole focus is on the job in hand and preparing for the season ahead.\n\n\"I am here to work hard, bring further success to the club and I cannot wait to get started.\"\n\nThe appointment comes nine days after Derby gave Lampard permission to talk to Chelsea and 18 days after Sarri left Stamford Bridge.\n\nLampard is the 10th full-time manager appointed by Roman Abramovich since he bought the club in 2003.\n\nChelsea director Marina Granovskaia said Lampard's Championship play-off final appearance with Derby demonstrated that he was \"one of the most talented young coaches in the game\".\n\n\"It gives us great pleasure to welcome Frank back to Chelsea as head coach,\" she said. \"Frank possesses fantastic knowledge and understanding of the club.\"\n\nDerby assistant manager Jody Morris and first-team coach Chris Jones have also joined Lampard at Stamford Bridge, while former team-mate Petr Cech was appointed as technical advisor last month.\n\nLampard joined Chelsea from boyhood club West Ham for a fee of £11m in 2001.\n\nHe won a Champions League and a Europa League at the club, while also helping them to win three Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two League Cups.\n\nChelsea's title win in 2004-05 was their first in half a century and Lampard scored 13 league goals that season, including both in a 2-0 victory at Bolton that sealed the top-flight crown.\n\nHe scored 10 or more Premier League goals in 10 successive seasons for Chelsea and is the club's all-time record goalscorer with 211.\n\nLampard left Stamford Bridge in June 2014 and had a stint at Manchester City, where he scored six goals in 32 appearances.\n\nHe then joined New York City in Major League Soccer in the US, making his debut in August 2015, before ending his 21-year professional playing career in 2017.\n\nLampard won 106 England caps after making his international debut in 1999 and went on to score 29 goals for the Three Lions.\n\nHe appeared in three World Cups and one European Championships.\n\nThe former midfielder said he did not want to be a \"clone\" of any of the club's previous managers despite \"rising expectations\" on and off the pitch.\n\n\"Expectations at Chelsea will always remain, because of what the club has done in the last 15 years and I like that, I enjoyed that as a player,\" he said.\n\n\"I enjoyed my first year on this side of the fence and I am determined to keep on going.\"\n\nChristian Pulisic, a £58m signing from Borussia Dortmund, has replaced talisman Eden Hazard but Lampard will be forced to work with limited resources in his first season after the club was put under a transfer embargo.\n\nChelsea have a plethora of players on loan at Premier League and Championship clubs, including Kurt Zouma at Everton and promotion-winning Tammy Abraham at Aston Villa, and many are expected to be recalled.\n\nLampard also worked closely with two Chelsea players at Derby, both Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori featuring heavily in his spell at Pride Park.\n\n\"There's a nice balance of the older and younger players,\" said Lampard.\n\n\"I'm excited about the current crop of youngsters, especially seeing the work that has gone into the academy over the years.\n\n\"I've seen the players - I worked with Mason Mount last year and you can see their attitude, how they hold themselves and their manners.\n\n\"I want to dangle the carrot and ask them can you perform? Can you get in the team?\"\n\nThe new manager will have to succeed where his predecessor failed in giving sufficient game time to Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, two of Chelsea's most promising youngsters.\n\nMidfielder Loftus-Cheek has recently agreed a new five-year deal at his boyhood club, but Lampard will have to convince Hudson-Odoi to remain in west London despite ongoing interest from German giants Bayern Munich.\n\nIs it disrespectful to question whether Frank is making the right decision by taking this job so early in his managerial career? If things go wrong at the start it can destroy your chances going forward. Just look at the stick Gary Neville took after his stint at Valencia went belly up. Sir Alex Ferguson was sacked from his first job at St Mirren - although he did bounce back quite well!\n\nFootball is littered with the names of club legends who went back to manage at their spiritual homes. When it doesn't work out the dirty deed has to be done and for a while at least the legend is tarnished. I never want it to happen to Frank because I like and respect so much of what he has done and also the man he has turned out to be.\n\nHad he taken this job four or five years down the line, his chances of success would have been much better, but he knows there is no certainty the chance would come around again.\n\nRead more from Pat Nevin on Lampard's appointment here.", "The UK's biggest gambling firms have agreed to contribute more money to fund treatment for problem gamblers.\n\nThe owners of William Hill, Ladbrokes Coral, Paddy Power Betfair, Skybet and Bet 365 will increase their voluntary levy on gambling profits from 0.1% to 1% up to 2023 - a contribution of £60m.\n\nIt will be \"a step change\" in how they tackle addiction, the firms claimed.\n\nIt comes amid criticism of the industry on how little it spends to help addicts compared with its marketing budget.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens warned betting firms could be taxed to pay for addiction treatment.\n\nMr Stevens condemned the \"fraction\" spent by industry on helping those struggling with addiction, compared with the amount spent on advertising and marketing.\n\nThe companies said cumulatively they would spend £100m on treatment over the next four years.\n\nLast month, when the BBC broke the news of the plans, a source said the industry had to act: \"The industry is on a precipice - if we don't get ahead of this, we will end up where the alcohol industry was 10 years ago, and tobacco 30 years ago.\n\n\"The fear is that we face a ban on touchline advertising or football shirt sponsorship.\"\n\nPeter Jackson, chief executive of Flutter Entertainment - the holding company name for Paddy Power Betfair - said the agreement marked \"an unprecedented level of commitment and collaboration by the leading companies in the British betting and gaming sector to address gambling-related harm\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"We think that is an important step to make.\n\n\"We do think we need to increase the amount of money that is available to protect the young and vulnerable.\"\n\nMarc Etches, chief executive of charity GambleAware, told the BBC: \"We welcome this initiative by the leading operators as it's essential there is sufficient funding to provide for treatment and support for both problem gamblers and for those who are 'at risk' - particularly the young and vulnerable.\n\n\"Customers should be able to gamble in a safe environment, where help and advice is readily available at the point of need.\n\n\"It is vital that we work closely with the commission, government and other organisations to ensure that operators continue to focus on making gambling products safer, and that treatment and support is properly funded alongside other initiatives including the Safer Gambling campaign, Bet Regret.\"\n\nThe five firms have also agreed to increase safer gambling messages in their adverts and review the \"tone and content\" of their marketing and sponsorship material.\n\nThe Gambling Commission estimates there are 430,000 people with a serious gambling addiction in the UK. If you include those they deem at risk of addiction, the number rises to more than two million.\n\nOf these, around 55,000 are children and young people aged 11 to 16.\n\nJeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said the gambling industry had a responsibility to tackle problem gambling and contribute to the cost of treatment to rebuild the lives of those affected.\n\n\"We will monitor closely the progress of these new measures and encourage the wider industry to step up. The government will not hesitate to take further action to protect people from gambling related harm.\"", "From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953, to tension and confrontation under President Trump, a look back over more than 65 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The secular leader had sought to nationalise Iran's oil industry.\n\nThe US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is forced to leave the country on 16 January following months of demonstrations and strikes against his rule by secular and religious opponents.\n\nTwo weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile. Following a referendum, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed on 1 April.\n\nThe US embassy in Tehran is seized by protesters in November 1979 and American hostages are held inside for 444 days. The final 52 hostages are freed in January 1981, the day of US President Ronald Reagan's inauguration.\n\nAnother six Americans who had escaped the embassy are smuggled out of Iran by a team posing as film-makers, in events dramatised in the 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo.\n\nThe US secretly ships weapons to Iran, allegedly in exchange for Tehran's help in freeing US hostages held by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.\n\nThe profits are illegally channelled to rebels in Nicaragua, creating a political crisis for Reagan.\n\nThe American warship USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air flight in the Gulf on 3 July, killing all 290 people on board. The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet.\n\nMost of the victims are Iranian pilgrims on their way to Mecca.\n\nIn his State of the Union address, President George Bush denounces Iran as part of an \"axis of evil\" with Iraq and North Korea. The speech causes outrage in Iran.\n\nIn 2002 an Iranian opposition group reveals that Iran is developing nuclear facilities including a uranium enrichment plant.\n\nThe US accuses Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, which Iran denies. A decade of diplomatic activity and intermittent Iranian engagement with the UN's nuclear watchdog follows.\n\nBut several rounds of sanctions are imposed by the UN, the US and the EU against ultra-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. This causes Iran's currency to lose two-thirds of its value in two years.\n\nIn September 2013, a month after Iran's new moderate president Hassan Rouhani takes office, he and US President Barack Obama speak by phone - the first such top-level conversation in more than 30 years.\n\nThen in 2015, after a flurry of diplomatic activity, Iran agrees a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agrees to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nIn May 2018, US President Donald Trump abandons the nuclear deal, before reinstating economic sanctions against Iran and threatening to do the same to countries and firms that continue buying its oil. Iran's economy falls into a deep recession.\n\nRelations between the US and Iran worsen in May 2019, when the US tightens the sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports. In response, Iran begins a counter-pressure campaign.\n\nIn May and June 2019, explosions hit six oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and the US accuses Iran.\n\nOn 20 June, Iranian forces shoot down a US military drone over the Strait of Hormuz. The US says it was over international waters, but Iran says it is over their territory.\n\nIran begins rolling back key commitments under the nuclear deal in July.\n\nOn 3 January 2020, Iran's top military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, is killed by a US drone strike in Iraq. Iran vows \"severe revenge\" for his death and pulls back from the 2015 nuclear accord.", "A High Court judge has given doctors permission to administer insulin to a diabetic teenager who was refusing treatment because she wants to die.\n\nMr Justice MacDonald said there was no evidence the patient lacked mental capacity, but in the circumstances it was right to override her wishes.\n\nThe treatment was in the girl's best interests, the judge ruled.\n\nDoctors at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust had said she needed help as a matter of urgency.\n\nThe girl, who is in her mid-teens, cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs May was speaking in Stirling during what could be her last visit to Scotland as PM\n\nTheresa May has urged the two men vying to replace her as prime minister to make strengthening the union one of their top priorities.\n\nIn a speech in Stirling on Thursday, Mrs May said her successor should \"think creatively\" about how to ensure the UK stays together.\n\nShe also gave details of a review into how the UK government is structured.\n\nIt will look at whether whether government departments are working in the best interests of the union.\n\nThe government has stressed it will not include devolved areas that are the responsibility of the Scottish government.\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, predicted ahead of the prime minister's speech that the review was \"too little, too late\" and would do nothing to prevent Scottish independence.\n\nMrs May's speech is likely to be her last in Scotland before she steps down as prime minister on 24 July, when she will be succeeded by either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt - who are both due to appear at a hustings event in Scotland on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson said on Sunday that the next prime minister should be a \"minister for the union\" while Mr Hunt has pledged to to use \"every drop of blood in my veins\" to prevent the UK splitting up.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon, who wants another referendum within the next two years, has already predicted that more Scots will be encouraged to support independence regardless of who wins.\n\nNicola Sturgeon had a private audience with the Queen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Wednesday\n\nIn her speech, Mrs May insisted that strengthening the union has been an \"explicit priority\" of her government over the past three years.\n\nAnd she said she is confident that this will continue to be the case regardless of who replaces her in 10 Downing Street.\n\nMrs May added: \"The job of prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland brings with it privileges and responsibilities which you only really feel once the black door closes behind you.\n\n\"One of the first and greatest is the duty you owe to strengthen the union. To govern on behalf of the whole United Kingdom. To respect the identities of every citizen of the UK - English and Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish.\n\n\"And to ensure that we can go on facing the future together, overcoming obstacles together, and achieving more together than we ever could apart - a union of nations and people.\"\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt have both been emphasising their unionist credentials in recent days\n\nMrs May also formally unveil a UK government review of how devolution is working across the UK and what can be done to improve it. The review will be led by Lord Dunlop.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"We need to work more cleverly, more creatively and more coherently as a UK government fully committed to a modern, 21st century union in the context of a stable and permanent devolution settlement to strengthen the glue that holds our union together.\n\n\"There have been several reviews into how devolution works. But we have never thought deeply about how we make the Union work - how we ensure that as we fully respect devolution, we do not forget the UK government's fundamental duty to be a government for the whole United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Of course it will be for my successor to respond to his recommendations, and I am delighted that both candidates are supportive of the review.\"\n\nAhead of the prime minister's arrival in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon claimed that the country was \"heading inexorably towards independence\" and that the Conservatives were \"running scared of the rising tide of support for independence\".\n\nShe added: \"The Tories' behaviour towards Scotland in the three years since the Brexit vote has been high-handed, arrogant and dismissive.\n\n\"They have demolished any notion of a respect agenda and have destroyed their own claims that the union is in any meaningful way a partnership of equals.\n\n\"People across Scotland can now see that more plainly than ever. Theresa May's so-called review of devolution is too little, too late\".", "Middle-aged people who feel dizzy when standing up from a lying-down position may be at a higher risk of dementia or a stroke in the future, a report says.\n\nThe light-headed feeling is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, which is known as orthostatic hypotension (OH).\n\nParticipants with the condition in the study of 11,709 people in the USA had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia or having a stroke.\n\nHowever, feeling dizzy sometimes is often not a sign of a serious illness.\n\nThe American Academy of Neurology studied people for an average 25 years. And the average age of the participants was 54.\n\nStudy author Andreea Rawlings said OH had been previously linked to heart disease, so her team wanted to know if it could also be responsible for brain conditions.\n\n\"Measuring orthostatic hypotension in middle age may be a new way to identify people who need to be carefully monitored for dementia or stroke,\" she said.\n\n\"More studies are needed to clarify what may be causing these links as well as to investigate possible prevention strategies.\"\n\nOne limitation of the study was that participants were tested for OH only during the initial examination, so it may not reflect any change in blood pressure over time.\n\nNone of the participants had any previous history of heart disease or stroke.\n\nDementia UK's chief executive and chief admiral nurse, Dr Hilda Hayo, told the BBC: \"This study adds to our recognition of low blood pressure as a potential risk factor for dementia in some people.\n\n\"The advice on keeping the heart and blood vessels healthy in order to delay or prevent the onset of dementia applies equally to people with low or high blood pressure.\"\n\nDr Shamim Quadir, research communications manager at the Stroke Association, told the BBC that because OH was measured only at the start of the study, it \"limits the conclusions we can draw\".\n\nHe said: \"We would like to see more research which could explain the associations observed between OH and stroke and dementia.\n\n\"The Stroke Association recommends that you get your blood pressure checked regularly, know what your numbers are and make sure you speak to your GP if anything changes or if you are concerned.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Survivors of the Greek wildfires, which have killed at least 83 people, have confronted Greece's defence minister over the response to the disaster.\n\nThey say they waited hours for help to come and questioned where the authorities were when they needed them.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Gavin Lee, the minister Panos Kammenos said residents had ignored planning laws and built on wooded areas, blocking escape routes.", "The BBC has spoken to a close associate of the Brexit donor Arron Banks, discussions which have raised questions about whether he had business contacts with Russia.\n\nJames Pryor worked with Mr Banks on the Brexit campaign and helped to manage his businesses in Africa.\n\nHe said that Mr Banks had sought Russian investment for his South African diamond mines. He later refuted his claim on camera after being played recordings of his previous conversations he had had with the BBC reporter Manveen Rana.\n\nMr Banks denied seeking or having any Russia investors. He also rejected suggestions that he should give more detail about the source of the funding he provided for the Brexit campaign.", "The attack happened at a branch of Home Bargains in Worcester\n\nThe father of a boy who was the victim of a suspected acid attack is among five men who have appeared in court.\n\nThe three-year-old suffered serious burns at the Home Bargains store in Worcester on Saturday.\n\nA 39-year-old from Wolverhampton and four others appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey will next appear at Worcester Crown Court on 28 August.\n\nThe other men charged are Norbert Pulko, 22, from London, Jan Dudi, 25, and Adam Cech, 27, from Birmingham, and Jabar Paktia, 41, from Wolverhampton.\n\nThe father cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe alleged attack happened in the Tallow Hill area of the city at about 14:15 BST.\n\nThe child was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital for treatment to his face and an arm.\n\nHe was discharged on Sunday but the long-term implications of his injuries are not yet known.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fighter had been facing a seven-year jail sentence\n\nUFC fighter Conor McGregor has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time.\n\nMcGregor had faced multiple criminal charges stemming from an altercation in April with other fighters.\n\nAs part of his deal he is required to undergo anger management treatment. The plea will not affect his US work visa.\n\nIn a statement outside the New York City courthouse, the 30-year-old thanked the judge and prosecutors \"for allowing me to move forward\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ryan Gerbosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe will also be required to fulfil five days of community service and, in exchange, will be cleared of criminal charges.\n\nMcGregor had been facing 12 criminal charges related to the incident at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on 5 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch footage appearing to show McGregor attacking a bus in New York\n\nThe charges against McGregor had included menacing, assault resulting in injury, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.\n\nThe most serious charges carried a maximum sentence of seven years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Suzanne Lynch This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a two-sentence statement outside the courthouse, he said: \"I just want to say I'm thankful to the DA [District Attorney] and the judge for allowing me to move forward.\"\n\nMcGregor and Vladimir Putin were photographed together at the World Cup final\n\n\"I want to say to my friends, my family, my fans: thank you for the support.\"\n\nHis fans had gathered outside the court, with several holding signs expressing their support for the \"champ\".\n\nIn April McGregor was filmed throwing a metal dolly into a window of a bus parked at a Barclay's Center loading bay.\n\nAs a condition of the deal with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, he was required to pay full restitution to the bus company, which he has already fulfilled.\n\nIrish fighter Cian Cowley was also arrested in April\n\nThe coach bus had been carrying a group of UFC athletes and employees at the time.\n\nTwo UFC fighters were injured and forced to withdraw from their scheduled matches.\n\nOne of McGregor's teammates from SBG Ireland - MMA fighter Cian Cowley - was also arrested for his involvement in the incident.\n\nOn Thursday, he too pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.\n\nMcGregor's manager, Audie Attar, gave a statement outside the court, saying the Irish fighter would be \"getting back to business\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ryan Gerbosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Now that this is passed us, we can focus on things that have been on hold for some time,\" said Mr Attar.\n\n\"Conor's been training. He's in shape. He's ready to go. Now it's just about getting back to business and we hope to have some news to announce very soon.\"\n\nLast month, the father-of-one had expressed his \"regret\" for the attack.\n\nIn August 2017, McGregor launched a boxing career with a fight against ex-welterweight Floyd Mayweather.\n\nThe fight, which earned him $100m (£76m), was considered the richest boxing bout of all time.\n\nAccording to sports journalists, the legal settlement could clear the way for his return to the Octagon later this year.\n\nHis manager, Mr Attar, said in an interview after the plea deal that the current champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, will be McGregor's \"likely opponent\" in a coming fight.\n\nNurmagomedov was on the bus that McGregor attacked, and was the target of his hostility.\n\nThat match, which his manager said could come as soon as October, could become one of the biggest fights in UFC history.", "How are those sleeping rough on Britain's streets coping with the high temperatures during the heatwave?\n\nAs homelessness charities hand out extra bottles of water and sun cream, we hear from those struggling to find shelter from the sun.", "Michael Simpson with his children Alice and Jack\n\nTwo young children are living in a rural town in China, completely unaware that their British father is dead after being murdered by their Chinese mother.\n\nSeven-year-old Jack and his six-year-old sister Alice are also unaware they are now at the centre of an increasingly bitter custody battle between their British and Chinese grandparents.\n\nNow sharing a bedroom with their cousin, they were taken to live in Nanzhang after their mother Weiwei Fu was jailed for life earlier this month.\n\nThe children's father, Michael Simpson, originally from Wimborne, Dorset, was 34 when he was stabbed to death by his estranged wife at his apartment in Shanghai in March 2017.\n\nThe couple had met and married after he moved to China to work in the supply business of the British retailer Next.\n\nThey had been living separately for a year and Michael's family say the children spent most of their time with their father.\n\nNow his parents, Ian and Linda, want the children to live with them in the UK, where they say they will have a better life and education.\n\nThey have promised to maintain contact with the Chinese family, keep teaching the children Mandarin and visit annually.\n\n\"Losing Michael put a hole in our family,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\n\"If you take away the children as well you've basically blotted out the whole of that family.\"\n\nHaving sat through the trial and sentencing, the couple had hoped to reach a deal with the Chinese family.\n\nThey were prepared to forgo their claim for compensation, offer some money instead to the relatives who are looking after the children and, crucially, offer official \"forgiveness\".\n\nThe latter could have seen Weiwei Fu's sentence cut in half, all in exchange for custody of Jack and Alice. But no deal was done.\n\nThe Fu family \"won't let us see them... and won't negotiate with us at all\", Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe Simpsons blame Weiwei's brother and have accused him of extortion.\n\nThey say he met with their lawyer just before the sentencing and repeated a demand for a payment of just over £60,000 in exchange for the children.\n\n\"I couldn't believe they would let their daughter go to jail for so long, just for the sake of that,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe Chinese family denies it is using the children to extort money from their other grandparents.\n\nThe Foreign Office has been assisting the Simpsons as they pursue a custody case in the Chinese courts, but members of the family have said in the past they've felt \"let down\" by British officials.\n\nThey now think political intervention is needed and, as Jeremy Hunt prepares to visit China this weekend, they want the new foreign secretary to intervene in the case and appeal to Chinese officials for help.\n\nThe Simpson family say they are \"fairly impressed\" with the Chinese judiciary system, although they have concerns as the custody hearing will be in a local court near where the children are currently living.\n\nThey fear they may not be treated fairly saying some courts \"seem a bit timid\" about hearing cases involving foreigners.\n\nThe Foreign Office has promised to write to the court and send a representative to the hearing, which is due soon. But the family want more direct intervention.\n\n\"We do want political support,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe BBC understands the case was mentioned in meetings by the UK's national security adviser, Sir Mark Sedwill, when he was in China ahead of the prime minister's trip earlier this year.\n\nWhen asked if he had forgiven his daughter-in-law for murdering his son, Ian Simpson said: \"I have no hatred towards her. To be honest I probably have more hatred towards the family.\n\n\"She's a bit like nothing to me,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't have any real feelings towards her. Do I forgive her? No.\"", "Mrs A has spent tens of thousands of pounds a week in Harrods on luxury goods\n\nThe fugitive wife of a \"fat cat banker\" who's spent £16m in Harrods is battling to keep her London mansion after the UK's first use of a new power to combat international corruption.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is challenging a demand by the National Crime Agency that she reveal the source of her wealth or face losing her British properties.\n\nThe hearing at the High Court is the first time the agency has used an \"Unexplained Wealth Order\" to force a suspected corrupt foreign official and his family to account for their riches.\n\nThe NCA wants the couple to explain how two properties worth £22m were bought, amid suspicions the cash was stolen by the woman's husband while he was working for a state bank in their home country.\n\nIf the woman fails to overturn the court order, or fails to prove she is legitimately wealthy, the NCA can ask the courts to seize the homes.\n\nUnexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) came into force earlier this year to help investigators identify and seize British property suspected to have been bought by cash laundered by corrupt foreign politicians and officials.\n\nThe power was introduced because it's difficult for agencies to prove how these suspects obtained their wealth overseas - and that makes criminal prosecutions almost impossible.\n\nDuring the first challenge to an UWO, the High Court revealed that \"Mrs A\" is the wife of a state banker from a \"non-EEA country\", that also cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe couple have an estimated wealth of more than £55m ($72.5m), and 10 years ago, Mr A applied to settle in the UK under the visa scheme for wealthy investors.\n\nThe first London property was bought the following year - but Mr A was subsequently jailed overseas after being convicted of a major fraud.\n\nMrs A is also wanted for trial - but has been living what the court heard was an \"extravagant\" lifestyle in the UK, spending the vast sums her husband allegedly embezzled.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the NCA, told the court that Mrs A had spent £16m in Harrods over 10 years.\n\nMr and Mrs A cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nEach week, she'd spent tens of thousands of pounds on luxury goods. Her child has their own share fund worth £15m.\n\nMrs A has claimed in court papers that her wealth comes from her husband's successful overseas enterprises.\n\nBut the court heard this claim is not supported in confidential papers or online profiles of the banker.\n\nMr Hall said: \"It's an astonishing omission that if he were a titan of business, that there is no reference [on websites] to his successful business.\"\n\nJames Lewis QC, appearing for Mrs A, said the NCA's demand that she account for her wealth was unjustified and the agency had misrepresented her husband's career.\n\nFar from being a modestly-paid banker, Mr Lewis said that Mr A had been a stereotypical \"fat cat international banker\", similar to many others in the private sector.\n\nHe'd been the victim of an unfair trial and a major miscarriage of justice, the lawyer said.\n\n\"The reality is [the NCA] have to wait years for him to come out of prison. They cannot [seek to seize the homes] when he is unable to participate. She can't call the witness she needs.\"\n\nIf the UWO against Mrs A stands, it's likely to pave the way for more orders against suspects, including Russian oligarchs and corrupt former politicians from Africa, with property in Britain.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The discovery was made two years ago but has only now been revealed\n\nA gold nugget - claimed to be one of the biggest ever found in Britain - is reported to have been discovered in a Scottish river.\n\nThe gold, dubbed the Douglas Nugget, weighs 85.7g, and has been estimated to be worth more than £50,000.\n\nIt was discovered two years ago but has remained secret until now.\n\nThe man who found it wishes to remain anonymous and the exact location of the river where the nugget was situated is also being kept under wraps.\n\nGold expert Leon Kirk, from Gold Panning Supplies UK, said: \"This is a very exciting and unprecedented find.\n\n\"But the nugget's rarity means it is very hard to put a price on it.\n\n\"I would say it is worth at least £50,000 but, as it's rarer than an Aston Martin or a Faberge egg, a billionaire could easily come along and pay a lot more for it.\n\n\"Historically, it is off the Richter scale.\"\n\nGold expert Leon Kirk said the nugget could be worth more than £50,000\n\nThe man who found it, who is in his 40s, said he came across it by \"sniping\" - which sees gold hunters don a dry suit and snorkel before lying face down in a river.\n\nHe said he had discovered it while out searching with a friend and had not initially realised how big it was but when they did it provoked a reaction of delight.\n\n\"I took off my glove and picked it up, jumped out of the water and screamed 'bingo!' to my friend,\" he said.\n\n\"We were both stunned and couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime.\"\n\nThe owner is currently unsure what to do with his nugget, but is keeping it in a safety deposit box in the meantime.\n\nMr Kirk said he hoped it would end up being purchased by a British museum, although legally it could have to be handed over to The Crown Estate.\n\nHe suggested anyone else interested in learning how to look for gold should head to the \"Mecca of gold-panning\" at Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nDr Neil Clark, author of Scottish Gold: Fruit Of The Nation and curator at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, said it was difficult to say if the nugget could have broken off from a larger chunk.\n\nThe find was made using a process known as \"sniping\"\n\n\"The rounded edges of the piece indicate that it has certainly been in the watercourse for a while,\" he said.\n\n\"The size of the nugget suggests that it probably did not travel far, though.\"\n\nA number of other large nuggets have been found in British waters with a 59g lump discovered in Cornwall in 1808.\n\nIn 2016, it emerged a 97g nugget had been found off the coast of Anglesey which was thought to have come from a ship which sank nearby.\n\nA year earlier a nugget reckoned to be worth about £10,000 was found in the south of Scotland.\n\nIt is not just unusual, it is the largest nugget, by far, to have been found in Britain for more than 500 years, so it is also a very exciting find in a historical sense.\n\nGold is not easy to find in Scotland.\n\nThere are a number of places where licences can be readily obtained and you can prospect for small flakes of gold.\n\nIf you find more than half a gram of gold after a day's work, you are doing well.\n\nGold in Scotland can be formed by a multitude of processes.\n\nAs the large nugget encapsulates pieces of milky quartz, it is likely that the gold accumulated in a quartz vein, possibly by deep hydrothermal activity related to mountain building over 350 million years ago.\n\nThe source of the gold is from hot acid waters dissolving minerals accumulated in sediments and other rocks as they are put under pressure during mountain building, sometimes related to the emplacement of large bodies of molten rock (for example, granite magma).", "Radio 1 has been criticised for featuring Logan Paul on a show.\n\nThe YouTuber is due to appear on Charlie Sloth's programme on Thursday night.\n\nLogan caused controversy earlier this year by filming the body of an apparent suicide victim for one of his vlogs, and has since apologised.\n\nA Radio 1 spokesperson said: \"Charlie is used to handling controversial guests\" - adding that the DJ has publicly condemned Logan previously.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharlie Sloth previously criticised the American YouTuber for posting the video, from Aokigahara forest in Japan, which is known to be a frequent site of suicides.\n\nIn January the DJ chose him as 'Wally of the Week' on his Radio 1/ 1Xtra show The 8th.\n\n\"Millions and millions of people around the world look up to Logan Paul, including loads of youngsters.\n\n\"My children are some of those youngsters - they look up to Logan Paul like a superstar,\" he said.\n\n\"Fam, let's face it, you are an absolute wally.\"\n\nCharlie has previously said Logan sets a bad example to his young fans\n\nCharlie also suggested that Logan's initial apology was disingenuous.\n\n\"He made that apology to massage his own ego - I don't feel like he even cared.\n\n\"I don't think he felt any remorse whatsoever and that made me feel even worse about the whole thing,\" said Charlie at the time.\n\nA screengrab from the video posted by Logan Paul in Japan's Aokigahara forest\n\nThe YouTuber apologised again later in January by posting a video about suicide awareness, and pledging to donate $1m (£700,000) to prevention groups.\n\nSome social media users say he should be forgiven.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe interview will be broadcast in full on Charlie Sloth's show on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra on 26 July from 9pm BST.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArctic Monkeys, arguably Britain's biggest rock band, are among the 12 nominees for the 2018 Mercury Prize.\n\nTheir space lounge concept album, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, earns the band a fourth nomination for the award, established in 1992 as a high-minded alternative to the Brits.\n\nBut the quartet face stiff competition from the likes of Jorja Smith, Lily Allen and Florence + The Machine.\n\nOther nominees include Wolf Alice, Noel Gallagher and jazz act Sons of Kemet.\n\nLast year's winner, Sampha, also features on the soulful Everything Is Recorded, a collaborative album put together by the head of XL Records, Richard Russell - aka \"the man who signed Adele\".\n\nThe Arctics, Gallagher and Florence are 4-1 favourites at bookmakers William Hill, with Wolf Alice, Smith and Allen given odds of 6-1.\n\nArctic Monkeys are nominated for their sixth album, while Jorja Smith is up for her debut\n\nSeveral of the shortlisted albums are overtly political. Both Nadine Shah's Holiday Destination and Everything Everything's A Fever Dream address the rise in nationalism and xenophobia, coupled with a decline in empathy.\n\nLondon MC Novelist, meanwhile, delivers a strong anti-violence message on his self-produced debut album, Novelist Guy; and Sons Of Kemet's Your Queen Is A Reptile celebrates powerful black women who've been overlooked by history.\n\n\"It was really important to document the times we're living in,\" Shah told the BBC.\n\n\"As a Muslim woman [living during] a rise in Islamophobia, I'm scared. I'm genuinely scared. So I needed to speak about that.\"\n\nOther nominees turn their attention inwards, with Florence + The Machine displaying a new level of vulnerability on High As Hope; and Jorja Smith chronicling the bumpy road to adulthood on her streetwise debut Lost & Found.\n\nPop star Lily Allen receives her first ever nomination for her fourth album, No Shame, an emotional depiction of her marital breakdown and struggles with self-worth.\n\n\"Making this record was really tough and it was a slog,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I felt very disconnected from myself as I was making it. I was trying to find me in and amongst it all. The fact it's connected to other people, it just feels really great.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Entertainment This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe full shortlist for the 2018 prize is:\n\nThe 2018 shortlist was drawn up by a panel of judges including musicians Marcus Mumford, Jamie Cullum and Ella Eyre, alongside broadcasters Clara Amfo and Mistajam, and a handful of music critics and journalists.\n\nThey said the nominees held a \"shared belief in the importance of music for navigating life's challenges - whether personal or political, falling in or out of love, growing up or looking back, angry or ecstatic.\"\n\nAll the nominees (including Novelist, Nadine Shah and Wolf Alice) get a trophy, with the ultimate winner decided in September\n\nAlthough the award has a reputation for rewarding up-and-coming acts, there are only three debut albums on this year's list, alongside two number one records and five former nominees.\n\nRadio 1's Huw Stephens welcomed the inclusion of artists on their third, fourth or (in Noel Gallagher's case) 10th albums.\n\n\"Hopefully it says that we're not as flash-in-the-pan as we have been in the past and that artists have time to build and to grow.\"\n\n\"Artists like Arctic Monkeys and Florence + The Machine are being allowed time to develop. They don't always have to go to number one and sell out stadiums and headline Glastonbury. They can just work at their craft for years.\"\n\nArctic Monkeys, who won the prize for their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, are now the second most-nominated act in the Mercury's 26-year history.\n\nOnly Radiohead have more nominations, with five, although they've never taken home the trophy.\n\nPJ Harvey also has four nominations - and is the only artist to win the award twice, for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea in 2001 and Let England Shake in 2011.\n\nThis year's winner will be unveiled at London's Hammersmith Apollo on 20 September.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces\n\nThe UK has suspended co-operation with the US over two Islamic State suspects.\n\nMinisters had said they would share intelligence with the US that could lead to the men's conviction, without opposing a death penalty sentence.\n\nHowever the mother of one of the men has now launched a legal challenge to prevent such information sharing.\n\nThe Home Office has halted co-operation until a judge has had a chance to consider an application for judicial review.\n\nAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, both of whom have been stripped of British nationality, are wanted for being part of the IS kidnap gang behind hostage executions.\n\nThey are accused of being the last two members of an IS group dubbed \"The Beatles\" because of their British accents.\n\nLawyers for the mother of El Shafee Elsheikh have now prepared detailed grounds challenging Mr Javid's decision to share information with the US without a death penalty assurance - meaning a case could be before High Court judges in days.\n\nThey said the home secretary's actions revealed \"a clear and dramatic departure from the UK's long standing international and domestic commitment to oppose the continuing exercise of the death penalty.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the government had \"agreed to a short-term pause\" but was confident it had \"acted in full accordance of the law\".\n\nThe two men are currently being held by Kurdish forces and the UK believes it cannot legally extradite them to face trial here.\n\nThis week it emerged that the US was preparing the ground to prosecute the men itself - and that it had asked the UK for information that would help convict them.\n\nIn a letter leaked to the Daily Telegraph, Home Secretary Sajid Javid wrote that the UK would not oppose the use of the death penalty if the two men were extradited to the US.\n\nIn the past Britain has sought assurances from foreign governments that the death penalty would not be used in cases where the UK provided information or extradited suspects.\n\nNumber 10 had said this was \"a long-standing position\" to oppose the death penalty but added that in this case it was \"a priority to make sure that these men face criminal prosecution\".\n\nThe home secretary's position boils down to a simple question: Would you run the risk of them going free?\n\nGiven Elsheikh and Kotey are in the custody of Syrian Kurdish forces, that sounds unlikely.\n\nBut British prosecutors can't bring the men for trial here because they're not being held by a recognised state with whom the UK has a legally recognised extradition agreement - it would amount to kidnap.\n\nThe forces holding the men are, however, backed by the US - and American courts are less fussy about the legalities of how a suspect ends up in the dock.\n\nThe US may need British information to make a prosecution stick - hence the co-operation.\n\nThis challenge from Mr Elsheikh's mother isn't about that evidence - but whether the ministerial decision to share it demolishes the UK's internationally recognised opposition to capital punishment.\n\nIn case after case down the years, the UK has refused to provide legal help that could lead to overseas executions.\n\nSo this decision to help the Americans, made in the hope of landing a conviction of two of the most wanted men in the world, could turn into a major legal fight.\n\nLabour accused the UK of having \"unilaterally abandoned\" its opposition to the death penalty.\n\nThe former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile said this constituted \"a unilateral change of policy without any consultation\".\n\nLeft to right: Mohammed Emwazi, Aine Davis, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said a senior British government official told him that this case was not the first time that the UK had dropped its request for assurances that the death penalty would not be used.\n\nBut our correspondent said if the pair were sent to the controversial US military prison Guantanamo Bay - where suspects have been detained without trial - the UK would withhold intelligence.", "The EU's chief negotiator has ruled out allowing the UK to collect customs duties on its behalf, a key UK proposal for post-Brexit trade.\n\nMichel Barnier said the UK wanted to \"take back control\" of its money, law and borders - but so did the EU.\n\nThe EU would not delegate \"excises duty collection to a non-member\", he said.\n\nBoth he and UK Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said progress had been made but \"obstacles\" remained before reaching a deal in October.\n\nMr Raab said: \"We have agreed to meet again in mid-August and then to continue weekly discussions to clear away all the obstacles that line our path, to a strong deal in October - one that works for both sides.\"\n\nHe replaced David Davis, who quit as Brexit secretary in protest at Theresa May's plans for a future economic relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the White Paper.\n\nThat set out in more detail the government's proposed customs system, the Facilitated Customs Arrangement for goods and agri-foods. The UK's plan involves it collecting some EU tariffs - in a bid to ensure frictionless trade in goods and to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\nMichel Barnier wants the UK to make a choice.\n\nIf it wants to have frictionless trade with the EU's single market then it will have to join a customs union, or something like it, which will mean applying the EU's tariffs and reducing the scope for doing free trade deals with others.\n\nIf it wants more freedom, it will have to agree arrangements with the EU that will reduce friction but not eliminate it altogether.\n\nIt's an old tune that sounds different after the publication of the UK's White Paper, which was supposed to have solved this dilemma.\n\nIt also sounds like the UK will propose a revamped version of its idea for avoiding a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland but the two sides are still divided on whether that should have a time-limit or not.\n\nLost among all of this will be the nugget of good news: Big strides have been made on security co-operation after Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Barnier said retaining control of the money, law and borders also applied to the EU's customs policy.\n\n\"The EU cannot and the EU will not delegate the application of its customs policy and rules and VAT and excises duty collection to a non-member who would not be subject to the EU's governance structures,\" he said.\n\nAny customs arrangement or union \"must respect this principle\", he said.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Barnier appeared to have delivered a significant blow to Mrs May's controversial proposals, which have already been criticised by pro-Brexit Tory MPs.\n\nSpeaking after talks with Mr Raab, Mr Barnier said that Theresa May's Brexit White Paper plan was a \"real step forward\".\n\nHe highlighted agreement on security measures and said both sides wanted a wide-ranging free trade deal.\n\nBut he added: \"To be frank, we are not at the end of the road yet.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nWhile UK proposals on security marked \"a real step forward\" and he welcomed the acknowledgement that the European Court of Justice was the only arbiter of EU law, he added: \"In contrast, on our future economic relationship, it comes as no surprise that finding common ground between the EU27 and the UK is more difficult.\"\n\nBrexit Secretary Mr Raab said the UK proposals had been designed \"to respect the result of the referendum, and the core principles of the EU\".\n\n\"We have considered the innovative approaches the EU has taken in the past with other third countries - when the political will has been there,\" he said.\n\n\"In sum, the UK has set out our plans in detail. Those plans are ambitious, principled and pragmatic. I am committed to injecting new energy into these talks, along with Michel.\"\n\nTurning to Mr Barnier, he said: \"Michel, we have work to do.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but has yet to agree how its final relationship with the bloc will work.\n\nThe SNP's Angus MacNeil tweeted that the press conference spelt the end for the prime minister's Chequers plan:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Angus B MacNeil MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, who is part of the People's Vote campaign for a vote on any final Brexit deal, said: \"The White Paper is dead. It has expired. It has ceased to be.\"\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, Christine Jardine said the prime minister's White Paper was \"struggling to survive\" .", "Comparisons are being drawn between the heatwave of 2018 and the summer of 1976. So how do the two years measure up?\n\nI had to sit my A-level exams back then, when the temperatures were so punishing we couldn't sleep.\n\nWe first tried the cellar, which was cool but too claustrophobic, and then the garden, which was too exposed to the unwelcome light of dawn.\n\nI didn't realise it at the time but I was living through a heatwave that has gone down as one of the seminal events in British weather history.\n\nMark McCarthy, of the Met Office, says: \"'76 is the yardstick we always fall back on because it was such a remarkable heatwave and drought - it's one of the standouts in our records.\"\n\nIt was so serious that the government of the day introduced a Drought Act and even appointed a Minister for Drought, Denis Howell, whose job was to encourage the public to use less water.\n\nThe newspapers loved it when he told them he had taken to sharing baths with his wife.\n\nStaines reservoirs near London during the drought of 1976\n\nSo how does 1976 stack up against the extreme conditions large parts of the UK are now experiencing week after week?\n\nThere are some striking similarities but also some key differences.\n\nBeyond the horizon, the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean play a crucial role in determining our weather - and sea conditions back then were very like what we're seeing now.\n\nIn both years, a particular pattern formed in which there is cool water near Greenland, warm water further south and then more cool water closer to the British Isles - and research has shown how that pattern of sea temperatures can be linked to warmer drier summers in the UK.\n\nAnd both heatwaves have involved the same kind of lingering high pressure in which temperatures can soar.\n\nBut in 1976 the high pressure system was centred further to the east of the UK than now.\n\nThat had the effect of drawing up hot humid air from the south, making night-time temperatures even hotter than they have been this year.\n\nThe exact location of systems such as this really matters because the UK is relatively small - so a shift one way or the other can have a big effect.\n\nSo what about the actual heat?\n\nThis is no comfort to anyone toiling outdoors now but 1976 was in a different league to this year. It saw an extraordinary 18 days running when somewhere in the UK had temperatures above 30C.\n\nThe latest figures for 2018 show that, so far, we've had \"only\" nine days on the trot above 30C. Also, 1976 had a staggering 15 consecutive days in which temperatures topped 32C.\n\nBut the biggest difference is in rainfall and what that means for water supplies.\n\nFrom as far back as May 1975, parts of the UK had suffered a long dry spell - so when the heatwave struck, the country was already thirsty.\n\nIn Yorkshire and East Anglia, standpipes were fitted in the streets. In Wales and the west of England, supplies were turned off during the day. And dozens of companies had restrictions imposed or were told to order shorter working weeks.\n\nWhat about this year? It has seen the driest first half of a summer for half a century and a hosepipe ban is in prospect for north-west England. Six of the Met Office's rain gauges have received less than 1mm of rain since 29 May.\n\nAlso this year, some regions have not reached even 10% of the average rain seen in June and July - although with seven days of the month left, this could change.\n\nBut overall most water companies say they are happy with supplies, for the moment.\n\nLuckily last winter delivered its usual amount of rain and spring rainfall was above average. Much of the country had water in the bank when all this began.\n\nSo where does that leave us?\n\nWhile 1976 did see more severe conditions than now, there has been a profoundly important change in the intervening 42 years: the global average temperature has crept up and is set to rise further.\n\nThat makes it \"very likely\" (in the words of the UN climate science panel) that heatwaves will become more frequent in future. And this has potentially devastating implications.\n\nAfter the 2003 heatwave that was blamed for causing 2,000 extra deaths in the UK and tens of thousands across continental Europe, a study concluded that the temperatures of 2003 would seem normal by the summers of the 2040s.\n\nGlobal warming is not the only change. Since 1976, the population has soared, demand for water has rocketed and the stuff has never been so precious.\n\nDrought Minister Denis Howell framed by standpipe taps in a street in Wakefield\n\nThe water companies are under pressure to fix wasteful leaks. And the rollout of water meters is designed to reduce demand - our supplies used to flow without any record of how much we used. Water saving devices in the home also help us to consume less.\n\nEven in East Anglia, the driest region of the country, where there's less rain per person than in Jerusalem, Anglian Water has managed things so that water demand per head is lower than the UK average. Technology and awareness are combining to provide solutions.\n\nWhat now? The current heatwave isn't over yet. It could endure through August. More records could be set - or, as often happens during times of maximum public interest, the heavens will suddenly open and the air will cool.\n\nIn the case of the minister for drought, his appointment was inevitably followed by a deluge and he was quickly made minister for floods instead (two years later Mr Howell served as minister for snow). The papers loved that too - another reason that 1976 was so memorable.\n\nSadly, the break in the weather came too late for me and my exams. But when it came to the results, at least I had an excuse.", "Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather forecast for the rest of the week - thunderstorms ahead\n\nIt is officially the hottest day of the year so far in the UK with temperatures soaring to 35.1C in Surrey.\n\nNorthern Ireland, Scotland and Wales saw high temperatures of 26.2-29.4C.\n\nThe Met Office says temperatures will keep rising into Friday and the UK's all-time temperature record of 38.5C (101F) - set in Kent in August 2003 - could be beaten.\n\nBut parts of England are experiencing heavy rainfall and thunderstorm warnings are in place.\n\nThe maximum temperature in Wales was 29.4C in Usk and for Northern Ireland, 26.2C at Giants Causeway.\n\nThe highest temperature recorded in Scotland was 27.6C in Dunstaffnage.\n\nTemperatures of 37C (99F) have been forecast in southern, eastern and central England for Friday.\n\nThe July record for the highest overnight minimum temperature is 23.3C - and the Met Office says that could be surpassed in south-east England on Thursday.\n\nThe UK's current all-time record temperature for July stands at 36.7C, which was recorded at Heathrow in July 2015.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms is in place in the East and West Midlands, the East of England, London and the South East, and Yorkshire until 21:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nAnother will come into force for large parts of England between 14:00 and 23:45 on Friday.\n\nSome places could see as much as 30mm of rainfall in an hour and 60mm in three hours.\n\nX Factor star James Arthur cancelled his open air show in Scarborough because of continued lightning strikes in the area.\n\nAnd a search is ongoing after a teenage boy went missing after going into the sea near Clacton Pier in Essex.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHigh temperatures have been blamed for delays to cross-Channel rail services of up to five hours.\n\nEurotunnel said air conditioning problems meant some carriages could not be used, which led to the delays.\n\nIt added that queues formed on the UK side because of the sheer number of France-bound passengers at the start of the summer getaway.\n\nThe RAC said it was expecting breakdowns to be about 15-20% higher than they would normally expect for late July, adding that breakdowns were already up 25% in London.\n\nThe scene was described on social media as \"boarding chaos\"\n\nMeanwhile, London's fire chief has called for barbecue bans to be imposed in the capital's parks after a record-breaking number of grass fires.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's Commissioner Dany Cotton urged all borough councils to impose a temporary ban in the \"tinder dry capital\" as it was \"only a matter of time\" before someone was seriously hurt.\n\nThere have already been 43 large grass fires in London so far this year, compared to seven in the whole of 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there were so many heatwaves around the world in 2018\n\nA high pollution warning was issued for London on Thursday, due to a mix of toxic air, extremely high temperatures, emissions from the continent and a lack of cloud.\n\nYoung people, the elderly and those with lung or heart problems were advised to reduce strenuous exercise and physical exertion.\n\nHospitals, too, have been affected by the heat.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said high temperatures were leaving nurses dizzy and exhausted.\n\nOne nurse was admitted to A&E with dehydration after working three 12-hours shifts in a row during the heatwave.\n\nKim Sun-Lee, national officer at the RCN, said: \"It is vital employers adapt working practices to the heat - both patients and nurses must have easy access to water, and all healthcare staff should be able to take regular breaks, preferably somewhere cool.\"\n\nPeople cool off at the bathing pond on Hampstead Heath, London\n\nOthers try to stay out of the sun, like this man on Brighton beach\n\nNHS Providers - the trade body which represents NHS services - said some hospitals were back to \"winter conditions\" after reporting record numbers of A&E admissions.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive, said: \"We have heard concerns about large numbers of people from care homes requiring treatment.\n\n\"This extra activity is leading to delays for patients requiring planned operations such as knee and hip replacements.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also said blood supplies had dropped because some people have been too dehydrated to donate, while others have chosen to stay in the sun.", "Police have gathered outside the embassy building in central Beijing\n\nA man has set off a small explosive device close to the US embassy in Beijing, officials have confirmed.\n\nApart from the attacker, there were no injuries reported and officials say police responded immediately.\n\nVideo and images posted on social media show smoke rising from the vicinity of the embassy in the heart of the Chinese capital with crowds gathering.\n\nA statement from the US embassy in Beijing said a device, which they described as a bomb, had exploded at around 1300 local time (0500 GMT) at the south-east corner of the compound.\n\nBeijing police called it a \"suspected firecracker device\" which caused a fire. The bomber injured his hand during the incident, but there was no danger to his life and he was immediately sent to hospital.\n\nPolice gave his surname as Jiang, and said he was from the Inner Mongolia province.\n\nThe BBC's Stephen McDonell at the scene says that normal activities have since resumed at the embassy, with people still lining up for visa applications.\n\nThere were earlier reports that police had taken away a woman who had tried to set herself on fire near the embassy at 1100 local time, several hours before the reported blast.\n\nIt is unclear if the two incidents were linked.\n\nAttacks on sites in the Chinese capital are rare. The most serious incident in recent years saw a car ploughing into a crowd at Tiananmen Square in 2013, killing five people including the attackers. China blamed the incident on Muslim Uighur separatists.", "Charlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Jack Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nA man has been found guilty of killing a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames during their first date.\n\nJack Shepherd, 30, and Charlotte Brown, 24, were thrown overboard from the boat, which had a series of defects, in December 2015.\n\nShepherd, who was absent during his Old Bailey trial, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nThe jury heard Shepherd, who is on the run after skipping bail, bought the boat \"to pull women\".\n\nShepherd, of Paddington, will be sentenced on Friday. A warrant for his arrest has been issued.\n\nThe court heard he met Ms Brown on dating website OkCupid and tried to impress her with a boat trip past the Houses of Parliament after a meal at The Shard.\n\nBut their champagne-fuelled first date ended in tragedy when his boat capsized and she was thrown into the river near Wandsworth Bridge.\n\nThe court had heard how Shepherd had entertained up to 10 women on the 1980s boat that he bought from Gumtree, having invited them back to his houseboat in Hammersmith.\n\nThe boat was taken to the Old Bailey car park to be inspected by jurors during the trial\n\nIn mobile phone footage filmed during the date, Ms Brown could be heard shouting that they were going \"so fast\" as Shepherd drove at more than double the 12 knot speed limit.\n\nOn the return journey, Shepherd handed over the controls to Ms Brown who followed suit and went \"full throttle\".\n\nThe speeding boat hit a submerged log and tipped over, sending both of them into the Thames.\n\nA warrant has been issued for Jack Shepherd's arrest\n\nShepherd was found clinging to the hull and Ms Brown, from Clacton, Essex, was pulled from the water unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nRiverside resident Steven Morrissey told the court that he heard a young man screaming for help.\n\nHe said in a statement: \"He kept saying 'Help me, help me, somebody help me'. It was just 'Help me\" - not 'us', or 'her'.\"\n\nIn a statement read outside the Old Bailey, Ms Brown's sister Katie appealed for Shepherd to return from \"wherever he may be\" and \"take responsibility for the devastation he has caused our family\".\n\n\"We cannot allow Charli's passing to be in vain - her legacy will be to highlight the appalling lack of legislation and safety measures on our waterways.\n\n\"Charli died because she thought she would be safe taking a journey on Jack's speedboat - a speedboat we now know that was unsafe and that he bought with sole purpose of seducing young women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Brown's sister Katie (middle) appealed for Shepherd to \"take responsibility for the devastation he has caused our family\"\n\nThe court heard the boat had a number of defects, including faulty steering.\n\nLife jackets had been tucked away and the kill cord was not connected.\n\nProsecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC told jurors: \"It was cold, it was dark; we submit it was sheer madness.\"\n\nJurors were told Shepherd denied manslaughter on the basis he had no \"duty of care\" towards Ms Brown.\n\nCCTV footage showed the boat after it had hit a submerged log and tipped over\n\nShepherd told his lawyers in mid-May he would not attend his trial but the Crown Prosecution Service only found out a week before proceedings began.\n\nProsecutors said police had spoken to his mother on 27 June and were told he had not been in contact since March and his phone number was no longer connected.\n\nHis defence team insisted they did not know where he was, even though his solicitor had maintained telephone contact.\n\nIt later emerged he had been receiving daily updates from the trial from his legal team.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A photo from the plane showed both teams together in business class - before the women returned to economy\n\nThe first mixed-sex tour in Barcelona football club's history has run afoul of women's team fans - after it emerged only the men flew in business class.\n\nThe club posted glossy promotional video of the men's and women's teams boarding their US-bound plane together.\n\nBut on board, after a photo op, the women were nowhere to be seen in the rest of the video.\n\nPhotos posted to the female players' Instagram accounts, however, showed their team flying in economy.\n\nThe division was spotted by eagle-eyed supporters of the women's team, who asked why the men - some of whom were from the \"B team\" as top-rated players were resting after the World Cup - got preferential treatment.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by FC Barcelona This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nOne fan-run account which tweeted extensively about the topic, @BarcaWomen, suggested that if there were not enough seats, the most senior players from both teams should have been allocated business class seating.\n\nBut the female players themselves came out in defence of their club.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlexia Putellas told Spanish news outlet Mundo Deportivo that the women's team had been added to the tour at a later date - and that the club had \"to organise everything practically at the last minute\".\n\nBarcelona said there simply were not enough business class seats on the plane once the women's team joined the tour - and that it had allocated two to three seats each for every female player in economy class for their comfort.\n\nThe incident is a potential embarrassment for the football club, which has been promoting its dedication to women's football and this historic joint tour.\n\nAhead of the first game of the US tour, the two teams trained together at facilities in Portland, sharing \"space and prominence\", as Barcelona put it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's something that reaffirms Barca's commitment to women's football,\" Putellas told Mundo Deportivo.\n\n\"Barca is a great club and the tours are also great, travelling with the first team and being at the same facilities is synonymous with a good level.\"\n\nThe teams are on their US tour in Portland from 24 to 26 July, before moving on to Los Angeles between 27 and 29 July.\n\nEl Mundo reports that Barcelona has made sure there are enough first-class seats for all the players of both sexes on that flight.\n\nThe men's team are set to play Tottenham in the International Champion's Cup, while the women compete against SoCal FC in the Women's Premier Soccer League.", "Aerial images of scorched towns and villages have revealed the scale of the devastation caused by this week's deadly wildfires in Greece.\n\nFlames tore through pine forests around Athens on Monday evening, killing at least 83 people. Many more are missing.\n\nThe fast-moving flames engulfed the homes of terrified residents and tourists, as well as those trying to flee in cars or on foot.\n\nBurnt-out houses and vehicles can be seen across the east Atica towns and villages of Mati, Neos Voutzas and Rafina, with whole communities devastated.\n\nA map produced by EU satellite service Copernicus reveals the devastation of residential areas.\n\nIn the coastal village of Mati, one resident described the arrival of the fires as \"a night of hell\".\n\nMany survivors were saved by fleeing to the sea, but a large number of the victims were trapped close to a cliff-edge, unable to reach the water.\n\nMati, an hour's drive east of Athens, is made up of small villas, popular among Greeks as a weekend getaway destination.\n\nIt is also home to a large community of retirees, and, during school holidays, many young children arrive to spend time by the coast with their grandparents.\n\nGrandmother Sophia Tsaganou Profitou described driving at high speed around fallen burning tree branches to get her 88-year-old husband Yannis and her nine-year-old granddaughter Katerina to safety.\n\n\"It all happened so fast,\" she said. \"No one warned us. Yannis told us to get our stuff but we didn't even have time for that, the flames were already here.\"\n\nThe swiftly advancing inferno also engulfed nearby Neos Voutzas, a village nestled among the rolling hills covered by pine trees.\n\nTheofilaktos Logothetic described his escape: \"The fire was chasing after us, whoever managed to leave in time, did so. The person who was right behind me when I drove to the main road did not make it, the fire took him and melted him.\"\n\nThe flames also reached Rafina, where residents fled to the sea to escape.\n\nAs volunteers now collect food and clothes for the survivors, the search goes on for many still missing since the night of the fire.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nEllie Soutter, one of Britain's most talented young snowboarders, died on her 18th birthday on Wednesday.\n\nSoutter won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2017 Youth Olympic Winter Festival and carried the British flag at the closing ceremony.\n\nThis month she was named in the senior GB squad for the snowboard cross Europa Cup circuit, and was tipped for a place at the 2022 Winter Olympics.\n\nShe had been training abroad in Europe, and died near her home in France.\n\nNo further details have been released about her death.\n\nWriting on Facebook on Thursday, her father, Tony Soutter, said he was \"so proud of the beautiful young woman she had turned into\".\n\nHe added: \"This cruel world took my soul mate and 'Bessie' from me yesterday on her 18th birthday. Ellie I will miss you more than you could have ever imagined. Rest in peace you little champion.\"\n\nBritish Olympic Association chair Hugh Robertson and BOA Athlete Commission chair Ben Hawes said in a joint statement: \"Ellie was an incredibly popular and well-liked member of the team.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.\"\n\nThe statement said Soutter was due to return to competition next month after being selected for the GB team for the Junior World Championships in New Zealand.\n\n\"Ellie was one of the country's best up-and-coming snowboarders, competing in both snowboard cross and freeride,\" British Ski and Snowboard said in a statement.\n\nTeam GB said Soutter grew up in Oxted, Surrey, before moving to the Alps, where she trained.\n\nTributes - 'You were an amazing girl'\n\nEight-time British ski-cross champion Emily Sarsfield is among those to have paid tribute.\n\n\"So sad to hear the news of the passing of Ellie Souter. You really were an amazing girl,\" she posted on social media.\n\n\"Such a fun team-mate, made me smile every day, cracking all the jokes and enjoying life to its fullest. I'm going to miss you and your amazing energy. All my thoughts to your family.\"\n\nBritain's 2010 Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams said: \"Such sad tragic news to wake up to. Thoughts and prayers go to Ellie Soutter's family.\"\n\nSlopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller said it was \"devastating news\" and added: \"We've lost a fellow snowboarder and a great inspirational talent within our small community.\"\n\nSoutter's bronze was Team GB's only medal at the Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Turkey last year.\n\nTeam GB celebrated her medal with the Twitter message: \"Tears of joy and snow stuffed down her back.\"\n\nSpeaking after her event, she said: \"I cried as I crossed the line. I was just so emotional as it hasn't been the best season for me and it's finally on the way up.\n\n\"I even asked my coach to put snow down my back when I was in the start gate. It helps wake me up so I don't feel all floppy like a jellyfish.\n\n\"I just hope this isn't the last medal I win for Team GB. My goal is to compete at Beijing 2022.\"\n\nHer father had set up an online crowdfunding campaign to help her achieve this aim, which had raised close to a quarter of its 20,000 euros (£17,800) target.", "Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that specialist doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products.\n\nCannabis is currently a controlled drug as classified by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.\n\nA follow-up to this law, the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Act 2001, placed it under Schedule 1, which is the category for substances with no medicinal value. And this is the schedule being considered by the review.\n\nCannabis plants are made up of more than 100 different cannabinoids, which have different impacts on the body and are concentrated to different extents in certain parts of the plant.\n\nThe most well-known of these are THC and CBD.\n\nTHC is the psychoactive cannabinoid - the one that recreational users use to get \"high\". CBD does not have this effect.\n\nWhile almost all cannabinoids are controlled substances under the Misuse of Drugs Act, CBD - or cannabidiol as it is also known - is not.\n\nFor example, industrial hemp may be grown under licence in the UK. It is a strain of the cannabis plant that contains little or no THC, but does contain CBD.\n\nThe Home Office says that it can contain a maximum THC content of 0.2% and that the THC must not be easily separated from it.\n\nIndustrial hemp can be used for things such as building materials and clothing.\n\nCBD oil can also be extracted from these plants and, as it is a legal cannabinoid, can be sold in the UK.\n\nThe oil has been thought to have some medicinal properties, including relieving inflammation, pain relief and reducing anxiety, although there have not been conclusive scientific studies on this.\n\nIn 2016, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said that CBD products, if advertised for these medical purposes, needed to be licensed.\n\nLicences for CBD oil as a medicine have not been granted yet but the products can still be sold as long as claims are not made about their medical benefits.\n\nHolland and Barrett sells some CBD oils as food supplements.\n\nThe oil that has been in the news recently due to its use by those with epilepsy is cannabis oil, which has a higher THC content, and so, unlike CBD oil, is not usually allowed in the UK.\n\nBut Sativex, which is a 50-50 mix of THC and CBD produced in a lab, has been approved for use in the UK by the MHRA as a treatment for multiple sclerosis.\n\nHowever, in 2014, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which issues guidance to NHS doctors, gave the medicine \"do not recommend\" status, saying it was not cost-effective.\n\nSativex is a spray. Each 10ml bottle contains 90 doses and costs about £140.\n\nPaul Hunt, from CBD product supplier Vsavi, said: \"This ruling by the Home Secretary is very welcome and we hope that this is just the start of changing opinions and legislation of CBD products by authorities in the UK.\"", "The head of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being \"misled\" over a new pay deal.\n\nThe union had said they would receive a 3% pay rise this month as part of a new three-year pay deal.\n\nBut a number of nurses took to social media to say their pay had gone up by much less - in some cases by pennies.\n\nRCN general secretary Janet Davies apologised, saying the deal had been presented \"in good faith\".\n\nIn June, 13 unions agreed to a three-year pay deal for more than one million NHS workers in England.\n\nOnly one union, the GMB, rejected the deal.\n\nAt the time, the then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the pay rise was \"incredibly well-deserved for staff who have never worked harder\".\n\nNurses had been told by the RCN they would get a 3% pay rise in their July pay packets, backdated from April.\n\nBut this week, some took to Twitter to complain that the increase they had expected had not materialised.\n\nMany expressed anger at the RCN and the government about the deal, with some nurses saying they felt they had been misled by their union.\n\n\"I'm as dismayed and angry as you are and I will fight the corner of members at every turn,\" she said.\n\n\"In good faith, we told all members that they would receive a 3% uplift this summer.\n\n\"I now find that this is not the case for everyone. I can assure you that I am demanding answers for you.\"\n\nThe RCN added in a statement that it would not be reopening the deal.\n\n\"Despite some delays to payments, over the three years the deal has to run, members will receive the full amount promised,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are sorry for any confusion caused about what members were due to receive this month.\"\n\nHowever, NHS Employers, which agreed the pay deal with the unions, said the agreement had never promised a 3% rise in the first year.\n\n\"This miscommunication is very unfortunate and clearly the RCN will need to review all of its communications to understand the extent of its error.\n\n\"We hope that this issue between the RCN and its membership can be resolved quickly, and we would direct colleagues towards the information on our website, which makes clear the pay journeys for different staff over the next three years.\"", "Boys are more likely to form friendship cliques, the study says\n\nWhether it's due to popular teen films such as Mean Girls or gender stereotypes most people imagine girls form more cliques than boys.\n\nYet a new study contradicts this, suggesting that boys are more likely to form tight-knit friendship groups.\n\nResearchers say analysing social mixing patterns is important for infectious diseases and vaccination planning.\n\nThey found that boys were more likely to mix with the same six friends over a period of six months.\n\nGirls' friendships, however, were more variable.\n\nThe study, published on Wednesday in scientific journal Plos One, was led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in partnership with the University of Cambridge.\n\nScientists use complex mathematical models to look at how diseases spread through social groupings.\n\nAnd this research could help predict more accurately how they will spread - and might one day lead to changes in advice on how infectious diseases are controlled.\n\nResearchers asked 460 Year 7 pupils across four UK secondary schools representing a range of socioeconomic areas to name the six children they spent most time with daily, between January and June 2015.\n\nLead author Dr Adam Kucharski said: \"Showing boys are potentially more cliquey than girls, perhaps going against gender stereotypes, and that popular children remain popular over time, is an interesting social insight - but for mathematical modellers this type of information is also extremely valuable.\n\n\"Understanding age-specific social mixing patterns is vital for studying outbreaks of infectious diseases like flu and measles, which can spread rapidly, particularly among children.\n\n\"Mathematical models that predict the spread of infectious diseases are now an essential part of public health decisions for the introduction of new vaccines.\"\n\nGirls' friendships are more volatile, say psychologists\n\nAnother of the study's authors, Dr Clare Wenham, now assistant professor in global health policy at the London School of Economics, said: \"Kids are a very important part of looking at how diseases spread.\n\n\"Previous studies have only looked at how children mix over one day, so with this study we wanted to see how it changed over time.\n\n\"It would also be good to extend the study over a longer period to see how friendship groups changed over the years.\"\n\nDr Terri Apter, a psychologist and former Cambridge tutor, who has written extensively on teenagers and friendships, said: \"It has been observed that boys' friendships are more stable and girls' are more volatile.\n\n\"As a result, girls might feel more pressure to have 'just in case' friends in case they fall out with their best friend and they feel more social pressure to be friendly with people that aren't really their friends than boys.\n\n\"All this leads to a larger, more changeable group.\"", "The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe US social media giant has now released these ads to a committee of MPs investigating fake news - meaning everyone, not just those they were originally aimed at, can now see them.\n\nThe ads, created by Canadian company Aggregate AIQ, often focused on specific issues - such as immigration or animal rights - thought likely to push the buttons of certain groups of people, based on their age, where they lived and other personal data taken from social media and other sources.\n\nThe 120 pages of documents appear to back up the findings of the Electoral Commission, which ruled last week that Vote Leave broke electoral law by working jointly with another campaign, BeLeave - something denied by both groups.\n\nA number of BeLeave ads were sent from the Vote Leave Facebook account, including this one:\n\nThere are 1,433 different messages in the data set released by Facebook, all with one common theme - although it is not always clear that they have come from a pro-Brexit campaign.\n\nHere is one that was targeted at animal lovers:\n\nThis one, targeted at tea-lovers, is more obviously pro-Brexit:\n\nPolar bears were also recruited to the cause:\n\nThe adverts contained in the Facebook data set were seen more than 169 million times in total.\n\nThe BeLeave messages were more closely directed at younger voters, promising a \"brighter future\" if the UK could stop \"EU regulators keeping us in the past\" and accusing Brussels of regulating ride-sharing apps such as Uber and enforcing quotas on data streaming.\n\nData provided by Facebook suggests some of the most seen images were produced by BeLeave. This image was displayed on the screens of target audience members more than five million times:\n\nOlder voters tended to be treated to claims about how much money the UK was sending to the EU. More than 140 ads made reference to the controversial claim that £350m a week sent to the EU could be spent on the NHS instead:\n\nAlternative uses for the £350m included schools and flood defences:\n\nVote Leave made the most of then US President Barack Obama's intervention in the referendum campaign, when he said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for trade deals.\n\nThis ad was heavily targeted at older voters, with a reach of up to 25% among woman aged over 65 and 23% of men in that age group targeted by one version of it (as with many of the ads, the accompanying text was tweaked and refined from a basic \"parent\" ad):\n\nImmigration was another common theme, with one ad appearing to suggest the entire Turkish population was headed for the UK:\n\nBoris Johnson was the only politician to be pictured in the ads:\n\nApart from one featuring Jeremy Corbyn, which was targeted at younger voters and accompanied by an old quote from the Labour leader: \"The EU takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party spent £32,750.73 with AIQ on pro-Brexit Facebook ads. Only 16 of the ads were delivered to users in Northern Ireland, according to the Facebook data. The remaining 24 were primarily seen by people in England.\n\nThe 24 adverts, seen at least 1.96 million times - and potentially as many as 4.2 million times - were all posted in the final three days of the EU referendum campaign.\n\nEarly on in the campaign, Vote Leave launched a giant data harvesting exercise through a competition to win £50m if you could correctly guess the result of all 51 games in the 2016 European football championship.\n\nThe odds of winning the contest - which Vote Leave funded through an insurance policy - were calculated at one in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.\n\nIt was described by one Vote Leave insider at the time as a potential \"game changer\" because it would allow it to gather the contact details of thousands of potential voters, many of whom would not normally be interested in the referendum.\n\nThe campaign recruited former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham to promote the contest:\n\nA separate group called Veterans for Britain had refused permission for its ads to be passed on, said Facebook.\n\nThe Culture Media and Sport Committee is expected shortly to publish interim findings from its inquiry into fake news, which has taken evidence from whistleblower Christopher Wylie and technology company bosses as well as representatives of the separate Leave.EU campaign.\n\nCorrection 27 July 2018: An earlier version of this story said some ads were seen by fewer than 1,000 people, according to the Facebook data, and this was an example of \"micro-targeting\". But former Vote Leave chief, Matthew Elliott, said the ads never ran, so we removed that reference.", "The BBC has agreed to pay Sir Cliff Richard £850,000 towards his legal costs within 14 days, following his privacy case against the corporation.\n\nA judge ruled the BBC infringed the singer's privacy in its reporting of a police raid on his home in 2014, awarding him £210,000 in damages.\n\nSir Cliff was never arrested or charged as part of the investigation.\n\nThe BBC sought leave to appeal against the High Court ruling but the application was rejected.\n\nThe corporation has apologised to Sir Cliff for the distress caused, but wanted permission to appeal, arguing the court judgement could threaten press freedom.\n\nThe BBC will now decide whether or not to go directly to the Court of Appeal to seek permission to appeal.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"This is a complex case and while we hadn't decided on whether to pursue an appeal, we sought permission today in order to keep all options open.\n\n\"We reiterate that we are very sorry to Sir Cliff for the distress caused and have no desire to prolong this case unnecessarily, but the ruling has raised significant questions for press freedom and we are considering the best way to address these.\"\n\nThe judge's findings had included that Sir Cliff had a right to privacy while he was a suspect in the South Yorkshire Police investigation - trumping the broadcaster's right to freedom of expression to publish his name and cover the raid.\n\nBarrister Gavin Millar QC, leading the BBC legal team, told a hearing on Thursday it was \"appropriate\" for the corporation to pay legal fees incurred by Sir Cliff.\n\nThe £850,000 may not be the final total for his legal fees, but Sir Cliff is being given it now to pay his lawyers.\n\nThe singer's lawyer, barrister Justin Rushbrooke QC, did not give an overall figure for how much the case had cost his client, but Sir Cliff told the trial he had spent more than £3m.\n\nThe BBC is also going to pay £315,000 to South Yorkshire Police for legal costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Cliff Richard v BBC - how did we get here?\n\nFor the BBC, the decision whether to spend more money on this case is a difficult dilemma with high stakes.\n\nThere are many factors to consider.\n\nFirst, will an appeal cause further distress to Sir Cliff? The corporation has said that it is sorry for the distress caused to him, so why extend the agony?\n\nSecond, to fight this verdict is to keep it in the public eye. An appeal could create the possibility of more adverse publicity.\n\nThird, what are the chances of success? And finally, this is public money.\n\nSir Cliff is commonly regarded as a national treasure. Why throw more of other people's money - ie licence-fee payers' incomes - at a case in which a national treasure is aggrieved?\n\nBut what is the cost of not appealing? If the freedom of journalists is diminished as a result of editorial decisions made by the BBC, then not fighting this verdict could lead to resentment in Fleet Street, where the BBC lacks friends. And then there is the principle.\n\nMany journalists, inside the corporation and beyond, really do feel that journalism would be damaged.\n\nMr Justice Mann ruled in favour of Sir Cliff, 77, following the trial in London.\n\nHe concluded the BBC's coverage - which involved a helicopter filming the search at Sir Cliff's Berkshire home - had been a \"very serious\" invasion of privacy.\n\nPolice officers had been investigating an allegation made by a man who claimed he was sexually assaulted by Sir Cliff at an event at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane in 1985, when he was a child.\n\nLast week, Mr Justice Mann awarded Sir Cliff £190,000 damages and an extra £20,000 in aggravated damages after the BBC submitted its coverage of the raid for an award.\n\nThe BBC must pay 65% of the £190,000 and South Yorkshire Police 35%.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police had earlier agreed to pay Sir Cliff £400,000 after settling a claim he brought against the force.\n\nOn Thursday, the BBC's Mr Millar outlined his permission to appeal arguments in a written document, saying there was a \"compelling reason\" for the case to be heard and that it had a \"real prospect\" of success. It was rejected by Mr Justice Mann on all counts, however.\n\nThe BBC's director of news has said the ruling could have an impact on press freedom.\n\nSpeaking outside court last week, Fran Unsworth admitted the case had had a \"very serious impact\" on Sir Cliff, and there were things that could have been done differently.\n\nBut she stressed that even if no footage of the search had been broadcast, \"the very naming of Sir Cliff would have been unlawful\", according to the judge's ruling.\n\n\"This creates a significant shift against press freedom,\" Ms Unsworth said.", "The EU, Canada and Mexico have announced retaliatory measures against the US tariffs\n\nThe US has slapped tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from its allies the EU, Canada and Mexico - but don't think they'll take it without a fight.\n\nAll three have already announced retaliatory measures as the US follows its new policy, which has been attacked as \"protectionism, pure and simple\" by the EU.\n\nRanging from serious to strange, these counter-tariffs could play a part in a growing trade battle.\n\nIt's too early to say how consumers will be hit in all the affected countries, but prices could rise throughout the world in light of these tariffs.\n\nRead on to see which American products each US ally plans to target.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau objected strongly to the announced tariffs, calling them an \"affront\" to their nations' military alliance.\n\nHe said Canada buys half of US steel exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanada plans \"trade-restrictive countermeasures\" on C$16.6bn ($12.8bn) of US goods, to come into effect on 1 July.\n\nThe country will impose a 25% tariff on assorted US steel products, including railway tracks, piping and steel sheets.\n\nBut Canada also plans a 10% tariff on more varied items:\n\nThe list, published by the Department of Finance, also includes a 10% tariff on candles - although, relax Canadians, \"not including those for birthdays, Christmas or other festive occasions\".\n\nSenior Canadian officials say the list is designed to exert political pressure on the US and make it take notice of how this will affect trade.\n\nAsked by reporters if he was ready to start a trade war with its southern neighbour, Mr Trudeau said Canada was \"ready for anything\".\n\nCanada is targeting a variety of US foods - including pizza\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he planned to take the US to the World Trade Organization over the American tariffs, a policy he called \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nMeanwhile, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom called the US measures a \"dangerous game\" and said the EU would not \"stay silent\".\n\nThe bloc released a list of tariffs in March - 10 pages of US goods it plans to target:\n\nThe EU plans to target iconic US goods, like Levi's jeans\n\nThe aim is to have the maximum political effect. Kentucky, home to bourbon whiskey, is Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's state.\n\nOrange juice, meanwhile, is a major export of Florida - a key US swing state.\n\nFrance's junior trade minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said he expects EU counter-measures to be completed by mid-June.\n\nAmerica's southern neighbour also swiftly released a list of products on which it would impose tariffs, \"up to an amount comparable to the level of damage\" of US tariffs.\n\nEconomy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said in a radio interview that the measures would target US products from districts that would cause political difficulties for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Guajardo said Mexico was the top buyer of US aluminium and the second-biggest buyer of US steel, and that \"this kind of thing does not benefit anybody\".\n\nUS tariffs could hit $4bn worth of trade between the two countries.\n\nIn 2009, Mexico imposed higher tariffs on dozens of US products such as apples, frozen potatoes and Christmas trees in a dispute over the access of Mexican trucks to US highways.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe man leading an investigation into historical sex abuse for the Football Association has found no evidence of an institutionalised conspiracy, the BBC understands.\n\nClive Sheldon QC began his independent inquiry in 2016 following a series of allegations by former players.\n\nHe hopes to submit his final report at the end of September, and it is now unlikely he will conclude there was organised abuse or a cover-up of the kind alleged in other institutions like the Church of England.\n\nHowever, Sheldon is still expected to find that there were failings by both individuals and clubs, and next month he will write to those he intends to comment on, giving them a chance to defend themselves.\n\nThe legal process of giving criticised witnesses the right to respond - known as 'Maxwellisation' - is expected to last around a month.\n\nAn inquiry spokesman said: \"Over the summer the review team will be writing to institutions and individuals to provide them with an opportunity to respond to comments Clive Sheldon QC may make about them in his final report to the FA board.\n\n\"The review team are expecting to send those letters out shortly and will expect to hear back within weeks.\"\n\nIt is thought around 12 clubs will form the basis of Sheldon's findings, likely to include the likes of Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa.\n\nAll the clubs from whom he requested a 'structured report' into how they handled allegations of abuse have now cooperated with the inquiry.\n\nIn March, Crewe said they would scrap plans for their own independent review into abuse by former coach Barry Bennell.\n\nIn February, Bennell was sentenced to 31 years in prison for abusing 12 boys, seven of whom were linked to the Cheshire club.\n\nSo far Sheldon has met 35 victims, and reviewed the testimony of more than 100 individuals.\n\nInvestigators have sifted through 13,000 documents in the FA archives - adding up to 1.3 million pages - as part of their search for data relating to safeguarding procedures and child protection cases.\n\nSome 500 case management files - not all relating to child abuse - are thought to contain relevant information.\n\nThe inquiry team has also had access to documents held in the archives of the Premier League and the English Football League.\n\nOn Thursday the chief executive of the Scottish FA apologised for the abuse young players suffered in the past.\n\nIan Maxwell was responding to an 18-month investigation which found child protection policies are \"not fit for purpose\" and must change to prevent future cases of abuse.\n\nThe most recent police figures from March showed 849 alleged victims had come forward since former Crewe player Andy Woodward first spoke to the Guardian newspaper and the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about the abuse he suffered.\n\nOperation Hydrant, the specialist police unit in charge of the operation, has identified 300 suspects and a number of court cases involving professional clubs are under way.", "Hoping to be a ninja? Sorry, but the Japanese city of Iga is not hiring\n\nA Japanese city has been forced to clarify it is not in fact recruiting ninjas, following reports that it was facing a shortage of skilled assassins.\n\nLocal officials in Iga, which styles itself as the birthplace of ninja-dom, had received a flood of applications from around the world.\n\nBut they said in a statement (in Japanese) that they were not officially hiring any, \"so please be careful\".\n\nThe mix-up apparently began with a report by a US broadcaster.\n\nOn 16 July, National Public Radio (NPR) reported in its The Indicator from Planet Money podcast that Iga was struggling to expand its ninja-based tourism strategy because of a labour shortage.\n\n\"Iga will build a second ninja museum [but faces a] labour shortage.... [which] also extends to ninjas,\" said journalist Sally Herships in the NPR podcast. \"There's a ninja shortage, or to be accurate, a ninja-performer shortage.\"\n\nMs Herships also added that ninja performers in Japan could make anywhere between $23,000 and $85,000 a year, though she did not say that there were immediate vacancies for ninjas available.\n\nThe NPR podcast fuelled a frenzy of online reports, with many suggesting that the city was looking to hire ninjas at a salary of $85,000 a year.\n\nNPR later said that a summary of its podcast had been \"incorrectly stated\", and that its story may have been misunderstood.\n\nThe podcast by NPR said that Iga faced a 'ninja shortage'\n\nNPR had posted a summary which said that Iga \"is facing a serious problem, there aren't enough people training to be ninjas, not even for $85k a year\".\n\n\"That characterisation was incorrect,\" an NPR spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"After the story was posted online, portions of the story may have been misconstrued on social media or abridged in other media outlets.\"\n\nBut those reports led at least 115 ninja hopefuls from 23 countries to contact Iga officials, enquiring about possible jobs.\n\n\"Most were questions about whether we were really hiring, but there were a few that begged us to employ them and tried to promote themselves,\" tourism strategy official Motoyoshi Shimai told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Some had real confidence in their bodies and strength.\"\n\nIga has wasted no time in capitalising on the confusion, turning it to its advantage.\n\nIn its statement, it extolled the virtues of its \"splendid tourist attractions including facilities about ninjas\". Besides its first ninja museum, the central Japanese city also has several ninja costume rental shops and holds a yearly ninja festival where visitors can \"throw ninja stars and use blowguns\", according to Iga's tourism website.\n\n\"Iga is not officially hiring but this is where ninjas originated,\" the city said in its statement. \"You can feel and experience their history throughout the city, so please visit us.\"", "The seaside town of Mati, east of Athens, was the hardest-hit community\n\nGreece has \"serious indications\" that a fire that killed at least 83 people near Athens earlier this week was started deliberately, Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas says.\n\nThe blaze broke out on Monday and hit coastal villages popular with tourists.\n\nSome 60 people are still being treated in hospital, 11 in intensive care. Dozens more are missing.\n\nOpposition politician Maria Spyraki accused the government of an \"abject failure\" to protect lives and property.\n\nMs Spyraki, spokeswoman for the conservative New Democracy, said the government ought to have warned residents via the media, deployed more firefighters, and evacuated people from Mati immediately.\n\nThe coastal area east of Athens was known to be high-risk, the Greek daily Kathimerini reports.\n\nRescue workers searching a cliffside in the seaside town of Mati found more human remains on Thursday.\n\nMore than 500 homes were destroyed, and some have not yet been examined.\n\nIdentifying the victims is proving difficult as the bodies are so badly burnt.\n\nMany were caught close to the cliff as the flames spread rapidly, whipped up by winds as high as 120km/h (75mph). Some survivors were saved by the sea, but dozens of victims were unable to reach the water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The flames were chasing us into the water\" - survivor\n\nMr Toskas also said that another fire that broke out near Athens a few hours earlier - but did not cause casualties - had been started intentionally.\n\nHe added that \"climate conditions\" in the areas affected by fire were \"extreme due to climate change\".\n\nEarlier, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told the BBC that illegal construction had contributed to the disaster.\n\nHe said building by residents between wooded areas was a \"crime\" that had resulted in blocked escape routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gavin Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Kammenos was confronted by angry locals as he visited areas devastated by fires east of Athens this week.\n\nArriving in Mati, where many people died, the minister was surrounded by residents who accused him of abandoning them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Kammenos argued that the actions of some residents had closed the roads to the beach.\n\n\"This is a crime from the past,\" he said. \"This coast of Athens, all these properties, the majority are without a licence, and they have occupied the coast without rules.\"\n\nAmong those still missing are twin nine-year-old girls Vassiliki and Sofia Philippopoulou, who were with their grandparents near Mati at the time of the fire.\n\nEU satellite service Copernicus produced a map showing the almost complete devastation of residential areas", "Astronomers got the result by tracking the movement of a star as it passed through the gravitational field of a black hole\n\nThe black hole at the centre of our galaxy has helped astronomers confirm a key prediction of Albert Einstein's ideas.\n\nBy observing a cluster of stars near the hole, they were able to confirm a phenomenon known as \"gravitational redshift\".\n\nIt's when the wavelength of light gets stretched out in response to a gravitational field.\n\nThe result will help scientists better understand the physics of black holes.\n\nThe Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found evidence for Einstein's prediction by observing a star, called S2, that passed through the intense gravitational field of Sagittarius A* - the huge black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.\n\nThe effect they observed, gravitational redshift, occurs as particles of light (photons) climb out of a gravitational well like a black hole. As they do, the light's wavelength gets drawn out.\n\nAlbert Einstein would no doubt be delighted\n\nThis shifts the wavelength to the red part of the light spectrum - hence \"redshift\".\n\nIt's predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, but has never been observed in an intense gravitational field such as that of a black hole.\n\nFrank Eisenhauer, from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, said the measurement opened the door to more studies of the physics of black holes.\n\nIn future, he said, \"we will see many more effects of general relativity in the galactic centre black hole. We will see the orbits of the stars change, we will see light go in circles, we will even see space-time rotate together with the black hole.\"\n\nReinhard Genzel, also from MPE, said: \"There is still more work to do to really come as close as you can to the event horizon [the \"point of no return\" of the black hole] where you might expect strong deviations from Einstein's theory.\"\n\nFrançoise Delplancke, from the European Southern Observatory (Eso), which operates the VLT, said that the laws of physics could only be tested here in the Solar System under particular circumstances.\n\n\"So it's very important in astronomy to also check that those laws are still valid where the gravitational fields are very much stronger,\" she explained.\n\nThe observations were carried out with the Very Large Telescope in Chile\n\nS2 is one member of a star cluster that surrounds Sagittarius A*. These stars reach mind-boggling speeds when they approach the black hole - S2 comes very close to Sagittarius A* every 16 years.\n\nAstronomers followed S2 before and after it passed close to the black hole on 19 May 2018, tracking its progress hour-by-hour.\n\nWhen S2 passed by the black hole at a distance just 120 times that of the Earth from the Sun, it reached an astonishing orbital velocity of 8,000 km/s. That corresponds to about 2.7% of the speed of light.\n\nThe astronomers found that light from the star was indeed stretched to longer wavelengths by the very strong gravitational field of Sagittarius A*.\n\nThe results were perfectly in line with the theory of general relativity - and not explained by Sir Isaac Newton's ideas - which exclude such a shift.\n\n\"In sport, you would say it was 1-0 for Einstein,\" said Frank Eisenhauer.\n\nArtwork: Astronomers want to test other aspects of physics around black holes\n\nOdele Straub, from the Paris Observatory, in France, said: \"What we hope is at some point we will see something in the galactic centre that we can't explain with Einstein's theory - that would be really, really exciting. Because then we could go back to the drawing board and come up with something better.\"\n\nThe astronomers are continuing to observe S2; observations of its trajectory should yield new findings about the extreme conditions around the Milky Way's central black hole.\n\nGravitational redshift occurs because, in order to escape a gravitational well such as a black hole, particles of light (photons) must expend energy.\n\nHowever, at the same time, these photons must travel at a constant speed - the speed of light.\n\nTherefore, the photons can't lose energy by slowing down, but must expend it in another way. This lost energy manifests itself as a shift towards the red end of the light spectrum.\n\nThe results are published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.", "For the BBC, the decision whether to spend more money on this case is a difficult dilemma with high stakes.\n\nThere are many factors to consider.\n\nFirst, will an appeal cause further distress to Sir Cliff? The corporation has said that it is sorry for the distress caused to him. If they are sincere about that - and my sense is they are - why extend the agony?\n\nSecond, to fight this verdict is to keep it in the public eye. When confronted with bad news, institutional leaders often think the best thing is to draw a line and move on. An appeal could create the possibility of more adverse publicity.\n\nThird, what are the chances of success? Legal advice will be crucial - though no guarantee, of course, of the likely outcome.\n\nAnd finally, this is public money. Sir Cliff is commonly regarded as a national treasure. Why throw more of other people's money - ie licence-fee payers' incomes - at a case in which a national treasure is aggrieved?\n\nAgainst all this, and in favour of a further appeal, there are practical and philosophical points.\n\nOn the former, what is the cost of not appealing? If the freedom of journalists is diminished as a result of editorial decisions made by the BBC, then not fighting this verdict could lead to resentment in Fleet Street, where the BBC lacks friends.\n\nAnd then there is the principle. Many journalists, inside the corporation and beyond, really do feel that journalism will be damaged.\n\nFran Unsworth is the BBC's director of news and current affairs\n\nLeading figures in the newspaper industry think this is just the latest slap in the face for an industry in turmoil. If the liberty of journalists to report without fear or favour is reduced, how can an organisation like BBC News sit idly by? What would Lord Reith say?\n\nUltimately, the legal advice and cost will determine the BBC's actions. Any prudent organisation has insurance for crises like this. But BBC News needs to save tens of millions, and the rest of the BBC much more.\n\nAt the best of times, every penny spent by the BBC has to be justified.\n\nDuring austerity, that gets ever harder. If the BBC fights, loses, and is seen to have wasted public funds, the current support from Fleet Street could switch to anger, and brutally fast.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, please follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and also please subscribe to The Media Show podcast from Radio 4. I'm grateful for all constructive feedback. Thanks.", "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson sends a heartfelt video message thanking hospital staff for their \"great care\" after his surgery for a brain haemorrhage in May.\n\nREAD MORE: Ferguson thanks hospitals after surgery", "Children could be banned from owning drones weighing more than 250g as part of a proposed crackdown on misuse.\n\nThey would only be allowed to fly devices heavier than that if they were owned and registered by an adult.\n\nThe Department for Transport says drones weighing more than 400g can smash a helicopter windscreen, while those over 2kg can damage airliners.\n\nOther measures being considered to tackle irresponsible use include £300-on-the-spot fines and confiscation.\n\nResponses to the consultation will feed into a draft Drones Bill, expected later this year.\n\nThe growing popularity of the gadgets - and a surge in drone-related incidents - has already led to restrictions being introduced.\n\nFlying a device above 400ft or within 1km of an airport is now banned - and anyone caught breaking those rules could face a fine of up to £2,500 or a possible jail sentence of five years.\n\nAccording to Press Association research, in 2016, police forces recorded 3,456 reports about drones compared with just 283 in 2014.\n\nThe number of near-misses between drones and aircraft rose from six in 2014 to 93 in 2017.\n\nIn 2015, a drone put 130 lives at risk when it passed directly over the wing of an aircraft approaching Gatwick.\n\nAviation Minister Baroness Sugg said drones presented \"exciting benefits\", but further restrictions were needed stop people using the technology to cause harm.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer England footballer Gary Lineker has backed the campaign for another EU referendum, saying Brexit feels like it is \"going very wrong indeed\".\n\nThe BBC Match of the Day presenter said some things in life were \"more important than football\".\n\nHe is backing the People's Vote campaign, a cross-party group including prominent Labour and Lib Dem MPs.\n\nThey are planning a \"summer of action\" to step up pressure on MPs to back a vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nThe government has ruled out another referendum after Britain voted to leave the EU in June 2016. The UK is on course to leave the EU on 29 March next year.\n\nThe People's Vote campaign is hoping to get enough MPs, including the Labour leadership, to back a referendum on the deal Theresa May strikes with Brussels, which is due to be put to a vote in Parliament in October.\n\nIn a statement backing the People's Vote campaign, he said: \"I am not a politician but I know when something is going wrong and right now Brexit feels like it is going very wrong indeed.\"\n\nHe said politicians seemed \"unable to resolve the problem\" the EU referendum had given them.\n\nLineker has been critical of Brexit on social media in recent times, attracting claims of bias from Brexit supporters.\n\nCritics have also pointed to a Twitter message he sent a year ago, which said \"Can't find the bit in my tweet where I ask for another referendum. Leave won. Get over it.\"\n\nReplying to those comments, Lineker tweeted he was \"happy to admit I've now changed my mind\", adding that he did not envisage \"at the time that we'd ever contemplate a 'no deal Brexit' and the ensuing carnage that would bring\".\n\nA spokesman for the BBC said: \"Gary is not involved in any news or political output for the BBC and as such any expression of his personal political views does not affect the BBC's impartiality.\"\n\nSenior Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, who campaigned for Brexit in the referendum, was asked about Lineker's comments on ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nHe said: \"I hesitate to criticise any individual - they're entitled to their opinion - but he's only one individual and during the referendum there were lots of stars and people who came out and endorsed this or the other, but people made up their own minds.\"\n\nOn the idea of MPs deciding to call a fresh referendum, he said that although most MPs had been for Remain in the 2016 vote, \"they have to accept the result... this will be a crisis for our democracy if the British people are ignored\".", "Facebook shares tumbled by more than 20% on Wednesday after the social media network's revenue and user growth fell short of investor expectations.\n\nThe firm, which is facing backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end of June.\n\nThis was up 11% on June 2017, the slowest growth in more than two years.\n\nIt also warned investors that spending growth would outstrip revenue gains in 2019, pinching profits.\n\nFacebook said it expected revenue gains to slow, as people make use of new options to limit advertising and less profitable overseas markets drive growth.\n\nThe firm also plans to spend billions to improve the way it monitors content, tracks advertisers and treats user data - areas where it has faced regulator scrutiny.\n\nThe firm, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, is also investing in new features, such as virtual reality and video.\n\nShares in Facebook initially fell about 12% in after-hours trade in New York, but losses accelerated as the firm outlined its spending plans.\n\nDaniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights, said the firm's forecast was \"nightmareish\".\n\n\"They gave a very disappointing outlook for the second half of the year and 2019 and that's going to significantly weigh on the stock in the near term,\" he said.\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before regulators this year\n\nThis is hardly Armageddon for Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nOn the whole, people are apparently not deserting Facebook. Monthly active users - ie those who interact at least once a month - were steady in the US, down ever-so-slightly in Europe, and up everywhere else.\n\nBut for a company used to growing those numbers handsomely throughout the year, a lack of meaningful growth will cause concern, if not panic.\n\nSadly the company doesn't break down its Europe numbers into anything more granular - which means we can't see the effect the Cambridge Analytica scandal had on British users.\n\nAnalysts tell me they consider Cambridge Analytica a \"blip\" in Facebook's history, though another quarter like this one would be even more impactful than what we saw during Wednesday's after hours trading.\n\nDuring its earnings call, Facebook warned investors to brace themselves: it doesn't expect revenue growth to improve for at least the rest of this year.\n\nFacebook profits in the quarter were $5.1bn, up 31% from the same period in 2017.\n\nRevenue was $13.2bn, up 42% year-on-year, but expenses grew even faster, rising 50% to about $7.4bn.\n\nUser growth has flattened in the US and Canada, key markets for the company due to the high prices ads there command.\n\nThe number of EU users fell amid the rollout of tighter privacy regulations, though Facebook continued to attract new users in countries like Indonesia.\n\nMr Ives said the popularity of Instagram should help Facebook to blunt fallout from challenges at its namesake network.\n\nIn February, the research firm eMarketer estimated that the number of Facebook users under the age of 25 would fall by about 2 million this year.\n\nBut it forecast that Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, would add about 1.6 million users in that age range in 2018.", "Reece is 13 and has been excluded six times. He now attends a Pupil Referral Unit, which offers individual support to help challenging behaviour.\n\nThis week, an MPs' report warned that excluded pupils were being \"abandoned\" by schools in England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Cliff Richard v BBC - how did we get here?\n\nThe BBC is to seek permission to appeal a ruling over its coverage of a police raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home.\n\nA high court judge ruled last week that the BBC infringed Sir Cliff's privacy in its reporting of the story in 2014, and awarded him £210,000 damages.\n\nThe raid was part of an investigation into historical child sex allegations - Sir Cliff was never arrested or charged.\n\nThe BBC argues the ruling could put press freedom at stake.\n\nThe broadcaster will later seek leave to appeal all of the main findings of law in Mr Justice Mann's judgment - although the judge is unlikely to grant an appeal against his own ruling.\n\nBBC legal affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman, said that if he refuses, it will be up to the broadcaster to decide whether to go directly to the Court of Appeal - which he understands the corporation is \"carefully considering\".\n\nThe BBC wants to challenge the judge's findings, including that Sir Cliff had a right to privacy while a suspect in a police investigation - trumping the broadcaster's right to freedom of expression to publish his name and cover the raid.\n\nIt will also seek to appeal Sir Cliff's entitlement to damages for injury to his reputation in a privacy case, as opposed to a defamation claim.\n\nThe corporation will argue the £210,000 damages awarded will have a damaging effect on media outlets who are aware of a suspect's identity but who do not want to publish for fear of having to make a large payout.\n\nThe judge has yet to decide how much Sir Cliff was left out of pocket. The singer has said plans for his professional work were \"seriously disrupted\" and that he was left \"in effect in creative limbo\" for two years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Cliff Richard's lawyer said the singer \"aimed to right a wrong\"\n\nAt the ruling earlier this month, Mr Justice Mann said a suspect in a police investigation \"has a reasonable expectation of privacy\", and while Sir Cliff being investigated \"might be of interest to the gossip-monger\", there was not a \"genuine public interest\" case.\n\nHe also said that while the case could have a \"significant impact on press reporting\", it did not mean the law was changing or he was setting a precedent as the Human Rights Act already covers the issues at stake.\n\nAfter the ruling last week, the BBC's director of news and current affairs Fran Unsworth apologised to Sir Cliff and said: \"In retrospect, there are things we would have done differently.\"\n\nBut, she said, the case marked a \"significant shift\" against press freedom and an \"important principle\" around the public's right to know was at stake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director of news said immediately after the ruling that the BBC was considering an appeal\n\nSpeaking to ITV afterwards, Sir Cliff said senior managers at the BBC have to \"carry the can\" for their actions, adding: \"It's too big a decision to be made badly. It was nonsense.\"\n\n\"I want a correction made to what happened to me and it was made,\" he said. \"Nobody said anything about freedom of speech.\n\n\"But I will fight to the death against the abuse of the freedom of speech [and] what the BBC did was an abuse.\n\n\"They took it upon themselves to be judge, jury and executioner.\"", "Self-balancing electric roller skates developed by personal transportation company Segway-Ninebot are to be banned on the UK's public pavements and roads.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) told the BBC the skates fell under the same rules as powered rideables such as electric scooters and \"hoverboards\".\n\nSegway-Ninebot said its new skates had a top speed of 12 km/h (7.5mph).\n\nHowever, they are classed as \"carriages\" under the Highways Act of 1835 and are banned from the pavement.\n\nThe skates have a \"travel time\" of 45 minutes\n\nVideo-maker Casey Neistat, who was given a pair of the skates to test in New York City, also faced difficulty finding places to try them out.\n\nHe said he preferred riding them on smooth surfaces, but was quickly stopped riding inside Grand Central Station by a security officer.\n\nThe DfT added that powered transporters were usually not allowed on UK roads.\n\nIt said: \"For most powered transporters, their construction is such that they clearly would not comply with the normal vehicle construction rules or with type approval.\"\n\nThis would limit their use to private property with the landowner's permission.\n\nThe same rules apply to electric scooters, electric unicycles and the two-wheeled \"hoverboards\".\n\nThe Drift W1 electric skates were revealed in June and described by the company as \"a new trendy way to move\".\n\nOn Tuesday, it revealed a pair would cost $399 (£303).\n\nThe company says on its website: \"Rules and regulations for riding Segway products on public roads differ for every country.\"\n• None Suspect 'tried to flee by hoverboard'", "Anne Hathaway said \"black people fear for their lives DAILY in America\"\n\nUS actress Anne Hathaway has urged white people to ask \"how 'decent' are we really?\" after a black teenager was stabbed to death on a California train.\n\nNia Wilson, 18, was killed after she and her sister were both knifed in the neck on Sunday night in Oakland.\n\n\"She was a black woman and she was murdered in cold blood by a white man,\" Hathaway wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe suspect, John Lee Cowell, is in custody, but officials say it is unclear if race played a factor.\n\nHathaway's post continued: \"White people - including me, including you - must take into the marrow of our privileged bones the truth that ALL black people fear for their lives DAILY in America and have done so for GENERATIONS.\"\n\n\"We must ask our (white)selves - how \"decent\" are we really?\" she added. \"Not in our intent, but in our actions? In our lack of action?\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by annehathaway This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe comments were posted alongside an image of Ms Wilson, who was returning home from a family event when she was attacked.\n\n\"It basically happened at the snap of the fingers, at the drop of the pin,\" police chief Carlos Rojas said at a news conference on Monday.\n\nHe added that it was \"the most vicious\" attack he had seen in his nearly 30-year career.\n\n\"It's more reminiscent of a prison yard assault,\" Chief Rojas said. \"They do their attack so quickly that before anybody can really react, the person takes off running.\"\n\nThe suspect was arrested on Monday night on board another train after an anonymous tipster called police.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf raised the subject of race in response to the killing.\n\nShe said that although the attacker's motivation is not yet known, \"the fact that his victims were both young African-American women stirs deep pain and palpable fear in all of us who acknowledge the reality that our country still suffers from a tragic and deeply racist history\".\n\nMore celebrities added their voices to the outcry over Wilson's murder, some using the #SayHerName hashtag.\n\nOscar-winning actress Viola Davis wrote on Twitter: \"To the killer... I will NOT say your name. To Nia... we will shout yours from the rooftops!!!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Viola Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlack-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross wrote: \"Our bodies and our humanity deserve safety and joy.\" Others paying tribute included Reese Witherspoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut not everyone was happy about Hathaway's post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Susan Russell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA CNN reporter has been barred from a White House event for asking Donald Trump \"inappropriate\" questions.\n\nKaitlan Collins said she was excluded from a Rose Garden event after asking about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr Trump's ex-lawyer.\n\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the reporter had shouted questions and refused to leave.\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly attacked CNN as \"fake news\" and has refused to take questions from CNN reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Collins attended a photo opportunity with Mr Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday.\n\nShe was acting as the White House pool reporter - one of a rotating group of journalists, who will attend an event and write a report which all other networks can use.\n\nThis system allows networks to share the burden of covering the president.\n\nThe president reportedly ignored the questions. Shortly afterwards, Ms Collins was barred from a Rose Garden press event with Mr Trump and Mr Juncker.\n\n\"They said that the questions I asked were inappropriate for that venue,\" Ms Collins told CNN.\n\nDonald Trump's feud with the press is nothing new. Back in 2016 his presidential campaign barred publications from his rallies after they ran critical articles.\n\nPerhaps some thought that, as president, Mr Trump would behave differently. But on this, as in countless other areas, President Trump operates just like Candidate Trump.\n\nIn fact, hostilities may be growing. The president bashes the media in speeches and tweets. He refers to a growing number of outlets as \"enemies of the American people\". He has refused to call on certain reporters during media availability. His press office has limited access to some smaller briefings.\n\nNow an individual reporter has been blocked from a major presidential event - for shouting questions even though the president often answers such call-outs.\n\nThe White House says it is frustrated by what it views as reflexively hostile media coverage. It points to instances where reporters got stories wrong or amplified inaccurate reports on social media.\n\nThere may be a larger strategy at play, however. Mr Trump often seems intent on needling the media into righteous outrage, focusing their attention inward instead of on stories that could damage his administration.\n\nThe public at large doesn't have much sympathy for the journalists these days. The president may feel that a conflict with the media pack is one he can win.\n\nMs Sanders said a reporter, whom she does not name, has refused to leave after shouting questions, and \"was not welcome to participate in the next event\" - although colleagues from her network could do so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by WHCA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN condemned the ban as \"retaliatory\" and \"not indicative of an open and free press\". The White House Correspondents Association called it \"wrongheaded, and weak\".\n\n\"We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press,\" network president Jay Wallace said in a statement.\n\nFox News chief political anchor Bret Baier retweeted CNN's statement about the ban, saying his network \"stands firmly\" with the rivals.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Bret Baier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump is a noted supporter of Fox News, and has appeared on the network for a number of interviews.\n\nThe president has publicly criticised a number of major media outlets, notably CNN and the New York Times.\n\nOn his visit to the UK, Mr Trump attacked an article in The Sun on the same grounds, although retracted his statement after speaking to a reporter from the paper.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe use of medicinal cannabis is to be reviewed, which could lead to more prescriptions of drugs made from the plant, the home secretary has said.\n\nThe decision was prompted by recent high-profile cases of children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil to control seizures.\n\nBut Sajid Javid stressed the drug would remain banned for recreational use.\n\nCharlotte Caldwell, whose son Billy has severe epilepsy, welcomed the decision after campaigning for change.\n\nSpeaking to the House of Commons, Mr Javid said the position \"we find ourselves in currently is not satisfactory\".\n\nBilly Caldwell and Alfie Dingley both have severe epilepsy\n\nHe said the cases of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell had made him conclude it was time to review the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.\n\nThe review would be held in two parts, Mr Javid told MPs. The first will make recommendations on which cannabis-based medicines might offer real medical and therapeutic benefits to patients.\n\nIn the second part, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will consider whether changes should be made to the classification of these products after assessing \"the balance of harms and public health needs\".\n\nHe said: \"If the review identifies significant medical benefits, then we do intend to reschedule [change the rules].\"\n\nHe also announced that Alfie, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, was being issued with a licence to receive cannabis-based drugs. The six-year-old has a very rare form of epilepsy that causes up to 150 seizures per month,\n\nHis family had originally applied to the government in April, saying his condition improved after using cannabis oil in the Netherlands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hannah Deacon reacts to news that her son, Alfie Dingley, has been granted a licence to receive cannabis-based drugs.\n\nMeanwhile, Billy, 12, from County Tyrone, was granted a 20-day licence for the drug last week after doctors made clear it was a medical emergency.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital after his seizures \"intensified\" following his supply being confiscated at Heathrow Airport.\n\nHis mother Charlotte, speaking after Mr Javid's statement, said: \"Common sense and the power of mothers and fathers of sick children has bust the political process wide open and is on the verge of changing thousands of lives by bringing our medicinal cannabis laws in line with many other countries.\"\n\nBut she added that while it was a \"clearly largely positive\" announcement, \"we still want to hear the details\".\n\nMs Caldwell also revealed that she has been asked to be on the panel of experts set up on Monday by the government to assess individual applications for cannabis oil.\n\nCurrently, anyone wishing to use a drug containing a controlled cannabis-based substance must apply to the Home Office for a licence - a process that Labour MP Andy McDonald, whose son died as a result of epilepsy, has described as \"tortuous\" and \"painful\". Each application is considered on its merits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Andy McDonald said parents were \"living through the same fears\" he had experienced\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott welcomed Mr Javid's statement, telling MPs that it was \"long overdue\".\n\nLady Meacher, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group for drug policy reform - which two years ago called for cannabis-based drugs to be legalised - said the move was a \"no brainer\" which could benefit many people.\n\nShe said: \"About one million people, probably, could benefit from medical cannabis - people with severe pain, obviously children with terrible epilepsy.\n\n\"There are 200,000 people in this country with uncontrolled epileptic seizures; MS sufferers, people with Parkinson's, people with cancer.\n\n\"So there are just so many people who must be celebrating today, and I'm celebrating with them.\"\n\nShe compared cannabis with morphine, and said it was \"much, much safer, less addictive and has much, much less in the way of side effects\".\n\nAmid the noise of politics, this row is a reminder of the power of desperate human stories and the power of a new arrival at the Home Office who has repeatedly shown his willingness to do the job his own way.\n\nImagine, for a moment, the anguish of the families of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell. The pain of a parent seeing their son suffer.\n\nAnd then having to walk outside the hospital door and front a political campaign.\n\nA matter of months ago, there was no prospect of a shift in the law.\n\nOn the Windrush saga, on immigration, and now on medicinal cannabis, Sajid Javid is a home secretary putting his own stamp on the role.\n\nThe UK's drugs regulations currently divide drugs into five \"schedules\", each specifying in what circumstances it is lawful to possess, supply, produce, export and import them.\n\nCannabis is currently a Schedule 1, meaning it is thought to have no therapeutic value and therefore cannot be lawfully possessed or prescribed, but can be used for the purposes of research with a Home Office licence.\n\nDrugs in Schedules 2 and 3, such as methadone, can be prescribed and therefore legally possessed and supplied by pharmacists and doctors.\n\nOne cannabis-based drug called Sativex, containing CBD and the banned THC - has been licensed in the UK to treat MS and is a Schedule 4.\n\nBut Mr Javid added that the move to review medicinal cannabis use was \"in no way a first step to the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use\". Patients prescribed Sativex, who resupply it to other people, face prosecution.\n\nThat followed calls from former Conservative leader Lord Hague, who said the government should consider legalising the recreational use of cannabis.\n\nBut NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said it was important not to confuse the debate \"without at the same time reminding ourselves that there are some genuine health risks\" associated with smoking cannabis.\n\nCannabis contains different active ingredients and experts say some of them might be therapeutic for certain patients.\n\nTHC or tetrahydrocannabinol is the part that makes people feel \"high\", but CBD or cannabidiol is another component found in cannabis that scientists are interested in understanding more about as medical treatments.\n\nCBD-based treatments have shown some promising results for reducing seizures in children with severe epilepsies.\n\nMedical trials of cannabis-based medicines have largely focused on pharmacological preparations, but some parents of children with epilepsy have been buying oils containing CBD and THC.\n\nThere is currently little scientific evidence on the safety and effectiveness of these oils as a treatment for epilepsy, although they do contain the same active ingredients.\n\nSome health food shops sell CBD oils as food supplements. These have low levels of active ingredient and are legal to buy in the UK.\n\nIt is vital that you talk to your doctor or health professional before making any changes to your epilepsy medication.", "Local councils and government bodies may not usually be associated with sending round \"the heavies\" to collect debts from hard-pressed families.\n\nBut they are often worse than consumer creditors, can be very aggressive and quick to use bailiffs, MPs say.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee says debts and overpayments are often pursued \"over-zealously and uncompromisingly\" by councils.\n\nIt calls for public sector bodies to change the way they recoup debts.\n\nThe current approach risks driving vulnerable, struggling people into further difficulty, the committee says.\n\nIn its report \"Household finances: income, savings and debt\", MPs single out public bodies for being behind the curve in their collection methods.\n\nIt quotes evidence from Citizens Advice head of policy, Matt Upton.\n\n\"This is a point people find slightly difficult to grasp,\" he says.\n\n\"When people first hear that government collection and local authority collection is effectively worst in class, versus consumer creditors, it is quite difficult to accept emotionally.\n\n\"Government must be better than some of these rapacious firms that we hear about.\n\n\"If you talk to banks, it is because lots of organisations have realised that incredibly aggressive collection methods are not effective at getting money in the door, because people do not respond well to some of those tactics.\"\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority told the committee that about a fifth of debt clients were arriving with problems paying council tax and utility bills.\n\nAnd Step Change, the debt charity, said it was now seeing average council tax debts of above £1,000 for about a third of its clients.\n\nMr Upton, acknowledging some bailiffs could be heavy-handed. told the BBC: \"We've seen cases where people have been marched to ATMs to make payments.\"\n\nHe added that people can get into a relatively small amount of debt which can quickly spiral once debt collectors take over and add on fees and charges.\n\n\"I want to die. They have made me feel so ill and scared. I cannot go outside the house and I keep my windows closed even when it's hot.\"\n\nThis was how an anonymous debtor from Dorset said she felt after being chased for a debt by bailiffs.\n\nIn another post on Taking Control, a web campaign against heavy-handed debt collection, someone from Westminster says: \"After one missed instalment on a liability order payment plan for council tax, because of ill-health, an enforcement agent left an enforcement notice while I was out.\n\n\"When I contacted him, he was gruff, dismissive and rude, referring to me repeatedly as 'darling', despite me asking him not to do so, cutting me off and being quite intimidating, threatening 'we're coming round the house'.\"\n\nThe treatment of a 68-year-old vulnerable widowed lady by bailiffs seeking council tax arrears was described by a debt adviser.\n\n\"The arrears appear to relate to 2013.\n\n\"The client's son has tried to get further details from the council in order to dispute the debt but so far this has not been forthcoming.\n\n\"The enforcement agents have been rude, intimidating and threatening on the phone to the client's son and have bullied him into setting up a regular payment of £20 on behalf of his mother.\"\n\nIt's hardly surprising there are calls for the public sector - that is local authorities, Department for Work and Pensions and HMRC - to sign up and commit to better, more sensitive practices.\n\nAs the committee says: \"The public sector should be leading by example in their treatment of the most vulnerable.\"\n\nStep Change chief executive Phil Andrew said he agreed that non-credit arrears should be included in the breathing space scheme which, if it goes ahead, could give people in problem debt a break while they sort out their finances.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"MPs are right to acknowledge that government agencies and local authorities are worst in class for debt collection, when they should be leading by example.\n\n\"Reforms in 2014 were introduced to protect people from unfair practices, with a particular focus on how bailiffs collect debt.\n\n\"It is clear these changes have failed. Citizens Advice has seen a more than 25% rise in bailiff problems since 2014 and helped 42,000 people with 98,000 issues last year.\n\n\"We need an independent regulator to protect consumers from unfair practice.\"\n\nAn HM Treasury spokesperson said: \"Government and local authorities have a duty to collect taxpayer's money that is owed to them.\n\n\"But we know that not everyone's circumstances are the same, which is why people can get help to pay their debt in affordable instalments, reduce their payments, or take breaks entirely.\n\n\"There is always more we can do.\n\n\"That's why we set up the Fairness Group, a body of government and industry leaders, who are working to improve how debt is collected to make it fairer for everyone.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says he would \"not be sitting here today\" without the \"great care\" of hospital staff after his surgery for a brain haemorrhage in May.\n\nFerguson, 76, has spoken publicly for the first time since going home from hospital in a video on social media.\n\nThe Scot also thanked well wishers \"for the support you have given me\".\n\n\"It has made me feel so humble, as have all the messages I have received from all over the world,\" he added.\n\nFerguson had emergency surgery on 5 May and was in intensive care for several days at Salford Royal Hospital.\n\nHis last public appearance was on 29 April at Old Trafford when he presented former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nIn a 48-second video posted on Manchester United's Twitter account, Ferguson said: \"I want to thank the medical staff at Macclesfield, Salford Royal and Alexandra hospitals.\n\n\"Believe me, without those people who gave me such great care I would not be sitting here today. Thank you from me and my family.\n\n\"The good wishes do resonate very strongly with me. Thank you for the support you have given me.\n\n\"I will be back later in the season to watch the team and, in the meantime, all the best to Jose Mourinho and the players.\"\n\nFerguson retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, his trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire broke out on the top floor of the five-storey building\n\nAbout 100 firefighters are tackling a blaze at a five-storey block of flats in north-west London.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade was called to the fire on the top floor of Welbeck Mansions on Inglewood Road, West Hampstead, at about 01:00 BST.\n\nAbout 50 people were evacuated from the block, and two people were helped out by firefighters.\n\nThe service says the fire is now under control, with 15 engines still at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service sent crews, but has not taken any patients to hospital.\n\nThe cause of the fire is under investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Modlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStation manager Clainton Murray said the fire was thought to have started in a flat on the fourth floor.\n\n\"The flat was severely damaged by fire and a large part of the roof was also destroyed,\" he said.\n\nDue to fears that the roof could collapse, firefighters evacuated residents from the top floor and helped two people escape from the first floor.\n\nA number of other residents self-evacuated from lower floors, Mr Murray said.\n\nFirefighters believe the blaze started on the fourth floor of Welbeck Mansions\n\nAbout 50 people were evacuated from the flats, the fire service said\n\n\"Firefighters have carried out salvage operations to save, where possible, residents' possessions from water damage,\" he added.\n\n\"In the early stages, the fire was very visible and could be seen for miles around.\"\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokesperson said no injuries have been reported.\n\nA cordon was in place as about 100 firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nAngelica Malin lives near the flats and could see the blaze from her bedroom window.\n\n\"I can see firefighters inside as the roof is on fire and there's two men on cranes working on putting the roof fire out,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so scary - my flat is filled with the smell of smoke. The firemen have been amazing and I feel comforted by the incredible response.\"\n\nIt's quiet now here on the street - there's the police, the fire brigade, and a tiny bit of smoke - you can smell it in the air.\n\nThe fire brigade is dousing the roof of the building as it's still smoking.\n\nThe top of the building is completely gutted.\n\nMany residents are eating biscuits and sandwiches, drinking coffee and consoling each other at the Black Lion pub, which opened its doors to everyone affected.\n\nI chatted to ground-floor resident Irene Bradshaw as she sat on a bench in the street in her night clothes.\n\nShe said residents think they may be allowed to go back in soon and pick up \"some essential things\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade sent 15 crews to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump has welcomed the outcome of a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Washington, saying it was a \"very big day for free and fair trade\".\n\nMr Trump said they had agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers between the US and the European Union. Mr Juncker said it was a \"good meeting\".", "Three major automakers have warned that changes to trade policies are hurting performance.\n\nFord and General Motors lowered profit forecasts for 2018, citing higher steel and aluminium prices caused by new US tariffs.\n\nFiat Chrysler also slashed its 2018 revenue outlook, after sales in China slumped as buyers postponed purchases in anticipation of lower car tariffs.\n\nShares in all three companies fell after they reported results.\n\nGeneral Motors shares ended the day about 5% lower, while Fiat Chrysler shares sank about 11%.\n\nShares in Ford, which reported its earnings to investors results later in the day, dropped about 4% in after hours trade.\n\nFord said tariffs, including on steel and aluminium, could cost it up to $1.6bn (£1.2bn), while General Motors said higher metals prices would add about $600m-$700m to costs.\n\nGeneral Motors chief executive Mary Barra said the firm had anticipated higher costs this year, but \"the challenge has become significantly greater than we expected\".\n\nAt Fiat Chrysler, executives said fixed price contracts have helped to shield it from some of the impact of higher metals prices, but they warned those expenses would rise in 2019.\n\nMs Barra said the firm had been in frequent contact with the White House about how trade policies would affect its business.\n\nIn addition to the metals tariffs, the Trump administration is considering placing new duties on foreign vehicles and car parts.\n\nCarmakers are also grappling with questions about the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).\n\nGeneral Motors said it is also worried that trade tensions could eventually put buyers in China off American brands. China is GM's biggest market after North America.\n\n\"We are in a very uncertain and volatile environment at this time,\" said GM chief financial officer Chuck Stevens.\n\nThe warnings came amid disappointing quarterly results.\n\nFord revenues slipped by 2.3% to $38.9bn, while profits nearly halved as sales in China fell and it halted some production due to a fire at a key parts supplier.\n\nAt GM, sales and revenue fell almost 1% to $36.8bn, despite gains in the US, where the number of vehicles sold to dealerships increased by 4.6% amid increased demand for pickup trucks.\n\nThe firm reported profit of about $2.4bn, down roughly 2.8% year-on-year.\n\nFiat Chrysler revenue increased 4% in the quarter to almost 29bn euros, but profits tumbled by 35%.\n\nThe firm said it expected sales in China to rebound, but faced future challenges as new emissions rules in the country come into effect.", "Dr Kenneth Milner ran the hospital for nearly 40 years\n\nA doctor would have been interviewed for rape and child cruelty over claims a \"truth drug\" was used to carry out abuse at a hospital, had he been alive.\n\nDr Kenneth Milner ran Aston Hall psychiatric hospital in Derbyshire from 1947 to the 1970s, which former patients described as \"pure hell\".\n\nA report by police found 65 children were allegedly drugged to a zombie-like state, stripped and abused.\n\nPolice said there would have been \"sufficient evidence\" to pursue a case.\n\nThe vast majority of the allegations were made against Dr Milner, who died in 1975, and police said no inference should be drawn from the report other than the doctor would be questioned if he were here today.\n\nOther staff members accused of physical abuse have either been eliminated from the inquiry, have died or were unable to be identified.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Derbyshire force, under the direction of the area's safeguarding children's board, started an investigation in February 2016 after concerns were raised about the hospital which closed in the 1990s.\n\nAllegations first came to light in 2011 then 2014 and 2015. No allegations of sexual abuse were identified in 2011 by police.\n\nThen in July 2014 an individual made an allegation of rape followed by another person alleging abuse at the hospital in September of that year.\n\nA deserted Aston Hall hospital pictured in 2008, posted on the Project Mayhem website\n\nIn July 2015 another person came forward and said she was injected, gassed and woke up feeling sore between her legs while at the hospital.\n\nSome children, who were sent to the hospital between the 1950s and 1970s, also claimed they were put in straitjackets.\n\nAs well as the sexual abuse, the report found claims of patients being hit while trying to resist treatment, one having her head repeatedly forced under water, and another having her hair repeatedly pulled to force her to take medication.\n\nAston Hall was opened in the 1920s for those deemed to have mental health problems. It could cater for about 100 children of both sexes, but took adults as well.\n\nAllegations centred on the use of sodium amytal as part of \"narcoanalysis\" - the uncovering of repressed traumatic memories.\n\nSodium amytal, a so-called truth serum, was originally used on traumatised soldiers\n\nBut stories emerged, in part via social media, of children being isolated, stripped and abused sexually, physically and mentally.\n\nPolice collated 115 witness statements, recorded 77 crimes - including 33 instances of physical abuse and 40 sexual - and heard from 65 alleged victims.\n\nStephen Edwards, from law firm Bond Turner, which is representing 47 patients sent to the hospital in the 1960s and 1970s, said the \"horrific treatment\" had \"undoubtedly caused permanent, damaging effects\".\n\n\"Every doctor should have to demonstrate their accountability in treating patients, especially those as vulnerable as children,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was injected with drugs and abused at a mental health hospital as a teenager in the 1960s'\n\nAfter trying to take his own life Jason Stubbings, from Cornwall, was sent to Aston Hall in the 1960s, aged 14, where he said he was injected with drugs and abused.\n\nHe said he remembers being injected with what he now knows is sodium amytal, also known as the truth drug, as well as another drug which is still unknown to him.\n\nMr Stubbings said he was then taken back to a memory where his brother was beating him with a garden cane and it felt like he was being hit at the time.\n\nWhen he woke up, he found his hands had been tied and he had marks on his body.\n\nMr Stubbings also remembers looking out the window once and seeing \"a guy in the exercise yard in a straightjacket screaming\" and thinking he did not know if he was ever going to get out of there.\n\n\"It said on the administration form 'a slight timid boy', and they did that to me,\" he added.\n\nNo evidence of a conspiracy to supply children for abuse was found at Aston Hall\n\nThe report said there were consistent allegations of drugs being given to restrained children, with limited or no records being taken.\n\nCurrent medical opinion was these methods were not acceptable, even by the standards of the day, it added.\n\nBut officers said the length of time since the alleged crimes had proven a major issue - to the extent they had been unable to find out whether some members of staff were still alive.\n\nThe report said: \"Having regard to these difficulties and the scale of the alleged physical and sexual abuse that has emerged in the evidence; we do not consider that it would be either practicable or appropriate for us to attempt to reach firm conclusions on each specific allegation.\n\nMany stories about abuse at Aston Hall came out through social media\n\n\"There would have been sufficient evidence to justify interviewing Dr Milner under caution in relation to a number of potential offences.\"\n\nThe report said the offences would have namely been \"rape, indecent assault contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 1956, Child Cruelty and Assault contrary to Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and Offences Against the Person act 1861 respectively\".\n\nWhile it noted children were sent to Aston Hall from a variety of homes, the report found no evidence of a conspiracy to supply children for abuse.\n\nBarbara O'Hare, who claims she was abused by Dr Milner in the 1970s, told the BBC the report was positive.\n\n\"It gives recognition to what happened to me and others at the hospital and I'm very grateful to the police,\" she said.\n\nDerbyshire Safeguarding Children board said the treatment of children had radically changed and if a similar situation occurred today, there were clear routes for them to raise concerns.\n\nAt least 30 former patients who have submitted a claim for compensation to the Department for Health through a solicitor. Other claims are also believed to have been submitted.\n\nA spokesman for the department has said the matter was under investigation.\n\nAn NSPCC spokesman said the report was \"truly harrowing reading and shines a light on the decades of sickening abuse\".\n\n\"It is crucial that lessons continue to be learned from shocking cases like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video shows people taking refuge in the sea as they try to escape wildfires in the area of Rafina.", "Alfie Dingley's family has paid for treatment in the Netherlands\n\nAs the UK hosts a summit on the state of medical cannabis in Europe, BBC Reality Check asks - does Britain really export more legal cannabis than any other country?\n\nPro-drug reform campaign group Transform says the government is denying that cannabis has medical uses while at the same time overseeing \"the world's biggest government-licensed medical cannabis production and export market\".\n\nThere has been controversy over two boys whose families want them to have legal access to cannabis-based products that are currently illegal in the UK. Six-year-old Alfie Dingley and 12-year-old Billy Caldwell both suffer multiple seizures every day because of rare and treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy.\n\nIt's true that the UK was the main producer and exporter of cannabis-based medicines in 2016, according to the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The majority of it ended up in the US.\n\nVirtually all of that is one drug - Sativex - which is licensed to treat muscle stiffness and spasms in people with multiple sclerosis.\n\nSativex is available throughout the UK but only provided free on the NHS in Wales.\n\nThe Home Office says it doesn't define it as cannabis and that the UK doesn't export any cannabis in its raw form.\n\nBritish Sugar has a horticultural business close to its Wissington sugar beet plant\n\nCannabis, along with many of the more than 100 chemicals it's made up of, is a controlled substance - possession and supply are punishable with fines and imprisonment.\n\nThe family of Alfie Dingley want permission to use cannabis oil from the whole plant, which they believe will work better than any legal alternative.\n\nCannabis is also being grown legally in the UK for another medicine, Epidiolex. It's currently being reviewed for the treatment of two rare forms of uncontrollable epilepsy, by medicine agencies in both the US and Europe. But it's not yet available.\n\nThe specially bred type of cannabis plant used to make it is grown in a glasshouse in Wissington, Norfolk, by British Sugar - which also grows virtually all of the sugar beet in the UK.\n\nBritish Sugar - whose managing director is Paul Kenward - has an exclusive deal with pharmaceutical company GW, which makes Epidiolex. Mr Kenward is married to drugs minister Victoria Atkins.\n\nShe was accused of \"hypocrisy on a grand scale\" over her husband's involvement in a legal cannabis farm. She declared the interest in Parliament when she was appointed in 2017 and excused herself from speaking for the government on cannabis.", "Port, now 43, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nAll but one of 17 Met officers under investigation for the initial response to the serial killer Stephen Port refused to answer questions during interviews with the police watchdog.\n\nIn November 2016 Port was convicted of murdering four young men.\n\nPolice ignored chances to catch him earlier, with the deaths not treated as murders until weeks after the last one.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said its work was \"nearing completion.\"\n\nIt refused to comment on details of the interview process.\n\nThe watchdog - formerly known as the IPCC - originally served misconduct notices on the officers in September 2016, prior to Port's trial.\n\nIn March the following year - after Port had been jailed - the body said its inquiry was moving into the \"interview phase\".\n\nHowever, when - after two months - this had still not started the victims' families publicly expressed anger at the delay.\n\nIn response, investigators told the BBC that a large volume of evidence had been disclosed to the officers, who had \"asked for time to understand and absorb the information that will be put to them in interview, which we have agreed so that the evidence we collect from them is as robust and comprehensive as possible.\"\n\nThen, last summer, the watchdog said that interviews were \"under way\".\n\nHowever, the BBC now understands only one of the 17 officers freely answered questions from investigators.\n\nSeven were interviewed under gross misconduct notices - and ten under misconduct notices.\n\nSixteen of them - as they are entitled to - provided \"no comment\" interviews and instead submitted prepared statements.\n\nOne officer, who was interviewed under a misconduct notice, has since resigned from the force, meaning that even if found to have breached standards of behaviour there is no system of delivering a sanction to them.\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.\n\nAnthony Walgate (L) and Gabriel Kovari (R) were Port's first victims\n\nPort met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat in Barking, east London, where they were drugged before being raped.\n\nHe murdered the four men by giving them fatal overdoses of the date-rape drug GHB.\n\nThe first victim - Anthony Walgate - was found outside Port's flat and the other three either in or next to a nearby churchyard.\n\nPort was jailed for his initial lies about the circumstances of the first death, but police accepted his subsequent excuses - leaving him free to kill again.\n\nWhile on bail - prior to being sentenced - Port struck twice more and once again after coming out of prison.\n\nDaniel Whitworth (L) and Jack Taylor (R) were also killed by Port\n\nPort falsely linked his second and third victims together in order to cover up his crimes.\n\nA fake suicide note found in Daniel Whitworth's hand - which had in fact been written by Port - said he had accidentally killed his lover Gabriel Kovari and was taking his own life as a result.\n\nIn fact, the two victims did not know one another.\n\nPolice accepted the note at face value and treated the deaths as non-suspicious, despite concerns being raised by people close to both men.\n\nThe fake suicide note, written by Port, sought to absolve him of any part in Mr Whitworth's death\n\nAn investigation by the BBC revealed flaws in the evidence given by police at the original inquests for Mr Whitworth and Mr Kovari.\n\nAfter Jack Taylor's death, police were pressured into treating it as suspicious after his family began their own investigation and spotted similarities to the other three deaths.\n\nPort was captured after the case was passed to specialist homicide detectives.\n\nThe initial response had been led by local officers from Barking and Dagenham.\n\nNone of the officers from the successful inquiry are under investigation by the IOPC.\n\nIn a statement, IOPC Regional Director Sarah Green said: \"Our investigation is nearing completion, and I will need to consider the final report carefully before coming to any view on its findings.\n\n\"We continue to keep the families of Stephen Port's victims, and the officers under investigation updated on our progress.\"\n\nScotland Yard said: \"We await the conclusion of an independent IOCC investigation which is currently ongoing.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nInquests into the four deaths are expected next year, with a pre-inquest hearing scheduled to take place on 14 August.", "The parents of Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley want the boys to be able to access cannabis oil legally to control their seizures\n\nDoctors in the UK should have the option to prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products to patients with certain medical conditions, drugs experts have advised the government.\n\nThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommends rules should be changed for these medications, if safe.\n\nIt comes after high profile cases involving children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nThe government must now agree on a definition for these products.\n\nThe Council recommended that clinical trials be carried out urgently to improve understanding of medicinal cannabis products, as well as their safety and effectiveness.\n\nIts advice is in line with a recent review by the chief medical officer for England.\n\nProf Dame Sally Davies said there was conclusive evidence of the therapeutic benefit of prescribing cannabis-based products for certain medical conditions.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he was \"carefully considering\" both recommendations and would make a decision shortly.\n\nThe Home Office recently granted Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley, boys who have rare forms of epilepsy, a short-term licence to allow them access to cannabis oil, which their parents say helps to control their seizures.\n\nCannabis for recreational use will remain illegal.\n\nThe Council's advice is that only products meeting definitions decided on by the Home Office and the Department of Health will be moved out of schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 into schedule 2, which allows them to be prescribed by clinicians.\n\nSchedule 1 includes drugs not used for medical purposes, such as hallucinogenic drugs, raw opium and cannabis.\n\nThe Council said there were still potential risks if cannabis-derived medicinal products were prescribed inappropriately and these needed to be carefully considered to avoid harm to patients.\n\nDr Owen Bowden-Jones, chair of the ACMD, said: \"At present, cannabis-derived products can vary greatly in their composition, effectiveness and level of impurity.\n\n\"It is important that clinicians, patients and their families are confident that any prescribed medication is both safe and effective.\n\n\"The ACMD recommends that an appropriate definition be agreed by DHSC and MHRA promptly.\n\n\"Only products meeting this standard and definition should be given medicinal status.\"\n\nIt stressed that rules for synthetic cannabinoids, which are found in products such as 'Spice', would not be changed.\n• None Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is a 90-minute wait for check-in with no facilities and a four-hour wait after that\n\n\"Unprecedented\" high temperatures have been blamed for delays to cross-Channel rail services leaving customers waiting for more than five hours in 30C heat.\n\nAir conditioning problems meant some carriages could not be used, which led to the delays, Eurotunnel said.\n\nPeople voicing their frustration online tweeted pictures of the queues and children and pets getting hosed down.\n\nThousands of tickets have also been cancelled for Friday, for passengers returning that day or Saturday.\n\nEurotunnel suggested people cancel trips if they were able to and warned that ferry companies \"do not have the availability take any of our customers\".\n\nThe firm said it planned to run additional trains through Thursday night and more wagons will become available as temperatures cool.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children kept cool by playing in water hydrants\n\nTemperatures in east Kent are currently at 30C, according to BBC weather forecasters. One driver said they had recorded 44.1C in a car.\n\nEurotunnel said the queues were on the UK side because of the sheer numbers of France-bound passengers at the start of the holidays.\n\nTravellers were forced to queue for 90 minutes just to check in, and a further five hours for the next available slot, according to the operator.\n\nThe scene was described on social media as \"boarding chaos\"\n\nStaff have left a water hose running for children and dogs\n\nJust before 10:00 BST, Eurotunnel tweeted: \"Due to the unprecedented temperatures and level of traffic booked today, customers arriving early [more than 2 hours before booked travel time] will not be able to check in.\"\n\nHowever, as disruption grew worse, customers took to social media with Ian W advising people on Twitter to \"get the ferry\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian W This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStewart Brownrigg, who tweeted pictures of the queues and children and pets getting hosed down, said: \"Kudos to the #eurotunnel staff for keeping their cool while everyone else around was losing theirs! My anger is with the company, the staff here have been doing their best in the baking heat.\"\n\nDickie Whitaker tweeted: \"Delays on @LeShuttle not great in this heat but some managers came out to help and were cheerful which is appreciated.\"\n\nVolunteers are handing out bottles of water at the terminal\n\nPeople waiting in the Folkestone boarding lanes were told to collect bottles of water from a refrigerated van.\n\nOthers waiting to check-in were urged to carry plenty of drinking water and take a comfort break beforehand.\n\nEurotunnel said: \"We strongly recommend you stock up with drinking water before you arrive at our terminal, there is a long queue to check-in with no access to facilities.\"\n\nStewart Brownrigg said on Twitter \"at least the dogs and kids are getting cooled down\"\n\nEurotunnel carries passengers in cars, vans and other vehicles through the tunnel.\n\nEurostar, which runs foot passenger services between London and several European cities, said its services had not been affected.\n\nOne driver waiting to leave Folkestone recorded a temperature of 44.1C in their car\n\nEurotunnel tweeted that those travelling with pets were welcome to take them into the passenger terminal lounge and also the toilet area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Eurotunnel Le Shuttle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis overheated classic Peugeot gave up and had to be pushed\n\nAbout 12,000 vehicles are trying to cross to France at the start of the holidays, compared with 3,000 on an average, off-peak day.\n\nA Eurotunnel spokesman said: \"We'll keep things moving. Whether we are able to get everything clear depends on temperature and certain other elements.\n\n\"We are doing everything we possibly can. We know this is a critical time of year.\n\n\"Everything is hot inside the trains. The cars are hot. The engines are hot. All of that is putting pressure on the air conditioning.\"\n\nOne traveller captured a picture of departure screens next to a news broadcast about the hottest day of the year\n• None How hot is it where you are?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michelle Beckett said ADHD nearly cost her her life\n\nSome adults wait more than seven years to be diagnosed with ADHD because of huge waiting lists, a charity has said.\n\nADHD Action has lobbied the government to start recording adult ADHD figures, as it already does with autism.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists said people with the behavioural disorder were more likely to commit crime or become suicidal.\n\nAbout 1.5 million adults in the UK have the condition, ADHD Action said, but only 120,000 are formally diagnosed.\n\nDr Louise Theodosiou, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said an adult with the condition was more likely to take drugs, commit crime or end up in prison.\n\n\"ADHD is connected with higher rates of suicide, depression and other mental health needs and untreated ADHD can also impact physical health,\" she said.\n\n\"People can be in a very serious condition while they wait for treatment.\"\n\nMichelle Beckett, 45, from Harrogate, was diagnosed with adult ADHD in 2017, after being misdiagnosed in her early 20s. Since then she has required support from mental health services and set up ADHD Action following her diagnosis.\n\n\"ADHD nearly killed me,\" she said. \"I was suicidal. How many people have lost their lives because they haven't been able to access the treatment, and understand the way their brain works?\"\n\nMs Beckett is now campaigning for better ADHD services and through her charity became involved in the setting up of the all-party Parliamentary Group for ADHD earlier this year.\n\nNHS prescriptions for ADHD medications have more than doubled over the past decade\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said it was \"determined to see improvements in access to ADHD services\" and was \"looking into how data can be collected to support quicker diagnosis and care for patients\".\n\nThey added: \"Early intervention is essential in supporting anyone with ADHD and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence recently updated guidance to make it easier for doctors to spot and diagnose the condition.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steven Spencer said the way people treated him could be \"soul-destroying\"\n\nSteven Spencer, 42, from Haxby in York, was diagnosed after trying to get help for 15 years.\n\nHe has suffered with anxiety and depression and has been suicidal.\n\n\"It's not that you speak too much or you're fidgety, it's that - maybe because you have less of an ability to retain information - people have to explain things more, over and over again,\" he explained.\n\n\"You know you're not an idiot but you're treated that way by other people. That in itself is soul-destroying.\"\n\nMr Spencer said at primary school he was \"thrown in the corner by my ear all the time\" because he could not sit and concentrate.\n\n\"I was full of energy,\" he said. \"Now they understand these kids are rocking and fidgeting to help them concentrate.\"\n\nMr Spencer said when he asked to access help his GP \"laughed in his face\".\n\n\"He basically said, 'adults don't have ADHD, you should have grown out of it by now'.\"\n\nMs Beckett said finding out she had ADHD, even in her 40s, had changed her life.\n\n\"It just explained my whole life,\" she said. \"Why I find things overwhelming, why I can't direct my attention, why I struggle to regulate my emotions.\n\n\"People tell me they've been on the waiting list for three years and we've heard of over seven years in some parts of the country.\n\n\"This cannot continue. People are suffering, and the UK is suffering as a result.\n\n\"The NHS will save money fairly quickly by addressing ADHD, as so much is currently wasted on inappropriate treatments and medications for anxiety and depression, when the underlying cause is ADHD.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon has reported record quarterly profits helped by a rise in online sales and demand for its cloud services.\n\nProfits hit a record $2.53bn (£1.9bn) in the three months to the end of June - about 12 times more than it made during the same period last year.\n\nSales rose by 39% to $52.89bn, slightly less than analysts had been forecasting.\n\nAmazon's shares jumped more than 3% in after-hours trade.\n\n\"It was a strong quarter,\" said chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky. \"What I attribute it to is continued strength in some of our most profitable areas.\"\n\nAt the firm's lucrative cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, sales were up nearly 50% year-on-year to $6.1bn.\n\nAmazon is also starting to attract more money from advertising.\n\nRevenue from the firm's \"other\" category, which includes advertising, more than doubled to about $2.2bn.\n\nRetail sales in North America were healthy as well, rising about 44% to almost $32.2bn.\n\nRecruitment slowed in the quarter. Amazon is also starting to reap the benefits of previous infrastructure investments, allowing for less rapid spending growth, Mr Olsavsky said.\n\nDaniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights, said Amazon's profitability appears to be accelerating faster than expected.\n\nThat, he wrote, will be \"music to ears of investors\" who have stood by Amazon and its famously long-term approach to deferring profit in favour of reinvesting in the company.\n\nAmazon is expected to account for roughly half of online sales in the US this year, according to research firm eMarketer.\n\nThe company told investors that it expects third quarter sales in the range of $54bn- $57.5bn, growth of 23% to 31%.", "Facebook shares fell sharply on Thursday, after the social media network warned investors of slowing revenue gains and increased spending.\n\nThe firm's shares closed nearly 19% lower, wiping more than $120bn (£92bn) off Facebook's market value.\n\nThe fall also dragged down the tech-rich Nasdaq share index, which closed 1% lower.\n\nFacebook's forecast came as the firm faces a backlash over its handling of fake news and user data.\n\nThe company said it expected to boost spending by 50% or more, as it tries to improve the way it monitors content, tracks advertisers and treats user data - areas where it has faced regulator scrutiny.\n\nThe firm also warned investors that revenue growth would be hurt as people make use of new options to limit advertising and less profitable overseas markets drive growth.\n\nFacebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said its margins would shrink to the mid-30% range, from about 44% in the most recent quarter.\n\nThe concerns, despite Facebook's year-on-year revenue growth of more than 40% in the most recent quarter, appeared to infect some other technology stocks.\n\nTwitter, which has faced similar criticism to Facebook and is due to report quarterly results to investors on Friday, closed down by nearly 3%.\n\nAlphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, and also relies on digital advertising, ended the day less than 1% lower (0.75%), while music streaming service Spotify gained almost 4.5%, after reporting stronger than expected user growth.\n\nMany of the factors affecting Facebook are unique to the company, said Daniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights.\n\nFacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before regulators this year\n\nThe firm has been in the spotlight for its involvement with data firm Cambridge Analytica.\n\nFacebook has also changed the news feed to emphasise posts from family and friends, tweaks that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had previously cautioned would affect profitability.\n\nAnalyst Richard Greenfield of BTIG Research wrote in a note that investors were \"overreacting\".\n\nHe said Facebook remained a rich opportunity for advertisers, and the investments it is making should drive long term growth.\n\n\"We were pretty stressed out during Facebook's Q2 2018 conference call and could sense the fear/panic in investors voices afterwards,\" he wrote.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Mobile is eating the world and Facebook is a core holding to benefit from that shift.\"", "Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley were granted licences to allow them access to cannabis oil\n\nSpecialist doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products by autumn, the home secretary has announced.\n\nThose that meet safety and quality standards are to be made legal for patients with an \"exceptional clinical need\", Sajid Javid said.\n\nAs it is a devolved matter, it will require legislative change before it is enforced in Northern Ireland.\n\nMany had previously been denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nOthers forms of cannabis will remain illegal.\n\nMr Javid's decision was made after the chief medical officer for England, Prof Dame Sally Davies, and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said patients with certain medical conditions should be given access to the treatments.\n\nTheir advice was part of a review into medicinal cannabis launched by the home secretary following an outcry over Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley being denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nThe parents of the boys, who have rare forms of epilepsy, say it controls their seizures.\n\nCharlotte Caldwell said her son, Billy, would now be able to live a \"normal life\"\n\nThe Home Office recently granted them licences to access the treatments.\n\nMr Javid said: \"Recent cases involving sick children made it clear to me that our position on cannabis-related medicinal products was not satisfactory.\n\n\"That is why we launched a review and set up an expert panel to advise on licence applications in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"This will help patients with an exceptional clinical need but is in no way a first step to the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cannabis-derived medicines: What you need to know\n\nBilly Caldwell's mother, Charlotte, said Mr Javid's announcement had been made on her son's 13th birthday.\n\n\"For the first time in months I'm almost lost for words, other than 'thank you Sajid Javid',\" she said.\n\n\"Never has Billy received a better birthday present, and never from somebody so unexpected...\n\n\"But, crucially, my little boy Billy can now live a normal life with his mummy because of the simple ability to now administer a couple of drops a day of a long-maligned but entirely effective natural medication.\"\n\nThe Department of Health says legalising medicinal cannabis in NI is a devolved matter for local politicians\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"The rescheduling of cannabis-derived medicinal products is a devolved matter and requires legislative change.\n\n\"The Department of Health notes the advice provided by experts during the two-part review commissioned by the Home Secretary.\n\n\"Consideration will be given to rescheduling cannabis-derived medicinal products in Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK\n\n\"In the interim, clinicians may still apply to the Home Office Expert Panel should they wish to use a cannabis-based medicine in the treatment of a patient.\"\n\nThe government and medicines regulator are to develop a clear definition of what constitutes a cannabis-derived medicinal product\n\nCannabis is classed as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it is judged to have no therapeutic value but can be used for the purposes of research with a Home Office licence.\n\nThe decision by the Home Office will put certain cannabis-derived products into Schedule 2 - those that have a potential medical use - and will place them in the same category as cocaine and heroin, among other drugs.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will now develop a clear definition of what constitutes a cannabis-derived medicinal product so they can be rescheduled and prescribed, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the meantime, clinicians will still be able to apply to an independent expert panel on behalf of patients wishing to access these products.\n\nThe home secretary said licence fees for applications made to the panel will be waived, and those already granted will not be charged.\n\nThe home secretary's decision was welcomed by campaigners and health experts.\n\nDonna Kinnair, from the Royal College of Nursing, said the decision was \"very welcome\".\n\nDr Tom Freeman, senior academic fellow at King's College London, said Mr Javid's decision would have a \"substantial impact on research by facilitating the development of safer and more effective medicines\".\n\nFormer justice minister Sir Mike Penning, who was among those appealing for Alfie Dingley to be given a special licence for medicinal cannabis, welcomed the announcement but said there were still unanswered questions about which treatments would be rescheduled.\n\n\"Any move to restrict medical cannabis in the UK to a very narrow range of derived products, each requiring full pharmaceutical trials, thereby blocking out the many products available overseas, will lead to great disappointment and be a missed opportunity.\"\n• None Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Akram and Khan were two of Pakistan's most successful cricketers\n\nNewsnight has apologised for showing footage of Pakistan bowler Wasim Akram instead of his former teammate-turned-politician Imran Khan.\n\nThe BBC Two news programme opened on Wednesday night with a piece about Khan's journey from cricket star to potential Pakistani prime minister.\n\nBut footage showed left-arm bowler Akram instead of the right-handed all-rounder Khan.\n\nPresenter Evan Davis apologised at the end of the programme.\n\n\"We made a mistake in our opening tonight. The footage we showed was of the cricketer Wasim Akram not Imran Khan.\n\n\"Don't know how that happened, sincere apologies for that,\" he told viewers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Newsnight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Thursday, a BBC spokesperson said: \"We'd like to reiterate the sincere apology we made on air last night for an error that occurred during the programme.\n\n\"We are looking into how this mistake happened and will be tightening our processes on Newsnight to prevent an incident like this happening again.\"\n\nKhan could be on course to be the next leader of Pakistan\n\nMany viewers were quick to point out the error on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Idoru This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Masud Khokhar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarly results from Pakistan's election suggested on Thursday that Khan is on course to become prime minister.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PML-N supporters and others accuse the military of trying to rig the election\n\nThe run-up to Pakistan's general election on Wednesday has been marred by allegations of pre-poll rigging, intimidation and the muzzling of the media, writes Gul Bukhari, who was briefly kidnapped by masked men in Lahore's army cantonment area in June.\n\nUntil a few months ago, protest chants accusing Pakistan's powerful military of terrorism were rarely heard in the country's main cities.\n\nBut they came to central Lahore on 13 July, the day former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam returned from London to begin their prison sentences.\n\nBy last Friday, the chant - \"ye jo dehshat gardi hai, is ke peehchay wardi hai\" (\"the military uniform is behind this terrorism\") - could be heard on the streets of Rawalpindi, not far from military headquarters.\n\nIn a stunningly brazen move, a hearing for a seven-year-old narcotics case involving Mr Sharif's PML-N party stalwart Hanif Abbasi was moved forward from August to 21 July, and a life sentence handed down at 23:30 on Saturday, four days ahead of the general election, effectively knocking him out of the race.\n\nMr Abbasi was the frontrunner in his constituency against Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who served in both Gen Zia and Gen Musharraf's governments and is an ally of Mr Sharif's arch-rival Imran Khan, who leads the PTI party. Any focus on the merits of the case was overshadowed by outrage at the timing of the verdict.\n\nThousands attended rallies to welcome Nawaz Sharif back, but the media did not carry any of the protests in Lahore or Rawalpindi. Social media, in contrast, was flooded with pictures, videos and discussion.\n\nImran Khan is seen as the favourite of the military\n\nContrary to the establishment's expectations, the popularity of Mr Sharif and his party held its ground after he was ousted on corruption charges in July last year. His accusations of military interference caught the public's imagination.\n\nTo counter this, a fierce crackdown on the media was unleashed. Market leader Geo Television was taken off air in April, and the distribution of Pakistan's oldest newspaper, Dawn, has been disrupted since May.\n\nAfter months of financial losses, Geo reportedly agreed to the security establishment's demands to self-censor and abide by strict guidelines. After this surrender, the industry as a whole fell into line and none of the media houses dared show Mr Sharif's political rallies or his daughter's fiery speeches.\n\nWith the media on its knees, it was left to activists on Twitter and Facebook to continue the fight. The voices here remained feisty and openly angry at the judicial-military nexus, accusing them of violating their mandate and preventing voters from exercising their will in the general election.\n\nThe conversation on social media continues to survive and thrive amid a terrifying onslaught of threats and abductions. Journalists, too, have taken to social media to air what they cannot on their screens or in their newspaper stories and op-eds.\n\nMr Sharif seems to have won this round of the battle. Seen as a man who could have lived a comfortable life in exile and attended to his seriously ill spouse, he has returned to Pakistan to face certain incarceration in his fight for civil supremacy.\n\nSuccessive opinion polls putting him ahead against all opponents, and the social media backlash, indicate he has managed to win sympathy for himself - and resentment at attempts by the judicial-military nexus to re-engineer the political landscape.\n\nWith two days to go before the election, unexpected public defiance, especially in Punjab, a PML-N stronghold and hitherto a bastion of military power, has led to redoubled efforts to tip the scales in favour of the security establishment's favourite, Imran Khan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWith dimming hopes the public will reject Mr Sharif and embrace the former cricketer-turned-politician, the courts have been redeployed at the frontlines - Mr Abbasi's shock life sentence being a case in point.\n\nClearly, with scores of candidates disqualified, jailed or coerced away from standing for the PML-N, and journalists and social media users harassed amid an atmosphere of terror, Mr Sharif's party is no longer expected to sweep the polls come 25 July.\n\nBut if his party bags anything over 90 of the 272 directly elected seats in the National Assembly, down from about 130 in 2013, it could well remain the largest party in parliament. That would be viewed as a vindication of Mr Sharif's open defiance of the military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half of its history.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Ellis said she had flown \"about 1,000 aeroplanes\" during the war\n\nOne of the last living female World War Two pilots, Mary Ellis, has died aged 101 at her home on the Isle of Wight.\n\nMrs Ellis was a member of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and delivered Spitfires and bombers to the front line during the conflict.\n\nShe said she had flown \"about 1,000 aeroplanes\" during the war, before moving to the Isle of Wight in 1950 to take charge of Sandown Airport.\n\nATA secretary John Webster described Mrs Ellis as an \"amazing\" person.\n\nWhile she was commonly known as the last-surviving female pilot from the war, in fact there are three others.\n\nMr Webster said that one, Eleanor Wadsworth, lives in Bury St Edmunds, another, Nancy Stratford, lives in the US and the other, Jaye Edwards, lives in Canada.\n\nMary Ellis, then Mary Wilkins, joined the ATA in 1941 after hearing an advertisement for women pilots on BBC radio.\n\nShe said at the time they were known as the \"Glamour Girls\", adding: \"There were plenty of escorts around.\"\n\nMrs Ellis continued to attend events linked to the RAF\n\nMary Ellis served from 1941 until the end of the war\n\nShe married Don Ellis, a fellow pilot, in 1961, and continued to live in their marital home beside the runway at Sandown after his death in 2009.\n\nSpeaking at a surprise party in 2017 for her 100th birthday - held at the airport - Mrs Ellis said the Spitfire had always been her favourite aircraft.\n\n\"I love it, it's everybody's favourite,\" she said. \"I think it's a symbol of freedom.\"\n\nTributes have been paid to Mrs Ellis by fellow pilots, including Red Arrow flier Mike Ling.\n\nHe posted on Twitter that she was a \"legend of the Air Transport Auxiliary\".\n\n\"I hope you are enjoying a well-earned sherry up there with Joy Lofthouse [a fellow ATA pilot] again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Ling MBE (Red 3) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRAF veteran and military historian Sally McGlone also paid tribute to her.\n\nShe wrote on Twitter: \"Older than the RAF by one year.\n\n\"Without the ATA #RAF100 might not have happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar has responded after crowds at a presidential rally chanted \"send her back\".\n\nThe Minnesota representative said: \"We are Americans as much as everyone else.\"\n\nDonald Trump was cheered at Wednesday's rally in North Carolina after continuing his attacks on the four non-white Democrat congresswomen, known as \"The Squad\".\n\nThe chanting resembled the words that Mr Trump's supporters shouted about Hillary Clinton during his presidential campaign in 2016.", "Labour peers could hold a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn's leadership over his response to claims of anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nThis follows the sacking of Baroness Hayter - a critic of Mr Corbyn over the issue - as shadow Brexit minister.\n\nThe BBC understands Labour peers will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to consider a motion calling for a no-confidence vote.\n\nIf passed, a ballot of all Labour peers will follow.\n\nThe result would not affect Mr Corbyn's position, however, as it is an expression of opinion rather than in any way binding.\n\nBut BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said such a vote would be \"extraordinary and unprecedented\".\n\nIt is understood there is widespread anger among Labour peers at the sacking of Baroness Hayter after she reportedly compared the approach of Mr Corbyn's staff to that of \"the bunker\" in Downfall, a 2004 film depicting Adolf Hitler's final days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe peer was critical of Mr Corbyn's inner circle, who she claimed had refused to give the party's ruling National Executive Committee key information on party finances, membership figures and anti-Semitism data.\n\nBaroness Hayter was also was one of four peers who wrote to Mr Corbyn earlier this week calling for an inquiry into allegations in the BBC's Panorama that senior figures in the party had interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nShe was cheered by both sides of the House of Lords on Thursday when she entered the chamber and took her place on the Labour back benches.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's World at One, Baroness Hayter said she had not \"heard from\" Labour's leadership to tell her she had been sacked, but the news had been released to the Corbyn-supporting news blog Skwawkbox.\n\nShe added: \"I haven't been asked to apologise.\"\n\nBaroness Hayter also said: \"I've always supported Jeremy Corbyn since he was elected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said that Baroness Hayter had been sacked \"for her deeply offensive remarks about Jeremy Corbyn and his office\".\n\nHe added: \"To compare the Labour leader and Labour Party staff working to elect a Labour government to the Nazi regime is truly contemptible, and grossly insensitive to Jewish staff in particular.\"\n\nBaroness Hayter remains Labour's elected deputy leader in the House of Lords, as this - unlike the role of shadow Brexit minister - is an elected, rather than appointed, position.\n\nStaff working for Labour have voted to condemn the party's official response to the Panorama on claims of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe GMB union's branch of party workers voted 124-to-four to call on the leadership to issue an apology for attacks on whistleblowers.\n\nThe motion said there was a \"mental health crisis\" among Labour party staff. It said it was \"unacceptable for an employee's workload or the culture of an organisation to cause staff to have breakdowns or to contemplate suicide\". Such claims were made by party workers in the programme.\n\nLabour said it would \"fully investigate\" any complaints.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Over the course of his career, Sir Paul McCartney has written films, oratorios, poetry collections, children's books and more than 100 hit singles.\n\nNow, at the age of 77, he has a new challenge: His first stage musical.\n\nThe star is working on an adaptation of Frank Capra's classic It's A Wonderful Life, the story of a suicidal man saved by his guardian angel.\n\nSir Paul, who was four when the film was released in 1946, called it \"a universal story we can all relate to\".\n\nThe musical is set to debut in \"late 2020\", according to producer Bill Kenwright, whose previous credits include the West End show Blood Brothers and the touring version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.\n\nLee Hall, who wrote Billy Elliot and the recent Elton John biopic Rocketman, is penning the script and collaborating with Sir Paul on the lyrics.\n\n\"It's A Wonderful Life is my favourite film,\" said the Tony Award-winner. \"It has absolutely everything - comedy, pathos and a rare humanity which has touched generation after generation.\n\n\"To give it a life on the stage is an immense privilege in itself, but to do with Paul McCartney is off the scale.\n\n\"Paul's wit, emotional honesty and melodic brilliance brings a whole new depth and breadth to the classic tale. I feel as if an angel must be looking after me.\"\n\nThe beloved film starred James Stewart as George Bailey. Karolyn Grimes played Zuzu, his daughter.\n\nThis is not the first time that Capra's Oscar-nominated film has been turned into a musical.\n\nAn ill-fated adaptation was staged in the US in 1986, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler On The Roof) and music by Joe Raposo, a composer on the TV show Sesame Street, where he wrote C Is For Cookie and Sing - which was later covered by the Carpenters.\n\nInitially performed at the University of Michigan, it suffered repeated delays arising from a dispute over the rights to the story upon which the film was based, Philip Van Doren Stern's novella The Greatest Gift.\n\nBy the time the first professional production was staged, in 1991, Raposo had died of cancer. A 2006 off-Broadway revival received mixed reviews, with the New York Times criticising changes to the film's plot, and the show's lack of \"emotional punch.\"\n\nReviewer Anita Gates concluded: \"It used to be A Wonderful Life\".\n\nA more recent adaptation, by Keith Ferguson and Bruce Greer, still tours churches and schools around the US.\n\nBill Kenwright says he harboured ambitions to turn the film into a musical long before either of the US productions took shape, writing to director Frank Capra to seek permission at the very start of his career.\n\nDespite receiving a \"lovely handwritten letter by reply,\" his approach was turned down. Decades later, he was offered the rights \"out of the blue\" and approached Sir Paul to see if he'd be interested in writing the music.\n\n\"Like many of these things this all started with an email,\" said the former Beatle.\n\n\"Writing a musical is not something that had ever really appealed to me but Bill and I met up with Lee Hall and had a chat and I found myself thinking this could be interesting and fun.\"\n\n\"The songs take you somewhere you don't expect to go. They sound simple - but it's deceptive. That's Paul's genius.\"\n\nStarring James Stewart and Donna Reed, It's A Wonderful Life struggled at the box office upon release in 1946.\n\nHowever, it went on to become a beloved Christmas staple and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made.\n\nSir Paul's music has frequently been used on stage, notably in Cirque Du Soleil's ambitious Beatles show, Love.\n\nThe star also wrote a movie musical, Give My Regards to Broad Street, which was savaged by critics upon its release in 1984.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in Asos have sunk after the online fashion giant said that this year's profits are likely to be much lower than expectations.\n\nThe retailer said sales growth in the US and Europe had been held back by problems at its warehouses.\n\nThese problems meant that the range of clothes available to shoppers in these markets had been limited.\n\nAs a result, it now expects to report profits of £30m-£35m this year, well below the £55m forecast by analysts.\n\nAsos chief executive Nick Beighton said overhauling its US and European warehouses had taken longer than anticipated, affecting its \"stock availability, sales and cost base in these regions\".\n\nHe added that the company was clear on what was causing the problems and was making progress on resolving them.\n\nHowever, Asos said that while the warehouse problems were \"short-term in nature\", it added it might take \"some time\" to regain customers who had been affected.\n\nTotal sales across the group rose by 12% in the four months to 30 June, Asos said, and in the UK - where trading \"remained robust\" - sales grew by 16%.\n\nHowever, the \"operational challenges\" at its warehouses in Berlin and Atlanta had caused problems in the US and Europe, where sales were up 12% and 5% respectively.\n\nAsos has enjoyed rapid growth in recent years as it has benefited from the shift towards shopping online.\n\nHowever, last December it surprised investors with a shock profit warning, and the company's share price has now more than halved over the past year.\n\nShares in Asos opened down 20% on Thursday following the latest warning, before recovering some ground to stand 12% lower.\n\nAnalysts at Liberum said the latest warning suggested that serious questions needed answering.\n\n\"The operational issues in Europe and the US signal to us a lack of enough senior leaders in the business with the adequate skill-set in the business to undertake the complex capital projects ongoing,\" they said.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: \"Fashion fans have plenty of places from which to buy clothes and so Asos is at risk of losing out to the competition if it cannot fix its problems fast.\n\n\"We live in an impatient world where so many people want something in an instant. If Asos doesn't have the stock ready to ship then consumers will simply go elsewhere.\"\n\nHowever, Sofie Willmott, an analyst at research firm GlobalData, was more upbeat, arguing that the \"changes being made to US and EU distribution centres are vital to facilitate long-term growth in these key markets\".\n\nShe added that the future \"remains bright for Asos\".\n\n\"The retailer's agility and willingness to change to remain relevant to its customer base will help it to continue gaining market share, both at home and abroad.''", "Deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids like oxycodone fell by 14.5%\n\nDrug overdose deaths in the US have fallen for the first time since 1999, according to preliminary official data.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showed a drop of 5.1% in 2018 from the year before.\n\nHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said this was down to a decline in deaths linked to opioids.\n\nUS efforts \"to curb opioid use disorder and addiction are working,\" he said in a statement, although he added the issue \"will not be solved overnight\".\n\nThe US is in the midst of an opioid crisis, with hundreds of thousands thought to have died over the last few decades.\n\nFatal drug overdose numbers rose every year from 1999 to 2017, including a sharp spike between 2014 and 2017.\n\nExperts partially blame the overprescription of powerful and addictive painkillers for the epidemic.\n\nThe CDC research shows that an estimated 68,557 people died in 2018, down from 72,224 people in 2017.\n\nDeaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids - painkillers like morphine, codeine and oxycodone - fell by 14.5%, the sharpest drop for any drug category.\n\nHowever, those linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl still rose. Fentanyl is said to be up to 100 times stronger than morphine and has flooded the illegal US drugs market.\n\nThe numbers of deaths attributed to cocaine and methamphetamine also rose in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Lives are being saved, and we're beginning to win the fight against this crisis,\" Mr Azar's statement said, praising efforts by the Trump administration and community efforts across the US for the shift.\n\nBut while he described the decline as \"encouraging\", Mr Azar said \"by no means have we declared victory against the epidemic or addiction in general\".\n\n\"This crisis developed over two decades and it will not be solved overnight.\"\n\nThe Washington Post reports that the biggest US drug companies gave out 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills between 2006 and 2012.", "The House of Lords has backed an attempt to prevent a future prime minister suspending Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe measure will now go to MPs for a vote on Thursday, after peers defeated the government by 272 votes to 169.\n\nTory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has not ruled out suspending Parliament to ensure the UK could leave by 31 October, even without a deal.\n\nLabour said suspension would be \"constitutionally improper\".\n\nMr Johnson's leadership rival, Jeremy Hunt, has ruled it out.\n\nIf the 31 October deadline is reached without a deal being agreed, the UK will leave the EU without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nThe Lords cross-party measure to prevent a suspension came in the form of an amendment to a bill on restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland.\n\nLast week, MPs amended the bill to require ministers to give fortnightly reports to Parliament throughout October on progress to restore devolution.\n\nThe hope of those behind that amendment was that it would make it more difficult for Parliament to be shut down.\n\nThe latest move by peers is designed to strengthen that position, by making sure the fortnightly reports would have to be physically debated in the Commons and therefore it could not be suspended.\n\nThe amendment will have to be approved by MPs on Thursday in order to make it into the final version of the bill.\n\nFormer independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Anderson said it would require Parliament to sit at specified intervals between September and December.\n\nAlso backing the move, Labour peer Lord Goldsmith said suspending - or proroguing - Parliament to push through no deal would be \"a very bad idea\".\n\n\"It's Parliament who ensures we remain a free land - that is how we do our democracy. To allow that to be set aside would be wrong,\" he added.\n\nGovernment minister Lord Duncan of Springbank opposed the amendment, arguing it would send a message that peers can \"use Northern Ireland for different purposes when we choose to do so\".\n\nAlso opposing the move, Conservative peer Lord True said Mr Johnson had \"never said\" he would suspend Parliament, and \"outrage\" about the possibility of this occurring has been \"got up\" by \"Remainers\".\n\nFormer Tory prime minister John Major has said he would seek a judicial review in the courts if the new prime minister tried to suspend Parliament.\n\nCampaigner Gina Miller has threatened the same action.\n\nTory MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who opposes a no-deal Brexit, has warned that any attempt to do so is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.\n• None What would change with a no-deal Brexit?", "The incident happened on the Borders Railway between Edinburgh and Galashiels\n\nA train passenger was told \"get back to your own country\" during an incident of racist abuse on the Borders Railway.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the man was also the victim of \"racially charged swearing\" on the service between Edinburgh and Galashiels.\n\nHe was travelling with his young daughter when the incident happened between 14:00 and 14:20 on 11 July.\n\nBoth the suspect and his victim left the train at Galashiels, when the abuse continued, resulting in a scuffle.\n\nThe same suspect was also seen being racially abusive towards another man on the train.\n\nThe abuser has been described as white, of medium build and with short, dark brown hair.\n\nHe was unshaven and wearing a T-shirt, an over-sized blue hoodie with a zip, and dark trousers and trainers.\n\nThe incident happened on the 13:24 train from Edinburgh Waverley to Galashiels.\n\nOfficers would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the offence.\n\nThey are particularly keen to speak to the second man who was racially abused.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hashem Abedi was arrested in Tripoli by members of the Rada Special Deterrence Force a day after the attack\n\nThe younger brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi is to appear in court charged with murdering the 22 victims of the attack, police say.\n\nHashem Abedi, 22, was detained in Libya shortly after the May 2017 suicide bombing in which hundreds were injured.\n\nHe was extradited earlier, and arrested by British officers upon his arrival in the UK, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nMr Abedi will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, the force said.\n\nPolice said prosecutors had authorised them to bring charges against Mr Abedi in respect of:\n\nLibyan authorities handed Mr Abedi over to British police officers, who escorted him on a flight which left Mitiga Airport, near Tripoli, at 10:30 BST.\n\nThe university engineering student, who was born in Manchester, was transferred to a police station in London upon his arrival in the UK.\n\nFamilies of the victims and survivors were the first to be informed of the developments, police said.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nBoth brothers travelled to Libya in April 2017, before Salman Abedi returned alone to carry out the attack on 22 May.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the bombing while a total of 112 needed hospital treatment after the attack.\n\nGMP was granted a warrant for Mr Abedi's arrest in November 2017.\n\nA Libyan court had previously agreed to extradite Mr Abedi to the UK because he is a British citizen but the extradition process was delayed by fighting in Libya.\n\nHashem Abedi was transferred to a police station in London upon his arrival in the UK\n\nThis has meant the inquests into the deaths of the 22 victims were delayed, with family members told that the full hearings were not likely to begin until April 2020 at the earliest.\n\nNo-one has previously been charged over the Manchester Arena attack despite police raids after the bombing.\n\nA 2018 report said 23 people arrested in the UK were all released without charge.\n\nAbout 14,000 people were at the Manchester Arena for a concert when Salman Abedi, pictured, detonated a device\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said it was \"right and proper\" that those affected by the \"appalling\" attack will be able \"to see a judicial process on British soil\".\n\n\"Today is an important day in the recovery process for our city,\" he added.", "Baroness Hayter remains Labour's elected deputy leader in the House of Lords\n\nA senior Labour peer has been sacked as shadow Brexit minister for saying Jeremy Corbyn was leading the party with a \"bunker mentality\".\n\nBaroness Hayter said Mr Corbyn's team's refusal to acknowledge criticism - such as of the party's handling of allegations of anti-Semitism - was similar to the \"last days of Hitler\".\n\nA Labour spokesman described her remarks as \"deeply offensive\".\n\nThe peer remains Labour's elected deputy leader in the House of Lords.\n\nAt a meeting of the centre-left Labour First group earlier this week, Baroness Hayter was reported by HuffPost to have said: \"Those of you who haven't [read the book] will have seen the film Bunker, about the last days of Hitler, where you stop receiving any information into the inner group which suggests that things are not going the way you want.\"\n\nThe peer was critical of Mr Corbyn's inner circle, who she claimed had refused to give the party's ruling National Executive Committee key information on party finances, membership figures and anti-Semitism data.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"Dianne Hayter has been sacked from her frontbench position with immediate effect for her deeply offensive remarks about Jeremy Corbyn and his office.\n\n\"To compare the Labour leader and Labour Party staff working to elect a Labour government to the Nazi regime is truly contemptible, and grossly insensitive to Jewish staff in particular.\"\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said \"at first glance\" it looked as if Mr Corbyn was cracking down on the type of language used by Baroness Hayter.\n\n\"But the person who made those comments has been one of the those more prominent critics of Mr Corbyn,\" he said.\n\n\"What this will look like is Mr Corbyn wanting to take out some of his more prominent critics.\"\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, a critic of Mr Corbyn, tweeted that the sacking was a \"gross over-reaction\" to the comments, but said it did \"reinforce what she did describe, which was a bunker mentality at the top\".\n\n\"Nice to know that swift action is taken to protect Jeremy Corbyn's feelings, but shame we can't act against racists,\" he said.\n\nThe peer's sacking is the latest development in Labour's long-running dispute over anti-Semitism, which has led to MPs and peers quitting the party.\n\nBaroness Hayter was one of four peers who wrote to Mr Corbyn to call for an investigation into claims aired in a BBC Panorama programme that senior figures in the party interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with anti-Semitism complaints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May and Corbyn both went on the attack in relation to their anti-racism records\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, 67 of Baroness Hayter's fellow Labour peers took out a newspaper advert accusing Mr Corbyn of \"failing the test of leadership\" over the issue of anti-Semitism.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Theresa May said it was a \"disgrace\" Mr Corbyn had \"dodged his responsibility\" for tackling anti-Jewish prejudice.\n\nThe Labour leader insisted he was \"dealing\" with the issue and accused Mrs May of failing to address her own party's problems with Islamophobia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gina Ganzenmueller managed to take a photo of the red squirrel in her garden\n\nA red squirrel spotted near an Aberdeen park is thought to be the first to have been seen so close to the city centre in decades.\n\nThe sighting was in a garden north of Duthie Park, near the River Dee.\n\nThe area has only known grey squirrels since the intruding population took over in the 1970s.\n\nSaving Scotland's Red Squirrels said it was one of the closest sightings to Aberdeen city centre in the project's 10-year history.\n\nGina Ganzenmueller, who managed to take photos of the visitor to her garden, said: \"After years of grey squirrel sightings I've finally seen a red squirrel in my back garden.\n\n\"I was so excited, I couldn't believe my eyes. I only have a small garden, but Duthie Park is not far away.\"\n\nGrey squirrels were first introduced to Aberdeen in the 1970s, rapidly spreading throughout the city and into surrounding Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe region's native red squirrel populations declined rapidly through competition for food and living space.\n\nYears of control work carried out by Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels, a project led by Scottish Wildlife Trust, has already removed grey squirrels from much of Aberdeenshire.\n\nRed squirrels have begun to recolonise many areas, including the outskirts of Aberdeen.\n\nDr Gwen Maggs, Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels Conservation Officer for North East Scotland, said: \"The project has been working along the River Dee for 10 years, with help from dedicated volunteers participating in our trap-loan scheme.\n\n\"As a result of this targeted grey squirrel control red squirrels have gradually returned to North Deeside, with populations establishing through Peterculter, Milltimber, Bieldside and Cults. In 2017 red squirrels arrived at Robert Gordon University.\n\n\"With healthy populations already in Hazlehead and Seaton Park, we hope that they will soon return to Duthie Park for everyone to enjoy.\"", "The police and other authorities should suspend use of automatic facial recognition technologies, according to an influential group of MPs.\n\nThe House of Commons Science and Technology committee added there should be no further trials of the tech until relevant regulations were in place.\n\nAnd it warned that police forces were failing to edit a database of custody images to remove pictures of unconvicted individuals.\n\n\"It is unclear whether police forces are unaware of the requirement to review custody images every six years, or if they are simply 'struggling to comply',\" the committee's report said.\n\n\"What is clear, however, is that they have not been afforded any earmarked resources to assist with the manual review and weeding process.\"\n\nAs a consequence, the MPs warned, innocent people's pictures might illegally be included in facial recognition \"watch lists\" that are used in public spaces by the police to stop and even arrest suspects.\n\nThe committee noted that it had flagged similar concerns a year ago but had seen little progress from the Home Office since. By contrast, it said, the Scottish Executive had commissioned an independent review into how biometric data should be used and stored.\n\nThe report comes a week after the Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he backed police trials of facial recognition systems, while acknowledging that longer-term use would require legislation.\n\nEarlier this month, the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said the police's use of live facial recognition tech raised \"significant privacy and data protection issues\" and might even breach data protection laws.\n\nThe civil rights group Liberty has also supported a legal challenge to South Wales Police's use of the technology in a case that has yet to be ruled on by a judge at Cardiff High Court.\n\nAnd the Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter has criticised trials by London's Metropolitan Police saying: \"We are heading towards a dystopian society where people aren't trusted, where they are logged and their data signatures are tracked\".\n\nThe Home Office, however, has noted that there is public support for live facial recognition to identify potential terrorists and people wanted for serious violent crimes.\n\n\"The government believes that there is a legal framework for the use of live facial recognition technology, although that is being challenged in the courts and we would not want to pre-empt the outcome of this case,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"However, we support an open debate about this, including how we can reduce the privacy impact on the public.\n\nIt also recently revealed that Kent and West Midlands' forces plan to test facial recognition software to retrospectively analyse CCTV recordings to spot missing and vulnerable people.\n\n\"The public would expect the police to consider all new technologies that could make them safer,\" a spokesman for the National Police Chiefs' council told the BBC.\n\n\"Any wider roll out of this technology must be based on evidence showing it to be effective with sufficient safeguards and oversight.\"\n\nAs part of its report, the committee highlighted earlier work that had raised concerns of bias.\n\nIt referred specifically to a government advisory group that had warned in February that facial recognition systems could produce inaccurate results if they had not been trained on a diverse enough range of data.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one man was fined £90 after objecting to being filmed by police\n\n\"If certain types of faces - for example, black, Asian and ethnic minority faces or female faces - are under-represented in live facial recognition training datasets, then this bias will feed forward into the use of the technology by human operators,\" the ethics group had cautioned.\n\nWhile police officers were supposed to double-check matches made by the system by other means before taking action, the group also warned that there was a risk that they might \"start to defer to the algorithm's decision\" without doing so.\n\nAs such, the committee said that ministers needed to set clearer limits on the tech's use.\n\n\"We call on the government to issue a moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology and no further trials should take place until a legislative framework has been introduced and guidance on trial protocols, and an oversight and evaluation system, has been established,\" it concluded.\n\nOne think tank chief welcomed the recommendation but said the real problems were not ones of bias or accuracy.\n\n\"These are a distraction from the wider question of whether we want to have this technology at all,\" Areeq Chowdhury from Future Advocacy told the BBC.\n\n\"Before any further deployment of facial recognition by the police, we need to have a public conversation about whether we are happy for our faces to become a tool of national security.\"\n\nThe committee also flagged issues with the way custody images were being stored in the Police National Database.\n\nAs of February 2018, the PND had 12.5 million images available to facial recognition searches.\n\nPeople who have been acquitted or had charges against them dropped can apply to have their images removed.\n\nBut the MPs noted that despite guidance that images of unconvicted individuals should be removed by hand after six years, this was not being done.\n\n\"The government should strengthen the requirement for such a manual process to delete custody images and introduce clearer and stronger guidance on the process,\" the committee's report said.\n\n\"In the long-term the government should invest in automatic deletion software as previously promised.\"\n\nThe privacy campaign Big Brother Watch supported the call.\n\n\"This practice was ruled unlawful by the High Court in 2012 - it is shameful that the government has failed to act,\" said Griff Ferris, the group's legal and policy officer.", "The proportion of crimes solved by police in England and Wales has fallen to the lowest level recorded, according to Home Office data.\n\nIn the 12 months to March, 7.8% of offences saw someone charged or summonsed, down from 9.1% a year ago.\n\nThe data began to be compiled in 2015.\n\nIt comes after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick acknowledged too many offences were being left unsolved, in a speech about the future of policing.\n\nShe said sifting through vast amounts of phone and computer data was partly responsible and called for investment in resources, technology and expertise to drive up clear-up rates.\n\nYou need a modern browser to view the interactive content in this page. Check how your police force is doing Please enter your postcode or police force name There is missing 2018/19 data for this police force area\n\nThe Home Office said work to improve crime recording by police forces has \"both increased the volume forces are dealing with and changed the crime mix to include more complex cases, such as sexual offences and domestic abuse, which can be more challenging to resolve\".\n\nIt added: \"At the same time, while more crimes are now being recorded, in a growing proportion of cases the victim either doesn't support further action or police are unable to contact them.\"\n\nSeparately, the Office for National Statistics said the Crime Survey for England and Wales - based on people's experience - points to no significant change in overall crime in the year to March, although police recorded offences of robbery rose by 11% and knife crime was up 8%.\n\nIt said the increase in this \"less frequently occurring but higher-harm types of violence\" was consistent with a rising trend in recent years.\n\nThe ONS figures show there were 43,516 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the 12 months to March - the highest since comparable records began in 2011. The figures exclude Greater Manchester Police which records its data differently.\n\nThere were a total of 85,736 offences of robbery, but a 3% fall in burglary.\n\nThe total number of killings increased to 701 offences from 693 in the previous 12 months, excluding terror attacks.\n\nThe ONS also estimated there were 3.8m fraud offences in the same period, an increase of 17%, but said computer misuse had fallen by about a fifth, driven by a decrease in viruses affecting systems.\n\nMeanwhile, figures show there has been a small increase in the number of police officers in England and Wales over the last year.\n\nAs of March 2019 there were 123,171 officers up from 122,405 the previous year. However, there are still 20,500 fewer officers than there were in 2010.\n\nPolicing minister Nick Hurd said the chances of being a victim of crime remain low and the government was increasing funding for forces by more than £1bn this year, with the recruitment of more than 3,700 additional officers and staff.\n\nHe said: \"We are also acting to address the root causes of violence and stop young people being drawn into crime in the first place.\"\n\nCharlotte Pickles from the think tank Reform said: \"Any increases in police numbers must be targeted and coupled with serious investment to tackle the lethal mix of poverty, school exclusion, poor mental health and drugs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier says Theresa May and her ministers never threatened to leave without a deal during negotiations\n\nThe UK will have to \"face the consequences\" if it opts to leave without a deal, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier told BBC Panorama the thrice-rejected agreement negotiated by Theresa May was the \"only way to leave the EU in an orderly manner\".\n\nHe also insisted Mrs May and her ministers \"never\" told him during Brexit talks she might opt for no deal.\n\nPublicly, Mrs May has always insisted no deal is better than a bad deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said the UK will fall into recession next year if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe fiscal watchdog said economic growth would fall by 2% by the end of 2020 if it left the bloc without an agreement.\n\nIn his first UK broadcast interview - conducted in May before the start of the Conservative leadership contest - Mr Barnier was asked what would happen if the UK \"just tore up the membership card\" for the EU.\n\n\"The UK will have to face the consequences,\" he replied.\n\nAsked whether the UK had ever genuinely threatened to leave in such a way with no deal, Mr Barnier said: \"I think that the UK side, which is well informed and competent and knows the way we work on the EU side, knew from the very beginning that we've never been impressed by such a threat.\n\n\"It's not useful to use it.\"\n\nPanorama: Britain's Brexit Crisis will be broadcast on Thursday at 21:00 BST.\n\nConservative Party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the fact the EU \"never believed that no deal was a credible threat\" was \"one of our mistakes in the last two years\".\n\nHe said while there will be economic consequences to no deal, \"we are much better prepared for no deal than we were before\".\n\nHe said the issue of the Northern Ireland border could be solved with \"existing technology\" and the controversial Irish backstop, which aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland, \"isn't going to happen\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, a key figure in Boris Johnson's leadership campaign, accused Mr Barnier of trying to \"threaten\" the UK.\n\nHe said Mr Barnier's remarks were an indictment of Britain's negotiating strategy and showed \"how useless\" Mrs May's approach had been.\n\nLeadership frontrunner Mr Johnson was asked for an interview by Panorama, but he declined.\n\nElsewhere in the programme, Mrs May's de facto deputy David Lidington revealed that a senior EU official made a secret offer to the UK to put Brexit on hold for five years and negotiate a \"new deal for Europe\".\n\nMr Lidington said the offer was passed on in 2018 by Martin Selmayr, a senior aide to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\n\"Martin sort of said, 'Look, why don't we have a deal whereby we just put all this on ice for five years?'\n\n\"Let's see how things go, let's get the UK involved with France and Germany, let's see how the dust settles and let's talk about whether we can come to a new deal for Europe.'\"\n\nIn his own interview for the programme - also recorded in May - Mr Selmayr said he was \"very certain\" the UK was not ready to leave without a deal before the original Brexit deadline in March this year.\n\n\"We have seen what has been prepared on our side of the border for a hard Brexit. We don't see the same level of preparation on the other side of the border,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timmermans: \"It's like Lance Corporal Jones: 'Don't panic, don't panic'... running around like idiots\"\n\nIn another interview for the programme, the EU Commission's First Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, said UK ministers were \"running around like idiots\" when they arrived to negotiate Brexit in 2017.\n\nMr Timmermans said while he expected a \"Harry Potter-like book of tricks\" from ministers, instead they were like a character from from Dad's Army.\n\nIn an interview in March 2019 with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Mr Timmermans said he found it \"shocking\" how unprepared the UK team was when it began negotiations.\n\n\"We thought they are so brilliant,\" he said. \"That in some vault somewhere in Westminster there will be a Harry Potter-like book with all the tricks and all the things in it to do.\"\n\nBut after seeing the then-Brexit Secretary David Davis - who resigned over his disagreements with the deal - speaking in public, his mind changed.\n\n\"I saw him not coming, not negotiating, grandstanding elsewhere [and] I thought, 'Oh my God, they haven't got a plan, they haven't got a plan.'\n\n\"That was really shocking, frankly, because the damage if you don't have a plan...\n\n\"Time's running out and you don't have a plan. It's like Lance Corporal Jones, you know, 'Don't panic, don't panic!' Running around like idiots.\"\n\nMr Timmermans - interviewed two months before Mrs May announced her resignation - also criticised Boris Johnson's approach to Brexit negotiations from when they began.\n\n\"Perhaps I am being a bit harsh, but it is about time we became a bit harsh. I am not sure he was being genuine,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always had the impression he is playing games.\"\n\nNegotiations between the UK and EU began in 2017 after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered the Article 50 process to leave the bloc.\n\nAt the end of 2018, a withdrawal agreement was settled between the two sides and EU officials said the matter was closed.\n\nBut MPs voted against the plan three times, which led to a number of delays to the exit date - now set for 31 October.\n• None Is the EU really united over Brexit?", "The Netflix hit Stranger Things has just begun a third series\n\nNetflix added fewer paid subscribers than expected in the last three months, with the streaming service blaming price rises.\n\nShares in the company sank 10% after Netflix added 2.7 million new customers worldwide in the April-June period, well below expectations.\n\n\"Our missed forecast was across all regions, but slightly more so in regions with price increases,\" it said.\n\nIt comes as competition increases from rivals such as Walt Disney and Apple.\n\nThe company, behind such hits at The Crown and Orange is the New Black, said in its statement: \"We don't believe competition was a factor since there wasn't a material change in the competitive landscape during [the second quarter] and competitive intensity and our penetration is varied across regions,\" the company said.\n\nThe additional 2.7 million subscribers fell far short of analysts' estimates of about five million.\n\n\"While our US paid membership was essentially flat in Q2, we expect it to return to more typical growth in Q3, and are seeing that in these early weeks of Q3,\" Netflix said.\n\nHowever, that failed to calm investors, who in after-hours trading on Wall Street bailed out of a stock that had risen by almost 35% so far this year.\n\nNetflix will be losing some of its hit shows such as Friends to rival platforms being launched in the coming months, but argued that it will make up for that with original content.\n\n\"Much of our domestic, and eventually global, Disney catalogue, as well as Friends, The Office, and some other licensed content will wind down over the coming years, freeing up budget for more original content,\" the company said in its statement.\n\n\"From what we've seen in the past when we drop strong catalogue content... our members shift over to enjoying our other great content.\"\n\nNet income fell to $270m in the second quarter ending 30 June, from $384m a year earlier. Total revenue rose to $4.92bn from $3.91bn.\n\nNicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Netflix could face tougher challenges as competition from rival streaming services intensifies.\n\n\"The performance in the next two quarters will be crucial. Fending off the likes of Disney and Apple with one hand while scooping in new customers with the other is a big ask,\" he said.", "Boeing is taking a $4.9bn hit to cover costs related to the global grounding of its 737 Max aircraft.\n\nThe charge is set to wipe out profits when the world's biggest planemaker posts quarterly results next week.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing also said its \"best estimate at this time\" is that the aircraft will return to service in the last three months of this year.\n\nA 737 Max crash in Indonesia in October, and another in Ethiopia in March, killed 346 people in total.\n\nBoeing is facing one of the worst crises in its history after regulators banned its best-selling aircraft from flying after the disasters.\n\nCrash investigators have concentrated their efforts on the aircraft's control system and Boeing has been working with regulators to roll out a software upgrade.\n\nThe manufacturer, facing intense scrutiny over the regulatory clearance for the aircraft to fly, has cut the monthly production rate from 52 to 42 as airlines hold off purchases.\n\nMost of the $4.9bn charge will be used to compensate Boeing's customers for schedule disruptions and delays in aircraft deliveries.\n\nOn Friday, Boeing's share price jumped 4% at the start of trading, a sign that investors seem comfortable with the charge. Analysts knew that Boeing faced a heavy financial cost following the disasters and had been awaiting clarity.\n\nIn April, Boeing halted share buybacks, and said that the grounding of the 737 Max fleet had cost it an additional charge of at least $1bn so far.\n\n$5bn, and very probably counting.\n\nThe money set aside by Boeing is meant to cover compensation for customers who either haven't received their aircraft, or can't use the ones they already have.\n\nAirlines who are waiting for overdue deliveries are having to make alternative arrangements, by cancelling services, leasing aircraft from specialist companies, or by keeping older, less fuel-efficient models in service for longer. All three options come at a cost.\n\nAnd for those who already had Max aircraft in service, there will be financing costs that still have to be paid, even when the planes themselves are not earning their keep. Not to mention the money that needs to be spent on maintaining them while they are on the ground.\n\nAll of this, ultimately, is likely to come back to Boeing. The $5bn figure assumes that the process of approving the Max to go back into service will begin in the autumn. But we have already seen that regulators seem determined to take a very tough line when it comes to ensuring the safety of the aircraft. The schedule could well slip again, and costs rise further.\n\nLet's not forget either that lawsuits filed by relatives of accident victims are mounting up, and this charge does not take them into consideration at all. So the final bill for Boeing may well be a lot higher.\n\nBoeing chairman and chief executive Dennis Muilenburg, said: \"This is a defining moment for Boeing. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the flight crews and passengers who fly on our airplanes.\n\n\"The Max grounding presents significant headwinds and the financial impact recognised this quarter reflects the current challenges and helps to address future financial risks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge's family died in the crash in Ethiopia in March, and he gave moving testimony in the US Congress\n\nBoeing said it continues to work with aviation authorities to get the 737 Max back into the air, which it hopes will be in the fourth quarter of 2019.\n\nBut the statement added: \"This assumption reflects the company's best estimate at this time, but actual timing of return to service could differ from this estimate.\"\n\nBoeing also warned that if this timetable slips, and its anticipated resumption of deliveries to customers is delayed, that this \"could result in additional financial impact\".\n\nHowever, in a speech on Thursday, the US transportation secretary appeared less certain that the aircraft would be cleared to fly again this year.\n\nElaine L Chao said the Federal Aviation Administration, \"is following a thorough process, rather than a prescribed timeline... the FAA will lift the aircraft's prohibition order when it is deemed safe to do so.\" She was not referring directly to Boeing's statement.\n\nOn Thursday, Southwest Airlines, the biggest user of the 737 Max, joined its US rivals in cancelling more flights until early November.\n\nThe move also prompted the low-cost carrier to freeze new pilot hiring.", "People are continuing to protest against the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló.\n\nHe is being urged to quit after group text messages between him and his administration were leaked. The texts revealed sexist, profane and homophobic comments.\n\nSinger Ricky Martin and Hamilton musical creator Lin-Manuel Miranda are both backing the campaign.", "Godinho stabbed his ex-wife to death in front of her three-year-old daughter\n\nA man who stabbed his ex-wife to death beside her three-year-old daughter as she went to collect their children from school has been jailed for life.\n\nAliny Godinho, 39, died in London Road, Stoneleigh, near Epsom, Surrey, after Ricardo Godinho attacked her with a kitchen knife on 8 February.\n\nGodinho, 41, was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon on Wednesday at Guildford Crown Court.\n\nMrs Justice Thornton said: \"You left your daughter watching her mother die.\"\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard Godinho was \"blinded by rage\" when he attacked her as she went to collect the couple's three other children from school.\n\nHe was sentenced to serve a minimum of 27 years for murder and given one year for possession of a bladed article, to be served concurrently.\n\nCCTV captured Mrs Godinho's last movements as she walked along London Road with her daughter\n\nOn the day of the murder Mrs Godinho had caught the bus with her daughter to London Road.\n\nGodinho had been waiting in his pick-up truck for the bus to go past so he could follow it and confront his ex-wife.\n\nAfter stabbing her multiple times, he dropped the weapon and fled.\n\nThe court was told he \"killed his wife to punish her\" for leaving him and keeping him from seeing his children.\n\nSentencing him, Justice Thornton said: \"As she started to slump to the floor you carried on stabbing her.\n\n\"As she lay on the ground dying, you sped off in your truck.\n\n\"You left your daughter watching her mother die… no child should ever have to see what your three-year-old daughter saw that day.\"\n\nFollowing sentencing, Mrs Godinho's family described her as \"a beautiful, intelligent, happy, caring woman who was loved by so many people, both in the UK, and in her home country of Brazil\".\n\n\"The impact that Aliny's death has left on her children is almost impossible to put into words... no sentence will ever replace or bring back our beautiful Aliny.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Public borrowing could double next year if there is a no-deal Brexit, the country's spending watchdog says.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said borrowing would be almost £60bn if the UK leaves without a deal - up from £29.3bn if it does get a deal.\n\nThe watchdog said this scenario was based on assumptions that a no-deal Brexit would cause a UK recession.\n\nThe UK is set to leave the European Union on 31 October.\n\nChances of a no-deal outcome appear to have risen recently, after both Tory leadership contenders said they would be willing to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nThe OBR was created in 2010 to give independent analysis of the UK's public finances.\n\nIn its first assessment of the economic impact of a no-deal scenario, the OBR used IMF analysis that shows the UK economy would contract by 2% in 2020 before recovering in 2021.\n\nThis would come as tariffs of 4% were imposed on goods traded with the EU - up from zero currently - although the IMF does not expect there to be disruption at the border.\n\nIn this scenario, the OBR said that \"heightened uncertainty and declining confidence\" would deter investment, while higher trade barriers with the EU would \"weigh on exports\".\n\n\"Together, these push the economy into recession, with asset prices and the pound falling sharply,\" it said.\n\nIt said this could raise inflation and squeeze real incomes. It would also hit tax receipts, causing public sector borrowing to rise and leaving debt 12% higher by 2024.\n\nThe OBR added this was \"not necessarily the most likely outcome\" but also \"by no means the worst case scenario\".\n\nIt also warned that both Conservative leadership contenders had made \"a series of uncosted proposals for tax cuts and spending increases that would be likely to increase government borrowing by tens of billions of pounds if implemented\".\n\nThe government's official independent budgetary watchdog has for the first time put a price on the impact to the public finances of leaving the European Union without a deal.\n\nThe numbers come at a sensitive time politically when both likely future prime ministers suggest that a no-deal Brexit is possible this year.\n\nThe OBR is legally obliged to consider all threats to the public finances, and today's new numbers come as part of its bi-annual Fiscal Risks report.\n\nThe fall in tax revenue is forecast to significantly outweigh any benefit from no longer paying the UK's subscription fee as a member of the EU.\n\nThe numbers show a deep crisis-like impact on the public finances, and are based on the IMF's projections for the economy.\n\nBut they go further, showing a long-run hit to the economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: No-deal would cause 'significant hit' to UK economy\n\nThe forecast used by the OBR is less severe than those of the Bank of England and the Treasury.\n\nIn November, the Bank said a no-deal outcome could send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThe economy could shrink by 8% in the immediate aftermath if there was no transition period, the Bank said.\n\nThe Treasury meanwhile has predicted a £90bn hit to the economy by 2035 - although prominent eurosceptics dispute this view.\n\nIn a comment piece for the Telegraph newspaper earlier this week, Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg called the forecast \"silliness\", adding that a no-deal scenario could instead boost the economy by £80bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Hammond said: \"The report that the OBR has published shows that even in the most benign version of a no-deal exit, there would be a very significant hit to the UK economy.\n\n\"But that most benign version is not the version that is being talked about by prominent Brexiteers. They are talking about a much harder version that would cause much more disruption.\"\n\nBoth Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson say they are prepared to leave the EU without a deal\n\nJohn McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, said: \"We know that a no-deal Brexit would devastate the UK economy and the public finances, and it comes on top of the failed economic approach for the last nine years.\n\n\"This warning makes it even more imperative MPs from across Parliament back today's amendments to try and block the next prime minister from shutting down Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nChuka Umunna, the Liberal Democrat business and treasury spokesman, said: \"It would be unforgiveable to heap further stress and anxiety on families who are already struggling by deliberately pursuing a policy that the government's own independent economic watchdog now says will result in a recession.\"\n\nThe chances of a no-deal appear to have risen in recent weeks after both candidates in the race to replace Theresa May hardened their positions on the controversial Irish backstop - an insurance policy to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nJeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson both said the backstop was \"dead\", but the EU said it would not support any deal that excludes it.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Panorama programme - conducted in May before the start of the Conservative leadership contest - the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the UK would have to \"face the consequences\" if it opted to leave without a deal.\n\nMr Barnier said the thrice-rejected withdrawal agreement negotiated by Theresa May was the \"only way to leave the EU in an orderly manner\".", "Hashem Abedi is accused of the murder of the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack\n\nThe younger brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has appeared in court charged with murdering the 22 victims of the attack.\n\nHashem Abedi was detained in Libya shortly after the May 2017 suicide bombing in which hundreds were injured.\n\nThe 22-year-old was extradited on Wednesday and arrested by British officers upon his arrival in the UK.\n\nMr Abedi, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody after appearing before Westminster magistrates.\n\nHe is due to next appear at Oxford Crown Court on 22 July for a bail hearing, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled to take place at the Old Bailey on 30 July.\n\nMr Abedi, who was born and raised in Manchester, is also charged with one count of attempted murder, encompassing all the other victims, and one count of conspiring with his brother Salman Abedi to cause explosions.\n\nMr Abedi was born and raised in Manchester\n\nProsecutors allege Hashem Abedi made detonator tubes for the bomb, bought chemicals used to make an explosive substance, and helped his brother to buy a car in which materials were stored that became part of the device.\n\nZafar Ali QC, defending, said following his client's arrest on 23 May 2017 by a Libyan militia he was held in solitary confinement.\n\nHe indicated Mr Abedi would be pleading not guilty to all counts.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe names of the 22 people who died in the explosion at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena were read out in court when the charges were put to Mr Abedi.\n\nTen of those who died were aged under 20, with the youngest victim - Saffie Roussos - only eight years old.\n\nThe inquests into the killings have been delayed due to legal proceedings. Family members have been told the full inquest hearings are not likely to begin until April 2020 at the earliest.\n\nThe court heard 260 people were seriously injured in the arena attack, including those with life-changing injuries.\n\nAt least 600 people reported psychological harm, the court was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have backed a bid to stop a new prime minister suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nA majority of 41 approved an amendment that blocks suspension between 9 October and 18 December unless a Northern Ireland executive is formed.\n\nFour cabinet ministers, including Philip Hammond, abstained and 17 Tory MPs rebelled, including minister Margot James, who has resigned.\n\nLeadership contender Boris Johnson has not ruled out suspending Parliament.\n\nHis rival Jeremy Hunt has ruled out this move.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nMs James told the BBC attempting to suspend Parliament was \"too extreme\" adding: \"I thought the time was right today to join people who are trying to do something about it.\"\n\nThe four cabinet ministers who abstained are International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, Business Secretary Greg Clark and Justice Secretary David Gauke, as well as Chancellor Mr Hammond.\n\nMr Clark defended his decision to abstain arguing: \"I couldn't support the idea that we would allow the doors of Parliament to be locked against MPs at this crucially important time - that would be a constitutional outrage.\"\n\nMr Hammond tweeted: \"It should not be controversial to believe that Parliament be allowed to sit, and have a say, during a key period in our country's history.\"\n\nMargot James told the BBC \"I felt it was time to put my marker down\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister was \"obviously disappointed that a number of ministers failed to vote in this afternoon's division\".\n\n\"No doubt her successor will take this into account when forming their government,\" the spokesman said.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the vote was \"an important victory to prevent the Tories from suspending Parliament to force through a disastrous no deal\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Commons had now made it harder for a new prime minister to suspend Parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf the 31 October deadline is reached without Parliament backing an agreement between the UK government and the EU, the UK is scheduled to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against a no-deal Brexit, but the prime minister could try to get around that by suspending Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to the deadline, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does proroguing Parliament mean?\n\nThe amendment to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill was put forward by MPs including former minister Alistair Burt and Brexit committee chairman and Labour MP Hilary Benn.\n\nIt would mean that if Parliament is prorogued when the government publishes reports on the situation in Northern Ireland, MPs must be recalled to debate them.\n\nMr Burt told the BBC that Parliament had said \"very clearly please don't bypass us... Parliament must be sitting in the run up to 31 October\".\n\nMr Benn said: \"This is a very significant amendment because it sends a very significant message to the prime minister - if you think you can lock the doors on that chamber and tell us to go away until the 31st October, Parliament will not allow that to happen.\"\n\nConservative MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan attacked those of her colleagues who voted against the government, describing the amendments as \"cynical and corrosive\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"They don't change the underlying legal realities one jot: we are leaving on 31 October with or without a deal.\"\n\nDUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said it was \"very disconcerting\" to see a bill about Northern Ireland \"hijacked for other purposes and particularly to see the debates taking place not even on the issues that directly affect Northern Ireland\", like marriage and abortion.\n\nIn a taste of what and whom the still hypothetical Boris Johnson premiership is likely to face, the new rebel alliance in Parliament has shown its strength - winning a vote that would make it harder for the next PM to shut down Parliament to get round its likely opposition to leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nAnd in political terms, it's an all-star cast list, populated with former Remainer ministers - the new \"Gaukeward\" squad, so-called after the until-recently achingly loyal Justice Secretary, David Gauke.\n\nThey are a currently powerful significant slice of the Conservative Party that, with years of ministerial experience between them, is willing to join forces with opposition MPs to make life harder for their next leader.\n\nThose ministers are highly likely to be shoved out of government next week in any case - or, as I understand it, are already planning to congratulate Mr Johnson in one breath next Tuesday, then make it clear with the next that they'd never serve under him, denying the Brexiteers the pleasure of actually witnessing them being sacked.\n\nBut today's vote suggests they have no plans to go quietly. They might be losing their comfy ministerial cars and giving up the red boxes, but they will still have votes.\n\nLeadership contender Mr Hunt admitted that, due to a misunderstanding, he missed the votes. However he said he was opposed to the way MPs had voted arguing Parliament \"should not restrict the hands of an incoming government in this way\".\n\nWhen asked about suspending Parliament during his leadership campaign, Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n\nHe said he wanted to leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\".\n\nMPs also rejected a government attempt to disagree with an amendment put forward by a group of peers, which also bids to stop Parliament being suspended to force through a no-deal Brexit, by 315 votes to 273, a majority of 42.\n\nThe bill will now return to the Lords for further consideration.\n\nFormer Tory prime minister John Major has said he will seek a judicial review if the next prime minister tries to suspend Parliament.\n\nCampaigner Gina Miller has threatened the same action.\n\nMargot James becomes the 37th minister to resign under Theresa May - and the 23rd to have resigned over Brexit specifically", "A full safety review into the delayed Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh has been ordered by the Scottish government.\n\nThe £150m facility was due to open on 2 July but last minute inspections uncovered problems with the ventilation in a critical care ward.\n\nThe review will assess the water, ventilation and drainage systems.\n\nSimilar checks will be made at other recently completed major NHS facilities across Scotland.\n\nThis will include the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, which was built by the same contractor responsible for the Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh and has also had problems with ventilation systems.\n\nThe NHS-led review is due to be finished by September but no date for when the new hospital will be ready has been given.\n\nIt has also been revealed that private consultants KPMG have been hired by the Scottish government to probe \"governance arrangements\" for the new hospital and establish the factors which led to the delay.\n\nThe delay to the new site was announced the day before patients and equipment were to begin moving to the site on 2 July\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has revealed that NHS Lothian will get additional support from the Scottish government because of the significant variation from its plans.\n\nShe said: \"I understand that this is a disappointing and worrying time for parents and carers of patients who have appointments at the new children's hospital.\n\n\"However, safe, effective and high quality clinical services continue to be delivered from the existing site in Sciennes.\n\n\"The work carried out by NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) will give quality assurance on the water, ventilation and drainage systems and establish a timeframe for services to move safely to the new hospital.\"\n\nShe added: \"Infection prevention must always be embedded within the design, planning, construction and commissioning activities of all new and refurbished healthcare facilities, which is why I have also instructed NSS to review current and recently completed major NHS capital projects and provide assurances that the same standards have been adhered to.\"\n\nThe corridors of the new hospital will remain empty for some time\n\nThe new 233-bed hospital will form part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh campus, providing care for children and young people to about 16 years of age.\n\nIt will also have 10 theatres and a children's emergency department.\n\nThe site, which also includes Clinical Neurosciences and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, has already faced a number of problems and delays.\n\nMs Freeman was asked in parliament last month if NHS Lothian had been assured the same problems did not exist at the new site.\n\nThe health secretary said NHS Lothian told her it would not take ownership of the building until it was \"absolutely assured\" those steps had been taken.\n\nContractor Multiplex previously said its work was signed off as complete by an independent certifier on 22 February, when it handed over the building to NHS Lothian.\n\nStaff were ready to leave the old Sick Kids hospital\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Miles Briggs MSP said Holyrood's health committee should investigate the saga.\n\nHe said: \"Families and staff will look at this announcement and wonder why these things weren't demanded of the construction firms from the outset.\n\n\"After all, the nationalists have had seven years of delays in which they could have ensured these boxes were ticked.\n\n\"The only way to establish the extent of what has gone wrong, why it has happened, and how we can ensure it's not repeated, it to have a full Scottish parliament inquiry.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome has officially been named winner of the 2011 Vuelta a Espana after Juan Jose Cobo was stripped of the title over doping irregularities.\n\nIt retrospectively makes him Britain's first Grand Tour winner - Sir Bradley Wiggins had held the honour after his 2012 Tour de France victory.\n\nFroome has now won seven Grand Tours, fourth equal on the all-time list.\n\nHe is not riding in the ongoing Tour de France after a serious crash at last month's Criterium du Dauphine.\n\n\"Better late than never!\" Froome tweeted. \"The 2011 Vuelta holds some very special memories for me.\"\n\nHe later added, on the Team Ineos website: \"The Vuelta in 2011 was in many ways my breakthrough race, so this red jersey is special for me.\n\n\"I guess it's extra special too, because - even though it's eight years on - it was Britain's first Grand Tour win.\n\n\"The Vuelta is a race I love and I have always felt a great connection with it and the Spanish fans.\"\n\nFroome's haul of Grand Tour wins is now made up of four Tours de France, two Vueltas and a Giro d'Italia.\n\nHe is alongside Italy's Fausto Coppi and Spaniards Alberto Contador and Miguel Indurain as a seven-time Grand Tour winner.\n\nBelgium's Eddy Merckx leads the way with 11, one ahead of Bernard Hinault, whose fellow Frenchman Jacques Anquetil has eight.\n\nGoverning body the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) said abnormalities were found in Spanish rider Cobo's biological passport from 2009-2011.\n\nThey imposed a three-year period of ineligibility on the 38-year-old retired rider and Cobo has not appealed in the 30 days since the decision, meaning Froome has now been awarded the title.\n\nFellow Briton Wiggins has been promoted to second in the 2011 Vuelta, with Bauke Mollema of the Netherlands third.\n\nThe Vuelta a Espana is one of the three Grand Tours - the three-week stage races considered to be cycling's crown jewels - along with the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.\n\nJuan Jose Cobo was always a surprise winner of a Grand Tour, an average rider who achieved little of note before the 2011 Vuelta and almost nothing afterwards.\n\nIt was one of the reasons why there were whispers at the time and rumours ever since, and the surprise at the UCI's announcement now has more to do with the time that elapsed between offence and punishment rather than at the crime itself.\n\nCobo is long gone from the sport, now reportedly making a living as a milkman and surf instructor in northern Spain. For Froome, who continues to aim for another Tour de France win as he recovers from his devastating crash last month, it is both a timely boost and a source of regret, a winning moment he was denied at the time and can never get back.\n\nYet there will be satisfaction in becoming Britain's first Grand Tour winner, an honour he inadvertently takes from former Sky team-mate and rival Bradley Wiggins.\n\nWiggins got the glory of becoming the first British rider to ride down the Champs-Elysees in yellow when he won the Tour in 2012. Froome now owns the history if not the iconic image.", "Senior Tories seeking to block a no-deal Brexit are examining a radical plan involving the Queen, Newsnight has learned.\n\nHighly placed figures in the rebel group are so concerned that the next prime minister could ignore the will of parliament that they have discussed a scheme to ask the Queen to intervene.\n\nIn a sign of the febrile atmosphere at Westminster, these Conservatives are thinking of holding a vote on a parliamentary device known as a humble address to the Queen.\n\nIf passed, the address would say that if the new prime minister ignored a vote rejecting no deal the Queen would be asked to exercise her right as head of state to travel to the next EU summit. Under their plan she would then request an extension to the Article 50 process.\n\nUnder EU rules, member states are usually represented at meetings of the European Council by a head of state or a head of government. The Queen is the UK's head of state, though it is understood that no European monarch has ever formally represented their country at an EU summit.\n\nA request to the Queen to attend a European summit would be regarded as the most extraordinary political step in her 67-year reign.\n\nIt would probably be regarded as a breach of the unwritten rules surrounding Britain's constitutional monarchy, which say the Queen should be kept out of the political arena.\n\nBut the Tory rebels have discussed examining such a radical step because they have two fears about a Boris Johnson premiership:\n\nOne Tory at the heart of planning to block no deal told Newsnight: \"The problem is, what if Boris is so aggressive to the EU that Macron leads a charge to say just let the UK go? So even if Parliament votes to block no deal it could still happen.\n\n\"One option is a humble address to Her Majesty. You would ask humbly that Her Majesty requests an extension to Article 50. If that went through that would be seen as an instruction to her first minister. But what if the new prime minister refused to enact the humble address?\n\n\"Under EU law only two representatives of a member state can attend and negotiate on behalf of a member state at the European Council: head of government or head of state. So we could simply request that the Queen goes and submits the request for the extension.\"\n\nThe senior Tory told Newsnight that the idea of a humble address to the Queen is being examined seriously.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine the Queen intervening in politics so directly, even if the scheme was attempted.\n\nSo perhaps the eye-catching plan fits into the category of a device to put pressure on the next prime minister, rather than a mechanism to put the Queen on a Eurostar to Brussels.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A North Yorkshire PCSO says he had to explain to his young children how he was attacked\n\nA new law to crack down on assaults on emergency service staff is not proving enough of a deterrent, according to the MP who campaigned for the legislation.\n\nThe law, brought in last year, meant offenders faced longer jail terms.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC showed police across England and Wales have made more than 6,500 arrests for attacks on emergency service workers.\n\nHalifax MP Holly Lynch said government \"needed to get really tough on this\" as the numbers were \"still too high\".\n\nA big part of the so-called \"Protect the Protectors\" law was an increase in sentences available to magistrates and judges from six months to 12 months.\n\nMs Lynch said: \"It didn't go quite as far as we would like in terms of being a deterrent.\n\n\"What I'm seeing far too often is when sentences are handed out they are suspended sentences or things like community resolutions... which is not enforceable.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Attacking our hard-working emergency staff will not be tolerated and the law was brought in so those who commit such violence quite rightly face a stronger punishment, doubling the sentence from six months to 12.\"\n\nFirefighter David Gillian described how he was temporarily blinded when a firework was thrown at him and his colleagues in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on Bonfire Night in 2016.\n\n\"The fire had been set, we believe, to draw us into that corner and the fireworks were coming from behind us.\n\n\"I was holding the hose reel at the time and one fell right between my feet so my reaction was to look straight at it and put the water on it. But, before I could, it went off.\"\n\nMr Gillian said imposing harsher sentences was \"just masking societal problems\" and the attacks were largely down to disaffected people who had nothing to lose.\n\n\"These kind of attacks are highly linked with deprivation,\" he said.\n\n\"We need investment in public services and communities to give people opportunities, hope and the thought of doing something better with their lives than attacking emergency services.\"\n\nThirty-four out of 43 police forces responded to a BBC Freedom of Information request asking how many arrests there had been under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018.\n\nFigures revealed a total of 6,663 arrests between last November and May of this year.\n\nIn West Yorkshire, where there were 504 arrests, the police federation said up to 50 officers were being assaulted every week.\n\nChairman Brian Booth said: \"They're getting head-butted, they're getting punched, kicked.\n\n\"Some are getting quite serious injuries where they're having a substantial amount of time off work and this impacts on demand because the public aren't getting the service they need from the officers.\"\n\nMr Booth said although there was a maximum sentence set, it was \"no good if you're not using it\".\n\nMP Holly Lynch started campaigning for a change in the law in 2016\n\nPoliceman's daughter Ms Lynch was instrumental in lobbying MPs to support the legislation, which she first introduced as a Ten Minute Rule Bill in 2016.\n\nHer campaign was the result of first-hand experience while she was shadowing West Yorkshire Police.\n\nA routine vehicle stop escalated and the officer she was with found himself surrounded by an angry mob with the Labour MP having to call 999 for back-up.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sand barrier will stretch for 6km (3.7 miles) along the Norfolk coast\n\nNearly two million cubic metres of sand are being shifted to a stretch of eroding Norfolk coastline in a radical plan to save it from the sea.\n\nThe 6km-long dune will protect Bacton Terminal, which supplies one third of the UK's gas, but is teetering just metres from a cliff edge.\n\nThe £20m project should also act as a defence for two nearby villages - Bacton and Walcott.\n\nIt is the first \"sandscaping\" scheme on this scale to be carried out in the UK.\n\nIt has been designed by Dutch engineering company Royal HaskoningDHV.\n\nOnce the sand has been shifted, a combination of wind, waves and tides will \"move the sands to where it needs to be,\" said the firm's coastal management adviser Jaap Flikweert. This will \"provide 15-20 years of protection\".\n\nA dredger filled with sand connects to the shore with a long pipe\n\nThe scheme has just started, and it is expected to take about five weeks to get all of the sand into place.\n\nIn a 24-hour operation, carried out by the Dutch maritime company Van Oord, a dredging vessel is collecting the sand from further along the coast at a licensed site where sediment is currently extracted for concrete.\n\nIt then sails to Bacton, connects to a giant pipe, and pumps a mixture of sand and water onto the shore at a rate of 10,000 cubic metres per hour. Bulldozers and diggers then shift the sand into place.\n\nOnce complete, the dune will stretch for 6km (4 miles). At its highest point, it will stand 7m-high (22ft) and extend up to 250m (820ft) out to sea.\n\n\"It will turn back the clock to what the beach was like about 30 years ago,\" says Mr Flikweert.\n\nBacton Gas Terminal is getting ever closer to the cliff edge as the coast recedes\n\nThe Norfolk coastline is losing land every year as part of natural geological erosion. When big storms occur, several metres of coastline can vanish at once.\n\nHomes in villages like Happisburgh have already started to be lost to the sea - and many other coastal communities are facing a similar fate.\n\nWhen Bacton Gas Terminal was built in the 1960s, it was situated more than 100m back from the sea. Now some parts of the complex are just 10m from a cliff edge.\n\nTypically, to protect national infrastructure like this, vast barriers made of concrete would be used.\n\nBut doing that, said Mr Flikweert, would have had disastrous consequences for the villages of Bacton and Walcott. They are located a few miles down the coast and already face a significant risk of flooding.\n\nA wall in front of the terminal would stop the sea from removing sediment there, causing it to take sediment from the villages instead.\n\n\"So the beach erosion there would go on even more quickly,\" said Mr Flikweert.\n\nThe Zandmotor dune is expected to last for 40 years\n\nInstead, the team turned to sand, inspired by a large-scale experiment in the Netherlands called the Zandmotor.\n\nIn 2011, Dutch scientists placed 20 million cubic metres of sand along a 1km stretch of coastline in South Holland.\n\nThe sediment drifted and moved with the currents, but it did the job of safeguarding the coast from erosion.\n\nIt was initially thought the dune might last for 20 years. But a recent analysis suggests the defence could last for twice as long.\n\nCarola van Gelder-Maas, from the Dutch government's water management body Rijkswaterstaat, said: \"In the beginning, we never expected it to have a life span of 40 years.\n\n\"We only 'lost' 1.5 million cubic metres of sand during these eight years. But sediment is still being transported, so the Zandmotor is still stretching and contributing to a more natural way of coastal maintenance.\"\n\nHomes are being lost along the Norfolk coast as the cliffs erode\n\nThe scheme in Norfolk is on a smaller scale, but the hope is that it could offer 15-20 years of protection to the terminal and villages. After that, the sand would need to be replaced.\n\nThe team from Royal HaskoningDHV said the shape of the dune will change over the duration. And after big storm events, it could look like the sand is lost - but the natural movement of the sediment should rebuild it.\n\nMr Flikweert said it is not a permanent solution, but it does \"buy time for the community\".\n\n\"The experience with the Dutch Zandmotor shows that the concept works - we're confident ours will work,\" he said.\n\nThe £20m cost of the scheme is mainly covered by the Bacton gas terminal operators, with £5m from the Environment Agency and £0.5m North Norfolk District Council.\n\nSandscaping may now be considered to protect other parts of the coast\n\nThe expense of flood defences is something that many communities around the UK are having to consider.\n\nAnd Dr Sally Brown, from the University of Southampton and University of Bournemouth, said the problem will get worse.\n\n\"We're going to see more possibility of flooding and more erosion with climate change, and we'll see the need for more flood defences.\n\n\"In places that we're going to choose to protect, defences are going to get bigger and they're going to be very different from what we see now.\"\n\nBut while the money might be more readily available for protecting national infrastructure such as Bacton or large cities, Dr Brown warns that others could lose out.\n\n\"We need to invest a lot to keep the coasts exactly as they are at the moment, and one of the biggest challenges is that we can't keep doing that in places that just protect a few people, or maybe in places where flood risks only affect a few houses, so there are going to be some really hard choices to come.\"\n\nMany will be watching Norfolk's sandscaping project to see if it could work for other parts of the coast.\n\nSue Brooks, professor in coastal geosciences, from Birkbeck, University of London, said: \"With the sandscaping scheme… there has been a shift from hard defending the coast to more of a nature-based solution. Put sand there - and let nature do with it wants.\n\n\"We don't know at this point how successful this scheme is going to be, but at least we're giving it a go, which is a really radical new way of thinking about shoreline management.\"", "Former Education Secretary Justine Greening says it is \"wholly inappropriate\" for school funding decisions to have become part of a legacy wrangle in the final days of Theresa May's premiership.\n\nThere have been reports that the prime minister is planning a significant increase in spending on schools in England before leaving Downing Street.\n\nBut Ms Greening says such a last-minute political intervention is \"no way to deal with the question of long-term schools and education funding\".\n\nSchool funding is \"far too important to be horse-traded like this\", said the Conservative MP.\n\nThere have been long-running protests by school leaders over funding shortages - including a protest march by head teachers through Westminster and letters sent to millions of parents.\n\nThey have warned of staff cuts and having to reduce what schools can provide in terms of subjects and support.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that schools have faced an 8% real-terms cut in per-pupil funding since 2010.\n\nA response from the government was expected in the next public spending review - but ahead of that, Conservative leadership contender Boris Johnson has promised to boost school spending by about £5bn.\n\nThere are reports in the Financial Times suggesting Mrs May is planning to pre-empt this, with an announcement of extra school spending of up to £3bn.\n\nThe Times suggests that funding of £5bn could be made available.\n\nThere are also reports that the Treasury has resisted major spending commitments, which will stretch beyond the current prime minister's time in office and ahead of decisions about Brexit.\n\nBut a No 10 source urged caution about such speculation - and said nothing had been finalised.\n\nMs Greening, education secretary until the Cabinet reshuffle of January 2018, criticised the funding dispute as an \"unedifying spectacle all round\".\n\n\"School funding issues should have been recognised by No 10 and No 11 much earlier,\" she said.\n\nThere was also a question about how a one-off announcement would work for schools - when any rise in per-pupil spending would have to be sustained in subsequent years.\n\nSuch funding uncertainty would make it \"very hard for teachers and schools to plan ahead\", said Ms Greening.\n\nSchools have warned about the pressures of funding shortages\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who has organised the Worth Less? funding campaign, said he shared Ms Greening's concerns about such \"ad hoc school funding announcements\".\n\nHe said the government has been in \"abject denial about the state of school budgets\" and had failed to act - and now seemed to be motivated by internal politics.\n\nMr White said schools needed an extra £5bn to reverse funding cuts - and not \"sticking plasters\".\n\nA government spokesman said funding for schools in England was \"at its highest ever level\".\n\n\"But we know schools face budgeting challenges, and the education secretary has said he'll back head teachers with the resources they need.\"", "In a UK first, 10,000 cubic metres of sand is being pumped every hour to create a 6km (3.7 mile) sand barrier to prevent Bacton gas terminal, which supplies a third of the UK’s gas, from tumbling over the edge of a cliff into the sea.\n\nIt's hoped it will also save the coastline, as well as the villages nearby.", "The two candidates to become the UK's next prime minister have made their final pitch to the Conservative Party.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt took part in the final leadership hustings at the London Excel Centre on Wednesday, in front of more than 2,000 Tory members.\n\nIt came ahead of the final day the 160,000 members can post their votes to choose their next leader.\n\nBrexit dominated the conversation, although feminism and hair-dye also made an appearance.\n\nThe winner of the contest will be announced on 23 July, and take office the following day.\n\nBoth candidates were asked about their views on the deal Theresa May negotiated with the EU - turned down by MPs three times - and what they would change.\n\nIt came after a head-to-head debate earlier this week, where Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt declared the Irish backstop - the insurance policy part of the deal to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - was \"dead\".\n\nMr Johnson said the outgoing PM's deal was \"effectively defunct\", but it was the backstop element that he found \"the most difficult\".\n\n\"We would see a division between the union between and Great Britain and Northern Ireland and I think that's an utterly intolerable choice,\" he added.\n\n\"So as far as I'm concerned the backstop won't work.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the whole withdrawal agreement was dead, Mr Hunt said: \"As it is now, yes.\"\n\n\"I want to get a deal and so we have got to make some profound changes to that withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nBut Mr Hunt said his plan didn't mean \"ripping up\" Mrs May's deal - instead it was the backstop that \"had to go\".\n\n\"If you are saying that we will remove any guarantees over not having hard border infrastructure in the island of Ireland, then no,\" he added.\n\n\"I think there is agreement in our party that we can never go back to a hard border in the island of Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt said the withdrawal agreement needs \"profound changes\"\n\nThe candidates said they were both feminists and backed equality between the sexes.\n\nHowever, they both ruled out championing all-female shortlists to get more female Conservative MPs.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I want to encourage young women to get into politics, join our party and to lead our party. That is the way it should be.\n\n\"But I am not certain introducing quotas, which are… by their nature discriminatory, is the way to solve the problem.\"\n\nMr Hunt said: \"I'm not in favour... because we are a meritocracy and I think the risk is that devalues the achievement that a woman makes when she achieves the job, if she thinks she got it because of her sex.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean there aren't a thousand other things we can do to help people reach their potential.\"\n\nIt was alleged by the compere, LBC presenter Iain Dale, that the talk among political journalists at the hustings was that Boris Johnson dyed his hair.\n\nBut Mr Johnson denied such an accusation, saying: \"Never. Outrageous suggestion. What with?\"\n\nFor a matter of \"balance\", Mr Dale asked the same question to Mr Hunt.\n\nHe also denied it, but added: \"I have got a few grey ones mind you. I might have to start.\"", "Skin cancer rates have \"soared\" in the UK over the last decade, particularly in men and younger adults, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has warned.\n\nIncidence of melanomas rose in men by 53% - from 19 per 100,000 in 2004-6 to 29 per 100,000 in 2014-16.\n\nAnd diagnoses in 25-49 year olds rose by 78% - from nine per 100,000 in the mid-90s to 16 per 100,000 in 2014-16.\n\nThe charity said that people needed to remember to protect their skin in the UK, as well as on holiday.\n\nMen are more likely to develop skin cancers on their chests and backs and women on their legs, probably because of what they wear in the sun. Men's risk can also be increased if they have a job that means they work outdoors.\n\nMelanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK - with just under 16,400 cases in 2016, with 3,400 of those among people aged 25-49.\n\nThe increase is being linked to the rise in cheap flights, which means people are more likely to go abroad more frequently.\n\nHowever, skin cancer is still more common in people over 65.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExperts say almost nine in 10 cases could be prevented by using a high factor sun cream.\n\nMichelle Mitchell, chief executive of CRUK, said: \"While some might think that a tan is a sign of good health, there is no such thing as a healthy tan, it's actually your body trying to protect itself from harmful rays.\"\n\nCRUK, which is launching its Own Your Tone campaign, says people can be complacent about risk in the UK.\n\n\"Sun safety is not just for when you're going abroad,\" says health information manager Karis Betts. \"The sun can be strong enough to burn in the UK from the start of April to the end of September.\n\n\"It's important that people are protecting themselves properly both at home and further afield when the sun is strong.\n\n\"We want to encourage people to embrace their natural look and protect their skin from UV damage by seeking shade, covering up and regularly applying sunscreen with at least SPF 15 and four or five stars.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"Although cancer survival is at a record high, more people are getting diagnosed with melanoma and nearly half a million people were urgently referred for skin cancer checks in the last year.\n\n\"So it's vital that people take every precaution possible to protect their skin, particularly in the summer months, by wearing sunscreen and spending time in the shade.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darren Clarke had the honour of hitting the first tee shot at the 148th Open Championship\n\nDarren Clarke has hit a million golf balls, all around the world and in every corner of Ireland.\n\nBut none has been more significant than the one launched into a pale blue sky at 06:35 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe moment it was struck the Open proper had begun and with it a fresh chapter in Northern Ireland's often unpalatable history was written.\n\nTens of thousands of golf fans have travelled to the north coast for the Open.\n\nThe four tournament days (Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 July) are sold out, with 237,750 spectators expected - more than any other Open except for the 2000 spectacle at St Andrews, which drew in 239,000 fans.\n\nOn Saturday evening, as the crowds spill out of a wild and intoxicating amphitheatre, the Portrush Sons of Ulster will host a \"celebration of marching bands\" in the town centre.\n\nBut this week it has been the three golfing sons of Ulster reflecting on the journey that brought them and the Open to this corner of County Antrim.\n\nNorthern Ireland's three Major winners - Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke - celebrate their successes in 2014\n\nAs the eldest of the triumvirate, Clarke perhaps knows best the decades of pain endured by Northern Ireland and its people.\n\nBorn in 1968, before the Troubles began, the Dungannon man lost family members and almost his own life when just a teenager trying to fund his sporting obsession.\n\nWorking a shift setting up the bar at the Inn on the Park in 1986, an IRA bomb warning came through just half an hour before the building was destroyed.\n\n\"That was life in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"Bombs were going off quite frequently and a lot of people, unfortunately, paid a heavy penalty for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\n\nBack then, what's happening this week looked, in his words, \"beyond the realms of possibility\".\n\nGraeme McDowell, the man who set Northern Ireland's major ball rolling at the 2010 US Open, is simply ecstatic that one of the world's biggest sporting events has come to his home town.\n\n\"To have played a small role, I guess, in kind of getting the gears in motion again to get The Open Championship back here, I mean, it's a proud moment to see it come together.\n\n\"People are just genuinely fired up and excited. It's such a big thing for this part of the world.\"\n\nThe Troubles in NI lasted for 30 years during which thousands of people died\n\nBy virtue of the fact he hits a small white ball better than almost anyone on the planet, Rory McIlroy has been asked to expound on all things from the tribal politics of Ireland to the tweets of the US President.\n\nWhile he's made the odd misstep, for the most part he speaks with a candour and poise beyond many in elected office.\n\nIf Clarke was a child of the Troubles, then Rory is a child of the peace - his formative years spent learning his craft at Holywood Golf Club, sheltered from the dying throes of conflict.\n\nIn the same year that the Good Friday Agreement was signed, the golfing prodigy was winning his first international title, the 9-10 World Championship at the Doral Golf Resort in Miami, USA.\n\nHis dream of Northern Ireland is a place where children are not judged by the colour of their passports but by the content of their character.\n\n\"People have moved on. It's a different time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Open 2019: Watch McIlroy's nightmare start as he quadruple bogeys the first\n\n\"No one cares who they are, where they're from, what background they're from, you can have a great life and it doesn't matter what side of the street you come from,\" he adds.\n\nWhile the Troubles were all consuming for the people who lived here, the world only tuned in to see our worst excesses.\n\nThis week the Open is being beamed to 600 million homes around the globe.\n\nThe world is again watching Northern Ireland but for all the right reasons.\n\nAs McIlroy said: \"It speaks volumes of where the country and where the people that live here are now.\n\n\"Sport has an unbelievable ability to bring people together. We all know that this country sometimes needs that.\"\n\nBut the last word should go to Clarke, the man who struck the Open's first shot and sent the crowds into rapture with an opening birdie.\n\nSpeaking after level par round of 71, he said an enduring peace process had turned fantasy into reality.\n\n\"Go back and take a look at some of the pictures 20 years ago, we wouldn't be standing having this conversation.\n\nTens of thousands of people have travelled to Northern Ireland for The Open\n\n\"I think Rory summed it up perfectly - the Open wasn't about him, it was about how far our country has come.\n\n\"The economic benefits this tournament is going to bring, not just this week, but the legacy going forward, what it's going to bring to the country.\"\n\nAs he said at the start of a week like no other: \"This has been an incredible journey for what we've all come through.\"", "The group appeared in court on Thursday\n\nTwelve Israelis have appeared in court in Cyprus over the alleged rape of a 19-year-old British woman.\n\nThe alleged attack was said to have taken place in a hotel in the popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa.\n\nThe suspects - who are aged between 16 and 20 except one, who is 15 - have not yet entered any pleas.\n\nThey have been remanded in custody and police have been given a further eight days to investigate.\n\nThe British woman contacted police in the early hours of Wednesday morning saying she had been raped in a hotel in Ayia Napa. Later that day police arrested the group of 12 males.\n\nDuring the hearing on Thursday morning, judge Tonia Nicolaou confirmed the names of those arrested before reporters were told to leave the courtroom due to the age of one suspect, the 15-year-old boy.\n\nThe parents of several of those arrested flew from Israel to the court hearing in Paralimni, near to the Ayia Napa resort.\n\nThe suspects were led through the court building handcuffed to each other in pairs.\n\nSome parents shouted messages of support and embraced them.\n\nThe mother of one of the suspects told the BBC her son had done nothing wrong.\n\nAn Israeli diplomat was present in court and said they would monitor but not interfere with the case.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is supporting a woman who was assaulted and says it is in contact with local police.\n\nThe town of Ayia Napa is a resort popular with young people.\n\nMore than 1.3 million British tourists visited Cyprus last year, according to Cyprus' statistical service.\n\nCorrection 19 July 2019: An earlier version of this story stated the group were all teenagers, but the age range has been changed following new information.", "Zosha Di Castri's latest work looks at humankind's evolving relationship with the moon\n\nThe BBC Proms blasts off on Friday with a musical exploration of the moon.\n\nThe season opens with Zosha Di Castri's latest work Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory, which marks the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.\n\nThe piece examines how humanity has \"looked to the moon over different time periods and different cultures,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIt's not only the composer's Proms debut, but the first time her music has ever been played in the UK.\n\n\"It's a crazy way to begin but I'm very honoured,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe 1969 moon landings are a running theme in this year's Proms season, with highlights including a Sci-Fi prom featuring scores from films such as Gravity and Alien: Covenant.\n\nElsewhere, Public Service Broadcasting will debut an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 album The Race for Space, which features archive film recordings and vintage electronic instruments.\n\nDi Castri's work was inspired by three pieces of writing - Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi's haunting Alla Luna, in which a man sees his grief reflected in the moon's face; Sappho's The Moon, in which the ancient Greek poet writes about the silvery brightness of the night sky; and a new text by novelist Xiaolu Guo, which reflects both ancient Chinese legends and the recent Chang'e-4 exploration of the far side of the moon.\n\nTheir words are fragmented throughout the piece, while the title, Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory, is lifted from Leopardi's verse.\n\n\"I was thinking about how much energy and man-power and resources had gone into exploration of the moon,\" says Di Castri, \"and then it seemed like, once we had achieved that, people kind of forgot about it. There was a noticeable lag in enthusiasm until perhaps just recently.\"\n\nNeil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) were the first people to set foot on the moon, on 20 July 1969\n\nResearching the piece left a big impression on the composer, who'd never before considered the monumental human effort behind the moon landings.\n\n\"To be honest, it was something that I took as fact - that we've been to the moon,\" she laughs. \"In the same way that, as a child, you learn that the earth is round and not flat, and you just accept that's the way it is.\n\n\"I always knew that people had been on the moon - but this brought back the sense of awe.\"\n\nListen to Zosha's playlist on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.\n\nThe classical pieces commonly associated with space travel, like Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, or Holst's Mars, are typically full of rattling percussion and piercing stabs of brass.\n\nDi Castri says her work has \"moments of bombast\", especially as she depicts the feverish hype of the US-Russia space race. But once Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out of the lunar module, the atmosphere changes.\n\n\"I like to think of that moment, of walking on the moon and being so far from Earth and experiencing this landscape for the first time as being much more subtle and ethereal,\" she says.\n\n\"I was trying to get into the awe and wonder of what that felt like, so the choir's doing a lot of whispering, atmospheric sounds. The sopranos have a solo and the orchestra and rest of the chorus provides a textured soundscape. Time feels stretched out.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old is one of more than 20 composers commissioned to create new work for the 2019 Proms season, with premieres coming from the likes of Hans Zimmer, Jonathan Dove and Huw Watkins, who is also writing an ode to the moon.\n\nSo would Di Castri be prepared to strap herself into a rocket and swing on a star in real life?\n\n\"Oh my goodness, yes,\" she says. \"But I'd probably be terrified.\"\n\nThe First Night of the Proms takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 19 July. It will be broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3. On television, the first half will be shown live on BBC Two, with the second half on BBC Four.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A university student's body was found trapped in thick slurry at a building site two days after he vanished on a night out, an inquest heard.\n\nMarcin Porczyk, 18, was \"camouflaged\" in the mix of building materials before he was eventually found by workers near the marina in Swansea in January 2017.\n\nThe business student was almost three times the legal drink-drive limit, Swansea Coroner's Court was told.\n\nHe said Mr Porczyk \"effectively drowned\" after inhaling slurry.\n\nMr Porczyk, whose family moved to Swansea from Poland when he was seven, was captured on CCTV wandering around the Kier Construction site. His body was later found in a 12-inch deep concrete washout area.\n\nHis Swansea University friend Harry Hutchinson said the pair had drunk double vodkas, rum and five Jagerbombs each on the night Mr Porczyk went missing.\n\nHe described him as \"coherent but drunk\" before he suddenly ran off after leaving a bar.\n\nMr Hutchinson said: \"We came down the stairs then he tripped over onto the pavement. He sprang up and ran off.\n\n\"I thought he had run off home. I went back inside.\n\n\"Then I went back to the flat. He wasn't there.\"\n\nFriends raised the alarm when Mr Porczyk failed to return to his student accommodation in the Strand area or respond to messages.\n\nBuilding site workers discovered his body two days later, on 24 January.\n\nDr Nadine Burke, a consultant pathologist, said Mr Porczyk's body was covered in \"muddy, wet slurry\" having fallen down face first before managing to turn onto his back.\n\nShe added the level of alcohol in his system would have led to disorientation and poor co-ordination, and accentuated the effects of hypothermia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ritaj and Rital were born joined at the head. They're reunited with the British doctors who saved their lives, by performing multiple complex surgeries eight years ago.\n\nThe BBC has been given exclusive access to another set of twins, Safa and Marwa, who have just gone through a similar separation procedure at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Read their story here.", "Saffie-Rose Roussos was a \"beautiful, sensitive soul with an amazing magnetic personality\", her mother Lisa said.\n\nShe was at the arena with eight-year-old Saffie and was injured in the attack, as was Saffie’s elder sister, Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nShe said she would watch Saffie “with wonder”, adding that she loved to dance and make people laugh and would “leave little notes of 'I love you' everywhere”.\n\nSaffie’s father Andrew said she was his “perfect, precious beautiful daughter” who \"melted people's hearts\" with \"those big brown eyes\", adding: \"It's like the best artists got together and drew her from top to toe.\"", "Rembertus Cornelis Beerepoot (left) and Fanny Alida Beerepoot (far right) outside court in Tasmania\n\nA Christian family who refused to pay income tax because it went \"against God's will\" have been ordered to pay more than A$2m (£1.1m $1.4m) to Australia's tax office.\n\nRembertus Cornelis Beerepoot and Fanny Alida Beerepoot, of Tasmania, had not paid income tax since 2011.\n\nTheir farm was seized and sold by their local council in 2017 after they failed to pay seven years-worth of rates.\n\nMs Beerepoot told the court: \"We don't own anything because we are [God's].\"\n\nThe siblings represented themselves in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on Wednesday, after they failed to pay some $930,000 in income tax and other charges in 2017, ABC News reports.\n\nMr Beerepoot had argued that the law of God is the \"supreme law of this land\" and making people pay tax was weakening their dependency on God, an act which was leading to \"curses... in the form of droughts and infertility\".\n\n\"Transferring our allegiance from God to the Commonwealth would mean rebelling against God and therefore breaking the first commandment,\" he said, according to the public broadcaster.\n\nIn his judgement, Associate Justice Stephen Holt said that while he believed the Beerepoots' beliefs to be genuinely held rather, he said there was no specific reference in the Bible to support their argument.\n\n\"In my view, the Bible effectively said that civil matters and the law of God operate in two different spheres.\"\n\nThe siblings were ordered to pay similar sums - Ms Beerepoot A$1.17m and Mr Beerepoot A$1.16m - to cover \"income tax, administrative penalties and general interest charges\" and other costs, court documents show.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government is set to add the Paralympics to the 'crown jewels' list of sports events that must be screened live on free-to-air television.\n\nIt will be given the same status as the Olympics and other events including the men's football World Cup, Grand National and Wimbledon finals.\n\nThe government also wants to look into adding football's Women's World Cup and Women's FA Cup to the list.\n\nIt is the first time the list has been updated for 20 years.\n\nIt follows record television audiences for the Women's World Cup when it was broadcast on the BBC this summer.\n\nChannel 4, meanwhile, has shown the last two Paralympics and will do the same next year in Tokyo.\n\nEngland's win in the men's Cricket World Cup final was broadcast live on Channel 4 on Sunday after an agreement from Sky, who owned the UK rights to the tournament.\n\nHowever, there are currently no plans to add live cricket to the list.\n\n\"Sport has a unique power to unite the nation,\" said Jeremy Wright, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport.\n\n\"But to maximise its ability to inspire, our sporting crown jewels must reflect the diversity of sporting talent we have across the country.\n\n\"Adding the Paralympic Games to the list rightly puts it on the same footing as the Olympics.\n\n\"I also want to see greater equality in the coverage of women and men's sport on TV. Later this year, I will consult on adding the equivalent women's events to the men's events already on the list.\"\n\nOfficially known as the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, the so-called 'crown jewels' list was first created in 1991. It was then revised in 1999 and split into two categories, A and B, with events on the A list being those which must offer live rights to free-to-air broadcasters at a \"fair and reasonable\" cost. Events on the B list must offer highlights packages.", "Instagram is hiding the number of likes on posts in several countries, including Australia and Japan, in order to \"remove pressure\" on users.\n\nAt the moment, Instagram users see a running total of people who have liked a post. In the trial, users will see a user name \"and others\" below posts.\n\nInstagrammers can still view the number of likes their own posts receive.\n\nThere is concern social media platforms can contribute to low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy in young people.\n\nInstagram launched a similar trial in Canada in May and the new test is rolling out in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Brazil, the company told the BBC.\n\n\"We hope this test will remove the pressure of how many likes a post will receive, so you can focus on sharing the things you love,\" Mia Garlick, Facebook Australia and New Zealand director of policy, said in a statement.\n\nThe goal, she adds, is that users feel less judged and to see \"whether this change can help people focus less on likes and more on telling their story\".\n\nInstagram said the test would not affect measurement tools for businesses. And users can still see the list of people who liked other people's content by clicking into it.\n\nWhen the test was first run in Canada, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said the aim was to minimise the stress of posting online with users competing over the number of likes their posts receive.\n\n\"We want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they care about,\" he explained at the time.\n\nThe number of likes a post gets is a measure of success or popularity on Instagram.\n\nStudies suggest this kind of instant feedback on content can boost people's self-esteem but bring others down if they do not get as many likes.\n\nStudies have linked social media platforms to affecting mental health, especially of young people.\n\nThe number of likes is also the way to put value on a post for the business side of Instagram.\n\nInfluencers who get paid for the content they showcase in their posts are measured by the number of likes their social media activity draws.\n\nEarlier this month, Instagram also revealed a new feature to tackle online bullying.", "Water bills in England and Wales are set to fall by an average of £50 between 2020 and 2025, under plans published by the industry regulator.\n\nOfwat said firms would also have to invest an additional £6m each day in improving services for customers.\n\nIt comes amid widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of many water companies.\n\nOfwat said the measures would mean \"better services, a healthier natural environment and lower bills\".\n\n\"[Water companies] will be accountable not just for reporting against their performance but they'll face tough penalties if they don't achieve those targets,\" Ofwat boss Rachel Fletcher told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nOfwat said the bill reductions would vary widely - falling by £7 at Hafren Dyfrdwy to £110 at Northumbrian Water compared with 2017-18 prices.\n\nIt comes after only three out of 17 water firms in England and Wales passed the last review by Ofwat, published in January.\n\nAll firms submitted plans to cut bills over the 2020-25 period, while reducing leaks and helping vulnerable customers. But only plans from Severn Trent, United Utilities and South West Water were approved.\n\nOfwat wants water companies to spend more on tackling leaks\n\nThere have also been continued problems with leaks - particularly after extreme weather events such as last year's Beast from the East icy spell.\n\nWhile leaks in England and Wales are much lower than they were in the mid-1990s, progress in tackling them has slowed to a crawl since 2001.\n\nFirms will now have to invest more in tackling leaks between 2020 and 2025, saving an amount of water equivalent to the needs of the population of Manchester, Leeds, Leicester and Cardiff.\n\nOfwat said this would add up to £12bn of new investment - over and above business-as-usual costs - or £6m per day over the period.\n\nWater companies will be able to make representations about the proposals and the final deals will be confirmed in December.\n\nTony Smith, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water, called the plans \"good news\", but added: \"Not everyone will see their bills fall when you add inflation and customers need to be told how much Ofwat's financial rewards for companies could hit them in the pocket.\n\n\"Only about half of the three million households who struggle to afford their water bills will receive financial assistance under these plans,\" he added.", "The 60-year-old man says the picture of his leg was used on cigarette packets without his consent\n\nA 60-year-old man in eastern France says he was stunned to discover that a picture of his amputated leg had been used on cigarette packets, as a warning against smoking, without his consent.\n\nThe picture was displayed alongside the message \"smoking clogs your arteries\".\n\nBut the Albanian man, who lives in Metz, says he lost his leg as the result of a 1997 shooting in Albania.\n\nThe European Commission, which is responsible for the distribution of such images, says the man is mistaken.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man's son discovered the picture - which bore recognisable burns and scars - when he bought a packet of rolling tobacco last year in Luxembourg, French media report.\n\nHe brought the packet home to his family.\n\n\"He [my brother] was coming back from Luxembourg. Without saying a word, he put a big box of rolling tobacco on the table,\" the man's daughter told regional newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain.\n\n\"We were stunned. We did not believe it.\"\n\nThe family thought it was indeed a picture of the father's leg.\n\n\"It's our father's. His scars are characteristic,\" the daughter added.\n\nThe man, who has not been named, says he had never agreed to the picture being used. He believes it was taken at a local hospital he visited in 2018 to find out whether he could be fitted with some kind of walking apparatus.\n\nHe has been walking using crutches for more than 20 years following a shooting incident in Albania in 1997, in which he lost his leg.\n\nThe family's lawyer, Antoine Fittante, is also adamant that the picture is of his client's leg.\n\n\"Each scar is specific, unique. This man also has burn marks on the other leg, it's very clear. An expert will have no trouble identifying the image.\n\n\"It's rather incredible that a person finds themselves without their agreement on cigarette packets throughout the European Union,\" Mr Fittante said.\n\n\"My client feels betrayed, wounded in his dignity, by seeing his disability [displayed] on cigarette packets in tobacconists; one must admit that's not very pleasant.\"\n\nMr Fittante has written to the hospital to find out how the photos ended up being used.\n\nLe Parisien newspaper, however, cast doubt on the claim by showing the same photograph in a collection used for an EU anti-tobacco campaign dated 2017 - before the man's visit to the Metz hospital. It also appears in an EU image database from 2014.\n\nThe newspaper also said it had contacted the hospital, which could not confirm the man's story.\n\n\"We have the identity, the agreement and the rights for all the people photographed for this campaign,\" a European Commission spokeswomen said, quoted by Le Parisien.\n\n\"From the information we have, we can say without a doubt that this individual is not one of them.\"", "Countries across Europe were among those to experience record temperatures in June\n\nThe world experienced its hottest June on record last month, with an average temperature worldwide of 61.6F (16.4C), according to new data.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the average global temperature was 1.7F warmer than the 20th Century average.\n\nThe heat was most notable in parts of Europe, Russia, Canada and South America, it said.\n\nThe NOAA report was released as the US prepares for a \"dangerous heatwave\".\n\nThe National Weather Service has warned that tens of millions of people will be affected by excessive heat in the coming days, with temperatures expected to reach up to 110F (43.3C).\n\n\"Friday is going to be bad. Saturday is going to be really, really bad,\" New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a video posted on Twitter on Thursday. \"Take it seriously.\"\n\nIn its latest monthly global climate report, the NOAA said the heat in June had brought Antarctic sea ice coverage to a record low.\n\nNine of the 10 hottest Junes on its 1880-2019 record have occurred in the past nine years, it said. Last month beat June 2016 to be named the hottest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC colleagues from hot countries give their tips for staying cool\n\nNasa and other groups also reached the same conclusion last month.\n\nScientists have warned that record-setting temperatures will continue as a result of climate change.\n\n\"Earth is running a fever that won't break thanks to climate change,\" climatologist Kathie Dello told the Associated Press news agency. \"This won't be the last record warm summer month that we will see.\"", "Schools and colleges in England need a \"multi-billion cash injection\" and a long-term approach to funding, say MPs on the Education Select Committee.\n\nIts report on school funding confirms the concerns of head teachers and teachers' unions who have protested about worsening budget shortages.\n\nThe committee found that schools and colleges \"desperately need\" extra cash.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman accepted that schools were facing \"budgeting challenges\".\n\nASCL head teachers' union leader Geoff Barton, said the report was a \"damning indictment of the government's dreadful record\" on school funding.\n\nRobert Halfon, who chairs the committee, said the report showed the need for a \"comprehensive, bottom-up national assessment\" of what it really cost to have an \"education system fit for the 21st Century\".\n\nThe cross-party report says that schools have faced increased financial pressures from rising numbers of pupils and growing demands, such as supporting more pupils with mental health problems.\n\nMPs say funding \"has not kept pace\" and the government needs to put in more cash.\n\n\"The government needs to cover the 8% funding gap currently faced by schools,\" says Mr Halfon, with the report saying this would require a \"£3.8bn uplift\".\n\nFurther education colleges have faced particular problems, says the report, with per student funding falling by 16% in real terms over the past decade for the post-16 age group.\n\nThe MPs say funding for this age group, in sixth forms and colleges, needs a £1bn boost, and the pupil premium, which gives extra support for disadvantaged youngsters, should be extended to 16- to 19-year-olds.\n\nThe committee's report also calls for extra support for pupils with special needs and disabilities, to tackle a \"projected £1.2bn deficit\".\n\nThere have been long-running protests by school leaders over funding shortages - including a protest march by head teachers through Westminster and letters sent to millions of parents.\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who organised the WorthLess? school funding protest, said \"a cross-party group of MPs have validated what we have been saying all along - namely that our schools and colleges have been crippled by cuts and rising costs\".\n\nTory leadership contender Boris Johnson has promised increased investment in schools - and there have also been claims that the Prime Minister, Theresa May, wants to announce a funding boost for schools before stepping down.\n\nFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening attacked the \"horse-trading\" over school funding, saying it should not be decided by short-term political pressures.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said spending cuts had \"left schools begging parents for donations just to keep the lights on five days a week and pay for basic supplies like pens and paper\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: \"While it is accurate to say that school funding is at its highest level, we do recognise that there are budgeting challenges.\n\n\"We are glad to see that school and further education funding is being highlighted as an important issue ahead of the next spending review, where the education secretary will back the sector to have the resources they need.\"", "Figures show house-building rates in Wales have suffered the biggest fall since the recession\n\nA row has broken out after a Welsh Government minister accused the private house-building industry of creating the \"slums of the future\".\n\nJulie James complained about \"substandard\" developments, during comments made at a conference.\n\nThe Home Builders Federation called for the minister to explain what she meant.\n\nMs James, housing minister, said she was simply warning house builders not to build the slums of the future.\n\nMeanwhile latest figures show that, despite some hotspots in and around Cardiff and Newport, Wales has seen the biggest fall in house-building since the recession nearly a decade ago.\n\nAt the Tai 2019 conference in May, Ms James expressed concerns \"about the size and quality of some of the homes being built in Wales by the private sector\".\n\nShe said: \"I want the private sector to stop building the slums of the future, because we have driven some developments here in Wales that I think in eight years' time we will have a whole pile of problems in.\n\n\"Because they are substandard and they do not have the services with them necessary to sustain them.\n\n\"We are not learning the lessons of the past in building those houses, and we need to ensure that government leverage is used to stop that happening, not to help it to happen.\"\n\nThe comments, which were initially reported by Inside Housing and which BBC Wales has heard a recording of, were applauded at the event.\n\nJulie James said the Welsh Government wants communities, not estates\n\nA letter from the Home Builders Federation Wales, which represents the house builders, said its members \"were disappointed to learn\" of Ms James' views.\n\nIt asked if she \"could explain in more detail what prompted the comment\".\n\n\"In particular, it would be helpful to understand whether your concerns relate to a specific development or if it was a general comment based on wider issues,\" the letter said.\n\nThe sector is \"committed to delivering high quality and affordable homes and considerable progress has been made in recent years to improve purchasers' satisfaction with new homes,\" it added.\n\nMs James has said she was simply warning house builders not to build the slums of the future, and to ensure there is a mix of private and social housing with easy access to work and infrastructure.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, she said: \"What I was trying to do is say that what we want to build in Wales are communities - communities where people love to live and work.\n\n\"Sometimes we build things that are single tenure, they are a little bit cramped and look a bit dense. Not always, and it's patchy across Wales, but our new planning policy guidelines are making it very clear that we want a community and not an estate.\n\n\"So what I've said, actually, is don't build the slums of the future - make sure that what you build you're proud of [and] you'd like to live in yourself.\"\n\nFigures show the number of new dwellings completed in 2018-19 was 5,777, a drop of 13% on the previous year.\n\nThe last time there was such a big fall was during the recession in 2009-10.\n\nAccording to the latest Welsh Government estimates, 8,300 new homes are needed in Wales every year over the next five years to cope with demand.\n\nThere are some striking regional variations in the latest figures.\n\nFor example, while the population of Cardiff is five times bigger than Blaenau Gwent, there were 10 times more homes built in the capital than in the valleys county.\n\nThe private sector provides about a quarter of all social housing, with the rest coming from housing associations and local authorities.\n\nOverall, latest figures show there has been a 9% reduction in the number of affordable homes built in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Government has a target of building an extra 20,000 affordable homes by 2021 but remains confident of meeting it, despite the recent fall.", "Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC time is running out to save the key missile treaty\n\nTime is running out to save a key nuclear missile treaty with Russia, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the BBC.\n\nMr Stoltenberg pledged a \"measured, defensive\" response if Russia did not come back into compliance with the deal by the 2 August deadline.\n\n\"We have to be prepared for a world... with more Russian missiles,\" he said.\n\nThe 1987 agreement signed by the US and USSR banned short and medium-range nuclear missiles.\n\nPresident Trump announced the US would suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in February, accusing Russia of breaching its terms.\n\nRussia denied the allegation but suspended its own obligations shortly afterwards and announced plans to develop new weapons systems.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, Mr Stoltenberg says the Russian missiles - which he says are in \"clear violation of the treaty\" - are nuclear capable, mobile, very hard to detect, and able to reach European cities within a few minutes.\n\n\"This is serious. The INF treaty has been a corner stone in arms control for decades and now we see the demise of the treaty,\" he said.\n\nWhile the priority was to get Russia to come back into compliance with its terms, Mr Stoltenberg said there were \"no signs whatsoever\" the country will do so. \"Therefore we have to be prepared for a world without the INF treaty and with more Russian missiles.\"\n\nSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed the INF Treaty in 1987\n\nWhile Nato has no plan to deploy nuclear land-based missiles of its own in Europe, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance would respond in a \"measured, defensive way\" if Russia refused to come back into compliance by 2 August.\n\nConventional air and missile defence, new exercises and readiness of forces, and new arms control initiatives could all form part of that response, he said. Any final decision will come after the deadline.\n\nMr Stoltenberg also addressed Russia's delivery of its advanced S-400 missile defence system to Nato member Turkey last week.\n\nThe US says it will remove Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet programme in response. Ankara has recently moved closer to Moscow, raising tensions between Turkey and the US.\n\n\"It is a serious issue because it is a serious disagreement which involves two important allies,\" Mr Stoltenberg said. Nato supports efforts to resolve the disagreement, he added, while praising Turkey's key role in the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe secretary general also praised efforts among members to raise their defence budgets to a target of 2% of their budgets. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on other members to contribute more to the organisation in recent years.\n\n\"We have turned a corner - the picture is much better than it was just a few years ago, and I am quite optimistic that allies will continue to invest more,\" he said. Eight member states are expected to reach the target in 2019.\n\nMore recently, Mr Trump has also called on US allies to avoid using technology provided by Chinese tech firm Huawei, arguing the company is a security risk - something China denies.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said the alliance was drawing up new guidelines to tackle the issue, so members can have some \"minimum agreed standards or guidelines for how to deal with these challenges\".", "Heads say that inadequate funding for schools is adding to the pressure on teachers\n\nWithout an injection of extra cash, head teachers' leaders say many schools will have to make \"deeper cuts\" or \"face insolvency\".\n\nThe funding warnings were made at the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds told the conference he heard the message on school funding problems \"loud and clear\".\n\nSpeaking to the head teachers' conference in Birmingham, Mr Hinds said he realised that schools were under financial pressure and faced \"hard choices\".\n\nHe promised that he would be \"doggedly determined\" and make the \"strongest possible case\" to the Treasury in the next spending review.\n\nDamian Hinds is setting up an advisory group to address stress and improve wellbeing among teachers\n\nMr Hinds, who received polite applause at the end of his speech, said he would \"back heads to have the resources they need\".\n\nHe said he \"totally recognised the pressure on schools\".\n\nThe ASCL head teachers' union has calculated how much it believes schools need to solve their funding shortfalls.\n\nThe heads say there is a £5.7bn shortfall in per-pupil funding for 2019-20, which they argue should rise as an allocation to schools of £40.2bn.\n\nHead teachers campaigning over funding shortages have pointed to the evidence of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has said that per-pupil funding has fallen by 8% since 2010.\n\nThey say schools have to cut staff, increase class sizes and stop teaching some subjects.\n\nThere have been warnings of schools closing for a half-day on Friday to save money.\n\nThe union's president, Richard Sheriff, said the analysis of what schools needed was to make sure the debate on funding was \"informed by evidence\" rather than \"rhetoric\".\n\nLast week a grassroots head teachers' campaign over funding had accused Mr Hinds of \"snubbing\" a request for a meeting.\n\nBut he told the heads at the conference that he met teachers in schools \"week in and week out\" and heard their concerns about funding.\n\nThe head teachers' union also heard warnings that schools were having to \"pick up the pieces\" for families in poverty.\n\nHeads warned that schools were having to act as an \"unofficial emergency service\", providing food and clean clothes for pupils from impoverished families.\n\nBut they say that such extra welfare support is unaffordable when schools are facing cuts.\n\nMr Hinds also addressed concerns over staff shortages - and spoke of the need to reduce the number of teachers leaving their jobs.\n\nHe said 33% of new teachers left the profession within five years.\n\nThe education secretary announced plans for an expert advisory group to help teachers with \"the pressures of the job\".\n\nThe advisory group, including the mental health charity Mind, will look at ways to improve wellbeing among teachers and tackle stress.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Megara Furie (left) and lap dancer Kayleigh Barrington have joined the GMB union\n\n\"If your job is under threat, you are going to unionise to fight that. Dancing is no different.\"\n\nThe words of Megara Furie, a former lap dancer who now works as a dominatrix. She is the driving force behind a curious chapter in the history of Scottish workers' rights - the unionisation of lap dancers and others who work in the sex industry.\n\n\"Unionisation for dancers means having their voices heard,\" Megara continued. \"Having a seat at the table for future discussions… means raising standards across the board in all strip clubs and venues they would work in.\"\n\nMegara was speaking to BBC News at the Seventh Heaven lap dancing bar in Glasgow. Last month, the club signed a union agreement with its staff - the first time a trade union has had a formal presence in Scotland's sex industry.\n\nIn April, the Scottish government brought in legislation which allows local authorities to limit the number of sex venues - including setting a zero limit if they wish.\n\nA month later Glasgow launched a public consultation , asking dancers and the wider public to give their views - should the council decide to take up its newly-acquired power.\n\nThe council insists no decision has been made but many of the city's lap dancers see it as a threat to their jobs and have turned to the union for support.\n\nThe GMB campaign #Askthe700 has seen dancers on the city's streets, gathering names on a petition. The campaign aims to \"save Glasgow's strip clubs\", and is named after the union estimate of the number of lap dancers working in Scotland.\n\nMegara Furie is a former dancer who is now a dominatrix.\n\nMegara said: \"When the consultation was announced, that is what really kick-started the membership. People need a reason to unionise, a reason to organise.\n\n\"It has created a lot of passion. There are people who normally would have hidden what they do, and they are coming right out of the woodwork.\n\n\"Had the (Glasgow) consultation not taken place, a lot of this would have still been kept indoors, in the shadows.\"\n\nOver 50 dancers and other members of staff at lap dancing bars have joined GMB.\n\nOther councils that have lap dancing bars in their areas are also discussing how to use the new powers. Edinburgh launched its consultation earlier this month, while Aberdeen, Fife and Highland councils told BBC News they plan on holding one. Dundee says it has made \"no decision\" on the issue yet.\n\nThe term \"sexual entertainment venue\" is not confined to lap dancing bars. It could be a pub or club that hosts a party night with sexual entertainment more than four times within a year.\n\nNine other local authorities who currently have no lap dancing bars, such as Renfrewshire, have told the BBC they have either launched a public consultation already or they are considering it.\n\nMegara Furie first started talking to the GMB union about allowing sex workers to join a year ago. It followed conversations with other unions, who, she claims, \"shot it down as being violence against women, exploitation, without actually speaking to any of the workers\".\n\nLast year, several groups campaigning for action to combat violence against women called on the Scottish government to make strip clubs illegal as they \"normalise…misogynistic attitudes\".\n\nThe government's own strategy includes \"lap dancing\" in its definition of violence against women.\n\nMore than 50 people across Glasgow's lap dancing venues - specifically Seventh Heaven and Diamond Dolls - have joined the union since GMB opened up its doors to them. They include dancers, bar staff and security staff.\n\nKayleigh Barrington says dancers should have a say, as it is \"our bodies\"\n\nKayleigh Barrington is a lap dancer at Seventh Heaven. She recently joined the GMB after working in the industry for five years.\n\n\"I joined the union because I want my voice to be heard.\n\n\"I used to be quite heavy - 17st 3lbs. I was quite discriminated in other jobs I used to apply for. I went and auditioned (as a lap dancer) and I got the job and I was accepted into the dancing world really quickly and easily.\n\n\"We are all like sisters - it is a solidarity that we have got.\"\n\nFor Kayleigh, her work as a lap dancer has helped her to fulfil a healthier lifestyle.\n\n\"With the flexibility of my job, it gave me the ability to be able to get up and go to the gym. I wasn't sitting at my desk, eating crisps. It gave me the confidence to put myself out there.\"\n\n\"I am all for being unionised - it is Ask the 700, ask the dancers. It is workers' rights. It is for us. We should be the ones that get the say.\n\n\"It is our bodies, so ask us.\"\n\nThe agreement between the Seventh Heaven venue and the GMB union is the first of its kind in Scotland\n\nPart of the VIP room of Seventh Heaven, where customers pay £100 for 20 minutes with a dancer.\n\nThe main stage of Seventh Heaven where the dancers perform.\n\nAt Seventh Heaven, both the club and the union believe that little has changed since the introduction of the union agreement. The club was seen by its dancers as already having favourable working arrangements, such as its \"Safe Home\" agreement which ensures the performers will be escorted to their cars or taxis by security staff.\n\nAndrew Cox, the general manager of Seventh Heaven, told the BBC: \"We had no hesitations when the GMB approached us as we have been actively seeking outside recognition of the care and commitment we have for customers, performers and staff.\"\n\nHe believes unionisation has given performers and staff a voice in the debate over licensing regulations.\n\nScotland's local authorities will be making decisions on the future of venues like Seventh Heaven in the coming months.\n\nThe GMB plan to submit its response to Glasgow's consultation next month, and will respond to the other public consultations launched by councils across the country.\n\nA vocal, and now unionised group of lap dancers are making sure their voices are heard in the debate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Organisers described the \"horrific\" crash as a \"nightmare\".\n\nSeventeen people have been injured after two cars crashed at a \"car cruise\" gathering and ploughed into spectators.\n\nThe vehicles collided on Monkswood Way, Stevenage, at about 21:45 BST on Thursday leaving two seriously injured and 15 more hurt.\n\nOne of the event's organisers described the \"horrific\" crash as a \"nightmare\".\n\nHertfordshire Assistant Chief Constable Nathan Briant said the two drivers had been identified and interviewed.\n\nHe said officers were \"continuing to work with partners to fully understand the events\" and the drivers had been \"interviewed as part of the ongoing investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Whilst the events do occur regularly the meeting yesterday evening appeared far larger in nature than previous events, and it is now understood that an organiser had publicised the meeting on social media as a charity event,\" he said.\n\n\"Last night we identified more than 130 witnesses and an investigative team has been formed to ensure each of these is contacted to obtain their statements.\n\n\"We are also aware of a large number of people leaving the area prior to our arrival, among these are likely also to be further witnesses to the collision.\"\n\nPolice, fire and ambulance services all attended the crash\n\nPolice have asked witnesses to send footage of the crash to detectives.\n\nVideo footage shows one car passing another before the two collide and one strikes people standing at the roadside while the other hits spectators in the central reservation.\n\nOne witness said on Twitter: \"I've just witnessed that horrendous crash in Stevenage, no more than 50ft away from me. I'm still trying to process it all.\"\n\nOrganiser Rix Sidhu said it was the first time the Cruise-Herts group had suffered any serious incident in its 17-year history\n\nCruise-Herts planned the event on Thursday where people were due to gather to look at modified cars.\n\nOrganiser Rix Sidhu said he had been organising similar meets for 17 years and the latest was held to raise money for charity.\n\nHe estimated one of the cars that crashed was travelling at 60 or 70mph and then went into the crowd \"at speed\".\n\nMr Sidhu said: \"We held the meet in a car park with a speed bump at the entrance. But unfortunately some people went a bit rogue.\n\nSkidmarks can be seen at a car park near the crash site\n\n\"We try and stop that, we urge people...not to go out on the roads, not to risk injury or anything.\n\n\"But unfortunately, in this age of social media and Snapchat, people want to get footage and post things to their friends, which seems to drive some people to the main road.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook he said they would not be organising any more such events.\n\nHe also said the police were aware that the group met every Thursday evening, having attended in the past, and said the two drivers involved in the crash were \"not regulars\".\n\nLast night there were hundreds of people here, but this morning the only sign anything happened is an abundance of skidmarks in the adjacent car park - and police markings on the road at the scene of the accident.\n\nThere are yellow spray-painted markings that seem to indicate where the two cars involved were travelling, the point at which they met - and where they came to rest.\n\nSome of those markings are on the pavement.\n\nI can also see that first aid was given here.\n\nThere are are a few bits of medical paraphernalia left among the rubbish, which is now the only other evidence of how many people were gathered here last night.\n\nThroughout the morning young people have been turning up to collect their vehicles but they have been too upset to talk about what happened.\n\nFellow organiser Dean Summerbee, 34, said people attending had been warned not to race or do wheel spins and burnouts.\n\nHe said: \"It was horrific seeing it last night. It still plays over in my head in slow motion. I literally had to pull my mate out of the way.\n\n\"My thoughts go out to everyone who has been hurt. It's not something I'd like to relive again.\n\n\"I feel sorry for anyone who witnessed it. It was a nightmare last night.\"\n\nThe section of A-road passes a retail park near Stevenage Football Club.\n\nTom Adams, who lives in Welwyn Garden City and arrived shortly after the crash, said he knew the organisers \"dotted all the Is and crossed all the Ts\" and it was \"not just a gathering of hooligans\" but the event had been let down by a \"bunch of boy racers\".\n\nHe added: \"There is a select group of people that have no consideration for other people and unfortunately that has come back to bite us.\"\n\nCiaran O'Connor, 33, was travelling home when he witnessed the crash which he described as \"horrific\".\n\nHertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service crews cut free one person trapped in a vehicle and provided \"trauma care\" to a number of injured people.\n\nStevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor said such events were unauthorised and hard to regulate.\n\nShe said: \"We will do whatever we can to make sure we don't get dreadful incidents like this. [But] it's not an easy thing to regulate.\"\n\nCrowds can be seen watching the cars just before the crash\n\nPolice have placed an appeal poster at the scene, where debris can still be seen on the verge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prosecutors in the US state of Massachusetts have dropped a criminal case against Kevin Spacey.\n\nMr Spacey, 59, was accused of groping an 18-year-old man at a bar in 2016.\n\nBut indecent assault and battery charges were dropped on Wednesday after the accuser refused to testify about a missing phone, which the defence said could prove the actor's innocence.\n\nMr Spacey has faced several sexual misconduct accusations but this was the only one to result in a criminal case.\n\nThe claims date back three years, when the accuser says Mr Spacey bought him alcohol and groped him at a bar on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.\n\nThe accuser was ordered to take to the stand this month after he said he lost the phone he had used on the night of the alleged assault. Mr Spacey's lawyers had accused the man of deleting text messages and said the phone could be used to prove their client's innocence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"To Kevin Spacey: Shame on you for what you did to my son\"\n\nHowever, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said the \"unavailability of the complaining witness\" had led them to drop the case.\n\nThe announcement comes after the accuser earlier this month said he was dropping a civil case against the actor.\n\nThe accuser's lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, said in a statement on Wednesday that his client had \"shown an enormous amount of courage under difficult circumstances.\"\n\nThe allegations in the case came after an actor accused a then 26-year-old Mr Spacey of climbing on top of him on a bed when he was just 14.\n\nMr Spacey apologised for any inappropriate conduct, which he said he could not remember.\n\nIn May, Mr Spacey was questioned over allegations of sexual assault in the UK between 1996 and 2013. Metropolitan Police officers travelled to the US to speak to him. Inquiries in the case are ongoing.\n\nAmid multiple allegations of misconduct, the Oscar-winning actor was dropped from Netflix series House of Cards in 2017 and had his scenes edited out of the film All the Money in the World.\n\nThe Nantucket case was one of few criminal cases to be brought as a result of Hollywood's #MeToo scandal.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt urged to consider the impact of a no-deal Brexit on UK research.\n\nThe president of the Royal Society has warned the Tory leadership candidates that UK research could be damaged by a bad deal or no-deal Brexit.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan has presented them with an analysis showing that the UK collaborates with the EU much more than previously thought.\n\nIt shows that a third of UK research papers are co-authored with the EU scientists.\n\nThis compared with less than a fifth from the US.\n\nProf Ramakrishnan added that without a new visa arrangement it will be much more expensive for researchers from the EU to work in the UK compared with other countries.\n\nBritish science is one of the biggest winners of the UK's membership of the European Union. It receives tens of millions of pounds more each year than it puts into the EU research budget. Membership also allows UK researchers easy access to collaborations with the best laboratories in Europe.\n\nIn a letter to Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, Professor Ramakrishnan says that those benefits will be lost and with them risks the UK's pre-eminent position in research, in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Royal Society's new analysis indicates that links with the EU are of growing importance to UK science.\n\n\"The loss of support from European research grants and collaborations would have an immediate impact on innovation in the UK and stop valuable research in its tracks,\" Prof Ramakrishnan wrote to both leadership candidates.\n\nHe has also provided data which shows that it is substantially more expensive for researchers to get work visas in the UK than other nations. Currently, EU researchers working in UK labs have to pay nothing, but without a proper arrangement in place, those applying in future will have to pay thousands.\n\nMore than 1,600 IT specialists and engineers offered jobs in the UK were denied visas between December and March\n\n\"How the UK approaches immigration directly impacts our attractiveness as a place to work or train as a researcher. As well as tackling the immediate costs barrier, we need a cultural shift within the immigration system that makes us more human and welcoming in the way we handle cases,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the UK's leading research bodies urged the Conservative leadership candidates to make a pledge to put scientific research at the heart of their economic policy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Avi Maharaj indicated a guilty plea to fraud by false representation at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nA Met Police officer has admitted buying pornography at the family home of a dead child while he waited for an undertaker to arrive.\n\nPC Avi Maharaj was on duty alone at the south London home when he used the family's Virgin TV account and spent £25.96 on 11 February 2018.\n\nIt is understood he made four purchases - at least two of which were made when the child's body remained in the house.\n\nMaharaj, 44, of Kingswood Place, Hayes, has indicated a guilty plea to fraud.\n\nAfter Tuesday's hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, he was bailed for pre-sentence reports to be made for a hearing on 6 August.\n\nThe Met said the officer, from the south west command unit, is currently on restricted duties.\n\nHis conviction follows a complaint from a member of the child's family, which led to an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe watchdog also found evidence he may have falsified his attendance log to cover his actions.\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem, said: \"PC Maharaj's behaviour was shocking and even more so given he was guarding the property in the absence of the homeowner.\n\n\"Not only were his actions deceitful but he caused considerable distress for the family involved who were dealing with the sudden death of a family member.\n\n\"I am sorry that the family involved had to deal with this while also coping with the tragic loss of their child.\"\n\nThe Met said misconduct proceedings will take place following the conclusion of criminal proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ad offered a bottle of wine, a chocolate bar and a packet of condoms for those wanting to \"celebrate\" with their secretary\n\nThe international chain of convenience stores Circle K has offered a public apology in Mexico after it tweeted an offer which was widely decried as sexist on social media.\n\nThe ad urged shoppers to mark \"Secretary Day\" by buying a special \"combo\" consisting of a bottle of wine, a chocolate bar and a packet of condoms for their secretary.\n\nIt was quickly panned on Twitter for promoting stereotypes of women.\n\nMexico honours different professions on days across the year. Celebrations normally do not go much beyond a card, a message sent on social media or a small gift, traditionally chocolate or flowers.\n\nLocal shops often have promotions to mark these days, which in the case of \"Secretary Day\", is celebrated on the third Wednesday in July.\n\nBut rather than honouring secretaries, many Mexicans felt that the offer advertised on Tuesday on Circle K convenience stores' official Twitter account did exactly the opposite.\n\nThe ad showed three offers, two of them were for a bottle of wine and a chocolate bar. But the third added a pack of condoms to the \"combo\" worth 199 Mexican pesos ($10; £8).\n\nThe text above it reads: \"Happy day to all the secretaries. Celebrate with them the proper way with this executive combo.\"\n\nThe word used for secretary in the ad is \"secretaria\", which is female in Spanish and therefore would only be taken to apply to women. Further down, the word \"executive combo\" is followed by the suggestive phrase in English in brackets: \"If you know what I mean\".\n\nMexican Senator Patricia Mercado was one of those to flag up the ad on Twitter and its subsequent removal by Circle K.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Patricia Mercado This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Mercado said that not only was the ad sexist for \"reproducing gender stereotypes and misogyny by insinuating that the recognition secretaries deserve is of a sexual nature, but also because it promotes sexual harassment and bullying at work\".\n\nIn its apology [in Spanish], Circle K said that it \"deeply regrets the contents published on social media, which aimed to publicise an offer and never to promote any stereotype whatsoever\".\n\nCircle K also said that it had \"taken the necessary measure so something like this does not happen again\".\n\nSexual harassment and gender violence is widespread in Mexico. A recent survey suggested that 73% of women employed in the Mexican media had suffered sexual harassment.\n\nIn the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority has banned sexist ads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "It is \"not fair and not right\" that some parents have to return to work before their newborn leaves hospital, Theresa May has said as she launched a consultation on parental leave.\n\nUnder government plans, new parents in Britain would get one week of state-funded leave and pay for every week their baby is in hospital.\n\nThe intention is for parents to have more time at home with their newborns.\n\nEvery year around 100,000 babies go into neonatal care after their birth.\n\nThe consultation will also seek views on how parental leave can be changed to \"better reflect our modern society\".\n\nMrs May - who is due to step down as prime minister next week - said she wanted to provide further support for parents dealing with \"the unimaginable stress\" of their babies being taken into neonatal care.\n\n\"Parents have more than enough on their plates without worrying about their parental leave running out and having to return to work before their precious newborn comes home,\" she said.\n\n\"That's not fair and it's not right. So we're also proposing a new neonatal leave and pay entitlement to make this time a bit easier for parents whose babies need to spend a prolonged period in neonatal care.\"\n\nTheresa May discussed her proposals with parents in south London\n\nConcerning parental leave, Mrs May said parenting had changed over the past 40 years \"but too often, it is still mothers, not fathers, who shoulder the burden of childcare\".\n\n\"It is clear that we need to do more and that's why today we have launched a consultation calling for views on how we can improve the current system.\"\n\nAlthough the UK's maternity leave provision is above average among leading economies, its paternity leave is six weeks shorter than the average.\n\nThe government argues changing paternity leave could promote better gender equality in work and at home.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt said: \"Fathers should not have to rely on annual and unpaid leave if they want to be involved in the first months of their child's life.\"\n\nThe consultation will also look at requiring firms to publish their leave pay and flexible working policies.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-5-4 -3 J Rahm (Spa), A Noren (Swe), W Simpson (US), S Garcia (Spa), D Frittelli (SA), R MacIntyre (Sco), K Aphibarnrat (Tha), R Fox (NZ), T Hatton (Eng), L Westwood (Eng), T Fleetwood (Eng), B Koepka (US), T Finau (US)\n\nRory McIlroy dropped four shots on the first hole and three at the last as his bid for a home Open victory at Royal Portrush was left in tatters.\n\nThe 2014 winner hit his first tee shot out of bounds at the Northern Ireland course as he shot an eight-over-par 79 - 13 behind American leader JB Holmes.\n\nIrishman Shane Lowry, the early leader, trails Holmes by one on four under.\n\nWorld number one Brooks Koepka, seeking his fifth major victory since 2017, is among a pack of 13 on three under.\n\nTwo-time runner-up Sergio Garcia, fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm, and the English trio of Lee Westwood, Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrell Hatton are in that group, as is New Zealander Ryan Fox, who recorded 29 coming in - the lowest total for a back nine in Open history.\n• None Relive the first day's action from Royal Portrush\n• None The Cut podcast: Rory woe and Tiger struggles at Royal Portrush\n• None 'Some of the things McIlroy did were embarrassing for a player of his class'\n\nEngland's world number four Justin Rose is two under while American Jordan Spieth, who won this event in 2017, is on one under.\n\nTwo of golf's royalty, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, face a fight to make the cut. Five-time major winner Mickelson, who won in 2013, is five over and Masters champion Tiger Woods is further adrift on seven over.\n\nThe three-time winner produced six bogeys and a double bogey in his round of 78, although retained his sense of humour on the 15th when he made an ironic gesture to the crowd after sinking his only birdie.\n\nWoods, who has had a number of operations on his back, revealed he was \"sore\" during the round and would be receiving treatment before Friday's play.\n\n\"I had a hard time moving and was just trying to piece together a swing that will get me around a golf course,\" said the 43-year-old 15-time major winner.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden I made probably one of the best pars you've ever seen on one today. That was a pretty good start. But it was kind of downhill from there.\n\n\"I'm going to have days like this and I've got to fight through it. And I fought through it. Unfortunately, I did not post a very good score.\"\n\nHolmes, whose best Open finish was third in 2016, told Sky Sports: \"Today I hit it really good off the tee. I hit it solid, didn't get too aggressive and didn't make dumb bogeys.\n\nMuch of focus in the build-up to the championship was whether, come Sunday, Northern Ireland would be celebrating their greatest hope lifting the Claret Jug on the country's premier course.\n\nBut the chances of that happening have all but disappeared as 30-year-old McIlroy evoked memories of his final-round collapse at the 2011 Masters, with an inward nine that included a double bogey on the 16th and a triple bogey on the 18th to leave him on tied 150th. The quadruple was his first in a major since the 2013 US Open.\n\n\"I would like to punch myself,\" the four-time major winner told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I made a couple of stupid mistakes. I was pretty nervous on the first tee and hit a bad shot. I showed some resilience in the middle of the round and was trying to fight back into the championship but then I finished off poorly as well.\n\n\"If I look back, I undid all my good work to recover on the last three holes.\n\n\"At the end of the day, I play golf to fulfil my ambitions, not anyone else's, but I wish I could have given the crowd something to cheer about.\n\n\"I let myself down more than anyone else and need to pick myself back up.\"\n\nIrishman Lowry set the early standard with five birdies, and one dropped shot, for a 67.\n\nThe 32-year-old told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I gave myself lots of chances and then didn't hole anything but then had a couple of good pars saves late on.\"\n\nAnother Northern Irishman, Darren Clarke, was greeted by a large crowd at 06:35 BST as he hit the first tee shot at the County Antrim course, which is hosting the tournament for the first time in 68 years.\n• None Clarke on his 'wow' moment on first tee at Portrush\n\nRoyal Portrush is expecting 237,750 spectators over the week - a record attendance for an Open outside of St Andrews - eclipsing the 235,000 who attended Royal Birkdale in 2017.\n\nThose watching experienced a variety of conditions including wind and bright sunshine, then swirling showers before the sun returned for the final groups.\n\nThere was disappointment for Italian defending champion Francesco Molinari, who produced three bogeys and a double bogey over the first 13 holes as he finished on three over.\n\nGraeme McDowell, who was born a stone's throw from the course, was three under after a birdie on the 14th but the 2010 US Open winner's round fell apart and a triple bogey on the 18th meant he ended two over.\n\nOne of the biggest cheers of the day came on the 200-yard par-three 13th when Argentine Emiliano Grillo sunk the first ace of the championship, but there were groans aplenty on the par-five seventh as 2001 winner David Duval suffered the ignominy of a 14. The 47-year-old also recorded a triple bogey on the 17th and is bottom of the pack on 20 over after a 91 - the tournament's worst round in 22 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baby Shark: It's got a catchy tune and plans for world domination - but the toddler hit is older than you think\n\nOfficials in West Palm Beach, Florida are trying a new method of driving homeless people away from a city-owned rental facility: children's music.\n\nThe wildly popular and extremely repetitive children's songs, Baby Shark and Raining Tacos, play on an endless loop through the night.\n\nMayor Keith James told the BBC it is a temporary measure to keep the homeless from the city's waterfront space.\n\nBut advocates for the homeless say it is cruel treatment of those in need.\n\nOfficials say the children's songs serve as a deterrent around the city's Lake Pavilion, a glass-walled events venue overlooking the downtown waterfront that hosted 164 events over the last year.\n\nThe widely popular children's song \"Baby Shark\" is being used to drive away the homeless\n\nWest Palm Beach expects to collect $240,000 (£193,000) this coming year from such events.\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr James says, \"unpleasant remnants\" like human faeces have been found around the pavilion's entrance.\n\n\"When people pay good money for it, they should be able to enjoy the facility they pay for,\" Mr James says, adding it was important to keep the area \"pristine\".\n\nThe particular songs were chosen, he notes, \"because they're pretty aggravating if you hear them over and over\".\n\nBut to advocates for the homeless, an incessant loop of Baby Shark and Raining Tacos is considered cruel punishment for vulnerable people with nowhere else to go.\n\n\"These are people who are already in desperate straits and this is an effort to make life even more miserable for them,\" says Maria Foscarinis, founder and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. \"Driving them out by blaring music is just inhumane and really shocking.\"\n\nAnd the technique - Baby Shark and Raining Tacos - is particularly insidious, she adds.\n\n\"How horrible to take something that is meant in such an innocent way and use it in such a mean and really evil way,\" Ms Foscarinis says.\n\nThere are approximately 354 individuals experiencing homelessness in West Palm Beach - a decrease of 24% from the year before, according to Mr James.\n\nAnd teams are sent out on the street every week, he says, to assist the homeless population, guiding them to shelters and providing medical care.\n\nAs a result of these efforts around six people are placed in temporary or transitional housing each week.\n\n\"I'm very proud of our record,\" Mr James said.\n\nFlorida is home to approximately 31,030 individuals without a home - just less than 6% of the nation's total.\n\nMs Foscarinis says the state should not be singled out for the size of its homeless population, but adds: \"But I would single Florida out for the cruelty\".\n\nHomeless men and women sleep outside in Sarasota, Florida\n\nShe compared the use of Baby Shark and Raining Tacos to a national trend of \"hostile architecture\", which renders public spaces inhospitable to the homeless.\n\nSloped or segmented bus benches, uncomfortably coarse pavement and spiked window sills have all been used to drive away the homeless.\n\nAnd this is not the first time that music has been used as a deterrent. Three years ago, officials in nearby Lake Worth Beach tried using classical music to drive away drug dealers and the homeless, US media report.\n\nThe method proved ineffective as the targeted groups appeared to enjoy the classical tunes.\n\nThe issue with these methods, Ms Foscarinis says, is the assumption that people have other options.\n\n\"But the solution isn't to drive these people away by making their lives even more miserable. The solution is to work together to create real alternatives.\"", "Zac Cox fell 130ft while working at the Khalifa International Stadium\n\nThe authorities in Qatar are to hold an independent inquiry into the death of a British man who fell as he worked on a 2022 World Cup stadium in Doha.\n\nZac Cox died in January 2017 after falling 130ft from a gantry that collapsed.\n\nHe sustained brain injuries and a broken neck, Brighton and Hove Coroner's Court heard last year.\n\nMr Cox's family welcomed the investigation, which will be carried out by a British judge.\n\nMr Cox, 40, who was born in Johannesburg but later lived in Hove and London, was a specialist in construction work on tall buildings.\n\nHe fell from a platform he was helping to install at the Khalifa stadium, after lever hoists failed.\n\nAt the inquest, coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley blamed substandard equipment and chaotic working conditions.\n\nThe Qatari committee responsible for the 2022 World Cup has now agreed to hold an independent investigation.\n\nFormer High Court judge Sir Robert Akenhead will look into the decisions that led to Mr Cox's death.\n\nQatar's World Cup committee said the health and safety of its workers remained its utmost priority.\n\nQatar's World Cup committee said the health and safety of its workers remained its utmost priority\n\nMr Cox's sisters-in-law Ella Joseph and Hazel Mayes said the period since his death had been \"extremely difficult\" for his family and friends.\n\nIn a statement on behalf of the family, they said: \"Following the UK Coroner's inquest into Zac's death... our family called for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.\n\n\"We wanted to get to the truth about the decisions and circumstances that led to his death and to try and ensure that lessons are learnt that could help prevent other similar incidents from occurring in the future.\"\n\nThey added: \"We welcome Sir Robert Akenhead's appointment and the commencement of the investigation.\n\n\"We also welcome the Supreme Committee's commitment to ensure everyone concerned co-operates fully with this independent investigation.\n\n\"Both the Supreme Committee and Zac's family share the view that Sir Robert Akenhead must be able to conduct his activity unhindered and with absolute autonomy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Alston met people across the UK, including these Belfast residents\n\nThe UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos\", a report commissioned by the UN has said.\n\nSpecial rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said \"ideological\" cuts to public services since 2010 have led to \"tragic consequences\".\n\nThe report comes after Prof Alston visited UK towns and cities and made preliminary findings last November.\n\nThe government said his final report was \"barely believable\".\n\nThe £95bn spent on welfare and the maintenance of the state pension showed the government took tackling poverty \"extremely seriously\", a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.\n\nProf Alston is an independent expert in human rights law and was appointed to the unpaid role by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014. He spent nearly two weeks travelling in Britain and Northern Ireland and received more than 300 written submissions for his report.\n\nHe concluded: \"The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.\"\n\nThe Australian professor, who is based at New York University, said government policies had led to the \"systematic immiseration [economic impoverishment]\" of a significant part of the UK population, meaning they had continually put people further into poverty.\n\nSome observers might conclude that the DWP had been tasked with \"designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th Century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens\", he said.\n\nThe report cites independent experts saying that 14 million people in the UK - a fifth of the population - live in poverty, according to a new measure that takes into account costs such as housing and childcare.\n\nIn 2017, 1.5 million people experienced destitution, meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or they had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period.\n\nDespite official denials, Prof Alston said he had heard accounts of people choosing between heating their homes or eating, children turning up to school with empty stomachs, increased homelessness and food bank use, and \"story after story\" of people who had considered or attempted suicide.\n\nPeople in Clacton shared their concerns at a meeting with the UN special rapporteur\n\nHe said the cause was the government's \"ideological\" decision to dismantle the social safety net and focus on work as the solution to poverty.\n\n\"UK standards of well-being have descended precipitately in a remarkably short period of time, as a result of deliberate policy choices made when many other options were available,\" said Prof Alston.\n\nTo anyone familiar with the shifting landscape of Britain's poorest communities since 2010, there is nothing factually new in these findings.\n\nBy highlighting them in one short, 20-page report, however, Philip Alston raises a fundamental question - is the government, and the country, comfortable with the society that we've become?\n\nHe outlines the normalisation of food banks, rising levels of homelessness and child poverty, steep cuts to benefits and policing, and severe restrictions on legal aid.\n\nIn Professor Alston's view, these are the unequivocal consequences of deliberate, calculated political decisions.\n\nMinisters have long argued they had no choice but to cut public spending. Whatever the motivation, life has become a lot harder in recent years for millions of people in the UK.\n\nThe DWP said that the UN's own data put the UK 15th on the list of the happiest places to live.\n\n\"This is a barely believable documentation of Britain, based on a tiny period of time spent here. It paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"All the evidence shows that full-time work is the best way to boost your income and quality of life,\" the spokesman added.\n\nProf Alston praised the \"resilience, strength and generosity\" of British people, as well as the compassion of local officials and volunteers.\n\nAnd he said there had been some positive developments, with increases in the Universal Credit work allowances expected to lift 200,000 people out of poverty, and plans to introduce a consistent measure of poverty.\n\nBut he said the \"massive disinvestment\" in the social safety net continued, making the changes seem like \"window dressing to minimise political fall-out\".\n\nDespite the government's focus on work and record levels of employment, about 60% of people in poverty are in families where someone works, Prof Alston said.\n\nHe said this, along with welfare cuts, created a \"highly combustible situation that will have dire consequences\" in an extended economic downturn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should 'get on with' changing its Brexit policy to support a second referendum, the shadow chancellor has told the BBC.\n\nJohn McDonnell said Jeremy Corbyn was \"rightfully\" trying to build consensus, but added the party needed to reach a position \"sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"I want to campaign for Remain,\" he said.\n\nHe also denied he had called for the Labour leader's advisors to be sacked, as reported in the Sunday Times.\n\nLabour had previously promised a vote on Brexit in certain circumstances, specifically if it could not get its own deal with the EU passed by MPs or if there was no general election.\n\nFollowing the party's poor performance in the European elections in May, Mr Corbyn appeared to go further, suggesting there \"had to be a public vote\" on any deal agreed with Brussels.\n\nHe has recently come under pressure from his own MPs to confirm that the party would call for another referendum, and would campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Mr McDonnell confirmed that he, personally, would campaign to Remain if there was a second referendum.\n\nHe said he wanted to \"get on with it\", but added that Mr Corbyn was \"much wiser\" and wanted to \"build consensus and then go for it\".\n\n\"That's what he's doing at the moment,\" he added.\n\n\"Jeremy and I go back 40 years, we're the closest of friends. We've minded each other's back throughout that period. Yes, we'll disagree on things, and then we'll come to an agreement.\"\n\nAsked if he and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott had called for Mr Corbyn's advisors - Karie Murphy and Seumas Milne - to be sacked, Mr McDonnell replied such stories were \"rubbish\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Barry Gardiner told Sky News' Sophy Ridge that his party is in talks with Conservative MPs who might support a no-confidence motion in the government in order to stop a no-deal Brexit. Conservative MP and ex-minister Sam Gyimah suggested \"30 plus\" Tory MPs would seek to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr McDonnell was also asked about reports in the Sunday Times that up to half a dozen Labour staff have ignored non-disclosure agreements (NDA) to speak to BBC journalists working on a Panorama programme about Labour and anti-Semitism.\n\nAccording to the Times, Labour, through the law firm Carter Ruck, has warned there could be legal action against those staff members.\n\nMr McDonnell said the Labour Party was \"reminding them of their confidentiality agreement\".\n\nHe argued this was important in cases where employees \"are dealing with individual cases, individual information and individual members\".\n\nHowever, he added the party would \"always protect anyone subject to harassment\".\n\nA number of Labour MPs criticised the reported action, including deputy leader Tom Watson who said \"using expensive media lawyers in an attempt to silence staff members is as futile as it is stupid\".\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting tweeted \"Labour opposes NDAs, yet seems to impose them. I'm protected by parliamentary privilege. I'll whistleblow in the House of Commons for anyone who needs me to do so. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. No more excuses or hiding places. You should promise the same Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Gardiner, shadow international trade secretary, has attacked the forthcoming Panorama programme - which will be aired next week - as neither balanced or impartial.\n\nIn response the BBC said: \"The Labour Party is criticising a programme they have not seen.\n\n\"We are confident the programme will adhere to the BBC's editorial guidelines. In line with those, the Labour Party has been given the opportunity to respond to the allegations.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nCoco Gauff's remarkable fairytale run at Wimbledon came to an end with a straight-set defeat by former world number one Simona Halep.\n\nSeventh seed Halep, 27, beat the 15-year-old American qualifier 6-3 6-3 to advance to the quarter-finals, where she will play China's Zhang Shuai.\n\nGauff had beaten Venus Williams, Magdalena Rybarikova and Polona Hercog on her way to the last 16.\n\nBut she appeared out of sorts on court, calling on a doctor in the second set.\n\nGauff had been bidding to become the youngest Wimbledon quarter-finalist since fellow 15-year-old American Jennifer Capriati in 1991.\n\n\"I wasn't feeling very well but I still played my best. I'm not sure what it was but I still had fun even though I was losing,\" she said.\n\n\"I learned a lot about how to play in front of a big crowd and how to play under pressure. I am really grateful for the experience.\"\n• None 'I can't put into words how I feel' - Coco's Wimbledon fairytale\n• None Williams dominates Suarez Navarro to reach last eight\n\nGauff's meeting with 2014 Wimbledon semi-finalist Halep was the match everyone wanted to watch on Manic Monday, with Vogue editor Anna Wintour forced to watch from a staircase because of the bumper crowd.\n\nBut the magnitude of the occasion appeared to get to Gauff, who showed signs of early nerves by having her serve broken in the very first game.\n\nShe broke back immediately, and later in the first set almost went another break up when Halep double-faulted twice in succession, but scuppered two break points as Halep held serve.\n\nYet unlike her cool and calm approach in previous matches, Gauff looked despondent after every game she lost, throwing her racquet to the ground and clapping her hands together in frustration as Halep broke her serve to go 3-2 up.\n\nGauff was broken once more as Halep took the set before the second set started in exactly the same fashion, Halep breaking her young opponent's serve at the first chance.\n\nYet again Gauff immediately broke back, but she lost on serve again to gift her opponent a 4-2 lead, and Halep went on to hold match point on a break but Gauff rallied back.\n\nGauff showed not a flicker of emotion as Halep eventually served out the set, not even stopping to greet the autograph hunters as she walked to the changing rooms.\n\n'She has all the ingredients' - analysis\n\nThe fairytale has ended but it's only just beginning for Coco Gauff. She has all the ingredients she needs to be a future Grand Slam champion.\n\nIt's been a lot of fun watching her at Wimbledon this year.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "A judge who said a drink-driver deserved a chance to avoid jail because she is a woman will not face sanctions.\n\nVictoria Parry, 31, collided with three vehicles which caused her Fiat to spin off the A46, near Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nIn April, Judge Sarah Buckingham was investigated after she said Parry would have gone \"straight down the stairs\" to jail if she was a man.\n\nBut the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) said there was now no \"outstanding complaint\".\n\nParry, of Bearley, Strafford-upon-Avon, hit a van's rear bumper, a Vauxhall Insignia's wing mirror and the side of a BMW in the crash on 23 May last year.\n\nShe was found to be almost three times the legal limit and later admitted dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.\n\nHer lawyers said she had a \"considerable drink problem\" after a 15-year abusive relationship.\n\nJudge Buckingham deferred sentencing for three-months in April to see if Parry could address her issues.\n\nWhen Parry returned to Warwick Crown Court on Monday, she was handed an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years.\n\nParry's lawyer Kane Sharpe said his client had \"positively engaged\" with all the judge's conditional requirements, including abstaining from alcohol, attending daily Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and seeking private counselling.\n\nHe said Parry had \"sadly and deeply unfairly\" lost her job as a shop worker, had been trolled over the internet and received death threats following the case.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Buckingham said the dangerous driving was \"dreadful and appalling\" and it was \"merciful\" no-one was injured.\n\nShe said: \"Prison was richly deserved but the court wanted to see if any positive changes could be made and sustained.\"\n\nJudge Buckingham said she would honour her previous indication not to send Parry to prison after it was \"definitely clear to see what progress you would make\".\n\nParry was also banned from driving for two years and will undertake a 12-month rehabilitation requirement.\n\nA complaint over the judge's comments in April was received by the JCIO.\n\nBut a JCIO spokeswoman said: \"There is no outstanding complaint against Judge Buckingham in relation to the remarks made in Warwick Crown Court in April.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Convincing fakes of audio are easier to generate than video spoofs\n\nA security firm says deepfaked audio is being used to steal millions of pounds.\n\nSymantec said it had seen three cases of seemingly deepfaked audio of different chief executives used to trick senior financial controllers into transferring cash.\n\nThe AI system could be trained using the \"huge amount\" of audio the average chief executive would have innocently made available, Symantec said.\n\nCorporate videos, earning calls, media appearances as well as conference keynotes and presentations would all be useful for fakers looking to build a model of someone's voice, chief technology officer Dr Hugh Thompson said.\n\n\"The model can probably be almost perfect,\" he said.\n\nA deepfake of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg was widely shared on the social network\n\nAnd they had used background noise to cleverly mask the least convincing syllables and words.\n\n\"Really,\" said Dr Thompson, \"who would not fall for something like that?\"\n\nDr Alexander Adam, a data scientist at AI specialist Faculty, said it would take a substantial investment of time and money to produce good audio fakes.\n\n'Training the models costs thousands of pounds,\" he said.\n\n\"This is because you need a lot of compute power and the human ear is very sensitive to a wide range of frequencies, so getting the model to sound truly realistic takes a lot of time.\"\n\nTypically, he said, hours of good quality audio was needed to help capture the rhythms and intonation of a target's speech patterns.", "Mandla Maseko described himself as a typical township boy\n\nA South African who won the chance to be the first black African in space has died in a motorbike accident before turning his dream into reality.\n\nMandla Maseko, 30, was killed on Saturday, a family statement says.\n\nIn 2013, the South African Air Force member beat one million entrants to win one of 23 places at a space academy in the US.\n\nNicknamed Afronaut and Spaceboy, Maseko described himself as a typical township boy from Pretoria.\n\nMany of those paying tribute to Maseko on social media remembered his nicknames fondly.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe had spent a week at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida doing tests in preparation for an hour-long sub-orbital flight, originally scheduled for 2015.\n\nChallenges included skydiving to earth from 10,000 feet and a test charmingly known as the \"vomit comet\".\n\nBut the chance never came to go into space. The company organising the flight, XCOR Aerospace, went bankrupt in 2017, news site Space.com reported.\n\nMaseko returned to the armed forces and worked as a private pilot. In his free time he was a keen DJ and biker.\n\n\"He was a larger-than-life figure. We are all still reeling at the moment,\" his friend Sthembile Shabangu told News24.\n\nMaseko had said he wanted to do something that would motivate and inspire young people in Africa and prove that they could achieve anything whatever their background.\n\nHe told the BBC he planned to call them from space. \"I hope I have one line that will be used in years to come - like Neil Armstrong did,\" he said.\n\nThe US astronaut, who died in 2012 aged 82, was the first man ever to walk on the Moon in 1969.\n\nAs he stepped on to the lunar surface, he famously said: \"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The couple said they turned to IVF after years of trying to have children\n\nAn Asian couple who tried to conceive through IVF has claimed that a mix-up at a California fertility clinic left them pregnant with the wrong children.\n\nA lawsuit filed by the couple in New York states that the couple was shocked to give birth to two boys who were not of Asian descent, US media reported.\n\nThe lawsuit says DNA tests confirmed the children were not related to the couple and they relinquished custody.\n\nThe fertility clinic has not commented on the allegations.\n\nThe couple - identified in the lawsuit only as AP and YZ to minimise the \"embarrassment and humiliation\" - say they tried for years to get pregnant before spending more than $100,000 (£80,000) on the IVF, or in vitro fertilisation, including medication, laboratory fees, travel and other costs.\n\nIVF is the process of fertilising an egg outside of the woman's body, before returning it to the womb to grow and develop.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York last week, accuses CHA Fertility and two men identified as its co-owners and directors of offences including medical malpractice and intentional infliction of emotional distress.\n\nIt reportedly notes that after giving birth on 30 March, the couple \"was shocked to see that the babies they were told were formed using both of their genetic material did not appear to be\".\n\nThere were earlier signs that things were amiss when a scan revealed they were expecting boys, despite the fact that the doctors had said they did not use male embryos during the treatment.\n\nDoctors reportedly told the couple that the scan was inaccurate, before they went on to have the baby boys in April. In addition to not being related to the couple, the children were not related to each other, according to the lawsuit.\n\nOn its website, CHA Fertility says it delivers the \"highest degree of personalized care...with the utmost sense of duty\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted the company for comment.\n\nLawyers for the couple told the BBC their clients suffered from \"the grossly negligent and reckless conduct of CHA fertility\".\n\n\"Our goal in filing this lawsuit is to obtain compensation for our clients' losses, as well as to ensure that this tragedy never happens again,\" the lawyers said.", "Ariana Grande's tour will take her to the UK later this year\n\nAriana Grande has explained to fans why she started crying during a performance in the US on Saturday night.\n\nShe became upset while singing the song REM from her Sweetener album at the Enterprise Center in St Louis, Missouri.\n\nIn a Twitter post that has since been deleted, she wrote: \"I feel everything very intensely and have committed to doing this tour during a time in my life when I'm still processing a lot.\n\nGrande said she wrote the message \"because I'm grateful and because I want you to know that if you too are hurting, you can push through and are not alone\".\n\nThe singer has been open about her difficulties since a suicide bomber killed 22 people after her concert in Manchester in May 2017.\n\nAlso, her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died last September, and her engagement to comedian Pete Davidson ended in October.\n\nReferring to fans on her US tour, she said: \"I'm not sure what I did to deserve to meet so many loving souls every night... but I want you to know that it really does carry me through.\"\n\nGrande also performed at the Coachella Festival in April\n\nGrande also wrote that her Sweetener tour was \"a dream come true... no matter how hard it gets or how many feelings come up that are screaming at me to be processed and sorted through one day.\"\n\nThe singer added: \"I'm grounded by gratitude and promise not to give up on what I've started.\"\n\nShe wrote: \"It is hard to balance taking care of the people around you, doing your job, and healing/taking care of yourself at the same time... but I want you to know, you aren't alone and I think you're doing great. Love you.\"\n\nThe Sweetener tour began in March, and Grande will visit the UK and Ireland later this year, with dates in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Sheffield and Dublin.\n\nShe will also headline Manchester Pride in August, returning to the city more than two years after the Manchester Arena terror attack and her subsequent One Love benefit concert.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carl Sargeant was found dead after an investigation was launched into his conduct\n\nFormer first minister Carwyn Jones has denied lying under oath over evidence he previously gave at an inquest into the death of a sacked minister.\n\nCarl Sargeant, 49, was found hanged at his home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, on 7 November 2017, days after he was fired from his cabinet post.\n\nMr Jones was challenged over how he had represented a request to another assembly member to support Mr Sargeant.\n\nMr Sargeant had faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women.\n\nThe inquest had been adjourned after Mr Jones brought a legal challenge relating to admissible evidence last November, but it was rejected and resumed on Monday.\n\nThe court earlier heard evidence from Vale of Clwyd AM Ann Jones, who disputed evidence previously given by Mr Jones that she had been appointed in a pastoral care role to help Mr Sargeant after he was sacked.\n\nMs Jones said she had just acted as a friend and had made that clear to Mr Jones after he told her when Mr Sargeant died that he would tell the media that had been her role.\n\nThe inquest is being heard by coroner John Gittins\n\nReferring to this evidence, coroner John Gittins told Mr Jones: \"Either you were mistaken or I was misled, and perhaps deliberately.\"\n\nMr Jones told the coroner he believed Ms Jones was in a \"liaison support role provided by the party, not the government\".\n\nHe said he became aware Ms Jones had been contacted when his former special advisor Matt Greenough told him he had texted her. \"He did what I would've asked him to do anyway,\" Mr Jones said.\n\nMr Jones said the first time he spoke to Ms Jones was after Mr Sargeant's death.\n\nHe told the coroner: \"We were getting questions from the media.\" He added it was \"absolutely not the case,\" that it was \"some kind of cover story\".\n\nHe said he told her as a matter of courtesy that he would tell the press she had been appointed in a support and liaison role, adding: \"I was surprised that Ann told me she didn't see it in the same way.\"\n\nLeslie Thomas QC, for the Sargeant family, said evidence given by Ms Jones \"directly contradicts\" what Mr Jones had said under oath last November.\n\nHe had originally told the inquest he had spoken to Ms Jones over the weekend, but corrected that evidence in a new statement taken in March.\n\nIn a fiery exchange, Mr Thomas told Mr Jones: \"I'm suggesting you are being fundamentally dishonest in your answers.\" Mr Jones denied this.\n\nIn a further bad-tempered exchange, Mr Jones asked Mr Thomas: \"Are you accusing me of lying?\"\n\n\"Yes, I am,\" replied Mr Thomas, adding that claiming he spoke to Ann Jones over the weekend was not true, and it had \"come to light when a witness came forward.... you were caught out in a lie\".\n\nHe continued: \"Mr Jones, you didn't have anything in place for the protection of Carl Sargeant.... after Carl's death you approached Ann and you asked Ann to do something as an afterthought that she wasn't happy doing.\"\n\nMr Jones denied that, and also that there had been a media leak about Mr Sargeant's sacking. He said a BBC tweet at 11:33 on the re-shuffle day was \"gossip\" and \"utter speculation\".\n\nAndy Sargeant, Carl's brother, told Carwyn Jones: \"For me, Mr Jones, it's not a mistake. Your statement isn't a mistake, it's a damage-limitation exercise.\"\n\nDiscussing his phone records, Mr Jones said he never had a second phone. \"I only had one phone and that was a government phone,\" he said.\n\nCarl Sargeant's son Jack (first left) and widow Bernadette Sargeant (second left) arriving at the inquest on Monday\n\nMr Jones also said there had never been any guarantee Mr Sargeant would stay in the cabinet.\n\nHe said he was sacked during a reshuffle and, as Mr Sargeant \"was a friend of mine\", he wanted to allow him time to \"digest the situation\" over the following weekend.\n\nHe added: \"I have to say that the re-shuffle itself gave the opportunity for Carl to leave the cabinet without an immediate story of why.... it certainly wasn't the intention for it to be in the news that Friday or over the weekend,\" he said.\n\nBut things changed when Mr Sargeant tweeted about the situation, he said.\n\nAsked if enough had been done, Mr Jones said: \"I can't see what else could've been put in place.\"\n\nAsked by the coroner whether he thought about contacting Mr Sargeant, he said he thought about it, but it \"wouldn't have been appropriate\".\n\nEarlier, the court heard Ann Jones had received a text message from Matt Greenough along the lines of Mr Sargeant not taking it \"particularly well, will you give him a bell over the weekend?\".\n\nShe said: \"I had been friendly with Carl and I just saw it as someone saying 'just look out for him'.\"\n\nMs Jones told coroner John Gittins she did not view it as her being given a pastoral care role.\n\nShe said she had texted Mr Sargeant to say \"if you're coming down mate, let us know and we'll catch up\", which he had thanked her for, adding: \"I still have no idea of allegation details... bastards.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones gave evidence in the inquest last year\n\nAfter Mr Sargeant's death, when Mr Jones told Ms Jones in a phone call he was going to tell the media he had asked her to provide pastoral care, she told him: \"Don't do that\", as that had not been her understanding.\n\nMs Jones told the coroner: \"I'm not trained as a counsellor, I'm not trained as a carer at all. In fact, I'm probably one of the worst people to be with.\"\n\nShe told a Labour group meeting the next day, which Mr Jones attended, that she saw her role as being nothing other than a friend to Mr Sargeant, and \"the group tended to agree\".\n\nLeslie Thomas QC asked Ms Jones about a text conversation the Monday before Mr Sargeant died.\n\nIn one text, Mr Sargeant wrote: \"I'm telling no-one again I'm thinking of running for first minister.\"\n\nMr Thomas asked whether the message suggested Mr Sergeant felt he had been \"stitched up\" because it was known he was thinking of applying for the role of first minister.\n\n\"I don't think I read it in any particular way,\" she told him, but conceded \"yes you could put that interpretation to it\".\n\nMs Jones said despite Carwyn Jones' depiction of her as being given a pastoral role, she had not done anything in that capacity, adding: \"I didn't want people and certainly I didn't want the family to think that I had been tasked with a role I hadn't performed.\"\n\nShe said she would not have \"sat back\" over the weekend following Mr Sargeant's sacking if she had had a formal pastoral care role.\n\nMs Jones earlier told Mr Gittins she \"very much regarded Carl as a friend\" and had known him throughout his career in the assembly, which started in 2003.\n\nShe did not know Mr Sargeant had suffered from depression, or that he was taking anti-depressants.\n\nAsked about allegations of inappropriate behaviour against Mr Sargeant, she said: \"He'd always been appropriately professional and he'd always been a real gentleman with me.\"\n\nCathryn McGahey QC, on behalf of Mr Jones, asked whether Mr Sargeant knew Ms Jones was \"on the end of a phone\" if he wanted to talk to her, to which she responded: \"Yes, probably he did.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Matt Greenough said he did not recall the content of several texts he sent to Ms Jones on the Saturday after Mr Sargeant was sacked.\n\nWhen he first contacted her it was just so there was someone \"Carl would know and like and trust\".\n\nPastoral care \"wasn't a phrase or an idea that came into my head\", he said.\n\nHe added he thought enough care was given to handling Mr Sargeant's situation, adding: \"We did the best we possibly could with the information we had,\" and that he had done enough by texting Ms Jones.\n\nThe inquest previously heard Mr Sargeant left a letter at his home, telling his family \"I have failed you\".\n\nThe court was told a \"tangible\" complaint about Mr Sargeant behaving inappropriately with two women was made in the weeks before he died.\n\nThe inquest has been adjourned until Tuesday.", "Trade union leaders have reached a common position on Brexit following a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe bosses of Labour's five-biggest affiliated unions back a referendum on any deal agreed by the Tory government or a no-deal exit from the EU.\n\nThey are calling for voters to be given the option to remain in the EU and expect Labour to formally back remain.\n\nIf Labour wins power in a general election, they want a \"confirmatory vote\" on any new deal negotiated.\n\nHowever, Labour's stance in a referendum campaign in these circumstances would \"depend on the deal negotiated\".\n\nMr Corbyn has faced calls to move policy in a more pro-EU direction.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson and other leading figures have called for an unambiguously pro-Remain stance amid criticism that confusion over Labour's message contributed to its poor performance in last month's European parliament elections.\n\nMr Watson welcomed Monday's agreement as a \"step in the right direction\" but said his party should not be supporting any form of Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Watson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a document seen by the BBC, Unite, Unison, the GMB, CWU and Usdaw appear to have moved towards the position advocated by Mr Watson and others by saying that \"remain\" should be an option on the ballot paper, and Labour should campaign for it.\n\nIn the event of a snap election and a Labour victory, they would expect the new government to negotiate a deal to leave the EU - a position favoured by the Unite union.\n\nHowever the deal should be put to a confirmatory vote - a position favoured by Unison and the GMB - and in this scenario \"remain\" should also be an option on the ballot paper.\n\nMr Corbyn, who pledged to consult the unions before any change in position, has previously said he would be prepared to back a referendum on any Brexit deal put to Parliament.\n\nThe text of the document agreed by Labour's five largest affiliated unions\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has not guaranteed either to campaign for the UK to stay in the EU or confirmed that this would even be an option on the ballot paper.\n\nThe Conservatives said Labour had \"no interest in delivering on the referendum result\" of 2016.\n\n\"Labour promised to respect the Brexit vote, but rerunning the referendum and backing remain would be an attempt to frustrate Brexit and ignore the democratic mandate to deliver it,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe agreement by the biggest Labour-supporting unions is significant.\n\nThe document sets out two scenarios. In the first, there would be a Conservative negotiated deal - or no deal - which Labour would oppose.\n\nUnder these circumstances, the unions say Labour should press for a referendum - something which in effect reflects Jeremy Corbyn's current position.\n\nBut the unions also say not only should \"remain\" be an option in any referendum, but that the party should also campaign for it.\n\nThis is the position which Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson and others - including the shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer - have been pressing the Labour leader to adopt following the loss of votes to the avowedly Remain parties at the European elections.\n\nSignificantly, voices on the left too, such as the shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis and some supporters of Momentum, have also been pushing in this direction.\n\nIt was thought, though, that the Unite leader Len McCluskey would hold out against campaigning to remain - but he has shifted.\n\nThe second scenario, though, offers some comfort for Mr McCluskey and Labour MPs in Leave areas.\n\nIf there is a snap election, and Labour forms the next government, then the unions would still expect a Brexit deal to be negotiated.\n\nThis deal would be put to the people, but with remain as an alternative.\n\nThat should keep most of the party's Remainers on side, though they will want guarantees (that so far these have been spoken about privately not publicly) they would not be prevented from campaigning against a Labour deal and for remain.\n\nBut other Remainers are more sceptical. They say that Labour should just ditch the idea of attempting to get a Brexit deal at all. And they worry that any election campaign would be dominated by media questions to Labour MPs on whether they would be prepared to vote against any deal negotiated by their own government.\n\nBut the mere fact the unions have made a decision will put fire in the belly of shadow chancellor John McDonnell and some other shadow ministers who have been pushing for Labour to clarify its policy swiftly, before an new Conservative leader is in place.\n\nThe question is whether Labour's shadow cabinet officially follows suit on Tuesday - but a potential obstacle to a shift in position has been removed today and makes a policy change all the more likely.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jurors were shown CCTV footage of the defendant's car driving at cyclists before crashing into barriers\n\nA driver targeted cyclists and police outside the Houses of Parliament in an attack designed to \"kill as many people as possible\", a court has been told.\n\nSalih Khater aimed his car at members of the public before swerving towards police officers in Parliament Square, his trial at the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHis actions of 14 August 2018 were \"designed to cause maximum death and injury\", the jury was told.\n\nMr Khater, 30, of Birmingham, denies two counts of attempted murder.\n\nIt was \"miraculous\" that no-one died as a result of the defendant's actions, the Old Bailey has heard\n\nOpening the case for the prosecution, Alison Morgan QC said the defendant first drove at cyclists waiting at traffic lights, before driving at officers guarding the side entrance to the Palace of Westminster and then crashing into a security barrier.\n\nShe said: \"He caused widespread fear and chaos but miraculously, and contrary to his intentions, he did not kill anyone that day.\n\n\"Those who were faced with a vehicle being driven at them at high velocity somehow, and largely by their quick responses, managed to avoid death or very serious injury.\"\n\nSalih Khater, depicted here at a magistrates' court hearing last year, denies attempted murder\n\nMs Morgan told jurors Mr Khater's reason for the attack was unclear.\n\nBut she suggested that by targeting officers guarding the Palace of Westminster, the defendant had a \"terrorist motive\".\n\nShe added: \"Using his car in the way that he did, driving in the manner and direction he did, the prosecution alleges that it is obvious that he intended to kill as many people as possible.\"\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of the defendant's silver Ford Fiesta driving at cyclists before crashing into barriers as two uniformed police officers dived out of the way.\n\nThe silver Ford Fiesta allegedly driven by Mr Khater smashed into a security barrier\n\nFootage also showed Mr Khater driving through Parliament Square at 01:00 BST, allegedly conducting reconnaissance.\n\nHe returned about six hours later and completed four laps of the square before launching the attack, jurors were told.\n\nThe Sudanese national, who was granted asylum in the UK in 2010, had shown signs of \"paranoia\" about British authorities in the months leading up to the attack, the court heard.\n\nMs Morgan told the jury: \"The defendant selected an iconic site. This was no coincidence.\"\n\nMr Khater has also pleaded not guilty to two alternative charges of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Instagram believes its new anti-bullying tool, which prompts users to pause and consider what they are saying, could help curb abuse on the platform.\n\nIt will also soon offer the targets of bullying the ability to restrict interactions with users who are causing them distress.\n\nInstagram has been under pressure to deal with its bullying problem after high profile cases, including the suicide of British teenager Molly Russell.\n\nIn a blog post, the firm’s chief executive Adam Mosseri said his firm “could do more” on the issue.\n\n\"We can do more to prevent bullying from happening on Instagram, and we can do more to empower the targets of bullying to stand up for themselves,” Mr Mosseri wrote.\n\n\"These tools are grounded in a deep understanding of how people bully each other and how they respond to bullying on Instagram, but they’re only two steps on a longer path.”\n\nInstagram said it was using artificial intelligence to recognise when text resembles the kind of posts that are most often reported as inappropriate by users.\n\nIn one example, a person types “you are so ugly and stupid”, only to be interrupted with a notice saying: “Are you sure you want to post this? Learn more”.\n\nIf the user taps “learn more”, a notice informs: “We are asking people to rethink comments that seem similar to others that have been reported.”\n\nMolly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017\n\nThe user can ignore the message and post anyway, but Instagram said in early tests that \"we have found that it encourages some people to undo their comment and share something less hurtful once they have had a chance to reflect.”\n\nThe tool is being rolled out to English-speaking users at first, with plans to eventually make it available globally, Instagram told the BBC.\n\nThe company said it will soon roll out an additional tool, called Restrict, designed to help teens filter abusive comments without resorting to blocking others - a blunt move that could have repercussions in the real world.\n\n\"We’ve heard from young people in our community that they’re reluctant to block, unfollow, or report their bully because it could escalate the situation, especially if they interact with their bully in real life,” Mr Mosseri said.\n\n\"Some of these actions also make it difficult for a target to keep track of their bully’s behaviour.”\n\nOnce a user has been restricted, their comments will appear only to themselves. Crucially, a restricted person will not know they have been restricted.\n\n\"You can choose to make a restricted person’s comments visible to others by approving their comments,” Mr Mosseri explained.\n\n\"Restricted people won’t be able to see when you’re active on Instagram or when you’ve read their direct messages.”\n\nBullying on social media, particularly Instagram, was brought into tragic focus earlier this year.\n\nThe father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life, said distressing content about depression and suicide on Instagram were partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\nIn April, the British government published its Online Harms white paper, a policy proposal that sought tighter controls on technology firms. It suggests the creation of an independent regulator to direct ways in which firms should deal with all manner of abuse, including bullying.\n\nThe paper was met with a mixed response, with some questioning its efficacy, and fears it could be overreaching.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Instagram boss Adam Mosseri discussed its anti-bullying plans in an interview in June\n\nAt Facebook’s recent developer conference, Mr Mosseri said a key focus of Instagram - which Facebook owns - is to tackle the bullying issue.\n\n“It’s really encouraging to see that the new feature has been rolled out,” said Alex Holmes, deputy chief executive of the Anti-Bullying at the Diana Award, and a long-time anti-bullying advocate.\n\nThe group has received some funding from Facebook for real-world anti-bullying initiatives in schools. Mr Holmes told the BBC he felt social media firms could still do more to actively teach users about decent behaviour.\n\n\"If you are under 18, you should have to go through awareness building when you sign up,” he said.\n\n\"I think it would be a pretty simple thing, for the first five minutes, to go through. Platforms should be able to make the issue of safety more appealing, more engaging.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370\n• None 'Instagram can't solve bullying on its own'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"The ambassador has not served the UK well\"\n\nPolice have been urged to open a criminal investigation into the leak of diplomatic emails which described the Trump administration as \"inept\".\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, told MPs he made the request in a letter to the Met Police.\n\nThe government has already launched an internal inquiry, saying it \"utterly deplores\" the publication of the memos.\n\nUS President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the UK ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, whose comments were leaked.\n\nIn a string of tweets about the UK, he said the US \"will no longer deal with him\", as well as making critical comments about Prime Minister Theresa May and her approach to Brexit.\n\nMr Trump's comments come after No 10 said the prime minister had \"full faith\" in the UK ambassador in Washington following the leak.\n\nEmails from the UK's ambassador, leaked to the Mail on Sunday, said Mr Trump's White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said it was \"the job of ambassadors to provide honest and unvarnished opinions\" but Mrs May \"does not agree with the assessment\".\n\nHe added: \"The leak is absolutely unacceptable and, as you would expect, contact has been made with the Trump administration setting out our view that we believe that it is unacceptable.\"\n\nForeign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told the House of Commons police could be involved if evidence of wrongdoing over the breach of confidentiality was found.\n\n\"The most important focus is to establish who is responsible for this despicable leak,\" he said.\n\nSir Kim Darroch said the White House is \"uniquely dysfunctional\"\n\nEarlier, Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the BBC the leak was \"unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic\", adding that whoever released the emails had \"maliciously\" undermined the defence and security relationship with the US.\n\n\"I hope if we can identify the individual, either the full force of internal discipline - or if necessary the law - will be brought to bear because this sort of behaviour has no place in public life,\" he said.\n\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Sir Kim had been \"betrayed\" and \"hung out to dry even though his only crime was to tell the truth\".\n\nShe added: \"He told the truth about Donald Trump and that was because it was his job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJust imagine if every heavily encrypted report to Whitehall from all UK ambassadors overseas was instantly available on your mobile.\n\nThe candour would cease immediately and they'd become ultra-bland and useless as a tool in policy-making.\n\nSo, damage in this case is considerable. There will be a large number of potential suspects.\n\nDiplomatic telegrams are seen by scores, often hundreds of people - ministers and officials - across several departments. That is to ensure grown-up and private conversations can be had based on large amounts of source material.\n\nOf course, there is damage to relations between the UK and the Trump White House too.\n\nMr Trump likes to dish out insults and criticism (remember his frequent belittling of Theresa May over Brexit, and his all out verbal attacks on the mayor of London) but he is pretty thin-skinned when the verbal arrows are aimed at him.\n\nThe one person who is not under suspicion in London is Sir Kim himself. After all, as his current political master, Mr Hunt, has made clear, he was just doing his job.\n\nAs the Foreign Office launched an investigation into the source of the leak to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Trump told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nIn the emails, the UK ambassador to Washington said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nSir Kim questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nDating from 2017 to the present day, the leaked emails said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nAlthough the Mueller investigation later found allegations of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia were not proven, Sir Kim's emails said \"the worst cannot be ruled out\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt reacts to the UK ambassador's leaked emails about US President Donald Trump\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister and the UK leaves the EU by 31 October, \"people like\" Sir Kim would \"not be around\".\n\nAsked about speculation that he might take on the diplomatic role, Mr Farage said: \"I don't think I'm the right man for the job\", adding that he was \"not a diplomat\".\n\nHowever, he said he \"could be very useful\" when dealing with the US administration.\n\nSir Kim is the British ambassador to the US, which means he represents the Queen and UK government interests in the US.\n\nBorn in South Stanley, County Durham in 1954, he attended Durham University where he read zoology.\n\nDuring a 42-year diplomatic career, he has specialised in national security issues and European Union policy.\n\nIn 2007, Sir Kim served in Brussels as UK permanent representative to the EU.\n\nHe was the prime minister's national security adviser between 2012 and 2015, dealing with issues such as the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, Russian annexation of Crimea, the nuclear threat from Iran and the collapse of government authority in Libya.\n\nHe became ambassador to the US in January 2016, a year before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.", "Justice Secretary David Gauke says he will resign if the next prime minister chooses to pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - with or without a deal.\n\nHowever, Mr Gauke told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that a \"sizeable\" number of Conservative MPs believed the UK should leave with a deal.\n\nHis comments come as Tory MP Sam Gyimah said more than 30 Tory MPs could vote against a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe EU has set the UK a deadline of 31 October to leave the bloc.\n\nMr Gauke said he believed Parliament \"will find a mechanism\" between now and 31 October to prevent the UK leaving without a deal.\n\nWhen asked whether he thought he would be sacked from the cabinet if Mr Johnson became prime minister, he said: \"I suspect that I will possibly have gone before then.\"\n\nHe added: \"Assuming that he wins, if Boris's position is that he is going to require every member of the cabinet to sign up to being prepared to leave without a deal on 31 October, to be fair to him I can't support that policy - so I would resign in advance.\"\n\nFormer Tory leadership hopeful Mr Gyimah - who resigned as a minister over Theresa May's Brexit plan - said there were more than 30 Tory MPs looking at legislative options to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"I wouldn't want to announce them before they have been tested as being viable.\"\n\n\"But there is a real concern. The real concern here is not about Leavers or Remainers. The real concern here, is that this is not in the interest of our country.\"\n\nHe added: \"What all this is about is staving off economic mayhem.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-Remain Tory MP Dominic Grieve has suggested MPs could use a Commons vote on Northern Ireland on Monday to launch a fresh bid to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government has tabled a Bill to delay any new election to the Northern Ireland Assembly while talks to restore power-sharing are ongoing.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning government since 2017, when the power-sharing parties split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Grieve told Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics: \"The chances are, if Brexit goes through - a no-deal Brexit - it is going to be the end of Northern Ireland's union with the United Kingdom, with serious political consequences flowing from it.\n\n\"That's a Bill that is a perfectly legitimate place to start looking at how one might make sure no-deal Brexits are fully debated before they take place.\"\n\nAsked about the possible number of MPs who might back such a bid, Mr Grieve said he did not know.\n\nHe added: \"Like all these things, colleagues are pulled in different directions, perfectly understandably, by various considerations.\"\n\nLeader of the pro-Brexit European Research Group, Jacob Rees-Mogg, told 5 Live he thought the only way to stop no-deal was to pass a new law.\n\nHe added that he would be \"very surprised\" if that happened.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he is not bluffing over his promise to stick to the 31 October deadline for leaving the EU - even if that means walking away without a deal.\n\nAsked in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph if his commitment to 31 October was a bluff, Mr Johnson said: \"No ... honestly. Come on. We've got to show a bit more gumption about this.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's vital that our partners see that. They have to look deep into our eyes and think 'my god, these Brits actually are going to leave. And they're going to leave on those terms'.\"\n\nHis leadership rival Jeremy Hunt has also said he was willing to leave without a deal, although he told the Sunday Telegraph it was \"not the most secure way of guaranteeing Brexit\" because MPs would try to block it.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt have been travelling around the country as they seek to win backing from Conservative party members, ahead of the vote closing on 22 July.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has come out in support of Mr Johnson, saying the former foreign secretary was \"better placed\" than Mr Hunt to \"deliver what we need to do at this critical time\".\n\nTory MP Mr Rees-Mogg has suggested Mr Javid - along with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss - are the main candidates to become the next chancellor.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who is supporting Mr Johnson in the leadership contest, said both had \"very strong\" credentials.", "Police sent specialist support units to the rave site at Grimston\n\nFive people arrested over an illegal rave over the weekend have been released while inquiries continue.\n\nOfficers alerted by advertisements on social media on Saturday evening later found about 600 people, at the event on Massingham Heath, Grimston, Norfolk.\n\nThey monitored it through the night and disrupted it at about 15:45 on Sunday.\n\nThree men, aged 25, 28 and 31, were arrested in connection with organising the event.\n\nPolice then received further calls from residents complaining about noise and the event was discovered.\n\nAbout 150 vehicles were on site throughout the night and specially trained officers went in to disrupt the event and seize sound equipment.\n\nTwo other men, aged 20 and 33, arrested at the scene on suspicion of drug driving have also been released under investigation.\n\nPolice monitored the event through the night before disrupting it on Sunday afternoon\n\nTemporary Assistant Chief Constable Nick Davison described the operation as \"significant\" and said the event was closed down safely.\n\nHe said officers had been working closely with landowners and would continue to do so.\n\n\"Raves, not uncommon at this time of year, can be very disruptive for local residents and landowners while the presence of hundreds of people and vehicles can also have a detrimental impact on the environment,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports say at least one of those injured required surgery\n\nThree people have been gored during the first bull run at the annual San Fermín festival in Pamplona.\n\nOfficials say those with gore injuries are two US citizens, aged 23 and 46, and a Spaniard.\n\nTwo others were taken to hospital with head injuries and a total of 48 others were treated by the Red Cross.\n\nFurther runs will take place every morning through the northern Spanish city's narrow streets until next Sunday.\n\nThose taking part, most dressed in white with red scarves, packed into the 850m (2790ft) course - which leads downhill to the town's bull ring.\n\nSix bulls are released daily, along with steers, before later facing professional matadors in public bull fights.\n\nInjuries at the event are common and at least 16 people have died taking part since 1910, when records began.\n\nThe last person to die at the festival, Daniel Jimeno Romero, was gored in the neck in 2009 during the fourth run of the festival.\n\nA 46-year-old Californian man gored in the neck on Sunday required surgery, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThe other injured American is reportedly a 23-year-old from Kentucky, who was gored in the thigh along with a 40-year-old Spanish man.\n\nThe runs take place at 08:00 local (06:00 GMT)\n\nGroups AnimaNaturales and PETA protested against the festivities on Friday\n\nThe festival attracts thousands of revellers from around the world.\n\nIt also involves religious processions, parties and concerts and was depicted in the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises.\n\nBull fighting and running is regularly criticised by animal rights activists. On Friday, they demonstrated on Pamplona's streets - dressed in horns and lying down with fake spears in their backs.\n\nAnyone over 18 can take part in the runs, but most participants tend to be men.\n\nA high-profile gang rape at the 2016 festival prompted nationwide protests and an ongoing review of rape laws in Spain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists say rage over the \"wolfpack\" case ignited a feminist revolution (Video from 2019)", "Paul McDonald estimates his son has been suspended for 135 days of his first four years at school\n\nPaul McDonald's autistic son, Jim, has been suspended from his mainstream primary school for 30 days in the past three months.\n\nBut that is just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nPaul estimates that Jim, aged eight, has been suspended for 135 days of his first four years at school.\n\nHe is among a group of parents set to meet the Department of Education (DE) to highlight the similar problems their autistic children are facing.\n\nThe proportion of children with autism in Northern Irish schools has almost trebled in a decade, according to the Department of Health.\n\nAnd some parents, like Paul, say that means they have to battle to get appropriate support in school for their children.\n\nThe proportion of children with autism in Northern Ireland schools has almost trebled in a decade, according to the Department of Health\n\n\"Jim's very curious about the world, he loves knowing how things work and likes to hear other people's thoughts on things,\" he said.\n\n\"His autism is autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) with pathological demand avoidance (PDA).\"\n\n\"The majority of the problem that Jim would present with would be anxiety, so as soon as you give him a direct demand he would experience anxiety and as a result of the anxiety he would start refusing.\"\n\nAutism is a spectrum, which means people with autism can present with different conditions.\n\nSome may need little or no support, but others may need sustained help.\n\nAccording to documents seen by BBC News NI, Jim has been suspended for school for 30 days since 28 March, often for five days at a time.\n\nPeople with autism present with different conditions, some may need no support while others need sustained help\n\nPaul admits Jim presents challenges and would sometimes lash out at his teachers, but said it was due to his rising anxiety.\n\n\"He would become quite distressed within the classroom environment and, as a result, he would throw something, say certain things and then it moved on to lashing out,\" he said.\n\nJim has a statement which says that he needs a full-time classroom assistant and would learn best in a small group setting like a learning support unit.\n\nHowever, he has also faced expulsion, but Paul said that if staff had the appropriate training about Jim's condition then he could thrive in his current school.\n\n\"The strategies you would use for PDA are different than those you would need for a 'normal' ASD child,\" Paul said.\n\n\"For instance, you avoid using the word 'you' towards Jim.\"\n\n\"If Jim did something well you would turn round and say 'I like what has been done there', instead of 'I like what you did there'.\"\n\n\"We could very clearly see there were patterns to how the situation escalated resulting in Jim getting suspended.\"\n\nPaul is now one of a group of more than 100 parents who are in contact as their autistic children have had similar experiences in school.\n\nTanya George's son 11-year-old son, Niall, has also missed substantial amounts of education in primary school.\n\nTanya George's son has missed substantial amounts of education in primary school\n\nHe finally received a diagnosis of ASD in July 2018, just as he finished Primary Six.\n\nHe was then able to go to his mainstream primary for three days a week, with the help of a classroom assistant.\n\nBut Tanya said she was aware that Niall needed support much earlier in his school career, and had often put himself in danger at school.\n\n\"In the past he's got extremely overwhelmed and he's got so stressed that he's had to run out of the room, into fields and in front of cars,\" she said.\n\n\"His flight response is really, really triggered at that point when his anxiety is so great.\n\n\"A child doesn't present like that for no reason.\"\n\n\"Any child that would have those issues you should be looking at helping and supporting and resolving the child to get through it.\"\n\nShe also said that at times she felt pressured to withdraw Niall from school altogether.\n\nTanya said, though, that since receiving a dedicated classroom assistant following his diagnosis and completed statement Niall has progressed and is now looking forward to post-primary school.\n\nThe Education Authority now spends £270m a year on supporting children with special educational needs - including autism.\n\nLiam Mackle of the Children's Law Centre says an increasing number of parents are challenging the level of support their children are receiving\n\nThat is around one-eighth of the entire yearly education budget.\n\nDE's permanent secretary Derek Baker has previously said that he is worried about the rising cost and the support offered to children with special educational needs.\n\nAnd according to Liam Mackle from the Children's Law Centre in Belfast an increasing number of parents are challenging the level of support their children are receiving.\n\n\"There are pockets where schools don't yet understand the complexity of autism - each child with autism is completely different from the next child with autism,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about identifying what triggers are, speaking to the experts at the EA in terms of their autism intervention services and putting proper school-based strategies in place to avoid the need for things like suspensions and detentions which aren't addressing the problem.\"\n\n\"Special educational needs and provision for children particularly with autism has really in the last five years, in terms of our advice service, really exploded.\n\n\"Five years ago we were dealing with just under 400 cases in terms of special educational needs - including autism - and that's now jumped to 1600.\"\n\nMr Mackle's experience is borne out by figures from the Department of Justice, which shows that the number of appeals to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) has more than doubled in recent years.\n\nIn 2015/16 there were 145 appeals to the tribunal - which rules in cases where parents are unhappy with how the EA is dealing with their child's special educational needs.\n\nBy 2018/19 that had risen to 378 appeals, and just over half of those cases to reach a hearing were won by the parents.", "Primark founder and chairman Arthur Ryan has died after a short illness, the budget fashion chain has announced.\n\nMr Ryan established the High Street retailer as Penneys in 1969 in his hometown of Dublin in Ireland.\n\nFifty years on, the chain has expanded to over 350 stores in 11 countries across Europe and the US.\n\nPrimark chief executive Paul Marchant said 83-year-old Mr Ryan had been \"a true real retail pioneer\" and a \"gifted retailer and a visionary leader\".\n\n\"He innovated and was never complacent, despite many successes. He challenged us all to be the best we can be,\" he said.\n\nMr Ryan ran the company for four decades as chief executive and 10 years ago, he gave up his day-to-day control of the firm to become chairman instead.\n\nBut Mr Marchant said Mr Ryan had remained \"deeply connected\" to the business and had continued to regularly visit stores and walk the shop floor.\n\nThe chain is still known as Penneys in Ireland, but was renamed when it expanded to the UK to avoid legal issues with US department store chain JC Penney, which had trademarked the name.\n\nMr Ryan started the chain after being tasked by the wealthy Weston family to open a discount clothes retailer.\n\nCrowds were handed balloons as they ran into a new Primark store in Birmingham earlier this year\n\nPrimark has expanded rapidly in recent years, continuing to thrive in what has been a tough environment for many of its rivals.\n\nEarlier this year, Primark's parent company Associated British Foods said it expected sales and profit to continue to increase in the first half of the year.\n\nIn April, the chain opened its largest ever store in Birmingham, with the 161,000 sq ft five-floor space covering the entire site of a former shopping centre.\n\nGeorge Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, said Mr Ryan would be remembered as \"one of the great giants of retailing\".\n\n\"When my grandfather, Garfield Weston, and uncle, Galen Weston, recruited Arthur to run Penneys in 1969 with only one store in Dublin, they knew they were hiring an exceptional trader.\n\n\"But what three generations of Westons learned over the following decades was that Arthur was also a great leader and business builder, driven every day by a relentless desire to delight his customers.\n\n\"Arthur Ryan made fashion accessible to all and his legacy looms large.\"\n• None Are businesses using Pride without giving back?", "Five people were injured in the crash\n\nA man has been charged after a van crashed into a group of people queuing to use a food bank.\n\nFive people were injured - two seriously - in the crash at Kirk Hallam Community Centre in Derbyshire on Friday morning.\n\nMartin Casey, 37, from Long Eaton, was charged with dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and causing grievous bodily harm by intent.\n\nHe was also charged with three counts of attempted GBH.\n\nMr Casey was remanded in custody at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court and is due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 5 August.\n\nWitnesses are still being sought to the collision, which happened at about 09:00 BST.\n\nThe food bank reopened earlier on Monday, offering extra items which were delivered by charity FareShare East Midlands over the weekend.\n\nA community support book was also made available for people to sign throughout this week.\n\nJan Sheppard, business manager at the centre, said: \"We just thought it was important to to get things back to normal and show how much we all pull together as a community to support each other and move forward.\"\n\nCentre bosses also thanked staff at the nearby Butterfly Castle Day Nursery for helping out in the aftermath of the crash.\n\nA book of support has been opened at the centre\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight men and four women were arrested\n\nTwelve people have been arrested amid concerns that unscrupulous landlords have stolen welfare benefits from homeless people.\n\nLancashire Constabulary suspect vulnerable tenants have been forced to hand over their Universal Credit and bank cards in return for accommodation.\n\n\"This means they never see or have ownership of the money they are entitled to,\" said police.\n\nThe suspects are wealthy individuals who own properties in Blackburn.\n\nRaids took place at seven locations in Blackburn\n\nFifty police officers were involved in dawn raids at seven locations in Blackburn as part of Operation Cactus.\n\nThey arrested eight men and four women, aged between 20 and 59.\n\nDetectives said they believed vulnerable people with drug and alcohol issues may have been coerced into signing over their benefits to the person or people they rent their property from.\n\nDet Supt Mark Vaughton said: \"The alarm bells started ringing as soon as we found the fact that the occupants of those premises don't have their bank cards, don't have access to their Universal Credit, and as a result it's leaving them short financially.\n\n\"Some of those individuals have had to turn to crime as a result of that exploitation.\"\n\nPeople were detained in seven police raids across Blackburn\n\nPolice are also investigating allegations that some of the suspects have fraudulently claimed a total of £500,000 in disability benefits.\n\nA number of alleged victims have already contacted the police but officers believe there may be more and urged people, or their relatives, to come forward.\n\nThe investigation, operated by the force's East Lancashire exploitation team, is being carried out with support from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Insurance Fraud Bureau.\n\nDet Sgt Stu Peall from the exploitation team said: \"We appreciate that you may feel apprehensive, concerned or scared to make contact. But it is really important that you tell us what has happened.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Rycroft, who resigned after 18 months as the Brexit boss, told the BBC no deal was \"fraught with risk\"\n\nEveryone should worry about no deal, the civil servant who was, until March, head of the Brexit department has said.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, who resigned after 18 months, told the BBC's Panorama no deal was \"fraught with risk\".\n\nAnd NI police said no deal could help recruitment for paramilitary groups.\n\nBoth the candidates in the race to replace Theresa May as prime minister - Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson - have said they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nFormer Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said there was \"no reason at all\" why new negotiations with the EU could not be completed in \"the next three months\".\n\nBut the EU has repeatedly refused to re-open negotiations.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Mrs May's deal. Currently, Brexit is set to take place on 31 October.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process, immediately coming out of the single market and customs union and institutions like law enforcement body Europol.\n\nThose against say it would damage the economy, especially industries like farming, and cause widespread disruption, but some politicians insist problems could be quickly overcome.\n\nThe government says it has been preparing for almost three years to minimise that disruption and to provide people and businesses with information they need to get ready.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview since stepping down as permanent secretary at the Brexit department, Mr Rycroft said the planning operation for exiting the EU was \"an unprecedented situation\" and \"the biggest exercise across government over the last few decades\".\n\nHe told Panorama: \"This has been an extraordinary exercise to which the civil service is responding brilliantly well… The planning I think is in good shape, absolutely… but of course what that doesn't mean is that there won't be an impact from Brexit, and particularly a no-deal Brexit, because that is a very major change and it would be a very abrupt change to our major trading relationship.\"\n\n\"The rational outcome over the next few months is to get a deal because that is overwhelmingly in the economic interest of both the EU and the UK.\"\n\nMr Rycroft continued: \"It's not in the UK's interest to have no deal, it's not in the EU's interest to have a no deal.\n\n\"I think everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation. We would be taking a step into the unknown.\"\n\nBut Sir Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today programme said no deal was the \"ultimate fall back\" and needed to be prepared for \"so that our partners are convinced that this is a deadly serious negotiation\".\n\n\"We have got three months to do this with a fresh approach,\" he said. \"We need some alternative arrangements for Northern Ireland - some of that technology is already in place - we need the right to exit the backstop if the negotiations fail, we need some improvements to the political declaration.\n\n\"These aren't the biggest things, but what they do require is some optimism and ambition and above all some energy.\n\n\"We will have a fresh team, a fresh prime minister and there is no reason at all why this can't be done in the next three months.\"\n\nA line of lorries seen in Kent during a trial of how routes from major ferry terminals will cope in case of a no-deal Brexit\n\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, additional checks on goods being delivered across the UK-EU border could result in delays on the roads - especially around the Port of Dover in Kent, which handles 17% of the UK's goods trade.\n\nRichard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, said working with the government to prepare for no deal had been \"a frustrating process\". He said: \"We have no clarity of the processes - what's actually going to happen on day one.\"\n\nMr Burnett told Panorama that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling had left him a voicemail expressing his disappointment after the RHA issued a press release following a private briefing.\n\nIn response, Mr Grayling said the haulage industry had been heavily involved in EU preparatory work and would continue to be so.\n\n\"It is obviously disappointing when someone issues a press release on the back of what was a private working group to discuss how we best approach both a deal and a no deal,\" he told the BBC. \"But we have continued to meet and engage with them.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland also told the BBC of its concern at the impact on security of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThere are fears that one could lead to the introduction of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - a situation Sinn Fein has said would lead to further calls for a referendum on Irish unification.\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs told Panorama: \"We know that the New IRA and other groups continue to recruit people and we believe that Brexit provides an opportunity for them to encourage people to recruit.\"\n\nBut he added that, despite their worries, to date the PSNI had not seen \"any upsurge\" in violence or recruitment being driven by Brexit.\n\nMr Mairs also expressed fears price differences on the border could create \"new opportunities\" for criminal gangs, claiming: \"We would see, traditionally, connections between some of those groups and more violent groups.\n\n\"The potential impact of a no deal on the economy in Northern Ireland is significant, and that would, in our view, present potentially significant security concerns.\"\n\nThe handling of Brexit has been the key issue in the Conservative leadership race.\n\nFrontrunner Mr Johnson has said the UK should prepare \"confidently and seriously\" for a no-deal Brexit, but believes the chances of it happening are \"one million to one against\".\n\nHe has said he will try to get a new deal negotiated with the EU, but has promised to leave the EU with or without one on 31 October.\n\nHis rival, Mr Hunt, also wants to change the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Mrs May and thinks this can be achieved by the end of October.\n\nHe has said he is prepared to delay Brexit beyond that date, if there is a prospect of getting a deal. If not, he would be prepared to leave without one but with \"a heavy heart\".\n\nMeanwhile MPs opposed to no deal are seeking ways to block such an outcome. Tory MP and ex-minister Sam Gyimah says there are \"30 plus\" Conservative MPs who would vote to block a no-deal Brexit.", "The girl was struck as she crossed Glenburn Road in Paisley\n\nA 20-year-old man has been arrested over the death of a teenage girl in an alleged hit-and-run in Paisley.\n\nThe 15-year-old girl was crossing Glenburn Road, near Fereneze Drive, with friends at about 02:00 when she was struck by a car.\n\nShe was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow by ambulance but died a short time later.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and for any dashcam footage of the area around the time of the incident.\n\nIan McCabe, who lives next to the scene where the teenager was struck, said he heard cars on the road just before the collision.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland news: \"I heard the loudest bang I've ever heard. I looked out of the window and saw a girl. She was shouting 'they've just knocked down my pal'.\n\n\"Cars are racing up and down here all the time. I've complained to the council and they've not done anything about it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heather Mills: \"The feeling I have is one of joy and vindication\"\n\nCampaigner Heather Mills said she feels vindicated after settling her phone-hacking case against the News of the World for a \"substantial\" sum.\n\nAn apology from News Group Newspapers to her and her sister, Fiona Mills, was read out at a High Court hearing.\n\nThe publisher offered \"sincere apologies\" for \"distress caused to them by the invasion of their privacy\".\n\nThe businesswoman said her charity work suffered due to the \"destruction\" of her reputation.\n\nThe court heard that the sisters had experienced \"strange activity with their telephones\" with \"journalists and photographers turning up in unexpected locations\".\n\nThey said they had seen stories published in newspapers which included private information \"without any apparent identifiable source\".\n\nThese publications \"caused a lot of distrust and suspicion\" that a family member or friend was \"betraying them and selling stories to the press\", a statement from the sisters said.\n\nSpeaking outside court after the case, Heather Mills said the settlement stemmed from activity carried out between 1999 to 2010.\n\nShe said: \"The feeling that I have is one of joy and vindication\", adding that her \"motivation to win the decade-long fight stemmed from a desire to obtain justice\".\n\nMs Mills, who was married to Sir Paul McCartney, said the phone hacking had \"an extremely detrimental impact on my personal life and that of my family\".\n\nShe said it had also adversely affected her landmine and animal charities and their \"ability to raise funds\".\n\nThe Mills' claims were settled on the basis that NGN made no admission of liability in relation to their allegations of voicemail interception or other unlawful information gathering at The Sun.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Mills spoke of the \"highest media libel settlement in British legal history\".\n\nHowever, her case was a privacy, rather than a libel, claim and it was not initially clear if Ms Mills was referring to the amount of all those who have settled privacy claims against NGN over phone hacking so far.\n\nHer solicitor, Mark Thomson of Atkins Thomson, has since confirmed that Ms Mills was referring to her own claim against NGN.\n\nA group which represents victims of the phone hacking scandal said in May that the total bill for newspaper publishers could reach £1bn.\n\nHacked Off's Nathan Sparks told the BBC there could be many hundreds or thousands more still to make claims.", "A flooding emergency in the Washington DC area left commuters in hazardous conditions. Torrential downpours led to road closures and left drivers stranded as well as dangerous flooding on the underground rail-lines.", "Over fifty MPs have written to the education secretary, urging the government to give stronger backing to schools on teaching about same-sex relationships, Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe move follows a row at a school in Birmingham, where a parent-led protest against such teaching forced the school to close early.\n\nDamien Hinds has previously spoken in support of the school's teachers, who want to continue the lessons, but the group of MPs wants him to go further,\n\nThey write: \"We ask you to provide absolute clarity in regard to relationships education in primary schools, which must be inclusive of all protected characteristics, and treat the different types of relationships in our society equally.\"\n\nThe MPs say it is \"unacceptable\" that a school had to close early - and seek a High Court injunction and exclusion zone - \"due to nationally co-ordinated protests.\"\n\nThe letter welcomes Mr Hinds' former statement which encouraged schools to discuss \"different\" types of families, but says it \"does not go far enough\".\n\n\"We urge you to make it clear that schools have an obligation to teach about same-sex relationships in primary schools,\" the MPs say to Mr Hinds, adding that relationship education is \"not a choice... It is a legal requirement.\"\n\nThe letter was written by Labour MPs Emma Hardy and Jack Dromey, and co-signed by MPs from across the political spectrum. Some members of the House of Lords also added their names.\n\nReferring to the protests at Anderton Park school, the MPs blame \"misinformation over the content\" of the LGBT teaching, as well as \"a belief that it is individual head teachers making choices to teach such content\" for fuelling the disagreement.\n\nProtests have been held outside the school by parents and others, arguing children are too young to learn about diverse families through reading storybooks. Some of the protestors say the lessons contradict their Muslim values.\n\nThe controversy has had an effect on both local and Westminster politics. The school's local MP, Labour's Roger Godsiff was given a warning by the party's chief whip on 14 June not to repeat his support for the protesters. He had said parents protesting against teachings about diverse relationships \"have done nothing wrong\".\n\nOther schools have also faced anger over the lessons, which use books from the No Outsiders series to introduce children to transgender characters and same-sex relationships. Some parents have removed their children from school and head teachers have been threatened.\n\n\"At the heart of preparing children for life in modern Britain is making sure that they understand the world they are growing up in. It is a world that is different from 20 years ago, when this guidance was last updated, and this is a significant step that will help young people to look after themselves and each other - although the disagreements which we have seen do not centre on the new relationships curriculum, which has not in fact yet been introduced.\n\n\"A wide range of views were expressed during the public consultation, and I believe the guidance strikes the right balance. Our new guidance is clear that children should leave school having learnt about LGBT relationships, and I strongly encourage primary schools to teach about different types of family, including families with same-sex parents.\n\n\"I have been clear that protesting outside schools is unacceptable. No child should have to walk past a protest to attend school; neither should any teacher. We want dialogue and consultation with parents, but that does not constitute a veto; I support headteachers to make decisions about the curriculum, including ahead of the introduction of these new subjects.\"", "Deutsche Bank will cut 18,000 jobs over three years as part of a radical reorganisation of the German bank.\n\nIt will also report a second quarter loss of €2.8bn to partly pay for the shake-up, which will significantly shrink its investment banking business.\n\nDeutsche Bank is yet to specify exactly where jobs will be lost.\n\nBut it said it intends to completely exit activities related to the buying and selling of shares, much of which is conducted in London and New York.\n\nWith almost 8,000 staff, London is the home to its biggest trading operation.\n\nDeutsche Bank said it will cut its global workforce to 74,000 by 2022 and that the restructure will cost €7.4bn over the next three years.\n\n\"Today we have announced the most fundamental transformation of Deutsche Bank in decades,\" chief executive Christian Sewing said.\n\n\"This is a restart for Deutsche Bank... In refocusing the bank around our clients, we are returning to our roots and to what once made us one of the leading banks in the world,\" he said.\n\nThe reorganisation of the business follows the failure of merger talks with rival Commerzbank in April.\n\nThe German government had supported the tie-up, hoping it would create a national champion in the banking industry.\n\nHowever, both banks concluded that the deal was too risky, fearing the costs of combining might have outweighed the benefits.\n\nWhat's bad for Deutsche Bank could be good for Barclays.\n\nThe once-mighty German firm's retreat from international investment banking leaves Barclays as the last European bank standing in a sector dominated by US giants like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.\n\nAs one Barclays insider told the BBC: \"Deutsche is where Barclays was five to 10 years ago. The difference is that we had a successful retail business (loans, mortgages, credit cards) to help us endure the most difficult times. Deutsche Bank hasn't got that.\"\n\nThe structure of the German banking sector is very different from the UK with lots of smaller regional banks grabbing most retail customers.\n\nBarclays has been picking up market share from Deutsche and other European banks for over a year now and will see this as a further opportunity to expand into the space vacated by the German retreat.\n\nWhile Barclays may pick up business, the real victors from Deutsche's demise are the US banks who have prevailed after many unsuccessful attempts (RBS, UBS, DB and others) to muscle into the so-called \"bulge bracket\" of international investment banks.\n\nWall Street is arguably more powerful than ever.\n\nDeutsche Bank has been struggling for years with the decline of its investment bank and has made several attempts to revamp its business.\n\nThe latest plan will be the most ambitious so far and it has already prompted the resignation of one top executive.\n\nOn Friday, the bank announced that its head of investment banking, Garth Ritchie, was leaving.\n\nUnder the plan, the bank wants to make cost savings of €17bn by 2022.\n\nIt is also creating a new unit to manage assets that belong to businesses it no longer wants.\n\nIt estimates those assets to be worth €74bn.", "Labour MP Kate Hoey has announced she will not seek re-election after 30 years as the member for Vauxhall.\n\nShe caused controversy within her party during the 2016 EU referendum as a leading pro-Brexit figure, campaigning alongside Nigel Farage.\n\nMs Hoey said she would not run again after the 2015 election, but then stood when the 2017 snap-election was called.\n\nHowever, in July 2018, she lost a no confidence vote in her local party - a staunchly Remain London constituency.\n\nThe London Borough of Lambeth, which includes Ms Hoey's constituency, voted 78.6% to Remain in the EU - the highest proportion of Remain voters aside from Gibraltar.\n\nIn a letter to constituents, she said she will carry on until the next general election \"with energy, honesty and integrity\", adding: \"I will, of course, continue every single day to give all my help to constituents in Vauxhall and campaign for policies that make life better for residents\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Jeremy Corbyn-supporting campaign group Momentum welcomed her decision, accusing her of being a \"no deal supporting, anti gay rights, fox hunting advocate\".\n\nThe group tweeted: \"She couldn't be more out of step with her Vauxhall constituents, and we look forward to backing a Corbyn supporting, socialist candidate in an open selection.\"\n\nA handful of other long-serving MPs have also announced they will not be standing at the next general election.\n\nGeoffrey Robinson has represented his constituency for more than 40 years\n\nWhile the next election is not scheduled to take place until May 2022, many believe there could be a snap poll in the autumn if there is deadlock between the next prime minister and Parliament over a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIn anticipation of this, Labour's National Executive Committee has asked all serving MPs to clarify their intentions by 18.00 BST on Monday.\n\nAmong those set to retire is Geoffrey Robinson, who has represented the seat of Coventry North West since 1976.\n\nA leading figure in the British car industry before being elected to Parliament, he served as Paymaster General in Tony Blair's government before resigning in 1998 after it emerged that he had secretly lent fellow minister Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house.\n\nThe 81-year-old MP said a recent period of \"ill-health\" had prompted his decision to stand down and he urged his party to select a candidate with strong local roots.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Geoffrey Robinson MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg has said he will not contest his Liverpool West Derby seat.\n\nMr Twigg, the chair of the Commons international development committee, has held the seat since 2010 - having previously represented Enfield Southgate between 1997 and 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals with an accomplished display against two-time champion Petra Kvitova.\n\nThe 28-year-old came from a set down to beat the Czech sixth seed 4-6 6-2 6-4.\n\nKonta is one win away from emulating her 2017 feat of reaching the last four and two away from becoming the first British women's singles finalist since Virginia Wade won the title in 1977.\n\nShe will take on Czech world number 54 Barbora Strycova on Tuesday.\n\nWith defeats on Monday for world number one Ashleigh Barty, third seed Karolina Pliskova, and now Kvitova, it leaves seventh seed Simona Halep, eighth seed Elina Svitolina and 11th seed Serena Williams as the highest ranked players left in the women's draw.\n\n\"It was small margins in the end,\" said Konta, who is enjoying deep runs at back-to-back Grand Slams for the first time following last month's French Open semi-final.\n\n\"I'm tremendously grateful to be here and I'm just happy to still be in this event and to be competing against the best players in the world.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta finds another gear after going behind\n\nKonta had come into the match having dropped serve just once in 33 games at the championships and it was unfortunate for her that she picked just the wrong moment for a rare break.\n\nHaving matched Kvitova's power game by game in the opening set, she sent a forehand long to give the Czech set point and then went wide to allow her to convert it.\n\nThe lapse seemed to fire up Konta, who wasted no time in breaking to love in the opening game of the second and then backed it up with a hard-fought hold in a 12-minute game where she was taken to deuce seven times and fended off two break points.\n\nThat was the turning point from which Konta found a new gear, establishing a double break and putting the Czech's serve under consistent pressure - all the more impressive given that this was against a player who had yet to drop a set in the tournament.\n\nKonta had some treatment on her foot, having it sprayed and taped, before serving for the set and claiming it with an ace.\n\nShe continued to dominate the 2011 and 2014 champion in the third with Kvitova - who had been sidelined with an arm injury in the run-up to Wimbledon - unable to serve her way out of trouble.\n\nKonta went a double break up in the third before wobbling with the finishing line in sight when she was serving for the match at 5-2, when she was broken having squandered two match points with first a wide forehand and then a long one.\n\nBut when she got her second chance two games later, she made no mistake and wrapped up victory when Kvitova's forehand whizzed way past the baseline.\n\nAnother Grand Slam, another quarter-final - Konta back on track\n\nKonta was a semi-finalist here two years ago during a run of form that catapulted her to number four in the world rankings.\n\nShe is enjoying a similar upturn this season, having risen from 47th in the world in April to 18th now after her Roland Garros success and two WTA finals on clay in May.\n\nShe has carried the momentum through on to grass, where once again her serve is her key weapon. She has now been broken just three times in 47 games at these championships.\n\nHer form this year has been in marked contrast to last year where she went out in the second round of Wimbledon after a first-round exit at the French Open.\n\nThe upturn has coincided with the hiring of a new coach towards the end of last year - Dimitri Zavialoff, who used to work with three-time Grand Slam singles champion Stan Wawrinka.\n\nUnder the softly spoken Frenchman, Konta's own mood has become calmer and against Kvitova there never seemed to be any doubt in her mind that she could win this match.\n\nShe has also made something of a habit of turning three-set matches into victories, including two in the Fed Cup play-off victory over Kazakhstan in April that seemed to set the tone for her season.\n\nLike in the previous round against Sloane Stephens, where she trailed after the first set, she again showed great mental strength to deliver in front of a delighted Centre Court.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nAn alleged VIP abuse fantasist has admitted lying to a detective in falsely naming a childhood friend as a witness who could back up his story.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, told Wiltshire Police in 2012 that someone called Aubrey was abused alongside him.\n\nPolice found an Aubrey whose details matched those given by Mr Beech but he was never abused in the way alleged. Mr Beech now says the boy was called John.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe prosecution alleges that Mr Beech made up the allegations and wanted \"money from the state\" for his falsehoods.\n\nUnder cross-examination at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Beech admitted telling lies during his initial interview with Wiltshire Police in December 2012.\n\nMr Beech claims a group of at least 12 senior figures from British public life sexually abused him and three other boys, who he says they murdered, in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nAmong the people Mr Beech accused were former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath and his colleague, former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nThe allegations led to a £2m Scotland Yard inquiry that ended without any arrests or charges.\n\nJurors were shown a document in which Mr Beech described various allegations of abuse from a first person perspective\n\nMr Beech accepted that, when he first spoke to Wiltshire Police at Swindon police station, he did not tell DC Mark Lewis everything he told the Metropolitan Police two years later.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC took him through the transcript of his initial interview from 2012 in which only his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, and broadcaster Jimmy Savile were named as alleged abusers, with Mr Beech telling a detective: \"I don't know the others\".\n\nThere was also no mention of any alleged murders.\n\n\"There was some information that I just couldn't release to them\" and \"I assumed they would be able to find out the rest\", Mr Beech told the court.\n\nIn the 2012 interview, Mr Beech told a detective that someone called Aubrey was his fellow victim.\n\nThe defendant now claims that a corroborative witness called John - whose surname he refuses to provide - was abused alongside him as a child.\n\n\"He couldn't possibly find John if he was looking for Aubrey,\" Mr Badenoch said of the Wiltshire detective.\n\nIn 2016, when the investigation into Mr Beech's claims ended, the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate the accuser himself\n\nJurors heard that investigators from Northumbria Police found an Aubrey Harding, who knew the defendant as a child. Both had lived in Bicester, in Oxfordshire, for a period during their childhood.\n\nBut Mr Harding, whose details matched those given by Mr Beech, was never abused.\n\nJurors were also shown a document written by Mr Beech and recovered from his home, describing allegations of abuse from a first person perspective, in which the name Aubrey was repeatedly used.\n\nIn court, Mr Beech said he had used the name Aubrey as a \"pseudonym\" for John.\n\nWhen asked to provide further details about John, such as where he had lived, Beech said he had never asked him.\n\nThe prosecution allege that John was based on Mr Beech's best man at his wedding, John Prance, who would later confirm to Northumbria Police that he was never abused.\n\nMet detectives spent months attempting to get John to come forward, first passing emails to him via Mr Beech, and then emailing with him directly.\n\nBut Northumbria Police discovered that the email address was actually created by Mr Beech.\n\nThe prosecution alleged that he had \"intentionally misled officers\" in order to get a crime reference number at a meeting with Wiltshire police in 2013.\n\nHe could then use to make a claim with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.\n\nThe defendant - who is charged with fraud for receiving £22,000 in compensation - denied this.\n\nMr Beech also told the court he was also abused by \"diplomats\" from the US and Saudi Arabia.\n\nJurors have previously heard that Mr Beech has refused to provide details about the foreigners, claiming he was afraid of doing so.\n\nMr Badenoch accused Mr Beech of making the accusations in order to add \"credence to your story by introducing people who were just fiction\".\n\nThe defendant said this was untrue.\n\nWhen pressed by Mr Badenoch QC for locations where he claims to have been abused by the diplomats, the defendant said at hotels such as the Hilton and the Ritz, the Saudi Embassy, and the US ambassador's residence in London, Winfield House.\n\nHe said the American who abused him was called John Louis - and that the Saudis were called Abdullah and Turki.", "Maura had set her sights on pairing up with Tommy\n\nMore than 700 complaints about Maura repeatedly trying to kiss Tommy on Love Island will not be investigated by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.\n\nA total of 709 viewers complained that Maura Higgins \"sexually harassed\" Tommy Fury by trying to kiss him several times last month, the regulator said.\n\nTommy resisted, moving his face away from her as he lay on the sofa.\n\nOfcom said the incident, which was broadcast on 14 June, didn't breach TV's \"generally accepted standards\".\n\n\"While we recognise that many viewers disapproved of a contestant's behaviour in this episode, we took into account the context in which it occurred, including the nature of Maura and Tommy's relationship, before and after,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nHowever, Ofcom is still considering whether to investigate the show over other controversial moments. At least 300 people complained about the treatment of Lucie Donlan by some fellow contestants in June.\n\nMeanwhile, two couples will be evicted from the Love Island villa in Monday's episode, ITV has said.\n\nThe first couple to be eliminated will be the one with the fewest public votes, while the remaining contestants will choose the other couple to be given the boot.\n\nLast year, there were more than 2,600 complaints about the treatment of Dani Dyer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways will begin talks with its pilots on Monday to avert a potentially damaging summer strike.\n\nPilots have rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which the airline says is \"fair and generous\".\n\nHowever, the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) argues that its members deserve a better offer, as BA has been making healthy profits.\n\nThe two sides will meet at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nPilots have until 22 July to vote in a strike ballot. If the vote is in favour and the Balpa calls a strike, it would have to give the airline two weeks' notice.\n\nThat would make 5 August the earliest starting date for industrial action.\n\nIt would be likely to cause severe disruption as Balpa represents around 90% of the airline's pilots and the strike would hit at one of the busiest times of the year.\n\n\"We urge Balpa to come to an agreement to protect hard-working families planning their summer breaks,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\nBritish Airways is part of International Airlines Group (IAG), which also owns the Spanish carrier Iberia. Last year it reported a pre-tax profit of €3bn, up almost 9.8% on the previous year.\n\nBritish Airways contributed £1.96bn to that, up 8.7% on 2017.\n\nIt also rewarded investors with a total dividend payout of €1.3bn.\n\nBA-owner IAG says it intends to buy a large number of Boeing's 737 Max aircraft\n\nLast month IAG said it intended to buy 200 Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The planes would be used by IAG's airlines including British Airways, Vueling and Level.\n\nThe deal, worth billions of dollars, was seen as a boost for Boeing which is trying to develop a software fix for 737 Max planes after two deadly crashes.\n\nAll 737 Max planes were grounded in March after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed, killing 157 people.", "It isn't clear how hackers boarded BA's website and app - but cyber-security experts have some suggestions\n\nBritish Airways has revealed that hackers managed to breach its website and app, stealing data from many thousands of customers in the process.\n\nBut how was this possible?\n\nBA has not revealed any technical details about the breach, but cyber-security experts have some suggestions of possible methods used.\n\nNames, email addresses and credit card details including card numbers, expiry dates and three-digit CVV codes were stolen by the hackers.\n\nAt first glance, the firm's statement appears to give no details about the hack, but by \"reading between the lines\", it is possible to infer some potential attack routes, says cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward at the University of Surrey.\n\nTake BA's specification of the exact times and dates between which the attack occurred - 22:58 BST, 21 August 2018 until 21:45 BST, 5 September 2018 inclusive.\n\n\"They very carefully worded the statement to say anybody who made a card payment between those two dates is at risk,\" says Prof Woodward.\n\n\"It looks very much like the details were nabbed at the point of entry - someone managed to get a script on to the website.\"\n\nThis means that as customers typed in their credit card details, a piece of malicious code on the BA website or app may have been furtively extracting those details and sending them to someone else.\n\nProf Woodward points out that this is an increasing problem for websites that embed code from third-party suppliers - it's known as a supply chain attack.\n\nThird parties may supply code to run payment authorisation, present ads or allow users to log into external services, for example.\n\nPopular events ticketing website Ticketmaster was hit with a data breach earlier this year\n\nSuch an attack appeared to affect Ticketmaster recently, after an on-site customer service chatbot was labelled as the potential cause of a breach affecting up to 40,000 UK users.\n\nWithout further details, there is no way of knowing for sure if something similar has happened to BA. Prof Woodward points out it may just as easily have been a company insider who tampered with the website and app's code for malicious purposes.\n\nBecause CVV data, the three-digit security code on credit and debit cards, was also taken in the attack, it is indeed likely the details were lifted live, according to Robert Pritchard, a former cyber-security researcher at GCHQ and founder of private firm The Cyber Security Expert.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Dwyer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is because CVV codes are not meant to be stored by companies, though they may be processed at payment time.\n\n\"This means it was either a direct compromise of their... booking site, or compromise of a third party provider,\" he told the BBC.\n\nProf Woodward added that private firms using third party code on their websites and apps must continually vet such products, to ensure weak points in security don't emerge.\n\n\"You can put the strongest lock you like on the front door,\" he said, \"but if the builders have left a ladder up to a window, where do you think the burglars will go?\"", "Alishia Curry said she was persuaded to apply for an emergency loan before being defrauded\n\nA minister is urgently investigating how a woman was duped by an online loan company that pocketed her benefits.\n\nMother-of-three Alishia Curry said instead of processing her details for a loan, the firm submitted a Universal Credit request in her name which led to regular payments being stopped.\n\nMs Curry, from Buxton, Derbyshire, said she lost about £1,000 in one month and has had to miss meals to save money.\n\nWork and pensions minister Justin Tomlinson said he would investigate.\n\nHe said he was treating the case \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nMs Curry, who is pregnant with her fourth child, said she applied for an emergency loan to replace her cooker.\n\nShe said she searched online for a loan and entered in details to make an application, and when she was called back they took personal and financial details that were then used to claim benefits.\n\nHigh Peak MP Ruth George said the mother was left with no access to money for the next month\n\nWhen her existing benefits did not come through Ms Curry learned she had been signed up for Universal Credit without her knowledge but with the funds going into someone else's bank account.\n\nSince this happened she has lost about £1,000 in income support and child tax credits which were stopped once her Universal Credit application went through.\n\nShe said she had been advised to use a food bank or borrow money.\n\nMs Curry said she did not know which company used her details to make the application, which was approved by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), even though she never met anyone in person.\n\n\"Surely they should have asked me to go down for a face-to-face [meeting] or something before they verified that account,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had to miss meals just to feed the kids. It's depressing.\"\n\nLabour MP for High Peak Ruth George has been backing Ms Curry and warned people on benefits to be careful of sharing their details.\n\nMs George said the DWP had insisted the claim was valid as their records showed Ms Curry had been given her advance payment.\n\nShe said the case \"raises serious questions for the future\", and urged anyone on benefits to \"be very careful about what information they give to people\".\n\nThe DWP said it could not comment until Mr Tomlinson's team had concluded its investigation.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robyn Fryar was taken to hospital after being struck by a car\n\nTwo men have been arrested over the death of a teenage girl in an alleged hit-and-run in Paisley.\n\nRobyn Fryar, 15, was crossing Glenburn Road, near Fereneze Drive, with friends at about 02:00 when she was struck by a car.\n\nShe was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow by ambulance but died a short time later.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and for any dashcam footage of the area around the time of the incident.\n\nThe 15-year-old was struck as she crossed Glenburn Road in Paisley\n\nOfficers confirmed two men, both age 20, have been arrested and charged over the fatal crash.\n\nThey are due to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court later.\n\nHead teacher Kevin Henry, of St Andrew's Academy where Robyn attended, said: \"The whole school community is saddened by Robyn's passing and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Robyn was friendly, vibrant and considerate. She was a bright girl, highly-motivated and hard-working. She had an infectious enthusiasm in her school work and with her friends.\n\n\"She had a strong sense of social justice and loyalty which made her popular with all. She was a pleasure to teach and valued by her classmates, teachers and the wider S5 and school community. She will be remembered with great affection.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene of the crash in Paisley\n\nA petition has been launched calling for the installation of speed cameras on the route where Robyn was struck.\n\nA Renfrewshire Council spokesperson said: \"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Robyn's family and friends and all affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"Road safety is of course of paramount importance to us. Currently the incident is subject to a police investigation - but as with all incidents we will consider any measures that could enhance road safety once the results and any recommendations from that are known.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump claims army 'took over airports' in 1775\n\nUS President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going \"kaput\" for a glaring anachronism in his Independence Day speech.\n\nHe told crowds on 4 July the Continental Army \"took over the airports\" during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.\n\nObservers quickly pointed out there was no air travel in 18th Century America.\n\nExplaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.\n\nDuring his \"Salute to America\" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: \"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.\"\n\nCritics pointed out the rebels could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.\n\nIn the same sentence, Mr Trump also appeared to date a battle at Fort McHenry to the American Revolution, when it unfolded decades later during the War of 1812.\n\nTwitter users had some fun with the garble, using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.\n\nOutside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: \"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.\n\n\"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening.\"\n\nThe president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Salute to America event featured military flyovers and fireworks\n\nBefore winning the White House, Mr Trump used to criticise ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.\n\nThe president's Independence Day celebration saw military tanks transported into the nation's capital and a flyover by the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team.\n\nHis critics had pilloried the event as inappropriately partisan and a misuse of public funds.\n\nBut Mr Trump surprised some by steering clear of overt partisanship in his speech, instead celebrating patriotic themes and US history including civil rights.\n\nBefore a cheering crowd on the steps of the monument to Civil War era-president Abraham Lincoln, he said the story of America was \"the greatest political journey in human history\".\n\nHe was the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on the Fourth of July.\n• None Trump hails US military in 4th of July address", "Daniel Howell is a 28-year-old YouTuber with over 600 million views.\n\nHe recently opened up to his viewers as being gay.\n\nMr Howell believes that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender online influencers like him can provide the advice and support to LGBT young people that some schools do not.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte, he described how people reacted to his video and the battles the LGBT community is facing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"The ambassador has not served the UK well\"\n\nTheresa May has \"full faith\" in the UK ambassador who criticised the Trump administration in leaked emails but she does not agree with his assessment.\n\nThe PM's spokesman added that the leak was \"absolutely unacceptable\" and No 10 had made contact with the White House.\n\nSir Kim Darroch, the UK's ambassador in Washington, described Donald Trump's administration as \"inept\" in emails.\n\nA senior Conservative MP has asked the Metropolitan Police to open a criminal investigation into the leak.\n\nThe US president responded to Sir Kim's comments by saying \"we're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said it was \"the job of ambassadors to provide honest and unvarnished opinions\" but Mrs May \"does not agree with the assessment\".\n\n\"The leak is absolutely unacceptable and, as you would expect, contact has been made with the Trump administration setting out our view that we believe that it is unacceptable,\" he added.\n\nThe chairman of the foreign affairs committee, Tom Tugendhat, told the House of Commons on Monday he had written to Met Commissioner Cressida Dick to ask for a criminal investigation.\n\n\"I have asked her for reassurance that all necessary resources will be made available to ensure that the source of this leak is determined as a priority,\" he said.\n\nForeign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan responded by saying a cross-government investigation would be \"comprehensive\" and the police \"could be involved\" if there was evidence of criminality.\n\nSir Kim Darroch said the White House is \"uniquely dysfunctional\"\n\nTrade secretary Liam Fox told the BBC the leak was \"unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic\", adding that whoever released the emails had \"maliciously\" undermined the defence and security relationship with the US.\n\n\"I hope if we can identify the individual, either the full force of internal discipline - or if necessary the law - will be brought to bear because this sort of behaviour has no place in public life,\" he said.\n\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Sir Kim had been \"betrayed\" and \"hung out to dry even though his only crime was to tell the truth\".\n\nShe added: \"He told the truth about Donald Trump and that was because it was his job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJust imagine if every heavily encrypted report to Whitehall from all UK ambassadors overseas was instantly available on your mobile.\n\nThe candour would cease immediately and they'd become ultra-bland and useless as a tool in policy-making.\n\nSo, damage in this case is considerable. There will be a large number of potential suspects.\n\nDiplomatic telegrams are seen by scores, often hundreds of people - ministers and officials - across several departments. That is to ensure grown-up and private conversations can be had based on large amounts of source material.\n\nOf course, there is damage to relations between the UK and the Trump White House too.\n\nMr Trump likes to dish out insults and criticism (remember his frequent belittling of Theresa May over Brexit, and his all out verbal attacks on the mayor of London) but he is pretty thin-skinned when the verbal arrows are aimed at him.\n\nThe one person who is not under suspicion in London is Sir Kim himself. After all, as his current political master, Mr Hunt, has made clear, he was just doing his job.\n\nAs the Foreign Office launched an investigation into the source of the leak to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Trump told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nIn the emails, the UK ambassador to Washington said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nSir Kim questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nDating from 2017 to the present day, the leaked emails said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nAlthough the Mueller investigation later found allegations of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia were not proven, Sir Kim's emails said \"the worst cannot be ruled out\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt reacts to the UK ambassador's leaked emails about US President Donald Trump\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister and the UK leaves the EU by 31 October, \"people like\" Sir Kim would \"not be around\".\n\nAsked about speculation that he might take on the diplomatic role, Mr Farage said: \"I don't think I'm the right man for the job\", adding that he was \"not a diplomat\".\n\nHowever, he said he \"could be very useful\" when dealing with the US administration.\n\nSir Kim is the British ambassador to the US, which means he represents the Queen and UK government interests in the US.\n\nBorn in South Stanley, County Durham in 1954, he attended Durham University where he read zoology.\n\nDuring a 42-year diplomatic career, he has specialised in national security issues and European Union policy.\n\nIn 2007, Sir Kim served in Brussels as UK permanent representative to the EU.\n\nHe was the prime minister's national security adviser between 2012 and 2015, dealing with issues such as the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, Russian annexation of Crimea, the nuclear threat from Iran and the collapse of government authority in Libya.\n\nHe became ambassador to the US in January 2016, a year before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.", "Two people have been charged with terrorism offences after police seized munitions and ammunition in County Antrim.\n\nA man, 33, and a woman, 31, were arrested after a search at a property on Cladytown Road in Glarryford, near Ballymena on Friday night.\n\nThey are charged with offences including possessing explosive substances and ammunition.\n\nThey are due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe United States won the Women's World Cup for a record fourth time as they eventually overpowered the Netherlands in Lyon.\n\nMegan Rapinoe's penalty and Rose Lavelle's fine run and finish gave the defending champions victory in the second half, after resilient first-half defending from the Dutch.\n\nVeteran winger Rapinoe's calmly-slotted opener came from a spot-kick awarded after a video assistant referee (VAR) review, at the end of a tournament in which the system has been a major talking point.\n\nBarcelona defender Stefanie van der Gragt's high boot caught USA striker Alex Morgan and French referee Stephanie Frappart pointed to the spot after assessing replays, and the holders did not look back after taking the lead.\n\nThe European champions, reaching the final in only their second World Cup, kept the favourites at bay in the first half as former Arsenal goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal produced four excellent saves.\n\nBut the USA, playing in their third consecutive final, continued their reign as the world's finest side as they added to their titles of 1991, 1999 and 2015.\n\nRapinoe's goal also meant she won the Golden Boot after finishing with six goals and three assists, while she also took the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.\n• None Reaction as the USA beat Netherlands to win the World Cup\n• None Rate the players from the final\n\nVictory for the USA saw their English-born boss Jill Ellis, from Hampshire, become the first coach to lift the trophy twice.\n\nHer side's second consecutive world title was a hard-fought one, but they have been the best side in a 24-team tournament that was fiercely contested, despite facing more serious trophy contenders than four years ago.\n\nThey laid down a daunting marker in their first match of the competition as they cruised to a 13-0 win over Thailand - the biggest-ever victory at the finals.\n\nComfortable successes over Chile and Sweden followed, before they faced three much more detailed tests of their title credentials in the knockout rounds but battled to a trio of 2-1 wins over Spain, hosts France and England.\n\nIn 2015's final in Canada, the USA took a 4-0 lead over Japan inside 16 minutes, as a Carli Lloyd hat-trick helped them win 5-2, but the Dutch posed a far stiffer test.\n\nSarina Wiegman's side, who beat Sweden in the last four on Wednesday, did well to absorb pressure from the USA in the first half and counter attack with pace when they could.\n\nHowever, the Oranje created very few clear chances over the 90 minutes and winger Tobin Heath spurned multiple opportunities to extend the USA's lead late on.\n\nChampions making headlines on and off the pitch\n\nThe Stars and Stripes became only the second nation to successfully defend a Women's World Cup title, after Germany did so in 2007.\n\nBut their outstanding squad of players have generated headlines off the field as well as on it during an absorbing 52-match tournament in France.\n\nRapinoe, who scored twice in their last-16 tie and did so again in the quarter-final, made front-page news during the tournament by saying she would reject a hypothetical invitation to the White House, for which she was criticised by US President Donald Trump.\n\nEllis's team were sometimes accused of being arrogant - and even branded disrespectful when striker Morgan celebrated her semi-final goal against England by pretending to sip a cup of tea - but their confidence has ultimately been fully justified by their impressive defence of their title.\n\nTheir 2-0 win in front of a capacity crowd of 57,900 at the Stade de Lyon saw them lift the title in Europe for the first time, after triumphs in China, on home soil and in Canada.\n\nScoring 26 goals over their seven matches in France, they set a new record for a single World Cup campaign, while 34-year-old Rapinoe became the oldest player to score in a final.\n\nHer penalty took her narrowly above team-mate Morgan and England's Ellen White to win the Golden Boot award.\n\nThat came after Van Veenendaal had kept the USA at bay in a frenetic spell towards the end of the first half, first saving from Julie Ertz's powerful strike - the final's first shot on target after 28 minutes - before denying Samantha Mewis and keeping out two Morgan efforts, the first of which hit the post.\n\n'They've made history' - what they said\n\nUnited States boss Jill Ellis, speaking to BBC Sport: \"This is an amazing group of players - they showed fantastic resilience.\n\n\"They put their hearts and souls into this journey, I cannot thank them enough. I could barely speak immediately after the game but I told them they had made history and to enjoy it.\"\n\nUSA co-captain Megan Rapinoe: \"It's unbelievable just to know all of the people in our group have put in so much work. We have all our friends and family here, it is surreal.\"\n• None USA attacker Megan Rapinoe is the second player in history to start three Women's World Cup finals (2011, 2015, 2019) after Germany's Birgit Prinz (1995, 2003, 2007).\n• None The USA scored 26 goals at the 2019 Women's World Cup, the most by a team at a single tournament in the competition's history.\n• None Rapinoe became the first player to score a penalty in a Women's World Cup final, as well as being the oldest scorer in a final (34 years and two days).\n• None This was a 12th consecutive victory at the Women's World Cup for the USA - the longest run in World Cup history (men's and women's).\n• None Netherlands goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal made eight saves in this match - the most by a goalkeeper in a knockout stage match at the 2019 Women's World Cup.\n• None Since failing against Australia in July 2017, the USA have scored in 45 consecutive matches in all competitions, netting 148 goals and scoring at least twice in each of their past 12 games.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Carli Lloyd (USA) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rose Lavelle.\n• None Attempt missed. Jill Roord (Netherlands) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Vivianne Miedema.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jill Roord (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lineth Beerensteyn.\n• None Attempt saved. Christen Press (USA) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rose Lavelle.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ali Krieger.\n• None Attempt missed. Sherida Spitse (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An investigation is under way at the site\n\nParamedics assessed 28 Jaguar Land Rover workers after a suspected chemical incident at the firm's Solihull site.\n\nA number of staff felt unwell in Lode Lane, Solihull, after a floor sealant had been applied.\n\nOne person taken to hospital on Sunday had \"minor symptoms\" West Midlands Ambulance Service said. JLR said they were discharged later the same day.\n\nThe company said it was \"business as usual\" at the site on Monday.\n\nA spokesman said the incident had ended and there were \"several theories\" about the cause, but an investigation was under way.\n\n\"We can confirm that a small number of contractors and employees were triaged by West Midlands Ambulance Service,\" he said.\n\nThe ambulance service said it carried out its policy of \"remove, remove, remove\" and got people out of the building.\n\n\"Most staff felt symptoms reduce once out of the affected area and in fresh air,\" it said.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it advised on the incident but did not send crews.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Johnny Marr and Sheryl Crow show off the clothes they donated\n\nSheryl Crow, Lewis Capaldi and Billie Eilish are among the Glastonbury stars to give clothes to Oxfam in support of a campaign against \"throwaway fashion\".\n\nThe artists gave some of their clothing to the charity during the festival in Somerset, with the aim of encouraging fans to buy second-hand fashion.\n\nOther artists to get involved included Kylie Minogue, who donated a sun visor, and Johnny Marr, who gave a shirt.\n\nClimate change and the environment was the theme of this year's festival.\n\nFor the first time the sale of single-use plastic bottles was banned at Worthy Farm.\n\nOxfam used the festival to launch its Second-Hand September campaign, asking people to pledge to not buy any new clothes for one month.\n\nCrow, Capaldi and Eilish all donated T-shirts, while the Lumineers handed over a pair of wellies and Tame Impala gave a waterproof.\n\nKylie Minogue donated a sun visor, which she had at the festival but did not wear during her performance\n\nThe Cure's frontman Robert Smith gave a Disintegration Era shirt, worn in 1989 and again at a Sydney Opera House gig earlier this year.\n\nSinger-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin said she donated her \"fabulous gold sparkly jumpsuit\" as she wanted \"someone else to feel as good in it as I did\".\n\nShe added: \"I believe passionately in sustainability. Chucking perfectly good clothes in landfill really has to stop.\"\n\nThe artists' clothes will be available to win or buy on Oxfam's online shop until September.\n\nOxfam said: \"Every week, 11 million items of clothing end up in landfill. Throwaway fashion is putting increasing pressure on our planet and its people.\n\n\"Keeping prices low means garment workers around the world tend not to be paid a living wage, making it impossible for them to work their way out of poverty.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke to his cheering supporters after victory, he paused for a moment of reflection.\n\n\"I feel the spirit of my parents protecting me,\" he said.\n\nFor Greece's new slick prime minister-elect, talk of his family is not just a personal issue.\n\nHe is a scion of one of the country's most powerful political dynasties: his father, Konstantinos, was prime minister, his sister is a former foreign minister and his nephew is the new mayor of Athens.\n\nNo other European country has the tradition of family politics like Greece.\n\nThat is one of the reasons behind its financial crisis - the culture of nepotism that plagued successive post-war governments.\n\nKyriakos Mitsotakis's party has won an outright majority in the Greek parliament\n\nBut Kyriakos Mitsotakis has deftly managed to present himself as a new face in spite of his heritage, reinvigorating a party swept from office in 2015 for embodying the corrupt old guard.\n\nBack then, Alexis Tsipras seemed like the figure of change.\n\nIn his firebrand rallies, the left-wing populist vowed to tear up Greece's bailout programme and end austerity.\n\nHe brought in a finance minister, the leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-driving Yannis Varoufakis, who goaded the EU and made enemies in Brussels and Berlin.\n\nHe led Greece into a referendum on rejecting Europe's budget cuts, despite warnings from its creditors that it was hurtling towards leaving the eurozone.\n\nOutgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (centre) will now try to regroup in opposition\n\nUnder pressure from the EU, capital controls on its banks and the threat of \"Grexit\" - departure from the euro - he was forced into a humiliating U-turn, signing up to a third, €89bn (£80bn; $100bn) bailout, and more austerity.\n\nHis support base began to ebb away.\n\n\"The fact that Tsipras managed to stay in power for four years despite breaking his pledges is a testimony to his political talent,\" says Professor George Pagoulatos of the Athens University of Economics.\n\n\"His party, Syriza, now carries an ideology so different from the policies he's applied that it's meaningless - the main thing holding the party together is Tsipras,\" Prof Pagoulatos says.\n\n\"We set the bar high - and we didn't reach it,\" admits Syriza's Dimitris Rapides\n\n\"I understand 100% why people are disappointed with the party,\" he tells me in a bustling Athens cafe.\n\n\"People had high expectations - we set the bar high - and we didn't reach it.\"\n\nYet Alexis Tsipras has achieved some success over his time in office:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why young people have suffered the most from Greece’s economic collapse\n\nBut Mr Tsipras also fell foul of scandal, seeming to break his \"people vs the elite\" rhetoric as he was pictured on a luxury yacht of a Greek shipowner last year - just weeks after mismanaging the response to deadly wildfires.\n\n\"Tsipras actually came up with very anti-European politics\", says Pavlos Eleftheriades, a New Democracy supporter who came back from the UK to vote.\n\n\"He reminds me of Nigel Farage [the leader of the Brexit party in the UK], even though one is left and one is right. This result is a victory for a European Greece and I'm very excited.\"\n\nMr Mitsotakis has promised tax cuts and job creation, with an agenda of privatisation and sound political management.\n\nHe'll benefit from New Democracy being part of the largest bloc in the European Parliament, painting his victory as an end to Greece's populist experiment and a return to the political mainstream.\n\n\"He has a good chance of doing much of what he promises, with a more competent team around him,\" says Prof Pagoulatos.\n\n\"And his victory shows that populism is a cyclical phenomenon, more than a trend.\n\n\"When populists are tried in power, they face the same constraints of mainstream governments - and don't necessarily respond more successfully. In Greece's case, they were inept and brought the country to the brink of economic collapse.\"\n\nThe legacy of Alexis Tsipras is, indeed, to have shed the populist demagoguery that first swept him to power.\n\nAnd in concrete terms, his biggest foreign policy legacy is one which cost him support within his own country: to have reached a deal accepting Greece's northern neighbour under the name North Macedonia, ending a two decades-old dispute by Greeks who claim ownership over Macedonian identity.\n\nThat normalised relations between the two countries, but prompted cries - from Mr Mitsotakis among others - of betrayal.\n\nAs the (young) Mitsotakis era begins, one of Europe's iconic leftist leaders of the past four years departs the stage.\n\nBut he'll regroup in opposition and wait in the wings to seize on any misstep by Greece's new leader.\n\nThis is by no means the last Greece will hear of Alexis Tsipras.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said leaked memos about US President Donald Trump and his administration reflected the \"personal view\" of the UK's ambassador and not that of the government.\n\nMr Hunt, who is running for prime minister, said it was the ambassador's job to give \"frank opinions\" but that they did not reflect the government's position.\n\nThe leaked emails from Sir Kim Darroch described Mr Trump's White House as \"inept\" and \"uniquely dysfunctional\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt traded jibes in a feisty debate on ITV\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have clashed on Brexit and UK relations with Donald Trump in a lively and occasionally bad-tempered TV debate.\n\nMr Hunt accused his rival of not being willing to \"put his neck on the line\" by saying he would quit as PM if he did not hit the 31 October deadline.\n\nMr Johnson said he admired his rival's ability \"to change his mind\" so often - a dig at the fact Mr Hunt voted Remain.\n\nMr Johnson declined to condemn Mr Trump for his response to the emails row.\n\nHe refused to confirm whether he would keep the UK's top diplomat in the US, Sir Kim Darroch, in his post until his scheduled retirement in December, after Mr Trump said he was no longer prepared to deal with him.\n\nThe US president has lambasted Sir Kim, and criticised Theresa May, after the diplomat described the White House as \"inept and dysfunctional\" in leaked cables.\n\nWhile stressing the value of the \"special relationship\" with the US, Mr Johnson insisted that only he, as prime minister, would take \"important and politically sensitive\" decisions such as who should represent the UK in the US.\n\nDuring the first head-to-head debate of the leadership campaign, the two clashed over their different Brexit strategies, political styles and why they were best equipped to be prime minister.\n\nThe exchanges were pointed and personal in nature at times, with former Mayor of London Mr Johnson dismissing his opponent's \"managerial\" style of politics and accusing him of flip-flopping on certain issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt said the UK needed a leader not a \"newspaper columnist\" - a reference to his rival's work for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHe joked that he admired Mr Johnson's \"ability to answer the question\", adding: \"He puts a smile on your face and you forget what the question was, a great quality for a politician but not necessarily a prime minister.\"\n\nAfter an opening speech from each contender, the foreign secretary immediately went on the attack over Brexit, pressing his rival on whether he would quit Downing Street if he failed to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October.\n\nHe said by failing to answer the question, Mr Johnson - who previously said the deadline was a \"do or die\" issue for him - showed he was motivated by personal ambition not leadership.\n\n\"It is not do or die,\" Mr Hunt said. \"It is Boris in Number 10 that matters.\"\n\nAccusing his rival of not being straight with the electorate, he said: \"Being prime minister is about telling people what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear.\"\n\nMr Johnson, in turn, said it was clear his rival was \"not absolutely committed\" to the deadline himself, branding him \"defeatist\".\n\nHe urged Mr Hunt to guarantee that Brexit would happen by Christmas, adding that the EU would not take a \"papier mache deadline\" seriously.\n\n\"If we are going to have a 31 October deadline, we must stick to it,\" he said. \"The EU will understand we are ready and will give us the deal we need.\n\n\"I don't want to hold out to the EU the prospect that they might encourage my resignation by refusing to agree a deal.\n\n\"I think it is extraordinary we should be telling the British electorate we are willing to kick the can down the road.\n\n\"I would like to know how many more days my opponent would be willing to delay.\"\n\nBoth men have said they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal, but Mr Johnson has been far more relaxed about the impact that could have.\n\nMr Hunt suggested his rival was \"minimising the risk of a no-deal Brexit\" and \"peddling optimism\", but Mr Johnson said the UK had had a \"bellyful of defeatism\" and the UK could look forward to a bright future outside the EU.\n\nThe pair also disagreed over whether they might be prepared to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal exit - so-called prorogation.\n\nWhile Mr Hunt categorically ruled this out, Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n\nBoth teams will leave Salford content with their candidates' performance.\n\nThe gaffe prone former foreign secretary avoided slipping on any banana skins, and managing not to commit on some of the more controversial issues before him.\n\nAnd the current foreign secretary managed to land his blows on his opponent.\n\nThere was perhaps though no jaw dropper, no moment that turned this race upside down.\n\nMr Johnson arrived the favourite and leaves in the same position. Mr Hunt turned up keen to show that he is ready to use sharp elbows to scrap and to make himself heard with attacks on his rival that are a contrast to his normal careful style.\n\nTheir respective status as the front runner and challenger may not have changed.\n\nYet while Jeremy Hunt may not, from this performance alone, manage to stop Boris Johnson's journey to No 10, he has at least shown that if he gets there, he is likely to face a very tricky time.\n\nOn the escalating diplomatic row with the US, Mr Hunt said the president's criticism of Sir Kim Darroch had been ill-judged and he would, if he became PM, not be forced into recalling the diplomat early.\n\nHe also took issue with Mr Trump for saying the prime minister had failed to listen to his advice and been made to look \"foolish\" over Brexit.\n\n\"His comments about Theresa May were unacceptable and I don't think he should have made them,\" he said, remarks which prompted audience applause.\n\nMr Johnson said the US president had been \"dragged into a British political debate\" not of his making, but did suggest his outburst on Twitter - in which he called Sir Kim a \"pompous fool\" - had \"not necessarily been the right thing to do\".\n\nWhile civil servants must be able to give confidential advice, he declined to comment on Sir Kim's future, only asking Mr Hunt to rule out \"extending his term out of sympathy\".\n\nBoth men have been criticised for making uncosted spending promises and offers of tax cuts during the campaign.\n\nMr Hunt sought to make capital out of Mr Johnson's pledge to give a tax cut to higher earners by raising the threshold at which people pay 40% tax from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\n\"It was a mistake, tax cuts for the rich,\" he said. \"I have spent my life trying to persuade people that we are not the party of the rich.\"\n\nMr Johnson defended what he said was a \"package\" of measures to reduce the tax burden for both low and middle earners and which he said would boost the economy.\n\nThe show, entitled Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, was hosted by journalist Julie Etchingham in front of a studio audience of 200 people at MediaCityUK in Salford.\n\nIt took place as 160,000 or so party members get the chance to vote by post on who should succeed Theresa May.\n\nThe winner and next PM will be revealed on 23 July - it will be the first time a sitting prime minister has been chosen by party members.", "Allowing children to be used as informants in criminal investigations is lawful, the High Court has ruled.\n\nCharity Just for Kids Law brought the case against the Home Office over the use of children by police and other bodies in England and Wales.\n\nThe campaign group said the safeguards in place were inadequate and the practice breached human rights.\n\nBut the High Court rejected the legal challenge, saying there was a \"system of oversight\" in place.\n\nIn March it was revealed that 17 children had been used to secretly gather intelligence for police and other agencies in the last four years.\n\nLord Justice Fulford, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner who is carrying out a review into the use of children as covert human intelligence sources (CHIS), said one of the informants was 15 years old, while the others were aged 16 and 17.\n\nThe Home Office had argued that undercover under-18s helped prevent and prosecute problems such as gang violence and dealing drugs.\n\nHowever, concerns over the use of juveniles were raised in the House of Lords last year with the case of a 17-year-old girl who was recruited to spy on a man who had been exploiting her sexually.\n\nThe peers heard that the girl continued to be exploited sexually while she was deployed by police.\n\nDismissing the charity's case, Mr Justice Supperstone said he was satisfied the scheme was lawful.\n\nThe judge said children were \"inherently more vulnerable than adults\" and that the \"very significant risk of physical and psychological harm\" to them from being a CHIS in the context of serious crime is \"self-evident\".\n\nHowever, he said he rejected the charity's contention \"that the scheme is inadequate in its safeguarding\" of the juveniles involved in the scheme.\n\nJust for Kids Law, which used crowdfunding to pay for the case, said it was disappointed and was considering whether to appeal against the decision.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Enver Solomon, said the judgement acknowledges the '\"variety of dangers\" that arise from the use of children as covert informants in the context of serious crime.\n\nHe added: \"We remain convinced that new protections are needed to keep these children safe.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Just for Kids Law\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the ruling showed the court recognised that the protections in law ensure \"the best interests, safety and welfare of the child will always be paramount\".\n\nChildren had been used as informants fewer than 20 times since January 2015, he said, but they remained \"an important tool to investigate the most serious of crimes\".\n\nHe added: \"They will only be used where necessary and proportionate in extreme cases where all other ways to gain information have been exhausted.\"\n• None Child spies used 'when necessary'", "Supporters of Greece's incoming government rallied around the New Democracy headquarters in Athens to cheer leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis after the party won the general election.", "Up to three-quarters of civil servants shifted to emergency Brexit preparation duties before the original 29 March deadline have since been stood down, data obtained by BBC Newsnight shows.\n\nHowever, hundreds of Whitehall staff now face being reassigned again to get ready for the new 31 October exit date.\n\nCivil service experts say it shows the damage being done to the normal work of government by the moving of the date.\n\nThe data was unearthed by a series of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.\n\n\"This 'hokey cokey' of staff moves is clearly going to damage some of the other work of the civil service,\" said Joe Owen, of the Institute for Government.\n\n\"Everyone that moves is leaving behind a day job, requires new training and may have little experience of the area they move to.\n\n\"If we do leave without a deal, it's far from clear how many more moves would be needed and at what point those gaps that have been left would be filled.\"\n\nLord Kerslake, who was head of the civil service between 2011 and 2014, told Newsnight the number of movements was \"quite extraordinary\" considering the relative size of the departments.\n\n\"It is a testament to the leadership of the civil service that they managed to pull this off,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the disruptive effect will have been significant and will have added to the general Westminster and Whitehall paralysis as a consequence of Brexit.\"\n\nA cabinet office spokesperson said: \"The civil service is delivering the government's commitment to leaving the EU alongside other priorities. We are equipping ourselves with the right people and skills across departments to make this happen.\"\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay said on 4 July that he was preparing to increase the numbers of staff working on no-deal preparations after the summer.\n\nAnd, three days earlier, Conservative leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt said he could cancel civil servants' summer holidays to prepare for no deal.\n\n\"All government departments will be expected to act on the basis that we are leaving without a deal on 31 October,\" said Mr Hunt.\n\n\"All August leave will be cancelled unless I receive a signed letter from the relevant permanent secretary saying that preparations in his or her department are on time and on track.\"\n\nThe data obtained by Newsnight shows that 257 staff from the Ministry of Defence were moved to other departments before 29 March. Of those, 255 have since returned to their previous posts.\n\nAt the Business Department, 532 were moved internally for no-deal Brexit work, of which 403 have since \"returned to their previous responsibilities\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions sent 127 people to other departments, of which 125 have returned.\n\nThe Treasury said: \"It is not possible to give an accurate estimate of the number of civil servants involved in contingency planning for no deal at any one time.\"\n\nThe Home Office did not provide any information as it said the cost exceeded the statutory £600 FoI request limit.\n\nIn total, the data showed 691 civil servants were moved internally and 664 were moved externally. Of that 1355 total, 1036 were recorded as having returned to their regular duties - around 75%.\n\nIn February, John Manzoni, permanent secretary to the cabinet office, told the Public Accounts Committee that it was not simple to move civil servants from one department to another as part of no-deal preparations.\n\n\"That is like moving employer, because it often is moving employer. The terms and conditions are different in departments. This is a change of employer. It is like leaving one job and starting another job,\" he said.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The government has begun an inquiry into a leak of emails from the UK ambassador in Washington which deemed the Trump administration \"inept\".\n\nIn the messages, Sir Kim Darroch said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\" under Donald Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the memos reflected Sir Kim's \"personal view\", not that of the UK government.\n\nPresident Trump said Sir Kim had \"not served the UK well\".\n\nAsked about the leak, he told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the leak to the Mail on Sunday was \"mischievous\", but did not deny the accuracy of the memos. A spokesperson confirmed a formal leak investigation would be launched.\n\nIn the emails, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nHe questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe UK ambassador in Washington says Trump needs \"simple, even blunt\" arguments\n\nMr Hunt - who is fighting to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister - said while it was the UK ambassador's job to give \"frank opinions\", the memos expressed \"a personal view\".\n\n\"It is not the view of the British government, it's not my view,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to think that under President Trump the US administration is not just highly effective but the best friend of Britain on the international stage.\"\n\nEarlier, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said whoever was responsible for the leak must be prosecuted.\n\n\"Diplomats must be able to communicate securely with their governments,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.\n\nHowever, he defended Sir Kim, saying the job of the UK's ambassador is \"to represent the interests and wishes of the British people\" and not \"the sensibilities of the United States\".\n\nAlthough Sir Kim said Mr Trump was \"dazzled\" by his state visit to the UK in June, the ambassador warned that his administration will remain self-interested, adding: \"This is still the land of America First.\"\n\nDifferences between the US and the UK on climate change, media freedoms and the death penalty might come to the fore as the countries seek to improve trading relations after Brexit, the memos said.\n\nTo get through to the president, \"you need to make your points simple, even blunt\", he said.\n\nThe leader of the Brexit party, Nigel Farage, has criticised Sir Kim for his comments, branding the ambassador \"totally unsuitable for the job\" and saying the \"sooner he is gone the better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Justice Secretary David Gauke said it was very important that ambassadors gave \"honest and unvarnished advice to their country\".\n\nHe said: \"It is disgraceful that it's been leaked, but we should expect our ambassadors to tell the truth, as they see it.\"\n\nIn a message sent last month, Sir Kim branded US policy on Iran as \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nMr Trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an airstrike against Tehran with 10 minutes to go - that it would cause 150 casualties - \"doesn't stand up\", Sir Kim said.\n\nInstead, he suggested the president was \"never fully on board\" and did not want to reverse his campaign promise not to involve the US in foreign conflicts.\n\nSir Kim said it was \"unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon\" because \"this is a divided administration\".\n\nThe leaked files date from 2017 to the present day, covering the ambassador's early impressions that media reports of \"vicious infighting and chaos\" in the White House were \"mostly true\".\n\nThey also give an assessment of allegations about collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia, saying \"the worst cannot be ruled out\". The investigation by Robert Mueller has since found those claims were not proven.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the views of diplomats were \"not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid\".\n\nHe said ministers and civil servants would handle this advice \"in the right way\" and ambassadors should be able to offer it confidentially.\n\nThe UK embassy in Washington has \"strong relations\" with the White House and these would continue, despite \"mischievous behaviour\" such as this leak, the spokesman said.", "Robyn Fryar was taken to hospital after being struck by a car\n\nTwo men have appeared in court charged with the death of a teenage girl in an alleged hit-and-run in Paisley.\n\nRobyn Fryar, 15, was crossing Glenburn Road, near Fereneze Drive, with friends at about 02:00 on Sunday when she was struck by a car.\n\nShaun Gatti and David Kinnon, both 20, made no plea or declaration when they appeared in private before Paisley Sheriff Court.\n\nBoth men, of Paisley, were released on bail.\n\nRobyn was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow but died a short time later.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and for any dashcam footage of the area around the time of the incident.\n\nThe 15-year-old was struck as she crossed Glenburn Road in Paisley\n\nDuring the private court hearing on Monday, Mr Gatti was told he faces four charges, including causing death by dangerous driving and attempting to pervert the course of justice.\n\nHead teacher Kevin Henry, of St Andrew's Academy where Robyn attended, said: \"The whole school community is saddened by Robyn's passing and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Robyn was friendly, vibrant and considerate. She was a bright girl, highly-motivated and hard-working. She had an infectious enthusiasm in her school work and with her friends.\n\n\"She had a strong sense of social justice and loyalty which made her popular with all. She was a pleasure to teach and valued by her classmates, teachers and the wider S5 and school community. She will be remembered with great affection.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene of the crash in Paisley\n\nA petition has been launched calling for the installation of speed cameras on the route where Robyn was struck.\n\nA Renfrewshire Council spokesperson said: \"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Robyn's family and friends and all affected by this tragic incident.\n\n\"Road safety is of course of paramount importance to us. Currently the incident is subject to a police investigation - but as with all incidents we will consider any measures that could enhance road safety once the results and any recommendations from that are known.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The crash happened near the Rivington services on the M61\n\nTwo people have been arrested over the death of a 12-year-old girl in a motorway crash.\n\nSana Patel, from Blackburn, died at the scene of the two-car collision on the M61 in Lancashire on Saturday. Police said one of the drivers fled on foot.\n\nThe child was a passenger in a Nissan Qashqai which crashed with a Vauxhall Corsa between junction eight and Bolton West/Rivington services.\n\nA 23-year-old woman and a man, 28, have been released under investigation.\n\nLancashire Police said the woman from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and the man, from Dewsbury were held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The man was also detained on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of an accident.\n\nThe force said five other people in the Qashqai suffered minor injuries, while those in the Corsa fled the scene.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin said: \"This was a tragic incident in which 12-year-old Sana Patel lost her life and our thoughts are very much with her family and friends at this unimaginably difficult time.\n\n\"We have now made two arrests but are very much still trying to establish what happened and are asking anybody who saw the collision or either vehicle in the moments before it happened to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nTauheedul Islam Girls' High School in Blackburn, where Sana was a pupil, said emotional support would be available for students and staff.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will remember Sana as a really friendly and cheeky girl who was always smiling and had a real zest for life and fun.\n\n\"She lit up the lives of so many around her and had so much to look forward to.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Sana and her family during this very distressing and difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eton College will offer 12 free sixth form places to boys \"with tremendous potential but limited opportunity\".\n\nThe Orwell Award will be open to those who do not have the highest grades, recognising that their potential may have been limited by circumstances.\n\nThe places will be offered to Year 11 pupils at non-selective state schools and will cover full boarding fees.\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron and Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson are among Eton's alumni.\n\nBoth the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex were also pupils at the Berkshire school, which charges fees of more than £40,000 a year.\n\nHeadmaster Simon Henderson said the school had a tradition of offering free places \"to deserving pupils\" since it was founded in 1440, adding that there were more than 80 pupils currently in the school \"who pay no fees\"\n\n\"The Orwell Award will ensure that we continue this tradition by helping boys with tremendous potential but limited opportunity,\" said Mr Henderson.\n\n\"We are not targeting boys who will do well anyway.\n\n\"We're looking for applicants with vigour, talent and industry who, without proper support, will not be prepared for or even apply to the country's top universities.\"\n\nBoth the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge (pictured here in 2010) attended Eton College\n\nThe Orwell Award is named after Animal Farm author George Orwell, who was a scholarship pupil at Eton.\n\nIt is intended to give the recipients an educational experience they would not otherwise have been able to access.\n\nUnlike previous scholarship programmes, it will assess applicants against specific criteria such as attending a school which Ofsted has identified as requiring improvement or which is in special measures.\n\nIt will also consider if a boy has refugee status, is in council care or foster case, if he is in the first generation of his family to go to university or if he has been in receipt of the pupil premium funding for disadvantaged students.\n\nThe announcement of the 12 sixth form scholarships comes at a time of increasing pressure on private schools and top universities to diversify their intake.\n\nThis year, Oxford University announced it plans to increase the number of its students from disadvantaged backgrounds to 25% by 2023.", "ASAP Rocky has been detained in Sweden for an extra two weeks on suspicion of assault, Sweden's Prosecution Authority has told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nThe news follows a fight on the street in Stockholm last Sunday.\n\nThe rapper was due to be headlining Wireless festival in London this Sunday, 7 July, but will remain in custody in Stockholm while an investigation takes place.\n\nA festival representative says his \"lawyer's are appealing the decision\".\n\nThe Wireless spokesperson tells Newsbeat: \"We are in touch with his team and as soon as we have any news we will let you know.\"\n\nASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, was arrested earlier this week following his appearance at Smash festival in Stockholm.\n\nA video published online appears to show him punching another man in the street.\n\nASAP Rocky could be held by Swedish authorities for even longer\n\nSwedish authorities had until Saturday to decide whether to formally take action and, following a detention hearing in Stockholm, Sweden's Prosecution Authority decided he will remain in custody.\n\nIf the investigation isn't concluded in two weeks' time, they can apply to keep ASAP Rocky for another two weeks.\n\nHis charge has been reduced from aggravated assault to assault.\n\nAnother person arrested with ASAP Rocky on suspicion of aggravated assault has also been detained, while one more is still waiting for their hearing. The third, his bodyguard, who was arrested on suspicion of assault, was released earlier this week.\n\nIn videos posted to ASAP Rocky's Instagram, he and the people he's with repeatedly tell a pair of men to stop following them.\n\nASAP Rocky (left) and Skepta performing Praise Da Lord at Parklife in Manchester last summer\n\nOne of the men accuses the 30-year-old's team of breaking his headphones.\n\nIn the caption for the first video ASAP Rocky writes: \"We don't know these guys and we didn't want trouble. They followed us for four blocks.\"\n\nIn the second, he accuses the man of hitting his security guard \"in the face with headphones\".\n\nAs well as Wireless on Sunday, ASAP Rocky was due to perform at Longitude in Ireland on Friday.\n\nHe's already missed out on Open'er Festival in Poland, where he was scheduled to headline on Thursday, with Stormzy stepping in to replace him.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nLegendary racing pundit John McCririck, who for many years was the face of British horse racing, has died at a London hospital on Friday aged 79.\n\nMcCririck made his career as the face of Channel 4's racing coverage, famous for his loud, eccentric style and his signature deerstalker hat.\n\nHe also appeared on reality TV shows such as Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Wife Swap and Celebrity Coach Trip.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Jenny.\n\nHis family said he had been ill in recent months but continued to make several TV and radio appearances.\n\nTributes are being paid to John by figures from the worlds of racing and entertainment.\n\n\"Very sad to hear the news of John McCririck's passing - one of the most recognisable faces from the world of horse racing and a great at promoting our sport,\" tweeted 20-time champion jockey AP McCoy.\n\nThree-time champion jockey Frankie Dettori, 48, said he first met McCririck as a 16-year-old apprentice and the broadcaster was \"a big part of my racing life.\"\n\n\"He was very flamboyant and controversial but I always got on really well with him,\" said Dettori.\n\n\"He did put on a bit of a show but underneath it all he worked very hard and he was very knowledgeable about racing.\"\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority also paid tribute, saying: \"Throughout a lengthy & colourful career one thing was always clear - his enduring passion & love for the sport of horseracing. He was a recognisable figure and resonated with the wider public.\"\n\nAscot Racecourse tweeted: \"He was an unmistakable presence in racing, and one of the most impactful broadcasters of his generation.\"\n\nBroadcaster Nick Luck, a former Channel 4 colleague, added: \"Life without John McCririck will be far less interesting - he was a magnificent journalist first and a great showman. So often very kind to me and many, many others.\"\n\nMcCririck worked for BBC Sport early in his career as a sub-editor on Grandstand when the programme was presented by the likes of Frank Bough and Des Lynam.\n\nHe went on to write for The Sporting Life where he won British Press Awards 'Specialist Writer of the Year' and 'Campaigning Journalist of the Year'.\n\nMcCririck's profile grew when he energised racing broadcasts with lively updates from the betting ring, where he was not afraid to berate punters playing the fool in the background.\n\nWhen he was axed by Channel 4 in 2012, he launched a claim for age discrimination.\n\n\"I have put my own personal future on the line,\" he said. \"But I think it's so important for people in their 30s up to their 70s who fear anonymous suits and skirts coming along and getting rid of them.\"\n\nHe lost the case, and with it a significant amount of money, although he became a regular on reality TV shows.\n\nMcCririck would make disparaging remarks about his wife Jenny, nicknaming her 'The Booby', but in truth they were a strong and happy couple.\n\n\"It's all a pantomime. Do I look like someone who is downtrodden?\" said Jenny.\n\nMcCririck was still a regular sight - often smoking a fat cigar - at big race meetings in recent years although ill health meant he missed the Epsom and Royal Ascot fixtures last month.\n\nViewers were shocked when he appeared frail and gaunt during one broadcast, although he retained his humour and ability to generate debate throughout.\n\n'One of the most familiar faces on British television'\n\nWith a trademark deerstalker hat, his side whiskers and his waving arms plus a booming voice, McCririck became one of the most familiar faces on British television.\n\nA former bookmaker and award-wining journalist, his career took off as the betting specialist on Channel 4 Racing from the mid-1980s.\n\nHe brought to wider audiences the secret 'tic-tac' communication system of the racecourse betting ring, with its unique terms including 'Burlington Bertie 100 to 30' and 'Double Carpet 33 to 1'.\n\nWith his controversial views - particularly what was seen as a sexist attitude towards women including his wife Jenny - McCririck was dropped by Channel 4 in 2012.\n\nLatterly, he made only occasional TV and media appearances but lost none of his flamboyance.\n\nI have lost count of how many times people have come up to me and said 'do you know that mad guy with the whiskers who waves his arms around and shouts on the TV at the races - what's he really like?'\n\nThe answer was that he was a complex character: a colourful pundit and showman who brought horse racing to a wider audience, but also courted controversy of course. He was a campaigning punters' champion and a generous and supportive colleague.\n\nHe was practically the definition of the expression 'one-off'.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widdecombe: \"I stand by what I said\"\n\nBrexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe has been criticised for comparing the UK leaving the EU to \"slaves\" rising up \"against their owners\".\n\nShe made the remarks during her maiden speech in the European Parliament on Thursday, which critics branded \"disgusting\" and \"offensive\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy described her words as \"ahistorical\".\n\nBut Ms Widdecombe told the BBC's Newsnight people had interpreted her speech in a \"melodramatic fashion\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP and shadow home secretary was one of 29 Brexit Party candidates who won European Parliament seats in May.\n\nShe began her first speech to fellow MEPs by attacking the EU for the way it appoints its leaders. This followed heads of member states nominating five candidates for the top jobs in Brussels - including the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission - earlier this week.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen was nominated to replace the current European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker - becoming the first woman to take the role - and Belgian liberal Prime Minister Charles Michel was nominated to replace European Council President Donald Tusk.\n\nCritics of the selection process say the European Parliament's own contest for the main job - the \"Spitzenkandidaten\" (lead candidate) process - was ignored, and that four of the main jobs went to western Europeans, with no nominees from eastern Europe.\n\nMost of the roles must now be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ann Widdecombe: \"Oppressed people turning on the oppressors – slaves against their owners\"\n\nMs Widdecombe, one of six MEPs representing the South West of England, said the process of choosing the leadership of the EU had convinced her that \"the best thing for Britain is to leave here as soon as possible\",\n\nShe went on to say: \"There is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on the oppressors - slaves against their owners, the peasantry against the feudal barons, colonies... against their empires, and that is why Britain is leaving.\n\n\"And it doesn't matter which language you use - we are going and we are glad to be going.\"\n\nShe added: \"Nous allons. Wir gehen. We're off!\"\n\nIn response, EU Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt said Ms Widdecombe was giving her party leader, Nigel Farage, \"stiff competition as chief clown\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan tweeted: \"It is disgusting that Ann Widdecombe would reference slavery and colonisation to describe our relationship with the EU.\n\n\"Her and Farage are bankrolled by elites - she's part of the establishment which has created such a divide in this country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Lammy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat MEP Martin Horwood called for Ms Widdecombe to withdraw her comments and apologise.\n\n\"Ann Widdecombe has not only embarrassed herself, but she has embarrassed the nation she represents,\" he said.\n\nBut Ms Widdecombe defended her speech, telling Newsnight: \"If people want to interpret what I've said in a particular way, that is not my responsibility.\n\n\"I said we had been oppressed, I stand by that. I used three examples, not just slavery... and I stand by what I said.\n\n\"I definitely want the UK to be free of the EU shackles, now complain about that\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Arron Banks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Brexit Party spokesman added: \"Those who have raised this hue and cry seem to desire nothing more than a cleansing of our language of historical perspective and even metaphor.\n\n\"Ms Widdecombe was right to talk about the great sweep of history, and the simple fact that those who are oppressed will always strive for freedom.\"\n\n\"Would they also ban Rule Britannia? The Last night of the Proms?\" he added.", "The victim was found with gunshot wounds in Harrow Road, Wembley\n\nA man in his 30s has been shot dead in north-west London.\n\nThe victim was found with gunshot wounds in Harrow Road, Wembley, at about 20:00 BST on Friday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nScotland Yard said the man's next of kin had been informed, and a post-mortem examination would be carried out. No-one has been arrested and a crime scene remains in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDowning Street attempted to withhold sensitive intelligence from Boris Johnson when he became foreign secretary, the BBC has learned.\n\nIt is understood Theresa May and some in the intelligence community had worries about Mr Johnson's ability to keep information confidential.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said he had access to everything he needed to see.\n\nAsked whether information had ever been held back from him, the Tory leadership frontrunner said this was \"not true\".\n\nPressed about the matter at a Conservative leadership hustings in Darlington, Mr Johnson said he would not comment further on national security issues but he was \"extremely dubious about the provenance\" of the reports.\n\nHis leadership rival and current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also refused to comment, telling the hustings: \"We have the finest intelligence services in the world in this country, but that does depend on some discretion by the foreign secretary.\"\n\nA Number 10 spokesperson said it did not comment on intelligence matters, but that Theresa May trusted Mr Johnson in the role.\n\nThey said: \"It's a matter of fact it was the PM's own decision to appoint Boris Johnson as foreign secretary, in full knowledge of all the responsibilities that that job involves.\"\n\nOn 20 October 2016, Mr Johnson paid his first visit as foreign secretary to MI6's headquarters at Vauxhall Cross in London.\n\nAfter he was shown around by Alex Younger, the chief of MI6, Mr Johnson addressed staff and held an informal question and answer session.\n\n\"I was delighted to welcome the foreign secretary to our Vauxhall Cross headquarters so he could see first-hand the kind of work that MI6 does,\" the chief, known as \"C\", said at the time.\n\nMr Johnson was effusive in his praise.\n\n\"Even from my relatively short period as foreign secretary I can testify to how vital the work they do is,\" he said.\n\nIt is understood that Theresa May and some in the intelligence community had worries about Boris Johnson's ability to keep information confidential.\n\nAnd the tension went back as far as the time when he was Mayor of London and she was home secretary, when one source claims he angered her by inadvertently revealing confidential information before it was due to be made public.\n\nOnce he was in government, on occasion Downing Street would even convene smaller meetings, or \"pre-meets\", to discuss sensitive subjects rather than include him as foreign secretary, a senior figure has told me.\n\nOne of his allies confides \"it was obvious there were concerns on issues from early on\" and suggests \"there was a constant question of whether he was really seeing everything\" - the full intelligence picture that he would be entitled to in his role as foreign secretary.\n\nIt's said that he worried constantly about being cut out. But, this is not just about the keeping of secrets, but Theresa May's desire to keep political control.\n\nIt's suggested that the real issue was a lack of trust and hostility between Mr Johnson and Theresa May. One source believes Mr Johnson was excluded from seeing some sensitive information because there was a hostile relationship between him and Downing Street, not because of reservations from the intelligence services.\n\nAnd they suggest that despite early doubts among the security services about him, they eased over time and by the time he left his post, they had good relations.\n\nBut behind the scenes a row had been taking place about whether Mr Johnson would have access to all the intelligence produced by the UK's spies, according to a number of sources, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject.\n\nThe prime minister has overall responsibility for intelligence and security matters, but day-to-day ministerial responsibility and accountability for MI6 and GCHQ sit with the foreign secretary.\n\nHowever, Number 10 did not want Mr Johnson to be shown a category of sensitive secret intelligence after he was appointed in July 2016, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of events, none of whom is involved in the leadership campaign or politics.\n\nOne person said Mr Johnson was aware of the decision at the time and was \"very unhappy\".\n\nMr Johnson visited MI6's Vauxhall Cross HQ soon after becoming foreign secretary in 2016\n\nOne individual aware of events at the time attributed the attempt primarily to \"control freakery\" by Number 10, rather than a lack of trust in Mr Johnson's ability to keep secrets.\n\nOthers have told the BBC it was a \"combination of everyone's faults\", citing nervousness over Mr Johnson's lack of discipline and hostility between him and Theresa May.\n\nThe move may also have reflected an institutional shift in which Number 10 has increasingly taken central control of national security, including intelligence.\n\nThe prime minister and security officials around her have the ability to designate who is allowed to read certain parts of the most classified intelligence.\n\nWhoever becomes PM will take on overall responsibility for security matters from Mrs May\n\nLists of who receives intelligence are occasionally \"pruned\" to ensure security is maintained by limiting the numbers with access.\n\nBut one individual with knowledge of events says that while they were aware of junior Foreign Office ministers previously not being shown certain specific streams of intelligence, it would be \"unprecedented\" if this was to apply to the foreign secretary.\n\nIt is not clear if Jeremy Hunt, on being appointed foreign secretary in July 2018, was provided complete access and a Foreign Office spokesperson said it did not comment on intelligence matters.\n\nSenior intelligence officials were concerned by the decision at the time, the BBC understands.\n\nOne source says they took legal advice as to whether they could sustain a position in which the foreign secretary was responsible for operations for which he was not shown the intelligence \"product\".\n\nThis is because the foreign secretary signs authorisations for intelligence-gathering operations.\n\nThey do this by judging the proportionality of an operation based on balancing the risks and rewards.\n\nBut this, it was feared, would be hard to do without having access to the intelligence that was produced.\n\nIn the end a compromise was agreed in which Mr Johnson would technically have the right to see intelligence although it is not clear if he was shown all intelligence as a matter of course, one source said.", "Caoimhin Cassidy Crossan's body was found inside a burning car in Londonderry last month\n\nThe family of an 18-year-old whose body was found inside a burning car have said they are angry that his \"so-called friends\" have not come forward with information about his death.\n\nCaoimhin Cassidy Crossan died in Londonderry on 1 June after the vehicle crashed into a lamp post.\n\nHis great-uncle, Charles Tierney, said those who attended the funeral have not helped with the police investigation.\n\n\"They haven't come forward, they aren't friends,\" Mr Tierney said.\n\n\"If they had a conscience, they will come forward.\n\n\"We don't want young people to go to prison. We just want to know what happened.\"\n\nA post mortem examination revealed Mr Cassidy had not been seriously injured in the crash and died after the car caught fire on Fairview Road.\n\nThe police said the car, a Mazda 6, was stolen from a house in Oakfield Crescent earlier in the day.\n\nMr Tierney said people who have been posting on social media the names of people who they believe were involved are \"disrupting the investigation\".\n\n\"If people think they know who is involved, just come forward.\"\n\nThe teenager's body was found inside this car in the Galliagh area of Derry\n\nDet Insp Michael Winters said police believed Mr Cassidy was not travelling alone in the vehicle.\n\n\"We've received a report of two males running away from where the vehicle came to a final halt,\" he said.\n\n\"We've also been made aware of sightings of a male, possibly injured, walking on the Buncrana Road, past the Skeoge Link Road, towards the border a short time later.\n\n\"If you can cast your mind back and remember anything about Caoimhin's movements, or the red Mazda 6 car, please get in touch.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nAn Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released.\n\nBritish Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nA court in Gibraltar has ruled the ship can be detained for a further 14 days.\n\nIran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to complain about what it said was a \"form of piracy\".\n\nMohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies \"without hesitation\".\n\nMr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: \"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help detain Grace 1 and its cargo.\n\nGibraltar said there was reason to believe the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous.\n\nThe territory was initially able to detain the ship for 72-hours, but Gibraltar's Supreme Court granted a 14-day extension on Friday.\n\nIran's Foreign Ministry condemned the initial seizure of the vessel as illegal and accused the UK of acting at the behest of the United States.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office dismissed claims of piracy as \"nonsense\".\n\nSpain's Acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said, on Thursday, Spain - which disputes British ownership of Gibraltar - was studying the circumstances of the action, but said it followed \"a demand from the US to the UK\".\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said, while Britain has been keen to suggest it was an operation led by the Gibraltar government, it appears the intelligence came from the US.\n\nIran's threat to retaliate against the impounding of its super-tanker is an indication of how hurt Tehran is by the UK's action.\n\nIn the eight years of war in Syria this appears to be the first time Iran's supply of oil to its ally has been interrupted, even though EU sanctions have existed for almost the whole duration.\n\nThe episode also reflects worsening relations between Iran and the UK over a range of issues - particularly the continued imprisonment of British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe tanker and its cargo are probably worth more than $200m (£160m).\n\nIran is looking for ways to respond to what it sees as illegal and an act of piracy. It has the capability to take over a British ship in the Gulf and would see such a move as proportionate.\n\nOn Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker said the seizure of tanker was proof the UK \"lacks honour\" and takes orders from the US.\n\nMostafa Kavakebian, who leads the Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, tweeted that the seizure was \"a form of piracy and illegal hostility towards Iran\".\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have been exacerbated by the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nWhite House national security advisor John Bolton said the seizure was \"excellent news\". He added that the US and its allies would continue to prevent regimes in Tehran and Damascus from \"profiting off this illicit trade\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the swift action would deny valuable resources to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's \"murderous regime\".\n\nThe Baniyas Refinery, where the Iranian tanker was believed to be taking the oil, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products - a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nThis latest row comes at a time of escalating tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration - which has pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme - has reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nIts European allies, including the UK, have not followed suit.\n\nNonetheless, there have been growing tensions between the UK and Iran too, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe UK has also been pressing Iran to release British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A senior police officer who led the investigation into the biggest modern day slavery network in the UK has appealed to the public to help \"spot the signs\" of someone being held as a slave.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nick Dale spent four years leading the inquiry into the gang who tricked vulnerable people from Poland into travelling to the UK with the promise of work and a better life.\n\nPolice believe more than 400 victims were made to work for little or no pay and held in squalid conditions.\n\nEight traffickers, who police say are members and associates of two Polish crime families, have been jailed during two trials which can only now be reported after a judge lifted an order banning reporting.", "Young previously presented Crimewatch on BBC One from 2008-2015.\n\nKirsty Young is stepping down as the host of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nShe has presented the long-running show since 2006 and has interviewed hundreds of guests including Annie Lennox, Morrissey and David Tennant.\n\nLast year, Young took a break from hosting Desert Island Discs because she has a form of fibromyalgia.\n\nThe BBC said 6 Music's Lauren Laverne, who was drafted in as cover, will continue \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nYoung has presented 496 episodes of the programme as well as fronting its 70th and 75th anniversary celebrations.\n\nHaving hundreds of Castaways share their triumphs, tragedies, tribulations and tracks with me over the years was a huge privilege and an education\n\nShe called her tenure \"12 incredibly happy and fulfilling years\".\n\n\"Having been forced to take some months away from my favourite job because of health problems,\" she added, \"I'm happy to say I'm now well on the way to feeling much better.\n\n\"But that enforced absence from the show has altered my perspective on what I should do next and so I've decided it's time to pursue new challenges.\"\n\nFibromyalgia is a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body and can bring on severe fatigue. Lady Gaga also has the condition.\n\nYoung said she wished Laverne \"all the very best\".\n\nLaverne said: \"Stepping in for Kirsty on Desert Island Discs (which was already my favourite programme) has been an enormous honour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lauren Laverne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Caitlin Moran This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Her intuitive interviewing style as well as her warmth and humour has helped bring out incredible life stories and anecdotes from her castaways.\"\n\nOutside of Desert Island Discs, Young is best known as one of the original newsreaders on Channel 5 which she presented from its launch in 1997 until 2007.\n\nShe has also presented episodes of Have I Got News For You and the BBC's coverage of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth meets Uighur parents in Turkey who say their children are missing in China\n\nChina is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research.\n\nAt the same time as hundreds of thousands of adults are being detained in giant camps, a rapid, large-scale campaign to build boarding schools is under way.\n\nBased on publicly available documents, and backed up by dozens of interviews with family members overseas, the BBC has gathered some of the most comprehensive evidence to date about what is happening to children in the region.\n\nRecords show that in one township alone more than 400 children have lost not just one but both parents to some form of internment, either in the camps or in prison.\n\nFormal assessments are carried out to determine whether the children are in need of \"centralised care\".\n\nAlongside the efforts to transform the identity of Xinjiang's adults, the evidence points to a parallel campaign to systematically remove children from their roots.\n\nThe Hotan Kindness Kindergarten, like many others, is a high security facility\n\nChina's tight surveillance and control in Xinjiang, where foreign journalists are followed 24 hours a day, make it impossible to gather testimony there. But it can be found in Turkey.\n\nIn a large hall in Istanbul, dozens of people queue to tell their stories, many of them clutching photographs of children, all now missing back home in Xinjiang.\n\n\"I don't know who is looking after them,\" one mother says, pointing to a picture of her three young daughters, \"there is no contact at all.\"\n\nAnother mother, holding a photo of three sons and a daughter, wipes away her tears. \"I heard that they've been taken to an orphanage,\" she says.\n\nIn 60 separate interviews, in wave after wave of anxious, grief-ridden testimony, parents and other relatives give details of the disappearance in Xinjiang of more than 100 children.\n\nThey are all Uighurs - members of Xinjiang's largest, predominantly Muslim ethnic group that has long had ties of language and faith to Turkey. Thousands have come to study or to do business, to visit family, or to escape China's birth control limits and the increasing religious repression.\n\nBut over the past three years, they have found themselves trapped after China began detaining hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities in giant camps.\n\nThe Chinese authorities say the Uighurs are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" in order to combat violent religious extremism. But evidence shows that many are being detained for simply expressing their faith - praying or wearing a veil - or for having overseas connections to places like Turkey.\n\nFor these Uighurs, going back means almost certain detention. Phone contact has been severed - even speaking to relatives overseas is now too dangerous for those in Xinjiang.\n\nWith his wife detained back home, one father tells me he fears some of his eight children may now be in the care of the Chinese state.\n\n\"I think they've been taken to child education camps,\" he says.\n\nNew research commissioned by the BBC sheds light on what is really happening to these children and many thousands of others.\n\nDr Adrian Zenz is a German researcher widely credited with exposing the full extent of China's mass detentions of adult Muslims in Xinjiang. Based on publicly available official documents, his report paints a picture of an unprecedented school expansion drive in Xinjiang.\n\nCampuses have been enlarged, new dormitories built and capacity increased on a massive scale. Significantly, the state has been growing its ability to care full-time for large numbers of children at precisely the same time as it has been building the detention camps.\n\nAnd it appears to be targeted at precisely the same ethnic groups.\n\nIn just one year, 2017, the total number of children enrolled in kindergartens in Xinjiang increased by more than half a million. And Uighur and other Muslim minority children, government figures show, made up more than 90% of that increase.\n\nAs a result, Xinjiang's pre-school enrolment level has gone from below the national average to the highest in China by far.\n\nIn the south of Xinjiang alone, an area with the highest concentration of Uighur populations, the authorities have spent an eye watering $1.2bn on the building and upgrading of kindergartens.\n\nMr Zenz's analysis suggests that this construction boom has included the addition of large amounts of dormitory space.\n\nXinhe County Youyi Kindergarten has space for 700 children, 80% of whom are from Xinjiang's minority groups\n\nXinjiang's education expansion is driven, it appears, by the same ethos as underlies the mass incarceration of adults. And it is clearly affecting almost all Uighur and other minority children, whether their parents are in the camps or not.\n\nIn 2018 work began on a site for two new boarding schools in Xinjiang's southern city of Yecheng (known as Kargilik in Uighur).\n\nDragging the slider reveals the pace of construction - the two middle schools, separated by a shared sports field, are each three times larger than the national average and were built in little more than a year.\n\nIn April last year, the county authorities relocated 2,000 children from the surrounding villages into yet another giant boarding middle school, Yecheng County Number 4.\n\nGovernment propaganda extols the virtues of boarding schools as helping to \"maintain social stability and peace\" with the \"school taking the place of the parents.\" And Mr Zenz suggests there is a deeper purpose.\n\n\"Boarding schools provide the ideal context for a sustained cultural re-engineering of minority societies,\" he argues.\n\nJust as with the camps, his research shows that there is now a concerted drive to all but eliminate the use of Uighur and other local languages from school premises. Individual school regulations outline strict, points-based punishments for both students and teachers if they speak anything other than Chinese while in school.\n\nAnd this aligns with other official statements claiming that Xinjiang has already achieved full Chinese language teaching in all of its schools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Xu Guixiang, a senior official with Xinjiang's Propaganda Department, denies that the state is having to care for large numbers of children left parentless as a result.\n\n\"If all family members have been sent to vocational training then that family must have a severe problem,\" he says, laughing. \"I've never seen such a case.\"\n\nBut perhaps the most significant part of Mr Zenz's work is his evidence that shows that the children of detainees are indeed being channelled into the boarding school system in large numbers.\n\nThere are the detailed forms used by local authorities to log the situations of children with parents in vocational training or in prison, and to determine whether they need centralised care.\n\nMr Zenz found one government document that details various subsidies available to \"needy groups\", including those families where \"both a husband and a wife are in vocational training\". And a directive issued to education bureaus by the city of Kashgar that mandates them to look after the needs of students with parents in the camps as a matter of urgency.\n\nSchools should \"strengthen psychological counselling\", the directive says, and \"strengthen students' thought education\" - a phrase that finds echoes in the camps holding their parents.\n\nIt is clear that the effect of the mass internments on children is now viewed as a significant societal issue, and that some effort is going into dealing with it, although it is not something the authorities are keen to publicise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China\n\nSome of the relevant government documents appear to have been deliberately hidden from search engines by using obscure symbols in place of the term \"vocational training\". That said, in some instances the adult detention camps have kindergartens built close by, and, when visiting, Chinese state media reporters have extolled their virtues.\n\nThese boarding schools, they say, allow minority children to learn \"better life habits\" and better personal hygiene than they would at home. Some children have begun referring to their teachers as \"mummy\".\n\nWe telephoned a number of local Education Bureaus in Xinjiang to try to find out about the official policy in such cases. Most refused to speak to us, but some gave brief insights into the system.\n\nWe asked one official what happens to the children of those parents who have been taken to the camps.\n\n\"They're in boarding schools,\" she replied. \"We provide accommodation, food and clothes… and we've been told by the senior level that we must look after them well.\"\n\nIn the hall in Istanbul, as the stories of broken families come tumbling out, there is raw despair and deep resentment too.\n\n\"Thousands of innocent children are being separated from their parents and we are giving our testimonies constantly,\" one mother tells me. \"Why does the world keep silent when knowing these facts?\"\n\nBack in Xinjiang, the research shows that all children now find themselves in schools that are secured with \"hard isolation closed management measures.\" Many of the schools bristle with full-coverage surveillance systems, perimeter alarms and 10,000 Volt electric fences, with some school security spending surpassing that of the camps.\n\nThe policy was issued in early 2017, at a time when the detentions began to be dramatically stepped up. Was the state, Mr Zenz wonders, seeking to pre-empt any possibility on the part of Uighur parents to forcibly recover their children?\n\n\"I think the evidence for systematically keeping parents and children apart is a clear indication that Xinjiang's government is attempting to raise a new generation cut off from original roots, religious beliefs and their own language,\" he tells me.\n\n\"I believe the evidence points to what we must call cultural genocide.\"", "President Donald Trump has praised the US military in a speech at an Independence Day event in Washington DC.\n\nThe Salute to America event featured military flyovers and fireworks, drawing crowds despite the rainy weather.\n\nOpponents accused Mr Trump of wasting money and politicising the holiday ahead of his re-election campaign.", "Many of Owain Thomas's victims were aged under 13\n\nAn aspiring barrister who used online gaming accounts to befriend children and incite them to commit sexual acts on camera has been jailed.\n\nOwain Thomas, 29, of Pontypridd, used nine Facebook profiles and three gaming accounts, persuading some of his 146 victims with gaming credits.\n\nHe was arrested after he asked a group of young boys aged between seven and 14 to expose themselves at a playground.\n\nHe was jailed for 10 years at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday.\n\nJudge Richard Twomlow said he will serve an extra five years on extended licence and described him as \"persistent\" and \"a significant risk to the public\".\n\nHe pleaded guilty to what police described as an \"unprecedented\" 158 child sex charges at an earlier hearing.\n\nThe charges included causing or inciting children to engage in sexual activity, and watching sexual activity, possessing indecent photographs and distributing indecent photographs.\n\nThe court previously heard the Aberystwyth University law graduate used software to adopt the persona of children and pretended to be girls or boys as young as eight in order to incite others into sexual activity.\n\nHe created fake profiles on popular online games such as Roblox, an online multiplayer game, which has 90 million users worldwide and is marketed at children.\n\nThomas would then share footage he had recorded with other paedophiles.\n\nOwain Thomas’ silver Fiat Tipo was captured on CCTV approaching the boys in a Rhondda town\n\nHe was finally caught after the young boys he targeted at a playground in a small town in Rhondda Cynon Taff told their parents, who then informed police.\n\nAfter tracing him on CCTV, South Wales Police seized Thomas's laptops and devices from his home, and he told an officer: \"That's the one I didn't want you to find\".\n\nHis victims - many of them aged under 13 and some as young as nine - were found to be from south Wales, west Yorkshire, south Yorkshire, Northern Ireland, Lancashire and the USA.\n\nSentencing Thomas, Judge Twomlow told him: \"This may have been through a screen but this was a very real experience for your victims.\n\n\"You went as far as you could persuade these children to go. You had multiple identities including pretending to be a nine-year-old girl.\n\n\"An occurring theme in this case is your persistence. If you couldn't convince them, you would return and try again.\n\n\"Because of the sheer volume and scale of your offences I have no doubt that you are a significant risk to the public and pose a real risk. You are a dangerous offender.\"\n\nDet Insp Lianne Rees said some parents felt they had \"failed as a parent\"\n\nRoblox was launched in 2006 and is a platform which allows users to create their own online games using a design tool.\n\nAccording to the company's website, its most popular games have hundreds of thousands of players a day.\n\nIt claims that its popularity among users aged eight and upwards has \"exploded\", and that it is \"now one of the top online entertainment platforms for kids and teens\".\n\nPlayers can comment on the games while playing them, and also chat with others.\n\nRoblox said it \"doesn't support video or voice chat, and it has extensive chat filters\".\n\nDet Insp Lianne Rees said many of the parents \"had no idea\" their children were even accessing some of the social media or gaming sites.\n\n\"A lot of the parents expressed quite a lot of guilt. Some even said they felt they failed as a parent to safeguard their child,\" she added.\n\nNSPCC Cymru said the \"appalling\" case shows \"once again the grave and increasing dangers that children face online and highlights the need for urgent action\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have arrested a man on suspicion of assault\n\nFour people were injured - two seriously - when a van hit a group of people queuing to use a food bank.\n\nPolice said the crash involving \"a number of people\" happened at Kirk Hallam Community Centre in Derbyshire at 09:00 BST.\n\nThree people were taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham and one person to hospital in Ilkeston.\n\nA 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nMelissa Gamble was in the queue when the van hit the people\n\nMelissa Gamble, who was in the queue, said: \"I don't know whether I got pushed by people or hit by the van, I'm not really sure.\n\n\"A friend was in front of me, she was bleeding from her ear. I was on the floor still, I felt a bit breathless. I'm still shook up, still shaky.\"\n\nAnother eyewitness Michelle Biggs, from Ilkeston, said: \"It was horrendous, it all happened so fast.\n\n\"I just saw the white van speeding up the hill and I ran to my three-year-old, who was playing, and grabbed him.\"\n\nOn its Facebook page, the community centre said people were queuing to use a food bank at the time of the crash.\n\nDet Sgt Scott Riley said: \"There could be numerous reasons for this, and we ask anybody in the local area if they've got information for us.\"\n\nThree of those hurt were taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for treatment\n\nOfficers confirmed the crash was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who was held as a modern day slave by an organised crime gang has described his life living in squalor and fear.\n\nMiroslaw Lehmann, 38, spoke publicly of his experiences after eight traffickers were jailed during two trials which can only now be made public after a judge lifted an order banning reporting.\n\nPolice believe there were more than 400 victims put to work by the gang in the West Midlands. They were made to live in rat-infested houses for little or no pay.\n\nThe network, described as the UK's largest, was exposed after two victims fled their captors in 2015 and told slavery charity Hope for Justice of their ordeal.", "Mr Johnson raised eyebrows by flattening a Japanese schoolboy in a game of rugby last year\n\nNewspapers and politicians around the world have been reacting to Boris Johnson's appointment as UK foreign secretary.\n\nMany were surprised, citing his history of faux pas including insulting the president of Turkey and commenting on the US president's ancestry.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a radio interview Mr Johnson was a liar with \"his back against the wall\".\n\nOne EU source told the BBC: \"Everyone in the European Parliament thinks it's a bad joke and that the Brits have lost it.\"\n\nHere we take a look at the response in countries where Mr Johnson will now represent the UK.\n\nThe Washington Post publishes a round-up of \"undiplomatic\" things Mr Johnson has said during his time in public life.\n\n\"To be sure, Johnson is an unusual candidate for the job. The former journalist is known for his deliberately provocative manner, ruffled appearance and penchant for sometimes-insulting commentary,\" it says.\n\nIt reminds its readers that just two months ago, \"a poem he concocted about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sexual congress with a goat won the first-place prize in a contest sponsored by Spectator magazine.\"\n\nWashington Post writer Ishaan Tharoor also writes that Mr Johnson \"has controversially bucked the Western trend and praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for battling the Islamic State, no matter its parallel campaign of violence on Syria's civilian population\".\n\n\"A Short History of Boris Johnson Insulting Foreign Leaders\" is how the website of American culture and politics magazine, The Atlantic, reports the story of Mr Johnson's comeback.\n\n\"The brash and flamboyant politician, the UK's new foreign secretary, is one of the more cosmopolitan figures on the world stage - but he's also one of the least diplomatic,\" it says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Toner, US state department spokesman: \"We look forward to engaging with Boris Johnson\"\n\nApparently stifling a laugh on hearing the news of Mr Johnson's new job, state department spokesman Mark Toner said the US would always work with the UK because of the \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\n\"This is a relationship that goes beyond personalities and it is an absolutely critical moment in England's history but also in the US-UK relationship,\" he says.\n\nIn comments to Europe 1 radio, Mr Ayrault said: \"I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but... during the [referendum] campaign he lied a lot to the British people and now it is he who has his back against the wall.\"\n\nNewspaper Le Figaro says Mr Johnson \"gives the impression of being guided by opportunism\".\n\nThe newspaper says the UK's new foreign secretary's political career has seen him change his mind on gay marriage and on Turkey joining the EU.\n\nPierre Jova writes in the paper: \"Although, he has a 'clown' image which delighted the tabloids with his antics and punchy statements, he was a comrade of David Cameron at Eton and Oxford and is a pure product of the British conservative aristocracy raised to govern.\"\n\nRalf Stegner, deputy leader of the SPD party, said: \"[Prime Minister Theresa] May seems to be weaker through making such an appointment.\" He said Mr Johnson had hardly demonstrated that he was an outstanding diplomat. \"Now he is negotiating Brexit. Have a nice trip.\"\n\nGreen Party leader Simone Peter said it was \"not a good signal\" if Mr Johnson \"inflicted his capricious and monstrous approach\" on Europe.\n\nDer Spiegel took an editorial line against Brexit and published a \"Please don't go\" issue aimed at the UK in the run-up to its EU referendum.\n\nThe news magazine (in German) calls Mr Johnson a \"controversial politician\" and notes that his decision to support a Leave vote was a deciding factor in the referendum campaign, which Leave won with 52% of the vote.\n\nOne of its columnists, Jakob Augstein, commented: \"Haha! Boris Johnson as foreign minister. I can't stop laughing. The Brits are crazy.\"\n\nThe German journalist Laura Schneider points to a certain amount of mirth on television as presenters announce Mr Johnson's new role.\n\nUnder the headline: \"Why the disloyal jack of all trades is not the absurd choice\", Die Welt thinks it knows why Mrs May appointed him.\n\n\"He described Hillary Clinton as a \"sadistic nurse\", compared the EU with Hitler. And now Boris Johnson is the British foreign secretary. But the new prime minister is pursuing a plan… she [Mrs May] incapacitated her anti-EU critics by making them accountable. Now Brexit advocates must ensure that the exit succeeds,\" it says.\n\nThe deputy editor of Germany's biggest tabloid, Bild, Nikolaus Blome, tweeted: \"There's justice after all. As foreign minister, Boris Johnson, now has to lie in the bed he made himself.\"\n\nThe head of the Russian State Duma's foreign affairs committee, Aleksey Pushkov, tweets that Mr Johnson's predecessor, Philip Hammond, has \"painful anti-Russian complexes\" that he hopes Mr Johnson does not share.\n\nMr Hammond said last year that Russia had the potential to be \"the single greatest threat\" to UK security and that President Vladimir Putin was \"bent not on joining the international rules-based system which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it\".\n\nThe Russian news website ria.ru calls Mr Johnson \"one of the most eccentric politicians in the UK\" and says he \"knows how to surprise\".\n\nA Turkish official suggested Ankara would draw a line under Mr Johnson's previous remarks.\n\n\"His negative comments on Erdogan and Turkey are unacceptable... However we're sure of one thing, that British-Turkish relations are more important than that and can't be hostage to these statements,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Johnson's appointment, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the former London mayor had made an \"unfortunate statement\" when he used Turkey's accession to the EU negatively in the referendum.\n\nAsked what he would like to say to Mr Johnson, he said: \"May God help him and reform him.\"\n\nThe pro-government Daily Sabah described the new foreign secretary (who has Turkish ancestry) as being \"anti-Turkey\" and said he had \"sympathy for the PKK\".\n\nPro-government newspaper commentator Selim Atalay sent a tweet to Johnson saying: \"Dear @BorisJohnson I understand you need well-versed apologies in Turkish. I can help you with that. PS: Turkish roots-card won't work. Cheers.\"\n\nSydney Morning Herald foreign editor Maher Mughrabi writes that Boris Johnson has been \"removed from Conservative Party plotting at Westminster and allowed to get on with being a travelling circus\". The rest of the world, he says, can rely on Mr Johnson to \"confidently lecture people of many nations on their own histories and cultures\".\n\nThe former prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, tweets that he wishes the appointment were a joke.\n\nMEP Fredrick Federley tweeted: \"Trump, Brexit, Pokemon Go, Boris Johnson. Oh lord, what horrors will you bring us tomorrow?\"\n\nCzech MEP Pavel Telicka tweeted: \"People say PM May does not have a sense of humour. By appointing B Johnson she proved the opposite.\"\n\nFinancial news website kurzy.cz describes the appointment of Mr Johnson as \"at the very least questionable and very surprising. She has appointed to the post of foreign minister one of the leaders of Brexit, former London mayor Boris Johnson, who is famous, among other things, for his often extremely 'undiplomatic' conduct.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\n\"I lost my wife Carole, my three children Ryan, Kelly and Ruby and I also lost my mum-in-law. I feel so lonely. I look at people. I see them with their children playing outside and I cannot have my children - I'll never be able to see their faces again or hear their voices.\"\n\nPaul Njoroge lost his entire family when Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa on 10 March. 157 people died.\n\nPaul is now living between friends' houses, unable to return home. He can't bear to see his children's shoes still in the hall where they last left them. \"I can still see their feet inside them. I'm never going back.\" He's waiting for relatives to pack up the home.\n\nWhen ET302 crashed it was the second Boeing 737 Max to crash in four months.\n\nThe first happened in Indonesia in November 2018. Preliminary reports revealed that the same flight control system was at fault in both crashes. Now families around the world want to know why 157 people died in a second crash.\n\nThey are asking, why weren't the jets grounded after the first crash?\n\nPaul Njoroge's family were killed in the 737 Max 8 crash\n\nChris and Claryss Moore's daughter Danielle was also killed. One corner of their suburban Toronto home is now a bright but emotive shrine to their lost child. She smiles down from a dozen pictures on the wall, surrounded by orchids and lilies.\n\nDanielle was heading to a UN environmental conference in Kenya.\n\n\"This should not have happened, four months after another crash happened. They tell us this is one of the safest planes - it's not - it took away the lives of the people we love so much and no matter what they're going to say, our normal lives will never be the same.\n\nThis is our normal life, struggling to wake up every single day and that's hard. It makes me very angry.\"\n\nThe Moore family has created a shrine to Danielle\n\nAn international blame game is now under way. American Congressman Sam Graves alongside other voices in the US have blamed \"foreign pilots\" for the crash, saying they believe American pilots would have handled the jet.\n\nBut both preliminary reports have stated the flight control system (MCAS) as being at fault.\n\nFamilies of those killed are now lining up to ask whether the Boeing 737 Max was airworthy and safe when the crash happened.\n\n\"My family died because of Boeing's negligence, arrogance, management disfunction and lack of internal oversight and the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration),\" says Paul Njorogre.\n\n\"They had a chance to ground these planes in November and they didn't. Instead they focused on foreign pilot error fallacy. 157 people died including my family because of them making them poor decisions. If they really cared about human life and safety they would have grounded those planes in November and they would have fixed the problem. They allowed the planes to fly as they tried to fix the problem. They didn't fix it by 10th March.\"\n\nSamya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302\n\nNadia Milleron and her husband Michael Stumo live in Western Massachusetts, USA. It's peaceful.\n\nTheir family home is enveloped by forests and mountains. Their daughter Samya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302.\n\nShe is the second of the couple's four children to die. They also lost a son to cancer.\n\n\"It's been like a horrible dream,\" says Nadia. \"And I keep thinking all these people I'm meeting, going to Washington, all these experiences I'm having, they're awful because they mean Samya is gone. And I don't want that to be the case. I keep thinking I am going to wake up.\"\n\nNadia was listening to BBC World Service radio when reports first came in about the crash. She knew Samya was on board. She'd had a Whatsapp message from her only an hour earlier giving her flight information.\n\n\"I just started shaking, and I couldn't stop myself from physically shaking,\" she told me. \"I just couldn't tell the other people in the house.\"\n\nMichael Stumo (right) and Nadia Milleron, who believes their daughter died because Boeing put profit over safety\n\nWithin a month, Nadia and Michael turned their overwhelming sense of loss and grief into a remarkable force of energy.\n\nThey're now committed to finding out why Boeing didn't ground the planes after the first crash, whether Boeing cut corners in regards to safety of the 737 Max and why the FAA certified it as safe to fly.\n\nTo date, they've met more than 25 Congressmen and women in Washington, as well as being a powerful presence at US Government aviation hearings.\n\nThey've not been allowed to testify but they want to ensure families are included in how investigations develop.\n\nCritics are asking whether the development and launch of the Boeing 737 Max was rushed. They claim Boeing was losing out to a plane from Airbus and suggest corners were cut to get the Max into service.\n\n\"Definitely my daughter died because of the profit of Boeing and I don't want anyone else to die for that reason. I want these planes to be safe and [for Boeing to] invest in the company and the hardware and infrastructure to make our aviation industry safe,\" said Nadia.\n\nThe BBC approached Boeing for an interview and comment in regards to all of these allegations. They declined.\n\nIn a statement Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, said: \"We're sorry for the tragic loss of life in these accidents and extend our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of all those on board. Any loss of life on our airplanes is unacceptable, and this will continue to weigh heavily on our hearts for years to come. The safety of the flying public is our highest priority and we are focused on re-earning their trust and confidence in the months ahead.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Boeing announced they were offering $100m to \"family and community needs of those affected by the tragic accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"These funds will support education, hardship and living expenses for impacted families.\"\n\nThe families we've spoken to are not impressed. They don't want money. They want answers.\n\nChris Moore believes criminal charges should be brought. \"If there is any type of personal culpability they should be charged under criminal laws. If I cost someone's life on a building site I would have to prove myself in a criminal court as innocent, why are Boeing different?\"\n\nPaul Njoroge believes the crash of ET302 was preventable, \"but these individuals knew that they would not be held criminally liable, they would not face years in prison. But if they knew they'd face years in prison they would have grounded these planes in November.\"\n\nThe families of victims are all now searching for answers.\n\nSome are dealing with their grief in private, still too overwhelmed by what's happened.\n\nOthers have the power and resolve to speak out - and it's starting to prove uncomfortable for Boeing.", "Aibota Serik says her father has disappeared into China's network of detention centres\n\nThe Chinese government calls them free \"vocational training centres\"; Aibota Serik, a Chinese Kazakh whose father was sent to one, calls them prisons.\n\nHer father Kudaybergen Serik was a local imam in Tarbagatay (Tacheng) prefecture of China's western Xinjiang region. In February 2018 the police detained him and Aibota hasn't heard from her father since then.\n\n\"I don't know why my father was imprisoned. He didn't violate any laws of China, he was not tried in a court,\" she says, clutching a small photo of him, before breaking down in tears.\n\nI met Aibota together with a group of other Chinese Kazakhs in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city. They gathered in a small office to petition the Kazakh government to help secure the release of their relatives who had disappeared in \"political re-education camps\".\n\nThe UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has heard there are credible reports that around one million people have been detained in internment camps in Xinjiang. Almost all of them are from Muslim minorities such as the Uighurs, Kazakhs and others.\n\nThere are more than a million Kazakhs living in China. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, thousands moved to oil-rich Kazakhstan, encouraged by its policy to attract ethnic Kazakhs. Today, these people feel cut off from their relatives who stayed in China.\n\nNurbulat Tursunjan says the Chinese authorities have confiscated his parents' passports\n\nNurbulat Tursunjan uulu, who moved to the Almaty region in 2016, says his elderly parents are unable to leave China and come to Kazakhstan because the authorities took away their passports.\n\nAnother petitioner, Bekmurat Nusupkan uulu, says that relatives in China are afraid to talk on the phone or on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat. And they are right to be afraid, he says.\n\n\"My father-in-law visited me in February 2018. From my place, he called his son in China, he asked how he was and so on. Shortly after that his son Baurzhan was detained. He was told that he had received phone calls from Kazakhstan two or three times and was sent to a political camp.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch says detainees are held \"without any due process rights - neither charged nor put on trial - and have no access to lawyers and family\".\n\nChina insists its detention centres, such as this one in the city of Kashgar, are for \"vocational training\"\n\nOrynbek Koksybek is an ethnic Kazakh who spent several months in camps.\n\n\"I spent seven days of hell there,\" he says. \"My hands were handcuffed, my legs were tied. They threw me in a pit. I raised both my hands and looked above. At that moment, they poured water. I screamed.\n\n\"I don't remember what happened next. I don't know how long I was in the pit but it was winter and very cold. They said I was a traitor, that I had dual citizenship, that I had a debt and owned land.\"\n\nNone of that was true, he says.\n\nA week later Mr Koksybek was taken to a different place where he learnt Chinese songs and language. He was told he would leave if he learnt 3,000 words.\n\nOrynbek Koksybek says he was thrown into a pit\n\n\"In Chinese they call it re-education camps to teach people but if they wanted to educate, why do they handcuff people?\n\n\"They detain Kazakhs because they're Muslims. Why imprison them? China's aim is to turn Kazakhs into Chinese. They want to erase the whole ethnicity,\" he says.\n\nIt is not possible to independently verify Orynbek Koksybek's story, but his account is similar to many documented by Human Rights Watch and other activists.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has not replied to the BBC's request for comment, but the Chinese authorities have been quoted in state media as saying the camps are \"vocational training centres\", which aim to \"get rid of an environment that breeds terrorism and religious extremism\".\n\nThe Kazakh government says that any restrictions on Chinese citizens in China are their internal matter, and it does not interfere. However, Kazakhstan says it will try to assist any Kazakh citizens who are detained in China.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring has told a court he saw a school friend deliberately mown down by a car and killed.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, said after his friend was hit, Mr Beech, a child at the time, was bundled into a car and never saw the other boy again.\n\nHe told Newcastle Crown Court he had been too afraid to report what happened, not even telling his dog.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe is accused of inventing allegations that a group of powerful figures sexually abused and murdered three boys in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHis allegations led to a £2m Scotland Yard inquiry that ended without any arrests or charges.\n\nIn his second day giving evidence, Mr Beech told the jury former prime minister Sir Edward Heath, who died in 2005, had cuddled and comforted him in his yacht cabin when he was upset.\n\nHe also accused the late Leon Brittan of raping him over a bath, saying the former home secretary \"liked violence\" and seeing boys in pain.\n\nMr Beech went on to tell the court about the alleged murder, saying he had met a boy he knew \"by the name of Scott\" in the playground of his Kingston school, in south-west London, in the late 1970s.\n\nThe boy was \"quiet, like me, but friendly\" and the two became friends, meeting once or twice a week, he told the court.\n\nOne day he and Scott were walking side by side along the pavement in the Coombe Hill area of Kingston when he heard a loud \"engine noise\" behind him, the court heard.\n\n\"The car hit him - he went over the front of the car and into the road,\" Mr Beech said.\n\n\"I ran over to him. His leg was bent in a funny direction and there was blood on his head,\" Mr Beech told the court.\n\nHe then described being bundled into the back of the car, and trying to kick his way out.\n\n\"I remember something in my arm and I don't remember anything else after that,\" he added.\n\nMr Beech never saw Scott again, the court heard.\n\nAsked why he believed the alleged death happened, he said: \"I believe because of the threats that were issued that 'the group' was responsible.\" He describes the alleged VIP paedophile ring as \"the group\".\n\nHe said the late Sir Michael Hanley, a one-time head of MI5, threatened him that he \"wasn't to have friends\".\n\nHe said he could not tell anyone what had happened, adding: \"I didn't even say anything to my dog.\"\n\nJurors have previously heard Mr Beech claim that Sir Michael was involved in the abduction of his pet dog, Heron.\n\nWhen defence barrister Collingwood Thompson QC said it had been suggested the alleged hit and run was a figment of his imagination, Mr Beech said: \"I know what happened. I was there and I know it took place\".\n\nThe court has heard that two police forces found no evidence of such an incident ever taking place in the area and had traced and accounted for everyone called Scott from the school.\n\nThe court also heard allegations of two further murders Mr Beech claims to have witnessed.\n\nIn one, he described being taken to a London house in a chauffeur-driven car with another boy.\n\nHe told the court Harvey Proctor, the former Conservative MP, opened the front door.\n\nHe then claimed that Mr Proctor stabbed and strangled the boy to death. Mr Proctor told the court last month that Mr Beech's allegations against him were false, horrendous and \"an absurd fantasy\".\n\nMr Beech said he could not remember how the incident ended and never told anyone out of fear.\n\nHe said he later came to believe the allegedly murdered boy was Martin Allen, who went missing in London nearly 40 years ago.\n\nThe court has heard police investigated whether Martin was that boy after Mr Beech apparently identified him in a photo shown to him by a BBC reporter.\n\nMr Beech told jurors the third alleged death occurred when he and three boys were at an alleged London abuse session with Lord Brittan, Mr Proctor and Sir Michael Hanley.\n\nHe claimed Sir Michael told the boys one of them would die that night and they had to choose.\n\nThe defendant said sexual abuse followed before they singled out one boy. \"He was crying and they told him that he could save himself if he chose one of us instead.\"\n\nHe said the child refused to reply so they started hitting him. He claimed the boy ended up \"just like a doll - he wasn't moving, he was just left there\".\n\nIn his evidence, Mr Beech also described \"pool parties\" during which he claimed powerful men frolicked with boys, sometimes performing sexual acts in the water.\n\nHe also told jurors about alleged \"Christmas parties\", in which the boys were the \"present\" and would be \"unwrapped\" until they were naked.\n\nMr Beech said punishments were dished out by his abusers involving snakes and wasps.\n\nHe told the jury that on one occasion he was shut in a dark cupboard and a snake was thrown in, which bit him.", "Britain's oldest building firm, R Durtnell and Sons, has ceased trading, putting more than 100 jobs at risk.\n\nThe company was founded in 1591, and has been run by 13 generations of the same family.\n\nIt was working on a £22m project to refurbish parts of the Royal Pavilion Estate, when it failed.\n\nThe firm, based in Brasted in Kent, started building in the time of Elizabeth I and built timber-framed houses.\n\nThey started as carpenter-builders, who didn't build in brick or stone, but exclusively in wood.\n\nThe business built Poundsbridge Manor in Kent in 1593. It is still standing, and is a short distance from Brasted.\n\nThe timber-framed house was one of several built by family ancestor Bryan Darknal for Elizabethan merchants.\n\nThe family remained as carpenter-builders until the 1800s, when Richard Durtnell bought a much larger premises.\n\nHe set himself up as a general builder, and the business flourished.\n\nThe last family member to run the firm was Alex Durtnell.\n\nThe firm specialised in churches, private schools, art galleries and luxury houses.\n\nR Durtnell & Sons made a loss before tax of £679,877 in the year ended 31 December 2017, according to documents submitted to Companies House.\n\nIt said economic conditions had been \"very challenging\".\n\nThe documents show it took a charge of £648,279 on the closure of its joinery business, which had been substantially cut during the recession.\n\nThe firm had financial injection of £1.5m after cash flow difficulties in 2018.\n\nIt also warned about competitive pressures and risks in contract tendering and management.\n\nOne of the company's major projects was the refurbishment of the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, which was originally built as the Prince Regent's stable block more than 200 years ago.\n\nBrighton & Hove City Council said it was \"committed\" to the project, which included renovating the Studio Theatre.\n\n\"The council has taken back the site and made it secure,\" it said.\n\n\"We are committed to completing the refurbishment of these unique buildings to protect their long-term future in the cultural heart of the city.\"\n\nSince the recession of 2008, more than 7,000 British building firms have gone bust.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of inventing a VIP paedophile ring has said he lied about possessing indecent images of children.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is on trial over claims he was a victim of an alleged paedophile network made up of high-profile figures from politics, the military and intelligence agencies.\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, claims the group sexually abused and murdered three boys in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech's allegations led to a £2m Scotland Yard inquiry that ended without any arrests or charges.\n\nAmong the people he accused were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath and former home secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nWhen Northumbria Police raided Mr Beech's home, they found images of serious child sexual abuse on his computers, and that he had videoed a child urinating.\n\nHe was charged with five counts of making indecent images of children and one of voyeurism, and was due to appear in court last July.\n\nDuring his trial at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday, Mr Beech was asked why he initially denied the separate charges involving child abuse images, only to admit the offences when he was about to face an earlier trial.\n\nHe replied: \"Because I was totally ashamed of what I had done. I couldn't admit it to myself. I was in denial.\"\n\nThe court heard that while he was under investigation he went to Sweden, where he used different names.\n\nHe said he wanted to \"get away from Beech, especially after the press intrusion\", and one of the names he opted for was a family name.\n\nHowever, he could not explain why he also used another name, saying, \"I don't know what possessed me\".\n\nHe described his decision not to return to the UK to face a court hearing as \"a stupid mistake.\"\n\nHe was extradited from Sweden to Britain after he was found following a search by law enforcement agencies.\n\nHe also told the court he met Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson in 2014 or 2015, after the MP asked to see him following his allegations.\n\nDuring the trial, he refused to fully identify another alleged victim - a childhood friend he called John - who he said could corroborate his claims.\n\nHe told the court he would not reveal his surname because he did not have his permission to do so.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police attempted to contact John - who Mr Beech previously gave the pseudonym Fred - with Mr Beech agreeing to act as a go-between.\n\nOne of the charges Mr Beech faces relates to setting up a fake email account to pass on false information to the police allegedly from John.\n\nMr Beech said John considered coming forward but was concerned about how it would affect him, so never spoke to detectives. He said he has had no contact with John since September 2015.\n\nThe prosecution has claimed Mr Beech - identified in earlier media reports as \"Nick\" - is a fantasist.", "Port, now 44, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nNone of the officers investigated for potential misconduct in the initial response to serial killer Stephen Port in east London will be disciplined, the police watchdog has said.\n\nBut the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said its inquiry had identified \"systemic failings\" within the Metropolitan Police.\n\nNine officers will be required to improve their standards, it added.\n\nThe families of Port's victims have given an undertaking not to comment.\n\nA spokeswoman said this was a condition demanded by the IOPC when they handed the families the final report - which is not due to be published until after the inquests for Port's four young victims.\n\nA friend of one of the men, who repeatedly raised concerns with the police, said he was angry about the IOPC announcement.\n\nThere is currently no start date for the inquests - despite being ordered in November 2017.\n\nPort, 44, from Barking, was sentenced to a full life term in 2016 after being convicted of murdering four young men at his flat.\n\nOfficers investigating the deaths ignored or dismissed evidence linking them to Port.\n\nThe watchdog told the BBC: \"While we agreed none of the officers involved in these investigations may have breached professional standards justifying disciplinary proceedings, we will be making a number of recommendations to the Metropolitan Police to address some of the systemic failings our investigation identified.\n\n\"We have advised the families of Stephen Port's victims and the officers involved that the performance of nine officers fell below the standard required.\n\n\"They will now be required to improve their performance.\"\n\nA preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey heard the inquests would focus on the \"adequacy of the police investigation\".\n\nThe announcement means none of the 17 Met officers investigated have been referred for misconduct proceedings by the IOPC.\n\nThe Met made a referral to the watchdog in October 2015 after identifying concerns regarding the initial investigations into the men's deaths.\n\nTen officers were served with misconduct notices and a further seven with gross misconduct notices.\n\nMisconduct is when an officer fails to follow expected standards of professional behaviour. Gross misconduct is when a breach is so serious it could justify dismissal.\n\nThe IOPC inquiry related to the investigative work undertaken, how evidence was examined, and how similarities between the cases were considered.\n\nThe 17, ranging in rank from constable to inspector, were largely local officers from Barking and Dagenham. None worked on the later successful murder inquiry.\n\nLast year the BBC revealed that all but one of them gave 'no comment' interviews to the IOPC.\n\nHe met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat where they were drugged and raped.\n\nThe men were given fatal overdoses of date-rape drug GHB.\n\nEvidence heard at trial, and uncovered by a BBC investigation, showed there were a series of chances to catch Port sooner.\n\nAnthony Walgate (L) and Gabriel Kovari (R) were Port's first victims\n\nThe first victim, Anthony Walgate, was found outside Port's flat and the other three either in or next to a nearby churchyard.\n\nPort was jailed for his initial lies about the first death, but police accepted his subsequent excuses and did not treat the case as homicide.\n\nPolice did not examine a computer seized from Port, which would have revealed his interest in drugging and raping young men.\n\nWhile on bail, before being charged, Port killed twice more.\n\nPort falsely linked his second and third victims together to cover up his crimes.\n\nA fake suicide note found in Daniel Whitworth's hand, which had been written by Port, said he accidentally killed Gabriel Kovari and was taking his own life in response.\n\nIn fact, the two victims did not know one another.\n\nDaniel Whitworth (L) and Jack Taylor (R) were also killed by Port\n\nPolice accepted the note at face value and treated the deaths as non-suspicious, despite concerns raised by people close to both men.\n\nThe note was in Port's handwriting and bore traces of his DNA, as did items found with the bodies of Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth.\n\nDetectives did not trace the man referred to in the note as the \"guy I was with last night\", which would have led them to the killer.\n\nPort murdered Jack Taylor after serving a short prison sentence, but police did not treat the death as suspicious for several weeks, despite the urging of the Taylor family, who investigated the case themselves and realised the other deaths were linked.\n\nMr Kovari's former flatmate John Pape had earlier come to same conclusion about his friend, which he pointed out to the Met in a series of emails and during an inquest.\n\nPort used a fake Facebook profile to spread lies about the deaths, including in direct correspondence with Mr Kovari's ex-boyfriend, but police did not investigate the account despite it being sent to them.\n\nThe case was solved after being passed from local teams in Barking and Dagenham to specialist homicide detectives.\n\nSenior Met figures apologised to the families after the trial.\n\nWhen a judge, Lord Justice Holroydehe, quashed the original inquests findings for two of the victims, he said it seemed \"surprising that the initial police investigation revealed so little of the full picture and appears to have led quite quickly to a conclusion that there was no evidence of any crime having been committed by any person still living\".\n\nMr Pape said the IOPC announcement made his \"blood boil\".\n\nHe told the BBC it \"contrasted with the basic facts of that disturbingly incompetent initial investigation\", adding: \"Given the open goal they were given, it makes me wonder what the point of the IOPC is.\"\n\nMr Pape said he was \"not clamouring for individual officers to be harshly punished\" but was concerned about the consequences for the LGBTQ community and their families, of \"institutionalised incompetence and prejudice within an unaccountable police force\".\n\nHe added: \"The police mishandling of the Port murders echo their previous failings in other serial killings of young gay men.\n\n\"I want to know the Met recognise their failures and will finally learn from them.\"\n\nScotland Yard did not respond to a request for comment about the IOPC statement.", "A virus of the common cold infected and killed bladder cancer cells in the study\n\nA strain of the common cold virus can infect and kill bladder cancer cells, a small study suggests.\n\nAll signs of the disease disappeared in one patient, and in 14 others there was evidence that cancer cells had died.\n\nUniversity of Surrey researchers said the virus could \"help revolutionise treatment\" for the cancer and reduce the risk of it recurring.\n\nA bladder cancer charity called the study \"very exciting\" if larger studies confirmed the findings.\n\nNon-muscle invasive bladder is the 10th most common cancer in the UK, with around 10,000 new cases each year.\n\nCurrent treatments for this type of bladder cancer are invasive or can cause serious, toxic side effects.\n\nAnd constant, costly monitoring is needed to check that the cancer has not returned after treatment.\n\nIn this study, 15 patients with the disease were given the cancer-killing coxsackievirus (CVA21) through a catheter one week before surgery to remove their tumours.\n\nWhen tissues samples were analysed after surgery, there were signs the virus had targeted and killed cancer cells in the bladder.\n\nOnce these cells had died, the virus had then reproduced and infected other cancerous cells - but all other healthy cells were left intact.\n\nWhat the virus does is special, says study leader Prof Hardev Pandha, from the University of Surrey and Royal Surrey County Hospital.\n\n\"The virus gets inside cancer cells and kills them by triggering an immune protein - and that leads to signalling of other immune cells to come and join the party,\" he said.\n\nNo side effects were found in patients treated with the virus via a catheter to the bladder\n\nNormally, the tumours in the bladder are \"cold\" because they do not have immune cells to fight off the cancer.\n\nBut the actions of the virus turn them \"hot\", making the body's immune system react.\n\nProf Pandha said the same virus had also been tested on skin cancer, but this was the first time it had been studied in a clinical trial on bladder cancer.\n\n\"Reduction of tumour burden and increased cancer cell death was observed in all patients, and removed all trace of the disease in one patient following just one week of treatment, showing its potential effectiveness,\" he said.\n\n\"Notably, no significant side effects were observed in any patient.\"\n\nThe plan is now to use the common cold virus with a targeted immunotherapy drug treatment, called a checkpoint inhibitor, in a future trial in more patients.\n\nDr Nicola Annels, research fellow at the University of Surrey, said viruses like the coxsackievirus \"could signal a move away from more established treatments such as chemotherapy\".\n\nAllen Knight, chairman of Action Bladder Cancer UK, said the study findings were \"very exciting\".\n\nBladder cancer costs the NHS more per patient than nearly every other cancer, because of the high recurrence rate, he said.\n\n\"If the safety, tolerability, and efficacy data can be confirmed in larger clinical studies and trials, then it could herald a new era in the treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients, like me, who often feel that innovations in cancer therapies pass us by.\"\n\nDr Mark Linch, a bladder cancer expert at the Cancer Research UK Cancer Institute at University College London, said the initial results were \"encouraging\".\n\n\"It will be really interesting to see how this new virus-based therapy fares in larger trials in people with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, particularly in combination with newer immunotherapies,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monkstown is one of the most deprived areas in County Antrim.\n\nThe number of people with a degree or higher qualification is 8.4% lower than the Northern Ireland average.\n\nBut a local boxing club is helping young people fight back against the statistics.\n\nMonkstown Boxing Club received almost £600,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund for their #INYOURCORNER project.\n\nThe five-year project is designed to improve the health, well-being and increase the employability of young people in the area.\n\nREAD MORE: Find out how to get into boxing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang.\n\nAuthorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for the people inside it.\n\nOur World: Inside China's Camps can be seen on BBC World News at varying times during the week from Saturday 13 July 2019.", "Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister, was already one of the UK's most recognisable politicians.\n\nHis high profile - built up as an MP, London mayor and foreign secretary - has often seen his achievements accompanied by controversy.\n\nAs editor of the Spectator magazine and a Have I Got News For You contestant, Boris Johnson was already well known for his shambolic persona.\n\nIn 2001, he became an MP, replacing Michael Heseltine in the safe Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames.\n\nHe was considered more liberal than many Tories. As a journalist, he had questioned the repeal of laws banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities. But as an MP, he changed tack and said the state should not interfere in people's lives. He also voted in favour of civil partnerships.\n\nBoris Johnson during one of his Have I Got News For You appearances, in 2004\n\nIn October 2004, then Conservative leader Michael Howard ordered him to visit Liverpool to apologise for a Spectator article accusing its residents of wallowing in \"disproportionate\" grief after Ken Bigley - an engineer from the city - was kidnapped and killed in Iraq.\n\nAnd the following month, he was sacked as shadow arts minister, amid claims he had misled Mr Howard about reports of an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nNevertheless, a year later, he was on the rise again - resigning from his Spectator post when new Tory leader David Cameron made him shadow higher education minister.\n\nHowever, he continued to write for the Telegraph and had to make another apology - to a whole country - after he linked Papua New Guinea to \"cannibalism and chief-killing\" in a column.\n\nBy 2007, the Henley MP had his sights set on one of the biggest jobs in UK politics.\n\nTaking over from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008, Boris Johnson remained London mayor until 2016. It is the longest continuous period of public office that he has held.\n\nHe's often spoken of what he considers to be his biggest achievements during that period: on crime, housing and transport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Back Boris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe homicide rate in London - which includes murder and manslaughter - fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people during his time as mayor. However, it was also falling during his predecessor's second term.\n\nAnd in the first few years after Mr Johnson took over, knife crime rose by over 15% - although from 2012-13 onwards it started to fall.\n\nMr Johnson had backed the police use of stop-and-search powers to tackle violent crime. And he said he would ensure police numbers would go up despite central government cuts.\n\nHome Office figures show police numbers in London rose slightly, from 31,460 to 32,125, between March 2008 and March 2016. Across England and Wales in that period the number of officers fell by 17,603.\n\nThere was an increase in the number of affordable homes built - 101,525 by the end of March 2016, of which the Greater London Authority contributed to 94,001. This was a rise compared with the two terms of Mr Livingstone, although the definition of affordable housing had changed in 2011 so the figures are not directly comparable.\n\nHe scrapped the so-called bendy buses - which he said were too big for narrow streets and encouraged fare-dodgers.\n\nIn their place, he introduced a new version of the popular Routemaster London bus - a move that was criticised as a vanity project. There were complaints about non-opening windows and problems with the hybrid engines. They also cost considerably more than a normal bus.\n\nOne of his most famous transport initiatives was the so-called \"Boris Bike\" cycle scheme, introduced in July 2010.\n\nMr Johnson regularly promoted the hire bikes by riding them himself and the number of rentals reached more than 10.3 million during his last year as mayor.\n\nHowever, critics pointed to the £11m-a-year cost of keeping the bikes on the road. Others pointed out that plans for a bike hire scheme had been announced while Mr Livingstone had been mayor.\n\nAs mayor, Mr Johnson became involved in overseeing arrangements for the 2012 Olympics, planning for which started after they were awarded to London in 2005.\n\nOne of the most memorable moments was when he got stuck on a zip wire, while celebrating the UK's first gold medal win. The Olympics were widely seen as a success and there were claims that they had provided a major economic boost.\n\nBut there were also questions raised about the Olympics' legacy, including criticism of the conversion of the Olympic Stadium into a football ground. In 2017, an independent review said the conversion had cost £323m - far more than the original estimate of £190m.\n\nThe latter part of his time as mayor saw a plan to build a garden bridge over the River Thames as a memorial to Princess Diana.\n\nThe pedestrian-only bridge, with trees and plants, which was first suggested by the actress Joanna Lumley in 1998, was to be funded by private and public money.\n\nBut it was cancelled in 2017, after a review recommended the project be scrapped - £53m had already been spent on the project; £43m of which came from the public purse.\n\nMr Johnson decided he wanted to return to Parliament before his term as mayor ended, in 2016. He won the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2015.\n\nAfter resuming life as an MP, he declared his opposition to expanding nearby Heathrow airport, saying he would lie in front of the bulldozers.\n\nAs London mayor, he had promoted an alternative scheme, for an island airport in the Thames estuary, an idea rejected on cost and environmental grounds.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was noticeably absent when MPs subsequently voted on Heathrow expansion in June 2018, as he was on an official trip to Afghanistan.\n\nMr Johnson had been appointed foreign secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May, in 2016.\n\nHe had also run in the Tory leadership campaign that year but dramatically pulled out after Michael Gove's surprise decision to enter the race.\n\nThe job as foreign secretary was seen as an acknowledgement of his role as a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, there was also some surprise at the choice, with Lib Dem leader Tim Farron saying he would \"spend more time apologising to nations he's offended\" than working as foreign secretary.\n\nAnd there were the disparaging comments about other countries and their leaders - some of which were made before he got the job.\n\nThey included a Limerick - which won a £1,000 award in 2016 - about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a goat. And he said the Libyan city of Sirte could be the new Dubai if \"they... clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Johnson supported a tough line against Russia, with the expulsion of its diplomats after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.\n\nTwenty-nine countries, including the US, Canada, Australia and EU states, joined the UK, expelling more than 140 Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated move.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016\n\nBut in the case of British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran, Mr Johnson had to apologise in Parliament.\n\nHe had said she had been teaching journalists in Iran when she had been detained, contradicting her statement that she had been on holiday at the time.\n\nHe later clarified that she had in fact been on holiday but has also said he does not believe his remarks made a difference to her plight - a claim rejected by her family.\n\nA few days after Mr Johnson made his remarks, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned before an Iranian judge, to face charges of engaging in propaganda against the regime.\n\nAs foreign secretary, he also earned a rebuke from Downing Street, after comments emerged in which he had criticised close ally Saudi Arabia for engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.\n\nNevertheless, he continued to allow sales of UK arms to Saudi Arabia, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Johnson also faced criticism after writing in the Daily Telegraph that Muslim women wearing the burka \"looked like letterboxes\".\n\nBy this stage, though, he had left the government, resigning in protest at Theresa May's Brexit plan.\n\nBoris Johnson was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe became well known for his attacks on the EU and for advocating the benefits of Brexit. He declared that he was \"pro-having cake and pro-eating it\".\n\nBut it hadn't always been clear which side he would support.\n\nIn fact, while mayor of London, he'd spoken of the benefits of being in the single market.\n\nAnd in an article for the Daily Telegraph in 2013, weighing up the pros and cons of being in the EU, he had said that leaving would not solve the UK's problems.\n\nHowever, he also made clear he supported plans to ask the British people to decide about EU membership.\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign, he came under sustained criticism from those in favour of Remain, for his claims about the benefits of leaving and what he called \"taking back control\".\n\nMost controversial was a claim about how much money the UK sent to the EU. The £350m-a-week figure, which appeared on the side of a bus during the campaign, recently led to an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute him. Critics pointed out at the time that the figure was wrong as it did not take into account the UK's rebate, or indeed money subsequently spent in the UK.\n\nFor his part, Mr Johnson dismissed warnings that leaving the EU could spark a recession, describing one such study as propaganda.\n\nAnd he has continued to advocate a harder form of Brexit, sharply criticising both the deal that Mrs May agreed and her whole approach to the negotiations with the EU.\n\nHe described it as leading the UK into the \"status of a colony\", in his resignation letter, in July 2018.\n\nMr Johnson has continued to insist that the UK can and should leave the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.", "Can he be trusted? It's the first question we asked Boris Johnson when he eventually took questions at the start of this campaign.\n\nThe questions that many of his colleagues aren't quite sure about. And of course, the question that the front runner to become prime minister in a few weeks answers heartily, yes of course.\n\nBut when it comes to the most sensitive matters of state, maybe it is not quite so straightforward.\n\nThere were issues about the sharing of intelligence with Boris Johnson when was foreign secretary, particularly in his first few months in the job, sources have told the BBC\n\nIt is understood that Theresa May and some in the intelligence community had worries about his ability to keep information confidential.\n\nAnd the tension went back as far as the time when he was Mayor of London and she was home secretary, when one source claims he angered her by inadvertently revealing confidential information before it was due to be made public.\n\nOnce he was in government, on occasion Downing Street would even convene smaller meetings, or \"pre-meets\", to discuss sensitive subjects rather than include him as foreign secretary, a senior figure has told me.\n\nYou can read my colleague Gordon Corera's full story on what happened here.\n\nMr Johnson's campaign team denies there was ever a problem while Mr Johnson himself has said it is \"not true\" that anything was withheld.\n\nBut one of his allies confides \"it was obvious there were concerns on issues from early on\" and suggests \"there was a constant question of whether he was really seeing everything\" - the full intelligence picture that he would be entitled to in his role as Foreign Secretary.\n\nIt's said that he worried constantly about being cut out. But, this is not just about the keeping of secrets, but Theresa May's desire to keep political control.\n\nIt's suggested that the real issue was a lack of trust and hostility between Mr Johnson and Theresa May. One source believes Mr Johnson was excluded from seeing some sensitive information because there was a hostile relationship between him and Downing Street, not because of reservations from the intelligence services.\n\nAnd they suggest that despite early doubts among the security services about him, they eased over time and by the time he left his post, they had good relations.\n\nAnother senior figure closely involved at the time blames a mixture of factors for the situation, citing Mr Johnson's perceived lack of discipline, nervousness among the intelligence community, and hostility between him and Theresa May.\n\nBallot papers have now started landing on Tory members doormats. These revelations aren't likely to dim the zeal of some of Mr Johnson's ardent supporters.\n\nHe is one of an unusual breed of politicians who is admired, perhaps as much, because of his flaws as despite them.\n\nBut for those who doubt him, it's another area of concern, another tension any new prime minister could ill afford.", "The Royal Hospital for Sick Children was due to open on Tuesday\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said she overruled NHS Lothian's plans to open the new children's hospital in Edinburgh next week.\n\nThe £150m building in Little France was due to open on Tuesday but is now subject to indefinite delays.\n\nThe decision not to open the landmark hospital came after last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation system.\n\nIt is understood the health board had been considering a partial opening.\n\nMs Freeman has ordered an investigation into the problems with the new building and said patient safety had to come first.\n\nJeane Freeman said she was only notified of the problem on Tuesday\n\nShe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"NHS Lothian were looking at options, they had not made a decision about what they wanted to do.\n\n\"I took the decision that it was not safe to open the hospital next week in any respect until I'd been assured for patient safety that every other area of that hospital met national standards.\"\n\nAsked if she had overruled the health board, Ms Freeman said: \"Yes, I have.\"\n\nThe new hospital had been due to open in autumn 2017\n\nThe health secretary said she was informed on Tuesday that the \"final validation check\" of the ventilation system in Critical Care at the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People was not meeting national standards.\n\nShe said: \"Because this was picked up so late I want to be sure that all other safety checks in the rest of the hospital are also conducted again.\n\n\"The decision I took was that it was too great a risk.\"\n\nThe corridors of the new hospital will remain empty for some time\n\nThe new 233-bed hospital will form part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh campus, providing care for children and young people to about 16 years of age.\n\nIt will also have 10 theatres and a children's emergency department.\n\nThe site, which also includes Clinical Neurosciences and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, had been due to open in 2017 but a series of problems pushed that back.\n\nThe building shares the same main contractor and design as the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, which has also had problems with ventilation systems.\n\nMs Freeman was asked in parliament last month if NHS Lothian had been assured the same problems did not exist at the new site.\n\nThe health secretary said NHS Lothian told her it would not take ownership of the building until it was \"absolutely assured\" those steps had been taken.\n\nShe said she now needed to find out why the health board was so confident the hospital was meeting standards \"when self-evidently in Critical Care it certainly wasn't\".\n\nMs Freeman said she had asked for an audit of the safety checking process so she could identify where the mistake had been made.\n\nThe main contractor building the hospital, Multiplex, issued a statement saying its work was signed off as complete by the Independent Certifier on 22 February, when it handed over the building to NHS Lothian.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"There's no indication at this point that any fault lies with the contractors themselves.\"\n\nMs Freeman said she did not know how long it would be before the new hospital was opened but the old Sick Kids hospital would remain in use.\n\nShe said there was a helpline available for people who had appointments planned at the new hospital.\n\nStaff were ready to leave the old Sick Kids hospital\n\nMs Freeman said she should have the results of the additional safety checks \"very soon\".\n\nIf everything was ok with the rest of the site, there could be a \"phased move\" of other units such as outpatient services and neurosciences.\n\nShe said work was under way to identify what upgrade was needed to the ventilation system in Critical Care.\n\nIt was \"likely to take months rather than weeks\" before Critical Care and the Emergency department could open, she said.\n\nMs Freeman admitted that there could be difficulties with any move if it was delayed until the winter months.\n\n\"At this point I can't say when Critical Care and the Emergency department will move into the new site,\" she said.\n\nUnison Scotland, which represents many NHS staff, said union members were feeling \"exasperated, shocked and concerned\".\n\nA dedicated helpline has been set up on 0800 028 2816. This will be operational from 12pm on Friday and will run until 10pm. After that the line will be operational from 8am until 10pm during the week and from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays.", "The man was unable to move after suffering a fall in his basement\n\nA man who spent six days trapped in his basement without food or water has been rescued after his concerned colleagues came to his aid.\n\nThe man, aged in his 50s, was unable to move after falling in his home in Windsor Road, Liverpool.\n\nHis colleagues at HM Revenue & Customs visited his house twice and alerted police on Thursday when they heard someone shouting inside.\n\nPolice found him and he was taken to hospital for observations.\n\nIt is understood the man is now recovering from a fractured shoulder.\n\nA spokesman for HMRC said if someone who lives on their own fails to turn up to work then it is policy to send someone round to check.\n\n\"We're very happy that our colleague has been found and wish him a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the run-off to become Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt oversaw the London Olympics as culture secretary and was the UK's longest-serving health secretary.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Jeremy Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe became the MP for South West Surrey at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007, Mr Hunt was shadow minister for disabled people. It was a reward for supporting David Cameron, who attended Oxford University at the same time as him, in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nA reshuffle in 2007 saw Mr Hunt promoted to shadow culture secretary.\n\nIn 2009, he was found to have breached expenses rules and ordered to repay more than £9,500. He had allowed his agent to stay rent-free in his constituency property, which was designated as his second home.\n\nMr Hunt had claimed £19,117 in public money towards the property, but it was decided he hadn't benefited financially from the situation.\n\nWhen the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Jeremy Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was a key role in the run-up to London's 2012 Olympics and he worked closely with then London Mayor, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt campaigned on the importance of tourism during the Olympics. And he took the decision to double the budget for the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies from £40m to £81m.\n\nThe Olympic opening ceremony was widely seen as a big success.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hunt also put emphasis on creating a lasting legacy for the games.\n\nThe government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Mr Hunt said there was an \"extraordinary chance\" to \"reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old\".\n\nBut in the years that followed there was only a small increase in the number of young people taking up sport.\n\nIn 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.\n\nEarlier in 2012, his career was hanging in the balance. During the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and practices of the press, his contact with the Murdoch family came under scrutiny.\n\nMr Hunt was responsible for overseeing the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.\n\nHe was criticised for failing to supervise his adviser's contact with News Corp, and for messages he exchanged with James Murdoch on the bid. His special adviser, Adam Smith, was forced to quit.\n\nThe inquiry released texts sent from Mr Hunt to News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel when it was bidding for BSkyB. The culture secretary addressed him as \"Daddy\" and \"mon ami\" - their wives had given birth in the same hospital in May 2010. Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was \"nothing u won't like\" in a forthcoming speech.\n\nMr Hunt insisted he acted with \"total integrity\" during the bid process.\n\nAs culture secretary, Mr Hunt also led a government plan to launch local television stations across the UK. More than 30 had been set up before Ofcom later scrapped the roll-out of any further channels, because of limited interest from viewers and financial difficulties.\n\nCity TV, the holder of the local TV licence for Birmingham, was forced to appoint administrators to find a buyer before it was even launched, for example.\n\nMr Hunt also announced a deal with the BBC to freeze the licence fee for six years at £145.50 from 2010. He said high executive salaries and an advantage over commercial broadcasters were a cause for concern.\n\nThat was equivalent to a 16% budget cut in real terms and led to the BBC having to make savings, including 2,000 job losses.\n\nUnder the agreement, the BBC also took on responsibility for funding the World Service, the Welsh language channel S4C, and the roll-out of broadband to rural areas.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed health secretary in September 2012, with Maria Miller taking on his previous role.\n\nHe would eventually become the longest-serving health secretary in NHS history, surpassing its founder, Labour's Aneurin Bevan.\n\nBut Mr Hunt held office during the slowest period of investment in the NHS since its foundation - which created big problems.\n\nSince the NHS was established, health spending has risen by about 4% above inflation each year on average. Post-2010, as the coalition budget tried to reduce the deficit, this fell to about 1% a year.\n\nThis came as demands on the health service were growing.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, A&E visits went up by almost 30%. And during Mr Hunt's tenure as health secretary, the number of people in the population aged 85 and over went up by about a third.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility said funding for the NHS needed to rise by 4.3% a year just to keep up with rising demand, without actively improving standards.\n\nFinancial difficulties led to more hospitals going into the red, as well as targets being missed in three main areas: cancer care, hospital appointments and A&E waiting times.\n\nNHS England has not met any of these targets since 2015.\n\nJust 85.3% of patients were seen at A&E departments within the waiting time target of four hours in January 2018. At least 95% of patients attending A&E are supposed to be either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nUnions, like the GMB, demanded his resignation.\n\nAs well as a series of austerity measures - which included extending a cap on pay increases for NHS staff - he was also criticised for his handling of the junior doctor contract row.\n\nMr Hunt said that changes to contracts were essential to deliver a seven-day NHS in England by 2020 - a pledge in the Conservatives' 2010 election manifesto.\n\nTo achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered \"normal\" rather than \"unsocial\" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay.\n\nThe NHS's pay review body had said the cost of paying a premium on these \"unsocial hours\" put delivering a seven-day NHS out of reach.\n\nJunior doctors responded by tweeting pictures of themselves working weekend and late shifts, with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.\n\nContract negotiations with junior doctors stopped and started and the British Medical Association eventually decided on industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors took part in a series of walkouts in 2016. On two strike days, between 08:00 and 17:00 even emergency care wasn't covered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS.\n\nPublic support for the strike was high, and even after doctors withdrew emergency care, the majority of the public (57%) still supported the strike and believed the government was more at fault (54%).\n\nA new contract for junior doctors was later imposed, after BMA members rejected a deal agreed by the government and union negotiators.\n\nDespite heavy criticism, Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS, totalling £20.5bn in real terms by 2023.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England, ranking them on things like cancer, mental health and diabetes services.\n\nMr Hunt repeatedly referred in speeches to cases where individuals had received bad treatment in the NHS. He said he was horrified at the report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nHe went on to overhaul the inspection regime, introduce a new duty of candour on staff and fresh rules about whistle-blowers.\n\nSocial care was added to his brief in 2018. He spoke of the need to integrate social care, funded by local councils, with services delivered by the NHS.\n\nHe had already overseen a transfer of money from the NHS to council budgets from 2014. This shared budget was designed to tackle the problem of elderly people having to stay in hospital beds unnecessarily, because of a lack of care for them at home.\n\nAfter this, the number of these cases fell.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of the first national waiting-time target for mental health treatment. From April 2016, the NHS said at least 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.\n\nMr Hunt became foreign secretary in July 2018, after his predecessor and now leadership rival, Boris Johnson, quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nIn March, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nHe has faced criticism for allowing the UK to sell arms to the Saudi regime, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen. But he has previously defended UK-Saudi ties, saying Saudi Arabia is a \"very, very important military ally to the UK\".\n\nHis time as foreign secretary has not been gaffe-free. During a meeting on an official visit to China, he called his wife Lucia Guo \"Japanese\" - although she was born in Xian in central China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary tells Today he would include the DUP and ERG in Brexit talks\n\nA Remain campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt has since said he would vote Leave in a second vote. He said this was because of the \"arrogance of the European Commission\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nHe also likened the Brexit negotiating tactics of the EU to the Soviet Union. The comparison provoked criticism from EU ambassadors and politicians and there were calls for an apology.\n\nMr Hunt says he want to negotiate a \"credible\" Brexit plan by securing changes to the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHowever, he does not rule out leaving the EU without a deal if such an outcome becomes \"the only way to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBut unlike his leadership rival, Boris Johnson, he says the current departure date of 31 October is not a hard deadline.", "The UK's biggest provider of forensic services has paid a ransom to criminals after its IT systems were disrupted in a cyber-attack, BBC News has learned.\n\nEurofins Scientific was infected with a ransomware computer virus a month ago, which led British police to suspend work with the global testing company.\n\nAt the time, the firm described the attack as \"highly sophisticated\".\n\nBBC News has not been told how much money was involved in the ransom payment or when it was paid.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said it was a \"matter for the victim\" as to whether a ransom had been paid.\n\nThe agency, which is investigating the attack, said: \"As there is an ongoing criminal investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment.\"\n\nEurofins previously said the attack was \"well-resourced\" but three weeks later said its operations were \"returning to normal\".\n\nIt said it would also not comment on whether a ransom had been paid or not.\n\nIt added it was \"collaborating with law enforcement\" in the UK and elsewhere.\n\nThe ransomware attack hit the company, which accounts for over half of forensic science provision in the UK, on the first weekend in June.\n\nRansomware is a computer virus that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files. Messages sent by the perpetrators demand a payment in order to unlock the frozen accounts.\n\nEurofins deals with over 70,000 criminal cases in the UK each year.\n\nIt carries out DNA testing, toxicology analysis, firearms testing and computer forensics for police forces across the UK.\n\nForensic science work has been carried out by private firms and police laboratories in England and Wales since the closure of the government's Forensic Science Service in 2012.\n\nAn emergency police response to the cyber-attack was led by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to manage the flow of forensic submissions so DNA and blood samples which needed urgent testing were sent to other suppliers.\n\nIt has led to delays in forensic science provision and is understood to have caused some court hearings to be postponed because information on the results of analysis conducted by Eurofins was not accessible.\n\nThe ransom is likely to have been paid between 10 June, when Eurofins issued a lengthy statement about the attack, and June 24 when it published an optimistic update, saying it had \"identified the variant of the malware used\" in the attack and had strengthened cyber-security.\n\nIt said: \"We are continuing to work intensively with leading cybersecurity experts to further secure our current systems and infrastructure and to add enhanced security features and measures to protect our systems and data.\"\n\n\"The investigations conducted so far by our internal and external IT forensics experts have not found evidence of any unauthorised theft or transfer of confidential client data.\"\n\nThe NPCC refused to comment on the ransom payment but police sources said \"excellent progress\" had been made in dealing with the fall-out of the cyber attack.\n\nPolice and law enforcement agencies in the UK are still not submitting new samples to Eurofins for analysis but the company says it is working towards giving them the assurances they need for fresh work to restart.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"We are working to make sure all hearings remain fair and based on reliable evidence. While investigations are ongoing, prosecutors will assess the impact on a case by case basis.\n\n\"Cases where forensic evidence does not play a major role will continue as ‎usual if all parties agree.\n\n\"If ‎test results provided by Eurofins are central, we will seek to adjourn cases for the shortest possible period.\"\n\nEurofins is the third major forensic science problem to hit law enforcement following the collapse of Key Forensic Services and a criminal investigation into alleged irregularities at Randox Testing.", "The Queen met researchers and scientists when she formally opened Bush House - although some students were not welcome\n\nKing's College London (KCL) has apologised and admitted it was wrong to ban a group of students from campus during a royal visit.\n\nThe Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the university's Strand Campus on 19 March to open Bush House.\n\nOne staff member and 13 students linked to campaigning groups were denied access to the campus, causing one student to fear he would miss an exam.\n\nThe acting principal said KCL's actions that day \"did not meet our values\".\n\nProf Evelyn Welch added that a report into the university's actions was \"uncomfortable to read\" and that the leadership team \"apologise wholeheartedly\".\n\nThe investigation found the university had breached its own policies regarding protection of personal information and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nFollowing protests at university events on both 4 March and 18 March, police contacted the university's head of security to express concerns of an \"increased risk\" during the royal visit.\n\nThe Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the campus the day after a protest at the university's council meeting\n\nThe card access for a list of people linked to groups including the Intersectional Feminist Society and Action Palestine was then blocked, without those individuals being told.\n\nOne student reported he was worried he would miss an exam but \"fortunately\" security staff reinstated his card in time, the report said.\n\nIt added that another student was late for an assessed presentation and had to \"beg to the point of tears to be let in\".\n\nThe day after the royal visit there were protests outside KCL's Strand Campus.\n\nThe report concluded that the Estates and Facilities team had \"overstepped the boundaries of their authority\".\n\nProf Welch said it was \"clear how the decisions taken in the run-up to and on 19 March have hurt our community\".\n\nShe added: \"The report shows that we need to take some actions to ensure that the values we uphold are applied consistently across our organisation.\n\n\"While individuals are identified, they should not be singled out as those who were solely responsible; as such we will be looking at the systemic underlying issues that we need to address at King's going forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouthern California was hit by its strongest earthquake in two decades on Thursday.\n\nThe epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude tremor was near the city of Ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Los Angeles.\n\nTremors continued to be felt on Friday, as emergency crews fought fires and provided medical assistance to people.\n\nThe quake was felt from Las Vegas in Nevada to Los Angeles on California's Pacific coast.\n\nIt hit at 10:33 local time (18:33GMT) on the US Fourth of July Independence Day holiday.\n\nOn Friday morning at 04:15, a tremor measuring 5.4 struck. Los Angeles fire officials said there were no immediate reports of additional damage.\n\nThere was significant damage in Ridgecrest, which lies south-west of the epicentre, local geophysicist Professor John Rundle told the BBC.\n\nThe epicentre of the earthquake was near the city of Ridgecrest\n\nHe added that it was fortunate the quake had happened far away from major population centres.\n\nRoads were cracked and broken and power lines fell to the ground after the earthquake, which also shattered glass and cracked the walls of some homes in the region.\n\nFire burned some homes in the city of Ridgecrest\n\nThe Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was evacuated, the Kern County Fire Department said. The service has responded to nearly two dozen incidents ranging from medical assistance for minor injuries to fires.\n\nThe quake also struck near China Lake - the bomb testing facility of the US Navy, where weapons and aircraft are put to through their paces. One official from the facility told AFP news agency there was \"substantial damage\" – including fires, water leaks, and hazardous materials spills.\n\nBrad Alexander, a spokesman for California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, said on Thursday that fire engines and search and rescue teams were going to assist in the Ridgecrest area, where he believed there were a number of buildings on fire.\n\n\"This may not be over. There could be more earthquakes happening in the area and anyone listening that's in that region should be prepared to drop, cover and hold on,\" he warned.\n\nA man cleans up a supermarket that was damaged by the earthquake\n\nGovernor of California Gavin Newsom declared an emergency for the areas affected, as concern for potential aftershocks ramped up.\n\nIn interviews, he called on California residents to have a plan in place in case more earthquakes strike.\n\nMayor of Ridgecrest Peggy Breeden said that some people had been struck by objects falling from buildings and gas lines had been broken.\n\n\"We are used to earthquakes but we're not used to this significance,\" she said.\n\nLos Angeles' early warning system did not send an advance alert to many residents in the region, the LA Times reports - because the forecast did not meet the threshold of severity for Los Angeles County. In the end, the shaking was worse than expected for some people.\n\nStephen Sykes, who lives in Ridgecrest, was in the shower when his house started to shake.\n\n\"The whole house shook violently and we both ran out into the street. This went on for about 10 to 15 seconds, we were really scared,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Currently we are getting ready in case there's another one. We are moving items onto the floor and have turned off the gas supply. We will probably sleep outside tonight,\" he added.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that the situation was under control.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLucy Jones, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey, told reporters the epicentre was in a relatively uninhabited area.\n\nShe said there would likely be a number of aftershocks, some powerful.\n\nOne man tweeted images from inside a supermarket in Ridgecrest, which has a population of about 28,000 people, showing the aisle floors covered with fallen items.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nick Graehl This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's job as foreign secretary was to convince the world that Brexit did not mean Britain's withdrawal from global affairs. It is a task that few historians will conclude Mr Johnson achieved.\n\nOn Monday, he was supposed to be chairing a summit in London on the Western Balkans to show the UK's continuing commitment to European security.\n\nInstead, foreign ministers tweeted their frustration at the absence of their host as he agonised about his future.\n\nThis week is a moment when Britain's voice is meant to be heard - at the Nato summit in Brussels and during President Trump's visit to the UK.\n\nThere is diplomacy to be done after the death of a British national from what is suspected to be a Russian nerve agent attack, a shocking event that has been overshadowed by the latest dramas over Brexit.\n\nInstead, the departure of Mr Johnson will add to the uncertainty that diplomats and politicians from overseas feel about Britain's foreign policy.\n\nBoris Johnson surveying destruction in the British Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Irma\n\nWhen Mr Johnson was appointed two years ago, there was hope that his charm and intelligence could turn into statesmanship. Diplomats warmed to this multilingual maverick - here at last was a foreign secretary with some political star quality, who could get Britain heard on the international stage.\n\nAnd certainly at early international meetings, I watched as Mr Johnson was mobbed by fellow ministers seeking selfies with a tousle-haired phenomenon tipped as a future prime minister.\n\nBut soon hope turned to disappointment. The repeated gaffes and inappropriate remarks often undermined any progress Mr Johnson made with Britain's allies and opponents. There were the jokes about dead bodies in Libya and the recitation of inappropriate verses by Rudyard Kipling in Myanmar.\n\nAnd there was his inaccurate suggestion that the detained British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists, which her family and supporters said had damaged their campaign to secure her release.\n\nBoris Johnson during a press conference in Libya in 2017\n\nOf course, some of the jokes worked and some politicians overseas warmed to the entertaining foreign minister from Britain. There were times when Mr Johnson was an effective minister for foreign affairs.\n\nI travelled with him to Libya last year and he met the right people, said the right things, caused no offence and placed the UK firmly in the mix as an international player in that part of north Africa.\n\nThere were moments in other diplomatic forums, such as meetings with Burmese officials at the United Nations, where Mr Johnson's charm kept the show on the road by sheer force of personality.\n\nBut there was often frustration at the lack of substance. Foreign envoys would sometimes tell me they couldn't fill their telegrams home simply with jokes written by Boris Johnson.\n\nOn one occasion, President Sisi of Egypt simply walked out of a meeting with a rather bemused foreign secretary simply because the conversation did not get beyond the pleasantries.\n\nBoris Johnson with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in Moscow in December 2017\n\nAbove all, Mr Johnson struggled to set out clearly what the government's \"global Britain\" foreign policy actually meant. His focus on women's education and saving elephants rarely formed part of a bigger picture.\n\nWhat is Britain's response to the rise of countries such as China and India? What is Britain's thinking on the long term pressures of migration from sub-Saharan Africa, where a demographic explosion is expected in coming decades?\n\nWhat is the solution to the government's contradictory policy towards the conflict in Yemen, where Britain sells arms to one side, Saudi Arabia, while giving foreign aid to the other, the civilians left injured and hungry by the fighting? What is Britain's approach to issues such as Syria and North Korea?\n\nThese are all questions that still require answers. And that is on top of the questions posed by Brexit and Britain's uncertain relationship with an increasingly independent-minded United States led by Donald Trump.\n\nThe former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt tweeted on Monday that Britain \"used to be a nation providing leadership to the world - now, it can't even provide leadership to itself\".\n\nBritish diplomats would challenge such a sweeping assertion and cite the way the UK convinced 28 countries to expel 150 Russian diplomats after the Salisbury nerve agent attack as an example of global leadership. But the question remains: what is British foreign policy? And it is a question that Boris Johnson's successor will have to answer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss: I'm not desperate to get back into No 10. Video, 00:00:53Liz Truss: I'm not desperate to get back into No 10", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAmerican 15-year-old Coco Gauff saved two match points in another astonishing display to extend her dream Wimbledon run into the last 16.\n\nA packed Centre Court, enchanted by the teen who knocked out five-time champion Venus Williams, saw her beat Slovenian Polona Hercog 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 7-5.\n\nAfter double-faulting to hand Hercog the first set, Gauff was staring at defeat at 5-2 in the second.\n\nBut she pulled back to force a tie-break and snatched another famous win.\n\n\"I always knew I could come back whatever the score was,\" Gauff, who will face Romanian former world number one Simona Halep next, told BBC television.\n\n\"The crowd was amazing. Even when I was down match point they were still cheering me on.\"\n• None How day five at Wimbledon unfolded\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nFrom the moment she arrived in London, Gauff has been doing things her way - and in style.\n\nFirst, she was the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon in the Open era, then she became the youngest player to reach the last 32 since 1991.\n\nAfter stunning one of her idols Williams 6-4 6-4 in the first round, and then proving it was no fluke with another straight-set win over former Wimbledon semi-finalist Magdalena Rybarikova, Gauff became the story of the championships.\n\nSuch was the interest in her that this third-round match - which on paper was a qualifier against an unseeded player - ended up on Centre Court, one of the sport's biggest stages.\n\nAnd it more than justified the decision.\n\nTrailing by a double break in the second set, Gauff was heading for the exit door. Facing two match points, she had one foot out of it.\n\nBut if there was any doubt over the mental strength of this youngster, she answered it - saving one match point with a bold, line-kissing winner, before Hercog double-faulted on the other.\n\nShe must have sensed it was going to be her day when a lucky net cord in the tie-break edged her ahead - and she held her nerve in a who-will-blink-first rally on set point, then unleashed the forehand winner that drew her level.\n\nGauff beat her chest in celebration, her mum dared to look up, and the Centre Court crowd rose to their feet with a roar.\n\nA nervy third set followed, with Gauff eventually carving out a match point after two hours 45 minutes, completing the remarkable turnaround when Hercog hit long.\n\nShe dropped her racquet and jumped up and down with her arms in the air, then put her hands behind her head in disbelief. Her mum danced with joy and the 14,000-strong crowd leapt to their feet in stunned admiration.\n\nHer exploits this week led to 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer introducing himself to her and Rafael Nadal watching her train, while her mobile phone was - in her words - \"banging\".\n\nIt will not stop now either.\n\nOnly eligible to play 10 tournaments at professional level between her 15th and 16th birthdays, Gauff seems to have chosen wisely.\n\nEven if she loses to 2018 French Open champion Halep in the next round on Monday, the teenager will take home prize money of £176,000.\n\nHer career earnings until now were £60,000.\n\n\"I can't buy a car because I can't drive,\" she said. \"Maybe I'm going to buy some hoodies.\"\n\nHer Wimbledon run so far will lift Gauff into the world's top 200, up from 313 at the start of the tournament.\n\nIf she can negotiate her way past potential opponents, such as third seed Karolina Pliskova, 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams or world number one Ashleigh Barty, she would rise even higher.\n\nAnd, whisper it quietly at this stage, no 15-year-old has ever won a Grand Slam singles title. On this showing, it is not something that would faze this one.\n\nIt was so dramatic. What an occasion.\n\nTo get to the second week in your first major is absolutely incredible. The concentration and focus from both ladies was incredible.\n\nIt was almost sweeter the way she was able to come back from two match points. To come back form such a huge deficit, to be able to change her game, and to keep her wits about her.\n\nEveryone will remember it.", "With ballots beginning to land on doormats, Conservative Party members will soon choose not only their new leader but the country's next prime minister.\n\nWhen it comes to things such as their age, wealth and where they live, the 160,000 or so paid-up members may not be particularly representative of the rest of the country.\n\nBut what exactly is on their minds? And how do their views compare with those of the population as a whole?\n\nMost people appear to agree that Brexit is crucial.\n\nWhen we asked about it in a survey at the very end of last year, some 60% of all UK voters ranked it the most important issue and 74% of them placed it in the top three.\n\nStill, that's nothing compared with Conservative Party members surveyed, of whom, 75% ranked it first and 88% in the top three.\n\nBut just because voters and Tory members agreed Brexit was important, it does not mean they saw eye-to-eye on the issue.\n\nThis was seen when we asked people how they would vote in a referendum that gave them the choice between remaining in the EU and leaving without a deal.\n\nA stunning 76% of rank and file Conservatives plumped for no deal - an option picked by only 35% of voters as a whole.\n\nThat was partly because only 18% of the Tory party members believed that no deal would cause serious disruption to, say, supplies of foods and medicines, compared with 35% of the voters surveyed who reckoned it would (and a further 21% who weren't too sure).\n\nIf, on the other hand, the UK held another referendum and ended up staying in the EU, most of the Tory members would feel \"betrayed\" (58%), \"angry\" (15%) or \"disappointed\" (6%).\n\nThe figures for voters as a whole were 26% \"betrayed\", 7% \"angry\" and 8% \"disappointed\".\n\nBefore the 2016 Brexit referendum, the economy was often ranked as the most important issue.\n\nBut, right now, unemployment, interest rates and inflation (ie price rises) are all pretty low - which could mean people are currently relatively relaxed.\n\nThat said, neither Jeremy Hunt nor Boris Johnson - the two leadership contenders - can afford to forget about the economy: 36% of voters and 45% of Tory members surveyed placed it in their top three issues.\n\nOnce again, though, there were some significant differences between between the Conservative grassroots attitudes and those of the voting population as a whole.\n\nFor instance, most of the voters (51%) thought government should redistribute income from the rich to the poor, with only one in five (19%) disagreeing.\n\nThe Tory members, however, thought the opposite - a mere 15% favoured redistribution, while 63% opposed the idea.\n\nHowever, that is not to say Conservative Party members care only about tax cuts for the rich.\n\nTrue, a recent survey of the membership suggests most (58%) warmed to Boris Johnson's suggestion the threshold for paying higher-rate tax should be raised to £80,000 a year.\n\nHowever, the same survey also suggests 63% think abolishing the top rate (paid by those earning over £150,000 a year) is the wrong priority.\n\nAnd, perhaps even more importantly, 60% of Tory members think any extra money should be spent on improving public services rather than tax cuts.\n\nTory members and UK voters as a whole both believe other issues, such as immigration and crime, should be priorities for the country, surveys suggest.\n\nBoth groups also broadly agree about the way immigration and crime should be dealt with.\n\nImmigration was placed in the top three by 31% of Conservative Party members surveyed and by 27% of the voters overall.\n\nWe believe, from polling, the public has long wanted to see a reduction in numbers coming in.\n\nA recent survey of Tory members indicated there was only one group of migrants most (51%) of them wanted to see more of - skilled, well-educated people looking for highly paid jobs.\n\nLow-paid, low-skilled workers were deemed particularly unwelcome, as were Muslim migrants.\n\nJust a few weeks before she is due to stand down as prime minister, Theresa May met Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the G20 Summit in Japan\n\nOn crime, just over a quarter (29%) of the members and just under quarter (22%) of the voters named it as one of the three most important issues facing the country.\n\nAgain, both groups had similar views on the matter: 76% of the Tory members said people who broke the law should be given stiffer sentences - something 67% of the voters also agreed with.\n\nThere are, however, other policy areas where the Conservative members and the voting population as a whole held very different views.\n\nDefence, for instance, was placed in the top three most important issues by 29% of the Tory members but only 12% of the voters.\n\nBy way of contrast, benefits and universal credit was placed in the top three by 23% of the voters but only 11% of the Tory members.\n\nSimilarly, education and the environment were low down the list of voter priorities, mentioned as top-three issues by just 15% and 18% respectively.\n\nBut the voters were still twice as likely as the Conservative members to rank them as such.\n\nDame Cheryl Gillan announced that Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt had made it through to the final stage of the leadership contest\n\nThe biggest gap, however, between the general public and the Tory grassroots may be on health.\n\nFor the voters as a whole, it was clearly the second most important issue after Brexit, with 42% of them ranking it in their top-three. Only 19% of Conservative Party members said the same.\n\nIn short, the issues that need to be addressed in order to win over the Conservative grassroots are not necessarily those that will resonate with voters as a whole.\n\nSince Boris Johnson and Hunt are vying to become not just Tory leader but the UK's prime minister, they might want to take note.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "Sentence was deferred at the High Court in Edinburgh\n\nA heavily-pregnant woman lost the twins she was carrying after being viciously attacked by the father of the unborn children, a court has heard.\n\nStephen Ramsay, 36, repeatedly punched Lisa Donaldson, 35, throttled her and stabbed her in the neck in Glenrothes.\n\nThe attack resulted in the deaths of both of Ms Donaldson's unborn children. She was 32-weeks pregnant at the time.\n\nRamsay has admitted attempting to murder her. Sentence was deferred at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nThe court was told that Ramsay had falsely accused Ms Donaldson of stealing money he had made while pretending to be homeless on the streets of Edinburgh.\n\nHe attacked her in the home they shared in February of this year. Police officers kicked in the door of the Delgatie Court property and found Ramsay straddling Ms Donaldson with his hands around her neck.\n\nMs Donaldson was unconscious and the floor around her was saturated with blood. Her throat had been cut and she was almost unrecognisable because of bruising and swelling to her face.\n\nShe was taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where an emergency section was carried out to deliver the baby boy and girl, but both were dead.\n\nThe court was told that Ms Donaldson named her twins Edith and Ajay.\n\nThe medical opinion was that both had died as a result of the attack on their mother, who was initially put into a medically-induced coma.\n\nShe suffered a spinal cord injury because of the stab wound to her neck and respiratory arrest, along with extensive bruising and at least 22 separate injuries on her torso alone.\n\nShe also suffered brain damage and was left with balance problems in the wake of the attack.\n\nWhen he was told the babies were dead, Ramsay told police officers: \"I've murdered my kids. I don't deserve to be treated. I deserve to die, just kill me now.\"\n\nHe has extensive previous convictions including for assault, theft and fraud, and was under the influence of drink, prescription medication and illegal drugs at the time of the attack.\n\nRamsay admitted attempting to murder Ms Donaldson while knowing that was 32 weeks pregnant with twins.\n\nThe charge stated that he compressed her throat and restricted her breathing, repeatedly punching her and striking her on the neck with a knife causing severe injury, permanent disfigurement and danger to her life and causing serious injuries and significant blood loss which caused the death of the unborn babies.\n\nJudge Lord Kinclaven deferred sentence until 27 September and he was remanded in custody.", "A Virgin Atlantic flight has made an emergency landing in Boston after a fire broke out on board.\n\nThe plane was travelling from New York to London on Thursday night when the fire started, forcing the crew to divert the flight.\n\nNo major injuries were reported and all 217 passengers were safely evacuated from the aircraft at Boston's Logan International Airport.\n\nPolice believe a mobile phone power bank may have caused the fire.\n\nBomb disposal officers inspected the aircraft after it landed and found a device between the cushions of the seat where the blaze started.\n\n\"Preliminary investigation suggests it is a battery pack consistent in appearance with an external phone charger,\" a police spokesman told reporters.\n\nFire crews boarded the plane after it landed\n\nThat was disputed by one passenger, Maria, who told the BBC she had been speaking to her friend when his seat caught fire. She rejected reports that a phone charger had been the cause.\n\n\"It took about two minutes to put it out,\" she said.\n\nWhile no-one suffered major injuries, one passenger refused treatment for a \"smoke related complaint\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVirgin Atlantic confirmed in a statement that the flight had been diverted to Boston \"due to reports of smoke in the cabin\".\n\n\"Our crew responded immediately and the plane has landed safely\", it said,\n\nThe airline added that it was investigating the incident to \"fully understand the circumstances\".\n\nAn American Airlines flight also made an emergency landing at the airport earlier on Thursday after a cockpit light indicated an unspecified potential mechanical problem as it approached Boston.", "Please use your device horizontally in order to use this experience!", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump claims army 'took over airports' in 1775\n\nUS President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going \"kaput\" for a glaring anachronism in his Independence Day speech.\n\nHe told crowds on 4 July the Continental Army \"took over the airports\" during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.\n\nObservers quickly pointed out there was no air travel in 18th Century America.\n\nExplaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.\n\nDuring his \"Salute to America\" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: \"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.\"\n\nCritics pointed out the rebels could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.\n\nIn the same sentence, Mr Trump also appeared to date a battle at Fort McHenry to the American Revolution, when it unfolded decades later during the War of 1812.\n\nTwitter users had some fun with the garble, using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.\n\nOutside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: \"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.\n\n\"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening.\"\n\nThe president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Salute to America event featured military flyovers and fireworks\n\nBefore winning the White House, Mr Trump used to criticise ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.\n\nThe president's Independence Day celebration saw military tanks transported into the nation's capital and a flyover by the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team.\n\nHis critics had pilloried the event as inappropriately partisan and a misuse of public funds.\n\nBut Mr Trump surprised some by steering clear of overt partisanship in his speech, instead celebrating patriotic themes and US history including civil rights.\n\nBefore a cheering crowd on the steps of the monument to Civil War era-president Abraham Lincoln, he said the story of America was \"the greatest political journey in human history\".\n\nHe was the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on the Fourth of July.\n• None Trump hails US military in 4th of July address", "The Russian Defence Ministry published these photos of the officers who died and named them\n\nThe Russian president Vladimir Putin has bestowed top state awards on four of the 14 submarine crew who died during a secret mission on 1 July.\n\nThe four officers, all captains, received Hero of Russia medals. Two other officers on board already had those medals for earlier missions.\n\nThe Kremlin said the crew heroically contained a fire, preventing it reaching the nuclear power unit.\n\nThey inhaled toxic smoke produced by the fire, the Kremlin said.\n\nThe other 10 who died in the disaster in the Barents Sea, also officers, received Russia's Order of Courage.\n\nThe surviving crew managed to get the deep-sea research vessel back to its Arctic base, Severomorsk, near Murmansk.\n\nThe bodies of the 14 dead were brought to St Petersburg for burial at the city's Serafim cemetery. Their naval unit is based in the city's Peterhof district.\n\nFresh flowers were laid at a Murmansk memorial erected after the 2000 Kursk disaster\n\nThe Russian government said it is confident that the secret submersible, which it refused to name, can be put back into service soon. The vessel had been exploring the Arctic seabed.\n\nThe government did not reveal details of the mission that turned into a disaster, citing official secrecy. The submersible was widely reported to be an AS-12 or AS-31 type nicknamed \"Losharik\".\n\nRussia's Tass news agency reported that the officers were linked to the Russian military's top-secret Chief Directorate for Deep Water Research, known as GUGI.\n\nOne of the officers, Denis Dolonsky, was made a Hero of Russia in 2012. In that year he took part in the Arktika-2012 mission, Tass said, which involved collecting rock samples from the Arctic seabed - part of a Russian Arctic territorial claim.\n\nThe International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) reported that a Losharik vessel guided two Russian icebreakers, which drilled boreholes and collected seabed rock on the Mendeleev Ridge, intended to prove that the Russian continental shelf extends far under the Arctic Ocean.\n\nA UN commission is assessing rival continental shelf claims in the Arctic, based on data submitted by Russia, Canada, the US, Norway and Denmark.\n\nRussian media reports said that one of the submersible's sailors heroically rescued a civilian specialist from the burning battery compartment, then sealed the hatch.\n\nBut Pavel Felgenhauer, a military analyst at the independent Russian daily Novaya Gazeta, said it was a mystery why 14 sailors died from smoke inhalation when they would have all carried oxygen masks at all times and had access to emergency on-board oxygen supplies.\n\nIt is also a mystery, he wrote, why so many senior officers were on one mission. He speculated that they might have been testing new secret equipment or examining US seabed devices placed to track Russian submarines.\n\nMr Felgenhauer also asked why Russia would use a secret submersible capable of diving down to 6,000m (19,685ft), when the Barents Sea is on average only 220m deep.\n\nRussia is in an international race to stake territorial claims in the Arctic, because the pristine region is believed to be rich in oil and gas and other minerals. Global warming is also opening up new Arctic sea routes, potentially valuable for trade.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia's Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, said the craft's nuclear power unit had \"been fully isolated and nobody [was] in that section\".\n\n\"The crew took all the necessary measures to protect the unit and it is in full working condition,\" he said. \"This gives us hope that in quite a short time the vessel can be put back into service.\"\n\nGUGI's main tasks are reported to include monitoring foreign underwater communication lines, recovering military equipment from the seabed and protecting Russia's own seabed communications cables.\n\nAccidents involving underwater vessels are rare. Here are some of the most serious:", "Chancellor Philip Hammond has told the BBC he and other MPs will \"find a way\" of blocking a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Political Thinking Podcast he would personally oppose leaving the EU without a legal agreement on 31 October.\n\nHe warned Theresa May's successor as prime minister not to \"sideline\" MPs, saying this would be \"shocking\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has urged party members to sign a declaration to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Watson is leading the push within the party for another Brexit referendum, and for the party to campaign to stay in the EU.\n\nMr Hammond is expected to be replaced as chancellor whoever wins the Conservative leadership election later this month.\n\nHe has been increasingly vociferous in his opposition to a no-deal Brexit, which both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have said they would be willing to pursue on 31 October if there is no prospect of a negotiated deal.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Hammond told MPs a no-deal exit, which would see the UK leave the EU's single market and customs union overnight without any kind of transition arrangement, could cause a £90bn hole in the public finances.\n\nSpeaking on Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast, he made clear that he would vote against a no-deal exit if it came to it in the Commons.\n\n\"The Commons has been clear already that it does not support a no-deal exit. That is my position, and as a backbencher I will continue to argue against a no-deal exit,\" he said.\n\nPressed on how MPs could stop Brexit if the government was unwilling to pass legislation amending the 31 October deadline, he said it would be \"shocking\" if the next prime minister tried to sideline the House of Commons.\n\n\"Well, let me quote the Speaker of the House of Commons, who has said that if the House of Commons is determined to do something, he is quite sure that it will find a way.\n\n\"And I am quite confident that the House of Commons will find a way, and indeed should be able to find a way.\n\n\"Because this is a parliamentary democracy and it would be frankly rather shocking if the House of Commons - the elected representatives of the people - could be simply sidelined by a government that was doing something that was the exact opposite of what the House of Commons clearly wanted done.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Justice Secretary David Gauke, who told the House magazine, a \"way will be found\" to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office Minister - and Mrs May's de facto deputy - David Lidington said he would not want to serve in a government committed to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I am very clear in my mind that I would not want to serve in a government that made a deliberate commitment to a no-deal departure from the European Union.\n\n\"I think that would be a profoundly damaging outcome.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said he could not \"envisage the circumstances\" in which proroguing - suspending - Parliament would be needed, although he said MPs need to \"take responsibility\" for the situation the country was in.\n\nHis rival Jeremy Hunt has ruled it out.\n\nOn the two candidates' spending pledges - and their references to using the £26.6bn \"fiscal headroom\" to fund some of those promises - Mr Hammond said there was some additional spending power available.\n\nBut he said provided there was an \"orderly exit of course, it will be possible to do some of the those spending promises - but not all of them\".\n\n\"No deal means we will have to spend the money, but not in a discretionary way,\" he said.\n\n\"We will be forced to spend it on protecting businesses and industry and households from what is likely to be a surge in inflation.\"\n• None Hunt: Leadership contest is all to play for", "Conservative leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have faced Scottish party members at a hustings event in Perth.\n\nBoth men have pledged to protect the UK union after warnings from senior Tory politicians that it could be at risk.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May made a speech in Stirling on Thursday urging her successor to prioritise the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a fresh Scottish independence referendum in the second half of 2020.\n\nShe said Mrs May's speech - which urged Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt to \"think creatively\" about how to keep the UK together - was \"too little, too late\".\n\nThe hustings in Perth was the latest in a series of events around the UK which see the two candidates make a speech to local members before taking questions from a host and the audience.\n\nParty members should receive their ballots in the coming days, with the winner to be announced on 23 July.\n\nA YouGov survey of Conservative members in June suggested that a majority would prefer Brexit to go ahead even if it caused Scottish independence, while another opinion poll suggested that a majority of Scots could back independence if Mr Johnson became prime minister.\n\nA series of senior politicians have come forward to voice concerns about the union, with Mrs May's speech in Stirling echoing the words of her de-facto deputy, David Lidington - and those of former prime minister Gordon Brown, who said the UK was \"more at risk\" than it had ever been.\n\nMs Sturgeon predicted that Scotland was \"heading inexorably towards independence\" regardless of who wins the contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunt: \"We have to prepare for IndyRef2\"\n\nSpeaking in Perth, Mr Hunt insisted he would \"not engage\" with the Scottish First Minister on the possibility of another ballot.\n\nHe said: \"I will engage fully, responsibly and generously on everything that helps Scotland move forward but I will not engage with (Nicola Sturgeon) on the issue of independence, which will take Scotland backwards.\n\n\"If she asks for a second independence referendum, I will decline in the most British and polite way, but it will be a no.\"\n\nThe Foreign Secretary also hit out at the Scottish government, saying ministers in Edinburgh must do more to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe claimed the current arrangements were \"very disappointing\", saying: \"All of us have to do more but to date as I've been watching the no-deal preparations I would like to see more focus on that from Nicola Sturgeon.\n\n\"(The Scottish Government) have been very disappointing in their preparations of a no-deal Brexit, which none of us want, but any responsible government or authority in the United Kingdom should be taking seriously because there is that risk.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe insisted it was \"not the time\" to detail what steps the Scottish government should be taking but added: \"I think they know, and we know, the areas where more can be done.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary has won the backing of Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, and the bulk of the party's MSP group at Holyrood also signed a letter supporting him.\n\nMr Hunt also said he would mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit in response to claims it could threaten the union.\n\nHe added: \"We should always be alive to the risks to the union but also confident about its great, great future.\n\n\"If we get things wrong then of course those risks increase.\"\n\nHe added: \"That's why, if we end up with a no-deal Brexit we have got to take every possible measure to prepare and support businesses in Scotland and other parts of the UK.\"\n\nMr Hunt said that the UK was a democracy that had voted to leave the EU and \"it wouldn't solve anything to put Brexit at risk, it would create further divisions, further instability and I think that's what Nicola Sturgeon would want\".\n\nMr Johnson won more backing among Scottish Conservatives during the ballots of of MPs at Westminster.\n\nHe told the audience a \"successful, pragmatic Brexit could be a wonderful thing to entrench and intensify the union\".\n\nAfter Brexit he asked would the SNP campaign to \"hand back control of Scottish fisheries to Brussels\".\n\n\"I've done a lot of campaigning, I wouldn't want to campaign on that ticket.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he would put \"the union before Brexit, but Brexit can entrench the union\".\n\nChallenged on whether he would allow a second Scottish independence referendum, Mr Johnson said: \"My view is that you had a referendum in 2014 when the people of this country were promised ... that this was a once-in-a-generation choice they were making.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think there is any case for breaking that promise.\"\n\nAsked if there was a majority for it in Scotland he said: \"I think there was a democratic vote by the people of Scotland which was pretty conclusive.\"\n\nPressed again on whether he was ruling out another referendum he said: \"I see absolutely no case for having a second referendum in Scotland. I think it's absurd.\"\n\nMr Johnson was again challenged at a hustings about aspects of his personal life and refused to be drawn.\n\nAsked by a Tory member whether a good prime minister needed to be \"a loyal husband and father\", Mr Johnson replied: \"I think that on these sorts of things, I have been asked all sorts of questions in the last 20 or 30 years, and I just don't comment on that stuff.\n\n\"What people in this country want to hear is what my plans are to get Brexit over the line, what I'm going to do to unite our country and the ideas I have for a fantastic agenda of modern conservatism.\"\n\nThe female Tory member who asked the question said that his refusal to answer meant voters would \"come to their own conclusion and it may not be a favourable one\".\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"Then I'm going to have to live with that.\"", "Brenda and John Wright believe there is a discrepancy in the signatures on the statements of truth used to evict them\n\nRepresentatives of a government-owned bank are suspected of forging signatures on court documents in repossession cases, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told.\n\nIn the US, such practices - on a very large scale - led to billion-dollar fines and millions in compensation.\n\nThe allegations relate to UK Asset Resolution and loans from Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley, Mortgage Express, also Lloyds Banking Group.\n\nThe signatures, of bank officials and legal representatives, are found on documents such as statements of truth and witness statements submitted to the courts as part of repossession proceedings.\n\nAdam Brand, a handwriting expert witness in forgery cases, says he has seen dozens of examples provided by online action group the Bank Signature Forgery Campaign. In those cases, he considers it highly likely that different people have been signing under the same name.\n\nConservative MP Charlie Elphicke, who sits on the Treasury Select Committee, said it must investigate.\n\nAnd if proven, it could constitute contempt of court.\n\n\"You can be jailed for it,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to know how widespread this is.\"\n\nHe said there was \"enough evidence now to suggest this may be not a one-off but a systemic practice\".\n\n\"Both Mortgage Express and Lloyds need to cooperate, fully - and hand over the evidence,\" he said.\n\nIn 2014, Brenda and John Wright - now both in their 70s - were evicted from their rented flat in Southport, Merseyside.\n\nThere had been a dispute between the bank and the flat's owner over some mortgage arrears and they were served a notice of repossession.\n\nMs Wright said they \"could have had it all paid off within 10 months\" but their offer to pay more rent to help clear the arrears had been declined.\n\nFollowing their eviction, the couple said they saw a \"discrepancy\" in the signatures on documents from legal representatives for Mortgage Express, which appeared to suggest different people had signed over the same name on statements of truth used to evict them.\n\nEach of these signatures was attributed to the same person on court documents\n\nBBC News has shown them to handwriting expert Adam Brand.\n\nHe said the \"whole movement and the fluency\" of the signatures looked different.\n\nUK Asset Resolution [UKAR] said in a statement that it \"completely rejects the allegation that it has had any involvement in the practice of systemic signature forgery\".\n\nA cross-party group of MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking has now backed the Bank Signature Forgery Campaign.\n\nIts founder, Julian Watts - who believes he is also a victim of forged signatures - is looking for evidence he believes will show the practice has occurred routinely in the UK, which banks strongly deny.\n\nIn the US, banks were fined $25bn (£19bn) in 2012 and had to compensate millions of people for being repossessed illegally.\n\nThousands of documents were found to have been signed under one name, Linda Green.\n\nJulian Watts claims the practice has happened routinely in the UK, which banks strongly deny\n\nMr Watts said the signature used in actions by Mortgage Express to evict John and Brenda Wright had also been used, under a different name, to evict another tenant, in Gloucester, at about the same time.\n\nAnd, he said, he had now been sent evidence the same signature had been used over different names in 2018 - five years later.\n\n\"The likelihood that these different people have such a similar signature is tiny,\" he said.\n\nSimilar signatures in appearance were used under two different names, Ms D and Ms G\n\nUKAR, which rejects the allegations, said that \"treating customers fairly is a priority\".\n\nIt said it repeatedly asked the BBC to show evidence of the practice, but it had refused to do so.\n\nWe did not share names of the signatories due to concerns over privacy.\n\nA spokesman for Lloyds said: \"We recognise the impact that repossessing a home can have on our customers and are fully committed to doing everything reasonably possible to support mortgage customers in financial difficulty.\"\n\nIt said it did not have enough details to respond to wider allegations of the use of forged signatures, but strongly denied one case in which the BBC provided details.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "In the race to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are setting out how they want to run the UK.\n\nThey have both announced taxation and spending plans. So, what are the details and do their sums add up?\n\nPeople would only start to pay the higher rate of income tax when they earn at least £80,000, under Boris Johnson's plans\n\nThe plan: Raise the higher income tax rate from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nWhat it means: At the moment, individuals have to pay 40% income tax on any earnings above £50,000. So, a person earning £55,000 a year, pays 40% on £5,000.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's plan, the point at which the 40% higher rate kicks in would be raised to £80,000. This would not affect Scottish workers because the Scottish government sets its own income tax rates and bands.\n\nMr Johnson also wants to raise the point at which people start paying National Insurance, absorbing some of the cost by also raising the ceiling for NI.\n\nNational Insurance is a separate tax. It's paid for by workers and companies and it is meant to fund state benefits, such as the NHS.\n\nUnder this new tax regime, someone earning £60,000 a year could benefit by £1,000 a year, while someone on £80,000 or more would gain a maximum of £3,000 (because some of the benefits would be lost due to national insurance increases).\n\nBut it's wealthy pensioners who stand to benefit the most - up to £6,000 each, according to analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). That's because pensioners don't pay national insurance to begin with.\n\nSo if someone already receives a generous work pension, not only will they be subject to less income tax (up to the new threshold), they also won't be affected by the national insurance rise.\n\nThe cost: Changing the tax system in this way would cost around £10bn a year, according to Mr Johnson. He says the bill could be funded from the £26.6bn of \"fiscal headroom\".\n\nThis \"headroom\" refers to government borrowing, which came in lower than originally expected and had been ear-marked by the chancellor for no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nHowever, if Mr Johnson chooses to fund his tax changes with this £26.6bn, it would not amount to a permanent solution. That's because the money can only be spent once.\n\nSo, to pay for the policy in the long term, Mr Johnson will need to raise taxes elsewhere, announce spending cuts or continue to fund it from government borrowing.\n\nWhat it means: A leading supporter of Mr Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times that the days of public sector pay freezes under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and rises were capped at 1% in 2013. The government announced an end to the pay cap in 2017, and some public sector workers have negotiated increases above 1% since then.\n\nThe candidate himself has declined to specify by how much he would increase pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nHe has also pledged to fund increased investment in special needs education, as part of a £4.6bn boost to overall school funding.\n\nThe cost: We don't know by how much Mr Johnson wants to increase public sector pay, but the IFS says that each 1% increase in pay for the public sector workforce costs the government about £1.8bn a year.\n\nThe plan: Hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022\n\nWhat it means: There are 122,000 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.\n\nMr Johnson plans to reverse almost all of those cuts on the basis that \"more people on our streets means more people are kept safe\".\n\nThere has been some dispute about the link between police numbers and levels of violent crime, with Theresa May saying there was not a direct link.\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said there is \"some link\" between the two.\n\nFor police officers outside London, the lowest pay was around £25,400 in 2016 (although this differs from force to force).\n\nThat comes to £500m a year, but these costs will increase once they complete training, which takes around two years.\n\nTypically, after four years, the pay would increase to £33,700 (again outside London) - so almost £700m, but this doesn't account for training costs.\n\nThe Nottinghamshire police force estimated recruitment and training to be around £13,000 per officer in 2012 (not including salary received during training).\n\nThis would come in at about £258m for 20,000 new officers, but again, this will differ from force to force.\n\nKit Malthouse, who supports Mr Johnson, says that they would recruit special constables, who are trained as police officers but work part time, to help alleviate training costs.\n\nWhat it means: From April 2020, instead of paying 17% tax on their profits, companies would pay 12.5%.\n\nThe foreign secretary is in favour of cutting the rate of corporation tax - the tax that companies pay on their profits - to 12.5%, which is the same rate as in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe government is already planning a series of cuts to corporation tax, which was cut from 20% to 19% on 1 April 2017, and is scheduled to fall to 17% next year.\n\nThe idea of cutting it by another 4.5 percentage points came in a report by another Conservative MP at the end of May.\n\nThe cost: The government estimates the policy would cost about £14bn a year. That cost would be reduced if future tax takes were to be boosted by companies being attracted to move to the UK to take advantage of the lower tax rate, or if companies use the money saved to pay higher wages or invest it in improving their productivity.\n\nHow much that would reduce the cost is very hard to predict.\n\nThe plan: Take 90% of businesses out of business rates\n\nWhat it means: Business rates are a local tax paid on the use of buildings for non-domestic purposes.\n\nThe cost: We haven't seen any formal costings of this policy, but in the 2018 Budget, Philip Hammond decided to give a one-third discount on business rates to high street retail businesses with a rateable value below £51,000 in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The Treasury said that would benefit 90% of high street retail businesses.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility said the discount would cost £490m this year and £450m next year.\n\nIt means we can estimate that a 100% cut for those businesses would cost an extra £900m next year and about £1.35bn a year after that.\n\nBusiness rates are currently collected by local authorities, which retain half of the money. Central government is reimbursing them for the one-third cut and would presumably also reimburse them for the 100% cut.\n\nWhat it means: If you are running a business and you buy equipment such as computers or machinery, you can deduct the amount you spend on it from your profits to reduce the amount of tax you have to pay.\n\nThere is a limit to the amount you can deduct, which is called the annual investment allowance. At the start of this year it was raised from £200,000 to £1m for two years.\n\nThe cost: We do not have a costing for this measure either, but to get an idea of the amounts of money involved, the OBR said the temporary increase to £1m would cost £600m this year.\n\nThe plan: Money for fishing, farming and defence\n\nWhat it means: Jeremy Hunt would increase spending on defence from its current level of 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP - the sum of everything the UK produces each year) to 2.5% of GDP by 2023-4.\n\nHe has also said he would have a \"relief programme\" for the fishing and farming sectors to help them deal with the effects of a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe cost: The boost to defence spending would cost £15bn a year by 2023-4. The relief for fishing and farming would cost £6bn. Mr Hunt says his overall plans would \"kick-start the economy and create extra growth\", which would mean the government had extra money to spend.\n\nBut the disruption involved in leaving the EU with no deal is widely expected to reduce growth - at least initially - which would mean that increased taxes or borrowing or reduced spending in other areas would be required to fund the extra spending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJaguar Land Rover (JLR) is investing hundreds of millions of pounds to build a range of electric vehicles at its Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham.\n\nInitially the plant will produce an electric version of the Jaguar XJ.\n\nJLR says the move will help secure the jobs of 2,700 workers at the plant.\n\nThe news follows January's announcement, when the firm said it would cut 4,500 jobs, with the majority coming from the UK. That followed 1,500 jobs lost in 2018.\n\nJLR has not announced when it will launch the battery version of the XJ, but it will replace the petrol and diesel versions which have been made since 1968.\n\nThe company's chief executive, Professor Ralph Speth, called on the government to put more effort into providing charging points for electric cars.\n\n\"The current charging infrastructure is not really sufficient to cover the country, nor the hotspots of the cities,\" he said in an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"The government has to govern the process,\" he added.\n\nJLR's announcement comes a day after a report showed that in June sales of low emission cars had fallen for the first time in more than two years.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said efforts to sell such cars were being undermined by confusing policies and \"premature\" removal of subsidies.\n\nIn response, the government said its focus on zero emission models had been a success, with registrations of battery electric vehicles up over 60% this year compared with the same period in 2018.\n\nAccording to another report, even if the nation switches to electric vehicles, car use will still need to be curbed.\n\nThe Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) warned that electrifying cars will not address traffic jams, urban sprawl and wasted space for parking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe investment decision by JLR appears to contradict previous warnings by the firm that investment in the UK would be threatened by Brexit, and in particular a no-deal scenario.\n\nHowever, industry experts say that JLR could not wait to see the outcome of the Brexit, as it needed to update its range of vehicles.\n\n\"Given where it is in its product lifecycle it [JLR] has to make this decision. The capacity is at Castle Bromwich and there's research and development nearby as well, so they've basically run out of time on this decision,\" David Bailey, a professor of business economics at Birmingham Business School, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nHe added that without the new investment the Castle Bromwich plant would \"effectively be dead\".\n\nThe plant also produces the Jaguar XF, XE and F-Type.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said: \"Today's announcement is a vote of confidence in the UK automotive industry - protecting thousands of skilled jobs.\n\n\"It reflects our determination for the UK to be at the forefront of the development and manufacturing of the next generation of electric vehicles.\"\n\nJLR is investing to produce an electric version of the XJ model\n\nInvestment in the UK car industry fell 47% last year from 2017 and the country is attracting a tiny fraction of the global investment in electric cars.\n\nVW alone is investing £70bn in Europe, the US and China.\n\nA no-deal Brexit would see new tariffs imposed on components and parts moving between the EU and the UK.\n\nVauxhall's parent company said that without a deal it would not make the next generation Astra at Ellesmere Port.", "A High Court judge has given doctors permission to administer insulin to a diabetic teenager who was refusing treatment because she wants to die.\n\nMr Justice MacDonald said there was no evidence the patient lacked mental capacity, but in the circumstances it was right to override her wishes.\n\nThe treatment was in the girl's best interests, the judge ruled.\n\nDoctors at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust had said she needed help as a matter of urgency.\n\nThe girl, who is in her mid-teens, cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports of domestic abuse increase over the summer months, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has warned.\n\nIt is using a new animated video to explain that the abuse can take many forms.\n\nThe awareness campaign comes just weeks after the PSNI said it had received the biggest number of abuse reports in a single year last year.\n\nRead more: New campaign after rise in domestic abuse", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather forecast for the rest of the week - thunderstorms ahead\n\nIt is officially the hottest day of the year so far in the UK with temperatures soaring to 35.1C in Surrey.\n\nNorthern Ireland, Scotland and Wales saw high temperatures of 26.2-29.4C.\n\nThe Met Office says temperatures will keep rising into Friday and the UK's all-time temperature record of 38.5C (101F) - set in Kent in August 2003 - could be beaten.\n\nBut parts of England are experiencing heavy rainfall and thunderstorm warnings are in place.\n\nThe maximum temperature in Wales was 29.4C in Usk and for Northern Ireland, 26.2C at Giants Causeway.\n\nThe highest temperature recorded in Scotland was 27.6C in Dunstaffnage.\n\nTemperatures of 37C (99F) have been forecast in southern, eastern and central England for Friday.\n\nThe July record for the highest overnight minimum temperature is 23.3C - and the Met Office says that could be surpassed in south-east England on Thursday.\n\nThe UK's current all-time record temperature for July stands at 36.7C, which was recorded at Heathrow in July 2015.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms is in place in the East and West Midlands, the East of England, London and the South East, and Yorkshire until 21:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nAnother will come into force for large parts of England between 14:00 and 23:45 on Friday.\n\nSome places could see as much as 30mm of rainfall in an hour and 60mm in three hours.\n\nX Factor star James Arthur cancelled his open air show in Scarborough because of continued lightning strikes in the area.\n\nAnd a search is ongoing after a teenage boy went missing after going into the sea near Clacton Pier in Essex.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHigh temperatures have been blamed for delays to cross-Channel rail services of up to five hours.\n\nEurotunnel said air conditioning problems meant some carriages could not be used, which led to the delays.\n\nIt added that queues formed on the UK side because of the sheer number of France-bound passengers at the start of the summer getaway.\n\nThe RAC said it was expecting breakdowns to be about 15-20% higher than they would normally expect for late July, adding that breakdowns were already up 25% in London.\n\nThe scene was described on social media as \"boarding chaos\"\n\nMeanwhile, London's fire chief has called for barbecue bans to be imposed in the capital's parks after a record-breaking number of grass fires.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's Commissioner Dany Cotton urged all borough councils to impose a temporary ban in the \"tinder dry capital\" as it was \"only a matter of time\" before someone was seriously hurt.\n\nThere have already been 43 large grass fires in London so far this year, compared to seven in the whole of 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there were so many heatwaves around the world in 2018\n\nA high pollution warning was issued for London on Thursday, due to a mix of toxic air, extremely high temperatures, emissions from the continent and a lack of cloud.\n\nYoung people, the elderly and those with lung or heart problems were advised to reduce strenuous exercise and physical exertion.\n\nHospitals, too, have been affected by the heat.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said high temperatures were leaving nurses dizzy and exhausted.\n\nOne nurse was admitted to A&E with dehydration after working three 12-hours shifts in a row during the heatwave.\n\nKim Sun-Lee, national officer at the RCN, said: \"It is vital employers adapt working practices to the heat - both patients and nurses must have easy access to water, and all healthcare staff should be able to take regular breaks, preferably somewhere cool.\"\n\nPeople cool off at the bathing pond on Hampstead Heath, London\n\nOthers try to stay out of the sun, like this man on Brighton beach\n\nNHS Providers - the trade body which represents NHS services - said some hospitals were back to \"winter conditions\" after reporting record numbers of A&E admissions.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive, said: \"We have heard concerns about large numbers of people from care homes requiring treatment.\n\n\"This extra activity is leading to delays for patients requiring planned operations such as knee and hip replacements.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also said blood supplies had dropped because some people have been too dehydrated to donate, while others have chosen to stay in the sun.", "Cardi B has pulled out of her tour with Bruno Mars in the autumn.\n\nThe rapper says she \"underestimated this whole mommy thing\" and isn't ready to leave her baby.\n\nCardi became a mum on 10 July when she gave birth to a baby girl with her husband Offset from Migos.\n\nThe 25-year-old was due to join Bruno Mars on tour for 24 dates across North America on the final leg of his 24K Magic tour.\n\nOffset and Cardi B have been together since 2017\n\nShe made the announcement on Instagram.\n\n\"I thought that after giving birth to my daughter that six weeks would be enough time for me to recover mentally and physically.\n\n\"I also thought that I'd be able to bring her with me on tour, but I think I underestimated this whole mommy thing.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBruno Mars and Cardi B collaborated on the song Finesse.\n\nShe says pulling out of the tour has has been a really hard decision for her and hopes her fans will understand.\n\nBruno Mars has responded on Twitter supporting her decision: \"The most important thing is you and your family's health.\"\n\nCardi B and Bruno Mars on stage at the Grammy Awards\n\nHe added: \"We love you Cardi and we will play Bodak Yellow every night in your honour.\n\n\"Please give your baby girl a hug from me and a hug on behalf of everyone on The 24k Magic Tour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bruno Mars This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCardi B, who is from New-York announced Kulture's birth on Instagram on July 11.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by iamcardib This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKulture is Cardi B's first child but the fourth for 26-year-old Offset.\n\nThe couple married in a secret ceremony in September last year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Survivors of the Greek wildfires, which have killed at least 83 people, have confronted Greece's defence minister over the response to the disaster.\n\nThey say they waited hours for help to come and questioned where the authorities were when they needed them.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Gavin Lee, the minister Panos Kammenos said residents had ignored planning laws and built on wooded areas, blocking escape routes.", "A man found guilty of killing a woman in a speedboat crash in London during their first date has handed himself into police in Georgia. been sentenced to six years imprisonment.\n\nJack Shepherd told police how he took Charlotte Brown out on the Thames before they were thrown overboard.\n\nThe 30-year-old skipped bail before his trial at the Old Bailey began and was sentenced to six years imprisonment in his absence.\n\nRead more: The speedboat seducer who made a fatal error", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The group was said to be between the ages of 16 and 19\n\nArmed police have stopped the filming of a drill music video to carry out a stop and search.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it was called to London Fields in east London after reports of a firearm being seen.\n\nPart of the stop and search was filmed, with a group said to be aged between 16 and 19 told to put their hands above their heads by police holding guns.\n\nThe Met described the searches as \"satisfactory\" and said there were no arrests.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by officialgiggs This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPacman, the person who was filming the video - who didn't want to be identified by his real name - labelled the incident \"embarrassing\" and \"degrading\".\n\nThe 25-year-old told Newsbeat he was filming a video for drill artist Balistik, but had only managed to get one shot before being approached by armed police.\n\nPacman says that they spotted a police helicopter circling overhead, but at first didn't take any notice.\n\n\"When you see a chopper you associate it with a high profile chase, or a high profile criminal - someone they're tracking down. That sort of thing.\n\n\"To my surprise it was actually there for the kids I was filming for.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group, who were wearing balaclavas which Pacman describes as \"props\", were told to turn around and put their hands on their heads.\n\n\"One of them (the police) even came over to me and said 'Put the camera down mate, go and join your effing friends',\" Pacman says.\n\n\"I said to him 'Hold on, I'm a company director - I'm here hired on a job.\"\n\nPacman, who hadn't obtained permission from Hackney Council to film in the park, alleges multiple people approached the police to accuse them of racially profiling the group during the search.\n\n\"Another white lady came over and started screaming, saying 'What the hell are you guys doing? You always do this to my son's friends as well!'.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it was responding to a report of a firearm and were supported by the National Police Air Service.\n\nPacman says there was \"no use of any sort of weapon, or any replica of any weapon\" in the video shoot.\n\nHe says the only scene they filmed was \"one of the young guys rapping in front of a cage, with some of the kids playing basketball in the background.\n\n\"It was at that point the police stormed in,\" he says.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Balistik8th This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDrill music has been linked to violence in the capital by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick.\n\nYouTube deleted content which she says glamorises violence at Ms Dick's request.\n\nPacman, who's shot videos for Lady Leshurr and Paigey Cakey, as well as prominent drill acts like Loski, says he doesn't see the link between the music and violence.\n\n\"When you're making music you can't be in two places at once - you can't be touring or in the studio and out committing crime as well,\" he says.\n\n\"The only side of drill music I'd say possibly incites violence would be diss tracks, and that's like anything in life. If you diss somebody on social media, if you diss somebody in real life, if you diss them through music - it's gonna cause problems.\"\n\nPeople in the video's comments are divided.\n\nMany say that people can't wear balaclavas in public places and expect not to be stopped by the police - while others have said that the police profiled the group.\n\nPacman thinks that they should have been treated as though they were shooting a film - and that the Met's response was out of proportion.\n\n\"For them to bring the police helicopter, so many armed police and aim at these kids when nothing's happened? That's where the problem lies.\n\n\"If they were normal officers who came over and didn't aim any firearms at them and spoke to them with reason, and explained what was happening in a way that everyone could understand, it would've been fine.\n\n\"But the way that it was handled was all wrong.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "A man from Bristol has made his first visit to London in more than 70 years to mark his 100th birthday.\n\nThe last time Raymond Kendall visited the capital, World War Two was taking place and he travelled by steam train.", "This YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by EllaMaiVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFor the first time in more than a quarter of a century, a British singer has topped the US R&B chart.\n\nElla Mai, a 23-year-old from south London, is currently at number one with Boo'd Up, a soulful infatuation anthem she first released last year.\n\nIt makes her the first Brit to reach the summit since Lisa Stansfield hit number one with All Woman in 1992.\n\n\"1992, before I was born,\" she tweeted after being told the news. \"First in my lifetime. INSANE!\"\n\nFellow Brits Charli XCX, Paul McCartney and Kyla have recently appeared as featured artists on US R&B number ones, but Ella Mai is the first to reach the peak as a lead artist for 26 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ella Mai This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lisa Stansfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoo'd Up, which originally featured on Ella Mai's six-song Ready EP last February, has had a slow rise to the top - receiving a recent boost when Nicki Minaj and Quavo jumped on a remix.\n\nBut its success really started in San Francisco last December, when someone asked Bay Area DJ Big Von to play it in a club set.\n\nHe hadn't heard the song before, but downloaded it and cued it up. What happened next took him by surprise.\n\n\"I've never seen a reaction like this,\" he later told Rolling Stone. \"When I played it, the whole place went, 'Woo!'\n\n\"I saw a fat dude do a cartwheel - a solid cartwheel, he didn't even fall.\"\n\nThe next day, Big Von played the song five times on his radio show, and it took off from there. It first reached number one in May, and returns for a second run at the top this week.\n\nThe singer is set to release her debut album later this year\n\nElla Mai wasn't prepared for Boo'd Up's success, but says she understands why people latched on to it.\n\n\"It has quite nostalgic feel to it,\" she told The Fader. \"There's no cursing, it's super innocent, and everyone's been through that puppy-love sort of thing.\"\n\nHowever, the song, which recalls the smooth 1990s R&B of Mariah Carey, SWV and Erykah Badu, has not found similar success in the singer's home country.\n\nIt's currently at number 62 in the official charts, prompting Vice to publish an article headlined: \"The UK is sleeping on Ella Mai and it's embarrassing\".\n\n\"I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the UK,\" the singer explained to Newsbeat last month.\n\n\"It's on the up here and I think we'll get there eventually. I'm proud to be from England and doing so well in America so I can fly the flag.\"\n\nAlthough Mai isn't a star in the UK just yet, eagle-eyed fans might recognise her as a member of girl group Arize, who auditioned for The X Factor in 2014.\n\nAfter being kicked out of the competition, the band broke up and Ella Mai began posting cover versions on Instagram.\n\nHer version of Tupac's Keep Your Head Up caught the attention of US producer DJ Mustard (Rihanna, Cardi B, Ty Dolla $ign), who signed her to his label.\n\nSince then, she's released three EPs, toured with US R&B star Kehlani and is currently finishing her debut album.\n\nUK fans will get to see her when she plays 1Xtra Live alongside Chance The Rapper, Jorja Smith and Pusha T at the O2 Arena in London on 22 September.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Ella Mai: The Brit whose song is taking the US by storm\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Schnatter will no longer appear on Papa John's pizza boxes and other marketing material\n\nThe founder and former chairman of Papa John's has taken the company to court seeking access to documents related to his exit from the pizza chain.\n\nJohn Schnatter resigned earlier this month after apologising for using the N-word in a conference call.\n\nLawyers for Mr Schnatter said they wanted to see the documents because of the \"unexplained and heavy-handed way\" that Papa John's had treated him.\n\nPapa John's said it was \"saddened and disappointed\" by the lawsuit.\n\nMr Schnatter filed the complaint on Thursday in Delaware Chancery Court.\n\nHis attorneys said they were \"seeking to inspect Company documents because of the unexplained and heavy-handed way in which the Company has treated him since the publication of a story that falsely accused him of using a racial slur\".\n\n\"Rather than address the real issues like the health of the business, the company is hiding documents that, we believe, will disclose the actual facts as to what is occurring here, including using Mr Schnatter as a scapegoat to cover up their own shortcomings and failures,\" they added.\n\nIn a statement Papa John's said the company was \"saddened and disappointed\" that Mr Schnatter had filed a \"needless and wasteful lawsuit in an attempt to distract from his own words and actions\".\n\n\"We are providing Mr Schnatter all of the materials he is entitled to as a director.\n\n\"We will not let his numerous mis-statements in the complaint and elsewhere distract us from the important work we are doing to move the business forward for our 120,000 corporate and franchise team members, and our franchisees, customers and stakeholders,\" the company said.\n\nAfter Mr Schnatter's resignation the company said it would remove his image from its branding.\n\nMr Schnatter's resignation as chairman was announced earlier this month\n\nPapa John's is the world's third-largest pizza chain, with more than 350 outlets in the UK and 4,900 restaurants worldwide.\n\nThe incident occurred during a media training conference call in May between top staff at Papa John's and a marketing agency called Laundry Service.\n\nAccording to Forbes, the call involved a role-playing exercise that was supposed to give Mr Schnatter experience in dealing with difficult issues.\n\nWhen discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.\n\nIt was not the first controversy involving Mr Schnatter. He resigned as chief executive last year after criticising the NFL over players' national anthem protests.", "Aerial images of scorched towns and villages have revealed the scale of the devastation caused by this week's deadly wildfires in Greece.\n\nFlames tore through pine forests around Athens on Monday evening, killing at least 83 people. Many more are missing.\n\nThe fast-moving flames engulfed the homes of terrified residents and tourists, as well as those trying to flee in cars or on foot.\n\nBurnt-out houses and vehicles can be seen across the east Atica towns and villages of Mati, Neos Voutzas and Rafina, with whole communities devastated.\n\nA map produced by EU satellite service Copernicus reveals the devastation of residential areas.\n\nIn the coastal village of Mati, one resident described the arrival of the fires as \"a night of hell\".\n\nMany survivors were saved by fleeing to the sea, but a large number of the victims were trapped close to a cliff-edge, unable to reach the water.\n\nMati, an hour's drive east of Athens, is made up of small villas, popular among Greeks as a weekend getaway destination.\n\nIt is also home to a large community of retirees, and, during school holidays, many young children arrive to spend time by the coast with their grandparents.\n\nGrandmother Sophia Tsaganou Profitou described driving at high speed around fallen burning tree branches to get her 88-year-old husband Yannis and her nine-year-old granddaughter Katerina to safety.\n\n\"It all happened so fast,\" she said. \"No one warned us. Yannis told us to get our stuff but we didn't even have time for that, the flames were already here.\"\n\nThe swiftly advancing inferno also engulfed nearby Neos Voutzas, a village nestled among the rolling hills covered by pine trees.\n\nTheofilaktos Logothetic described his escape: \"The fire was chasing after us, whoever managed to leave in time, did so. The person who was right behind me when I drove to the main road did not make it, the fire took him and melted him.\"\n\nThe flames also reached Rafina, where residents fled to the sea to escape.\n\nAs volunteers now collect food and clothes for the survivors, the search goes on for many still missing since the night of the fire.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nEllie Soutter, one of Britain's most talented young snowboarders, died on her 18th birthday on Wednesday.\n\nSoutter won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2017 Youth Olympic Winter Festival and carried the British flag at the closing ceremony.\n\nThis month she was named in the senior GB squad for the snowboard cross Europa Cup circuit, and was tipped for a place at the 2022 Winter Olympics.\n\nShe had been training abroad in Europe, and died near her home in France.\n\nNo further details have been released about her death.\n\nWriting on Facebook on Thursday, her father, Tony Soutter, said he was \"so proud of the beautiful young woman she had turned into\".\n\nHe added: \"This cruel world took my soul mate and 'Bessie' from me yesterday on her 18th birthday. Ellie I will miss you more than you could have ever imagined. Rest in peace you little champion.\"\n\nBritish Olympic Association chair Hugh Robertson and BOA Athlete Commission chair Ben Hawes said in a joint statement: \"Ellie was an incredibly popular and well-liked member of the team.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.\"\n\nThe statement said Soutter was due to return to competition next month after being selected for the GB team for the Junior World Championships in New Zealand.\n\n\"Ellie was one of the country's best up-and-coming snowboarders, competing in both snowboard cross and freeride,\" British Ski and Snowboard said in a statement.\n\nTeam GB said Soutter grew up in Oxted, Surrey, before moving to the Alps, where she trained.\n\nTributes - 'You were an amazing girl'\n\nEight-time British ski-cross champion Emily Sarsfield is among those to have paid tribute.\n\n\"So sad to hear the news of the passing of Ellie Souter. You really were an amazing girl,\" she posted on social media.\n\n\"Such a fun team-mate, made me smile every day, cracking all the jokes and enjoying life to its fullest. I'm going to miss you and your amazing energy. All my thoughts to your family.\"\n\nBritain's 2010 Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams said: \"Such sad tragic news to wake up to. Thoughts and prayers go to Ellie Soutter's family.\"\n\nSlopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller said it was \"devastating news\" and added: \"We've lost a fellow snowboarder and a great inspirational talent within our small community.\"\n\nSoutter's bronze was Team GB's only medal at the Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Turkey last year.\n\nTeam GB celebrated her medal with the Twitter message: \"Tears of joy and snow stuffed down her back.\"\n\nSpeaking after her event, she said: \"I cried as I crossed the line. I was just so emotional as it hasn't been the best season for me and it's finally on the way up.\n\n\"I even asked my coach to put snow down my back when I was in the start gate. It helps wake me up so I don't feel all floppy like a jellyfish.\n\n\"I just hope this isn't the last medal I win for Team GB. My goal is to compete at Beijing 2022.\"\n\nHer father had set up an online crowdfunding campaign to help her achieve this aim, which had raised close to a quarter of its 20,000 euros (£17,800) target.", "It turns out it's not just gratitude that makes rain smell so appealing after a long period of dry weather.\n\nThere's actually some chemistry involved too.\n\nBacteria, plants and even lightning can all play a role in the pleasant smell we experience after a thunderstorm; that of clean air and wet earth.\n\nKnown as petrichor, the scent has long been chased by scientists and even perfumers for its enduring appeal.\n\nFirst named by two Australian researchers in the 1960s, the warm, earthy fragrance we experience when rain hits dry ground is produced by bacteria.\n\n\"These critters are abundant in soil,\" explained Prof Mark Buttner, head of molecular microbiology at the John Innes Centre.\n\n\"So when you're saying you smell damp soil, actually what you're smelling is a molecule being made by a certain type of bacteria,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThat molecule, geosmin, is produced by Streptomyces. Present in most healthy soils, these bacteria are also used to create commercial antibiotics.\n\nDrops of water hitting the ground cause geosmin to be released into the air, making it much more abundant after a rain shower.\n\n\"Lots of animals are sensitive but human beings are extremely sensitive to it,\" added Prof Buttner.\n\nIsabel Bear and RG Thomas, the researchers who first named the scent petrichor, found that as early as the 1960s it was being captured to sell as a scent called \"matti ka attar\" in Uttar Pradesh, India.\n\nNow, geosmin is becoming more common as a perfume ingredient.\n\n\"It's a really potent material and it smells just like the concrete when the rain hits it,\" said perfumer Marina Barcenilla. \"There's something very primitive and very primal about the smell.\"\n\n\"Even when you dilute it down to the parts per billion range, [humans] can still detect it,\" she added.\n\nYet we also have an odd relationship with geosmin - while we are drawn to its scent, many of us dislike its taste.\n\nGeosmin also gives beets their distinctive earthy flavour\n\nEven though it is not toxic to humans, the tiniest amount can put people off mineral water or wine when it is present.\n\n\"We do not know why we dislike geosmin,\" commented Prof Jeppe Lund Nielsen from Aalborg University in Denmark.\n\n\"It is not toxic to humans in typical found ranges, but somehow we associate it with something negative,\" he added.\n\nCoined by scientists Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas in their 1964 article \"Nature of Argillaceous Odour\", published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe word was coined from Greek petros, meaning \"stone\", and ichor, meaning \"the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods\"\n\nAccording to Prof Nielsen, research also indicates that geosmin could be related to terpenes - the source of scent in many plants.\n\nTerpenes are commonly produced by conifers like pine\n\nRain could bring these fragrances out, says Prof Philip Stevenson, a research leader at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\n\"Often the plant chemicals that smell pleasant are produced in leaf hairs... and the rain may damage these, releasing the compounds.\n\n\"Rain may also break dry plant material releasing chemicals in a similar way to when you crush dried herbs - the smell becomes stronger,\" he told the BBC.\n\nVery dry periods may also slow down plant metabolism, with renewed rainfall giving it a kick start and causing plants to release a pleasant scent.\n\nThunderstorms have their role to play too, creating the clean, sharp scent of ozone - caused by lightning and other electrical discharges in the atmosphere.\n\nProf Maribeth Stolzenburg of the University of Mississippi explains: \"Besides the lightning, the thunderstorm and especially the rain will improve the air quality. Much of the dust, aerosols, and other particulates are rained out and the air clears.\"", "Michael Cohen has claimed he was in the room when Mr Trump was told about the meeting\n\nPresident Donald Trump's former lawyer has said his client knew in advance of a June 2016 meeting between his aides and a Russian delegation that offered to help his campaign, US media report.\n\nMichael Cohen says he was present when Mr Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, informed his father of the meeting.\n\nHe is reportedly willing to state this to the special counsel investigation into alleged Russian election meddling.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump again denied that he knew about the meeting.\n\nThe meeting at Trump Tower in New York City involved Mr Trump's son, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an influential Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.\n\nIt was set up after a Russian intermediary contacted Mr Trump Jr with a promise to provide material that would \"incriminate\" Hillary Clinton - the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe president lashed out at the accusations on Friday, tweeting: \"Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe meeting in New York is a part of an investigation into alleged Russia meddling in 2016\n\nAccording to CNN and NBC, Mr Cohen does not have any audio recordings to support his account but is willing to assert it as part of the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference.\n\nMichael Cohen is turning into a dangerous adversary for the US president.\n\nDonald Trump Jr and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have both testified - one to Congress, the other to the special counsel - that the president knew nothing about the meeting until details of it emerged a year later.\n\nWhat's unclear is whether Michael Cohen has anything to corroborate his claim. That's led President Trump's new lawyer Rudy Giuliani to launch a scathing attack on Mr Cohen's character, describing him as a \"pathological liar\".\n\nUntil very recently Michael Cohen had said he would take a bullet for the president. He now seems to be pointing a gun at Mr Trump's head.\n\nIn response to the allegation, Mr Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told NBC that Mr Cohen \"is not credible\".\n\n\"It's not true,\" he said. \"Why would you expect it would be true from someone like Cohen? A lawyer who would tape their own client is a lawyer without any character.\"\n\nHis comments refer to reports that Mr Cohen secretly recorded the president discussing payments to a former Playboy model.\n\nThe tapes were reportedly discovered during an FBI raid on Mr Cohen's property earlier this year in New York.\n\nMr Trump insists he has done nothing wrong and says such a recording would be \"totally unheard of and perhaps illegal\".\n\nBut things changed after the FBI raided his office and home in April.\n\nAbout a dozen audio recordings were seized and passed to federal prosecutors.\n\nMr Cohen told ABC News this month that his loyalty to his family and country came before his old boss.\n\nHis comments stoked speculation that he might co-operate with investigators against Mr Trump, although there has been no confirmation so far that he has done so.\n\nMr Cohen is reportedly under investigation for possible bank and tax fraud, as well as potential violation of election law, though he has so far not been charged with anything.", "Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has sparked controversy by calling for a fresh referendum on any Brexit deal.\n\nSo how did the former England player go from being a football star to a social media heavyweight?", "Private companies that run probation services are to have their government contracts ended early - after MPs said the system for supervising criminals was in a \"mess\".\n\nThe contracts began in 2015 to manage low-risk offenders in England and Wales, under a partial privatisation by then-Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nMinisters are proposing further changes and private firms will remain involved.\n\nBut Labour said the costly contracts had created an \"unprecedented crisis\".\n\nIt comes after the Commons justice committee said in July that changes to probation had failed, and it was unconvinced private sector firms could ever deliver an effective service.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the government had hoped that shaking up probation would result in less reoffending. The number of people reoffending has reduced slightly, but those that do are committing crimes more frequently.\n\nThe arrangements for managing offenders were overhauled in 2014, with the probation service split in two.\n\nA new state body, the National Probation Service (NPS), was set up to supervise high-risk offenders, with 21 privately run Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) supervising low and medium-risk offenders.\n\nBut David Gauke, who became justice secretary in January, said that while the £3.7bn Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme had been ambitious and innovative, several CRCs had made \"very substantial losses\".\n\nMr Gauke said the amount of work available for the CRCs had been \"lower than anticipated and that has had an impact in terms of their income and the services they are able to provide\".\n\nHe also said he was determined to have a service that reduced reoffending, and could oversee \"tough\" community sentences with less reliance on \"ineffective\" short prison terms.\n\nExisting contracts will now end two years early, in 2020 - and will be replaced with 10 new ones under changes that will cost the government £170m.\n\nThis includes £110m that the CRCs owe the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in fines for failing to meet performance targets - but which they will be allowed to reinvest in services to keep them going for the last two years of their agreements.\n\nThe MoJ will also pay £46m over the next two years for services that help offenders immediately after they are released from prison.\n\nThe MoJ said it had budgeted to pay firms £2.5bn by 2020 but had only paid out £2.2bn - a saving of £300m - because less work than anticipated was allocated to the CRCs.\n\nThis was because there was an increase in the proportion of serious offences which they were ineligible to work on.\n\nMr Gauke said new contracts would make better use of offending data and would move towards \"payment for services delivered\", but he ruled out allowing CRCs to take on high-risk cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"People under probation supervision need help to change\" says Dame Glenys Stacey\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said: \"This decision to throw more good money after bad and the government's re-commitment to a privately-run probation service shows that the Conservatives have run out of all ideas on how to fix their broken system.\"\n\nAnd the GMB union said the probation officers it represented were overworked and demoralised.\n\nGMB national officer George Georgiou said: \"Fragmenting the service has moved us away from a coherent national workforce strategy for the entire probation service.\"\n\nBut the government's proposals were welcomed by the chief probation inspector, Dame Glenys Stacey.\n\nDame Glenys, who was critical of probation services in her report in December, said: \"There is much to welcome in these proposals, and we are pleased to see that our inspection evidence and findings and our wider advice have had significant influence and impact.\"", "Prince Charles was photographed with the then Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993\n\nThe Prince of Wales has told an inquiry he did not seek to influence a police investigation into a paedophile bishop.\n\nA written submission from the prince was read to an inquiry into the abuse inflicted by former Bishop Peter Ball.\n\nPrince Charles said he felt \"deep personal regret\" for trusting Ball when initial reports of abuse emerged, years before he was jailed in 2015.\n\nIn a 1997 letter, the prince said of a critic of Ball: \"I'll see this horrid man off if he tries anything.\"\n\nIn a series of letters between Prince Charles and the Bishop, read to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Ball spoke of a \"malicious campaign\" against him and \"harassment\" by \"fraudulent\" accusers.\n\nIn a letter to Ball in 1995, the prince said: \"I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strong about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you.\"\n\nIn 1997, the prince wrote a letter in which he described an apparent accuser as a \"ghastly man... up to his dastardly tricks again\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was \"misled\" and his \"heart goes out to the victims\"\n\nIn 2015 Ball, 86, was jailed for 32 months for offences against 18 teenagers and men.\n\nIn the written submission, read by the counsel to the inquiry Fiona Scolding, the prince said he had been \"misled\" and at the time \"there was on my part a presumption of good faith\" in relation to Ball.\n\nHe added: \"I first became aware of Peter Ball during the 1980s. He was later appointed Bishop of Gloucester when he became my local diocesan bishop.\n\n\"Peter Ball told me he had been involved in some sort of 'indiscretion' which prompted his resignation as my local bishop.\n\n\"He emphasised that one individual that I now understand to be Mr Neil Todd had made a complaint to the police, that the police had investigated the matter, and the Crown Prosecution Service had decided to take no action.\n\n\"That sequence of events seemed to support Mr Ball's claim that the complaint emanated from one individual and that individual bore a grudge against him and was persecuting him, that the complaint was false, but that the individual had nonetheless profited from the complaint by selling his story.\n\n\"Events later demonstrated beyond any doubt, to my deep regret, that I, along with many others, has been misled.\"\n\nPeter Ball was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men which were carried out over 30 years\n\nThe prince said in the 1980s and 1990s there was \"a presumption that people such as Bishops could be taken at their word and, as a result of the high office they held, were worthy of trust and confidence\".\n\nHe said: \"Throughout my life my position has occasionally brought me into contact with prominent people who have subsequently been accused of serious wrong doing.\n\n\"Rather than rushing to private judgement I have always taken the view that the judicial process should take its course.\"\n\nKnowing what we know now, there's no doubt the prince's letters to Bishop Ball in the 1990s - in particular his expression of sympathy for the \"monstrous wrongs\" supposedly done to him - are embarrassing.\n\nLooking back at them they reveal a degree of naivety on the part of the prince.\n\nBut it must be said Charles wasn't alone around that time in demonstrating a disinclination to doubt the bona fides of a supposedly charismatic figure.\n\nAs we now know, major institutions like the Church, NHS, BBC, were notably reluctant to ask uncomfortable questions and to make proper inquiries.\n\nIn the prince's case there is a sense, as his statement says, of \"deep personal regret\" that he was one of the many deceived by the bishop.\n\nThe fact the prince has opened his personal correspondence for scrutiny is a recognition, his officials say, of the importance the prince attaches to the inquiry's work.\n\nAbove all, there's a sense of frustration and anger that what Charles calls his \"presumption of good faith\" was so grievously betrayed.\n\nThe prince added that that the \"true context and details\" of complaints against Ball \"did not come to my attention until the time of Mr Ball's trial and conviction in 2015\".\n\n\"I ceased contact with Mr Ball once the judicial process had concluded, and he was found guilty of serious offences against young people,\" he said.\n\n\"My heart goes out to the victims of abuse and I applaud their courage as they rebuild their lives and so often offer invaluable support to others who have suffered.\n\n\"It remains a source of deep personal regret that I was one of many who were deceived over a long period of time, about the true nature of Mr Ball's activities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Transport Police have been holding back passengers from platforms at Leeds station\n\nRail passengers on the East Coast mainline faced disruption chaos after lightning strikes damaged signalling.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway (LNER) advised passengers not to travel on Friday \"due to the extreme weather conditions and signalling failure\".\n\nTrains are now running but some are delayed, with others being cancelled.\n\nBritish Transport Police said officers had to hold back passengers trying to get on platforms at Leeds station.\n\nDan Wales, 26, was stuck at the station for more than three hours trying to get home to Newcastle.\n\nHe said he had \"been told by staff that unless you're going to London or Manchester, don't expect anything\".\n\nInformation boards showed serious disruption on the rail services running through Yorkshire\n\nA number of trainee teachers attending a Teach First conference in Leeds were also stranded by the disruption.\n\nAbout 1,300 people were due to leave on Friday, with many planning on taking the train.\n\nTeach First said people were being urged to remain at Leeds University and check before travelling to the station.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The Student's Union and Refectory at Leeds University are open and we are working with the university on contingency plans if anyone is unable to travel today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt 16:45 BST, LNER said all lines had re-opened, with services running the full routes in both directions between London King's Cross and Edinburgh, and King's Cross and Leeds.\n\nHowever, the operator said services were still \"subject to change and delay\" and disruption would continue until the end of the day.\n\nLNER said ticket restrictions had been lifted so passengers could travel on alternative routes or at a later date.\n\nNetwork Rail said although services were running from Leeds, schedules had been significantly affected and passengers should check before travelling.\n\nIt said it did not have the figures for how many people were affected by the disruption but said it was a \"significant number\".\n\nPassengers have been queuing for replacement bus services at York station\n\nTrain operator Northern, who operate a majority of local services in Yorkshire, said: \"Customers are asked to check carefully before travelling later in the afternoon as services are likely to be subject to further delays and cancellations.\"\n\nOther operators TransPennine Express and Cross Country services have also been affected, with passengers being urged to check before they travel.\n\nCross Country warned customers of delays and alterations to its services after \"a fault with the signalling system\" at March, near Peterborough, which had left train lines blocked in both directions.\n\nThe signalling centre in York was also hit by lightning strikes.\n\nLightning strikes flashed across York during a storm on Friday morning\n\nCommuter Helen King had her journey to Leeds from Apperley Bridge halted, saying she was \"back where she started after an hour and 25 minutes\".\n\nShe added: \"The train staff kept us as updated as they could, after half an hour they informed us of our right to compensation which didn't do much to placate those who just wanted to get into Leeds.\n\n\"Finally after an hour of standstill the driver announced that he had been told to turn the train around and head back to Bradford.\"\n\nHelen King was travelling from Apperley Bridge to Leeds\n\nAnother passenger Barry Lee was travelling from Newcastle to York when people were told to leave the train at Darlington \"due to a lightning strike at York station which had a severe affect on signalling\".\n\n\"We were told to get off the train, which then headed back to Newcastle,\" he said.\n\nCommuter David Renwick tweeted that severe thunder and lightning had struck and said the information boards were off at York railway station.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Iranian special forces commander has warned President Donald Trump if the US attacks Iran it \"will destroy all your capabilities\".\n\nMajor General Qassem Soleimani vowed that if Mr Trump started a war, the Islamic Republic would end it, Iranian news agency Tasnim reported.\n\nIt follows Mr Trump's all-caps-lock tweet warning Iran's president to \"never, ever\" threaten the US.\n\nTensions have risen since the US withdrew from the 2015 Iran deal.\n\nMaj Gen Soleimani - who leads the Quds Force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards - was quoted on Thursday as saying: \"As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to your threats.\n\n\"Talk to me, not to the president [Hassan Rouhani]. It is not in our president's dignity to respond to you.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We are near you, where you can't even imagine. Come. We are ready.\n\n\"If you begin the war, we will end the war. You know that this war will destroy all your capabilities.\"\n\nHe also accused the US president of using the language of \"night clubs and gambling halls\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut two days later, while speaking to a veterans' group, the president said the US was \"ready to make a real deal\" with Iran.\n\nMr Trump's angry tweet was a response to a warning by Mr Rouhani to the US.\n\n\"America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,\" he said earlier, according to Iran's state news agency Irna.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in the Iran-aligned suburbs of Beirut give their reaction to US withdrawal from the nuclear deal\n\nIn May, Mr Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran, going against advice from European allies.\n\nMr Trump had said the Iran deal was \"defective to its core\".\n\nIn response, Iran had said it was preparing to restart uranium enrichment, key for making both nuclear energy and weapons.\n\nWashington is now re-imposing sanctions on Iran's oil, aircraft exports to Iran, and precious metals trade among other sectors, despite objections from the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, who all signed the 2015 agreement.\n\nBut there are other flashpoints too. The US is deeply suspicious of Iranian activity in the Middle East and is aligned with Israel and Saudi Arabia, two of Iran's foes.\n\nIran has insisted that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and its compliance with the 2015 deal has been verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.", "Christine Lampard said the \"disturbing\" tweets caused her so much concern she showed them to her husband\n\nA stalker has been sentenced for bombarding TV presenter Christine Lampard with tweets which referred to her \"gravestone\" and \"crucifixion\".\n\nChristof King, 39, also sent letters and turned up at the house the presenter shares with footballer husband Frank Lampard more than once.\n\nAt Isleworth Crown Court King, of Mowbray Road, Brent, received a nine-month sentence suspended for two years.\n\nKing had pleaded guilty to stalking, but denied sending the tweets.\n\nHe was found to have sent the online messages after a Newton hearing on 5 June.\n\nChristof King pleaded guilty to stalking last week but denied he sent the tweets\n\nMrs Lampard previously told the court she had to hide in a bedroom with the housekeeper after King appeared at the house.\n\nKing, who changed his name by deed poll from Jon Dunningham in April 2016, harassed Ms Lampard between January 2015 and October 2017.\n\nIn one tweet he said he could \"hear the scratch of nails as I sharpen them ahead of your crucifixion\" while another read: \"I am planning the words that will go on your gravestone.\"\n\nProsecutor Warwick Tatford told the court King had even written to the Lampard's dog Minnie where he said he was so pleased to meet the animal \"after all these years\", and how he felt they \"developed some kind of special bond in that moment.\"\n\nNeither Christine or Frank Lampard were in court to hear the sentencing\n\nDefending, John Oliver said King had \"received the message loud and clear\" that the Lampards did not want contact from him.\n\nHe said King, who had initially contacted the TV presenter for career advice, had a delusional disorder \"which has over the year raised its head, but has without treatment or intervention gone into remission on a number of occasions\".\n\nAs well as his suspended sentence, King was given an indefinite restraining order that bans him from contacting both Christine and Frank Lampard, and prevents him from going within 100 yards of their home or entering their street.\n\nHe was also handed a 15-day community order for rehabilitation activity, as well as 150 hours of unpaid work.\n\nJudge Robin Johnson warned King that if he breaches the restraining order, he could face up to five years in prison.\n\n\"Those in the public eye are used to receiving contact from strangers. But they, like anyone else, are entitled to protection from the law when some contact moves from simply irritation to being criminal,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crash happened on the A96 shortly before midnight\n\nFive people, including a four-year-old boy, have died and several others were injured when a minibus and 4x4 crashed in Moray.\n\nThe collision happened on the A96, three miles from Keith, on the road to Huntly, at about 23:40 on Thursday.\n\nThree local people in a Nissan X-Trail - two women aged 69 and 70 and a man aged 63 - died in the crash.\n\nThe young boy and a woman, who also died, were in the minibus, which was carrying Italian tourists.\n\nA three-year-old boy and four other adults were being treated in hospital, police said, with one woman in a critical condition.\n\nIt was believed the people in the Nissan were all friends and coming from a social occasion.\n\nPotential witnesses who were in the area at the time were urged to contact police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supt Louise Blakelock gave more details about the crash victims\n\nSupt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"It is with deep regret that I can confirm that three adult passengers - two women aged 69 and 70 and a 63-year-old man - who were travelling within an orange Nissan X-Trail all sadly died from their injuries.\n\n\"The 39-year-old female driver sustained serious injuries. Everyone in this car was local to this area.\n\n\"A white Fiat Talento minibus which had been carrying Italian tourists was also involved in the collision.\n\n\"Tragically two people who were passengers within this vehicle - a woman and a four-year-old boy - have also died.\n\n\"The male driver, a male passenger, female passenger and a three-year-old boy, who were also within the minibus, were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries. The woman is considered to be in a critical condition. The little boy sustained minor injuries and is being well cared for.\"\n\nThe officer said: \"The dreadful scene faced by the emergency responders from police, fire and ambulance and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency was both distressing and extremely challenging for everyone involved.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who made valiant attempts to save the casualties lives - their efforts cannot be underestimated. I would also like to thank members of the public who came upon this terrible incident, who phoned the emergency services and provided first aid and comfort.\"\n\nSupt Blakelock added: \"Every loss of life on our roads is a tragedy however when so many are killed in one incident the impact on their families, their friends and our entire community is massive.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everyone who has been involved or affected.\n\n\"An investigation is ongoing into the exact circumstances so it would wrong for me to speculate further at this time and I am unable to answer questions regarding details of what may have happened.\n\n\"I would however ask anyone who was in the area last night and saw either vehicle involved in the lead-up to this incident to please contact the Police on 101. Likewise, if you have dashcam footage that may assist please get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe Italian Counsul General for Scotland Carlo Perrotta said relatives of the Italian holidaymakers were travelling to Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"It is absolutely distressing. Words cannot tell how sad we are to hear these stories, and to have to report to the authorities in Italy and to the families, especially in summer time when people come to Scotland to enjoy this wonderful land and to enjoy the holiday they have been looking forward to the whole year.\"\n\nThe road remained closed overnight. The vehicles were removed on Friday morning and the A96 re-opened shortly before 13:00.\n\nThere was a major response to the crash by the emergency services\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMoray MSP Richard Lochhead said: \"This is a truly horrific accident that has shocked the community.\n\n\"The fact that there are so many casualties has been difficult for people to take in, and with such a loss of life everyone's thoughts are with those affected and their loved ones and friends at this difficult time.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the emergency services who dealt with what was a major road traffic accident.\"", "The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe US social media giant has now released these ads to a committee of MPs investigating fake news - meaning everyone, not just those they were originally aimed at, can now see them.\n\nThe ads, created by Canadian company Aggregate AIQ, often focused on specific issues - such as immigration or animal rights - thought likely to push the buttons of certain groups of people, based on their age, where they lived and other personal data taken from social media and other sources.\n\nThe 120 pages of documents appear to back up the findings of the Electoral Commission, which ruled last week that Vote Leave broke electoral law by working jointly with another campaign, BeLeave - something denied by both groups.\n\nA number of BeLeave ads were sent from the Vote Leave Facebook account, including this one:\n\nThere are 1,433 different messages in the data set released by Facebook, all with one common theme - although it is not always clear that they have come from a pro-Brexit campaign.\n\nHere is one that was targeted at animal lovers:\n\nThis one, targeted at tea-lovers, is more obviously pro-Brexit:\n\nPolar bears were also recruited to the cause:\n\nThe adverts contained in the Facebook data set were seen more than 169 million times in total.\n\nThe BeLeave messages were more closely directed at younger voters, promising a \"brighter future\" if the UK could stop \"EU regulators keeping us in the past\" and accusing Brussels of regulating ride-sharing apps such as Uber and enforcing quotas on data streaming.\n\nData provided by Facebook suggests some of the most seen images were produced by BeLeave. This image was displayed on the screens of target audience members more than five million times:\n\nOlder voters tended to be treated to claims about how much money the UK was sending to the EU. More than 140 ads made reference to the controversial claim that £350m a week sent to the EU could be spent on the NHS instead:\n\nAlternative uses for the £350m included schools and flood defences:\n\nVote Leave made the most of then US President Barack Obama's intervention in the referendum campaign, when he said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for trade deals.\n\nThis ad was heavily targeted at older voters, with a reach of up to 25% among woman aged over 65 and 23% of men in that age group targeted by one version of it (as with many of the ads, the accompanying text was tweaked and refined from a basic \"parent\" ad):\n\nImmigration was another common theme, with one ad appearing to suggest the entire Turkish population was headed for the UK:\n\nBoris Johnson was the only politician to be pictured in the ads:\n\nApart from one featuring Jeremy Corbyn, which was targeted at younger voters and accompanied by an old quote from the Labour leader: \"The EU takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party spent £32,750.73 with AIQ on pro-Brexit Facebook ads. Only 16 of the ads were delivered to users in Northern Ireland, according to the Facebook data. The remaining 24 were primarily seen by people in England.\n\nThe 24 adverts, seen at least 1.96 million times - and potentially as many as 4.2 million times - were all posted in the final three days of the EU referendum campaign.\n\nEarly on in the campaign, Vote Leave launched a giant data harvesting exercise through a competition to win £50m if you could correctly guess the result of all 51 games in the 2016 European football championship.\n\nThe odds of winning the contest - which Vote Leave funded through an insurance policy - were calculated at one in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.\n\nIt was described by one Vote Leave insider at the time as a potential \"game changer\" because it would allow it to gather the contact details of thousands of potential voters, many of whom would not normally be interested in the referendum.\n\nThe campaign recruited former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham to promote the contest:\n\nA separate group called Veterans for Britain had refused permission for its ads to be passed on, said Facebook.\n\nThe Culture Media and Sport Committee is expected shortly to publish interim findings from its inquiry into fake news, which has taken evidence from whistleblower Christopher Wylie and technology company bosses as well as representatives of the separate Leave.EU campaign.\n\nCorrection 27 July 2018: An earlier version of this story said some ads were seen by fewer than 1,000 people, according to the Facebook data, and this was an example of \"micro-targeting\". But former Vote Leave chief, Matthew Elliott, said the ads never ran, so we removed that reference.", "Radio 1 has pulled an interview with YouTuber Logan Paul.\n\nThere had been a lot of criticism when it was announced he was going to appear on Charlie Sloth's show on Thursday night.\n\nLogan Paul caused controversy earlier this year by filming the body of an apparent suicide victim for one of his vlogs, and has since apologised.\n\nRadio 1 tweeted: \"After listening back to the interview we don't feel it's right.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome people responded to the tweet saying they thought it was a good call not to run the interview.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Louise This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharlie Sloth previously criticised the American YouTuber for posting the video, from Aokigahara forest in Japan, which is known to be a frequent site of suicides.\n\nIn January the DJ chose him as 'Wally of the Week' on his Radio 1/ 1Xtra show The 8th.\n\n\"Millions and millions of people around the world look up to Logan Paul, including loads of youngsters.\n\n\"My children are some of those youngsters - they look up to Logan Paul like a superstar,\" he said.\n\n\"Fam, let's face it, you are an absolute wally.\"\n\nThe YouTuber apologised again later in January by posting a video about suicide awareness, and pledging to donate $1m (£700,000) to prevention groups.\n\nSome social media users say he should be forgiven.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson sends a heartfelt video message thanking hospital staff for their \"great care\" after his surgery for a brain haemorrhage in May.\n\nREAD MORE: Ferguson thanks hospitals after surgery", "Port, now 43, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nAll but one of 17 Met officers under investigation for the initial response to the serial killer Stephen Port refused to answer questions during interviews with the police watchdog.\n\nIn November 2016 Port was convicted of murdering four young men.\n\nPolice ignored chances to catch him earlier, with the deaths not treated as murders until weeks after the last one.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said its work was \"nearing completion.\"\n\nIt refused to comment on details of the interview process.\n\nThe watchdog - formerly known as the IPCC - originally served misconduct notices on the officers in September 2016, prior to Port's trial.\n\nIn March the following year - after Port had been jailed - the body said its inquiry was moving into the \"interview phase\".\n\nHowever, when - after two months - this had still not started the victims' families publicly expressed anger at the delay.\n\nIn response, investigators told the BBC that a large volume of evidence had been disclosed to the officers, who had \"asked for time to understand and absorb the information that will be put to them in interview, which we have agreed so that the evidence we collect from them is as robust and comprehensive as possible.\"\n\nThen, last summer, the watchdog said that interviews were \"under way\".\n\nHowever, the BBC now understands only one of the 17 officers freely answered questions from investigators.\n\nSeven were interviewed under gross misconduct notices - and ten under misconduct notices.\n\nSixteen of them - as they are entitled to - provided \"no comment\" interviews and instead submitted prepared statements.\n\nOne officer, who was interviewed under a misconduct notice, has since resigned from the force, meaning that even if found to have breached standards of behaviour there is no system of delivering a sanction to them.\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.\n\nAnthony Walgate (L) and Gabriel Kovari (R) were Port's first victims\n\nPort met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat in Barking, east London, where they were drugged before being raped.\n\nHe murdered the four men by giving them fatal overdoses of the date-rape drug GHB.\n\nThe first victim - Anthony Walgate - was found outside Port's flat and the other three either in or next to a nearby churchyard.\n\nPort was jailed for his initial lies about the circumstances of the first death, but police accepted his subsequent excuses - leaving him free to kill again.\n\nWhile on bail - prior to being sentenced - Port struck twice more and once again after coming out of prison.\n\nDaniel Whitworth (L) and Jack Taylor (R) were also killed by Port\n\nPort falsely linked his second and third victims together in order to cover up his crimes.\n\nA fake suicide note found in Daniel Whitworth's hand - which had in fact been written by Port - said he had accidentally killed his lover Gabriel Kovari and was taking his own life as a result.\n\nIn fact, the two victims did not know one another.\n\nPolice accepted the note at face value and treated the deaths as non-suspicious, despite concerns being raised by people close to both men.\n\nThe fake suicide note, written by Port, sought to absolve him of any part in Mr Whitworth's death\n\nAn investigation by the BBC revealed flaws in the evidence given by police at the original inquests for Mr Whitworth and Mr Kovari.\n\nAfter Jack Taylor's death, police were pressured into treating it as suspicious after his family began their own investigation and spotted similarities to the other three deaths.\n\nPort was captured after the case was passed to specialist homicide detectives.\n\nThe initial response had been led by local officers from Barking and Dagenham.\n\nNone of the officers from the successful inquiry are under investigation by the IOPC.\n\nIn a statement, IOPC Regional Director Sarah Green said: \"Our investigation is nearing completion, and I will need to consider the final report carefully before coming to any view on its findings.\n\n\"We continue to keep the families of Stephen Port's victims, and the officers under investigation updated on our progress.\"\n\nScotland Yard said: \"We await the conclusion of an independent IOCC investigation which is currently ongoing.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nInquests into the four deaths are expected next year, with a pre-inquest hearing scheduled to take place on 14 August.", "US television network CBS says it is investigating reports detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by its top executive Les Moonves.\n\nThe claims of unwanted kissing and touching have been published in the New Yorker magazine.\n\nIn a statement, CBS said it was looking into the allegations and would \"take appropriate action\".\n\nMr Moonves, 68, told the magazine that he \"may have made some women uncomfortable\" in the past.\n\n\"Those were mistakes, and I regret them immensely,\" he said. \"But I always understood and respected... that 'no' means 'no,' and I have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone's career.\"\n\nCBS' stock price dropped by 6% on Friday as reports of the New Yorker article trickled out.\n\nThe exposé is by Ronan Farrow, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for detailing assault accusations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nSome of the alleged incidents are said to have occurred more than 20 years ago.\n\nIn a statement, CBS said: \"All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously.\n\nCBS news presenter Charlie Rose (right) was fired for sexual misconduct earlier this year\n\n\"The Independent Directors of CBS have committed to investigating claims that violate the Company's clear policies in that regard.\n\n\"Upon the conclusion of that investigation, which involves recently reported allegations that go back several decades, the Board will promptly review the findings and take appropriate action.\"\n\nMr Moonves, who is chairman and chief executive of CBS, has yet to respond to BBC requests for comment.\n\nSix women have made allegations against him, including the actress Illeana Douglas who told the New Yorker that he violently kissed her.\n\n\"The physicality of it was horrendous,\" she said. \"You think, how long is this going to go on? I couldn't get him off me.\"\n\nAll of the women say they believe their careers suffered because they rejected his advances.\n\nA CBS statement on behalf of Mr Moonves said he acknowledged trying to kiss Ms Douglas but denied sexual assault and intimidation.\n\nMoonves (second from right) singing with CBS chat show host James Corden\n\nEarlier this year, CBS' fired veteran presenter Charlie Rose, who was accused of sexual harassment by a number of women, including several CBS employees.\n\nMr Moonves has long been considered one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, helping steer the network broadcaster into the digital age.\n\nHe started out as a TV actor before developing Friends and ER with Warner Bros and then reviving an ailing CBS with hits including CSI, Everybody Loves Raymond and, most recently, The Big Bang Theory.\n\nFor a decade under his leadership, CBS has been the most-watched network in the US, narrowly retaining its crown ahead of NBC in the 2017-18 season.\n\nMr Moonves earned $69.3m (£53m) in 2017 making him one of the highest paid chief executives in the world.\n\nBut his tenure at the top of the network, which he joined in 1995, has been marked by a power struggle with Shari Redstone who, through her family's business National Amusements, is the controlling shareholder in both CBS and the media conglomerate, Viacom.\n\nMs Redstone and Mr Moonves are currently battling in the courts as he tries to thwart her plan to merge the two companies.\n\nHe has been married to Julie Chen - host of CBS' Big Brother - since 2004.\n\nThe two wed less than two weeks after he finalised his divorce from Nancy Wiesenfeld, to whom he had been married since 1978, according to the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nDuring the 2016 presidential election, he was criticised for saying Donald Trump's candidacy \"may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS\".\n\n\"The money's rolling in and this is fun,\" he said at a media event in San Francisco.", "Amazon has reported record quarterly profits helped by a rise in online sales and demand for its cloud services.\n\nProfits hit a record $2.53bn (£1.9bn) in the three months to the end of June - about 12 times more than it made during the same period last year.\n\nSales rose by 39% to $52.89bn, slightly less than analysts had been forecasting.\n\nAmazon's shares jumped more than 3% in after-hours trade.\n\n\"It was a strong quarter,\" said chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky. \"What I attribute it to is continued strength in some of our most profitable areas.\"\n\nAt the firm's lucrative cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, sales were up nearly 50% year-on-year to $6.1bn.\n\nAmazon is also starting to attract more money from advertising.\n\nRevenue from the firm's \"other\" category, which includes advertising, more than doubled to about $2.2bn.\n\nRetail sales in North America were healthy as well, rising about 44% to almost $32.2bn.\n\nRecruitment slowed in the quarter. Amazon is also starting to reap the benefits of previous infrastructure investments, allowing for less rapid spending growth, Mr Olsavsky said.\n\nDaniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights, said Amazon's profitability appears to be accelerating faster than expected.\n\nThat, he wrote, will be \"music to ears of investors\" who have stood by Amazon and its famously long-term approach to deferring profit in favour of reinvesting in the company.\n\nAmazon is expected to account for roughly half of online sales in the US this year, according to research firm eMarketer.\n\nThe company told investors that it expects third quarter sales in the range of $54bn- $57.5bn, growth of 23% to 31%.", "Heavy thunderstorms are sweeping across the UK, leading to travel problems in parts of the country.\n\nRail passengers on the East Coast mainline faced major disruption after lightning strikes damaged signalling.\n\nTemperatures have cooled compared with recent days after downpours, hail and strong winds hit areas of the UK.\n\nStorms are expected to continue overnight, with a yellow weather warning in place for the east of England and Scotland.\n\nForecasters had predicted the UK's all-time record of 38.5C could be topped on what some people were calling \"Furnace Friday\" - but those estimates were toned down following overnight storms.\n\nThe Met Office said 34.7C was recorded in Tibenham, Norfolk, on Friday but the early development of thunderstorms had suppressed temperatures and kept them below Thursday's high of 35.3C.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms remains in place for the east of England until 02:00 BST and the east of Scotland until Saturday afternoon.\n\nDamage to signalling equipment meant trains between York and Leeds were unable to run for several hours, causing dozens of cancellations.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway (LNER) - which operates between London King's Cross and northern Scotland - had advised passengers not to travel during the day.\n\nIt said all lines had reopened but services were \"still subject to change and delay\".\n\nStranded commuters at Leeds railway station scan the information boards for developments\n\nTransPennine Express, Northern and Cross Country services were also affected, with passengers being urged to check before they travel.\n\nBritish Transport Police said officers held back dozens of passengers trying to get on platforms at Leeds station.\n\nIt said people should \"avoid travelling for a few hours\" because services are at a standstill across the Yorkshire region.\n\nAnd Network Rail said speed restrictions remained in place for some Chiltern Railways, Northern and Greater Anglia services, amid fears high temperatures could cause the tracks to expand and \"buckle\".\n\nThere were also delays of over two hours for Eurotunnel passengers in Kent, after issues with air conditioning in carriages.\n\nEurotunnel said it had taken an \"unprecedented decision\" to cancel thousands of day trip tickets for Friday to ease the long queues.\n\nGatwick Airport said nearby thunderstorms had led to minor delays to some flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinger Sir Tom Jones was forced to cancel a concert at York Racecourse on Friday evening after thunder and lightning prevented him from flying from his London home to the venue.\n\nA statement from the racecourse said: \"The decision was taken after it proved impossible to get Sir Tom to the racecourse given the atrocious weather conditions.\"\n\nMotorists were warned that heavy rainfall could lead to dangerous conditions on the road.\n\nA spokesman for the Met Office said spray and surface water meant \"roads like the M11, M18, M1 and A1 won't be very pleasant\".\n\nSome people in London have been welcoming Friday's rain after weeks of hot and dry weather.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThursday was the hottest day of the year so far with a high of 35.3C recorded in Faversham, Kent - the highest in the UK since 2015.\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters in Wales have been battling wildfires across the country, with the biggest on Twmbarlwm mountain, Caerphilly, still burning two weeks after it began.\n\nThose enjoying the water were urged to take care by police, following a number of incidents, including:\n\nIlkley Lido in West Yorkshire became a popular place for children to cool off\n\nConditions over the weekend are expected to be cooler, with the possibility of more rain, strong winds and more average temperatures for the time of year - either in the high teens or low 20s.\n\nBut the forecast currently predicts more hot weather later next week.\n\nDo you have photos or video of the extreme weather in the UK at the moment? Send them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Are your work clothes making you hotter?", "The North American black bears at Woburn Safari Park live on a 13 acre reserve\n\nA safari park has said it is not a \"petting zoo\" after a family were left \"terrified\" when a bear attacked their car.\n\nSophie Mallaney, from Leighton Buzzard, was visiting Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire on Monday when a 6ft black bear climbed on the bonnet and began \"chewing away\" at the car.\n\nMs Mallaney said no help came from wardens after they beeped their horn.\n\nBut the park said: \"No horns were heard.\"\n\nThe car Sophie Mallaney was in suffered \"minor damage\" and the family is paying for the repairs, she said\n\nMs Mallaney told the BBC that as her family drove through the park, the bear came towards them and started biting around the windscreen.\n\nShe said they started beeping their horn when the bear climbed on to the bonnet.\n\n\"We were unhappy that no-one came to help,\" said Ms Mallaney, who added that visitors were told to sound their horn if they felt in danger.\n\n\"We did, and no-one came.\"\n\nA spokesman for the park said the deputy head of the carnivore section was on patrol at the time, but that nothing was heard.\n\n\"He would have attended,\" the spokesman said.\n\nWoburn has 10 bears, four males and six females, and they live outside 365 days a year\n\nMs Mallaney, who was in the car with her mother, sister and nephew, said the bear eventually left her family's car and approached another vehicle.\n\nA park spokesman apologised for the bear \"worrying the family\" and said the incident had been investigated.\n\n\"We would like to issue a reminder to visitors that we are a safari park as opposed to a petting zoo,\" he added.\n\nThe park says black bears are opportunistic eaters and most of their diet consists of grasses, roots, berries, insects and fish\n\nHe said that during \"road safari experiences\" the animals could come close to vehicles, so a strict safety policy was in place, which guests were instructed to follow.\n\nThe park has offered Ms Mallaney's family a VIP meet and greet at the park, but she said: \"I don't think we will be going back to the safari park any time soon.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before UK MPs\n\nThis might be the biggest crisis Facebook has faced since its founding, and the company's initial response has not helped.\n\nThe proposed departure of the company's data security chief, Alex Stamos, has spread anxiety through the company internationally, and it is being reported that this opened up already significant divisions within the company about just how transparent it should be.\n\nThe leadership question goes higher, however, to Mark Zuckerberg. When it was first suggested that Russia may have used the platform to interfere in the 2016 election, Zuckerberg initially described that as a \"pretty crazy idea\". Months later he recanted, and announced a raft of measures to address the viral spread of disinformation.\n\nThis time, following the dogged and undercover reporting of Channel 4 News, The Observer and The New York Times, Facebook has responded with the bold assertion that tens of millions of people having their data scraped and passed on to a third party does not constitute a data breach.\n\nBoth Facebook and Cambridge Analytica deny any wrongdoing or breaking the law.\n\nAnd therein lies the rub. If this indeed isn't a data breach; if it doesn't strike these companies as a cause for alarm; and if what has happened is legal, then that might be the very reason that Facebook's users - all two billion of them - should be worried.\n\nFacebook has grown dizzyingly rich by operating what is in effect a mass surveillance tool. Most users have no idea just how much social media companies know about them. The business model that has made Facebook very rich is based on the quality of that data. Facebook uses that data to sell your attention to advertisers. Advertisers use smart messaging to influence behaviour, and try to get us to buy their products.\n\nAs Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times, what has happened now is that Facebook, the biggest and most powerful social media platform, has gone from selling mere products to selling politics, too. Political operatives, whether they be from democracies or not, also want to use smart messaging to influence behaviour, in order to get us to vote for a particular candidate, or to undermine a consensus and degrade the truth.\n\nA smart corporate response from Facebook would grant that the remarkable innovations and technology that have created its news feed, an often addictive and for now free product, are now being exploited for goals that are not always socially desirable.\n\nInstead the company's instinct was to alight on a technicality, and say this was no data breach, despite the fact that it suspended the accounts of Cambridge Analytica and its whistleblower, Chris Wylie. Now at last the company is stepping into gear, calling a meeting of all staff to address concerns and answer questions.\n\nSeveral different investigations on both sides of the Atlantic are now underway. Mark Zuckerberg may not want to appear before the DCMS Select Committee, but he will have to make a public pronouncement soon enough. Blog posts alone won't do.\n\nIt must never be forgotten that, with all the zeal that has become customary in the world of superstar tech firms, Facebook executives talk about their company in missionary terms. We're on a mission, they say, to make the world more open and connected.\n\nThere is a tension, then, between the liberal inclinations of some Facebook staff - though of course the company as a whole is politically neutral - and the fact that a British company on whose board Steve Bannon sits may have used the platform to help President Trump gain office. Of course, Cambridge Analytica's power could be wildly over-stated, and we don't yet know sufficient detail on Russian misbehaviour on the platform.\n\nThere is a tension between the globalist outlook of a company that hires supremely clever graduates from around the world, and the more nationalist tendencies of the current White House administration.\n\nAnd there is a tension between the self-declared mission to champion openness, and the fact that Mark Zuckerberg, for reasons still unclear, seemed to be unavailable for comment as lawmakers demanded to hear from him.\n\nAt some point, these tensions become unbearable. A month ago, I said Facebook may have peaked, in influence if not in wealth. I wonder if Alex Stamos's departure will persuade some staff there of this thesis.", "US basketball star LeBron James says he regrets naming his son LeBron James Jr because of the pressure it places on him to reach the same level of success.\n\n\"I still regret giving my 14-year-old my name,\" he said in the first episode of his new HBO TV series, The Shop.\n\nThe clip, which was filmed in Los Angeles, is scheduled to air in August.\n\nJames, 33, moved to the city earlier in July after signing a four-year deal with the LA Lakers basketball team worth $154m (£116m).\n\nIn footage from James's new show which was shared on social media, US comedian Jon Stewart asks the sports star about his family and how he reassures his children, especially LeBron James Jr - better known as Bronny - over expectations to live up to his success.\n\n\"They're playing the same sport that you play better than anyone else in the world... how do you give them peace of mind that they don't have to be you?\" Stewart asked.\n\n\"When I was younger, I didn't have a dad, so my whole thing was whenever I have a kid, I'm going to do everything that this man didn't do,\" James said, adding: \"It's up to them to take their own course, whenever that time comes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames, a three-time NBA champion with Cleveland and Miami Heat, excited high-profile stars and supporters with his move to Los Angeles - including West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg, who welcomed \"King James\".\n\nA mural of James in an LA Lakers jersey appeared in Venice, California, after his move\n\nFormer player and basketball great Magic Johnson has called James the \"best player in the world\".", "More than 270 birds have been brought into Secret World Wildlife Rescue with burns\n\nDozens of young gulls have had to be treated for burnt feet because of the heatwave, a wildlife centre said.\n\nMore than 270 birds have been taken to Somerset's Secret World Wildlife Rescue with \"severe\" burns on their feet.\n\nThe charity said it had been inundated with juvenile gulls - nesting on industrial buildings - that fell off after the roofs became \"scalding hot\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the centre said the young birds had been placed in buckets of water to \"cool their feet down\".\n\n\"Gulls have been arriving at the centre almost by the hour over the last fortnight,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThe centre said many of the birds had been nesting on industrial buildings which got too hot for them\n\nMore than twice the number of gulls has been admitted to the centre this year compared to last, the charity said.\n\nThe wildlife centre said the birds were really \"struggling with the weather conditions\".\n\n\"Hot surfaces and a lack of shade are causing many of the birds to be brought in with severe sunburn on their feet,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nShe said the centre did not want to release the birds while the temperatures remained high.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How are those sleeping rough on Britain's streets coping with the high temperatures during the heatwave?\n\nAs homelessness charities hand out extra bottles of water and sun cream, we hear from those struggling to find shelter from the sun.", "Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley were granted licences to allow them access to cannabis oil\n\nSpecialist doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products by autumn, the home secretary has announced.\n\nThose that meet safety and quality standards are to be made legal for patients with an \"exceptional clinical need\", Sajid Javid said.\n\nAs it is a devolved matter, it will require legislative change before it is enforced in Northern Ireland.\n\nMany had previously been denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nOthers forms of cannabis will remain illegal.\n\nMr Javid's decision was made after the chief medical officer for England, Prof Dame Sally Davies, and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said patients with certain medical conditions should be given access to the treatments.\n\nTheir advice was part of a review into medicinal cannabis launched by the home secretary following an outcry over Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley being denied access to cannabis oil.\n\nThe parents of the boys, who have rare forms of epilepsy, say it controls their seizures.\n\nCharlotte Caldwell said her son, Billy, would now be able to live a \"normal life\"\n\nThe Home Office recently granted them licences to access the treatments.\n\nMr Javid said: \"Recent cases involving sick children made it clear to me that our position on cannabis-related medicinal products was not satisfactory.\n\n\"That is why we launched a review and set up an expert panel to advise on licence applications in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"This will help patients with an exceptional clinical need but is in no way a first step to the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cannabis-derived medicines: What you need to know\n\nBilly Caldwell's mother, Charlotte, said Mr Javid's announcement had been made on her son's 13th birthday.\n\n\"For the first time in months I'm almost lost for words, other than 'thank you Sajid Javid',\" she said.\n\n\"Never has Billy received a better birthday present, and never from somebody so unexpected...\n\n\"But, crucially, my little boy Billy can now live a normal life with his mummy because of the simple ability to now administer a couple of drops a day of a long-maligned but entirely effective natural medication.\"\n\nThe Department of Health says legalising medicinal cannabis in NI is a devolved matter for local politicians\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"The rescheduling of cannabis-derived medicinal products is a devolved matter and requires legislative change.\n\n\"The Department of Health notes the advice provided by experts during the two-part review commissioned by the Home Secretary.\n\n\"Consideration will be given to rescheduling cannabis-derived medicinal products in Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK\n\n\"In the interim, clinicians may still apply to the Home Office Expert Panel should they wish to use a cannabis-based medicine in the treatment of a patient.\"\n\nThe government and medicines regulator are to develop a clear definition of what constitutes a cannabis-derived medicinal product\n\nCannabis is classed as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it is judged to have no therapeutic value but can be used for the purposes of research with a Home Office licence.\n\nThe decision by the Home Office will put certain cannabis-derived products into Schedule 2 - those that have a potential medical use - and will place them in the same category as cocaine and heroin, among other drugs.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will now develop a clear definition of what constitutes a cannabis-derived medicinal product so they can be rescheduled and prescribed, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the meantime, clinicians will still be able to apply to an independent expert panel on behalf of patients wishing to access these products.\n\nThe home secretary said licence fees for applications made to the panel will be waived, and those already granted will not be charged.\n\nThe home secretary's decision was welcomed by campaigners and health experts.\n\nDonna Kinnair, from the Royal College of Nursing, said the decision was \"very welcome\".\n\nDr Tom Freeman, senior academic fellow at King's College London, said Mr Javid's decision would have a \"substantial impact on research by facilitating the development of safer and more effective medicines\".\n\nFormer justice minister Sir Mike Penning, who was among those appealing for Alfie Dingley to be given a special licence for medicinal cannabis, welcomed the announcement but said there were still unanswered questions about which treatments would be rescheduled.\n\n\"Any move to restrict medical cannabis in the UK to a very narrow range of derived products, each requiring full pharmaceutical trials, thereby blocking out the many products available overseas, will lead to great disappointment and be a missed opportunity.\"\n• None Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Simpson with his children Alice and Jack\n\nTwo young children are living in a rural town in China, completely unaware that their British father is dead after being murdered by their Chinese mother.\n\nSeven-year-old Jack and his six-year-old sister Alice are also unaware they are now at the centre of an increasingly bitter custody battle between their British and Chinese grandparents.\n\nNow sharing a bedroom with their cousin, they were taken to live in Nanzhang after their mother Weiwei Fu was jailed for life earlier this month.\n\nThe children's father, Michael Simpson, originally from Wimborne, Dorset, was 34 when he was stabbed to death by his estranged wife at his apartment in Shanghai in March 2017.\n\nThe couple had met and married after he moved to China to work in the supply business of the British retailer Next.\n\nThey had been living separately for a year and Michael's family say the children spent most of their time with their father.\n\nNow his parents, Ian and Linda, want the children to live with them in the UK, where they say they will have a better life and education.\n\nThey have promised to maintain contact with the Chinese family, keep teaching the children Mandarin and visit annually.\n\n\"Losing Michael put a hole in our family,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\n\"If you take away the children as well you've basically blotted out the whole of that family.\"\n\nHaving sat through the trial and sentencing, the couple had hoped to reach a deal with the Chinese family.\n\nThey were prepared to forgo their claim for compensation, offer some money instead to the relatives who are looking after the children and, crucially, offer official \"forgiveness\".\n\nThe latter could have seen Weiwei Fu's sentence cut in half, all in exchange for custody of Jack and Alice. But no deal was done.\n\nThe Fu family \"won't let us see them... and won't negotiate with us at all\", Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe Simpsons blame Weiwei's brother and have accused him of extortion.\n\nThey say he met with their lawyer just before the sentencing and repeated a demand for a payment of just over £60,000 in exchange for the children.\n\n\"I couldn't believe they would let their daughter go to jail for so long, just for the sake of that,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe Chinese family denies it is using the children to extort money from their other grandparents.\n\nThe Foreign Office has been assisting the Simpsons as they pursue a custody case in the Chinese courts, but members of the family have said in the past they've felt \"let down\" by British officials.\n\nThey now think political intervention is needed and, as Jeremy Hunt prepares to visit China this weekend, they want the new foreign secretary to intervene in the case and appeal to Chinese officials for help.\n\nThe Simpson family say they are \"fairly impressed\" with the Chinese judiciary system, although they have concerns as the custody hearing will be in a local court near where the children are currently living.\n\nThey fear they may not be treated fairly saying some courts \"seem a bit timid\" about hearing cases involving foreigners.\n\nThe Foreign Office has promised to write to the court and send a representative to the hearing, which is due soon. But the family want more direct intervention.\n\n\"We do want political support,\" Mr Simpson says.\n\nThe BBC understands the case was mentioned in meetings by the UK's national security adviser, Sir Mark Sedwill, when he was in China ahead of the prime minister's trip earlier this year.\n\nWhen asked if he had forgiven his daughter-in-law for murdering his son, Ian Simpson said: \"I have no hatred towards her. To be honest I probably have more hatred towards the family.\n\n\"She's a bit like nothing to me,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't have any real feelings towards her. Do I forgive her? No.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe man leading an investigation into historical sex abuse for the Football Association has found no evidence of an institutionalised conspiracy, the BBC understands.\n\nClive Sheldon QC began his independent inquiry in 2016 following a series of allegations by former players.\n\nHe hopes to submit his final report at the end of September, and it is now unlikely he will conclude there was organised abuse or a cover-up of the kind alleged in other institutions like the Church of England.\n\nHowever, Sheldon is still expected to find that there were failings by both individuals and clubs, and next month he will write to those he intends to comment on, giving them a chance to defend themselves.\n\nThe legal process of giving criticised witnesses the right to respond - known as 'Maxwellisation' - is expected to last around a month.\n\nAn inquiry spokesman said: \"Over the summer the review team will be writing to institutions and individuals to provide them with an opportunity to respond to comments Clive Sheldon QC may make about them in his final report to the FA board.\n\n\"The review team are expecting to send those letters out shortly and will expect to hear back within weeks.\"\n\nIt is thought around 12 clubs will form the basis of Sheldon's findings, likely to include the likes of Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa.\n\nAll the clubs from whom he requested a 'structured report' into how they handled allegations of abuse have now cooperated with the inquiry.\n\nIn March, Crewe said they would scrap plans for their own independent review into abuse by former coach Barry Bennell.\n\nIn February, Bennell was sentenced to 31 years in prison for abusing 12 boys, seven of whom were linked to the Cheshire club.\n\nSo far Sheldon has met 35 victims, and reviewed the testimony of more than 100 individuals.\n\nInvestigators have sifted through 13,000 documents in the FA archives - adding up to 1.3 million pages - as part of their search for data relating to safeguarding procedures and child protection cases.\n\nSome 500 case management files - not all relating to child abuse - are thought to contain relevant information.\n\nThe inquiry team has also had access to documents held in the archives of the Premier League and the English Football League.\n\nOn Thursday the chief executive of the Scottish FA apologised for the abuse young players suffered in the past.\n\nIan Maxwell was responding to an 18-month investigation which found child protection policies are \"not fit for purpose\" and must change to prevent future cases of abuse.\n\nThe most recent police figures from March showed 849 alleged victims had come forward since former Crewe player Andy Woodward first spoke to the Guardian newspaper and the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about the abuse he suffered.\n\nOperation Hydrant, the specialist police unit in charge of the operation, has identified 300 suspects and a number of court cases involving professional clubs are under way.", "Jennifer Caldwell stepped in to play Emily in musical Knights of Rose\n\nJennifer Caldwell was working in the box office at the Arts Theatre in London when a show's producer asked for her help.\n\nThe theatre's current show - jukebox musical Knights of the Rose - needed a role filled as the understudy was already covering someone else.\n\nJennifer agreed to help at lunchtime and by 19:00 BST she was on stage playing the role of Emily.\n\nThe actress told the BBC that it was an \"amazing experience\" to be involved.\n\nJennifer says the producers were \"aware\" that a lot of the staff at the theatre were actors.\n\n\"I work all over the theatre front of house, box office, cafe and in the bar - wherever they put me basically.\"\n\n\"One of the producers saw me on the box office and said 'I've had an idea' about getting me to fill in.\n\n\"I said maybe, so he said 'what if we cut parts of the show - can you do a reduced version of the track?' and I said why not!\"\n\n\"We rehearsed from 3.30pm until 5pm and were on stage at 7pm.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJennifer's role had to be cut a bit so she didn't have too much to learn, but thankfully \"there weren't many lines\".\n\n\"I think there were two songs with dance routines and one extra scene as well just to help the plot along.\"\n\nShe hadn't yet seen the production in its entirety too - so was really pushed in at the deep end.\n\n\"I had seen about two thirds because of working front of house, but had only done two shifts sitting and watching the show,\" she says.\n\n\"The rest of the company did an amazing job covering the holes I didn't have time to even attempt to learn, and they were super supportive.\"\n\n\"It was so quick so I didn't have time to stress about it, and just focused on getting it right. I didn't have time to sit and stew what went wrong.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Jennifer's not the first person who's had to step into a theatre production last minute - it happened to Steph Parry last month.\n\nSteph, an understudy in 42nd Street, had to step in and play Donna, last minute, in a West End production of Mamma Mia! and as a result bagged the leading role in 42nd Street.\n\nJennifer says no similar offer has come along \"as of yet\".\n\n\"I'm just taking it as an opportunity to prance around on stage and get paid for it - you have to count yourself lucky,\" she said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pizza chef Valentino Diesi says he drinks soft drinks to stay cool during a heatwave\n\nPeople are being urged to \"stay out of the sun\" for most of this week, as a heat health watch alert is issued by the Met Office.\n\nMany people can not avoid the sun because they have to work in it. And, they need to wear work uniforms.\n\nFrom pizza chef to nurse, priest to labourer, 10 UK workers told us what it is like to wear a uniform in hot weather. They also shared their top tips for keeping cool.\n\n‏@emsk tweeted: \"I'm a nurse and my husband is a police officer. As soon as we come in from work it's straight to the shower.\n\n\"In fact today our female staff took to filling gloves with ice and shoving them in our bras.\"\n\nNurse @Trac36Tracytots tweeted: \"Haven't got any tips, full nurses uniform, no air con, still have to wear tights, no alternatives, melting.\"\n\n@jadesapphirejet, tweeted: \"Nurses! Uncomfortable polyester tunic's and trousers. Lace up shoes with socks. No air con in NHS wards. Rubber gloves and plastic pinnies.... you try keeping cool while doing a dressing in that get-up. #nhsuniforms\n\nSeray Justice and Ro Moloney, customer service assistants for Transport for London, said the underground platforms are extremely warm\n\nSeray Justice and Ro Moloney, customer service assistants for Transport for London, said they do not have many options.\n\n\"We take breaks but this doesn't help. Downstairs, on the platforms, we carry even more equipment and it's hotter.\n\n\"Last week we had no air con and the water was warm. We sometimes feel dizzy it's so hot.\"\n\nPriest Jo Haine from Dorchester, Dorset, tweeted a picture of the uniform she has to wear, whatever the weather.\n\nShe said: \"It's too hot for clergy robes! I'm afraid I haven't worked out how to stay cool, it's boiling in them. I just drink plenty and, if outside, try and stand in the shade.\"\n\nAnother priest, James Pacey, tweeted: \"I'm a priest so dress all in black. Took my black cat to the vet today - he said black cats feel the heat. I said I know how they feel.\"\n\nValentino Diesi said he tries to drink to stay cool.\n\n\"Everyday is busy and I sweat sometimes when it's busy. My pizza oven goes to 300C. So I try to take breaks when I can.\"\n\nTwitter users also commented on what it is like to work as a chef in the heat.\n\n@Food_o_Graphics tweeted: \"I've seen chefs using wet towel from a freezer around the neck.\"\n\n@geordiekev1uk replied: \"I can vouch for that, being a chef lol.\"\n\nLabourers Peter Wackett, Jake Phillips and Luke Cahalane said they sweat lots in their overalls when it is hot\n\nPeter Wackett, Jake Phillips and Luke Cahalane work 10-hour shifts in the sun.\n\n\"We're here all day, sweating like pigs,\" said Mr Wackett.\n\n\"We don't take breaks. We have to wear these flame-proof overalls. I feel like passing out when we're shovelling and heavy lifting, especially when the sun's in my eye.\n\n\"There isn't any air con in the back of the van.\"\n\n@LeicsFireRescue tweeted: \"We might know a few people whose job requires them to wear protective uniform whatever the weather! We're not sure there's any way to stay cool in a fire, but hydration is key for our crews to stay fit and well - especially in this heat!\"\n\nWhile firefighter Scott Pearce said: \"Sometimes there are no shortcuts, stay hydrated and rest in shade where possible.\"\n\nShe said she is supplied with water and a choice of uniform: \"Each department is also issued with sun lotion dispensers and we are regularly encouraged to re-apply.\n\n\"The company has a great sun safety awareness campaign at the start of each summer.\n\n\"Personal protective equipment includes hats with a visor for each of us. I'm really grateful to have a safety conscious employer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Rowlands runs a street kiosk near Oxford Circus in London and says \"it's stifling\"\n\nPeter Rowlands said the heat is stifling: \"The heat comes out of the front of the fridges. I put a fan on but it's not doing much.\"\n\nAntonio Manuel told the BBC: \"It's so hot in my uniform. I go outside and I stand in front of the air con. I drink water and soda.\"\n\nAnother bartender tweeted: \"I work in a pub so run around a lot. (Average 11000 steps per shift!) We have to wear black shirts and black trousers. No air con, no fans, and under a plate glass ceiling. It's affecting all of us atm. No need for toilet breaks, as we sweat out whatever we drink.\"\n\nWhilst @candascott described the leather uniform he needs to wear: \"Police motorcyclist, leathers, boots, stab vest, motorcycle jacket helmet and gloves.\"", "British actor Ed Westwick will not be prosecuted over three sexual assault allegations he faced in the US.\n\nThe Los Angeles District Attorney said it would not pursue the cases against the star of Gossip Girl and White Gold.\n\nThere was \"insufficient evidence\" for a prosecution to go ahead, the investigators said.\n\nThe 30-year-old star vehemently denied the \"unverified and provably untrue\" allegations when two women accused him of rape last November.\n\nProsecutors said witnesses identified by the first two alleged victims were \"not able to provide information that would enable the prosecution to prove either incident beyond a reasonable doubt\".\n\nThey said they were unable to contact the third alleged victim.\n\nProsecutors said other women had alleged unwanted touching against the actor, but that these claims would not be pursued because they fell outside the statute of limitations.\n\nAfter the allegations emerged last year, the BBC cut Westwick out of its Agatha Christie drama Ordeal by Innocence and \"paused\" filming on the second series of BBC Two comedy White Gold.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One worker in 12 does not take the time off work they should, according to Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis.\n\nIn the UK there are 1.2 million workers who receive no annual leave at all, and 2.2 million who get less than the legal minimum holiday of five and a half weeks a year, the organisation said.\n\nThose missing out were \"at risk of burn-out\", said the TUC.\n\nThe government said employers were expected to treat workers fairly and abide by employment law.\n\nIn the UK most workers who work a five-day week are legally entitled to 28 days' paid leave per year. An employer can include bank holidays as part of that statutory leave entitlement.\n\nWorkers missed out on holiday either because they were set unrealistic workloads that could not be completed on time, or because employers were deliberately denying holiday requests and \"managing out\" people's leave, the TUC said.\n\nBut not granting leave caused stress and mental and physical ill-health, which had knock-on effects on co-workers, friends and families, the union body said.\n\nThe TUC suggests the tax authority, HMRC, should be given new powers to clamp down on employers who aren't giving staff the leave owed them.\n\nA spokesman from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said employers should make sure workers got the holiday pay and leave they were legally entitled to.\n\nHe said it was providing new rights to millions of workers, with holiday pay to be enforced for vulnerable workers and that these new plans would be outlined in due course.\n\nPeople working in agriculture, mining and quarrying, and accommodation and food were the most likely to be missing out, according to the TUC's analysis.\n\n\"We're now in peak holiday season. But while many workers are away enjoying time off with friends and family, millions are missing out,\" Frances O'Grady, the TUC general secretary, said.\n\n\"Employers have no excuse for robbing staff of their well-earned leave. UK workers put in billions of hours of unpaid overtime as it is.\"\n\nThe analysis was based on unpublished data from the ONS Labour Force Survey from 2017.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Anne Hathaway said \"black people fear for their lives DAILY in America\"\n\nUS actress Anne Hathaway has urged white people to ask \"how 'decent' are we really?\" after a black teenager was stabbed to death on a California train.\n\nNia Wilson, 18, was killed after she and her sister were both knifed in the neck on Sunday night in Oakland.\n\n\"She was a black woman and she was murdered in cold blood by a white man,\" Hathaway wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe suspect, John Lee Cowell, is in custody, but officials say it is unclear if race played a factor.\n\nHathaway's post continued: \"White people - including me, including you - must take into the marrow of our privileged bones the truth that ALL black people fear for their lives DAILY in America and have done so for GENERATIONS.\"\n\n\"We must ask our (white)selves - how \"decent\" are we really?\" she added. \"Not in our intent, but in our actions? In our lack of action?\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by annehathaway This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe comments were posted alongside an image of Ms Wilson, who was returning home from a family event when she was attacked.\n\n\"It basically happened at the snap of the fingers, at the drop of the pin,\" police chief Carlos Rojas said at a news conference on Monday.\n\nHe added that it was \"the most vicious\" attack he had seen in his nearly 30-year career.\n\n\"It's more reminiscent of a prison yard assault,\" Chief Rojas said. \"They do their attack so quickly that before anybody can really react, the person takes off running.\"\n\nThe suspect was arrested on Monday night on board another train after an anonymous tipster called police.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf raised the subject of race in response to the killing.\n\nShe said that although the attacker's motivation is not yet known, \"the fact that his victims were both young African-American women stirs deep pain and palpable fear in all of us who acknowledge the reality that our country still suffers from a tragic and deeply racist history\".\n\nMore celebrities added their voices to the outcry over Wilson's murder, some using the #SayHerName hashtag.\n\nOscar-winning actress Viola Davis wrote on Twitter: \"To the killer... I will NOT say your name. To Nia... we will shout yours from the rooftops!!!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Viola Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlack-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross wrote: \"Our bodies and our humanity deserve safety and joy.\" Others paying tribute included Reese Witherspoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Cummings has answered MPs' questions before - in April 2016\n\nMPs have backed a motion demanding Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings appears before a select committee by 20 June.\n\nDamian Collins, who chairs the committee, said efforts to invite Mr Cummings to appear had been \"unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion\".\n\nAnd there was now \"no alternative\" but to ask all MPs to support a motion ordering him to appear, he said.\n\nMr Cummings has said he cannot appear while other inquiries continue and has accused the committee of grandstanding.\n\nThe Commons unanimously approved a motion demanding Mr Cummings agree to appear before the Digital, Culture Media and Sport Committee on or before 20 June, as part of its inquiry into \"fake news\".\n\nMr Cummings has argued that there are \"legal issues\" about him answering questions, because of a separate inquiry by the Electoral Commission.\n\nBut Mr Collins said there was \"a certain irony\" that someone who had run a successful campaign to restore powers to Parliament \"seems to hold that institution in such contempt\".\n\nHe said there were \"important questions\" for Mr Cummings to answer about the EU referendum campaign and, in reference to Mr Cummings's complaints about other investigations by the Electoral Commission and Information Commissioner, said the matter was not \"sub judice\" and Mr Cummings was not before the courts.\n\n\"His decision not to come, whatever he says, is one of his own making. It's a deliberate attempt to deny Parliament its right to question witnesses on matters of importance,\" Mr Collins said.\n\nHe added it was \"the first time since 1920 that a motion of this kind has been put before this House\".\n\nHilary Benn, who chairs another select committee said if potential witnesses began to think \"'I don't have to turn up,' then how can we continue to do our job .... in holding the powerful to account?\" and suggested legislation be drafted to deal with people who refused to attend.\n\nThe motion was backed by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom. And Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who also chairs a select committee, called Mr Cummings's actions \"a disgrace\" and agreed with Mr Benn that it was time to consider introducing a penalty for witnesses refusing to appear.\n\nIt had been reported that Mr Cummings had intended to come to the Commons while the issue was being debated, but he was not in the public gallery for the debate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Susan Hulme This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe has accused the DCMS committee of \"grandstanding\" and wrote in response to a letter from Mr Collins: \"I'm calling your bluff. Your threats are as empty as those from [Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary David Davis] to the EU. Say what you like, I will not come to your committee regardless of how many letters you send or whether you send characters in fancy dress to hand me papers.\n\n\"If another committee behaves reasonably and I can give evidence without compromising various legal actions, then I will consider it. Once these legal actions have finished, presumably this year, it will be easy to arrange if someone else wants to do it.\"\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy says it could become an interesting test case for the Commons - about Parliament's ability to summon witnesses.\n\nThe MPs are looking at how consulting company Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of millions of Facebook users worldwide. The London-based company - which announced it was closing in May - is accused of acquiring data from up to 87 million Facebook profiles for use in political campaigns. Cambridge Analytica has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThere have also been questions about links between Cambridge Analytica and the Vote Leave campaign. Vote Leave spent £2.7m on the services of Canadian digital agency AIQ in the run-up to the June 2016 EU referendum and AIQ has admitted it also conducted work for Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL.\n\nThe leaders of the other main Leave campaign, Leave.EU, are due to give evidence to the committee on 12 June. Former Cambridge Analytica chief Alexander Nix appeared before it on Wednesday.", "Lucy McHugh's body was found near Southampton's Sports Centre on Thursday morning\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in woodland in Southampton.\n\nLucy McHugh's body was found by a member of the public near Southampton Sports Centre at 07:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nPolice said post-mortem tests were carried out earlier and some of Lucy's injuries were \"unexplained\".\n\nThe arrested man, who is 24 and from Southampton, is also being held on suspicion of having sexual activity with a child. He remains in custody.\n\nDet Supt Paul Barton said Lucy had left her home in Mansel Road East at 09:30 BST on Wednesday 25 July and did not return home that evening as expected.\n\nHe said she was reported missing to police that night.\n\nMr Barton added: \"We're really keen to know what she did after leaving her house and would ask that anyone who saw her, had contact with her or knows of her movements on Wednesday contacts the incident room.\"\n\nPolice say Lucy was last seen wearing a black jacket with white sleeves, with the logo for the band Falling in Reverse on the front and RADKE 01 in red on the back.\n\n\"This is a tragic incident and our thoughts go out to Lucy's family and friends at this terrible time,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The technology meltdown at TSB earlier this year has cost the bank £176.4m, pushing it into a half-year loss.\n\nIn April, almost two million customers lost access to online banking services after the bungled introduction of a new IT system.\n\nTSB says only 37% of more than 130,000 complaints have been resolved so far, and some IT issues are continuing.\n\nIt reported a loss of £107.4m in the six months to 30 June compared with a profit of £108.3m last year.\n\n\"I know how frustrated many customers have been by what's happened,\" said TSB chief executive Paul Pester.\n\n\"It was not acceptable, and was not the level of service that we pride ourselves on - nor was it what our customers have come to expect from TSB.\"\n\nThe bank said that, as of 25 July, 135,403 complaints had been recorded and it had a team of more than 260 people looking into them.\n\nWhile most of TSB's services have been reinstated, issues remain with online banking. Customers are not able to apply for banking products on TSB's website, or to switch products if they hold a TSB mortgage.\n\n\"We are working as hard as we can to reinstate this, and no customer will be left out of pocket as a result,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe bank said that about 26,000 customers closed their TSB account in the second quarter of the year. However, it added that more than 20,000 customers opened a new bank account or switched their account to TSB in the same period.\n\nWhen TSB split from the Lloyds Banking Group, it continued to use Lloyds' computer system while a new one was developed.\n\nIn April, it carried out a planned migration of customer data, which involved moving customer records from the old system to one managed by its new Spanish owner, Sabadell.\n\nHowever, the move left many customers struggling to make transactions and see their balances, with the problems continuing for several weeks.\n\nTSB came under fierce criticism for the IT failings, and MPs on the Treasury Committee called on Mr Pester to resign.\n\nBut Mr Pester has remained in his post, and he told the Reuters news agency on Friday that he planned to stay with the bank. \"I'm focused 100% on putting things right for our customers,\" he said.\n\nIn June, the Financial Conduct Authority launched a formal investigation into the meltdown. Its chief executive, Andrew Bailey, took the unusual step of making the probe public, \"given the level of public interest\".\n\nTSB's loss was large enough to have dragged TSB's parent company, Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell, into the red. It reported a loss of €138.7m (£123m) in the three months to 30 June, due to costs stemming from TSB's IT problems.", "There's a weather warning in parts of north and eastern England for heavy rain.\n\nIt has already hit some areas such as Doncaster, where this downpour on Thursday evening was caught on camera.\n\nBut despite the arrival of storms, the UK's July temperature record could be broken on Friday.\n\nYorkshire breaking news: Lightning strikes cause rail chaos; Three homes struck by lightning", "Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces\n\nThe UK has suspended co-operation with the US over two Islamic State suspects.\n\nMinisters had said they would share intelligence with the US that could lead to the men's conviction, without opposing a death penalty sentence.\n\nHowever the mother of one of the men has now launched a legal challenge to prevent such information sharing.\n\nThe Home Office has halted co-operation until a judge has had a chance to consider an application for judicial review.\n\nAlexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, both of whom have been stripped of British nationality, are wanted for being part of the IS kidnap gang behind hostage executions.\n\nThey are accused of being the last two members of an IS group dubbed \"The Beatles\" because of their British accents.\n\nLawyers for the mother of El Shafee Elsheikh have now prepared detailed grounds challenging Mr Javid's decision to share information with the US without a death penalty assurance - meaning a case could be before High Court judges in days.\n\nThey said the home secretary's actions revealed \"a clear and dramatic departure from the UK's long standing international and domestic commitment to oppose the continuing exercise of the death penalty.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the government had \"agreed to a short-term pause\" but was confident it had \"acted in full accordance of the law\".\n\nThe two men are currently being held by Kurdish forces and the UK believes it cannot legally extradite them to face trial here.\n\nThis week it emerged that the US was preparing the ground to prosecute the men itself - and that it had asked the UK for information that would help convict them.\n\nIn a letter leaked to the Daily Telegraph, Home Secretary Sajid Javid wrote that the UK would not oppose the use of the death penalty if the two men were extradited to the US.\n\nIn the past Britain has sought assurances from foreign governments that the death penalty would not be used in cases where the UK provided information or extradited suspects.\n\nNumber 10 had said this was \"a long-standing position\" to oppose the death penalty but added that in this case it was \"a priority to make sure that these men face criminal prosecution\".\n\nThe home secretary's position boils down to a simple question: Would you run the risk of them going free?\n\nGiven Elsheikh and Kotey are in the custody of Syrian Kurdish forces, that sounds unlikely.\n\nBut British prosecutors can't bring the men for trial here because they're not being held by a recognised state with whom the UK has a legally recognised extradition agreement - it would amount to kidnap.\n\nThe forces holding the men are, however, backed by the US - and American courts are less fussy about the legalities of how a suspect ends up in the dock.\n\nThe US may need British information to make a prosecution stick - hence the co-operation.\n\nThis challenge from Mr Elsheikh's mother isn't about that evidence - but whether the ministerial decision to share it demolishes the UK's internationally recognised opposition to capital punishment.\n\nIn case after case down the years, the UK has refused to provide legal help that could lead to overseas executions.\n\nSo this decision to help the Americans, made in the hope of landing a conviction of two of the most wanted men in the world, could turn into a major legal fight.\n\nLabour accused the UK of having \"unilaterally abandoned\" its opposition to the death penalty.\n\nThe former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile said this constituted \"a unilateral change of policy without any consultation\".\n\nLeft to right: Mohammed Emwazi, Aine Davis, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said a senior British government official told him that this case was not the first time that the UK had dropped its request for assurances that the death penalty would not be used.\n\nBut our correspondent said if the pair were sent to the controversial US military prison Guantanamo Bay - where suspects have been detained without trial - the UK would withhold intelligence.", "Kai Fisher-Dixon, Shuayb Mahomud, Tremayne Gray, Omarion Stephens and Abdulqaliq Mohamed were jailed for murder\n\nFive teenagers who \"tortured\" a 15-year-old boy to death have been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nKai Fisher-Dixon, Shuayb Mahomud, Tremayne Gray, Omarion Stephens and Abdulqaliq Mohamed attacked Jacob Abraham in Waltham Cross in December.\n\nThe boys, all aged 15 and from Enfield, north London, denied murder but were found guilty by a jury after a five-week trial at St Albans Crown Court.\n\nThey can be named after the judge Mr Justice Edis lifted anonymity orders.\n\nGray and Stephens were sentenced to serve at least 14 years, Mohamed was sentenced to at least 13 years, and Fisher-Dixon and Mahomud handed 12-year terms.\n\nThe judge said: \"The purpose was to punish him [Jacob] by the deliberate infliction of serious pain and humiliation, but to leave him alive.\n\n\"That was what I meant when I used the word torture in the course of the hearing and I do not shrink from it.\"\n\nJurors heard how Stephens and Gray wielded the knives but the prosecution said all of the boys were responsible for Jacob's death, having lured him to the scene to suffer \"at least really serious harm\".\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard that Jacob had been involved in a number of fights and got into an argument with the AP gang.\n\nAfter posting an online challenge, he was stabbed eight times in an alleyway behind his home on 7 December.\n\nThree of the teenagers, who were just 14 at the time, had to change out of their school uniforms before carrying out the \"punishment mission\".\n\nThe court heard they wanted to teach Jacob a lesson because he was a rival to their \"county lines\" drug operation.\n\nThe boys were caught on CCTV at Waltham Cross bus station on the night of the murder\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Jacob's mother said his death had left \"a large hole\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Jerome Kent said: \"This was a tragic and upsetting case due to the young age of both the victim and the offenders, who are just children.\n\n\"If those boys had chosen not to carry knives that night, I truly believe Jacob would still be alive today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Comparisons are being drawn between the heatwave of 2018 and the summer of 1976. So how do the two years measure up?\n\nI had to sit my A-level exams back then, when the temperatures were so punishing we couldn't sleep.\n\nWe first tried the cellar, which was cool but too claustrophobic, and then the garden, which was too exposed to the unwelcome light of dawn.\n\nI didn't realise it at the time but I was living through a heatwave that has gone down as one of the seminal events in British weather history.\n\nMark McCarthy, of the Met Office, says: \"'76 is the yardstick we always fall back on because it was such a remarkable heatwave and drought - it's one of the standouts in our records.\"\n\nIt was so serious that the government of the day introduced a Drought Act and even appointed a Minister for Drought, Denis Howell, whose job was to encourage the public to use less water.\n\nThe newspapers loved it when he told them he had taken to sharing baths with his wife.\n\nStaines reservoirs near London during the drought of 1976\n\nSo how does 1976 stack up against the extreme conditions large parts of the UK are now experiencing week after week?\n\nThere are some striking similarities but also some key differences.\n\nBeyond the horizon, the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean play a crucial role in determining our weather - and sea conditions back then were very like what we're seeing now.\n\nIn both years, a particular pattern formed in which there is cool water near Greenland, warm water further south and then more cool water closer to the British Isles - and research has shown how that pattern of sea temperatures can be linked to warmer drier summers in the UK.\n\nAnd both heatwaves have involved the same kind of lingering high pressure in which temperatures can soar.\n\nBut in 1976 the high pressure system was centred further to the east of the UK than now.\n\nThat had the effect of drawing up hot humid air from the south, making night-time temperatures even hotter than they have been this year.\n\nThe exact location of systems such as this really matters because the UK is relatively small - so a shift one way or the other can have a big effect.\n\nSo what about the actual heat?\n\nThis is no comfort to anyone toiling outdoors now but 1976 was in a different league to this year. It saw an extraordinary 18 days running when somewhere in the UK had temperatures above 30C.\n\nThe latest figures for 2018 show that, so far, we've had \"only\" nine days on the trot above 30C. Also, 1976 had a staggering 15 consecutive days in which temperatures topped 32C.\n\nBut the biggest difference is in rainfall and what that means for water supplies.\n\nFrom as far back as May 1975, parts of the UK had suffered a long dry spell - so when the heatwave struck, the country was already thirsty.\n\nIn Yorkshire and East Anglia, standpipes were fitted in the streets. In Wales and the west of England, supplies were turned off during the day. And dozens of companies had restrictions imposed or were told to order shorter working weeks.\n\nWhat about this year? It has seen the driest first half of a summer for half a century and a hosepipe ban is in prospect for north-west England. Six of the Met Office's rain gauges have received less than 1mm of rain since 29 May.\n\nAlso this year, some regions have not reached even 10% of the average rain seen in June and July - although with seven days of the month left, this could change.\n\nBut overall most water companies say they are happy with supplies, for the moment.\n\nLuckily last winter delivered its usual amount of rain and spring rainfall was above average. Much of the country had water in the bank when all this began.\n\nSo where does that leave us?\n\nWhile 1976 did see more severe conditions than now, there has been a profoundly important change in the intervening 42 years: the global average temperature has crept up and is set to rise further.\n\nThat makes it \"very likely\" (in the words of the UN climate science panel) that heatwaves will become more frequent in future. And this has potentially devastating implications.\n\nAfter the 2003 heatwave that was blamed for causing 2,000 extra deaths in the UK and tens of thousands across continental Europe, a study concluded that the temperatures of 2003 would seem normal by the summers of the 2040s.\n\nGlobal warming is not the only change. Since 1976, the population has soared, demand for water has rocketed and the stuff has never been so precious.\n\nDrought Minister Denis Howell framed by standpipe taps in a street in Wakefield\n\nThe water companies are under pressure to fix wasteful leaks. And the rollout of water meters is designed to reduce demand - our supplies used to flow without any record of how much we used. Water saving devices in the home also help us to consume less.\n\nEven in East Anglia, the driest region of the country, where there's less rain per person than in Jerusalem, Anglian Water has managed things so that water demand per head is lower than the UK average. Technology and awareness are combining to provide solutions.\n\nWhat now? The current heatwave isn't over yet. It could endure through August. More records could be set - or, as often happens during times of maximum public interest, the heavens will suddenly open and the air will cool.\n\nIn the case of the minister for drought, his appointment was inevitably followed by a deluge and he was quickly made minister for floods instead (two years later Mr Howell served as minister for snow). The papers loved that too - another reason that 1976 was so memorable.\n\nSadly, the break in the weather came too late for me and my exams. But when it came to the results, at least I had an excuse.", "Google's Diane Greene spoke to the BBC on the sidelines of the company's annual cloud conference in San Francisco\n\nFacial recognition technology does not yet have \"the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned.\n\nThe remarks, from the firm’s director of cloud computing, Diane Greene, came after rival Amazon’s software wrongly identified 28 members of Congress, disproportionately people of colour, as police suspects.\n\nGoogle, which has not opened its facial recognition technology to public use, was working on gathering vast sums of data to improve reliability, Ms Greene said.\n\nHowever, she refused to discuss the company’s controversial work with the military.\n\n“Bad things happen when I talk about Maven,” Ms Greene said, referring to a soon-to-be abandoned project with the US military to develop artificial intelligence technology for drones.\n\nAfter considerable employee pressure, including resignations, Google said it would not renew its contract with the Pentagon after it lapses some time in 2019.\n\nThe firm has not commented on the deal since, only to release a set of “AI principles” that stated it would not use artificial intelligence or machine learning to create weapons.\n\nOn face recognition, there has been considerable concern among Silicon Valley workers, and civil rights groups, about the application of the emerging technology - particularly when it comes to law enforcement. Amazon’s Rekognition software, which allows clients to use Amazon AI tech to power facial recognition, was being used by at least two police forces in the US.\n\nThere are major misgivings about the accuracy and readiness of the technology which has seen widespread, controversial use in China.\n\nIn the US, the misidentification of members of Congress was discovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which published its findings on Thursday. Amazon disputed the ACLU’s conclusions about its technology, saying the group had used the wrong settings.\n\nMs Greene said that while Google does use facial recognition to help users identify friends in pictures, its underlying technology was not open for public use.\n\n\"We need to be really careful about how we use this kind of technology,” she told the BBC.\n\n\"We're thinking really deeply. The humanistic side of AI - it doesn't have the diversity it needs and the data itself will have some inherent biases, so everybody's working to understand that.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think everybody wants to do the right thing. I'm sure Amazon wants to do the right thing too. But it's a new technology, it's a very powerful technology.”\n\nGoogle’s image recognition software has been offensively inaccurate in the past. In 2015, it identified a black couple as being “gorillas”. The firm apologised.\n\nTwo members of Congress have written to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos to talk about the alleged issue with his company’s system.\n\nSpeaking of facial recognition more widely, the ACLU said: \"Congress should enact a federal moratorium on law enforcement use of this technology until there can be a full debate on what - if any - uses should be permitted.\"\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The EU's chief negotiator has ruled out allowing the UK to collect customs duties on its behalf, a key UK proposal for post-Brexit trade.\n\nMichel Barnier said the UK wanted to \"take back control\" of its money, law and borders - but so did the EU.\n\nThe EU would not delegate \"excises duty collection to a non-member\", he said.\n\nBoth he and UK Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said progress had been made but \"obstacles\" remained before reaching a deal in October.\n\nMr Raab said: \"We have agreed to meet again in mid-August and then to continue weekly discussions to clear away all the obstacles that line our path, to a strong deal in October - one that works for both sides.\"\n\nHe replaced David Davis, who quit as Brexit secretary in protest at Theresa May's plans for a future economic relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the White Paper.\n\nThat set out in more detail the government's proposed customs system, the Facilitated Customs Arrangement for goods and agri-foods. The UK's plan involves it collecting some EU tariffs - in a bid to ensure frictionless trade in goods and to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\nMichel Barnier wants the UK to make a choice.\n\nIf it wants to have frictionless trade with the EU's single market then it will have to join a customs union, or something like it, which will mean applying the EU's tariffs and reducing the scope for doing free trade deals with others.\n\nIf it wants more freedom, it will have to agree arrangements with the EU that will reduce friction but not eliminate it altogether.\n\nIt's an old tune that sounds different after the publication of the UK's White Paper, which was supposed to have solved this dilemma.\n\nIt also sounds like the UK will propose a revamped version of its idea for avoiding a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland but the two sides are still divided on whether that should have a time-limit or not.\n\nLost among all of this will be the nugget of good news: Big strides have been made on security co-operation after Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Barnier said retaining control of the money, law and borders also applied to the EU's customs policy.\n\n\"The EU cannot and the EU will not delegate the application of its customs policy and rules and VAT and excises duty collection to a non-member who would not be subject to the EU's governance structures,\" he said.\n\nAny customs arrangement or union \"must respect this principle\", he said.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Barnier appeared to have delivered a significant blow to Mrs May's controversial proposals, which have already been criticised by pro-Brexit Tory MPs.\n\nSpeaking after talks with Mr Raab, Mr Barnier said that Theresa May's Brexit White Paper plan was a \"real step forward\".\n\nHe highlighted agreement on security measures and said both sides wanted a wide-ranging free trade deal.\n\nBut he added: \"To be frank, we are not at the end of the road yet.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nWhile UK proposals on security marked \"a real step forward\" and he welcomed the acknowledgement that the European Court of Justice was the only arbiter of EU law, he added: \"In contrast, on our future economic relationship, it comes as no surprise that finding common ground between the EU27 and the UK is more difficult.\"\n\nBrexit Secretary Mr Raab said the UK proposals had been designed \"to respect the result of the referendum, and the core principles of the EU\".\n\n\"We have considered the innovative approaches the EU has taken in the past with other third countries - when the political will has been there,\" he said.\n\n\"In sum, the UK has set out our plans in detail. Those plans are ambitious, principled and pragmatic. I am committed to injecting new energy into these talks, along with Michel.\"\n\nTurning to Mr Barnier, he said: \"Michel, we have work to do.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but has yet to agree how its final relationship with the bloc will work.\n\nThe SNP's Angus MacNeil tweeted that the press conference spelt the end for the prime minister's Chequers plan:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Angus B MacNeil MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Ben Bradshaw, who is part of the People's Vote campaign for a vote on any final Brexit deal, said: \"The White Paper is dead. It has expired. It has ceased to be.\"\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, Christine Jardine said the prime minister's White Paper was \"struggling to survive\" .", "The late actress Carrie Fisher will appear in the film using footage recorded for Star Wars: The Force Awakens\n\nThe cast for the next Star Wars film has been revealed, with a mixture of veteran stars and new faces set to appear.\n\nThe late actress Carrie Fisher will feature in Episode IX using previously unseen footage that was recorded for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.\n\nThe star, who played Princess Leia in the film series, died suddenly in 2016.\n\nBilly Dee Williams, 81, will reprise his role as Lando Calrissian and Richard E Grant will join the cast.\n\n\"We desperately loved Carrie Fisher,\" director JJ Abrams said in a statement announcing the line-up. \"Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her eluded us.\n\n\"We have found a way to honour Carrie's legacy and role as Leia in Episode IX by using unseen footage we shot together in Episode VII.\"\n\nMark Hamill, who was catapulted to fame by the first Star Wars film in 1977, will return as Luke Skywalker.\n\nHe will be joined by fellow series veteran Anthony Daniels, who plays android interpreter C-3PO and is the only actor to have appeared in all of the franchise's major films.\n\nBritish actress Naomi Ackie, who starred in the 2017 film Lady Macbeth, will join the cast in an as yet unnamed role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany of the names will be familiar to fans of the previous instalment, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Lupita Nyong'o and Domhnall Gleeson will all return for the new film.\n\nThe Last Jedi was a major success, generating more than $450m (£337m) in global ticket sales on its opening weekend in December.\n\nIt was the second biggest-grossing opening weekend ever in North America, trailing behind the 2015 release Star Wars: The Force Awakens which opened with $248m (£185m).\n\nFilming for Episode IX, which does not yet have a title, will begin at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire on Wednesday. It is scheduled for release in December 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Julian Assange has been in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for six years\n\nThe UK and Ecuador are holding ongoing talks over the fate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the British government has confirmed.\n\nMr Assange, 47, has been living in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012 when he was granted political asylum.\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno said on Friday that he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities, and that both sides were in permanent contact.\n\nMr Moreno has previously referred to Mr Assange as a \"stone in our shoe\".\n\nThe Ecuadorean president was in London this week for a global disabilities summit, but a UK government spokesperson said Mr Assange was not discussed during his visit.\n\nPrevious efforts to negotiate Mr Assange's departure have failed, but a recent report in the Sunday Times newspaper stated that talks were back on.\n\nMr Moreno confirmed the accuracy of the Sunday Times article on Friday, at an event in Madrid.\n\nPresident Moreno, left, confirmed the reports during a visit to Spain where he met Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, right\n\nAny eviction of Mr Assange from the embassy must be carried out properly through dialogue, he said.\n\nThe Australian will be arrested by UK police if he leaves the embassy for breaching bail conditions.\n\nThe bail relates to sexual assault allegations he faced in Sweden. His six-year-old arrest warrant was upheld in February.\n\nAlthough Sweden has dropped its rape investigation, Mr Assange believes his arrest for breach of bail would lead to an extradition to the US for publishing US secrets on the Wikileaks website.\n\nWikileaks made global headlines in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nWhile Mr Assange became an Ecuadorean citizen in December 2017, recent months have seen his hosts cut his internet connection and accuse him of interfering in other countries' affairs.\n\nEcuador removed extra security at its London embassy in May after reports that the operation cost tens of thousands of dollars a month.\n\nThe British government is said to be increasingly concerned about Mr Assange's welfare.\n\n\"It is our wish that this is brought to an end, and we would like to make the assurance that if he were to step out of the embassy, he would be treated humanely and properly,\" UK Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan told parliament last month.\n\n\"The first priority would be to look after his health, which we think is deteriorating.\"", "Sir Anthony Hopkins shared advice with students at the University Of California\n\nSir Anthony Hopkins has opened up on his battle with alcoholism, saying he \"should have died in Wales, drunk or something like that\".\n\nThe Oscar-winning star admitted he was \"very difficult to work with\" early in his stage career because he \"was usually hungover\".\n\nHe said he turned his life around following a talk with a woman from Alcoholics Anonymous in 1975.\n\nSir Anthony, 80, was born in Port Talbot but now lives in Los Angeles.\n\nSpeaking to about 500 students at the University Of California, the Silence Of The Lambs star discussed his problems with alcohol and the impact it had on his early career.\n\nHe said: \"Because that's what you do in theatre, you drink. But I was very difficult to work with, as well, because I was usually hungover.\"\n\nSir Anthony added he had been \"disgusted, busted and not to be trusted\" while he was drinking.\n\nThe actor told how he started to change following the talk with the Alcoholics Anonymous woman, who asked him \"why don't you just trust in God?\".\n\nFrom then on the urge to drink was \"never to return\", he added.\n\nSir Anthony - pictured with Dame Diana Rigg in 1972 - said alcohol affected his early career\n\nSir Anthony, who was knighted in 1993 for services to the arts, said he got into acting \"because he had nothing better to do\", adding he was \"not at all bright\" in school and was often bullied.\n\n\"I believe that we are capable of so much,\" he told the students at the 11th annual Leap, Leadership, Excellence and Accelerating Your Potential conference.\n\n\"From my own life, I still cannot believe that my life is what it is because I should have died in Wales, drunk or something like that.\"\n\nHe now lives in Malibu with his actress wife, Stella Arroyave, and advised students to \"say yes to everything. Say yes and take the risk\".\n\nSir Anthony is widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors and is perhaps best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in 1991's The Silence Of The Lambs, its sequel Hannibal and prequel Red Dragon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nukes, Trump Towers and human rights - what might peace look like between the US and North Korea?\n\nNorth Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.\n\nSatellite images of the Sohae station seen by US-based monitoring group 38 North suggest Pyongyang is complying with a promise made to the US in June.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un had vowed to destroy an engine test site, but did not specify which one.\n\nPyongyang has maintained that Sohae is a satellite launch site.\n\nBut US officials suspect that it has been used to test ballistic missiles.\n\nThe satellite imagery appears to show the dismantling of facilities at North Korea's Sohae site\n\nDuring a landmark meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore last month, the two leaders signed a deal to work towards the \"complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula\".\n\nBut the deal was criticised for a lack of details on when or how Pyongyang would renounce its nuclear weapons.\n\nThe apparent dismantling of the Sohae test site comes amid rising questions over North Korea's willingness to stick to the pledges made at the 12 June summit.\n\nEarlier on Monday, President Trump said that he was \"very happy\" with the progress in relations with North Korea, saying that Pyongyang had not launched any missiles or carried out any nuclear tests during the last nine months.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt follows comments from the US president last week that there was \"no time limit\" for North Korea to denuclearise and no need to rush the process.\n\nThose reports indicate that North Korea's only official nuclear enrichment site at Yongbyon is being upgraded, and that the country was stepping up enrichment at other secret sites.\n\nThe reports cannot be independently verified, but have been deemed accurate by respected North Korea watchers.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a total of six nuclear tests, the most recent of which took place in September last year.\n\nThe North has in the past two years quickly advanced its nuclear programme, and claims that it has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile that is able to reach as far as the continental US.", "The seaside town of Mati, east of Athens, was the hardest-hit community\n\nGreece has \"serious indications\" that a fire that killed at least 83 people near Athens earlier this week was started deliberately, Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas says.\n\nThe blaze broke out on Monday and hit coastal villages popular with tourists.\n\nSome 60 people are still being treated in hospital, 11 in intensive care. Dozens more are missing.\n\nOpposition politician Maria Spyraki accused the government of an \"abject failure\" to protect lives and property.\n\nMs Spyraki, spokeswoman for the conservative New Democracy, said the government ought to have warned residents via the media, deployed more firefighters, and evacuated people from Mati immediately.\n\nThe coastal area east of Athens was known to be high-risk, the Greek daily Kathimerini reports.\n\nRescue workers searching a cliffside in the seaside town of Mati found more human remains on Thursday.\n\nMore than 500 homes were destroyed, and some have not yet been examined.\n\nIdentifying the victims is proving difficult as the bodies are so badly burnt.\n\nMany were caught close to the cliff as the flames spread rapidly, whipped up by winds as high as 120km/h (75mph). Some survivors were saved by the sea, but dozens of victims were unable to reach the water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The flames were chasing us into the water\" - survivor\n\nMr Toskas also said that another fire that broke out near Athens a few hours earlier - but did not cause casualties - had been started intentionally.\n\nHe added that \"climate conditions\" in the areas affected by fire were \"extreme due to climate change\".\n\nEarlier, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told the BBC that illegal construction had contributed to the disaster.\n\nHe said building by residents between wooded areas was a \"crime\" that had resulted in blocked escape routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Kammenos was confronted by angry locals as he visited areas devastated by fires east of Athens this week.\n\nArriving in Mati, where many people died, the minister was surrounded by residents who accused him of abandoning them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Kammenos argued that the actions of some residents had closed the roads to the beach.\n\n\"This is a crime from the past,\" he said. \"This coast of Athens, all these properties, the majority are without a licence, and they have occupied the coast without rules.\"\n\nAmong those still missing are twin nine-year-old girls Vassiliki and Sofia Philippopoulou, who were with their grandparents near Mati at the time of the fire.\n\nEU satellite service Copernicus produced a map showing the almost complete devastation of residential areas", "A man has been arrested after climbing over Buckingham Palace's front gates in the middle of the night, police have said.\n\nThe 22-year-old was held on suspicion of trespass at around 02:00 BST on Wednesday by specialist royal officers, the Metropolitan Police Service said.\n\nThe Queen was in residence at the time, a palace spokeswoman confirmed.\n\nThe intruder was not carrying a weapon and the incident is not being treated as terror-related, the force said.\n\nThe palace spokeswoman declined to say whether the Queen had been informed of the incident.\n\nAt their lowest point the gates are several metres high.\n\nThe man has been released under investigation, Scotland Yard said.", "There is a \"significant problem\" in Parliament of MPs bullying and harassing staff, a new report says.\n\nSenior lawyer Gemma White - who led the investigation - said the behaviour had \"seriously affected the health and welfare of far too many people\".\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said it \"condemned bullying and harassment\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it will bring a motion to Parliament next week to enable investigations into historical allegations.\n\nAnnouncing the plan, Leader of the House Mel Stride said \"significant progress\" had been made to change the culture in the Commons, but there was \"more to be done\".\n\nThe report comes a day after another inquiry found that staff were \"bullied and harassed\" by \"known offenders\" in the House of Lords.\n\nMs White's investigation focused on how MPs treated their own staff - employed directly by them or their political party - rather than those employed by Parliament itself, including researchers, caseworkers, secretaries and interns.\n\nThe report said recent steps to tackle bullying and harassment had not taken into account the particular issues faced by MPs' staff, because of this direct employment, and many described the idea of complaining about it as \"career suicide\".\n\nOne staff member told Ms White that her time working for an MP had been \"the most stressful and hostile period of [her] life\".\n\nThey added: \"My entire sense of self was crushed, and by the end, I felt incapable and incompetent, despite all of the work I had done in that office.\"\n\nAnother said: \"As long as getting political jobs in Parliament [is] dependent on who you know and who you're related to, sexual harassment will be a necessary evil for ambitious, young people like me who will choose our careers over our comfort every time.\"\n\nAnd a former employee said \"[The MP] absolutely crushed my confidence and made me feel worthless. Getting away from [them], that office and, I am sad to say it, but Parliament, was the best move for me.\n\n\"It is only in my more recent jobs that I realise actually how inappropriate [their] behaviour was and how little scrutiny process is in place.\"\n\nMs White said she had heard from more than 220 people during her inquiry and many MPs had been described to her as \"excellent employers, colleagues and managers\".\n\nQuotes in the report include staff saying MPs were \"remarkable for their politeness\" and Parliament was \"by far the most courteous and least threatening environment\" they had worked in.\n\nBut she said a minority of MPs were said to \"behave in ways which are not acceptable and fall far short of what we should expect from our elected representatives\".\n\nThe report said the most common form of offending behaviour was shouting at, demeaning, belittling and humiliating staff, often in public.\n\nBut it said sexual harassment was also a problem, with staff being subject to unwanted advances - often accompanied by touching and sometimes forceful.\n\nThe report added that there was an unacceptable level of sexual \"banter\" in the Commons, alongside \"unwelcome discussion of intimate sexual details\".\n\nMs White added: \"There is a pressing need for a collective response to what is clearly a significant problem.\n\n\"While the House of Commons is not alone in tolerating these behaviours, it is the home of our policy makers and a taxpayer-funded institution. It should therefore be at the forefront of good employment practice.\"\n\nMs White made a number of recommendations for \"straightforward and practical action\":\n\nMs White said she was concerned by the amount of time it had taken to act on recommendations from previous reports, so \"would urge the House to move more swiftly\".\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said authorities in the Commons \"must set an example to other employers and take urgent, robust action to end the appalling behaviour\" described in the report.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the findings of the inquiry were \"appalling\" and \"raise serious concerns\", while shadow leader of the House, Labour's Valerie Vaz, said the accounts of staff were \"shocking and totally unacceptable\".\n\nThe SNP's Pete Wishart said the UK Parliament \"must aspire to a gold standard of employment\".\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said: \"The commission does not employ the staff of MPs, as they are employed by MPs themselves, or via political parties.\n\n\"However, the commission takes very seriously its responsibility to ensure that Parliament is a modern workplace.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched after a recommendation for an independent probe from the cross-party group implementing a new complaints and grievances scheme in the Commons.\n\nIt followed a damning report in 2018 from Dame Laura Cox, which condemned a culture in which abusive behaviour towards Commons staff was \"tolerated and covered up\".\n• None MPs' staff tell of bullying and abuse", "Apidima 1 (shown here in a reconstruction) has all the characteristics of a modern human skull\n\nResearchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa.\n\nA skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by the Neanderthals.\n\nThe sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Nature.\n\n\"It's about five times older than any other evidence of modern humans in Europe. And obviously it's older even than Misliya from Israel (a 150,000-year-old early modern human fossil). The shape of the back of the skull is very modern looking and it's potentially the oldest fossil that shows this modern look to the back of the skull,\" Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News.\n\nThe earliest proposed Homo sapiens, a 300,000-year-old skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, does not show this rounded, high back.\n\nThe latest evidence was uncovered at the site of Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s. Two skulls were found; one was very distorted and the other incomplete, however, and it took computed tomography scanning and uranium-series dating to unravel their secrets.\n\nThe more complete skull appears to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a rounded back to the skull, diagnostic of modern humans.\n\nWhat's more, the Neanderthal skull was younger.\n\n\"Now our scenario was that there was an early modern group in Greece by 210,000 years ago, perhaps related to comparable populations in the Levant, but it was subsequently replaced by a Neanderthal population (represented by Apidima 2) by about 170,000 years ago,\" said Prof Stringer.\n\nApidima 2 appears to be a Neanderthal and is later than the modern human skull\n\nPeople living outside Africa today trace their ancestry to a migration that left the continent 60,000 years ago.\n\nAs these modern humans expanded across Eurasia, they largely replaced other species they encountered, such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans.\n\nBut this wasn't the first migration of modern humans (Homo sapiens) from Africa.\n\nHomo sapiens fossils from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel were dated in the 1990s to between 90,000 and 125,000 years ago.\n\nThese were viewed as anomalies - a brief foray outside our African homeland that came to very little.\n\nHowever, in recent years, we've come to understand that our species ranged outside Africa even earlier and further than we'd previously believed.\n\nIn the last few years, palaeontologists have discovered modern human fossils from Daoxian and Zhirendong in China dating to between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago.\n\nDNA studies have turned up signs of early interbreeding between African humans and Neanderthals. Evidence from German Neanderthals shows that mixing occurred between 219,000 and 460,000 years ago, although it's not clear if Homo sapiens was involved, or another early African group.\n\n\"The movement of the people into Europe, that was actually was a warm stage - Marine Isotope Stage 7 - when it did warm up. So that may have been a reason why the population was able to expand into Europe at that time,\" said Prof Stringer.\n\n\"Soon afterwards, we get a much colder stage starting. Possibly, climate change was a reason why the group died out and Neanderthals re-established themselves.\"\n\nOn the affinities of the Apidima 1 skull, Prof Stringer says: \"It's obviously only on the parts preserved. We have to be careful, it is only on the back of the skull, the front might have been more primitive, who knows. But going on what we've got it can be diagnosed as a modern human going on the parts preserved.\n\n\"If we're right about it, there must be some more evidence of this population and ones like it, still to be discovered.\"", "The 59-year-old molecular biologist worked for the world-renowned Max Planck Institute\n\nThe body of an American scientist has been found inside a World War Two bunker on the Greek island of Crete.\n\nSuzanne Eaton, who went missing more than a week ago after going on a run, died of suffocation, police confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThey say they are investigating the case as a criminal act.\n\nThe 59-year-old molecular biologist from the world-renowned Max Planck Institute in Germany had been attending a conference on the island.\n\nShe was found on rough and rocky terrain inside the abandoned bunker about 10km (six miles) away from where she was last seen, according to police in the port city of Chania, where the conference was being held.\n\nShe was reported missing on 2 July and a large search effort was launched.\n\nSix days later, her body was discovered by two locals exploring the bunker, which is a system of manmade caves used by the Nazis during the occupation of Crete in World War Two.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suzanne Eaton's body was found in the north-east of the island\n\nAccording to Cretalive news website, a forensic autopsy found she had been suffocated but there was no other indication of trauma.\n\nPolice are investigating whether Suzanne Eaton was killed inside the bunker or moved there after the event, it adds.\n\nThe Greek Reporter website said her body had been covered in burlap, a rough cloth, leading Greek authorities to conclude she had been killed.\n\nAccording to a local official speaking to ABC News, the area around the bunker, which lies to the north-west of the island, is a popular tourist spot.\n\nThe scientist's family, friends and colleagues had launched a Facebook page co-ordinating search efforts and offering a €50,000 ($56,000; £45,000) reward for information on her whereabouts.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Searching for Suzanne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by Searching for Suzanne\n\nThe Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics said in a statement: \"It is with enormous sadness and regret that we announce the tragic demise of our dearest friend and colleague, Suzanne Eaton... We are deeply shocked and disturbed by this tragic event.\"\n\nSuzanne Eaton was married with two sons.", "The bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre has been lit\n\nA controversial bonfire that was built in a leisure centre car park in east Belfast was lit as part of the Eleventh Night celebrations.\n\nIt was one of hundreds set on fire across Northern Ireland on Thursday on the eve of the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nEarlier in the day Belfast City Council gave up on its efforts to remove the bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre.\n\nIt came after a contractor that was due to remove the bonfire pulled out after graffiti threats appeared nearby.\n\nThe council wants police to investigate how details of removal contractors were leaked and appeared in the graffiti threats.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Gavin Robinson, the MP for East Belfast, said he believed the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was involved in the bonfire dispute.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the council warned that anyone in the leisure centre grounds would be regarded as trespassers.\n\nGraffiti threats to contractors asked to remove the bonfire appeared in east Belfast\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it would investigate the council's complaint about aggravated trespassing.\n\nIt also said officers would meet council representatives to discuss a complaint about the leak of contractors' details.\n\nPolice carried out searches in Avoniel on Thursday after suggestions that a suspicious object had been left in the area but nothing was found.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Talkback programme, Mr Robinson condemned the events surrounding the closure of the leisure centre on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP MP Gavin Robinson says he believes UVF members are involved in the bonfire dispute\n\nThe council closed it after its entrance was barricaded by men who were behaving in a \"threatening\" way to staff.\n\n\"That's not, in my view, an appropriate expression of culture,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\nAttention is now switching from the bonfire to the investigation into how the names of the contractors were leaked.\n\nAlthough it will focus on Belfast City Hall, the question being asked by some in political circles is whether anyone in the PSNI could have leaked the names?\n\nThere is nothing to suggest they did, but given the theoretical possibility, is it appropriate that the PSNI should conduct the investigation?\n\nHe said that if people recognised bonfires were part of Northern Ireland's \"cultural tapestry\" then agreement was needed about where they took place and how they could be managed safely.\n\n\"Those are the sort of issues that, rather than leave them to the last minute, need to be grappled at an earlier stage by the council,\" he added.\n\nPolice warned on Wednesday there was a risk of \"serious violence\" due to UVF involvement and it \"could not rule out a risk from firearms\" if council workers tried to dismantle the Avoniel bonfire.\n\nDUP councillor George Dorrian said the decision not to remove the bonfire was sensible given that no contractors were available to remove it.\n\nBonfires - like this one in Larne - are lit across Northern Ireland on the Eleventh Night\n\nProtesters said they tried to compromise with authorities but were determined that the event would go ahead on Thursday night.\n\nWelcoming the council's decision, Robert Girvan, from a group calling itself the East Belfast Cultural Collective, which represents a number of bonfire builders, denied any paramilitary involvement.\n\n\"Unless the UVF is 70-year-old grannies and 12-year-old children, there's no UVF involvement here,\" Mr Girvan said.\n\nHe criticised the council's allegation of trespassing, saying that Sinn Féin and Alliance Party councillors were \"denying children the use of a play park\".\n\nTensions had been building ahead of bonfires being lit across Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth of July.\n\nIt is the main date in the Protestant Orange Order marching season, commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.\n\nThe gates at Avoniel Leisure Centre were open on Wednesday after a barricade was removed\n\nMost fires are lit without major incident but some prove contentious, with the authorities having taken action in recent years on bonfires deemed unsafe and posing a threat to nearby properties.\n\nBelfast City Council's emergency meeting on Thursday was its fourth on the bonfire issue in four days.\n\nThe bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre had been contentious because tyres had been placed on it to be burnt and it was built on council property without permission.\n\nBonfire builders voluntarily removed tyres after contractors acting for the council removed 1,800 tyres from another bonfire nearby.\n\nHundreds of people gathered at the Avoniel bonfire on Tuesday to protest against the council's decision to remove it.\n\nA large crowd of people watched as the Drumilly Green bonfire was lit on Wednesday night\n\nIt is estimated there were between 80 and 100 bonfires in Belfast this year, with 35 signed up to an official scheme funded by the council.\n\nIn County Armagh, a large crowd watched as another controversial bonfire was lit on Wednesday night.\n\nThe bonfire at Drumilly Green in Portadown was built close to flats, causing a housing association to advise dozens of residents to leave their homes.\n\nHundreds of windows were boarded up to protect them from the heat of the blaze and fire service sprayed two of the nearby blocks of flats with foam to keep them cool.\n\nIt is thought the Drumsilly Green bonfire is traditionally lit on 10 July to allow people to attend other bonfires on the Eleventh Night.", "The airport stopped all flights at 17:08 BST\n\nFlights at Gatwick Airport were suspended for about two hours due to an issue with its air traffic control systems.\n\nTwenty-eight flights were cancelled and 26 diverted to other airports after the problems began at about 17:00 BST.\n\nThe airport said it had experienced a problem in its control tower.\n\nFlights are still delayed by an hour or more, with cancellations expected throughout the evening, Gatwick said.\n\nSome passengers were stuck between the boarding gate and the plane\n\nThe effects were felt at airports across Europe, with many inbound flights to Gatwick cancelled and others expected to be delayed by about three hours.\n\nPassengers due to travel to or from the airport have been advised to check for updates with their airline.\n\nEasyJet said Gatwick was operating at a \"reduced rate\" and apologised for the disruption, which it said was \"outside of our control\".\n\nA spokesman said the airport aimed to return to a full schedule on Thursday without delays, adding: \"The ambition is it should run as usual.\"\n\nStaff had told passengers to prepare for delays of up to four hours\n\nColin Franks, who was due to board an EasyJet flight to Palma, Spain, at 18:00 said he was \"trapped between the boarding gate and the air bridge\".\n\nHe said the plane's pilot had spoken to passengers, adding: \"He said they had been given a provisional [take off] time of 10pm.\n\n\"At the moment, everybody is talking to one another and it's quite cheery. There are a lot of children here.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by c ❤️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by c ❤️\n\nIn December flights were suspended for 30 hours after drone sightings, causing chaos for 140,000 passengers.\n\nA senior Sussex Police officer said the airport was not prepared for an attack by more than one drone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, has accused deputy leader Tom Watson of being \"irresponsible\" for criticising Labour's handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nMr Watson criticised Labour and Ms Formby, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, following a BBC Panorama investigation.\n\nMs Formby said he risked \"exacerbating\" fears in the Jewish community.\n\nShe acknowledged anti-Semitism was a \"real problem\" in the party but said steps had been taken to tackle it.\n\nThe Panorama investigation, broadcast on Wednesday, featured claims from ex-party officials that senior Labour figures had interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nThis included allegations that officials brought in by Ms Formby \"overruled\" some of their disciplinary decisions and \"downgraded\" punishments to a \"slap on the wrist\".\n\nThe disputes team is supposed to operate independently from the party's political structures, including the leader's office.\n\nIn the wake of the programme, Mr Watson demanded that the party publish its submission to a formal inquiry into the issue.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Formby, he said the response to the UK's equality watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) had been \"withheld\" from the party's executive.\n\nTom Watson said \"only sunlight\" could \"disinfect\" Labour of anti-Semitism\n\nIn reply, Ms Formby said Mr Watson was abusing his \"considerable platform\" to \"denigrate\" the progress that had been made in combating anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Furthermore, traducing my reputation and publicly attacking me when you know I am undergoing chemotherapy and am unable to respond in the media, is another example of the inappropriate way in which you choose to discuss this issue,\" she wrote.\n\nMs Formby said she was \"very concerned\" by the distress suffered by some former staff members shown in the Panorama documentary, but added that \"we were not made aware of these issues at the time\".\n\nShe said she had twice offered Mr Watson the chance to view the document sent to the anti-Semitism inquiry and that he had not raised any concerns when she briefed the shadow cabinet about Labour's response on Tuesday.\n\nShe also denied accusations that she had deleted emails relating to cases of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"By choosing to ignore the steps taken by this party, and commenting so uncritically about the Panorama programme, you are complicit in creating a perception that anti-Semitism is more prevalent in the Labour Party than wider society,\" Ms Formby added.\n\n\"This is deeply irresponsible for the deputy leader of a party which seeks to be in government, and risks exacerbating the fear that Jewish communities will feel.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Watson had accused some in the Labour Party of attempting to discredit the former staff members who took part in the Panorama documentary.\n\nHe called for greater transparency on the issue, adding: \"Only sunlight can disinfect Labour of anti-Semitism now.\"\n\nIn response, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, another close ally of the Labour leader, tweeted that Mr Watson was \"very wrong\" to imply that Ms Formby was \"dealing with the matter with anything less than her usual professionalism\".\n\nAnd other shadow cabinet members also rallied to Ms Formby's defence in the face of what they said were \"unfair attacks\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EHRC launched a formal investigation in May into whether Labour had \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said on Thursday that more than 30 whistleblowers, including current Labour staff, would submit evidence to the inquiry.\n\nThe party has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over the issue, which has led nine MPs and three peers to leave the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of failing to get to grips with the problem, with allegations of hundreds of complaints against members remaining unresolved.\n\nLabour said it \"completely\" rejected any claims it was anti-Semitic.\n\nIt also accused the Panorama programme of being a \"seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning\".", "The proportion of students in England awarded first-class degrees continues to increase - rising by 80% since 2010-11, the university watchdog says.\n\nThe Office for Students, warning of grade inflation, says for almost three-quarters of universities such increases in top grades are \"unexplained\".\n\nThe University of Surrey increased its proportion awarded first-class degrees from 23% to 47% of students.\n\n\"Worries about grade inflation threaten to devalue a university education in the eyes of employers and potential students,\" said Susan Lapworth, director of competition for the Office for Students.\n\nThe higher education watchdog also examined why the proportion awarded top degrees might have risen from 16% to 29%, such as students arriving from school with better qualifications.\n\nBut the analysis found much of the increase could not be explained.\n\nThe figures showed over 40,000 more students graduated with firsts last summer than in the cohort of seven years before.\n\nMr Hinds said that if universities were giving many more top degrees without a legitimate reason, it was unfair on those who had studied to the same standard in previous years.\n\nDamian Hinds has warned that grade inflation is unfair on students from previous years\n\n\"We owe it to the hard-working students and institutions who play by the rules to stamp out this unfair practice,\" said the education secretary.\n\n\"Today's figures are disappointing and risk compromising the public trust in the high standards of our universities,\" he said.\n\nThe watchdog showed the changes in students awarded first-class degrees between 2010-11 and 2017-18, including:\n\nThe study also looked at those awarded either first or upper-second class degrees (2:1s). These now account for the great majority of degrees.\n\nIn the University of Bristol, 92% of students are awarded either a first or 2:1 and at Cambridge 94% reach this threshold.\n\nThere have been big increases in the proportion of students awarded these two top grades despite beginning university with relatively low A-level grades.\n\nAmong those going to university with grades below three Ds at A-level, seven years ago about 40% were awarded the top two grades - and that has risen to above 70%.\n\nThe education secretary has previously warned universities to stop \"spiralling\" grade inflation.\n\nBut this trend has continued and the Department for Education now says universities have been given a \"stark warning\" that this needs to change.\n\n\"Universities are determined to tackle unexplained grade inflation,\" said Dame Janet Beer, president of Universities UK.\n\n\"The sector's collective will to take ownership of this challenge is strong, as we recognise it is crucial that we keep the confidence of students, employers and the public, in the value of a university qualification.\"", "Women surrounded the loyalist bonfire in Avoniel as part of a protest on Tuesday\n\nHundreds have gathered outside Avoniel Leisure Centre in east Belfast to protest at a council decision to remove a bonfire from its grounds.\n\nIt came after Belfast City Council said its initial decision to remove bonfire material had not been reversed.\n\nBonfire builders said removing tyres, reducing its size and moving it away from buildings meant there was no need for the council to take action.\n\nA barricade has been erected at the leisure centre gates.\n\nProtesters told BBC News NI they have tried to compromise with authorities but are now determined that the Eleventh night event will go ahead.\n\nTensions have been building ahead of bonfires being lit before the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nBonfires are lit in some Protestant areas in Northern Ireland on 11 July, the night before Orange Order members commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne with parades across Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at the protest, senior Orangeman Rev Mervyn Gibson said that there was \"no need for the tension that has arisen around this bonfire, but sadly we have a republican-dominated council who have failed their first real test at openness and compromise\".\n\nHe said bonfire builders had removed tyres, then reduced the height of the bonfire, but \"no matter what this community did it was not enough to appease those who oppose us\".\n\nHe added: \"I would appeal for calm at this bonfire - do not react, and I know that's going to be difficult, because there's anger here.\"\n\nA barricade of tyres and bins was erected at the gates to Avoniel Leisure Centre\n\nAlso speaking at Tuesday's protest were loyalist Jamie Bryson and Robert Girvin, from a group calling itself the East Belfast Cultural Collective, which represents a number of bonfire builders.\n\nAt Avoniel Leisure Centre, which closed early on Tuesday, the bonfire has been rebuilt after tyres were voluntarily removed.\n\nOrganisers say they have reduced the height of the bonfire to about 20 feet (6m).\n\nIt has also been moved further away from buildings in an attempt to meet council criteria.\n\nThe centre also closed early on Sunday after its entrance was barricaded by men said to have been acting in a \"threatening\" way towards staff.\n\nTranslink said that due to some potential disruption that there would be a diversion for east Belfast Glider services on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, in other developments:\n\nIt is estimated there are 80-100 bonfires in Belfast this year, with 35 signed up to an official scheme funded by the city council.\n\n\"Efforts have been ongoing for several months to encourage bonfire builders to be mindful of the need to protect life and property,\" the city council said.\n\nEarlier, Mr Girvin said: \"We promised the young people if they took the tyres out they could have their bonfire.\n\n\"All that was done and still the council says no.\"\n\nHe said he would meet councillors from any party to address concerns over the Avoniel bonfire.\n\nLoyalist graffiti has appeared next to the site at Avoniel threatening contractors alleged to be involved in the removal of bonfire material\n\n\"Have dialogue with us. Tell us exactly what your issue is with this bonfire,\" he said.\n\n\"It follows Northern Ireland Fire Service guidelines. The tyres have been removed. He said complaints about other bonfires had been about \"the potential to damage property, life or the environment\".\n\n\"None of that is here. There's no potential for any of that so why remove the bonfire?\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Ciaran Beattie insisted the problem was just not the tyres but the height and mass of the bonfires and the threat posed to nearby buildings.\n\nHe insisted the council should still take action at Avoniel.\n\n\"Nothing has changed as far as we are concerned, bar the tyres being removed,\" he said.\n\n\"There is still a dangerous bonfire on that site\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mervyn Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor George Dorrian, Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) councillor John Kyle and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor Jim Rodgers said they were disappointed by Belfast City Council's decision.\n\n\"[Councillors] chose not to build on the progress made by bonfire builders when they removed the tyres yesterday evening from Avoniel bonfire,\" they said.\n\n\"This year has seen a dramatic improvement in the situation around bonfires throughout Belfast.\n\n\"We have spent months engaging with groups across the city and real progress is being made.\n\n\"We are confident that the community will fully enjoy the celebrations peacefully and respectfully.\"", "The Total Culzean platform is situated about 45 miles east of Aberdeen\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority has opened up applications to explore in large areas of the North Sea and West of Shetland.\n\nThere are 768 blocks or part-blocks on offer across the main producing areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).\n\nIt is the 32nd round of licensing for exploratory drilling over more than 50 years, but the first since the UK committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nWWF Scotland described the move as \"totally irresponsible\".\n\nBut the OGA said oil and gas were still seen as part of Britain's future energy mix.\n\n\"Maximising economic recovery from the UKCS is vital to meet our energy demands and reduce reliance on imports,\" it said.\n\nWWF Scotland director Lang Banks said that opening up more areas for oil and gas exploration \"undermines other efforts to tackle the climate emergency\".\n\nHe added: \"We instead need to see a just transition that enables us to harness the engineering skills currently deployed in the oil and gas industry and apply them to supporting a range of cleaner forms of energy production.\"\n\nA new aspect of the latest licensing round includes co-operation on license timing with the Faroe Islands government.\n\nThe authority has also provided access to a huge data bank of information from past drilling of thousands of wells, seismic surveys of the seabed and pipelines.\n\nSuch information is valuable in increasing the chances of finding oil and gas, and reducing financial risk.\n\nAn industry report in November 2018 estimated the UK has enough oil reserves to sustain production for the next 20 years and beyond.\n\nThe closing date for applications is 12 November, 2019, with decisions expected to be made in the second quarter of 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two survivors were found clinging to the boat, authorities said\n\nThree people have died after a catamaran overturned off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.\n\nEmergency crews said an emergency beacon was activated on the vessel in seas near Newcastle, 160km (100 miles) north of Sydney, on Thursday.\n\nAnother two people - a man, 40, and a girl, 16 - were rescued after being found clutching to the capsized boat.\n\nAuthorities said the accident happened in rough seas about seven nautical miles from shore.\n\nThe bodies of the three people, who have not been identified, were recovered from the water.\n\nThe two survivors were taken to hospital but their condition is not known, Supt Luke Wiseman from New South Wales Ambulance told reporters. They had been wearing lifejackets, he added.\n\n\"What made the rescue quite difficult is being an overturned vessel, there was quite a lot of debris and ropes in the water at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"[Rescue] crew members were confronted with quite a high sea with strong winds at approximately 30 knots.\"\n\nVessels had been warned that strong winds would create dangerous conditions along the coastline, authorities said.", "Mina, a member of K-Pop group Twice, will not take part in their next world tour because of mental health concerns.\n\nA statement from the girl band's team said: \"Mina is currently struggling with sudden extreme anxiety and insecurity toward performing on stage.\"\n\nThey added that they were \"consulting with several medical professionals to verify the cause in detail\".\n\nThe nine-strong South Korean group will head to the USA for a series of gigs, but no UK dates are yet scheduled.\n\n\"After extensive discussion with Mina and members of Twice, we have decided that Mina's current condition requires additional treatment, professional measures, and sufficient resting,\" the statement went on.\n\nThe 'Twicelights' tour will take the band to Singapore, USA, Mexico and Malaysia\n\nThe hashtag #GetWellSoonMina is trending worldwide, and Billboard's K-Pop correspondent Tamar Herman wrote on Twitter: \"Oh no, poor Mina... Anxiety is a terrible thing to deal with, but it sounds like they're looking into options to help her face the struggle. I hope that she's alright.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tamar Herman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere, another K-Pop star has announced he is to separate from his band due to his \"own problems\".\n\nSuper Junior's most controversial member, Kangin, returned to Instagram to inform fans of his decision to call it a day and apologised to his bandmates for any trouble caused down the years.\n\nThe 34-year-old was an original member of the ever-changing line-up from back in 2005. But he has been on hiatus in recent times following two violations for driving under the influence and his alleged involvement in a physical altercation with his girlfriend while intoxicated.\n\n\"I've always felt that I needed to come to this decision as soon as possible,\" he wrote, \"but due to the kind hearts of those who cheer me on unchangingly as well as my label's staff despite my faults, I was not able to summon the courage, and I also felt I was not in a situation where I could decide blindly on my own.\n\n\"However, due to my own problems,\" he added, \"I had to watch my members suffer misfortunes that they should not have had to face, and I've come to the decision that I cannot delay it any longer.\"\n\nManagers SM Entertainment confirmed he would remain as one of their artists but said they \"have decided to respect Kangin's decision to leave the group voluntarily\".\n\nThe remaining 10 members of Super Junior - who were 13 at one point - will continue without him.\n\nFans have been posting their reaction to the news of the K-Pop veteran's departure online.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "UK airports have made \"significant improvements\" in providing assistance for passengers with mobility problems, the industry regulator has said.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that for the first time, no airports had been given a \"poor\" rating.\n\nManchester, which was the only airport to receive \"a poor\" rating last year, was moved out of the lowest category.\n\nHowever, it was told to take immediate action to reverse a recent decline in performance.\n\nThe CAA said that in April, when Manchester switched to a new provider of special assistance, \"the transition did not go as well as planned\".\n\n\"We have told senior management we expect immediate and effective action to be taken to reverse this recent decline in performance,\" the CAA said in its report.\n\nIn response, Manchester Airport said: \"We acknowledge that there is further to go and we are investing significant additional resources to improve services for passengers in this area, regardless of their accessibility or other requirements.\"\n\nIn March, a woman with chronic fatigue syndrome accused Manchester Airport of treating her like \"cargo\" and \"cattle\" following a long-haul flight.\n\nJessica Stafford, 29, booked a special assistance service as she needed help to move through the airport.\n\nBut she found the experience \"distressing\" and \"humiliating\" after being asked to walk to collect her own wheelchair.\n\nShe said she was told understaffing was to blame.\n\nJessica Stafford said at one stage she was asked to walk to collect a wheelchair\n\nThe report from the CAA is its fourth annual assessment of mobility assistance.\n\nIt found that a record 3.7 million passengers were assisted at 31 airports between 1 April 2018 and 31 March this year.\n\nThe CAA rated the service of 14 airports as \"very good\", and 16 as \"good\". Only Manchester was classified as \"needs improvement\".\n\n\"These results show significant improvements to the experience many disabled passengers faced before our reporting began,\" said Paul Smith, consumers and markets director at the CAA.\n\n\"While it is good to see the general improvements, airports will need to continue to work hard to improve,\" it added.\n\nIn a statement the disability equality charity Scope said: \"There are problems in airports, and problems on planes. Often problems happen when one company 'hands off' to another and it's unclear to the disabled passenger who is responsible.\n\n\"So while it's good to see progress from the airports, and impressive no airport is ranked failing this year, there are problems that don't fall under the CAA remit that need to be addressed.\"", "Carl Sargeant was found hanged at his home in Flintshire in November 2017\n\nMore support should be available to sacked ministers, a coroner has said, after ruling a Welsh Assembly Member killed himself after being dismissed.\n\nCarl Sargeant, 49, was found hanged at home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, by his wife Bernadette on 7 November 2017.\n\nHe was sacked as minister for communities and children over claims of inappropriate behaviour towards women.\n\nCoroner John Gittins recorded a conclusion of suicide and said he was known to have mental health issues.\n\nMr Gittins said he had promised a \"full and fair examination\" and \"would not allow this inquest to be a trial by press, politics or personality\".\n\nThe \"twists and turns\" of the inquest at times followed the \"murkiest\" of paths into the world of politics, he added.\n\nHe said anyone expecting a \"glowing vindication\" of Mr Sargeant, or a \"damning vilification\" of former first minster Carwyn Jones - or vice versa - would be disappointed.\n\nMuch of the evidence to the inquest in Ruthin, Denbighshire, focused on whether Mr Jones could have done more to support the Alyn and Deeside AM following his sacking.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Mr Sargeant's son Jack - who succeeded his father as Alyn and Deeside AM - accused the former first minister of being \"defensive, evasive and argumentative\", with \"deeply troubling\" discrepancies in his evidence.\n\nFormer first minister Carwyn Jones had been accused of lying under oath about the support offered to Mr Sargeant\n\nThe coroner said due to a \"life event\" coupled with the \"pressure\" of his role as a Welsh Government minister, Mr Sargeant had been diagnosed with depression in 2012.\n\nHe said Mr Jones had been aware of the life event in 2014, but did not recognise there were any other issues, despite working closely with Mr Sargeant.\n\nFollowing the allegations in 2017, Mr Gittins said the former first minister had deemed it necessary to refer the matter to the Labour Party and remove Mr Sargeant from the cabinet.\n\nThe coroner said there were no official arrangements in place to support Mr Sargeant following the re-shuffle \"despite the probability that the first minister knew of Mr Sargeant's vulnerability in relation to his mental health\".\n\nMr Gittins said the sacking, and the reason for it, had been likely to put Mr Sargeant \"firmly in the media spotlight\" and it was \"a position which undoubtedly added to Mr Sargeant's pressures\".\n\nHe said the support from Vale of Clwyd AM Ann Jones, who was asked to contact Mr Sargeant after the sacking, was not in the nature of pastoral care, despite contradictory information given by Mr Jones.\n\nThe coroner said Mr Jones - who was accused by the Sargeant family's barrister of lying under oath on this point - had \"properly and appropriately\" corrected information he had previously given, \"albeit only once the true picture came to light by virtue of the information provided by Ann Jones\".\n\nMr Gittins said that after leaving a note, Mr Sargeant \"ended his life by hanging himself\" and this was done deliberately and he was sure Mr Sargeant intended to do it.\n\nHe added he would submit a prevention of future deaths report to the Welsh Government calling for more support to be put in place for sacked ministers.\n\n\"Am I still concerned? My answer comes from both my head and my heart, and it's yes,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Sargeant said Carwyn Jones was lacking in any remorse or regret\n\nSpeaking outside the inquest, Jack Sargeant was highly critical of Mr Jones, saying: \"We've had to sit through a continually changing version of events, delivered in a defensive, evasive and argumentative manner.\n\n\"After eight months' pause for thought [after the inquest was first adjourned] we would have expected him to have a clear and unambiguous explanation.\n\n\"We are also deeply offended by the lack of any remorse or regret from the former first minister.\"\n\nHe said the family welcomed the coroner's report to prevent future deaths, saying: \"It's too late for dad but may save someone else.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Jones said it had been \"a difficult time for everyone, the family most of all, and I offer them my deepest condolences for a loss that is inevitably still incredibly painful\".\n\n\"The process has driven an unnatural wedge between people who remain united at the very least in their ongoing shock, trauma and grief.\" he added.\n\n\"Nobody wanted this, and nobody could have foreseen it. Suicide is a shattering experience, and I hope some healing can now begin.\"\n\nA spokesman for the first minister, Mark Drakeford, said he extended his \"deepest condolences\" to the Sargeant family, adding that the Welsh Government would consider carefully and \"respond in full\" to the report on the prevention of future deaths.\n\nThe inquest may have concluded, but the bitter row about the sacking and subsequent death of Carl Sargeant has not.\n\nTwo parallel questions have dominated the controversy:\n\nFirstly, what is the veracity of the allegations of sexual misconduct? The coroner didn't look at that, it wasn't in his remit. The Labour Party investigation was dropped in the wake of Mr Sargeant's death, so a definitive answer is unlikely.\n\nThe second question is was Carl Sargeant treated fairly? The coroner says he was not given sufficient support by the Welsh Government when he was sacked and he wants that to change for future cabinet reshuffles.\n\nAnd feeding into the question of fair treatment is why knowledge of the allegations and/or Mr Sargeant's sacking were circulating before he was told.\n\nA leak inquiry found \"no authorised sharing of information\". The publication of the full report appears to have done nothing to draw a line under the controversy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Watch in-play clips & highlights on the BBC Sport website & app; live Test Match Special radio and text commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live sports extra & BBC Sport website\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan believes his England side could not be better prepared for their World Cup semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston on Thursday.\n\nThe hosts lost to Australia in the group stage, but reached their first semi since 1992 with wins against India and New Zealand.\n\n\"The last two games we managed to produce something near our best performances,\" Morgan told BBC Sport.\n\nEngland began the World Cup as favourites and the number-one ranked team, but were on the verge of going out after being beaten by Australia at Lord's.\n\nTo make it to the last four, they had to defeat both India and New Zealand, the two sides that contested the other semi-final.\n\n\"We're delighted to be here,\" added Morgan, whose side are bidding to face New Zealand in Sunday's final at Lord's.\n\n\"Throughout the group stage, it looked in question, but I don't think we could be better prepared. We're extremely excited and looking forward to it.\n\n\"Looking back, it hasn't worked out badly at all.\"\n• None We expect the Aussies to be in our faces, but we're ready for semi-final - Mark Wood column\n\nWhile England have not won a World Cup knockout game for 27 years, Australia have won four of the past five tournaments.\n\nWhen they met at Lord's, England were outplayed to lose by 64 runs, but Morgan claimed his side are a different proposition now.\n\n\"I don't think we can completely ignore it, we do have to learn a little bit about Australia,\" said the Dublin-born batsman. \"But, given it was three games ago, we look a different team.\"\n\nDuring that game, Morgan was out hooking a bouncer from Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc.\n\nAt the time, former England batsman Kevin Pietersen tweeted that Morgan looked \"scared\".\n\nThe following day, Pietersen again tweeted, saying: \"I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was showing his stumps because Starc attacks them. I may be wrong though? Or I may be right?\n\nWhen asked about Pietersen's comments, Morgan said: \"When Kevin Pietersen comes out with a comment, it's very similar to comments I address from Geoffrey Boycott.\n\n\"They are not ones that are considered good for a team environment and don't take the best interests of the team or the player at heart. Guys are trying their heart out to do well for their country, trying to learn, trying to get better.\n\n\"We have critics being critics. They need to do that, that's their job, so let them be.\"\n\nAustralia were top of the group for most of the round-robin phase and were set to play in the first semi-final at Old Trafford until they were beaten by South Africa on Saturday.\n\nThey now must play at an Edgbaston ground where England have won 10 consecutive matches across all formats and where Australia have not won a one-day international since their famous 1999 World Cup semi-final against South Africa - and even that was tied.\n\nOn the reception his side will receive, Australia captain Aaron Finch said: \"It's a great crowd to play in front of, regardless whether you are on the receiving end of some good banter.\n\n\"It is always a great atmosphere and a pleasure to play here. I think although they can be quite parochial at times, it is always good fun, they sing some good tunes out there.\"\n\nAustralia have already confirmed that batsman Peter Handscomb, in the squad as a replacement for Shaun Marsh, will play his first game of the tournament.\n\nMatthew Wade has also replaced Usman Khawaja and could come into the side.\n\nEngland are likely to be unchanged, meaning Liam Plunkett continues as one of four frontline pace bowlers and off-spinner Moeen Ali misses out.\n\nThere have been some concerns that Edgbaston may not be full given that it seemed likely that India were set to be in this semi-final, only for their fans to have to turn their attention to Old Trafford.\n\nThe International Cricket Council have urged fans with unwanted tickets to resell them on their official site.\n\nAs of Wednesday afternoon, there were still tickets available on the ICC website.\n\nEngland and Australia meet in the World Cup semi-final just three weeks before the first Ashes Test, which is also at Edgbaston on 1 August.\n\nBut which would Australia prefer to win?\n\nFormer Australia captain Steve Waugh told the Test Match Special podcast: \"I think if you asked the coach, Justin Langer, he would prefer the Ashes over the World Cup but having said that he would love to win the World Cup and so would all of the players as well.\n\n\"I don't think it will be crucial [for the Ashes to win the World Cup]. They are totally different games but it doesn't hurt if you win the World Cup.\n\n\"Confidence will be high in the camp. It is a long tour. It is important to keep winning on long tours so it is important for Australia to do well here.\"\n\nBBC Weather's Billy Payne: \"It's now looking mostly cloudy through both the morning and afternoon with occasional light showers possible, but a few bright or sunny interludes may develop.\n\n\"Highs of 22C (72F). Winds W to SW'ly at 10-12mph.\"", "The man fell nearly 200 feet, but miraculously survived\n\nNiagara Falls Park Police say a man was \"swept over\" a waterfall, but survived the drop of roughly 188ft (57 metres) into the raging river below.\n\nThe man \"was observed to climb over retaining wall\" around 04:00 (09:00 GMT) on Tuesday before falling over the cliff, police said on Twitter.\n\nAfter searching beneath the falls, police found the man \"sitting on rocks\" with non-life threatening injuries.\n\nThe man, who police have not identified, was taken to hospital.\n\nThe man was near the brink of Horseshoe Falls - the largest of the three falls that make up Niagara Falls, officials say.\n\nHe was found on the side of the river near the Journey Behind the Falls observation platform, according to Buffalo News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMayor Jim Diodati of Niagara Falls, Ontario, told the newspaper that he believes \"all-time high [water] levels\" may have contributed to saving the man's life.\n\n\"When Lake Erie is higher and flowing more robustly to Lake Ontario, there is a better chance of missing the massive boulders under the Horseshoe Falls,\" Mr Diodati said.\n\n\"The only way you would ever have a chance to survive that kind of a fall was to overshoot the large rocks below,\" he continued, adding: \"In this case, for this individual, hopefully he will see it as a blessing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe park - which contains North America's largest waterfall and sits on the US-Canada border - draws tens of millions of visitors each year.\n\nAccording to the Niagara Parks website, more than six million cubic feet of water rush over the crest of the falls every minute.\n\nThe features, the park says, \"may be the fastest moving waterfalls in the world\".\n\nMany have died going over the falls, but a handful have managed to survive in the past.\n\nAccording to Buffalo News, an estimated 25 people kill themselves by going over the falls each year.\n\nFrom Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911\n\nYou can contact the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or the Crisis Test Line by texting HOME to 741741\n\nYoung people in need of help can call Kids Help Phone on 1-800-668-6868\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can call the Samaritans on 116123", "Donald Trump has been \"disrespectful\" towards the prime minister and the UK, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHis comments come after President Trump called Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.\n\nHe went on to criticise Theresa May over Brexit, saying she had ignored his advice and gone her \"own foolish way\".\n\nOn Sunday emails revealed the ambassador had called the Trump administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nMeanwhile, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox's scheduled meeting with the US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the US was cancelled on Tuesday.\n\nMr Hunt responded to Mr Trump's latest outburst by tweeting: \"Friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country.\"\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful also said he would keep Sir Kim in his post until he retires at Christmas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US in a TV debate\n\nDuring a televised debate, Boris Johnson, the current Tory leadership frontrunner, was pushed on whether he would keep the ambassador, but said he \"wouldn't be so presumptuous\" as to think he would be in a position to do that.\n\nMr Johnson said he had \"a good relationship\" with the White House and that it was important to have a \"close partnership\" with the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the row was a reminder of the \"tricky and sensitive\" nature of the UK's relationship with the US and the challenge facing the Tory leadership hopefuls in dealing with a president \"who seems to love stirring up controversy\".\n\n\"It's Jeremy Hunt, normally seen as the more cautious of the two, who's speaking much more plainly and directly to Donald Trump on the matter, while Boris Johnson has said only that he's not embarrassed about being close to the White House,\" she said.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's comments on Monday that the US would \"no longer deal\" with Sir Kim, the US State Department said it would continue \"to deal with any accredited individuals until we get any further guidance from the White House or the president\".\n\n\"We have an incredibly special and strategic relationship with the United Kingdom that has gone on for quite a long time - it's bigger than any individual or government,\" the department added.\n\nA spokesman for Theresa May said that Sir Kim is \"a dutiful, respected government official\" and confirmed there were no plans for Mrs May and Mr Trump to hold a call to discuss relations following the leak.\n\nNumber 10 also confirmed that Sir Kim would not be attending a meeting between Ivanka Trump and the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox in Washington.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"He isn't attending that meeting but he is supporting Liam Fox in other ways on his trip.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday Mr Trump tweeted: \"The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy.\n\n\"He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was handled.\n\n\"I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster!\n\n\"I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far...and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger...Thank you, Mr. President!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNumber 10 previously called the leak, reported in the Mail on Sunday, \"unfortunate\" and has begun a formal investigation. It said the UK and US still shared a \"special and enduring\" relationship.\n\nConfidential emails from the UK's ambassador contained a string of criticisms of Mr Trump and his administration, and said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and divided under his presidency.\n\nSir Kim, who became ambassador to the US in January 2016 about a year before Mr Trump took office, also questioned whether the White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned that the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The project will restore habitats and ecosystems and explore innovative farming and forestry approaches\n\nTwenty teenagers from across the UK are taking control of the management of more than 300 acres in the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe nature conservation project is thought to be the biggest in the world to be led by children.\n\nAged 12-17, the \"youth leaders\" will restore wildlife habitats and develop sustainable farming and forestry.\n\nLocal farmers and wildlife experts will be brought on board to help them with their ideas.\n\nThe teenagers will be involved in all aspects of managing the Penpont Estate in Powys, including planting trees, rearing livestock, dealing with finance and publicising the project.\n\nThe team will be expected to plan work with local school pupils and others to help them learn more about nature conservation.\n\nThe landowner does not want the project to be \"glorified rewilding\"\n\n\"I feel very lucky - it's a really exciting opportunity,\" said Hannah from Sheffield, one of the participants selected by charity Action for Conservation.\n\n\"It's difficult to find people who are as passionate as I am about nature so it's nice to be with so many of them in one place.\"\n\n\"I can't wait to get started,\" added Deep from London, while Lily from Cambridge said it would be \"absolutely incredible in terms of youth involvement in helping out the environment\".\n\nRegular meetings will be held over video link and the young people will visit four times a year\n\nThe young people will visit Penpont four times a year, and also keep up with progress via regular meetings held over video link.\n\nThe project's timeline is open ended and the idea is that as the participants grow up and move on to the world of work or university, others will take their place.\n\nThe youth leaders will be in charge of finance and publicity as well as environmental work\n\nGavin Hogg, owner of the Penpont Estate said one of the biggest lessons he hoped to learn from the project was \"letting go of control, allowing the young people to have freedom of choice and management\".\n\nHe wants to see greater biodiversity across the 2,000 acre estate and hopes neighbouring farms will come on board too.\n\nBut he insisted there will also be a big focus on continuing to farm the land to produce food, as well as conserve nature.\n\n\"We're very keen that we don't just become one of these glorified rewilding projects - we have to have food security and we have to have biodiversity security - the two need to run side by side.\"\n\n\"I hope the project will be a success and others will come here, learn from it and then take the experience away and create their own little bubbles for wildlife.\"\n\nThe teenagers will share their experience with local schools and others\n\nAction for Conservation's chief executive Hendrikus van Hensbergen said it wanted to tap into the momentum of the recent climate change strikes by school pupils.\n\n\"We hope [it] will inspire others and cause a ripple effect,\" he said.\n\nYouth leader Helen from Derbyshire added: \"What we really want is for this to be a pioneering project, that others take on our sustainable aims and hopefully our passion for nature spreads across the country.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nAn Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released.\n\nBritish Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nA court in Gibraltar has ruled the ship can be detained for a further 14 days.\n\nIran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to complain about what it said was a \"form of piracy\".\n\nMohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies \"without hesitation\".\n\nMr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: \"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help detain Grace 1 and its cargo.\n\nGibraltar said there was reason to believe the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous.\n\nThe territory was initially able to detain the ship for 72-hours, but Gibraltar's Supreme Court granted a 14-day extension on Friday.\n\nIran's Foreign Ministry condemned the initial seizure of the vessel as illegal and accused the UK of acting at the behest of the United States.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office dismissed claims of piracy as \"nonsense\".\n\nSpain's Acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said, on Thursday, Spain - which disputes British ownership of Gibraltar - was studying the circumstances of the action, but said it followed \"a demand from the US to the UK\".\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said, while Britain has been keen to suggest it was an operation led by the Gibraltar government, it appears the intelligence came from the US.\n\nIran's threat to retaliate against the impounding of its super-tanker is an indication of how hurt Tehran is by the UK's action.\n\nIn the eight years of war in Syria this appears to be the first time Iran's supply of oil to its ally has been interrupted, even though EU sanctions have existed for almost the whole duration.\n\nThe episode also reflects worsening relations between Iran and the UK over a range of issues - particularly the continued imprisonment of British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe tanker and its cargo are probably worth more than $200m (£160m).\n\nIran is looking for ways to respond to what it sees as illegal and an act of piracy. It has the capability to take over a British ship in the Gulf and would see such a move as proportionate.\n\nOn Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker said the seizure of tanker was proof the UK \"lacks honour\" and takes orders from the US.\n\nMostafa Kavakebian, who leads the Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, tweeted that the seizure was \"a form of piracy and illegal hostility towards Iran\".\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have been exacerbated by the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nWhite House national security advisor John Bolton said the seizure was \"excellent news\". He added that the US and its allies would continue to prevent regimes in Tehran and Damascus from \"profiting off this illicit trade\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the swift action would deny valuable resources to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's \"murderous regime\".\n\nThe Baniyas Refinery, where the Iranian tanker was believed to be taking the oil, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products - a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nThis latest row comes at a time of escalating tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration - which has pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme - has reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nIts European allies, including the UK, have not followed suit.\n\nNonetheless, there have been growing tensions between the UK and Iran too, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe UK has also been pressing Iran to release British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has announced plans for a new body to monitor government efforts to tackle \"deep-seated societal injustice\".\n\nThe outgoing prime minister said an Office for Tackling Injustices (OfTI) would use data to \"provide the catalyst\" for better policies.\n\nThe pledge to combat \"burning injustices\" was one she made during her first speech as PM in 2016.\n\nBut Labour said Mrs May had failed to tackle injustices while in office.\n\nThe new body would collect evidence on disparities in areas including socio-economic background, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation.\n\nDowning Street said it would gather information where there was currently a lack of reliable data, but it would not make policy recommendations.\n\nMrs May said: \"I am proud of what we have achieved to make the UK a more just society.\n\n\"But there is more to be done now and in the years to come, if we are truly to say that this is a country which works for everyone.\"\n\nShe added that policies such as mandatory reporting on the gender pay gap had shown how data could be used to tackle existing cases of injustice.\n\nNumber 10 said the new body would follow the approach taken by the Race Disparity Audit, which analyses how a person's ethnicity impacts how they experience public services.\n\nWhen it first published data in October 2017, it showed disparities in educational attainment, health, employment and treatment by police and courts between ethnicities.\n\nIn response, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"On her first day in office, the prime minister promised to tackle burning injustices, but instead gave us the Windrush scandal.\n\n\"Three failed years later, in her last days, she's decided to set up an office.\n\n\"The only way to tackle burning injustices is the election of a Labour government that will transform our country so it works for the many not, the few.\"\n\nRace equality think tank the Runnymede Trust said it welcomed more data collection and the aim of ensuring future governments focus on tackling injustice.\n\nBut it added: \"Data by itself doesn't create change, which needs more concrete actions and policies to tackle decades of racial inequalities.\"\n\nMrs May's announcement comes as 160,000 eligible party members continue to vote for either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt in the Tory leadership contest, with Mrs May's successor due to be named on 23 July.\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Mail, Mrs May warned that \"too many people in politics\" think being prime minister is all about wielding power.\n\n\"All too often those who see it as a position of power see it as about themselves and not about the people they are serving. There is a real difference,\" she said.\n\nThe two leadership contenders will face one-on-one interviews with Andrew Neil later, which will be broadcast on BBC One at 19:00 BST.\n• None Firms may have to reveal ethnicity pay gap", "Larrison Campbell (R) said she asked to shadow the Republican candidate Robert Foster on a campaign trip\n\nA Republican candidate for Mississippi governor has refused to be interviewed by a female reporter unless she brings a male colleague with her.\n\nLarrison Campbell, 40, said she had asked to shadow Robert Foster on a 15-hour \"ride-a-long\" on his campaign, but was denied because of her sex.\n\nMr Foster said he was acting out of precaution and he did not want to raise any suspicions about his marriage.\n\n\"This is my truck, and in my truck we go by my rules,\" he said on CNN.\n\nDuring the CNN interview with Ms Campbell and Mr Foster on Thursday, the 36-year-old gubernatorial candidate cited his religion and faith, arguing he had made a vow to his wife to not be alone with someone of the opposite sex.\n\nHe cited the late Christian evangelist Billy Graham, who had said he would not spend time alone with any woman who was not his wife, as well as Vice-President Mike Pence, who has said he will not eat alone with a woman other than his wife.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I don't trust the perception that the world puts on people when they see things and they don't ask a question, they don't look to find out the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"Perception is a reality in this world, and I don't want to give anybody the opinion that I'm doing something that I should not be doing.\"\n\nMr Foster said following the #MeToo movement, \"men are under attack all the time\".\n\n\"I'm not going to allow myself to be put in a situation with any female where they can make an accusation against me\" without someone else in attendance, he said.\n\nWhen asked if he would allow the 15-hour interview with a man, Mr Foster said he would, adding: \"I stand my ground.\"\n\nMs Campbell, who has interviewed Mr Foster numerous times, called the decision sexist.\n\nShe argued that if she were expected to go by his rules in his truck, he should provide the male chaperone.\n\nMike Pence said in 2002 he \"never eats alone with a woman other than his wife\" Karen\n\nMr Foster said his campaign staff was too small at the time to provide assistance.\n\n\"What you're saying here is that a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second,\" Campbell told Mr Foster on Thursday.\n\nShe asked Mr Foster how he could tell voters he would be a good governor if he could not be alone in a room with a woman, citing numerous female staff members in the current governor's office.\n\nMr Foster said he could achieve that by leaving the door open or having people in the room next door, but that the 15-hour vehicle ride was a different situation.\n\nThe debate over Mr Foster and Campbell has drawn renewed attention to the sentiment that men are uncomfortable being with women alone.\n\nTwo years ago Mr Pence made headlines after comments he made in 2002 that he \"never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side\" resurfaced.\n\nSome argue the practice is a matter of professionalism in the workplace while critics decry it as sexist and unfair to women in professional settings.", "Marks & Spencer has ousted its clothing and home boss, Jill McDonald, who spent two years attempting to turn around the struggling division.\n\nChief executive Steve Rowe will take over from Ms McDonald in the short term.\n\nHe said the firm needed to \"address long-standing issues in our clothing and home supply chain around availability and flow of product\".\n\nMs McDonald had previous senior roles at Halfords and McDonald's.\n\n\"Her lack of skill in clothes buying and supply chain appears to be the problem. But then the problem existed before she joined, didn't it?\" Global Data retail analyst Maureen Hinton tweeted.\n\nMs McDonald joined Marks & Spencer in autumn 2017 as it began a major turnaround plan, which has seen it shut stores and revamp its management.\n\nThe former boss of Halfords had been parachuted into one of the trickiest jobs in retail with no fashion experience.\n\nWe were told she'd been hired for her \"first-class customer knowledge\" and experience in running high-achieving teams. In the end, that wasn't enough.\n\nMarks & Spencer still hasn't fixed the basics when it comes to its all-important clothing business.\n\nAvailability, for instance, is still a big issue. It's clear she hasn't been able to move quickly enough to tackle its long-running problems.\n\nNow chief executive Steve Rowe has taken direct control of this division again until a successor can be found.\n\nDespite the turnaround plan, profits have continued to fall, and Mr Rowe said this week that it had been a \"troubled year\" for the company's vital clothing and home division.\n\nAt the firm's annual general meeting on Tuesday he listed major failures, including not buying enough jeans for a February promotion.\n\n\"That led to us having some of the worst availability in casual trousers I've seen in my life,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he also said clothing ranges had improved in terms of fit, style and value.\n\n\"Further work [is needed] on getting size ratios correct, making sure we reduce the number of lines we're running [and] concentrating on the big lines that we're famous for across the UK,\" he added.\n\nMr Rowe said Marks & Spencer had developed a strong team in clothing, praising Jill Stanton, women's and children's director, and Wes Taylor, the menswear director, who were both hired in 2018.\n\nHowever, he did not mention Ms McDonald's name.\n\nAfter several failed re-launches over the past decade, the 135-year-old M&S is facing challenges to its clothing business from fast-fashion chains such as Zara and H&M.\n\nIn May M&S reported its third drop in annual profit in a row, and a 1.6% fall in clothing and home like-for-like sales. Its shares are down 30% from a year ago.\n\nAnnouncing Ms McDonald's departure from the business, Mr Rowe said she had \"recruited a talented team, improved the quality and style of product and set a clear direction for the business to attract a younger family age customer\".\n\nMs Hinton told the BBC that Marks & Spencer clothing had been losing market share for years, so whoever takes the division on next \"faces a real challenge\".\n\n\"Even those before [Ms McDonald] with a strong clothing background could not attract back shoppers who have deserted it for other retailers and brands that have far more enticing ranges and stores,\" she said.\n\nMarks & Spencer's management knew Ms McDonald had no fashion experience when they hired her, Ms Hinton said.\n\n\"You would have thought there would be the experience and support in the business to make up for her lack in this area,\" Ms Hinton said.\n\n\"But it seems not - which is even more worrying as these are described by Marks & Spencer as longstanding issues,\" she added.", "A mural inside HMP Berwyn, where leaders have aimed for a \"strong rehabilitative culture\"\n\nUrgent attention is needed to manage public protection risks posed by some inmates at the UK's biggest prison, a report has said.\n\nIt follows an inspection which found there was no plan to tackle the causes of violence at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham.\n\nInspectors also found drugs were \"too readily available\" and one in four prisoners told them they developed a drug problem while there.\n\nBut staff were praised as a \"strength\" and education was \"excellent\".\n\nHMP Berwyn opened in January 2017 at a cost of £250m.\n\nThe category C facility has faced issues including staff claiming it was unsafe because of attacks by prisoners, while its first governor was suspended over unpublished allegations made against him.\n\nThere has also been a drugs-related death and a prison officer was jailed for having sex with an inmate.\n\nDesigned to house 2,106 men, the so-called super-prison was holding 1,273 inmates when HM Inspectorate of Prisons visited in March.\n\nThe prison staff were \"a strength\" but their inexperience was having \"a negative impact\"\n\nPeter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said opening a new prison was a big challenge.\n\n\"The prison opened with a very clear rehabilitative vision which has faced resistance at times,\" he said.\n\n\"The leadership team are still working hard to find and maintain the right balance between rehabilitation and security, freedom and control, and sanctions and reward.\"\n\n\"Some mistakes have been made and we identify some important weaknesses, but we also acknowledge the great effort that has been made to give this prison a good start.\n\n\"The prison is generally ordered and settled, and… we found Berwyn to be a reasonably respectful place.\"\n\nThere was more to do, though, in the areas of safety, purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning, inspectors said.\n\nEach room as a shower, phone and laptop for internal prison activity\n\nInspectors acknowledged there were signs attacks were gradually reducing and work was being done to reduce violence but \"delivery often lacked drive and needed to be implemented more effectively\".\n\nThere was also \"no action plan to tackle the causes of violence and monitor this for its effectiveness in reducing violence\".\n\nThe report added: \"There was inconsistency in the application of rules, some low-level poor behaviour went unchallenged, and staff could struggle to answer even basic questions from prisoners.\"\n\nHowever, education and vocational training was deemed to be \"excellent\" with prisoners who attended making \"effective progress\".\n\nDirector general for Probation and Wales, Amy Rees, said: \"The new governor in place since the inspection is already building on that progress, including through closer working with the police and better searching for illicit drugs and introducing a new model that challenges poor behaviour and reduces violence.\"\n\nHowever, the inspectorate also said staff were \"a strength of the prison\", but needed \"support in delivering the basics consistently\" and staff inexperience was having \"a negative impact on many aspects of prison life.\"\n\nThree quarters of officers had been in service for less than two years and about a third for less than one year.\n\nThis super-prison was meant to be one of Europe's largest. Yet two and a half years on, it still is not all that \"super\".\n\nThe intention was always to fill it gradually, but numbers have had to be capped because they still do not have enough activity places - or staff - to cope with full capacity. Even the chief inspector finds the delays difficult to understand.\n\nPoor behaviour has gone unchallenged by inexperienced staff - three quarters have been in the job less than two years - something their union says is played upon by the experienced prisoners.\n\nThere are positives. Staff are still described as a strength - as too is the education and health care provided (although you would wait 42 weeks for routine dental care).\n\nBut it is hard to ignore the major weaknesses.\n\nPrisoners are developing drug habits; almost half say they are easy to get hold of.\n\nAnd while prisoner-on-prisoner attacks are low, it is a different picture for attacks on staff.\n\nLikewise for the vulnerable. Self harm is comparatively low but those who isolate themselves are being \"completely unsupported\", even experiencing difficulties getting meals.\n\nSetting up a new prison was always going to be a challenge, particularly on the scale of Berwyn.\n\nBut this inspection report does little to comfort those concerned that \"super\" doesn't necessarily mean better.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade Thomas was left hundreds of pounds out of pocket by a universal credit fraudster\n\nVictims of a Universal Credit scam may still have to repay money fraudulently claimed on their behalf, the government has insisted.\n\nWork and Pensions minister Justin Tomlinson had told MPs his team would \"protect vulnerable people\" who would not be expected to pay back the cash.\n\nBut later his department said its position had not changed and claimants would need to repay some of the money.\n\nThe SNP's welfare spokesman described it as an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\nA BBC investigation has found tens of millions of pounds is believed to have been stolen by criminals exploiting a loophole in the benefits system.\n\nAn estimated 42,000 people may have fallen victim to the scam.\n\nResponding to an urgent question in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Tomlinson claimed that \"where it is clear that they have been a victim of fraud through no fault of their own, no, we would not expect them to pay it back.\"\n\nBut a spokeswoman from the Department for Work and Pensions later told the BBC that victims of the scam would have to repay any money they'd kept.\n\n\"If someone's details are fraudulently used to claim an advance but they do not themselves receive this payment, we will not recover the money from the claimant,\" she said.\n\n\"[But] if the individual receives some of the advance, we will only seek to recover this amount from them and will pursue the fraudster for any remaining payment.\"\n\nThe SNP's Neil Gray MP tweeted: \"When ministers and the DWP know these people have been ripped off by criminals without their knowledge as they hoped to access hardship funds they desperately need to survive, UK Gov will now plunge them further into debt and destitution. Disgusting.\"\n\nMr Tomlinson described the fraudsters as \"parasites targeting some of the most vulnerable people in society\".\n\nThe frauds represented about 1% of the total 4.4 million claims and are being investigated, he added.\n\nA team of about 120 Department for Work and Pensions staff were working to spot and investigate fraudulent claims, he said.\n\nMr Tomlinson promised \"the full force of the law\" would be used where appropriate.\n\nHe also told MPs that those whose claims for universal credit were found to be fraudulent may be able to return to their old benefits.\n\nThe scam pushed Jade Thomas into rent and council tax arrears\n\nEarlier, Jade Thomas, 31, had told the BBC how she ended up owing more than £1,500 after a loan was arranged for her by a fraudster.\n\nAfter the DWP paid over the money into her bank account, she had to pay the fraudster £1,000 for setting it up - but was still liable for the full £1,500 amount.\n\nOne official said more than a third of claims in one job centre are currently suspected of being bogus, while £100,000 of fraudulent activity each month was recorded at another branch.\n\nAnother official said the government estimates 10% of the 100,000 or more advances paid monthly are potentially bogus.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people across Britain currently receive benefits through universal credit.\n\nWhen it was introduced in 2013, one of the original goals of universal credit was to save about a billion pounds in fraud and error.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nSerena Williams made light work of Barbora Strycova to reach the Wimbledon final and stand one win away from a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title.\n\nThe American was just too powerful for the Czech in a 6-1 6-2 win that set up a final against Romania's Simona Halep.\n\nWilliams, 37, said she tried to \"tap into that younger Serena\" in a dominant display that will make her the oldest Grand Slam women's singles finalist.\n\nShe took just 59 minutes to win and continue her bid for an eighth title.\n\n\"It feels good to be back in the final,\" said Williams, who was runner-up to Angelique Kerber last year and will be appearing in the grass-court showpiece for an 11th time on Saturday.\n• None Halep feels 'mentally stronger' to take on Williams\n\nWilliams proves too much for veteran debutant Strycova\n\nWilliams is aiming to draw level with Australian Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles and also win her first major title since becoming a mum in September 2017.\n\nIn 33-year-old Grand Slam semi-final debutant Strycova, she was facing a player she had met three times before without dropping a set.\n\nAnd she was not going to spoil that record here, establishing breaks in the fourth and sixth games before taking the set with her 44th ace of the championships.\n\nWhile Williams is a firm favourite on Centre Court, the crowd wanted to see more of a match and cheered every half chance, net cord or winner that went Strycova's way.\n\nBut despite the support, the world number 54 seemed lost in the occasion and unable to turn to the serve-and-volley game that had served her so well in the dismantling of British number one Johanna Konta in the quarter-finals.\n\nShe raised her arms ironically in celebration at winning a rare long rally for 0-15 when Williams was serving for the match but soon found herself shaking hands at the net after the American delivered a forehand winner on her first match point.\n\nWilliams said she had thought back earlier that morning to her first Wimbledon triumph in 2002, when she beat her sister Venus in the final, and that it had inspired her.\n\n\"I was trying to tap into those emotions. I was really calm,\" she said. \"[I was] just trying to tap into that younger Serena, trying to tap into how to win basically.\"\n\nWilliams, whose season had been disrupted by injury and illness, teamed up with British former world number one Andy Murray in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon this week.\n\nAnd, as well as providing a crowd-pleasing partnership until their last-16 exit, it turns out it has also helped her singles game.\n\n\"I promise you, when I hit a volley I was like, 'would I have made that if I didn't play doubles?' I don't think so,\" she said.\n\n\"I kept telling you guys I thought the doubles would help me. I really think it did. I don't attack the net that much. I tried to and I want to.\"\n\nWilliams is now into a Grand Slam final for the 13th consecutive year - and that includes being on maternity leave during that time.\n\nShe pulled out of three consecutive tournaments this season because of injury or illness and this is the first major final she will contest this year, having lost in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in January and the third round at the French Open.\n\n\"It's good, especially after my year,\" she said.\n\n\"I just needed some matches. I know I'm improving and I just needed to feel good and then I can do what I do best which is play tennis.\"\n\nAt 37 years and 291 days, she will on Saturday overtake Martina Navratilova (37 years 258 days) as the oldest Grand Slam women's finalist in the Open era and remains as motivated as ever.\n\n\"I love what I do, I wake up every morning and I get to be fit and play sport and play in front of crowds like here at Wimbledon - not everyone can do that,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm still pretty good at what I do and it's always an amazing experience.\"\n\nWilliams won the most recent of her Grand Slam titles at the 2017 Australian Open when she was eight weeks pregnant.\n\nShe returned to the Tour in March 2018, saying she had \"almost died\" giving birth to her daughter, and has reached three Grand Slam finals since.\n\nHaving lost in last year's Wimbledon and US Open finals, she will now hope it will be third time lucky on Saturday (14:00 BST).\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova on BBC TV: \"The crowd didn't necessarily want Serena to lose. They just wanted to see more of her. Strycova wasn't able to handle the power. How quickly was Serena getting on those balls though? She did her homework and it paid off. She was firing on all cylinders.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Tracy Austin on BBC TV: \"Strycova never felt like she had any time to react. Look at the way Serena was able to manipulate that ball and get it up and down. There was so much consistency. She is locked in.\n\n\"Serena's serve is hard and it's powerful. How can you defend when it's that powerful and near the sidelines? I think the mixed doubles [with Britain's Andy Murray] really helped as well. It brought her intensity up. She had three matches with Andy and we know how intense he is.\"", "December, 1987: A tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war\n\nTankers blazing in the Gulf. American warships answering distress calls. Warlike rhetoric sparking fears of a wider conflict.\n\nWe've been here before: 28 years ago, America and Iran came to blows in the same waters. Ships were attacked, crew members killed and injured.\n\nBefore it was over, an Iranian airliner had been shot out of the sky, by mistake.\n\nThe \"tanker war\" was a moment of high international tension at the end of revolutionary Iran's eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nThe two sides had been attacking each other's oil facilities since the mid-1980s.\n\nSoon neutral ships were being hit too, as the warring nations tried to exert economic pressure on the other side. Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi oil were especially vulnerable.\n\nThe US, under Ronald Reagan, was reluctant to get involved. But the situation in the Gulf was becoming increasingly dangerous – a fact underlined when an American warship, the USS Stark, was hit by Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet – though Iraqi officials later claimed this was accidental.\n\nBy July 1987, re-registered Kuwaiti tankers, flying the US flag, were being escorted through the Gulf by American warships. In time, it became the biggest naval convoy operation since World War II.\n\nOctober 1987: An escort from the USS Guadalcanal watches a tanker in the Persian Gulf\n\nThen, as now, America and Iran were at loggerheads.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had been calling America \"The Great Satan\" since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.\n\nWashington was still smarting from the humiliation of seeing 52 of its diplomats held hostage in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 – 1981.\n\nSo even though Iran and Iraq were both responsible for the crisis, the tanker war was quickly part of the simmering, long-running feud between Iran and America.\n\nIt's a feud that has never gone away and which has flared once more in the wake of Donald Trump's decision to apply \"maximum pressure\" after walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOnce again, the waters either side of the Strait of Hormuz have become the arena in which this almost pathological contest plays out.\n\nWhat, if anything, has changed?\n\n\"Both sides have expanded their capabilities,\" says Dr Martin Navias, author of a book on the tanker war.\n\nIran, he says, is more capable than ever of using mines, submarines and fast boats to attack and damage commercial and military shipping.\n\nAnd it's not just a battle at sea: Iran's ability to shoot down a sophisticated American surveillance drone points to another battle, high overhead.\n\nThe US military identified the drone as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nCould the US and Iran start to exchange serious blows?\n\nIf attacks on tankers escalate, we could see another US-led reflagging and escort operation.\n\nOn 24 July 1987, a re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker hit an Iranian mine on the very first convoy mission. The US deployed more forces and more ships. The two sides were now on a collision course.\n\nIn September, American helicopters attacked an Iranian ship after watching it lay mines at night.\n\nIn the months that followed, more tankers, and a US frigate, were hit. American forces responded with ever greater firepower, destroying Revolutionary Guard bases and attacking Iranian warships.\n\nEventually it ended – but not before an American missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook an Iranian Airbus A300 for an attacking jet and shot it down, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290\n\nThe official report into the incident said that \"stress, task fixation (and) an unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role\".\n\nThe US navy invested heavily in technology and training to avoid such catastrophic mistakes in the future.\n\nBut Nick Childs, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says today's environment, with rivals also exchanging angry salvoes on social media, makes for a febrile atmosphere.\n\n\"The information space has changed,\" he says. \"People get jittery. The danger is that each side is misreading the other.\"\n\nDonald Trump and Hassan Rouhani both say they don't want a war. Hardliners, on both sides, are a little more ambiguous.\n\nDr Navias says we're not yet heading for another tanker war.\n\n\"We're not seeing an anti-shipping campaign, but a signalling campaign,\" he says. \"The Iranians are signalling to the Americans that they could escalate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nFor all the drama of those months in 1987 and 1988, very few tankers were actually sunk and shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz was never seriously disrupted.\n\nNow, 30 years on, the US is far less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Iran has far more to lose, in terms of imports and exports, from a closure of the Strait.\n\nFor now, another tanker war seems unlikely. But the fact that neither side really wants an all-out confrontation doesn't mean it won't happen.\n\nDr Navias says the dangers are real.\n\n\"This kind of environment is pregnant with possibilities.\"", "In his 1973 song Time, David Bowie famously sang of \"Billy Dolls\".\n\nNow, 50 Golden Years after the release of Space Oddity, a few Changes mean it's a case of Barbie Dolls.\n\nToymakers Mattel have announced a new collectable doll inspired by his signature Ziggy Stardust fashion.\n\nDubbed Barbie as Bowie, the doll is dressed as the late singer's glam-rock alter ego, complete with a pair of red platform boots and topped with his fiery-red mullet.\n\nBowie fans will be Dancing In The Street to know the new figure was created in partnership with the 2019 David Bowie Archive.\n\nThough if they're feeling Under Pressure to buy one, they should be advised the price runs to $50 (£40).\n\nSuch is the price of Fame.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pam Grossman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Merkel is seen shaking for a third time in a month\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has been seen shaking for a third time in a month.\n\nVideo footage shows Mrs Merkel trembling, shaking back and forth alongside Finland's prime minister during a ceremony in Berlin on Wednesday.\n\nAfter the incident, Mrs Merkel said she was \"very well\" and there was \"no need to worry\".\n\nA government spokesperson said she would continue meetings as planned.\n\nMrs Merkel, 64, was last seen trembling two weeks ago ahead of a trip to Japan for the G20 summit. She told journalists at the summit she was fine.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor gripped her hands as she tried to control her shaking, standing alongside Prime Minister Antti Rinne.\n\nAccording to the Focus website, the shaking affected her whole body and lasted over a minute.\n\nShe was first seen shaking last month during a welcome ceremony in Berlin for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nIn a press conference on Wednesday, Mrs Merkel said she was \"working through what happened during the military honours with President Zelensky.\"\n\nShe added: \"This process is clearly not finished yet but there is progress and I must live with this for a while but I am very well and you don't need to worry about me.\"\n\nMrs Merkel's spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer, was questioned by German media as to why the government had not provided any information on her health. Ms Demmer said she had \"nothing to add\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first incident was attributed to dehydration\n\nThe chancellor's office has repeatedly dismissed concerns about her health.\n\nBut asked by the Focus website what might be wrong this time, leading Bavarian GP Jakob Berger said the chancellor should undergo urgent health checks. \"Her doctors must now press for some research,\" he said.\n\nFollowing her second shaking incident, another health specialist, Dr Christoph Specht, said that the chancellor could have contracted an infection. He said shivering indicated an infection that was flaring up again.\n\nGerman media have reacted with alarm to Mrs Merkel's health scare. \"The health of Angela Merkel is now a political issue,\" an editorial in the Bild newspaper read.\n\nMrs Merkel is now in her fourth term as chancellor, a role she first began in November 2005. She has said she will leave politics when her current term ends in 2021.\n\nShe has been in good health while in office, and even worked from home after a knee operation in 2011. She also suffered a fall while skiing in 2014. Her absences were only brief on those occasions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA no-deal Brexit would cause the pound to plummet and be worth the same as the dollar, Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has said.\n\nThis would be \"devastating\" for Virgin, and force the group to shift investment out of the UK, he said.\n\nSir Richard also criticised the rail franchising system, saying it stifled entrepreneurs.\n\nThe Department for Transport said rail firms \"clearly see an ability to be entrepreneurial\".\n\nBoris Johnson, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race, has refused to rule out suspending parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut Sir Richard told the BBC that the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal would cause the pound to slump.\n\n\"The pound was at $1.53 when the referendum took place. The pound today it is at $1.22, $1.23, and the pound will collapse to parity [one for one] with the dollar if there is a hard Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThe businessman, whose portfolio includes airlines, financial services and media companies, expects big losses for all his UK interests, saying it would be \"devastating for many Virgin companies\".\n\n\"It obviously is going to result in us spending a lot less money in Britain, and just putting all our energies into other countries\" he added.\n\nSir Richard warned in December that the UK would be left \"near bankrupt\" if there was a hard Brexit.\n\nHe told the BBC at the time that he was \"absolutely certain\" that leaving the EU without a deal would lead to the closure of \"quite a few British businesses\".\n\nVirgin Atlantic, the group's major airline, has, according to Sir Richard, already suffered substantial loses since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, due to the drop in the pound against the dollar.\n\n\"All our costs are in dollars. Maintenance, plane costs, pretty well every cost is in dollars. And therefore, the bottom line hit of that was £100m a year, say,\" he said.\n\nA hard Brexit would mean airfreight from Europe to the US would just disappear, he says, \"so that would be another £100m just down the drain\".\n\n\"And I can carry on. There's an enormous list when you look at each Virgin company.\"\n\nSterling has had a tough week, falling to its lowest point in two years.\n\nIt dropped below $1.25 after succumbing to political and economic pressures.\n\nVirgin Trains, the franchise that has run on the West Coast Mainline for 22 years, will end in March next year.\n\nAfter a dispute with the Department for Transport over who should bear pension risk, in April, Virgin and its operating partner Stagecoach were disqualified from rebidding to operate on the line.\n\nSir Richard said train companies should contribute to the pension deficit, but shouldn't have an open-ended risk.\n\nHe added: \"I'm very disappointed for everybody who works for Virgin Trains. They've done an extraordinary job over 22 years. Sad that a great company may be coming to an end.\"\n\nHe said he was working on \"open access\" for Virgin Trains on the West Coast Mainline, which would let the firm operate a pared-down service.\n\nSir Richard also said the railway franchising system was \"a real mess\", adding that it was too constrictive.\n\n\"The Department for Transport, in their wisdom, give you massive long lists of dos and don'ts, and it's very difficult to be entrepreneurial, and that's sad,\" he said.\n\nBut an official from the Department for Transport said: \"We are sorry to see Virgin leave the UK rail industry having failed to put forward a compliant bid.\n\n\"Other companies have done so and the remaining bidders in current competitions clearly see an ability to be entrepreneurial on the railways.\n\n\"The recent winning bid on the East Midlands franchise accepted the pensions terms and will deliver significant benefits for passengers, transforming their journeys.\"", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death at her house in Raymead Avenue, Croydon\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of the murders of a pregnant woman and her baby son who died days after being delivered.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant, was stabbed to death in her home in Croydon on 29 June.\n\nHer son Riley was delivered by paramedics but died on 3 July.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a 25-year-old man had been arrested and was being held at a central London police station.\n\nHe is the third man to be arrested on suspicion of the murders.\n\nA 37-year-old was released with no further action while a 29-year-old was bailed until a date in August.\n\nMs Fauvrelle's baby was named Riley after he was delivered by paramedics\n\nPolice were called by the London Ambulance Service at 03:30 BST to Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, where Ms Fauvrelle was in cardiac arrest.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics, she died at the scene.\n\nMs Fauvrelle's family - including her mother, two brothers, sister and sister's baby son - were all at the home at the time of the attack and were woken by her screams. However, none of them saw her attacker.\n\nHer son was delivered at the scene but died in hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flooding in Dingwall after month's rain falls in a few hours\n\nParts of Dingwall in the Highlands were flooded after more than a month's worth of rain fell in just a few hours on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe town, along with other parts of northern and eastern Scotland, were affected by thundery downpours.\n\nFurther heavy rain has been forecast for Thursday afternoon and evening and a Met Office yellow \"be aware\" warning is in place.\n\nThey are mostly for northern and eastern areas of Scotland, including Caithness and Sutherland, Easter Ross, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Tayside and Edinburgh and Lothians.\n\nBBC Scotland weather presenter Kirsteen Macdonald said the most rainfall recorded in 24 hours on Wednesday was 46mm at Cassley in Sutherland.\n\nShe said Dingwall had a total of almost 47mm over 36-hour period.\n\nA lightning strike is suspected to have caused a power supply fault affecting about 300 properties in the Tomatin area south of Inverness.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has warned of possible disruption to electricity supplies throughout the day on Thursday because of the expected bad weather.\n\nThe energy company said lightning had been recorded around Tomatin and Grantown-on-Spey.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said Dingwall in Easter Ross was among the places worst affected by the rain.\n\nVincent Fitzsimons told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Over a month's worth of rain fell between teatime and nightfall, flooding the high street, while places nearby saw next to nothing.\"\n\nHe urged the public to heed Met Office and Sepa warnings and to follow advice from the emergency services if they encountered flooding.\n\nSSEN said its network was \"standing up\" to weather conditions being experienced in the north of Scotland.\n\nIts engineers hope to have power restored to affected properties in Tomatin by about 16:00.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank our customers for their patience as our engineers work to restore power as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Our network is currently holding up well to the conditions, and we are well prepared and resourced to respond quickly to any damage as the weather front passes through the country today.\"\n\nClearing up in Dingwall following Wednesday's flooding\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seumas Milne and Jennie Formby have been accused of interfering in the disciplinary process\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said he \"deplored\" his party's response to claims that some of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies tried to interfere in disciplinary processes involving allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nLabour has insisted the claims in Wednesday's Panorama were inaccurate and made by \"disaffected\" former staff.\n\nBut Mr Watson said dismissing the testimony of the staff was \"wrong\".\n\nAnd Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said the leadership was \"directly complicit\".\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the \"serious charges\" were being \"hotly contested\", and the process of dealing with complaints in the party had been \"improved dramatically\".\n\nLabour's disputes team is supposed to operate independently from the party's political structures, including the leader's office.\n\nBBC Panorama spoke to former party officials, who alleged they had to deal with a huge increase in anti-Semitism complaints since Mr Corbyn became Labour leader in 2015.\n\nSome of the staff spoke to the programme despite having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) when they left.\n\nEight former officials who worked in the team and dealt with anti-Semitism cases claimed to the BBC that:\n\nLabour has rejected claims of interference and described the programme as \"seriously inaccurate\" and \"politically one-sided\".\n\nMr McDonnell - a close ally of Mr Corbyn - said current staff had put in complaints to the BBC about the accusations made in the Panorama programme.\n\n\"I have always said from the very beginning [the process of dealing with complaints] was too slow and not ruthless enough, but it has improved dramatically now,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think it is important that we listen to what has been said and look ourselves at what is happening, but what we've got now is two groups of staff challenging the accuracy of [the accusations] so we will have to look at that.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler - who is a supporter of Mr Corbyn - said the party \"must acknowledge the deep hurt caused to our Jewish brothers and sisters\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by (((Dawn Butler MP))) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThree Labour MPs - Ruth Smeeth, Margaret Hodge and Louise Ellman - have written to Mr Corbyn, saying there is \"no justifiable reason for your continuing failure to act\".\n\nThey added: \"The ongoing inaction and tolerance of anti-Semitism has made a mockery of the party's core values of anti-racism and promoting equality. By ignoring this issue, you are turning a blind eye to anti-Jewish racism in the party\".\n\nMr Watson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party needed new measures to tackle anti-Semitism - including automatic expulsion of members.\n\n\"In the last four years since Jeremy and I were elected leader and deputy leader of the party, there is a growing belief that there is a sickness in our party, that this kind of abuse has been in some way allowed, that there is almost a permissive culture that people can use anti-Jewish racist language... that we have failed to address adequately,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he thought Mr Corbyn had what it takes to fix the party, Mr Watson said: \"Not only do I think he can fix it, I think he is the only one who can fix it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am not going to turn a blind eye to anti-Jewish racism. I am going to call it out, day in, day out, until action is taken.\n\n\"That might cause great difficulty for my colleagues in the shadow cabinet who are also collectively responsible for this, but until we have dealt with it, until we have actually changed our rules, until we have actually attacked the culture at its root cause, then I am not going to resile.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson told Today he no longer has access to anti-Semitism figures\n\nChief Rabbi Mirvis tweeted a statement after Panorama aired, saying the programme \"must be a watershed moment in this agonising saga\".\n\nHe added: \"This is no longer a question of the leadership's inability to deal with the scourge of anti-Semitism, but of its direct complicity in it.\n\n\"The cloud of hatred and acrimony that this creates must be lifted from our politics and from our society.\n\n\"Quite simply, we cannot go on like this.\"\n\nIn May, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) launched a formal investigation to look into whether Labour had \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said on Thursday that more than 30 whistleblowers, including current Labour staff, would submit evidence to the inquiry.\n\nOther MPs and peers in the party also offered their support to the former staff in the Panorama documentary, adding that it showed Labour was failing to effectively tackle anti-Semitism in its ranks.\n\nLabour peer Lord Falconer said the leadership had to \"change gear\" over the issue.\n\nFellow Labour peer Lord Levy, a former party fundraiser under ex-PM Tony Blair and a leading voice in the British Jewish community, said the party should feel ashamed of what was going on.\n\nThe Board of Deputies of British Jews said the Panorama programme added weight to the group's suspicion that the issue of anti-Semitism had been \"treated with disdain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over anti-Semitism within its ranks, which has led nine MPs and three peers to leave the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of failing to get to grips with the problem, with allegations of hundreds of complaints against members remaining unresolved.\n\nBut Labour said it \"completely\" rejected any claims it was anti-Semitic.\n\nIt accused the Panorama programme of being a \"seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning\".\n\nThe party said that \"no proper and serious attempt was made to understand our current procedures for dealing with anti-Semitism, which is clearly essential to reach a fair and balanced judgement\".\n\nIt added: \"Since Jennie Formby became general secretary the rate at which anti-Semitism cases have been dealt with has increased more than fourfold.\n\n\"We will build on the improvements to our procedures made under Jennie Formby, and continue to act against this repugnant form of racism.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jewish Labour Party members told the BBC’s Panorama about their experiences of anti-Semitism in the party", "Two communities have expressed an interest in buying some or all of the land\n\nTwo community groups are weighing up bids for a large swathe of land in southern Scotland.\n\nBuccleuch announced its intention earlier this year to sell off about 25,000 acres of its Borders Estate.\n\nIt has now confirmed that two communities have expressed an interest in buying some or all of the land.\n\nIt said it was holding talks with the groups and had decided to \"create a window\" for them to consider their options up until March next year.\n\nBuccleuch had intended to put the land on the market in August but will delay that move\n\nThe area involved stretches from Auchenrivock in the south to Hartsgarth in the north - much of it currently part of the group's farming operations.\n\nBuccleuch, which represents the interests of the Buccleuch family, said the land included a \"small number\" of farm tenancies which would continue under any new ownership along with blocks of forestry.\n\nThe area involved also contains Langholm Moor which has been the site of two major scientific projects into moorland management.\n\nExecutive chairman Benny Higgins said they had opened consultation on 30 May with a view to putting the land on the market in August if there was no registered interest.\n\nLangholm Moor was previously the site of two scientific projects looking at moorland management\n\nHowever, two communities have \"expressed a desire to reflect on whether or not they may wish to bid for some or all of the land that is to be sold\".\n\nMr Higgins said they had now decided to \"create a window\" until the end of March 2020 to allow communities to develop a successful bid.\n\nIf that does not happen, Buccleuch will continue with the planned marketing of the land.\n\nOne of the communities involved has described it as the \"opportunity of a lifetime\".\n\nBarbara Elborn, secretary of Newcastleton and District Community Trust (NDCT), said: \"The south of Scotland has lagged well behind other parts of Scotland in acquiring land for its communities, this is now our time.\n\n\"The challenge this presents us is huge but NDCT, the wider community and our neighbours, will do our utmost to ensure that the time granted to us is used to explore the opportunity this affords us as a community.\"\n\nAndrew Thin, who chairs the Scottish Land Commission, has welcomed the move.\n\nHe said it was a \"great example\" of how landowners could work effectively with communities to make the most of the local land.\n\nHe added: \"It is good to see the possibility of negotiated transfer open up and we encourage both the estate and the communities to make the most of this opportunity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Visitors will not be allowed to climb Uluru from October\n\nTourists to Australia's Uluru have drawn controversy for seeking to climb the sacred indigenous site in the months ahead of a ban on the practice.\n\nPhotos circulating online show lines of people snaking up Uluru, with some social media users comparing it to recent scenes on Mount Everest.\n\nIt has been criticised as disrespectful to Aboriginal people, who have long asked tourists not to climb.\n\nLocals say some tourists are dumping waste and camping illegally nearby.\n\nIn 2017, the board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously to end the climb because of the spiritual significance of the site. The ban will come into effect in October.\n\nThe giant red monolith, known previously as Ayers Rock, has seen a rise in visitors since the decision was announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rohan Barwick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlenn Minett, who photographed crowds on Uluru this week, told the BBC that a nearby campground appeared to be \"bursting at the seams\". He added that several tourists had also been camping in truck stops in the area.\n\n\"There is only one toilet block at the base of Uluru and the drains were blocked,\" he said.\n\nTourism Central Australia chief executive Stephen Schwer told the ABC that an \"influx of drive travel\" had generated increased waste.\n\n\"[Visitors] think they're doing a good thing by free camping along the way; what they are actually doing is trespassing on pastoralist and joint-managed and protected land, and a lot of people don't seem to be getting that message,\" he said.\n\nMany online criticised the climbers for not respecting the wishes of the Anangu people, the custodians of the land.\n\nOne critic, Sally Rugg, tweeted: \"Can you imagine if people started climbing over the Australian War Memorial?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This year marks 31 years since Uluru was given back to the indigenous people\n\nSigns at the beginning of the climb request people abstain from going up as a mark of respect.\n\n\"It is an extremely important place, not a playground or theme park like Disneyland,\" board chairman and Anangu man Sammy Wilson said in 2017, when the ban was announced.\n\nParks Australia said the park received 70,000 more visitors in 2018 than it had the previous year. Statistics for recent months are not yet available.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, as a row over leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration escalates.\n\nTheresa May said Sir Kim's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" after the ambassador said it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nTory leadership candidate Boris Johnson has faced strong criticism for failing to fully support him.\n\nPresident Trump said on Monday that the US would not deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president had branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nIn a letter to the Foreign Office, Sir Kim said he wanted to end speculation about his position: \"The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.\"\n\nHis resignation has prompted widespread support for Sir Kim as well as criticism of Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson refused to support him during the Tory leadership debate on Tuesday night, said BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale.\n\nMr Johnson was asked repeatedly by fellow leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt whether he would keep Sir Kim in post if he became prime minister, but refused to answer.\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson spoke to Sir Kim on the phone on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said that he praised Sir Kim's dedication and hard work and claimed the conversation was warm and cordial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nFollowing Sir Kim's resignation, Mr Johnson said he was \"a superb diplomat\" and whoever was responsible for the leak \"has done a grave disservice to our civil servants\".\n\nAsked why he was not more supportive of Sir Kim, he said it was \"wrong to drag civil servants into the political arena\".\n\nEurope Minister Sir Alan Duncan - who backs Mr Hunt in the leadership contest - said it was \"contemptible negligence\" of Mr Johnson not to support Sir Kim.\n\n\"He's basically thrown this fantastic diplomat under a bus to serve his own personal interests,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Sir Michael Fallon - a supporter of Mr Johnson - told BBC Newsnight Sir Kim's position became untenable \"long before the debate on Tuesday night\" and he understands the ambassador did not watch it.\n\nThe backlash against Mr Johnson was \"a shabby attempt to politicise\" the affair and the leadership contender had \"made it clear he supports all our diplomats\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Alan Duncan says Boris Johnson has \"thrown our top diplomat under a bus\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Johnson wanted a \"sweetheart trade deal\" with the US and his lack of support for Sir Kim \"shows he won't stand up to Donald Trump\".\n\nTory MP and chairman of the Commons' foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat said in a tweet: \"Leaders stand up for their men. They encourage them to try and defend them when they fail.\"\n\nFellow Tory leadership candidate and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt told the BBC Sir Kim was \"doing his job\" and his resignation was \"a black day for British diplomacy\".\n\nMrs May said Sir Kim had had the full backing of the cabinet and he was owed an \"enormous debt of gratitude\" for his \"lifetime of service\" to the UK.\n\nPublic servants should be able to give \"full and frank advice\", she added.\n\nSo was it Boris Johnson what done it? Was the failure of the former foreign secretary to defend Sir Kim in last night's Tory leadership debate the crucial factor in the ambassador's decision to resign?\n\nWithout Sir Kim speaking publicly on the subject, we are reliant on others to speak for him.\n\nAnd certainly, according to well-placed sources in Whitehall, Mr Johnson's decision to avoid criticising President Trump and his lack of support for Sir Kim was said to be the straw that broke the camel's back.\n\nIf you are an embattled diplomat under fire from your host country, you need cover from London. And if that is lacking from the man tipped to be your next boss, you realise the writing is on the wall.\n\nCertainly, there is genuine anger across Westminster and Whitehall at Mr Johnson's refusal six times last night to come to the aid of our man in Washington.\n\nMr Johnson's supporters have offered varying counter theories. Some have accused Mr Hunt's supporters of politicising the resignation.\n\nOthers have insisted that the decision had been made before the debate, once Mr Trump declared he would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nRealising they were on the receiving end of potentially damaging criticism, Mr Johnson's aides also let it be known that he called Sir Kim this afternoon and praised his dedication and hard work.\n\nThe problem is that few in Westminster were giving much credence to these defences.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Theresa May pointedly urged MPs to \"reflect on the importance of defending our values and principles, particularly when they are under pressure\".\n\nIt was not hard to decipher what she was talking about.\n\nHead of the diplomatic service Sir Simon McDonald said it was the first time in his career that a head of state had refused to work with a British ambassador.\n\nHe described the leak as \"malicious\" and told Sir Kim: \"You are the best of us.\"\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham - a supporter of President Trump - said Sir Kim had done \"an outstanding job\" as ambassador and his resignation was \"a chilling moment\".\n\n\"Ambassadors need to be able to talk to their governments without fear of being compromised,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson pictured with Sir Kim in 2017 while he was in Washington DC as foreign secretary\n\nIn a letter to Sir Kim, Cabinet Secretary and civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill said that while he understood his reasons for resigning it was \"a matter of enormous regret that you were put in this position after a shocking betrayal of trust\".\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington said he was \"enraged\" by the situation and morale in the senior ranks of the civil service had taken \"a very heavy blow\".\n\nFormer head of the civil service Lord O'Donnell told the BBC Sir Kim's successor could be chosen within two weeks - while Mrs May is still prime minister.\n\nPresident Trump could well wake up this morning thinking he has the power to veto who the UK has as its ambassador.\n\nIt wasn't his more colourful remarks on Twitter that really ended Sir Kim's time, but Mr Trump's public announcement that he would no longer work with him.\n\nThe effects of that were felt immediately. There was a banquet that Sir Kim was immediately dis-invited from. Next, he couldn't attend an event with minister Liam Fox.\n\nIt was clear he was being frozen out and for an ambassador access is everything. Without it, it's impossible to do the job.\n\nMore broadly, it's like this... There's never been parity in the special relationship between the UK and US - it's never been a relationship of equals but right now it seems particularly lopsided.\n\nThe US knows that Britain is fairly isolated right now internationally and needs the US more than ever. Donald Trump has wielded that power mercilessly in this row.\n\nIn the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true.\n\nThe government has opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos and police have been urged to open a criminal investigation.\n\nDowning Street confirmed there had been some \"initial discussions\" with police regarding the leak and if there was concern about criminal activity they would become involved \"more formally\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said it was \"deeply worrying\" diplomatic cables had ended up in the public domain.", "Sir Kim Darroch has resigned as British Ambassador to the United States. Here is the full text of his letter to Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office:\n\n\"Since the leak of official documents from this Embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and the duration of my remaining term as ambassador. I want to put an end to that speculation. The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.\n\n\"Although my posting is not due to end until the end of this year, I believe in the current circumstances the responsible course is to allow the appointment of a new ambassador.\n\n\"I am grateful to all those in the UK and the US, who have offered their support during this difficult few days. This has brought home to me the depth of friendship and close ties between our two countries. I have been deeply touched.\n\n\"I am also grateful to all those with whom I have worked over the last four decades, particularly my team here in the US. The professionalism and integrity of the British civil service is the envy of the world. I will leave it full of confidence that its values remain in safe hands.\"\n\n\"On behalf of the Diplomatic Service, I accept your resignation with deep personal regret.\n\n\"Over the last few difficult days you have behaved as you have always behaved over a long and distinguished career, with dignity, professionalism and class. The Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and whole of the public service have stood with you: you were the target of a malicious leak; you were simply doing your job. I understand your wish to relieve the pressure on your family and your colleagues at the Embassy; I admire the fact that you think more of others than yourself. You demonstrate the essence of the values of British public service.\n\n\"I want to stress my deep appreciation for all you have done over the last four decades. In a series of demanding roles - including National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative to the European Union - you have loyally served the government of the day without fear or favour. We have been lucky to have you as a friend and colleague. You are the best of us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'CHA robbed me of my ability to carry my child'\n\nA US couple are suing a fertility clinic, saying the company implanted their embryo into a different woman.\n\nThe woman gave birth to twins in March, only for DNA tests to allegedly show the babies were not related to her or even to each other.\n\nAnni and Ashot Manukyan have now taken custody of one of the children.\n\nBoth the Manukyans in California and the unnamed couple in New York who gave birth to the babies are suing CHA Fertility Center.\n\nThe company has not yet commented on the lawsuits.\n\n\"CHA robbed me of my ability to carry my own child, my baby boy,\" Anni Manukyan told a press conference. \"Who wants to meet their child in a lobby of a hotel?\"\n\nThe second baby boy allegedly comes from the egg and sperm of a third, unrelated couple. Court filings reportedly say the birth couple ceded custody of the child, and that the clinic has made contact with his biological parents - although they have not come forward publicly.\n\nThe New York couple - identified only as AP and YZ in the lawsuit to protect them from \"embarrassment and humiliation\" - gave birth to two boys who were not of Asian descent, as they are.\n\nEarlier signs during the course of the pregnancy also suggested something was wrong. Scans showed they were giving birth to boys, despite doctors saying they had used female embryos.\n\nThe unnamed New York couple said they turned to IVF after years of trying to have children\n\nMs and Mr Manukyan had unsuccessfully gone through IVF in August 2018 using an embryo they thought was theirs. The pair say they were then asked to take a DNA test after the birth of the twins in March.\n\nTheir lawsuit says the couple then discovered \"much to their horror\" that their son had been \"implanted into a stranger that later became his birth mother\".\n\nThe couple then had to fight in the courts to reclaim their child, after the birth couple gave him up.\n\n\"What about the woman, you know? What is she going through right now?\" Ms Manukyan told broadcaster CBS News. \"Thank God we got our child back but she ended up with nothing.\"\n\nThe California lawsuit alleges negligence and emotional distress, as well as claiming CHA Fertility broke a state law preventing the use of embryos for any purpose other than that consented to by the provider.\n\nConviction on that charge could reportedly carry a prison sentence of between three and five years.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Spaceport 1 has been proposed for a site in North Uist\n\nPlans to launch satellites into space from a site in North Uist threaten a \"pristine section of wild Atlantic coastline\", say conservationists.\n\nLocal authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar is working with Ministry of Defence contractor QinetiQ and others on the project planned for Scolpaig.\n\nThe comhairle says the site would help boost the isles' economy and could create up to 70 jobs.\n\nThe campaigners said the land would be lost to concrete structures and have also raised concerns about the potential impact on St Kilda.\n\nSt Kilda lies about 40 miles (64km) west of North Uist, the nearest inhabited place to the archipelago.\n\nThe conservation group is calling on islanders to send written objections to the local authority.\n\nThe comhairle said it was aware of the concerns, but also of support for the project within the local community.\n\nPublic information meetings on the plans are due to be held in mid-August.\n\nA council spokesman said: \"The planning application has been lodged with the comhairle and will be determined in the usual public way, with the opportunity being given for all interested parties to make representations.\n\n\"The planning process itself is inherently consultative, as it gives the requisite levels of detail of the proposed development, and invites comments on them.\n\n\"The application will be determined in the same way, and using the same professional standards, as any other planning application.\"\n\nThe comhairle has agreed to invest about £1m to purchase the land needed and test launches could be carried out later this year.\n\nQinetiQ, which operates the nearby Ministry of Defence Hebrides Rocket Range, is a partner in the project.\n\nHighlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and consultancy Commercial Space Technologies are also involved.\n\nIn March, three companies were appointed to work on the design of the spaceport proposed for land on the Melness Crofters Estate in Sutherland.\n\nLike the North Uist project, the site would be used for vertical launches of small satellites.\n\nHIE is heading up the £17,5m Space Hub Sutherland project.\n\nUnst, Scotland's most northerly island, has been proposed as the location for the Shetland spaceport.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I couldn't believe it was 166 weeks'\n\nA County Antrim woman who was told she would have to wait 166 weeks to see an orthopaedic consultant has said she is shocked and distressed.\n\nSandra Condon, who is a nurse, said she is in chronic pain.\n\nMrs Condon said she could not believe that she would have to wait more than three years to be seen \"and then potentially three to four years after that for surgery\".\n\n\"I honestly had to ask the girl to repeat that,\" she said.\n\nHer comments come after a report from the Nuffield Trust, an independent think tank, said that Northern Ireland's political deadlock and a \"top-down approach\" are frustrating efforts to help sick people.\n\nA patient in Northern Ireland is nearly 50 times as likely to be waiting over a year for care than one in Wales, the next worst performer, according to the report.\n\nThe worsening waiting list situation is further underlined in South Eastern Health Trust figures, seen by BBC News NI.\n\nThey show that children who may have a life-threatening allergy are being expected to wait 232 weeks to see a consultant.\n\nMeanwhile, the BMA in NI said it was are concerned that doctors are starting to refuse to work beyond their contracted hours.\n\nIt is because of unexpected tax bills following new pension rules in 2016.\n\nDr Alan Stout, the chairman of the BMA's GP Committee, said: \"In Northern Ireland we are very reliant - particularly with the waiting lists as they are - on consultants doing extra shifts and trying to clear the back-log, also across the health service on GPs doing out of hours shifts.\n\n\"So something that stops people doing that is going to have an inevitable consequence on those waiting times.\"\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said they were closely monitoring the situation.\n\n\"Concerns about potential impacts on service provision have been raised with us by trusts and the BMA.\n\n\"Taxation - including pension taxation - is a reserved matter and decisions on tax relief on pension contributions are taken by the Treasury.\n\n\"Department of Health officials are in close contact with counterparts in England and Wales on this issue. \"\n\nThe Department of Health in England said it wanted to make NHS pensions more flexible for senior clinicians.\n\nThe spokesperson also said important progress had been made in transforming health and social care services in spite of political and budgetary uncertainty.\n\nThe hard-hitting Nuffield Trust report included information from clinicians and health service leaders from both inside and outside Northern Ireland.\n\nOn leadership, it highlights a culture of \"tight command and control at the heart of the system\", with contributors suggesting a top-down approach does not allow for change.\n\nIt said the \"political deadlock and culture of centralisation\" are \"impending reform\".\n\nIt's been three years since the Bengoa review, which outlined how to improve Northern Ireland's health service.\n\nPace of change has been slow despite all political parties at Stormont signing up to the transformation of how services are delivered.\n\nThe Department of Health insisted much work was going on behind the scenes and that \"significant investment\" is required to address the waiting list backlog.\n\n\"The department cannot spend money it does not have,\" it said.\n\nThe report's co-author and Nuffield Trust policy analyst Mark Dayan said officials are committed to change but \"to keep on pushing from the top risks making things worse\".\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan, the report's co-author, said the waiting lists were a \"national scandal\"\n\nMr Dayan said that without elected leaders \"things grind to a halt because officials don't have the legitimacy to make tough calls\".\n\nCo-author Prof Deirdre Heenan said the \"spiralling waiting lists in Northern Ireland represent a major breach of public trust in the NHS\".\n\nShe told the BBC that the waiting list figures are a \"national scandal\".\n\nPeople like Mrs Condon say they are forgotten about.\n\n\"We don't have Stormont sitting at the moment so who is taking this forward? Who is fighting for the people who need to be seen?\" she asked.\n\nCommenting on Mrs Condon's treatment, the Belfast Health Trust said that in most cases patients are seen in chronological order in terms of urgency but that if a specialist deems a referral \"clinically urgent\", then patients will be seen within 10 weeks.\n\nIt said \"demand to see a shoulder surgeon greatly outweighs\" the trust's capacity but that it had hired a specialist physiotherapist to run \"clinics with shoulder surgeons\" to increase capacity.\n\n\"We would like to take this opportunity to apologise again to the significant and growing numbers of patients who remain on the current waiting lists,\" it added.\n\nGrainne Doran, from the Royal College of GPs, said people are becoming accustomed to lengthy lists.\n\n\"We now need to step back and say we need to urgently get rid of the long lists and work out how we can stop them happening again,\" she added.\n\nLong waits are causing more people to go private, with demand so high that it has pushed two of Northern Ireland's private hospitals into the top 20 busiest in the UK for dealing with joint surgery.\n\nKingsbridge Private Hospital is 9th while the Ulster Independent Clinic is 16th, in the National Joint Registry's list of over 200 private hospitals.", "Retailers should remove plastic-backed fridges and freezers from sale, according to a consumer group, as new, tougher manufacturing rules come in.\n\nThe testing standard has changed, making the manufacture of plastic-backed appliances far less likely.\n\nNow Which? wants to see such products still on sale removed from the shelves as it said they posed a fire risk.\n\nBut the manufacturers' trade body said it was \"misleading to infer they are dangerous\".\n\n\"It is disappointing that the public is being unnecessarily alarmed by a routine safety upgrade and there is no reason that the existing stock should not be sold,\" said Sian Lewis, acting chief executive of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA).\n\nThe previous British Standard requires refrigeration appliances to pass a glow wire test to assess their fire resistance. This involves putting a hot wire through a sample of the fridge or freezer backing material to determine if it catches alight.\n\nUnder the new standard a product will be required to withstand a naked flame for 30 seconds.\n\nIn previous testing of metal and aluminium laminate-backed fridges, none caught alight after the 30-second test. The London Fire Brigade also said that fire developed on plastic-backed appliances much quicker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is your fridge or freezer a fire risk?\n\nBecause of the fridge-freezer's height - usually about 1.8m - a fire starts some way above the ground and can draw in oxygen more easily.\n\nIt burns fast, the heat is extreme, so other parts of the kitchen soon reach ignition temperature and the fire quickly spreads.\n\nThat smoke can knock someone unconscious in seconds.\n\nThe source of the Grenfell Tower fire was thought to be a fridge-freezer with plastic-backing in a fourth-floor flat. A subsequent investigation found the appliance carried a low fire risk, but the results of the fire were catastrophic. A public inquiry into the disaster is ongoing.\n\nAlthough fires remain rare, Which? wants remaining plastic-backed appliances to be removed from sale.\n\n\"These fire-risk products have been banned in the US for years, so new standards that will ensure they can no longer be manufactured for sale in the UK are long overdue,\" said Natalie Hitchins, from Which?.\n\n\"But it is deeply concerning that retailers may continue to sell these potentially dangerous models for many months to get rid of existing stock.\"\n\nHowever, trade body AMDEA said safety standards were reviewed and regularly revised when technology allowed it.\n\n\"From today all products manufactured will meet the new standard. However it is disingenuous to infer that products previously made to the former standard are banned and misleading to infer they are dangerous,\" acting chief executive Ms Lewis said.\n\n\"There are an estimated 50.6 million fridges and freezers in use in our homes. Many of these appliances are surprisingly old, yet domestic fires started by fridges are very rare.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Business said: \"Public safety is always our highest priority, and the law places a strict responsibility on manufacturers to make sure fridge freezers are safe before they are put on sale.\n\n\"The UK government and leading experts have driven the development of this new standard and we support manufacturers in ensuring the highest product safety.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The school closure is 'quite shocking and worrying'\n\nA school has been forced to close after concerns about the possible risk of a landslide from quarry spoil.\n\nA \"medium\" risk has been identified to Godre'r Graig Primary School near Ystalyfera, Neath Port Talbot, parents have been told.\n\nResidents in nearby Pantteg moved out of their terraced homes in 2017 due to concerns over landslips.\n\nWork to relocate to a single school site by September is under way and the summer holiday was brought forward.\n\nTeachers at the small village school were told on Thursday afternoon and children were given letters to take home to parents.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said when he became aware of the risk his first thoughts were about an incident involving another school which ended in tragedy.\n\nIn 1966, the Aberfan disaster claimed 144 lives, including 116 children, when a coal tip slid down the mountainside, engulfing a school and the village.\n\nPlans were drawn up in 2017 to consider merging Godre'r Graig primary with three others to create a new super school\n\nHe said the hillside around Godre'r Graig was known locally as a \"moving mountain\" which had been an issue for more than a century.\n\nAnd over the years a number of homes have had to be demolished in the Pantteg and Godre'r Graig areas.\n\nThe letter to parents said the closure decision had been taken based on concerns arising from a geological survey.\n\n\"Further investigative work is needed and, as a precautionary measure, the school will close early for summer,\" it said.\n\n\"We will be keeping parents informed of developments and arrangements made to relocate all pupils and staff on to an alternative single site ready for September.\"\n\nCopy of the letter sent to parents\n\nMr Jones said he convened an emergency meeting with staff on Wednesday to discuss the report and a decision was then taken to shut the school and to extend the holidays by a further week.\n\n\"All the actions we have taken in this area are in order to protect and save life and when we are talking about children in a school, even low risk to me is too high a risk,\" he said.\n\n\"But I have got to stress that these are preliminary findings and even with preliminary findings, I'm not prepared to take any risk where children are concerned.\n\n\"I think anyone will draw comparisons to, shall I say, schools that have been involved in this type of disaster previously and the potential of a disaster taking place here, and that was my first thought,\" he said.\n\nDuring the last school inspection in 2017 there were 158 pupils, from nursery school age up to 11.\n\nPlans were drawn up in 2017 to consider merging Godre'r Graig primary with three others to create a new super school.\n\nResidents were forced out of 11 homes in 2017 due to safety concerns\n\nThe first big landslip in years happened in Pantteg in 2012\n\nThousands of tonnes of rock, soil and trees slipped down the hillside near houses on Cyfyng Road, in 2012, before further landslides caused some gardens to drop away in 2017.\n\nResidents of 11 terraced homes were then issued with a prohibition order requiring them to move.\n\nBut one man ended up in court after returning to carry out repairs to his home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland surged into their first World Cup final for 27 years with a sensational eight-wicket demolition of Australia at Edgbaston.\n\nThe hosts will have the chance to lift the trophy for the first time when they meet New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday.\n\nA first win in a World Cup knockout match since 1992 was secured over the defending champions on a day that will live long in the memory, justifiably alongside anything from the 2005 Ashes or the 2010-11 tour of Australia.\n\nIt was built on a riotous opening seven overs, when Australia were reduced to 14-3 by the new-ball brilliance of Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer.\n\nSteve Smith, so often England's nemesis, held Australia together with 85, helping them to a total of 223 that at least gave them something to bowl at.\n\nBut home nerves over the menacing presence of Mitchell Starc were allayed by a prolific opening partnership between Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow, who added 124 for the first wicket.\n\nRoy crashed 85 before Joe Root and Eoin Morgan took England to their target with 17.5 overs to spare.\n\nThe ease of England's progression to the final was such a contrast to the group-stage defeat by Australia that left them on the brink of elimination.\n\nSince then they have beaten India, New Zealand and turned in this, their best performance of the tournament to date.\n\nThey will start the final, which will be shown as free-to-air on Channel 4, as firm favourites to be crowned world champions.\n• None 'Souped-up, fire-breathing, chest-beating England can go all the way'\n\nUntil Saturday's final round of group games, England were set to play India in this match.\n\nAlthough they would never admit it, the opportunity to play their oldest enemies at a ground where Australia have no win of any kind since 2001 and England had won their previous 10 matches was absolutely perfect.\n\nThe toss seemed like a huge boost for Aaron Finch's men - batting first has been a big advantage in the tournament - but that was to discount the carnage that would follow.\n\nEdgbaston exploded with noise as Finch, David Warner and Peter Handscomb were removed, cheers that were matched in volume by the boos for Warner and Smith.\n\nAlthough Smith ensured what the crowd knew could have been a tricky chase - they cheered as Roy defended Starc's first over - Roy injected belief with an outrageous flick for six off the left-armer.\n\nAs it became clearer that England were strolling, the party moved through the gears.\n\nStarc was serenaded with the song that tortured Mitchell Johnson, and the Hollies Stand howled as Smith was launched for three consecutive sixes by Roy.\n\nBy the end, as the rain fell, the whole of Edgbaston was telling the world that cricket is coming home.\n• None Relive the best clips and reaction to England's victory\n\nMagnificent England peaking at the right time\n\nThis was a complete display by England, who were magnificent with the ball, sharp in the field and dominant with the bat.\n\nWoakes (3-20) and Archer (2-32) nipped the new ball around on a full length. Archer trapped Finch lbw with his first ball, Woakes got one to climb that Warner fended to first slip, then bowled Handscomb through the gate.\n\nArcher also left Alex Carey needing stitches from a blow to the chin, but the left-hander recovered to make 46 in a stand of 103 with Smith.\n\nAt 117-3, the game was delicately poised, before Carey needlessly holed out off Adil Rashid, who removed Marcus Stoinis in the same over and later had Pat Cummins caught at slip in a lovely spell of 3-54.\n\nSmith remained through it all, only to be run out by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's direct hit that somehow went between the batsman's legs - an action symptomatic of a day when everything went right for England.\n\nAfter the dangerous Starc's early overs were negotiated, Roy cut loose with fearsome power - the third of his sixes off Smith was a monstrous hit into the top tier of the stand.\n\nAlthough Bairstow was trapped leg before by Starc for 34 and an angry Roy was wrongly adjudged to have hooked Pat Cummins behind, Root and Morgan were untroubled in an unbroken stand of 79.\n\nAfter the match, Roy was fined 30% of his match fee and given two demerit points for showing dissent at his dismissal.\n\nGiven their team for this tournament only really came together at the last minute, it is to Australia's credit that they made the semi-finals with such ease.\n\nBut here they were ambushed by England and now must regroup before the Ashes begin on this ground on 1 August.\n\nAs his team-mates crumbled around him, Smith stood tall, blocking out the abuse to accumulate with his trademark fidgety efficiency.\n\nIndeed, had Carey hung around, England's task could have been difficult but, after he departed, wickets fell with regularity.\n\nWhen Smith was beaten by Buttler's throw to become the eighth man out, he shook his head all the way to the pavilion, unable to conceal his disappointment.\n\nTo stand any chance, Australia needed early wickets and when they failed to materialise, they were powerless to prevent Roy's awesome hitting.\n\n'I'm speechless, it was an incredible performance'\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"This final is a huge opportunity for us.\n\n\"Looking back to where we were in 2015 compared to now it's such a dramatic improvement and everyone in the dressing room deserves a huge amount of credit.\n\n\"Making the most of it would be brilliant but getting to the final alone is awesome.\"\n\nMan of the match Chris Woakes, who took 3-20 in eight overs: \"I'm pretty speechless. It was an incredible performance from the whole team.\n\n\"It started with the bowling performance and then the way they knocked that off was outstanding.\n\n\"There were some nerves around this morning but that's natural going into a semi-final.\n\n\"The way we produced the goods just showed how good we are and where we are at as a team.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook on Test Match Special: \"I can't believe I have just watched that.\n\n\"You always think there will be a twist in the tail but there was no twist. England were so good.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"England are so big and strong, they might do this to New Zealand on Sunday.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We were totally outplayed today. The way they set the tone with the ball in those first 10 overs was a huge part in the game.\n\n\"You always want to win the trophy but there have been a lot of positives\n\n\"A lot of hard work has gone in from a lot of people. I'm proud of how the group has progressed but this still hurts.\"", "Apple has disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch, because of a flaw that let users eavesdrop on other people's iPhones.\n\nThe Walkie-Talkie app let two people who had accepted an invitation send and receive short audio messages.\n\nBut Apple said it had been \"made aware\" of a flaw that \"could allow somebody to listen through another customer's iPhone without consent\".\n\nIt has disabled the feature and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\nHowever, Apple said it was not aware of the Walkie-Talkie bug being exploited by anybody in the real world.\n\nIt said \"specific conditions and sequences of events\" would be required to exploit the bug.\n\nApple found a similar \"eavesdropping\" flaw in its FaceTime video-calling app back in January.\n\nIn some cases, callers could activate the microphone on a target iPhone even if the recipient did not answer their call.\n\nIt issued a software update to fix the flaw.\n\nIn a separate issue, video-conferencing platform Zoom has addressed a flaw that let attackers access webcams without permission.\n\nResearcher Jonathan Leitschuh found a bug that let attackers initiate video calls and access a target's webcam.\n\nZoom initially described the issue as low priority.\n\nBut on Tuesday, it issued an update to address the problem.\n\n\"We appreciate the hard work of the security researcher in identifying security concerns on our platform,\" it said in a statement.", "The chief executive and co-founder of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjørn Kjos, has stepped down after 17 years in charge at the airline.\n\nUnder the leadership of Mr Kjos, aged 72, Norwegian Air developed from a small domestic airline into Europe's third biggest low-cost carrier.\n\nIt also broke into the transatlantic market with low fares.\n\nHowever, the firm has struggled to make profits and has also been hit by the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max plane.\n\nNorwegian has 18 of the aircraft and on Thursday said that it did not expect them to return to service until October, later than its previous estimate of August.\n\nThe airline said the grounding could cost as much as 700m Norwegian kroner (£65m; $82m) this year, and could also undo its plan to return to profitability.\n\nThe 737 Max fleet of jets was grounded after two crashes, the first a Lion Air flight which crashed into the sea off Jakarta last year, and the second an Ethiopian Airlines' flight which crashed shortly after take off from Addis Ababa in March. In total 346 people were killed.\n\nNorwegian's low fares have allowed it to grow rapidly. Last year it launched 35 new routes, carried more than 37 million passengers and added 2,000 staff.\n\nIts big innovation has been to operate low-cost long-haul flights between the UK and the US, which it started in 2014. It now flies to 12 US destinations from London's Gatwick airport.\n\nIt has become the biggest international carrier to serve the New York City area, carrying more passengers there than British Airways, Air Canada or Lufthansa, according to figures from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.\n\nHowever, that growth has come at the expense of profits.\n\nThe airline lost 1.45bn kroner last year, which it blamed on fuel costs, tough competition and issues with engines on its Dreamliner aircraft.\n\nIn March, to shore up its finances, Norwegian raised 1.3bn kroner through a share sale and also sold some aircraft.\n\nMr Kjos, a former fighter pilot, has pledged to slow the airline's growth and focus on profitability this year.\n\nHe said that strategy was reflected in the company's second-quarter results, released earlier on Thursday, which show a net profit of 82.8m kroner.\n\n\"Norwegian's Q2 results show that we are delivering on our strategy of moving from growth to profitability,\" he said.\n\n\"Despite operational issues outside of our control, like the grounding of our 737 Max fleet, we are delivering the highest second quarter operating revenue in the history of Norwegian.\"\n\nBjørn Kjos was one of the founders of the company. As the man in the pilot's seat since 2002, he was also the driving force behind its expansion from a tiny regional carrier to become a major player in Europe's low-cost market. He also led the move into the long-haul market, using a new generation of efficient aircraft such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to offer cheap flights to the US, South America and even Thailand.\n\nThere was no shortage of passengers, but all of this growth came at a cost. The airline has billions of dollars' worth of debt and, over the past couple of years, has racked up hefty losses. In March, it was forced to sell new shares in order to raise hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding. It's also had to cut routes and sell some planes.\n\nThe signs are that this radical action is starting to take effect, giving Mr Kjos the chance to bow out on a positive note. A new leader can now be appointed to guide the company, as it attempts to turn market share into sustainable profits. It won't be easy. As the likes of Monarch, Flybe and Air Berlin have shown, the low-cost market is a harsh environment, where only the fittest survive.\n\nOf course, there is another option. A new chief executive might be more willing than Mr Kjos to consider a takeover approach - from British Airways' parent IAG, for example. But let's not forget that the outgoing chief executive will remain a powerful influence within the company, both through the shareholding of his company, HBK Holding, but also through his new role as an adviser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeven people, including six tourists, have been killed in a violent storm that swept across a region of northern Greece on Wednesday night.\n\nGale-force winds, heavy rain and hailstorms lashed Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki.\n\nA Czech couple died when their caravan was blown away, and two Romanians and two Russians also died. A seventh body was later found in the sea.\n\nOfficials say at least 100 others were injured, with 23 people hospitalised.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared, with dozens of rescue workers dispatched to help.\n\nA local photographer and storm chaser caught the dramatic lightning on a 150-second long exposure\n\nCharalambos Steriadis, head of civil protection in northern Greece, described the storm as an \"unprecedented phenomenon\".\n\nIt followed a spell of very hot weather in Greece with temperatures soaring to 37C (98F) over the past two days.\n\nWinds of more than 60mph (100km/h) were recorded in the region, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nImages and video posted on social media show trees toppled, cars overturned and buildings damaged.\n\nEmily Kishtoo, from Surrey in the UK, was at a beach party with her family when the storm hit on Wednesday night.\n\n\"It literally came out of nowhere,\" she told the BBC. \"The lights cut out on the beach that we were in - it was chaos.\n\n\"People running, screaming and just trying to basically get off the beach.\"\n\nThe damaged caravan of two elderly Czech tourists who died\n\nAnother British tourist, Holly Ellis, said windows were broken and trees downed in her hotel at Portes Beach\n\nShe says staff at the resort where she was staying with her children, aged three and five, directed the family to a bar area - which then began to flood.\n\n\"We've got two young children, there were lots of children crying, obviously very upset, very, very scared.\"\n\nElectricity access at the resort has been intermittent since, she said, with no running water on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Matt Taylor looks at the development of the violent storms across eastern Europe.\n\nWitnesses say the worst of the freak storm lasted only about 20 minutes.\n\nThe Romanian woman and her child were killed when the roof of a restaurant collapsed at Nea Plagia, officials say, while the Russian man and his son were killed by a falling tree near their hotel in the seaside resort of Potidea.\n\nA seventh body was later found in the sea on Thursday. Formal identification is yet to take place, but a 62-year-old Greek fisherman was reported missing in the area.\n\nThose injured are mostly tourists, officials say.\n\n\"It is the first time in my 25-year career that I have lived through something like this,\" said Athansios Kaltsas, director of the Nea Moudania Medical Centre which treated many of the injured.\n\n\"It was so abrupt, so sudden.\"\n\nThe country's newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cancelled his schedule and is being briefed on the situation, officials say.\n\nDefence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos was quoted as saying the army was ready to clear debris and would offer generators - amid reports up to 80% of the area lost its power.\n\nThis is the latest in a series of other extreme weather events across Europe in recent weeks. A heat-wave brought record June temperatures to several countries.\n\nGolf ball-sized hail has been reported in parts of the south of France and Italy and there were forest fires in Sicily on Wednesday, including in popular beach resort areas.", "Record numbers of 18-year-olds in England have applied for a place at university, figures from Ucas reveal.\n\nThe admissions service statistics show 236,350 school leavers - 40% in total - had applied by this year's deadline of 30 June - 3,970 more than in 2018.\n\nThis comes as a government review recommended cutting tuition fees in England from £9,250 to £7,500.\n\nHowever, the number of 18-year-olds in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland applying for degree places has fallen.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where 47% of 18-year-olds applied, there were 530 fewer applications from school leavers.\n\nThere were 610 fewer application in Scotland, where 33% of youngsters put in an application for university.\n\nIn Wales, where 33% of school leavers applied, there were 220 fewer applications than last year.\n\nAcross the UK as a whole, 275,520 young people have applied to university this year - up from 272,910 at the same point in 2018, but down from 278,130 in 2017.\n\nThe figures also show that there are record numbers of black, Asian and mixed race 18-year-old applicants, while the number of white applicants continues to fall.\n\nDespite uncertainty over Brexit, the number of applicants, across all age groups, from the European Union has risen by 540 from 50,120 in 2018 to 50,660 this year.\n\nThe Ucas figures also show a record number of applicants from outside the EU applying to UK universities - 81,340 students have applied to study in the UK, an increase of 8%.\n\nUcas chief executive Clare Marchant said the global appeal of UK higher education had \"never been clearer\".\n\n\"With clearing now open, there's plenty of choice for everyone at the end of the year. The post-qualification application route is available as a plan A for many, with over 17,500 using it to apply with results in hand last year.\n\n\"There are opportunities for a new direction on over 30,000 courses at ucas.com, for anyone who's already applied and now wants to change their mind, as we've streamlined the process for those reconsidering their original choices.\"\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, said it was \"very good news\" that 18-year-olds in England were more likely than ever before to apply to university.\n\n\"Employer demand for graduates continues to rise - educating more people of all ages at university will grow the economy faster, by increasing productivity, competitiveness, and innovation. Growing the number of graduates will enhance social mobility.\n\n\"Our universities have a well-deserved global reputation for high-quality teaching, learning and research, delivered by talented staff, while students report rising levels of satisfaction with their courses.\"\n\nEngland's universities minister Chris Skidmore said it was \"fantastic\" to see record rates of 18-year-olds applying to university, \"along with increasing numbers of applications from international students too\".\n\n\"These figures show we are making good progress in our ambition to open up world-leading higher education to anyone who has the potential to benefit from it, and I'm confident that we can go even further.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bright Horizons Nursery is believed to be based inside the David Lloyd centre\n\nA 10-month-old boy has died after choking on food at an Edinburgh nursery.\n\nThe incident happened on Tuesday at the Bright Horizons Nursery in Corstorphine.\n\nThe boy was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh for treatment, but died the following day.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"The death is being treated as unexplained, but not suspicious, and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nThe nursery said it was \"devastated\" by the news and was co-operating fully with the authorities\n\nA spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the family at this time.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of the children in our care is our absolute priority. The nursery will be closed whilst we support our staff and families.\n\n\"In the meantime we have arranged for our families to be offered alternative care at neighbouring nurseries.\"\n\nThe nursery has been closed in the meantime\n\nRobert Aldridge, whose council ward covers the Gyle, said: \"My sympathies go out to the baby's parents and to all the parents at the nursery as this must be a terrible shock to them all.\n\n\"There must be a full investigation into the circumstances so we can make sure there is no repeat of this ever happening again in the future.\n\n\"It is awful what the parents must be going through.\n\n\"Staff must be devastated. I'm sure they must be feeling absolutely awful.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An artist's impression of a Vega rocket carrying a satellite into space\n\nA European Vega rocket has been lost shortly after blast off, the commercial space company Arianespace says.\n\nIt is the first time in 15 launches that a Vega rocket has failed.\n\nThe rocket had been carrying a military satellite for the United Arab Emirates when it took off from the European spaceport in French Guiana on Wednesday evening.\n\nIt is believed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean north of the space centre.\n\nLuce Fabreguettes, Arianespace's executive vice president of missions, said a \"major anomaly\" had occurred about two minutes after liftoff at the time of the second stage ignition.\n\n\"On behalf of Arianespace I wish to express our deepest apologies to our customers for the loss of their payload,\" he said.\n\n\"From the first flight data analysis, we will get in the coming hours more precise information, and we will communicate to everybody at the soonest.\"\n\nVega's failure is a reminder that you can never relax in the rocket business. The vehicle had had 14 straight successes before Wednesday night, but then something caught everyone out. Vega uses solid fuels in its lower stages. These rocket segments are normally very reliable. Once ignited, they just burn until they exhaust themselves.\n\nSo, a key question facing the board of inquiry will be whether Vega's second-stage simply failed to light. The vehicle's burning first-stage appears as a bright white dot in the flight video. When it shuts down, there is nothing. Just darkness in the night sky.\n\nSpace officials will move swiftly to get Vega back in service. It's an integral part of a rocket operation that guarantees Europe's access to space. Vega is about to be upgraded to use a first-stage that will also be deployed as the strap-on booster for the next-generation, heavy-lift Ariane rocket. The dual-use, and the economies of scale that come from it, should benefit both vehicles in what is an increasingly competitive market.\n\nIn the same vein, Vega's 16th scheduled flight is supposed to be a demonstration designed to show the rocket can launch 42 satellites on one mission. To remain competitive, Europe's rockets must be able to lift every type of satellite payload into every conceivable type of orbit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This vehicle is run on kerosene and liquid oxygen... bring those two together and you light them, it's a fairly combustible mix\", reports Jonathan Amos\n\nThe reason for the failure was not immediately known. The flight had been postponed twice because of adverse weather conditions.\n\nThe rocket had been carrying a satellite known as FalconEye1 - the first of two that will make up the UAE's FalconEye satellite system.\n\nVega, which made its maiden flight in 2012, was developed to allow European countries to launch small satellites into space.\n\nFrench-based Arianespace markets the four-stage Vega rocket system which was jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.", "Firefighters spent more than 15 hours tackling a blaze at Warner Bros studios.\n\nCrews were called to the site in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, at 23:29 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe fire service said the set involved was not being used at the time and there had been no reported injuries.\n\nAll eight Harry Potter films as well as other movies including James Bond, Fast and Furious and the Mission Impossible franchises have filmed at the studios.\n\nThe fire service confirmed shortly before 15:00 on Thursday the fire was out, although some crews remain at the scene.\n\nA spokesman for Warner Bros said the fire had occurred on a sound stage being used for the television production Avenue 5, but all productions were able to continue working.\n\nAvenue 5 is an HBO space tourism comedy by The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci.\n\nHe thanked the firefighters who have \"been working tirelessly throughout the night\" and sent his \"thoughts to the residents in the area who were disturbed by the night's events\".\n\nOriginally 15 crews were sent to the scene but that later rose to 18\n\nOne of the fire engines could be seen parked by the perimeter of the studio site\n\nMark Hancock, who lives nearby, said: \"My house is only about 200m away from the perimeter fence and we have a clear line of sight over gardens so we managed to see it out one of our windows.\n\n\"The smoke went high into the air, and as I watched, the smoke appeared to get thicker, so much so that we could see the flashing lights of the fire engines reflecting off the thick smoke.\n\n\"It was still going strong at about 1am and when I woke up this morning it was still smouldering.\"\n\nHe added there was a \"strong smell and taste of smoke in the air\".\n\nAs the studio is a closed set no-one can get close to the scene.\n\nThe studio backs on to a housing estate from where you can smell a faint burning odour.\n\nA woman who lives there told me she was woken up by a strong smell at about midnight and her dog was barking and \"he never barks\".\n\n\"The smell was so strong I thought it was coming from the house,\" she said.\n\nAnother resident said she spoke to a firefighter this morning who told her it was \"a significant fire\".\n\nAll eight films in the Harry Potter franchise were shot at the facility near Watford\n\nA Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman confirmed 15 crews were sent to the scene when the fire broke out. That later increased to 18.\n\nHe said an aerial ladder was used as well as 12 sets of breathing apparatus.\n\nPolice also had to close off Bridge Road in Leavesden to allow the fire service to run a hose from the nearby canal to the site of the fire at its height.\n\nJames Bond and the Mission Impossible franchises have also been shot at the vast studios\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has demanded that the party publishes its submission to an inquiry into anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nIn a letter to Labour's general secretary, he said the response to the UK's equality watchdog had been \"withheld\" from the party's executive.\n\nIn reply, Jenny Formby said she had offered Mr Watson the chance to view the document.\n\nShe accused Mr Watson of \"traducing\" her reputation.\n\nEarlier, Mr Watson also criticised the way the party responded to claims on the BBC's Panorama about its handling of anti-Semitism cases.\n\nSpeaking to the programme, which aired on Wednesday, ex-party officials claimed senior Labour figures had interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nLabour has insisted the claims were inaccurate and made by \"disaffected\" former staff.\n\nMr Watson said the party's response had failed those who spoke to the programme and \"breached all common standards of decency\".\n\n\"The way that they have been smeared, including by Labour spokespeople, is deplorable,\" he wrote.\n\nBut in her own letter, Ms Formby said Mr Watson had tried to \"denigrate\" progress within the party over handling anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nShe acknowledged that anti-Semitism was a \"real problem\" within Labour, but said the speed of processing cases has increased by more than four-fold since she became general secretary.\n\n\"By choosing to ignore the steps taken by this party, and commenting so uncritically about the Panorama programme, you are complicit in creating a perception that anti-Semitism is more prevalent in the Labour Party than wider society,\" she added.\n\n\"I did watch the Panorama programme, and I was very concerned to hear for the first time the distress suffered by some of our former staff members. To be clear, we were not made aware of these issues at the time.\"\n\nIn his letter, Mr Watson said Ms Formby had \"insisted\" members of the shadow cabinet should not have the right to see the EHRC submission, but added: \"I disagree.\"\n\n\"Only sunlight can disinfect Labour of anti-Semitism now,\" he wrote.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, a close ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, tweeted that Mr Watson knew \"perfectly well that he cannot make 'demands' of Jennie Formby\".\n\nShe added that he was \"very wrong to imply that she is dealing with this matter with anything less than her usual professionalism\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Diane Abbott This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EHRC launched a formal investigation in May into whether Labour had \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said on Thursday that more than 30 whistleblowers, including current Labour staff, would submit evidence to the inquiry.\n\nLabour's disputes team is supposed to operate independently from the party's political structures, including the leader's office.\n\nBBC Panorama spoke to former party officials, who alleged they had to deal with a huge increase in anti-Semitism complaints since Mr Corbyn became Labour leader in 2015.\n\nSome of the staff spoke to the programme despite having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) when they left.\n\nEight former officials who worked in the team and dealt with anti-Semitism cases claimed to the BBC that:\n\nLabour has rejected claims of interference and described the programme as \"seriously inaccurate\" and \"politically one-sided\".\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell - a close ally of Mr Corbyn - said current staff had put in complaints to the BBC about the accusations made in the Panorama programme.\n\n\"I have always said from the very beginning [the process of dealing with complaints] was too slow and not ruthless enough, but it has improved dramatically now,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think it is important that we listen to what has been said and look ourselves at what is happening, but what we've got now is two groups of staff challenging the accuracy of [the accusations] so we will have to look at that.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler - who is a supporter of Mr Corbyn - said the party \"must acknowledge the deep hurt caused to our Jewish brothers and sisters\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by (((Dawn Butler MP))) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over anti-Semitism within its ranks, which has led nine MPs and three peers to leave the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of failing to get to grips with the problem, with allegations of hundreds of complaints against members remaining unresolved.\n\nBut Labour said it \"completely\" rejected any claims it was anti-Semitic.\n\nIt accused the Panorama programme of being a \"seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning\".\n\nThe party said that \"no proper and serious attempt was made to understand our current procedures for dealing with anti-Semitism, which is clearly essential to reach a fair and balanced judgement\".\n\nIt added: \"We will build on the improvements to our procedures made under Jennie Formby, and continue to act against this repugnant form of racism.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Grainger's partner Gail Hadfield-Grainger said his death \"could and should have been prevented\"\n\nA police force was to blame for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, a public inquiry has concluded.\n\nAnthony Grainger, 36, was in a stolen car when he was shot in the chest in Cheshire in March 2012.\n\nA judge said the shooting was legally justified, but criticised senior officers at Greater Manchester Police (GMP) for a \"catastrophic series of failings and errors\".\n\nThe force said it believed Mr Grainger was planning an armed robbery.\n\nBut Judge Thomas Teague QC said an operation targeting Mr Grainger had been organised and planned \"incompetently\".\n\nSenior officers \"failed to authorise, plan or conduct the firearms operation in such a way as to minimise recourse to the use of lethal force\", the judge said.\n\nMr Grainger's partner Gail Hadfield-Grainger said \"it has taken seven years but some justice has been done for Anthony\" and the inquiry had shown his death \"could and should have been prevented\".\n\nShe said the report highlighted \"a litany of catastrophic failures\".\n\nMr Grainger's mother Marina Schofield said his \"devastated\" family had \"gone through hell to find out the true facts of what happened that night\".\n\nShe also called for \"lessons to be learned\", adding: \"We only hope that this outcome serves as a lesson for GMP so that others do not have to go through what we have suffered.\"\n\nMr Grainger was shot dead in Cheshire in 2012\n\nMr Grainger, from Bolton, was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth on 3 March.\n\nThe inquiry was told no firearms were found either on Mr Grainger or in the car.\n\nThe officer who shot him told the inquiry at Liverpool Crown Court in 2017 he fired as he thought Mr Grainger had reached down to pick up a firearm.\n\nThe judge said the officer, referred to in court as Q9, had not acted unlawfully because he \"honestly but mistakenly believed Mr Grainger was reaching for a gun\".\n\nHe jumped to that wrong conclusion because of the \"misleading way his superiors had briefed him beforehand\", according to Judge Teague.\n\nGMP Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said he would like to \"personally apologise\" to Mr Grainger's family for the \"significant organisational failings of GMP that have led the inquiry to conclude that GMP are to blame for the death of Anthony Grainger\".\n\nHe said the \"intention of GMP through the Operation Shire investigation was to protect the public from harm and our failings have led to Anthony Grainger's death and caused unimaginable harm to his family\".\n\nMr Hopkins said steps had already been taken to improve the safety of firearms operations since the death, but said the force would now study the report and discuss what action should be taken with the police watchdog.\n\nMr Grainger was shot dead in a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth\n\nThe inquiry was told Mr Grainger and one of his passengers, David Totton, had been the subject of a GMP operation - Operation Shire - for some weeks, which was investigating their suspected involvement in commercial robberies.\n\nBut Judge Teague said there was no intelligence to suggest the men were armed or had access to firearms on 3 March.\n\nThe judge said if firearms commanders had planned, briefed and conducted the deployment competently, Q9 \"would have been less likely to misinterpret Mr Grainger's actions and might not have shot him\".", "There is no evidence the publication of the email in which Sir Kim Darroch criticised President Trump's administration was due to a hack, a Foreign Office minister has said.\n\nSir Kim stepped down as ambassador to the US on Wednesday, saying it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nSir Alan Duncan told the Commons he had not ruled out a hack - but said there was currently no evidence of one.\n\nHe added Sir Kim still had something to offer and could be given a new role.\n\n\"We do not, at the moment, have any evidence that this was a hack so our focus is on finding someone within the system who has released illicitly these communications,\" Sir Alan said.\n\nPrior to Sir Kim's resignation, President Trump said that the US would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president had branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nSir Alan Duncan said the inquiry into the affair was focused on a leak, rather than a hack\n\nSir Alan also failed to rule out Prime Minister Theresa May appointing a new US ambassador before she leaves office on 23 July.\n\nShadow foreign office minister Liz McInnes had asked if the Foreign Office would ensure a new ambassador to the US was appointed before the new prime minister takes office \"so we still have at least one UK representative willing to speak truth to power in Washington\".\n\nAnswering her question, Sir Alan said: \"The next ambassador will be appointed in the usual way by the prime minister on the foreign secretary's recommendation, with the approval of Her Majesty The Queen.\"\n\nSir Alan added Sir Kim \"quite rightly\" received the full support of Mrs May and the \"entire Cabinet\" prior to his resignation - and that the government \"profoundly regrets\" the ambassador's decision to step down.\n\n\"It is an outrage that a selection of his very professional reports back to London should have been leaked,\" Sir Alan continued.\n\n\"In an act of selfless duty, Sir Kim made the decision to resign in order to relieve the pressure on his family and colleagues and to protect the UK-US relationship.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim's resignation prompted widespread support for him - as well as criticism of Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson refused to support him during the Tory leadership debate on Tuesday night, said BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale.\n\nMr Johnson was asked repeatedly by fellow leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt whether he would keep Sir Kim in post if he became prime minister, but refused to answer.\n\nFollowing Sir Kim's resignation, Mr Johnson said he was \"a superb diplomat\" and whoever was responsible for the leak \"has done a grave disservice to our civil servants\".\n\nAsked why he was not more supportive of Sir Kim, he said it was \"wrong to drag civil servants into the political arena\".\n• None UK ambassador to US resigns in Trump leaks row", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This movie shows A68's progress from January 2018 to July 2019\n\nIt's two years since the monster block of ice known as A68 broke free from Antarctica.\n\nSatellites show the world's biggest berg has spun around in the waters of the Weddell Sea and is now moving north along the White Continent's peninsula.\n\nFor a while, it seemed like the 160km-long frozen mass had become stuck on a section of shallow seafloor. A68 was in danger of becoming the world's biggest \"ice island\".\n\nBut it's since picked up the pace.\n\n\"For an object weighing around one trillion tonnes, Iceberg A68 appears to be quite nimble,\" says Prof Adrian Luckman.\n\n\"Following a year of staying close to its parent ice shelf, in mid-2018 A68 became caught in the Weddell Gyre, a clockwise ocean current, which spun it through 270 degrees and carried it 250km north,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The iceberg is 160km in length yet only 200m thick - a similar ratio to a credit card - so it is surprising how little damage it has sustained in its journey so far.\"\n\nA68 calved from the edge of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. Swansea University's Prof Luckman has followed its progress ever since, using Europe's Sentinel-1 satellites.\n\nThere are two of these spacecraft and they fly over the berg every few days.\n\nThe satellites are equipped with radar sensors that are able to see the Earth's surface, regardless of the weather and light conditions. Currently, the Antarctic is in the grip of winter darkness.\n\nAlthough A68 has broadly held together, it has lost some sizeable chunks of ice. A segment fell off one end soon after the berg was born. This was even large enough to be given its own designation - A68b.\n\nMeasuring roughly 13km by 5km, this daughter block is now about 110km further north along the peninsula.\n\nLike most icebergs from the Weddell Sea sector of the continent, A68a and b will eventually be ejected into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which will throw them towards the South Atlantic on a path that has become known as \"iceberg alley\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the same movement of water - and accompanying winds - that the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton exploited in 1916 to make his escape from Antarctica following the loss of his ship, the Endurance, in crushing sea-ice.\n\nShackleton aimed for South Georgia, and it's at this island that you will frequently see big tabular icebergs sitting offshore. The blocks' deep keels mean they have a tendency to get pinned on the British Overseas Territory's shallow continental shelf.\n\nIs this A68's ultimate fate, to anchor off South Georgia and melt away in its \"iceberg graveyard\"?\n\nBig icebergs will often get caught in the shallow waters around South Georgia\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Denise Nickerson, the former child actress who played Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, has died aged 62.\n\nNickerson's family announced the news in a Facebook post that read: \"She's gone.\"\n\nIn earlier updates on social media, her family said she had pneumonia and had experienced several seizures.\n\nNickerson - who was cast opposite Gene Wilder at the age of 13 - had previously survived a stroke in 2018.\n\nOn Tuesday, her family made a GoFundMe page to help cover her medical costs. Prior to her death, they said she had been given morphine \"to keep her pain free and slow her breathing\".\n\nThey wrote: \"She has random and semi-frequent seizures, but their intensity has grown far less severe as the day has progressed. Things have been relatively quiet and peaceful all day.\n\n\"We've had visitors to share fond memories, say their goodbyes, lift our spirits, and support us. We've taken turns resting, and crying, and coping, and back again.\"\n\nNickerson (far left) was cast in the movie when she was 13\n\nBorn in New York City in 1957, Nickerson's first TV roles were on the gothic US soap opera Dark Shadows as Amy Jennings and Nora Collins.\n\nIn 1971, she was cast in composer John Barry's ill-fated musical Lolita, My Love before landing her signature role as gum-chewing brat Violet Beauregarde in the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nIn the hit movie, her character loses out on winning the factory after she is unable to resist a chewing gum meal that turns her into a giant blueberry.\n\nFollowing Wilder's death in 2016, Nickerson said: \"He was such a kind, tender-hearted man. And for him to put up with us, my God what patience he must've needed for five of us running around.\"\n\nIn a statement to Fox News, actress Julie Dawn Cole, who played the spoilt Veruca Salt said: \"It is dreadfully sad.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julie Dawn Cole This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Denise has been like a sister to me and we were very close. She had a massive stroke last July and never really recovered. Paris [Themmen] (who played Mike Teevee) and I went to visit her in September. It was a very sad visit as she couldn't verbally communicate. But we sang songs - 'Willy Wonka' of course! And that made her smile and laugh.\"\n\nNickerson's other roles included Liza Walton on the CBS soap Search for Tomorrow; in The Man Who Could Talk to Kids, opposite Peter Boyle; and in beauty pageant satire Smile.\n\nShe went into semi-retirement as an actress at the age of 21, acting sporadically and working in doctors' offices as a receptionist and an accountant.\n\nNickerson was married twice. Her first marriage to Rick Keller ended with his death from a brain aneurysm in 1983. She had a son Josh with her second husband Mark Willard, whom she divorced in 1998.", "Dust from car brakes and tyres will still pollute city air even when the vehicle fleet has gone all-electric, a report has warned.\n\nFragments of microplastics from tyres, road surfaces and brakes will also flow into rivers, and ultimately into the sea, government advisers say.\n\nMinisters say they want to pass standards to improve tyres and brakes.\n\nBut critics say they need to go further by developing policies to lure people out of private cars.\n\nThe government’s Air Quality Expert Group said particles from brake wear, tyre wear and road surface wear directly contribute to well over half of particle pollution from road transport.\n\nThey warn: \"No legislation is currently in place specifically to limit or reduce [these] particles.\n\n\"So while legislation has driven down emissions of particles from exhausts, the non-exhaust proportion of road traffic emissions has increased.\"\n\nThey say the percentage of pollutants will get proportionally higher as vehicle exhausts are cleaned up more.\n\nEnvironment Minister Thérèse Coffey said : “The documents published today make clear that it is not just fumes from car exhaust pipes that have a detrimental impact on human health but also the tiny particles that are released from their brakes and tyres.\n\n\"Emissions from car exhausts have been decreasing through development of cleaner technologies - and there is now a need for the car industry to find innovative ways to address the challenges of air pollution from other sources\".\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: “The industry is committed to improving air quality and has already all but eliminated particulate matter from tailpipe emissions.\n\n\"Brake, tyre and road wear is a recognised challenge as emissions from these sources are not easy to measure.\"\n\nThe document chimes with a recent report warning that electric cars won’t offer a complete solution to mobility.\n\nIt said even self-driving electric cars would produce pollution and congest the roads.\n\nThe key was to reduce the use of cars by getting people on to less-polluting forms of transport, said Prof Jillian Anable, one of the authors of the report.\n\nShe said: \"For many years ministers have adopted the principle of trying to meet demand by increasing road space. They need to reduce demand instead.\"\n\nThe UK transport department said it was spending £6bn on buses, walking and cycling – and £50bn on roads.\n\nSupporters of electric cars say the report may be flawed because when you lift your throttle foot in an electric vehicle, the car slows itself and there is less need to brake.", "Gale-force winds, heavy rain and hailstorms lashed Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki, late on Wednesday, officials say.\n\nA state of emergency was declared and more than 100 rescue workers deployed.\n\nFootage of the storm was filmed as some people took shelter in a bar.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nRoger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet at Wimbledon for the first time since the 2008 final after both advanced to the semi-finals.\n\nFederer beat Kei Nishikori 4-6 6-1 6-4 6-4 for his 100th match win at the All England Club, while Nadal beat Sam Querrey 7-5 6-2 6-2.\n\nIn 2008, Nadal won 9-7 in the fifth set against Federer in a rain-affected final that spanned nearly seven hours.\n\nTogether, they have won 10 Wimbledon titles between them.\n\nFour-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will face Roberto Bautisa Agut in Friday's other semi-final.\n\nIt is the first time for 12 years that Djokovic, Nadal and Federer have all made the last four.\n• None Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer's 2008 final - what made it so special?\n\n\"We have a lot of information on Rafa, as does he on us,\" said eight-time champion Federer, who in beating Japanese eighth seed Nishikori became the first player in history to win 100 men's singles matches at a single Grand Slam event.\n\n\"So you can dive into the tactics like mad for two days, or you say 'it's grass court tennis so I'm going to come out and play my tennis'.\n\n\"People always hype it up. It was a joy to play against Rafa on his court at the French Open and [I'm] very excited to play him here.\"\n\nSpaniard Nadal said: \"It's great. It's difficult to imagine again being in that situation.\n\n\"I'm excited to play against Roger again here at Wimbledon.\"\n\nNishikori defeated Swiss great Federer in straight sets in their most recent meeting at the ATP Finals in 2018 but had been beaten by the 20-time Grand Slam champion in seven of their 10 previous matches.\n\nYet few in the Centre Court crowd knew how to react when Federer was broken in the very first game, before going 2-0 down as Nishikori held serve, and only just clinching the third game as Nishikori scuppered three break points.\n\nIn an error-strewn first set, in which Federer double-faulted on three occasions and hit 12 unforced errors, it was Nishikori who looked most at home despite his opponent's previous success on the Wimbledon grass, almost breaking Federer again at 3-1 up before the remainder of the set went with serve.\n\nThe second set, however, proved the polar opposite to the first, with Federer breaking Nishikori early to help him to a 3-0 lead.\n\nHe went on to serve to love twice before breaking Nishikori once more and seeing out the set in just 23 minutes.\n\nFederer missed break point in the opening game of a topsy-turvy third set but eventually took a game from Nishikori's grasp to go 4-3 up, although he needed four break points to do so.\n\nAfter wrapping up the third set on his second set point, Federer had five opportunities to break Nishikori in the fourth but it was not until 4-4 that he was able to do so.\n\nAnd, in stylish fashion, he sealed the win to love with an ace - his 12th of the match - to book his spot in a 13th semi-final at Wimbledon.\n\nTwenty-five days short of his 38th birthday, Federer becomes the oldest man to make a Grand Slam semi-final since Jimmy Connors in 1991 who, at 39 years and six days, reached the last four at the US Open.\n\nIn total, Federer has reached 45 Grand Slam men's singles semi-finals, nine ahead of Wimbledon defending champion Novak Djokovic, who also advanced to the last four on Wednesday.\n\nNadal keeps his side of the bargain\n\nAt the same time Federer was in action on Centre Court, Nadal was keeping his side of the bargain on Court One.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam champion had gone an early break up against big-serving American Querrey but faltered to drop serve for 5-5 despite having four set points before that.\n\nBut he re-established his advantage in the very next game and then fended off three break points to avoid a tie-break.\n\nThe cheers from Centre Court celebrating Federer's victory could be heard on Court One and just a few seconds later there were matching celebrations when Nadal took the second set with a volley at the net.\n\nThe Spaniard apologised to Querrey for that winning shot, having been standing very close to the American at the time, when either the racquet or the ball was in danger of crashing into him.\n\nWhile Querrey continued to bombard Nadal with aces - notching a total of 22 - the Spaniard sped through the third set and a forehand winner wrapped up the victory that put him into his seventh Wimbledon semi-final.\n\nNadal's win means there are two Spaniards in the Wimbledon men's semi-finals for the first time after compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut beat Argentina's Guido Pella to set up a meeting with world number one Djokovic.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "All 189 people on board the Lion Air flight were killed in October last year\n\nRelatives of people killed in the Boeing 737 Max crash in Indonesia last year have been cheated out of compensation, their lawyers say.\n\nLawyers told the BBC that many families were persuaded to sign forms preventing them from taking legal action.\n\nBBC Panorama has discovered that other relatives signed similar agreements after two other crashes, stopping them from suing Boeing in the US courts.\n\nBoeing has declined to comment on the agreements.\n\nAll 189 passengers and crew died when the Boeing 737 Max crashed into the sea just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on 29 October 2018.\n\nWithin weeks, relatives were offered compensation by insurance lawyers.\n\nMerdian Agustin says she was pressured to sign documents\n\nTo access the money, families had to sign agreements that would prevent them from taking legal action against Boeing or the airline, Lion Air.\n\nMerdian Agustin's husband, Eka, was killed in the crash. She says the insurance lawyers tried to pressure her into signing away her rights.\n\n\"They give me some document to sign. The document said you can have the money but you can't sue Lion Air. You can't sue Boeing.\n\n\"They said you should sign this. You should move forward. In one hour or two hours you will get the money and you will continue life, but I don't want it. It's not about the money. It's about my husband's life\", she said.\n\nMs Agustin did not sign, but it is believed around 50 families did. They will get compensation of just under £74,000 ($92,000) each.\n\nThe payouts are controversial because under Indonesian law the families are automatically entitled to £71,000 compensation.\n\nSanjiv Singh, an American lawyer representing some of the families, told the BBC relatives had been pressured into signing away their legal rights.\n\n\"The families who signed the release and discharge [documents] have been cheated out of compensation, they've been preyed upon by insurance companies and by the counsel for those insurance companies, and ultimately, to the benefit of Boeing\" he said.\n\nHe added that families were potentially entitled to millions of dollars in compensation.\n\nThis is not the first time that Boeing has benefited from controversial release and discharge documents.\n\nIn 2005, a Boeing 737 crashed into a residential area in Indonesia, killing 149 people. Families signed agreements which prevented them from suing Boeing in the US courts. Similar agreements were signed after a 737 crash that killed 102 passengers and crew in 2007.\n\nOne unnamed insurance lawyer was involved on all three occasions.\n\nMr Singh says this raises serious questions about whether Boeing was involved in the more recent Lion Air agreements.\n\n\"I think that makes it implausible that Boeing, at the very least, didn't know that the releases were being collected. I think it raises a very significant question as to whether they co-ordinated it.\"\n\nPanorama asked Boeing if it knew about the agreements or had any communication with the insurance lawyers who helped organise them.\n\nBoeing did not answer any of the questions posed by the Panorama programme, instead releasing a statement which said: \"Boeing truly regrets the loss of life and will continue to work with communities, customers and the aviation industry to help with the healing process.\n\n\"The insurers for Boeing are in discussions with other insurers around the world, as is typical and customary in circumstances such as these.\"\n\nThe lead insurer for both Lion Air and Boeing is the British insurance firm Global Aerospace.\n\nSanjiv Singh, a lawyer for the families, says they are entitled to large sums of money\n\nGlobal Aerospace disputed the allegations but declined to comment on the specifics because of client confidentiality.\n\nIt said: \"It is common for aviation insurers to have insured more than one party that is involved in some way in an accident.\n\n\"Global Aerospace, in accordance with industry best practice, strictly divides responsibility for the handling of different clients to ensure that they are each represented separately and that no inappropriate sharing of information takes place in the handling of any claims that may occur.\"\n\nThe company said it was standard practice when settling claims to release the airline and plane manufacturers from future claims.\n\nOn 3 July, Boeing announced it would provide $100m to help communities and families affected by the two recent 737 Max accidents. The second was in Ethiopia in April, when 157 people died.\n\nLawyers for the families say they have not been given details about how that money would be used.", "The DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says a vote by MPs to legalise same-sex marriage and liberalise Northern Ireland's abortion law has \"breached the devolution settlement\".\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy says the government has a responsibility to deliver rights in Stormont's absence.", "Facebook will be challenged on whether its current practices respect EU citizens' right to privacy\n\nFacebook's method of transferring data from the EU to the US for business purposes is being challenged again in court.\n\nThe Irish data protection commissioner is arguing that the legal mechanism for these transfers does not sufficiently protect EU citizens' right to privacy.\n\nThe concern is such transfers could be subject to mass surveillance by US intelligence agencies.\n\nFacebook said data protection safeguards were in place.\n\nThe challenge was prompted by privacy activist Max Schrems, who had previously taken Facebook to court over the so-called Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement.\n\nHe has been tweeting from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg, revealing that he thinks it could take until \"the end of the year\" for the case to be resolved.\n\nA ruling against Facebook could potentially undermine the basis on which many businesses send data across the Atlantic - particularly technology giants that rely on cloud computing and communications technology.\n\nCurrently, the social network transfers vast amounts of personal data about EU users to servers in the US - everything from people's names to information about their activity online.\n\nIn 2013, documents published by ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden suggested Facebook was a target of \"Prism\", a US National Security Agency's mass surveillance programme.\n\nThe alternative legal framework Facebook has used since is called \"standard contractual clauses\" (SCCs).\n\nBut the Irish data protection commissioner has suggested that SCCs are not fit for purpose given the possibility of intelligence agency surveillance.\n\nShould the CJEU decide that SCCs are indeed problematic, the ruling would have huge ramifications for Facebook and other businesses, said legal expert Orla Lynskey, at the London School of Economics.\n\n\"That would have a very significant impact for companies,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"The big question is, when assessing whether or not data can go to third countries [outside the EU], should we be taking into consideration potential access by intelligence or law enforcement agencies?\"\n\nJack Gilbert, associate general counsel for Facebook, said the social network was \"grateful\" for the consideration of the CJEU.\n\n\"Standard contractual clauses provide important safeguards to ensure that Europeans' data are protected once transferred overseas,\" he said.\n\n\"SCCs have been designed and endorsed by the European Commission and enable thousands of Europeans to do business worldwide.\"", "The Bank of England says the UK banking system is still resilient to the financial impact of a worst-case disorderly Brexit.\n\nThe comment came in its regular health check on the banks, the Financial Stability Report.\n\nThe Bank said \"the perceived likelihood of no-deal Brexit has increased since the start of the year\".\n\nIt said that \"material risks\" of economic disruption from such a scenario remain.\n\nHowever, there had been \"some improvement in the preparedness of the UK economy for no-deal Brexit\".\n\nSince last year, UK banks have been forced to hold back more capital, and demonstrate easy access to £1 trillion in funding (liquidity).\n\nThe Bank says that such a buffer would allow the banking system to continue to lend into the economy, even if the UK were shut out of international markets for three months.\n\nThis worst-case scenario stress test involves the economy shrinking by 4.7%, unemployment more than doubling to 9.5% and property prices falling by 33%.\n\nThe Bank's key Financial Policy Committee went further than it has before by saying that the banking system would also be resilient to a disorderly Brexit occurring at the same time as a global trade war involving 25% tariffs on US-China trade, all global inputs and a 30% drop in the US stock market.\n\n\"Even if a protectionist-drive global slowdown were to spill over to the UK at the same time as a worst-case disorderly Brexit, the core UK banking system would be strong enough to absorb, rather than amplify, the resulting economic shocks and continue to serve UK households and businesses,\" it said.\n\nThe Bank did say, though, that the impact of rising expectations of no-deal was already being seen in \"much weaker\" levels of investment in markets dependent on foreign investors - for example, commercial property.\n\nIn the first quarter of this year, investment in commercial property was less than two-fifths (38%) of average levels in the past two years.\n\nFor high-risk corporate borrowing (leveraged loans), it was a less than a fifth of the levels seen in 2017 and 2018. Commercial real estate prices are falling again now.\n\nThe Bank also said it would be reviewing the macro-economic vulnerabilities of the economy on funding from \"open-ended\" funds, recently in the news after the problems with redemptions in Neil Woodford's fund.\n\nThe Bank is also beginning work to assess the impact on financial sector of climate change risks.", "Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have previously voted five times on whether or not to introduce same-sex marriage\n\nThere are two ways to read what just happened in parliament.\n\nThe first, how many campaigners see it, is that this is a watershed moment towards legalising same-sex marriage and liberalising abortion laws in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe other take is that this is the biggest step yet by Westminster when it comes to implementing direct rule in NI.\n\nThat's something that might cause more than a rumbling of worry when it comes to the current talks process at Stormont.\n\nThe socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) voted against both of the divisive amendments, arguing parliament was overstepping the mark and the matters should remain devolved.\n\nMPs critical of that logic said there hasn't been a functioning government in Northern Ireland since 2017 - and they now had a duty to back a law change.\n\nIt bears repeating that the amendments are subject to one big caveat.\n\nThey will only take effect if Stormont is not restored by 21 October (the next obligatory date by which the NI secretary must call an assembly election).\n\nSo could we see a fast breakthrough by the Stormont parties, to take back control of the issues?\n\nLabour MP Conor McGinn tabled the amendment that sought to legalise same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland, if devolution is not restored\n\nSome believe Tuesday's developments could rather serve to hold back the process and affect the political mood music.\n\nAny final agreement on a deal has to come between the DUP and Sinn Féin, who are diametrically opposed on a number of sticking points, including same-sex marriage.\n\nSinn Féin has previously campaigned for same-sex marriage to be legalised in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party might now think restoring the assembly could remove the chance of same-sex marriage becoming legal in NI any time soon - and could potentially put it at odds with many Sinn Féin voters.\n\nWhen it comes to the DUP, one theory is that the party would privately like Westminster to pass legislation on the issue and remove it from the negotiations.\n\nIt's faced criticism for calling for Northern Ireland to remain fully aligned with Great Britain after Brexit, while defending Northern Ireland being unique on other issues - citing the power of devolution.\n\nAs the only main political party in NI to remain opposed to same-sex marriage, to allow it to progress through Westminster could get the DUP out of a tricky spot.\n\nThe DUP voted against the amendments, arguing MPs had hijacked the process of devolution\n\nBut what the party remains aware of, is what all this could mean for other issues that should be under control of the assembly, which could now end up before Parliament at some point.\n\nThe two big parties will have some thinking to do in the coming days about their next moves.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of the latest parliamentary antics have the deputy speaker's office to thank.\n\nFew had anticipated that the amendments would even be selected for debate, given how much controversy they had the potential to stir up.\n\nIt's perhaps a nod to the overarching power of politics - that it can bring about change on issues many people feel strongly about, one way or the other - and a reminder of what has been missing from politics at Stormont for two and a half years now.", "In Myanmar’s Rakhine state, hundreds of new houses have been handed over to families displaced by the violence of the Rohingya crisis in 2017. But none of the homes were for the Muslim minority group.\n\nAlmost two years on, there’s no sign the 700,000 Rohingyas who fled across the border to Bangladesh will be returning soon. Myanmar continues to deny its troops carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide.\n\nThe BBC's Myanmar correspondent Nick Beake has gained rare access to the affected part of Rakhine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sub was filmed by Norway's Institute of Marine Research\n\nNorway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine.\n\nThe Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.\n\nA sample showed radioactive caesium leaking from a ventilation pipe, but researchers said it was \"not alarming\", as the Arctic water quickly diluted it.\n\nThe Soviet-era sub is also deep down, at 1,680m (5,512ft), and there are few fish in the area, they added.\n\nFor the first time a Norwegian remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) examined and filmed the Komsomolets on 7 July, revealing severe damage.\n\nThe submarine is also known as K-278 in Russia, and it sank carrying two nuclear torpedoes with plutonium warheads.\n\nIts front section has six torpedo tubes, and the sub could also launch Granit cruise missiles.\n\nThis appears to be part of the auxiliary diesel system, revealed by the ROV\n\nThe news comes just over a week after fire swept through a Russian nuclear-powered submersible in the Barents Sea, killing 14 naval officers.\n\nThe survivors managed to get the mini-sub back to its Arctic base.\n\nNorway's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) says the pressurised water reactor powering K-278 in April 1989 shut down quickly when the fire broke out in another compartment.\n\nTwenty-seven sailors survived - they were eventually picked up by two Soviet ships.\n\nThe radiation leak found this week came from a pipe near the reactor. It was 800Bq (becquerels) per litre, while the normal level in the Norwegian Sea is about 0.001Bq.\n\nHowever, some other water samples from the wreck did not show elevated levels.\n\nThe 42 sailors who died in the disaster succumbed to toxic fumes or froze in the icy Arctic waters after the K-278 had surfaced briefly.\n\nThe commander managed to send a distress call about an hour after the fire broke out, but he and four others died when their emergency capsule sank. The submarine was doomed when the fire spread, fuelled by compressed air from a damaged pipe, Russia's RIA news agency reported.\n\nThe ROV is shown here collecting samples from inside the titanium hull\n\nRussia has previously examined the wreck with a manned submersible, and found radiation leaking from the same section.\n\nThe Norwegian radiation specialists and marine researchers were accompanied by experts from Russia's Typhoon Research and Production Association.\n\n\"We took water samples from inside this particular duct because the Russians had documented leaks here both in the 1990s and more recently in 2007,\" said Hilde Elise Heldal, the expedition leader. \"So we weren't surprised to find high levels here.\n\n\"The levels we detected were clearly above what is normal in the oceans, but they weren't alarmingly high,\" she said.\n\nNorway and Russia have been monitoring radiation in the area regularly since the disaster, sometimes on joint expeditions.\n\nThe Komsomolets was launched in 1983, was 117m (385ft) long and could dive to a maximum depth of 1,250m. Its maximum speed was 30 knots (56km/h).", "Extinction Rebellion activists unveiled a blue boat on the Strand in London\n\nEnvironmental campaigners are blocking some roads across the UK in protest against \"inaction\" on climate change.\n\nExtinction Rebellion are using five boats to stop traffic in Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and London.\n\nThe group, which is calling on the government to declare a climate emergency, said it was beginning a five-day \"summer uprising\".\n\nPolice said road closures could hamper the ability of the emergency services to respond to incidents.\n\nIt comes after Extinction Rebellion staged an 11-day protest in April that brought several parts of London to a standstill.\n\nSome of the 1,000 people arrested during that protest appeared in court this week.\n\nThe five boats unveiled on Monday were each named after an environmental activist and bore the message \"act now\".\n\nA blue boat was placed in front of the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, and protesters practised yoga and meditation in the middle of the road.\n\nTransport for London said several buses had been placed on diversion due to the protest.\n\nExtinction Rebellion climate activists outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London\n\nExtinction Rebellion said the protesters were there \"to demand the legal system take responsibility in this crisis, and ensure the safety of future generations by making ecocide law\".\n\n\"We also stand in solidarity with climate activists around the world who are sacrificing their freedom to fight for climate justice,\" it added.\n\nThe group is calling on the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service to drop cases against those arrested during the April protests.\n\nOutside Cardiff Castle in Wales, a number of Extinction Rebellion members parked a green boat in the street, causing severe delays to bus services.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists revealed a boat outside Cardiff Castle that said: 'The sixth mass extinction is here'\n\nDemonstrators also set up tents on grass in front of Cardiff City Hall.\n\nStephen Lingwood, 37, from Extinction Rebellion Cardiff, said: \"People are dying right now of climate chaos in places like India. It's only going to get worse.\n\n\"We're at the beginning of the sixth mass extinction and a climate genocide and the government's inaction is, in my view, criminally irresponsible.\"\n\nProtesters set up camp on Bristol Bridge with a pink boat bearing the message \"tell the truth\", as Avon and Somerset Police and traffic management used concrete blocks to close the road to traffic.\n\nChief Inspector Mark Runacres, an area commander at Avon and Somerset Police, said the force had cancelled officers' rest days to make sure it had \"sufficient resources\" during the protest.\n\n\"Any unplanned and lengthy road closure could impact on the ability of emergency services to respond to incidents,\" he said.\n\n\"We... are factoring this into our plans so we can continue to keep the public safe,\"\n\nHe added officers would be \"robust\" in dealing with any anti-social behaviour and disorder.\n\nTrongate in Glasgow was closed to all eastbound traffic\n\nCampaigners in Glasgow blocked Trongate at the intersection of Gallowgate and High Street with a 25ft purple boat.\n\nOne message on the vessel said: \"The future you fear is already here\".\n\nGlasgow City Council said Trongate was closed to all eastbound traffic between Albion Street and High Street.\n\nThe local authority urged road users to consider taking other routes and said there could be congestion on surrounding streets.\n\nMeanwhile, on Victoria Bridge in the centre of Leeds, activists unveiled a yellow boat.\n\nOne demonstrator, Alex Evans, 43, said: \"My eldest child is nine years old and for each of those nine years I've watched her future get steadily worse while everyone waits for everyone else to do something on climate change.\n\n\"Now we're out of time and we can see climate breakdown all around us. Enough's enough: it's time to act now.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion says the UK must act immediately to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.\n\nThe government announced in June it would commit to reaching net zero emissions by 2050.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland beat New Zealand to win the men's World Cup for the first time after one of the most amazing games of cricket ever played was tied twice.\n\nIn an emotional and electric atmosphere at Lord's, both sides scored 241 in their 50 overs and were level on 15 when they batted for an extra over apiece.\n\nIt meant England were crowned world champions by virtue of having scored more boundary fours and sixes - 26 to New Zealand's 17 - in the entire match.\n\nThat it even got to that stage was astonishing in itself and came as a result of a barely believable conclusion at the home of cricket - the first tie in a World Cup final.\n\nEngland required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and then benefited when a throw from the deep hit his bat and was deflected for four overthrows.\n\nHe could not get the two needed from the last ball - Mark Wood was run out coming back for the second - but ended 84 not out and joined Jos Buttler for the super over.\n\nIn glorious evening sunshine, they were roared on by a febrile crowd that belted out Sweet Caroline in the change of innings.\n\nWhen New Zealand replied, Jimmy Neesham hit Jofra Archer's second ball for six, then scrambled to leave Martin Guptill needing two from the last delivery.\n\nAs Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebration.\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup\n\nEngland were all but out of the game at 86-4, squeezed by New Zealand's skilful bowling, sharp fielding and smart tactics.\n\nGradually, they were dragged back into contention by Stokes and Buttler through patience, calmness and a little fortune.\n\nButtler was the more fluent, scooping and driving, but when he was caught at deep point for 59, England still needed 46 from 31 balls.\n\nIt was at this point that Stokes, the man who was hit for four sixes in the final over in England's 2016 World T20 final defeat and was cleared of affray 11 months ago, took control.\n\nAfter Liam Plunkett was held at long-off in Neesham's 49th over, Trent Boult carried the ball over the boundary for a Stokes six before Archer was bowled.\n\nThat left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.\n\nDiving for his ground to complete a second run, Stokes' bat was inadvertently struck by the throw and deflected the ball for four overthrows to make six in total.\n\nWith three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.\n\nThe drama of the finale was at odds with almost all of the match, which was an attritional affair on a tricky surface.\n\nNew Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.\n\nThe value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.\n\nMatt Henry had Roy caught behind, the miserly Colin de Grandhomme ensured Joe Root suffered a similar fate, Lockie Ferguson got Jonny Bairstow to play on, then took a wonderful catch to hold Eoin Morgan at deep point.\n\nEngland were floored, then came Stokes, the tie, the super over, and an unforgettable conclusion.\n\nIt can be argued that in just getting to the final, and therefore ensuring that it would be broadcast on free-to-air television, England had already given cricket in the UK an invaluable boost.\n\nBut those who did watch witnessed the greatest World Cup final of all-time and one of the most memorable moments in British sporting history.\n\nAs spectators streamed from St John's Wood station on Sunday morning, they were greeted by drummers, jugglers and dancers on roller skates.\n\nInside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems.\n\nThat, though, was nothing compared to the emotion of the final hour, one of the most dramatic passages of sport you could ever wish to see.\n\nThe explosion of noise when England sealed victory was deafening and as the trophy was lifted, the crowd rightly sang that cricket was coming home.\n\nThis was the day that English cricket had been building to for four years, going back to when England were dumped out of the last World Cup in the first round.\n\nOff the field, a renewed focus was placed on one-day cricket through the vision of former director of cricket Andrew Strauss.\n\nOn it, captain Morgan and coach Trevor Bayliss gave the players a new freedom and they responded with some spectacular performances, particularly with the bat.\n\nThey began the World Cup as favourites and the number one ranked side, but at one stage found themselves one defeat from elimination.\n\nMorgan's men reversed their fortunes and swept into the final with three successive victories, including a memorable semi-final demolition of Australia.\n\nIn the final, the rollercoaster continued, only for the heroics of Stokes to leave England as worthy champions, matching the achievement of the England women's team on the same ground two years ago.\n\nAnd Morgan, the architect of it all, joined immortals Bobby Moore and Martin Johnson as men to have lifted a World Cup for England.\n\n'Written in the stars for Stokes' - reaction\n\nEngland batsman Joe Root: \"Wow! It's hard to sum it up. What a day, what a tournament. Everyone has done everything asked of them. We have performed under pressure.\n\n\"It was almost written in the stars for Ben Stokes. He's had such a tough time. I'm so proud of him and pleased for him and his family.\"\n\nEngland bowler Jofra Archer: \"I was pretty sure I was going to bowl it [the super over]. My heart is still racing! It's the biggest thing I've ever won. A great bunch of fellas, a really good family to me.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"There wasn't a lot in that game. I'd like to commiserate Kane Williamson and his team. The fight they show is worth aspiring to, the example they set is commendable to all. It was a hard, hard game where people found it hard to score.\n\n\"This has been a four-year journey, we have developed a lot. We find it hard to play on wickets like that and today was about getting over the line. Sport is tough at times. I was being cooled down by Liam Plunkett, which is not a good sign! I was up and down like a yo-yo.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: \"I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with\"\n\nThe ongoing row between US President Donald Trump and four non-white Democratic congresswomen has continued to escalate following a controversial campaign rally.\n\nDuring a speech in North Carolina, Mr Trump took aim at Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley as well as Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born lawmaker who he focused much of his criticism on.\n\nHis rhetoric prompted a chant of \"send her back\" from his supporters, which Mr Trump on Thursday claimed he disagreed with.\n\nThe rally fallout follows debate over a series of vitriolic tweets and statements by the president that have been widely condemned as racist.\n\nAll the women are US citizens. So what else do we know of the lawmakers known as \"the Squad\"?\n\nAll four were elected to the House of Representatives in last November's mid-term elections, each making history as a result.\n\nKnown to be progressive, they have clashed in recent weeks with the more pragmatic Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi - divisions with racial overtones that Mr Trump has tried to exploit with his tweets.\n\nMs Omar speaks at a news conference in Washington DC in June\n\nFirst-term congresswoman Ilhan Omar won a Minnesota seat in the House of Representatives last November, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the US.\n\nHer family first came to the US as refugees from Somalia, settling in Minneapolis in 1997 after fleeing the country's civil war. She became a citizen in 2000.\n\nThe 37-year-old mother of three is one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to the US Congress.\n\nBefore her election to Congress, she served in Minnesota's state legislature, making her the then highest elected Somali-American public official in the US.\n\nMs Omar's precedent-setting tenure has earned both adoration and criticism.\n\nShortly after her election, she drew praise for fighting to change a 181-year ban on headwear in the House, allowing her to wear a hijab for her oath of office.\n\nBut Ms Omar has also faced repeated accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nShe was forced to apologise for a series of tweets in February that suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) was buying influence for pro-Israel policies.\n\nLawmakers on both sides of the aisle said the tweets stoked anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money.\n\nMs Omar later released a statement \"unequivocally\" apologising for her tweets.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,\" Ms Omar wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ilhan Omar on her journey to becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the US\n\nShe came under fire from conservatives again in April for comments on 9/11 that Democrats said were taken out of context.\n\nA clip of Ms Omar apparently describing 9/11 as \"some people did something\" began circulating online, and the president tweeted a video showing footage of the terrorist attacks spliced with Ms Omar's speech.\n\nThe quote was from a speech Ms Omar gave to a civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), in March. The comments in Mr Trump's video were taken from a point she made about the treatment of US Muslims in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks:\n\n\"For far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. Cair was founded after 9/11 because they recognised that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr Trump has focused his attacks on Ms Omar saying she \"hates Israel\" and \"hates Jews\", and suggesting she supports the jihadist group al-Qaeda.\n\nUS media reported that Mr Trump's accusations probably reference a 2013 interview where Ms Omar was discussing a college terrorism class.\n\nShe did not praise al-Quaeda in the interview. Ms Omar remarked that a professor said the names of terrorist groups with a different kind of \"intensity\" compared with the tone he used when he said \"America\" or \"England\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez and Ms Tlaib at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to as AOC, made waves in the Democratic Party last June when she defeated political veteran and establishment favourite Joe Crowley in their party's primary in a new York district.\n\nThe 29-year-old went on to beat Republican candidate Anthony Pappas in the November mid-terms, becoming the youngest ever US congresswoman.\n\nThe freshman lawmaker was born in the Bronx, New York to parents of Puerto Rican descent. She has a degree in economics and international relations from Boston University, and worked as a community organiser, educator and bartender before deciding to run for office.\n\nSince her election, the self-described democratic socialist has become a lightning rod for the political right.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has not shied away from the spotlight, frequently taking to social media to hit back at Republicans, members of the media and other critics on a range of issues including immigration, poverty and race.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on detained migrants: 'The women were told to drink out of a toilet bowl'\n\nShe has earned a reputation for her impassioned testimonies at congressional hearings, which are often re-circulated among her nearly five million Twitter followers.\n\nShe has been particularly vocal in her push for environmental policy, serving as one of the sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution, which calls upon the US to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along with other goals.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has also been outspoken in her criticism of the president, saying there is \"no question\" that Mr Trump is racist.\n\nAnd she recently accused Ms Pelosi of \"singling out\" new congresswomen of colour following a number of clashes over their policy stances.\n\nSocial media savvy, Ms Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently coined the term \"the squad\" after suggesting they hashtag a photoshoot image of the four of them #squadgoals.\n\nMs Tlaib and Ms Omar talk before Mr Trump's second State of the Union address\n\nMuch like the other congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib's election this November made history.\n\nThe Michigan Democrat is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ms Tlaib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents. Her grandmother still lives in the West Bank.\n\nShe was sworn into office wearing a traditional Palestinian garment stitched by her mother.\n\nMs Tlaib also joined Ms Omar as one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to serve in Congress.\n\nThe eldest of 14 siblings, Ms Tlaib became the first member of her family to graduate from high school, and then from college and law school.\n\nSince assuming office, Ms Tlaib has been an outspoken critic of the president. She courted controversy when she used explicit language when calling for the president's impeachment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rashida Tlaib This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Tlaib was unapologetic about the furore incited by her remark, tweeting that she would \"always speak truth to power\".\n\nAfter his twitter storm, she said Mr Trump was \"biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime\", and said his attacks were a \"distraction\" from her job of representing people in her congressional district.\n\nCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley, 45, is the first African-American woman to be elected to the US Congress from Massachusetts.\n\nBorn in Cincinnati and raised in Ohio, Ms Pressley is the only child of a single mother.\n\nAfter attending Boston University, she served as a senior aide to Congressman Joseph P Kennedy II, and worked for Senator John Kerry for 13 years.\n\nHer own political career began in 2009 when she waged a successful bid for a seat on Boston City Council, becoming the first woman of colour elected to the council in its 100-year history.\n\nSimilar to Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Pressley's election to the US Congress involved a major political upset: she unseated 10-term Democratic congressman Michael Capuano in their party's primary.\n\nSince assuming office in January, Ms Pressley has been a vocal advocate of abortion rights, pushing to repeal an amendment that prevents Medicaid from covering abortions for low-income Americans.\n\nA survivor of sexual violence, Ms Pressley has also spoken up for better protections for assault victims, writing on her website that \"the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power\".\n\nShe said she could not call Mr Trump the president, only the \"occupant\" of the White House.\n\n\"He does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, the integrity of a true president,\" she told CBS.", "Test captain Joe Root says England are halfway to reaching the cricket \"pinnacle\" of winning a World Cup and Ashes double.\n\nEngland beat New Zealand in a dramatic final at Lord's on Sunday to lift the World Cup for the first time.\n\nThey now aim to regain the Ashes during a \"massive\" series with Australia, which begins at Edgbaston on 1 August.\n\n\"It's what we set out to do two or three years ago and we're halfway there,\" said batsman Root, 28.\n\nEngland beat Australia at Edgbaston last Thursday to reach their first World Cup final since 1992 and return to Birmingham to begin their bid for a fifth straight home series victory in the Ashes.\n\n\"We couldn't be in a better place really, having achieved what we've achieved here,\" said Root. \"This will give the guys confidence and we've talked about taking that forward into a series like that.\n\n\"The way we played against Australia in that semi-final at Edgbaston... the guys who were involved relished it and will want a bit more: the feeling of euphoria we felt at that ground and yesterday.\n\n\"To potentially be able to experience all that again is very exciting. Ashes cricket always has a different edge to it so that in itself will get everyone going.\"\n\n\"It's always so special,\" added the Yorkshire batsman. \"The atmosphere, the way it builds up and the way the guys get excited about it, it's like no other series in Test cricket.\n\n\"It's something I'm really looking forward to and it'll be massive, especially on the back of this. It'll make it even bigger.\"\n\nEngland's victory on Sunday has been compared with their Ashes success of 2005, when they won the series for the first time since 1986-87.\n\n\"I was 14 watching that 2005 series and that was hugely inspiring for me,\" said Root. \"Hopefully we can do something similar for the next generation.\n\n\"As a team we've talked about leaving the game in a better place when we finish. The way we've gone about things in this World Cup, hopefully it's done that and the next generation want to go on and emulate what we've achieved.\"\n• None All the best reaction from Monday's World Cup celebrations", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inventor Franky Zapata got the parade off to a flying start\n\nPolice in Paris have fired tear gas at protesters near the Champs-Elysées shortly after France's annual Bastille Day military parade.\n\nEarlier, yellow-vest protesters booed President Emmanuel Macron as he was driven down the boulevard.\n\nPolice said they had detained more than 150 people, including two yellow vest leaders accused of staging an unauthorised demonstration.\n\nThe parade also saw a French inventor zoom past on a futuristic flyboard.\n\nFranky Zapata - a former world jet ski champion - soared above the avenue and the assembled dignitaries.\n\nMore than 4,000 members of the armed forces marched down the avenue in a tradition that dates back to the years following World War One.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel was among the foreign leaders present for the event, while German, Spanish and British aircraft took part in the fly-past.\n\nMr Macron announced on Saturday that France would set up a new space defence command in September - following similar moves by the US, China and Russia.\n\nHe said that the command would help to \"better protect our satellites, including in an active way\".\n\nThere had been calls on social media for so-called yellow-vest protesters to use the national day celebrations to renew their demonstrations against President Macron.\n\nBefore the shocked gaze of tourists and other onlookers, groups of protesters - some masked - dragged metal crowd-control barriers into the centre of the Champs-Elysées to form barricades, and set fire to bins.\n\nRiot police who had been deployed en masse were ready for trouble and dispersed the initial demonstrations with tear gas and baton charges, but pockets of trouble continued flaring up.\n\nIt's reminiscent of some of the yellow-vest disturbances from a few months ago - though it's hard to say how many of today's protesters are far-left activists or opportunist trouble-makers.", "The 1,000 ft tower was planned for 20 Bury Street, beside the Gherkin tower\n\nLondon's Mayor has advised planners to reject proposals for a new skyscraper.\n\nIn April, the City of London Corporation (CLC) approved the 1,000ft (305m) Tulip tower proposed for Bury Street, beside the Gherkin tower.\n\nBut Sadiq Khan said a number of concerns raised in a London Review Panel report meant it would harm the skyline and had few public benefits.\n\nThose behind the project said they were \"disappointed\" and have a right to appeal the mayor's decision.\n\nMr Khan advised CLC planners to reject permission on the basis of reasons outlined by the panel, which included:\n\nA restaurant and sky bar was proposed as well as a floor for education facilities\n\nThe proposed skyscraper would have been the second tallest in London after the Shard\n\nThe London Review Panel concluded The Tulip \"does not represent world class architecture, it lacks sufficient quality and quantity of public open space, and its social and environmental sustainability do not match the ambition of its height and impact on London's skyline\".\n\nA spokesperson for the mayor said Mr Khan had \"a number of serious concerns with this application and having studied it in detail has refused permission for a scheme that he believes would result in very limited public benefit\".\n\nThe Foster + Partners-designed tower was to be built at 20 Bury Street.\n\nThe CLC Planning and Transportation Committee had supported the plan by 18 votes to seven after conditions were imposed such as restricting ticket sales during peak hours.\n\nGondolas would have allowed visitors to ride along an eight-minute loop outside the tower\n\nResponding to the mayor's recommendation, architects Foster + Partners and developers J Safra said: \"The Tulip Project team are disappointed by the Mayor of London's decision to direct refusal of planning permission.\n\n\"We will now take time to consider potential next steps for The Tulip Project.\"\n\nThe applicants have the right to appeal directly to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government within six months if the CLC goes ahead and refuses planning permission.\n\nThe government department may also step in and direct the CLC to hold off a refusal for a period it specifies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After US President Donald Trump told four US congresswomen of colour to \"go back\" to the countries \"from which they came\", some Americans have been sharing their own experiences of hearing that kind of language.\n\nOne BBC reader said the incident was reminiscent of an experience on a London bus in 1975 when a white woman accusingly said \"you foreigners, why don't you go back to your country?\"\n\n\"Yes, we were foreign students, we felt petrified, yes, we immediately got off the bus on the next stop,\" said the reader, who did not wish to have their name used.\n\n\"Racism is ugly, ignorance and hurtful, and unfortunately it is everywhere,\" they continued.\n\nIn a three-tweet thread on Sunday, Mr Trump accused the four Democrats of \"viciously\" criticising him and the US.\n\nThree of them on Friday spoke out about conditions in a migrant detention centre they had visited, describing alleged mistreatment happening \"under American flags\".\n\nAlthough the president did not name them, it was clear he was referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who were born in the US, and Ilhan Omar, who came to the US as a refugee aged 12.\n\nHis remarks have sparked condemnation in the US and abroad. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said they were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nLots of other BBC readers have been telling us about their experiences, in the US and elsewhere.\n\nLarry Christopher Bates writes from Bloomington, Indiana, that he has been told to \"go back to Africa\" so many times and at such an early age that he cannot recall the first occasion.\n\nMr Bates, who was born in Indiana, calls it \"one of the first lines of insult from white nationalists\".\n\nIain Tyson says that when he was stopped while driving by a Los Angeles police officer, the officer heard his British accent and - using an expletive - told him to go \"back to where you came from\".\n\nHe said that during his travels in the US, he has frequently been told: \"If you don't like it, why don't you go back to where you came from?\"\n\nJuan Oliveros Müller, who is a Venezuelan living abroad in Estonia for the past seven years, said that when he went to renew his legal residency ID, he was told by an officer to \"go back home since I'm a mañana person' (tomorrow person)\".\n\nMukhtar Barde of Illinois said that when \"white Americans\" tell him to go home, he reminds them that Native Americans were the first people in North America.\n\n\"You would be surprised how many of the same white men then start telling me that they are part Native Americans and belong here.\"\n\nMoroccan Abdel Tazi, who has been living in the UK for the past five years, said that when he took a driving test, the instructor began every sentence with \"in this country...\"\n\n\"At one point, I took a wrong turn and he started shouting at me 'I don't know where you're from, but this is wrong!! Can you not tell your right from your left in your country? You should probably go back'.\n\n\"Without saying anything, I stopped the car, got out and got a taxi home. I was upset for the rest of that day.\"\n\nLittlebird Arzabal says her family are indigenous and have been living in New Mexico since before it became a US state.\n\n\"The white kids would yell at us to go back to Mexico. They had someplace to go back to, we didn't,\" she says.\n\nA reader in Western Australia who did not want her name used said that as an Australian Aboriginal, she has been \"told from a very young age & too many times to count, 'go back to where you came from'.\"\n\n\"This poor effort by perpetrators to condemn me because of the colour of my skin should only be considered laughable, and I will not allow my mind, body, heart or soul to be infiltrated negatively.\"\n\nIf she gives any answer at all, it's sometimes \"ditto with a smile\".\n\nJacqueline, who is mixed race and was born in London in 1954, wrote that she was \"regularly told to go back home throughout my childhood and adolescence\".\n\nShe said that by the 1980s, people had mostly stopped saying it to her, until three months ago in a Manchester shopping centre when a man said \"go home\" as he passed her.\n\n\"It's been at least 35 years since anyone said this to me. I consider this to be one of the effects of the [Brexit] leave vote, which has legitimised overt racism in the UK.\"\n\nKim Read, a dual UK/US citizen, says she is frequently told to leave the country if she \"doesn't like America the way it is\".\n\n\"I vote and pay taxes but cannot have an opinion on healthcare or student debt because of my accent.\"\n\n\"I would wager that a significant portion of minorities have been told to 'go home' or 'go back to their country' at least once in their lives, said a reader who identifies as first-generation American of Korean descent living in New York City.\n\nPeople in New York City - one of the most diverse places in the world, \"viewed me as a non-traditional American or 'technically American' only because I was born in America,\" writes the reader.\n\n\"This always perplexed me since, except for a small percentage of Americans, most ended up here after someone from their family emigrated here and at one point their people were the minorities being told to 'go home'.\"\n\nTweeting from Kansas City, Victor Hwang wrote that he has been told to \"go back to where you came from\" his whole life.\n\nHe said it makes him \"sad\" that \"99% of Americans don't fully appreciate how special this nation is\".\n\n\"I'm the son of immigrants, a woman who escaped communism, a father who pulled himself up from nothing.\n\n\"I get this nation in a way that many people never will. I love America and everything it means for the world. And I belong here.\"\n\nNeera Tanden of the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress said that 2016 was the first time that people on Twitter began telling her \"to go back to India\" and sent her photos of poverty in India.\n\n\"I was born here. But they saw me as less American because I am brown. Now Trump parrots them. That is what we fight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neera Tanden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Michael Cornfield, an associate professor of political management at George Washington University who studies political rhetoric, says \"exclusionary\" words like these date back to before America's founding and have arisen at different points various immigrants groups arrived in waves.\n\nIn the early 20th Century, Italians, Irish, Poles and others were villainised by politicians amid concerns about economic stagnation.\n\nIn the 1910s, President Woodrow Wilson \"was an open segregationist that wanted the races kept separate,\" says Mr Cornfield.\n\nBut in the Vietnam era, as politicians became more vulnerable on a national level to charges of racism, the calls for expulsion were normally based on differences in political opinion, rather than race.\n\n\"America, love it or leave it,\" was a popular bumper sticker, and a phrase spoken by many lawmakers.\n\nThe slogan, he says, \"was a test of loyalty to the flag and to the nation\" but was typically \"not racial.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why we want Americans to talk more openly about race'\n\nHe has consistently rejected the accusation that he is racist and on Monday he accused the four congresswomen themselves of stoking racial division.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater he told reporters that he had no regrets about his comments and many people agreed with him.\n\n\"These are people that hate our country. They hate it, I think, with a passion. If you're not happy here, you can leave,\" he added.\n\n\"So all I'm saying is if they want to leave, they can leave.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVideos of grandparents' euphoric reactions to England's Cricket World Cup win have captured the mood of the momentous occasion on social media.\n\nGwen Stanbrook said the triumph was lost on her. But the video of her 80-year-old grandmother's joyous celebration went viral on Twitter.\n\n\"I don't really care about cricket,\" said Gwen, 20, from West Sussex. \"But my grandma is really, really into it...so we kind of knew what was going to happen and I decided to video her reaction. My grandma was understandably overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sami This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I love how much she loves cricket and this country. She always has the best reactions, that's why I knew that I should record her,\" said Samiya.\n\n\"I'm not so into cricket but whenever England is playing very well I will watch it with my grandparents. I had to keep asking my granddad what certain words meant, but I really enjoyed the match.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sam Hutchinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSam Hutchinson, 16, from Cumbria captured his grandfather Harry Hutchinson jumping for joy.\n\n\"He's been waiting all his life for England to do this,\" said Sam. \"I'm not really into cricket but a game like the final yesterday I certainly don't mind.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Natasha Douglas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatasha Douglas, 23, from Sheffield tweeted: \"Ok my dad has lost it\" with a video of her father Tim Douglas running around the garden.\n\nShe said: \"I thought his reaction was hilarious, after he had been nervously pacing around the house all day during the game, I thought he might burst with excitement!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Aditya Ramani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Aditya Ramani in Melbourne, Australia kept across the Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon Final at his cousin's wedding.\n\nThe once in a lifetime win also inspired readers to share thoughts of cricket-loving family members who were no longer with them.\n\nPaul, from Kent, texted BBC Sport: \"I've just watched the video of the grandma. My granddad was a massive cricket fan, and I like to think he was looking down watching yesterday too. I've got a bit of dust in me eye...\"\n\nAnother reader, who did not send their name, texted: \"Tomorrow it will be 16 years since we said goodbye to our cricket loving dad. He actually passed away whilst watching England playing cricket on TV.\n\n\"To my dad I want to say two things: You never saw an England team like this and... Dad - I was there!!!\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows Sidali Mohamed coming face to face with his killer\n\nA boy has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering a student outside a college in Birmingham.\n\nLouai Ali, 17, was found guilty of fatally stabbing Sidali Mohamed outside the gates of Joseph Chamberlain College in Highgate on 13 February.\n\nDuring the trial, Ali said the 10in zombie knife used to kill Sidali, 16, was bought for £50 through Instagram.\n\nAli was also convicted of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding and jailed for a minimum of 19 years.\n\nDuring evidence, it was heard that Ali went to the college armed with the knife after his friend and cousin had been encountering issues with a group of boys.\n\nSentencing Ali, Judge Mark Wall QC said the teenager \"habitually carried knives\" and at the time of the murder had been on bail for a previous offence.\n\nThe court heard Ali and a friend \"chased a lone man\" and cornered Russell Molloy in December.\n\nJudge Mark Wall QC said Louai Ali \"did not have a particularly easy upbringing\"\n\nMr Molloy was stabbed through his arm - although the prosecution said it was not Ali who injured the victim.\n\nThe judge described the murder weapon as fearsome\n\nSpeaking about Sidali's murder, Judge Wall said: \"You deliberately went to his college armed with a fearsome knife with intent of stabbing him.\n\n\"It had a long blade which was split in two. It was a weapon which was obviously, potentially lethal.\n\n\"You bought it because in your words 'It looked cool.'\"\n\nJudge Wall had previously lifted reporting restrictions, which normally ban the media from naming defendants aged under 18, in the interests of \"open justice\".\n\nHe said it was in the public interest to identify Ali due to the serious nature of the offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On a grey Sunday evening the sun came out at Lord's and the golden hour came.\n\nWhen you love sport, you understand how it can take you to places little else can. You could watch it all your life and never quite fathom what happened between 6.30 and 7.30pm in two sun-kissed rectangles of grass seven or so miles apart across England's capital city.\n\nA World Cup final that might just be the greatest game of cricket in history, a Wimbledon men's final longer than any that has come before.\n\nBecause this was summer's sporting day of days, they stepped hand in hand. You couldn't watch and you couldn't look away. You hated it and you loved it and you lost yourself completely to it.\n\nNo-one had ever seen Lord's like this, a beautiful sedate museum turned into a cavorting mess. No-one had really seen cricket like this.\n\nThere is a line often brought out when sport does these sorts of things - you couldn't write this - and a hoary riposte: haven't you seen Star Wars, or read Harry Potter?\n\nOn a day when sometimes nothing appeared to make sense, both these contradictory positions became true. You couldn't write it, because it was a plotline too twisted to make dramatic sense, too confusing, too remote from what has gone before.\n\nWe're OK with spaceships and child wizards because they have been imagined before. Plenty had dreamed of England winning the World Cup. That's where logic waved farewell.\n\nA match that ended in a tie to produce a tie-breaker that also ended in a tie. A final over that contained a six that was a six and also contained a six that wasn't a six at all but actually a two and a four, which meant the final over wasn't the final over any more either.\n\nWhen you try to navigate your way through those 60 hallucinogenic minutes you keep coming up against these impossible riddles: New Zealand's Martin Guptill facing the first ball of the match and the last one too; a tournament that England's men had never won before won with a winning margin that wasn't even a winning margin.\n\nSeven weeks of cricket and it came down to the final dusty half-metre at the spiritual home of the sport. A final that for so long was slow-motion cricket ending at a pace that took the breath from your lungs and the strength from your legs. Cricket that was a throwback to 20 years ago suddenly leaping into the unknown.\n\nIt was unprecedented and it was also a very English way to win a World Cup.\n\nExtra time at Wembley in 1966, extra time in Sydney in 2003. A champagne super over in London, that strange comforting familiarity of feeling absolutely awful watching England do something you had always hoped they might.\n\nEoin Morgan's men were supposed to be rompers in this tournament. They were the demolition men who took on big totals and danced across the finish line.\n\nYou knew deep down it was never going to be easy. It never is with England. You just didn't know it was going to be this hard.\n\nThere were scoring rates from the late 1990s and an innings perfectly pitched to that fragile, panicked era of England one-day batting, as if the cavalier swordsmen of the current team had been replaced by a cricketing historical re-enactment society.\n\nRomp? It was like a four-hour penalty shootout, at least until it became a shootout, at which point England's final over felt like a lifetime and then produced one more for each side that took another half-hour.\n\nPanic on the posh streets of London, panic in the living-rooms of the nation.\n\nAs the contest swung one way then the other and then back again, Lord's was awash with pacers - men and women walking, hopping, striding purposely to nowhere at all. As Ben Stokes dragged England to the brink, into the abyss and then out again, a country had long forgotten that watching sport is supposed to be fun.\n\nAll the while, horrible sums. 100 needed from 88. 80 from 66.\n\n65 off 48, people standing up to cheer a wide.\n\nIt was 44 from 26 as the final hour began. Men in crisp cotton shirts and chinos swigging pink champagne direct from the bottle. 39 off 24, 34 needed off the last three overs, 24 off two.\n\nThe 50th over began at 6.55. 15 runs required. Two balls later, 15 needed from four, and then, in two balls and four minutes, came 12 impossible runs.\n\nAt 7pm, England needed two to win. Mark Wood was run out by a mile, and so the final act began: a World Cup into its first ever super over at the same time as a Wimbledon final went into its first ever fifth-set tie-breaker.\n\nBoth teams thought they had it won and lost in the tumult of the final 12 balls, just as both Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer could feel the Wimbledon trophy in their hands.\n\nAt some distant forgotten point in the afternoon the hero was going to be Liam Plunkett until it was Colin de Grandhomme, at least until Jos Buttler took over, and then the super over began and it was suddenly Stokes until it was Buttler, except it was then Jimmy Neesham and then Jofra Archer and then Jason Roy and Buttler all over again.\n\nYou realised as that final throw came in from Roy to his wicketkeeper to leave Guptill and New Zealand that tiny, vast distance short that you were lucky to have seen it and that cricket was lucky to have conjured it.\n\nFourteen long years since the last live England game on free-to-air television, a day for the converted to testify, a chance for a whole new generation to feel the unique horrors and joys of watching England play cricket.\n\nYou felt like putting an arm around the new devotees in the giddy aftermath. It's not always like this. But it can do exactly this to you.\n\nIt was awful for New Zealand, fancied by no-one, so close to pulling off one of the great upsets with a brand of cricket that felt archaic until it made perfect sense. It was no sort of compensation for the brilliant Kane Williamson to be awarded man of the tournament.\n\nBut it was wonderful for England, four years on from their humiliation in Adelaide at the last World Cup, and it was redemption for all those who have followed them and hoped and suffered along the way.\n\nSo much happened in the golden hour that you struggle to hold on to discrete images. But there is one England supporters will never forget: 11 men in pale blue, chasing wild circles on the green Lord's outfield as the stumps lay splattered and Guptill knelt beside them, the ancient pavilion dancing, the shadows stretching, the World Cup - after 44 long years - finally won.", "A legal action taken by MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis is behind the tool\n\nScammers are being targeted by a new tool for UK Facebook users that allows the reporting of fake adverts.\n\nThe feature came about after Martin Lewis, founder of the MoneySavingExpert website, sued over his name and photo being used on fake Facebook adverts.\n\nIn return for dropping the legal action, Facebook agreed to donate £3m to set up an anti-scam programme.\n\nThat money has been handed over to Citizens Advice to build a new service to help victims of online fraudsters.\n\nThe charity has set up a telephone helpline for any type of online scam - not just ones involving fake ads. Face-to-face consultations will even be offered to serious cases - where someone falls into debt or mortgage arrears, for example.\n\nCitizens Advice says it expects to help 20,000 people in the first year of the new service, and warned anyone can be scammed.\n\nThere is no typical profile of victims, the charity said, and scams are becoming more and more sophisticated. Some common red flags include:\n\nInside Facebook, a specially-trained team has been set up to investigate adverts reported through the new tool.\n\nFrom Tuesday, Facebook users in the UK should be able to click the three dots in the top corner of every advert to see more options. On top of the usual ones, there will now be the option to \"send a detailed scam report\" after choosing to \"report ad\" and selecting \"misleading or scam ad\" as the reason.\n\n\"Scam ads are an industry-wide problem caused by criminals and have no place on Facebook,\" said the company's vice-president for Northern Europe, Steve Hatch.\n\nA few years after her husband of 30 years died, Amanda - not her real name - joined an online dating site at the urging of a friend.\n\nAfter a while, she started exchanging emails with someone who seemed interesting. A few weeks later, \"he asked if I could send him some money\", she said.\n\n\"He had not been paid and needed to travel back home from Ireland. I never thought much of it and transferred him the money.\"\n\nThe pair continued to build up \"a nice friendship over the months\" - and he asked for some money on a few other occasions.\n\nBut something did not feel right - and Amanda decided not to message him any more.\n\nA few weeks later she got a new message from the dating site – with the same picture, but a different name and location.\n\n\"That's when I realised that the person I had been speaking to was probably not the one on the picture,\" Amanda said.\n\nOver the course of a few months, she had transferred around £2,500 to whoever was really on the other end of those emails.\n\n\"I think that maybe some of the men join the site knowing that there will be women like me who genuinely want a friendship and use that and take advantage of our loss,\" she said.\n\nThe tool - and the dedicated team to examine the reports - are unique to the UK as a result of the lawsuit taken by Mr Lewis.\n\nThe journalist and TV presenter took the legal action against Facebook after a series of ads ran with his face and name, claiming he backed questionable investment schemes.\n\nHis website recommends what it believes are the best-value financial products for different purposes. Mr Lewis claimed the fake adverts on Facebook damaged his reputation.\n\nHis defamation case, he said, was \"bizarrely the only law I could find to try to make big tech firms understand the damage their negligent behaviour has caused\".\n\nThe faked ads implied Mr Lewis backed some of the schemes being advertised\n\n\"Millions of people know a scam when they see it, and millions of others don't. So now, I'd ask all who recognise them to use the new Facebook reporting tool, to help protect those who don't,\" he said.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been scammed, Citizens Advice recommends you:", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan says he \"never allowed\" himself to imagine lifting the World Cup before his side's astonishing victory over New Zealand in a thrilling final at Lord's.\n\nThe game went to a super over after both sides scored 241 from 50 overs.\n\n\"I've said incredible 50 times since lifting the trophy,\" Morgan told Test Match Special.\n\n\"The planning, hard work, dedication, commitment and the little bit of luck really did get us over the line.\"\n\nMorgan said he was \"very thankful\" that - despite England's three defeats in the group stage - \"people believed because we believed\".\n\nBut he added: \"I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!\"\n• None Relive the best reaction and highlights from Lord's\n\nBen Stokes, man of the match in the final, said: \"So much hard work has gone in, this is what we aspire to be.\n\n\"I don't think there will ever be a better game in cricket than that.\n\n\"There was no chance I wasn't going to be there at the end. Those are the sorts of moments you live for as a professional cricketer.\"\n\nAll-rounder Stokes scored 84 with grit and determination on a tricky pitch to anchor England, and his composure in both the final over and the super over helped claim a historic win.\n\nVictory brought a sense of redemption for Stokes - in the World Twenty20 final four years ago he was hit for four sixes by Carlos Brathwaite as West Indies beat England in the final over.\n\nMorgan described Stokes as \"super human\", adding: \"He really carried the team and our batting line-up.\"\n\n'I encouraged them to laugh, smile and enjoy'\n\nThis was an astonishing day in front of a packed crowd, who stayed long after the final ball had been bowled.\n\nIn a see-sawing match, England slipped to 86-4 and struggled to find boundaries in the middle order.\n\nBut a 110-run partnership between Stokes and Jos Buttler dragged the hosts back into contention before a dramatic finale resulted in the scores being tied and England winning because they had scored more boundaries during the match.\n\nWhen asked what he told his team as they huddled before the super over, Morgan said: \"I encouraged them to smile, laugh and enjoy because it was such a ridiculous situation.\n• None Quiz: How well do you know England's winners?\n\n\"It was a matter of trying to put smiles on the guys' faces to release a bit of tension and they responded brilliantly to that.\"\n\n\"I can't believe what's happened in the last hour,\" bowler Chris Woakes told Test Match Special.\n\n\"I thought it was gone. I am lost for words. World champions, I can't get my head around it.\"\n\nFor England, this was the culmination of four years of completely overhauling their one-day game after they were humiliated in 2015.\n\nThe victory was the culmination of four years of work in completely overhauling their one-day game after humiliation in 2015, when they were knocked out in the group stage.\n\nThe Queen - head of state for both nations - said: \"Prince Philip and I send our warmest congratulations to the England men's cricket team after such a thrilling victory in today's World Cup final.\n\n\"I also extend my commiserations to the runners-up New Zealand, who competed so admirably in today's contest and throughout the tournament.\"\n\n'In 10 years we'll see kids playing cricket in the street'\n\n\"This is exactly what cricket needed,\" ex-England captain Michael Vaughan said. \"This is the moment that, in five, 10 years time, we'll see kids playing cricket in the street [as a result].\n\n\"We've had great days in Test cricket - but this is another level. This is something I've never experienced.\"\n\nThe game was watched by a sold out-crowd at Lord's who lived every ball, and was also shown on free-to-air TV on Channel 4, as well as Sky.\n\n\"The best final I've ever seen, the best game I've ever seen,\" said England all-rounder Moeen Ali.\n\n\"This has changed cricket in our country.\"\n\n'Win or lose, today will not define me' - reaction\n\nEngland bowler Jofra Archer, who was entrusted with defending 15 runs in the super over: \"'Stokesy' came over and told me, win or lose, today will not define me as a player.\n\n\"The boys did so well to give us 15, I am so grateful they gave us the opportunity to compete.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes: \"I don't know what it is about finals that produce moments like that. It's incredible. Amazing.\n\n\"I hope we have inspired people to want to do this in the future.\"\n\nEngland bowler Liam Plunkett: \"It's not sunk in - I've had a sip of champagne, which is my first drink for five months.\n\n\"Everyone got to watch the game on TV - I hope they get a buzz for cricket like the 2005 Ashes.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss: \"These guys have put in so much hard work and it's come to fruition. A lot of people behind the scenes have done a fantastic job and this feels fantastic.\n\n\"I tried to be as calm as I can but I was very nervous on the inside - let me tell you.\"", "The network suffered an outage on Friday due to what has been described as a \"technical incident related to its ground infrastructure\".\n\nEngineers worked around the clock over the weekend but there is no update yet on when the service will resume.\n\nThe problem means all receivers, such as the latest smartphone models, will not be picking up any useable timing or positional information.\n\nThese devices will be relying instead on the data coming from the American Global Positioning System (GPS).\n\nAnd depending on the sat-nav chip they have installed, cell phones and other devices might also be making connections with the Russian (Glonass) and Chinese (Beidou) networks.\n\nGalileo is still in a roll-out, or pilot phase, meaning it would not yet be expected to lead critical applications.\n\n\"People should remember that we are still in the 'initial services' phase; we're not in full operation yet,\" a spokesperson for the European GNSS Agency (GSA) told BBC News.\n\n\"This is something that can happen while we build the robustness into the system. We have recovery and monitoring actions, and we are implementing them, and we are working 24/7 to fix this as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe GSA issued a notification on Thursday warning users that Galileo's signals might become unreliable. An update was then sent out at 01:50 Central European Time on Friday to say that the service was out of use until further notice.\n\nThe search and rescue function on Galileo satellites that picks up the distress beacon messages from those at sea or up high mountains is said to be unaffected by the outage.\n\nGalileo is a multi-billion-euro project of the European Union and the European Space Agency. The EU owns the system, and Esa acts as the technical and procurement agent.\n\nThere are currently 22 operational satellites in orbit (another two are in space but in testing), with a further 12 under construction with industry. In addition to the spacecraft, Galileo relies on a complex ground infrastructure to control the network and monitor its performance.\n\nEurope's alternative to GPS went \"live\" with initial services in December 2016 after 17 years of development. The European Commission promotes Galileo as more than just a back-up service; it is touted also as being more accurate and more robust.\n\nAn outage across the entire network is therefore a matter of significant concern and no little embarrassment.\n\nSince its launch in 1978, GPS has become integral to the functioning of all modern economies.\n\nUsage goes far beyond just finding one's way through an unfamiliar city. The system's timing function has now become ubiquitous in many fields, including in the synchronisation of global financial transactions, telecommunications and energy networks.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside Iran: Iranians on Trump and the nuclear deal\n\nAs tensions rise between Iran, the US and its allies, the BBC has been given rare access to Iran.\n\nIranians remain furious that US President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal last year and has imposed crushing sanctions on the country.\n\nBBC correspondent Martin Patience, along with cameraman Nik Millard and producer Cara Swift, have been in Tehran and the holy city of Qom, talking to Iranians about the escalating crisis.\n\nWhile in country, recording access was controlled - as with all foreign media the team was accompanied by a government representative at all times.\n\nThe hills provide respite from the heat and the pollution that choke Tehran\n\nEven in the sweltering summer months, you can still see snow on the towering peaks of the Alborz mountains that form the stunning backdrop to the Iranian capital.\n\nTehran's wealthiest suburbs cling to the slopes, which provide respite from the heat and the pollution that choke this city of almost nine million people.\n\nAt the weekends, many Iranians - young and old - take to the trails with their rucksacks and hiking sticks to leave the city behind them. But even up in the clean mountain air there is no escape from the US sanctions.\n\n\"Who's not suffering?\" asks one man rhetorically. As if to make the point, he shows me his climbing clip, hanging from his belt. It now cost four times what it did a year ago.\n\nDonald Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran last year after he unilaterally pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.\n\nThe US president said the previous deal was too generous to Iran and gave the country a free hand to develop ballistic missiles and meddle in the Middle East.\n\nMr Trump wants to use \"maximum pressure\" to force Iran back to the negotiating table. Many fear it could lead to conflict.\n\nIran is furious. It feels betrayed by the US and abandoned by European countries that still support the deal - the UK, France and Germany.\n\nAmerica's decision has strengthened the hardliners here who say that Washington should never have been trusted in the first place. That mistrust of the US (and the UK) runs deep in Iran, after both countries orchestrated a coup that ousted Iran's democratically elected prime minister in 1953.\n\nHadi (right) says the US sanctions have united Iranian liberals and conservatives\n\n\"We Iranians have a very long history, and we're always standing up against difficulties,\" says Hadi, who runs one of the small cafes that offer refreshments to passing hikers.\n\nHis cafe is half-built, there is a tarpaulin for a roof, but he invites me inside for tea and fruits - cherries, apricots and watermelon.\n\nHadi says that the Americans thought the sanctions would lead to rioting and the Iranian government would have no choice but to compromise.\n\nBut he says the sanctions have done the exact opposite uniting both liberals and conservatives across the country.\n\n\"We have national unity here, and the more difficult the situation the more united the people become.\"\n\nAway from the mountains and down below in the hazy fog of Tehran's sprawling southern suburbs is where sanctions are being felt hardest.\n\nIt is a maze of narrow alleyways and homes piled on top of each other. This is where Iran's working classes live.\n\nThey were already on the margins before sanctions but the past year has tipped many of them over the edge.\n\nFood prices have more than doubled and because the economy is slumping many are struggling to find work and make ends meet.\n\n\"I'm not sure what Donald Trump gains by hurting us,\" said Zohreh Farzaneh, a mother-of-three who folds clothes for living. She makes about $2 (£1.60) a day.\n\nShe says the sanctions have plunged her family into poverty and that she can no longer afford meat for family or an inhaler for her asthma.\n\nShe's sending her 11-year-old son to a charity so that he can get at least one decent meal a day. The humiliation that she feels at having to ask for help pains her.\n\n\"We thank god that we have a piece of bread and cheese to eat,\" she told me. \"At least we have peace in Iran - there's no war.\"\n\nEvery Iranian I spoke to on this 10-day trip believed it was unlikely there would be a war with the United States, despite tensions escalating after the US blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and Iran shot down of a US surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nIran's former Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Sheikholislam said that was because it war was in neither country's interest.\n\n\"There is not going to be a war. Of course, it's possible somebody will make a mistake. But we do not want a war.\n\n\"And I believe that Mr Trump understands a war is not in his favour because a war against us means dead American soldiers - and he is not ready to make a funeral in Washington DC,\" Mr Sheikholislam said.\n\nHiking is a popular pastime for many Iranians\n\nBack on the mountain, I keep pushing higher up the trail, passing a stream gushing with crystal clear water.\n\nI met a young woman, Nasim, who was hiking with a group of friends.\n\nI asked her what she thought of President Trump. She laughed. She raised her hands, palms turned upwards, gesturing that she didn't know what to say.\n\nBut then what she said surprised me.\n\n\"Maybe it would even be better for us if a war happens,\" she said.\n\nI asked: Why would someone want war?\n\n\"It might actually lead to a change in our ruling system. It might lead to a better situation. But if it's going to lead to a civil war then no, it's not going to be good at all,\" she replied.\n\nIn 2009, people like Nasim, took to the streets in protest after the disputed re-election of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.\n\nIt was dubbed the \"Green Revolution\", after the colour used by one of the defeated opposition presidential candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been held under house arrest since then.\n\nThe authorities cracked down hard on the mass protests and insist there is no powerful opposition movement in Iran.\n\nBut this is a country of many political opinions.\n\nYou have the hardline religious conservatives, as well as liberals - and probably a majority of Iranians who just want to keep their heads down. It's these divisions that President Trump believes he can exploit.\n\nMake no mistake, it's the hardliners who run this country.\n\nBut when Iran is confronted by America, most Iranians, conservative or liberal, will put their country first.", "Liam Fox wants to recruit a new generation of professional negotiators for trade talks\n\nA new generation of UK trade negotiators is to be recruited in an open-access scheme launched by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox.\n\nIt follows warnings of a shortage of experienced UK trade negotiators during the Brexit process.\n\nThe training scheme is open to applicants from all backgrounds and levels of qualifications - with the first recruits ready in two years.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats dismissed it as a \"last-minute scramble\".\n\nLabour's Barry Gardiner said \"only now is the secretary of state realising that the UK needs trained negotiation staff\".\n\nAt a launch event at the Harris Westminster Sixth Form school in London, the international trade secretary said being a professional negotiator was a \"career option that hasn't really existed for two generations\" - as deal-making has been carried out by the European Union.\n\nThe training project, with an initial 12 places, is meant to begin filling the gap, to provide enough home-grown professional negotiators for trade talks for the Brexit process and beyond.\n\nMr Fox rejected the suggestion that this recruitment drive should have happened earlier - saying his department has been expanding and building capacity.\n\nHe said the new recruits would learn the practical skills of international trade talks, including spending time abroad, and would be paid about £30,000 while training.\n\n\"Young people can actually see what global trade looks like, that it's not a cold negotiating room, it's how we get market access, how we are helping exporters to get into markets,\" said Mr Fox.\n\n\"There is no substitute for international experience.\"\n\nA project at the London sixth form created a simulation of a trading negotiation\n\nMr Fox said he wanted to \"broaden the base\" of those seeing trade negotiations as a career, with no limits or qualifications required for anyone wanting to apply.\n\n\"I think the wider we cast the net the better,\" he said, launching a project separate from conventional graduate recruitment schemes.\n\nMr Fox said it was open to \"as many of those youngsters who have the aptitude, the enthusiasm and who've got the intuition to make a success of it\".\n\nTwo years ago the international trade secretary had claimed that negotiations for a free trade agreement with the European Union \"should be one of the easiest in human history\".\n\nBut he now describes trade negotiations as a \"complicated business\" - and says the recruits will be given the intensive training they need.\n\nRecruits will get two years of training in trade talks, including an overseas posting\n\nThe department's chief trade negotiation adviser, Crawford Falconer, said he wanted to \"demystify\" the process of trade negotiations and \"get rid of the jargon\".\n\nShadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said it was \"another case of too little, too late\" and a \"complete failure in office to prepare the UK for what happens next\".\n\nTom Brake, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on international trade, said those who might be hired as negotiators were being \"set an impossible task\".\n\nHe said that Mr Fox had \"failed to secure the substantial post-Brexit trade deals he promised\" - and the UK was at risk of missing out on the EU's trade agreements with Japan and Canada.\n• None 'We have no trade negotiators' - Letwin", "The coins dated between 153BC and AD61\n\nA hoard of Roman coins found in a field may have been hidden there during the Boudiccan revolt, an expert has said.\n\nThe trove of 60 denarii, dating between 153BC and AD60-61, was found in a field near Cookley, in Suffolk, by a metal detectorist.\n\nDr Anna Booth, who examined the find, said there \"might be a link with the Boudiccan revolt\" and the coins.\n\nQueen Boudicca led the Iceni tribe against the Romans in AD61 which led to the destruction of Colchester.\n\nMost of the coins dated from the Republic era, pre-27BC, but there were also denarii minted during the reigns of emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero.\n\nBoudicca led her Iceni tribe in a revolt against the Romans\n\nDr Booth said: \"This hoard is interesting because the latest coin dated to the reign of Nero in AD60-61. The final coin is often an indication of when a hoard is likely to have been deposited.\n\n\"There might be a link with the Boudiccan revolt which took place in AD61 in this region.\"\n\nShe added: \"It was quite a tumultuous time in East Anglia.\n\n\"There does seem to be a slight increase in hoarding in this period. It is a stretch of the imagination, we are not 100% sure, but in this region it is tempting to say this is because of what was happening in this period.\"\n\nThousands died during Boudicca's revolt across East Anglia after she united local tribes against the Roman rulers.\n\nColchester, then the capital of Roman Britain, London and St Albans were all destroyed before she was defeated.\n\nThe coins may have been buried to hide them during the Boudiccan revolt, an expert said\n\nThe find, from August 2018, was made up of 58 solid silver coins, two of which were silver-plated copies.\n\nSenior coroner Nigel Parsley declared it to be treasure at an inquest in Ipswich.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma, a major transport hub.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) said the case could be a \"game-changer\" given the city's population of more than two million.\n\nBut the WHO expressed confidence in plans to deal with the diagnosis.\n\nDR Congo's health ministry said a pastor tested positive after arriving in the city by bus on Sunday.\n\nMore than 1,600 people have died since the Ebola outbreak began in eastern DR Congo a year ago - the second biggest outbreak ever.\n\nThe WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said an emergency meeting is being convened.\n\n\"We are confident in the measures we have put in place and hope that we will see no further transmission of Ebola in Goma. Nevertheless, we cannot be too careful,\" he said.\n\nThe health ministry said in a statement that there was a low risk of the disease spreading. It said everyone else on the bus - a driver and 18 other passengers - had been tracked down and they would be vaccinated on Monday.\n\n\"Because of the speed with which the patient has been identified and isolated, as well as the identification of all passengers from Butembo [where the bus came from], the risk of spreading to the rest of the city of Goma remains low,\" the statement said.\n\nSome 3,000 health workers in the city have already been vaccinated.\n\nThe pastor travelled 200 km (125 miles) to Goma by bus from Butembo, where he had been with people with Ebola.\n\nGoma is a major commercial and cultural hub on DR Congo's border with Rwanda, with transport links to the wider region.\n\nRwanda said it was on high alert to deal with Ebola.\n\nIts health minister, Diane Gashumba, rushed to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi after the Goma case was confirmed.\n\nShe urged people to \"think twice before crossing to where there is a disease\".\n\nPeople walk freely between Gisenyi and Goma, heightening concerns in Rwanda that Ebola could spread to Rwanda.\n\nFear of the deadly Ebola virus - which sees patients suffer gruesome symptoms and rules out customary burial rites - is a big challenge for health workers in DR Congo battling to contain the spread.\n\n\"People are still afraid to come to health clinics if they are experiencing Ebola symptoms,\" said the International Rescue Committee's Ebola emergency response director, Tariq Riebl.\n\nDecades of conflict in eastern DR Congo have led to widespread mistrust of the authorities and this also has an impact on the disease spreading, according to authors of a recent report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some simple techniques can help prevent spread of Ebola\n\nThe current outbreak in eastern DR Congo began in 2018 and is the 10th to hit the country since 1976, when the virus was first discovered.\n\nIt is dwarfed by the West African epidemic of 2014-16, which affected 28,616 people mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 11,310 people died in what was the largest outbreak of the virus ever recorded.\n\nEbola infects humans through close contact with infected animals, including chimpanzees, fruit bats and forest antelope.\n\nIt can then spread rapidly, through contact with even small amounts of bodily fluid of those infected - or indirectly through contact with contaminated environments.\n\nSince the beginning of the current Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo, the WHO has on three occasions opted not to declare it a global health emergency.\n\nBut the UK last week called on the global health body to formally call it an emergency - a technical definition - that would make it easier to raise money internationally.", "As MPs and peers call for an overhaul of laws surrounding whistleblowing, a former private school teacher explains why she took the difficult decision to speak out.\n\n\"We both lost our jobs, it was absolutely horrendous,\" says Katherine. \"I was completely clueless and didn't even know I was a whistle-blower.\"\n\nShe and her husband had taught at a boarding school in the south of England for more than two decades until they were forced out for exposing what she calls \"systematic exam malpractice\".\n\nTeachers had been completing assessed coursework for students, allowing them to continue working past exam time, and encouraging them to \"tinker\" with their papers until the marking date, she said.\n\n\"Morally I knew it was right,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"They're a leading school and I thought it was unfair on other students, especially when we had more resources.\"\n\nKatherine, not her real name, is one of more than 400 people who gave evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing detailing cases including child sex abuse, financial fraud, bullying, unlawful discrimination and sexual harassment.\n\nThe parliamentary group is calling for an \"urgent radical overhaul\" of whistleblowing law as they say it is failing to adequately protect victims who come forward.\n\nThe Public Interest Disclosure Act was established in 1998 but the group say the law is now \"no longer fit for purpose\" as it is too complicated and does not protect all citizens.\n\nStephen Kerr, the Conservative MP for Stirling who chairs the group, said whistle-blowers must be \"treasured\" as they are the \"first line of defence against crime, corruption and cover-up\".\n\nHis group wants an Office for the Whistleblower created to independently investigate complaints, crackdown on corrupt companies and individuals by issuing penalties, and to support people who speak out by offering counselling, free legal advice and job protection.\n\nIt also wants the definition of whistleblowing to be revised to include \"any harmful violation of integrity and ethics, even when not criminal or illegal\" and for protection to be extended to people such as foster-carers, volunteers, councillors, and members of the clergy and army who are currently excluded.\n\nKatherine told MPs she was \"discouraged\" from making a formal complaint under the schools' whistleblowing procedure and, when she flagged the malpractice with the relevant exam board, she was told that only disclosures to watchdog Ofqual were protected by law.\n\nShe and her husband have remained anonymous as they were both \"threatened\" into signing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in exchange for compensation for losing their jobs.\n\nHer NDA, seen by BBC News, asks her to waive her rights to making a protected whistleblowing disclosure and to cease further contact with charity, school and child safety regulators.\n\n\"We had no choice because we had to support our kids and had no income,\" she said. \"It's been devastating for all of us... I felt suicidal and my husband later took a new job miles and miles away, splitting up the family.\"\n\nKatherine said that if it had been mandatory for the school to investigate her complaint or raise it with an independent body, rather than \"brush it under the carpet\", and she had received better legal advice and aid, she would not have felt so \"alone and unprotected\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anahid Kassabian said she felt \"bullied\" out of her job when she got cancer - and she broke her NDA to encourage others to speak out\n\nAnd earlier this year Anahid Kassabian, a former music professor at Liverpool university, broke her NDA during a BBC investigation to speak out about alleged disability discrimination.\n\nOnly 3% of the 1,369 employment tribunal cases brought between 2017 and 2018 were successful, government figures show.\n\nThe All Party Parliamentary Group said that too often whistle-blowers were faced with either \"inaction or retaliation\" with more than three-quarters of people who gave evidence saying they had faced bullying, demotions, pay reductions, suspensions or forced dismissals for speaking out.\n\nThe group was set up last summer in the wake of the Gosport Memorial Hospital scandal.\n\n\"Not a week goes by when whistleblowing is not making headlines around the world exposing one major tragedy or scandal after another... Cambridge Analytica or the Rotherham grooming gangs,\" they said.\n\nJust last week ex-Labour party staff broke their NDAs as part of a BBC Panorama investigation to whistleblow on senior figures they claim interfered in the disciplinary process of anti-Semitism cases.\n\nGeorgina Halford-Hall, chief executive of the support network WhistleblowersUK, said people who spoke out were being \"priced out of justice\".\n\nA former whistleblower, she had helped to expose allegations of systematic abuse, bullying and self-harm at her son's boarding school.\n\n\"I would advise anyone thinking of whistleblowing to keep a record of all conversations and supporting paperwork and emails, to use a confidential reporting line if possible, and if the issue is a crime, not to delay reporting it to the police,\" she said.\n\nUnder the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, whistleblowing is an employee raising a concern about an alleged wrongdoing including corrupt, illegal or unethical behaviours in a public or private sector organisation.\n\nIt must be in the \"public interest\" to reveal the information, which means it must affect others and not be for private gain.\n\nA confidentiality or \"gagging clause\" in a settlement agreement, sometimes called an \"NDA\", is \"unenforceable\" if you are a whistleblower.\n\nAs a whistleblower you should not be treated unfairly or lose your job for speaking out.\n\nThe act must \"tend to show past, present or likely future wrongdoing\" - including criminal offences, failure to comply with legal obligations, miscarriages of justice, endangering people's health, damaging the environment or covering up any form of wrongdoing.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Sunlight is the best disinfectant and the government believes whistle-blowers must be able to come forward with wrongdoing, without fear of recrimination.\n\n\"Over recent years we have improved the whistleblowing framework, including providing new guidance on how workers can make disclosures while retaining their employment protections.\"", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "Scott Walker's family said they were struggling to come to terms with his death\n\nThe family of a cyclist killed in a hit and run have appealed to the driver to \"search your conscience\".\n\nScott Walker, 43, died after being found seriously injured on a road in Fife last Monday evening.\n\nPolice say they now know he was the victim of a hit and run as he cycled from Elie to St Monans on the A917.\n\nThey want to trace the driver of a silver Vauxhall Astra five-door hatchback which was seen in the East Neuk of Fife at the time of the crash.\n\nMr Walker's family said they were struggling to come to terms with his death.\n\nIn a statement issued through Police Scotland, they said the father-of-one was a \"much-loved\" son, brother and uncle who would never get to see his \"amazing little girl\" grow up.\n\n\"We want to appeal to the driver involved to please search your conscience and come forward,\" the family added.\n\n\"Help us understand the circumstances and allow us to start grieving properly.\n\n\"We know you may have panicked and didn't know what to do, but for all of us including you, please do the right thing and speak to the police.\"\n\nPolice Scotland issued a photograph of the type of car they believe was involved in the fatal crash\n\nPolice initially said they were keeping an \"open mind\" about the collision, but they are now confident Mr Walker was the victim of a hit and run.\n\nLike Mr Walker's family, Det Ch Insp John Anderson appealed directly to the driver involved in the crash.\n\n\"Please search your conscience and contact officers so that we can establish the full circumstances surrounding how Mr Walker came to sustain his injuries that ultimately cost him his life,\" he said.\n\n\"An accident this may well have been, however, the longer this goes on without you contacting the police of your own accord then the more difficult it is to understand your actions afterwards.\"\n\nAs part of their inquiry, detectives and road policing officers will return to the scene of the collision on Monday evening - a week after it happened - to speak to drivers using the route.\n\nThey are trying to trace the Vauxhall Astra suspected to have been involved in the fatal collision.\n\nDet Ch Insp Anderson said they know it travelled from Elie before the incident and after the collision it continued along the A917 to St Monans.\n\nHe wants to speak all owners of silver five-door Astra hatchbacks in the East Neuk to eliminate them from inquiries.\n\nAnd if anyone knows of such a car being used in the area, they should also contact the force - even if they do not suspect it was involved.\n\nHe said: \"I firmly believe that the answers lie in the local community of the East Neuk of Fife. Does a friend, neighbour, or someone you know drive a silver Vauxhall Astra?\n\n\"Would this have been driving in the area between Elie and St Monan's last Monday night? It may not appear damaged or indeed you may not have seen it since. Has someone confided in you about what happened?\n\n\"If you have any information regarding what happened or a vehicle matching this description, please come forward and contact officers.\"‎\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vueling Airlines is the least punctual major airline flying from airports in the UK, new research shows.\n\nThe Spanish carrier's UK departures were delayed by an average of 31 minutes last year, according to analysis of Civil Aviation Authority data by the PA news agency.\n\nThomas Cook also performed poorly, with average delays of 24 minutes, followed by Wizz Air on 23 minutes.\n\nVueling said it had been \"hugely affected\" by strikes in France.\n\nThe research, which covered more than 40 airlines flying from UK airports, found the average delay across all flights was 16 minutes.\n\nOther poor performers included Norwegian Air UK, a subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, and Eurowings, both of which had average delays of 22 minutes.\n\nCathay Pacific Airways was the most punctual carrier, although its flights still typically took off eight minutes behind schedule.\n\nAirline passengers faced chaos last summer as French air traffic controllers staged a series of strikes.\n\nVueling, which serves UK airports such as Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh, said its flights in and out of Barcelona had been hit by action in Marseille.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flight delay compensation: When can you claim?\n\n\"During these strikes, Vueling flights to and from Barcelona and the UK could not fly straight across France but instead flew south of the Pyrenees and into the Atlantic, before looping back towards Britain,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The location of Vueling's [Barcelona] hub close to Marseille means it has been particularly badly affected.\"\n\nThe carrier, which is owned by International Airlines Group - which also owns British Airways - also saw its own pilots walk out in May, leading to hundreds of cancellations.\n\nUnder EU rules, airline passengers are only entitled to compensation if they arrive at their destination more than three hours late.\n\nHowever, consumer magazine Which? said flight delays could leave holidaymakers \"hundreds of pounds out of pocket because of missed connections, transfers and fines for picking up their hire car late\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of trade body Airlines UK, which represents UK-registered carriers, said too many flights are affected by the country's \"antiquated airspace\".\n\nHe added: \"We support government in its efforts to introduce much-needed modernisation so we can continue to safely and effectively accommodate the ever rising demand for air travel.\"", "Shiels was a TV actor and artistic director at the Theatre Upstairs in Dublin\n\nIrish actor Karl Shiels, who starred as Robbie Quinn in TV soap opera Fair City, has died at the age of 47.\n\nShiels, who was most recently seen in Fair City on Sunday, had been in the RTE One soap since 2014.\n\nHe had other roles in TV and film including Batman Begins, Peaky Blinders, Veronica Guerin and The Tudors.\n\nHe was nominated for best actor at the Irish Film and Television Academy's TV awards in 2016.\n\nHis theatre credits included Henry IV part one at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Enda Walsh's Penelope for the Druid Theatre Company.\n\nThe news was confirmed by his agent Lisa Richards. \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden passing of our client and friend Karl Shiels yesterday,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Karl was a uniquely talented individual, simultaneously intense, light-hearted, funny, sharp-witted, outspoken and intensely powerful... Karl was a remarkable force in Irish theatre.\n\n\"Our hearts are broken but today our thoughts are with his partner Laura and his family, his children and their mother Dearbhla and his many close friends.\"\n\nHis Fair City colleagues and figures from the theatre world also paid tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RTÉ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Abbey Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShiels was also artistic director of the Theatre Upstairs in Dublin, and starred in plays at prestigious UK theatres including the Royal Court and the Bush theatre.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prof Matheson said the evidence was strong for the decriminalisation of drugs\n\nA new drugs tsar has been appointed by the Scottish government to advise on policies to tackle the rising number of drugs deaths.\n\nProf Catriona Matheson's appointment comes ahead of the publication of new figures, which are expected to show drug deaths topped 1,000 last year.\n\nShe will chair a new taskforce, announced by ministers in March, to examine Scotland's drugs laws.\n\nDrug legislation is currently reserved to Westminster.\n\nThe taskforce will examine the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act and consider if elements of it could be devolved to allow medically-supervised drug consumption rooms - so-called \"fix rooms\".\n\nThe rooms would allow addicts to administer their own illegal drugs under medical supervision to curb street injecting.\n\nHowever, the UK Home Office has refused Scottish government moves to relax the current regulations and allow the consumption rooms to be created.\n\nThere were 934 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2017, up 66 (8%) on the previous year, and more than double the UK average.\n\nThe toll was the highest level since current records began in 1996 and more than double the 445 deaths in 2007.\n\nProf Matheson, of the University of Stirling, is a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction and convener of the Drugs Research Network Scotland.\n\nShe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme a \"non-judgemental approach\" was needed to tackle drug misuse and there was strong evidence for decriminalisation.\n\nShe said: \"Although previous drug strategies were well-meaning, sometimes they have been based on a criminal justice-type basis.\n\n\"What is very welcome is that now we have a new strategy based around public health that takes a public health and human rights approach and that is what we need.\"\n\nShe added: \"Decriminalisation, the evidence is strong for that across the world. There is a number of countries that have gone down that route and decriminalisation is really about not putting this group of marginalised drug users into prison and filling our prisons up with people who have problem drug-use because that further marginalises them and makes their recovery all the more difficult.\"", "Used cooking oil from Asia is being imported into Europe to make biodiesel\n\nImports of a \"green fuel\" source may be inadvertently increasing deforestation and the demand for new palm oil, a study says.\n\nExperts say there has been a recent boom in the amount of used cooking oil imported into the UK from Asia.\n\nThis waste oil is the basis for biodiesel, which produces far less CO2 than fossil fuels in cars.\n\nBut this report is concerned that the used oil is being replaced across Asia with palm oil from deforested areas.\n\nCutting carbon emissions from transport has proved very difficult for governments all over the world. Many have given incentives to speed up the replacement of fossil-based petrol and diesel with fuels made from crops such as soya or rapeseed.\n\nThese growing plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and so liquid fuel made from these sources, while not carbon-neutral, is a big improvement on simply burning regular petrol or diesel.\n\nIn this light, used cooking (UCO) oil has become a key ingredient of biodiesel in the UK and the rest of Europe. Between 2011 and 2016 there was a 360% increase in use of used cooking oil as the basis for biodiesel.\n\nBecause UCO is classed as a waste product within the EU, UK fuel producers are given double carbon credits for using it in their fuels. This has sparked a boom in demand for used cooking oil that is so great it is being met in part with imports from Asia.\n\nIn the UK, the most common feedstock source of biodiesel between April and December 2018 was Chinese UCO, totalling 93 million litres. In the same period, used cooking oil from UK sources was used to produce 76 million litres of of fuel.\n\nNow a new study, from international bioeconomy consultants NNFCC, suggests that these imports may inadvertently be making climate change worse by increasing deforestation and the demand for palm oil.\n\nThe problem arises because used cooking oil in some parts of Asia is not classed as a waste product and is considered safe for consumption by animals.\n\nThe report's authors are concerned that since it is more profitable to sell Asian UCO to Europe for fuel rather than feed it to animals, it is likely being replaced by virgin palm oil which is cheaper to buy.\n\n\"Although correlation does not necessarily equate to causation, the available evidence indicates that palm oil imports into China are increasing, in line with their increasing exports of used cooking oils,\" the report states.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, palm oil imports into China rose by 1 million tonnes, an increase of more than 20%.\n\n\"As soon as that point is reached where you can sell used cooking oil for more than you can buy palm oil, it's a no brainer,\" said Dr Jeremy Tomkinson who co-authored the report for NNFCC.\n\n\"What you are going to do if you're in Asia, you're going to sell as much UCO as you can to the EU and buy palm oil and pocket the difference.\"\n\nDemand for palm oil has led to large-scale deforestation and the loss of natural habitats across Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Between 2010 and 2015, Indonesia alone lost 3 million hectares of forest to continued expansion of palm oil cultivation.\n\nEach hectare of forest that's converted to palm oil releases large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 530 people flying economy class from Geneva to New York according to a recent study.\n\nMost of the used cooking oil that's already imported is made from palm. But it's the extra demand from Europe, say the authors, that is likely to be fuelling deforestation.\n\n\"It's irrelevant if the virgin palm is going into the biodiesel or into the animals,\" said Dr Tomkinson.\n\n\"If we weren't pulling that resource out of the market, no new resource would be falling into it.\"\n\nThe UK government rejects the idea that imports are increasing demand for palm oil. The Department for Transport says that there is no evidence showing a causative link between policies on waste-derived biofuels and increased use of virgin oils.\n\nThe department argues that they have worked hard to ensure that such indirect effects do not happen.\n\n\"Biofuels are a key way of achieving the emission reductions the UK needs and we have long been at the forefront of action to address the indirect effects of their production, including pushing the EU to address the impact of land use change,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Last year alone biofuels reduced CO2 emissions by 2.7 million tonnes - the equivalent of taking around 1.2 million cars off the road.\"\n\nOne of the key elements that's making used cooking oil so valuable is the fact that producers in the EU are given double the number of carbon credits for using the waste material. While the EU allows all countries to \"double count\" carbon credits for UCO, the UK is one of the few countries to put this into practice.\n\nPalm oil imports into China have boomed in the past two years\n\nOil importers say the \"double counting\" is vital in preventing even more palm oil from entering the European market.\n\n\"Biodiesel made from waste oil is more expensive to produce; it has higher production costs,\" said Angel Alvarez Alberdi from the European Waste-to-Advanced Biofuels Association.\n\n\"If we don't have a policy incentive of double counting then under normal market conditions you will have the cheapest available option and that is conventional palm based biodiesel that would still be able to reach the EU.\"\n\nHowever, the report authors say that the policy has other dangers, not just because it may be driving up demand for palm oil in Asia but because it may also be stymieing development among other alternative fuel producers, such as ethanol in the UK.\n\nThe authors want the government to review the practice and perhaps end the double credit for imported oil\n\nPalm oil has been linked to increased deforestation in parts of Indonesia\n\n\"If it comes from outside of the EU don't let it double count unless you put in increased levels of scrutiny to verify it's not having an impact on land use,\" said Dr Tomkinson from NNFCC.\n\n\"If you don't do that then you only get a single credit for that used cooking oil.\"\n\nEnvironmental groups are also concerned about the potential impact that UK and EU imports of UCO are having.\n\n\"Making biodiesel from imported UCO is no longer the environmental good it was once perceived to be,\" said Greg Archer, UK director of the environmental group Transport and Environment.\n\n\"There are real concerns some of these oils may not be genuinely 'used' or they may be indirectly causing deforestation. Governments need to scrutinise the source of UCO far more closely and require organisations certifying biofuel feedstocks to undertake far more rigorous and extensive checks.\"", "Ms Ardern said she was \"incredibly proud\" of her nation's performance in the Cricket World Cup\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joked that she has been \"traumatised\" by her country's Cricket World Cup defeat after they lost a nail-biting final to England.\n\nBut she told news outlet RNZ that she was \"incredibly proud\" of the team.\n\nOn social media many said New Zealand's Black Caps had lost the game but \"won our hearts\".\n\nNew Zealand lost on a technical boundary rule, giving England their first ever Cricket World Cup title.\n\n\"I think probably like a lot of New Zealanders I'm still feeling quite traumatised by that match,\" Ms Ardern told Radio New Zealand.\n\n\"But regardless of that final outcome I just feel incredibly proud of the Black Caps, and I hope every New Zealander does because they played remarkable cricket.\"\n\nIn an Instagram post, Ms Ardern sent her congratulations to England, adding: \"I think as a nation we all aged a year in that super over.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jacindaardern This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven the Royal Family's Twitter account quoted the Queen as saying \"New Zealand... competed so admirably throughout the tournament\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also apologised to New Zealand fans, saying he was \"sorry we couldn't deliver what you so badly wanted\".\n\nHis teammate Ross Taylor posted a picture with his smiling daughter and grief-stricken young son, writing, \"the mixture of emotions after a game like that!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by rossltaylor3 This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Ardern told local media discussions were under way about the best way to welcome the players back home.\n\n\"They'll be getting a heroes' welcome,\" she said. \"They deserve it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jacquie (far right) and her sisters Kayleigh and Emma\n\nA woman from Fife has told how her father, mother, two sisters and brother all died because of drugs.\n\nJacquie said losing her parents and siblings \"was like a fire ripping through my family\".\n\nShe was speaking ahead of new figures showing that the number of people who died of drugs in Scotland in 2018 reached more than 1,187, the highest since records began.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"It is scary how quick it can take a grip and devastate a family.\n\n\"I feel my life has been ruined.\n\n\"People could say that has been my fault, I understand that with the drug side. I can't help the fact that I have lost all my family to the drugs. And it is hard.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacquie: \"We are still a family, we are not animals, monsters, or whatever people would call a family of heroin users.\"\n\nJacquie, who began taking heroin at the age of 17 and is now trying to kick the habit, said she could not remember a time when the family wasn't affected by drugs.\n\nShe is the last remaining member of her immediate family - who all lived and died in the Fife town of Glenrothes.\n\nThe first family death came in 2005, when Jacquie's father Thomas died at a property in Glenrothes. He was 40 and his death was attributed to \"adverse effects of heroin\".\n\nTwo years later, in 2007, the first of Jacquie's sisters, Kayleigh, died of a morphine overdose at the age of 21.\n\nTheir mother Margaret, who was hooked on painkillers and had dabbled with heroin, died in 2010, due to \"adverse effects of opiates\". She was 44.\n\nIn May 2018, after a suicide attempt, Jacquie's 37-year-old brother Colin was found dead at a house in Glenrothes as a result of \"multi-drug intoxication\".\n\nAnd then five months later, second sister Emma died aged 29 after taking a cocktail of methadone and diazepam.\n\nJacquie, whom BBC Scotland is not fully naming, continued: \"I would like to think in my head that they would've been able to kick the habit.\n\n\"But in reality, no. My dad was only on it four years and he committed suicide with heroin. My mum was just the same - she started with Tramadol and it led to her taking lines here and there.\"\n\nJacquie's mother Margaret [left], who died in 2010, with Jacquie's sister Kayleigh, who died in 2007\n\nJacquie said her own battle with addiction started in high school where dabbling with alcohol and cannabis escalated to harder drugs.\n\nShe began taking heroin at the age of 17, when she was receiving NHS treatment for alcohol abuse, and her longest period of sobriety was seven years in her mid-20s.\n\n\"I took a mixture of everything really,\" she said.\n\n\"I would take diazepam, any downer really, any sleeping tablets or suppressant.\n\n\"I would have sleeping tablets from the doctor like Zopiclone. It would help with the buzz, to block out everything that was going on in life. With losing all my family, I couldn't cope.\"\n\nJacquie's brother Colin, 37, died in Glenrothes last year as a result of “multi-drug intoxication”.\n\nJacquie told BBC Scotland how she has struggled to cope after losing her brother and sister in quick succession last year.\n\n\"My brother died in May and I'd only just been speaking to him again for five weeks,\" she explained.\n\n\"We'd agreed that me, him and Emma would all go to bereavement counselling to work through everything we'd lost.\n\n\"We would do it, the three of us, so that it would help us bond that brother-and-sister relationship that I desperately wanted and obviously they did as well.\n\n\"I got the phone call from Emma at three in the morning. The police had chapped her up to say that Colin had passed away. She was distraught, devastated, screaming down the phone.\n\n\"I just spent that day with Emma. She was an absolute mess. Then six months down the line, Emma was gone.\n\n\"I've never been right since. I've never been right from any of them but Emma was the worst by far.\"\n\nJacquie's father Thomas who died in 2005, aged 40, due to the \"adverse effects of heroin\"\n\nJacquie said drug abuse and its affect on different generations of families largely remains a taboo subject but she wanted to speak out to show people what it is like to live with the impact of the problem.\n\nShe said: \"Even if I can help one more family, then I have done good.\n\n\"I just want people to see that we are still a family. We are not animals, monsters or whatever people would call a family of heroin users.\"\n\nOn her own addiction problems, the 34-year-old, who has been on methadone for 15 years, said she was \"100% ready to be clean and stay that way\" but acknowledged the path ahead for her was difficult.\n\nJacquie's other sister, Emma, who died from a drugs overdose last year\n\nIf you've been affected by issues explored in this article, BBC Action Line has links to helpful resources including information about drugs , emotional distress and bereavement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina's economy grew at its slowest pace since the early 1990s in the second quarter, official figures showed.\n\nIn the three months to June, the economy grew 6.2% from a year earlier. The result was in line with forecasts.\n\nChina has moved to stimulate its economy this year by boosting spending and delivering tax cuts.\n\nThe country is also fighting a trade war with the US which has hurt businesses and weighed on growth.\n\nThe data released on Monday showed China's economic growth rate slowed from 6.4% in the first three months of the year.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted that US trade tariffs were having \"a major effect\" on the Chinese economy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChina's national statistics bureau said the figures pointed to a \"complex environment\" both at home and abroad.\n\nIt said the economy had \"performed within the reasonable range\" in the first half of 2019, but that it faced \"new downward pressure\".\n\nThe figures do show some impact from the trade conflict with the US. Growth has probably slowed a little more than it would have done had China been facing a more tranquil international commercial environment. The longer-term picture, though, is one of an economy continuing a reasonably orderly and intended slowdown in growth.\n\nThe average growth rate over the three decades to 2010 was 10%. The Chinese leadership - and every economist I have ever heard expressing a view on this - did not regard that as sustainable for the long term. The aim was to see the economy less dependent on investment and exports and an increased role for spending by consumers.\n\nThere has been some progress, though the rates of saving and investment remain very high. There are dangers, however, notably the high level of company debt. The authorities encouraged strong credit growth in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. That has helped prevent a more rapid and potentially disruptive slowdown, but at the price of creating additional financial risks.\n\nWhile China-watchers advise caution with Beijing's official gross domestic product numbers, the data is seen as a useful indicator of the country's growth trajectory.\n\nOther data showed some signs of improvement in the world's second-largest economy.\n\nIndustrial production rose 6.3% in June from a year earlier, while retail sales rose 9.8% year-on-year - both above forecasts in Reuters polls.\n\nSlowing growth in China has raised concerns about the potential knock-on effect on the global economy.\n\nEarlier this year Beijing announced plans to boost spending and cut billions of dollars in taxes in an effort to support the economy.\n\nIt has also moved to provide a liquidity boost by reducing the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve.\n\nEdward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda, said the latest economic data \"shows the slowdown remains intact and markets should expect further stimulus\" from China's central bank later this year.\n\nThe US-led trade war is another factor weighing on growth.\n\n\"The trade war is having a huge impact on the Chinese economy, and with no end sight as trade negotiations struggle for meaningful progress, we are probably not near the bottom for China's economy,\" he said.\n\nWhile both sides agreed to resume trade talks at a recent G20 summit in Japan, they have already placed tariffs on billions of dollars worth of one another's goods, hurting businesses and casting a shadow over the world economy.", "Iran insists that it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal\n\nIt has taken just a little over a year since the Trump administration abandoned the international nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, for Tehran itself to challenge the agreement.\n\nIts decision to intentionally breach the 300kg ceiling for the stock of low-enriched uranium that it can hold is but the first step of several that it is threatening.\n\nHowever, Tehran insists it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal itself. It just wants to be treated fairly under its terms.\n\nIran's case is that it has, all along, abided by the terms of the agreement. And Iran's \"good behaviour\" has been independently verified by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nBut now Iran is saying enough is enough. It has stuck to its side of the bargain but the Americans have not only walked away from the deal, they have re-imposed sanctions and are trying to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to trade with Tehran.\n\nThis policy of \"maximum pressure\" is acknowledged by the Trump administration. Its goal, its spokesmen insist, is to force Iran to the table to negotiate what in US terms would be a \"better\" deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump's critics argue that what his administration wants is more capitulation rather than negotiation. There is a strong whiff of regime change about some of Mr Trump's key advisers.\n\nIran - if you accept that it was behind recent attacks in the Gulf as the Americans insist - has already sought to push back against US pressure. It has many ways of doing so.\n\nAnd the fear is that the potential breakdown of the nuclear deal will not only encourage Iran to resume worrying nuclear activities, but it may also risk some kind of conflict in the Gulf, intentional or otherwise.\n\nSo the stakes surrounding the nuclear deal are huge. And this is going to condition many countries' responses to what is happening. There are already differences between Washington and its key European allies - Britain, France and Germany - who remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal and want to see it continue.\n\nCertainly they worry about many of Iran's regional activities and they share the Trump administration's concerns about Iran's active missile programmes.\n\nBut they believe that the JCPOA, whatever faults it may have had, contained one essential benefit.\n\nIt took the nuclear issue out of the game at least for the immediate future. It \"kicked the can down the road\". It did not resolve the disputes over Iran's past activities or place permanent restrictions on what it could do in this field. But it averted a crisis.\n\nRemember, before the deal was agreed in 2015, there were real fears of a possible US or Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure.\n\nBritain, France and Germany remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal\n\nIran is making a point. It says that breaching the low-enriched uranium threshold is not in contravention of the JCPOA deal.\n\nIndeed its text, at Iran's insistence, does contain wording to the effect that if others breach the deal's terms then Iran will feel able to do the same. That of course may not be how the other signatories see things. They may argue you are either in the agreement or - like the United States - you choose to leave it.\n\nIran's pressure tactic is intended to push the Europeans in particular to do more to relieve the US economic pressure that is building up. The EU has developed a special payments system - dubbed in Euro-speak INSTEX - to try to help facilitate trade in humanitarian supplies, which in any case are not covered by the sanctions. Deals here have been made more difficult because of many banks' reluctance to risk US action.\n\nBut INSTEX will not help with the key sectors of Iran's economy that are suffering the greatest pain, like the oil industry. Most independent experts say that INSTEX has been slow to get going and is unlikely to make a significant difference. It is largely about the Europeans sending diplomatic signals to Tehran.\n\nBut this may no longer be enough. At the end of the day it is, after all, individual companies that must decide to trade with Iran, not governments And if they have business in the US they are going to be wary of trading with Tehran.\n\nRussia and China are also deeply uneasy about the US position and would prefer the nuclear deal to remain in place. So the US does not have many friends here beyond Saudi Arabia and Israel, which have their own issues with Tehran.\n\nPresident Hassan Rouhani stressed that Iran was not pulling out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe next high stakes moment may come in just under a week when Iran is threatening to take further actions to breach the terms of the agreement. It has suggested that one of these might be to increase the level of enrichment from the current 3.67% to around 20%.\n\nThis will be a much bigger drama. Uranium enrichment is all about stripping away atoms of one type of uranium to boost the concentration of another type, or isotope, which can power a nuclear chain reaction.\n\nIf you take this enrichment to a 20% level you are in fact about 90% of the way to having material suitable for a bomb. There are many other things Iran could do to up the stakes but taking enrichment levels to 20% would send alarm bells around the world and would make it very difficult for the Europeans to keep supporting the nuclear deal.\n\nThe JCPOA has long been described as being on life-support. So a serious shock to the system could sweep it away with uncertain consequences. That spark could come from the Iranians effectively overturning it themselves or it could come from the Middle East, where Iran or its proxy forces and the US military operate, sometimes in close proximity.\n\nThe Syrian front too is a factor. Israel is engaged there in an air campaign against the Iranian military build-up in the country.\n\nThere have been some unusually intense Israeli air attacks recently near Homs and Damascus. Anything that goes wrong, any increase in tension could feed back into the nuclear debate and vice-versa.\n\nIran clearly believes the pressure can be relieved in some way. But it may be mistaken. President Trump is doing everything he can to ensure the JCPOA's demise.\n\nThe Iran nuclear deal is facing its most fundamental challenge yet and what Iran does over the next week or so could well seal its fate.\n• None What would a US-Iran conflict look like?", "Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib were giving evidence to the House Oversight Committee following their visit to detention facilities on the southern border.\n\nJust a few hours later, Vice President Mike Pence was touring a facility and reviewed the conditions there.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's director of cricket Ashley Giles says he is unconcerned at claims England were given an extra run in their World Cup win over New Zealand.\n\nA fielder's throw hit Ben Stokes' bat as he dived to complete a second run in the final over and went for four.\n\nEngland were given six runs but Stokes and Adil Rashid had not crossed when the throw was released, so the law appears to say that was one too many.\n\nAsked whether it mattered to him, Giles said: \"Not really.\"\n\nHe added: \"You could argue the last ball that [Trent] Boult bowled was a full toss on leg stump and if Stokes' hadn't just been looking for two he probably would've banged it out of the ground anyway.\n\n\"We are world champions; we have got the trophy and we intend to keep it.\"\n• None Make a film of the match and send it to schoolchildren - Boycott\n\nRetired Australian umpire Simon Taufel, who was named the International Cricket Council's Umpire of the Year on five successive occasions from 2004 to 2008, called the award of the extra run a \"clear mistake\".\n\nThe ICC said umpires took decisions on the field based on their interpretation of the rules and that it did not comment on them.\n\nStokes went on to help England match New Zealand's total of 241 before they won one of the most amazing games of cricket ever played following an additional 'super over'.\n\nBoth teams ended the extra over with 15 runs but England were crowned champions by virtue of having scored more boundary fours and sixes - 26 to New Zealand's 17 - in the entire match.\n\nNew Zealand batsman Henry Nicholls brushed off the decision as part of the sport.\n\n\"It doesn't mean anything to us now. It's the game; things happen,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Sometimes you get the rub of the green. England had a great tournament, they have been the dominant team for the last four years so they deserve to win it.\"\n\nWhat does the law say?\n\nIf the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:\n• None any runs for penalties awarded to either side;\n• None the allowance for the boundary; and\n• None the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.\n\nThere is some potential for ambiguity in the law, because \"act\" could be interpreted as the moment the ball deflected off Stokes' bat. However, there is no reference to the batsman's actions elsewhere in the law.", "Police were called to reports of a fight\n\nSeveral people were injured when a car was driven into them on a road during a fight in London on Saturday night.\n\nFive men have been arrested on suspicion of affray after the crash in Lombard Road, Battersea, at about 23:15 BST.\n\nOne man in his 20s suffered a broken leg while another had head injuries from the crash, the Met Police said.\n\nTwo other people were taken to hospital treatment and \"a number of others\" were treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nPolice are looking for the driver of the car, who \"fled the scene\" before officers arrived.\n\nPolice said the driver of the car fled the scene\n\nIt is understood the altercation began after a group of people left a nearby hotel, and police are not treating the crash as terrorism-related.\n\nAmbulance crews were also called to the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV images recorded Eric Michels and Gerald Matovu shopping together at Sainsbury's\n\nA serial killer's drug dealer who targeted victims through gay dating apps has been found guilty of murdering a businessman with an overdose of GHB.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted Gerald Matovu, 26, of killing Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his south-west London home on 18 August.\n\nThe court heard the pair met in central London through the Grindr app before taking a cab back to Mr Michel's house.\n\nPort was given a whole-life term for the murders of four young men he poisoned with lethal doses of the substance and raped after meeting them on Grindr.\n\nGerald Matovu was found guilty of a string of offences, including murder, following a trial\n\nMatovu, of Southwark, south London, and his co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 24, of Forest Gate, east London, were convicted of a string of charges including administering a noxious substance, assault by penetration and theft.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the charges related to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nThe court heard Mr Michels, an executive at energy company SSE, met Matovu in the early hours of 17 August.\n\nThe pair went back to the businessman's home in Chessington, where he was given a fatal dose of GHB, a drug used in so-called chemsex but also linked to instances of date-rape.\n\nWhile his victim was incapacitated, Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence and various passwords.\n\nBrandon Dunbar admitted using Mr Michels' card and taking £300 from his account\n\nThat evening Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter sent him a text but received no response, the court heard.\n\nAfter a follow-up message the next day, she received the \"totally uncharacteristic\" response of: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nThat led her to calling her father's phone, but after an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling, she and her mother went to Mr Michels' home and found him motionless in bed.\n\nEric Michels was found dead at his home by his daughter in Chessington in August 2018\n\nAn empty syringe without a needle attached, which contained DNA from both Matovu and Mr Michels and traces of GHB, was found on the floor beside the bed.\n\nMatovu denied administering the drug to his victim, claiming he had taken it of his own will.\n\nAs the guilty verdict was returned on Matovu's murder charge, Mr Michels' family shouted \"yes - rest of your life in prison\".\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nHe had once trained as an actor and still made occasional film appearances, including in the James Bond film Skyfall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eric Michels' sons said their father was \"a person who just loved life\"\n\nDet Insp Mark Richards, said Matovu and Dunbar had \"a well-rehearsed plan to take advantage of men they met through Grindr to steal their property\".\n\n\"This was their overwhelming motive, rather than sexual assault. Matovu described himself in evidence as a hustler, a liar and a thief - apt words\", he said.\n\n\"Their method in the majority of cases was to drug their victim with enough GBL [which is converted into GBH in the body] to render them unconscious so they could then search their homes, selecting items of interest and photographing bank cards and personal documents for subsequent fraudulent use.\n\n\"They did this at their leisure, sometimes spending hours at an address.\n\n\"But Mr Michels was different - Matovu gave him a fatal dose of GBL.\n\n\"Despicably, while Mr Michels lay dead or dying, Matovu raided his address of many of his belongings, leaving his devastated family to find his body the following day.\"\n\nGerald Matovu and Brandon Dunbar were caught on CCTV using Eric Michels' bank details\n\nMatovu was also convicted of six counts of administering a noxious substance, seven thefts, six counts of having articles for fraud, assault by penetration, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possessing the drug GBL.\n\nDunbar was found guilty of three counts of administering a noxious substance, five thefts, six counts of having articles for fraud, two frauds, assault by penetration, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and dishonestly retaining wrongful credit.\n\nThe pair were remanded in custody for sentencing on 5 September.\n• None The link between a Grindr murderer and a serial killer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Selwyn Francis died after choking on a piece of meat, an inquest at Ruthin County Hall heard\n\nA man choked to death on a piece of meat about five months after his brother died in exactly the same way.\n\nAn inquest has been opened into the death of Selwyn Francis, 68, who choked on food at a restaurant in Flintshire and died in hospital two days later.\n\nHe died a day after an inquest heard his brother Gwyn Francis had died after choking on a piece of steak at a pub.\n\nTheir brother Kenneth Francis had said he and his two brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly.\n\nAt a hearing in Ruthin on Monday, assistant coroner Elizabeth Dudley-Jones heard Selwyn Francis had choked on food at a restaurant in the Flint area on 2 July.\n\nHe was taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital but died on 4 July.\n\nHis brother Gwyn Francis, 62, of Flint, was taken to hospital on 29 January after choking on his meal at the Mill Tavern in the town, but died on 6 February.\n\nKenneth Francis told the inquest into Gwyn's death that Selwyn had choked on a piece of steak at the same pub 18 months earlier but the obstruction had been cleared by someone performing the Heimlich manoeuvre.\n\n\"I said it should be a warning to us all,\" Kenneth Francis had told the earlier inquest.\n\nMs Dudley-Jones said the provisional cause of Selwyn Francis' death was hypoxic brain injury following a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to a date to be fixed.", "Shares in Mike Ashley's Sport Direct have fallen sharply after it delayed its results, citing uncertainty about trading its House of Fraser chain.\n\nThe company, whose results were due on Thursday, added the delay was also due to its auditor, Grant Thornton, facing increased scrutiny of its work for Sports Direct.\n\nSports Direct also indicated that it may not achieve its profits forecast.\n\nThe firm's results will now be released between 26 July and 23 August.\n\nIn December, when Sports Direct published its half-year results, it said that, excluding House of Fraser, operating profits were expected to grow by between 5% and 15%.\n\nBut in its latest update, the company said: \"There are a number of key areas to conclude on which could materially affect the guidance given in Sports Direct announcement of 13 December\".\n\nAround that time, Mr Ashley had described trading as \"unbelievably bad\".\n\nTrading has continued to be difficult for retailers. The British Retail Consortium said on Monday that there had been a \"summer slump\", with footfall on High Streets in June dropping 2.9%.\n\nNews of the delay in Sports Direct's results sent its shares down 15% at one stage to a seven-year low, although they ended the day almost 10% lower.\n\nMike Ashley owns huge swathes of the High Street, although not all through Sports Direct in which he owns a 62% stake.\n\nAs well as buying House of Fraser for £90m last year - saying he wanted to turn it into the \"Harrods of the High Street\" - he has also bought Evans Cycles and owns several sportswear brands, the upmarket clothing outlets Flannels and Cruise, as well as lingerie firm Agent Provocateur.\n\nHis expansion efforts continued on Monday when Sports Direct also announced it was close to taking control of Game Digital.\n\nBut his ambitions are not always achieved. Earlier this year, he had tried to have himself installed as chief executive of Debenhams, but instead had his stake in the chain wiped out when the retailer was rescued by its lenders.\n\nGoals Soccer Centres, the five-a-side football operator in which Sports Direct has an 18% stake, has had accounting issues and issued profits warnings.\n\nAnalysts at the stockbroker Peel Hunt are concerned the acquisition spree is putting too much pressure on management.\n\n\"Let's be clear: we think Mike Ashley is a genius when it comes to sports retail. No doubt about it,\" they say in a research note.\n\n\"However, to make an analogy, he's trying to coach the England football team whilst running the netball, the tennis and the chess team as well.\n\n\"Unfortunately for him, his key lieutenants are starting to jump ship: Karen Byers, who has been instrumental in the growth of the core business, has left and that is another savage blow,\" they added.\n\nCameron Olsen, company secretary, who worked for Mike Ashley for 15 years, is also leaving, according to reports.\n\n\"House of Fraser is clearly in a degree of disarray, it would appear that the finance department is under-staffed to cope with the array of acquisitions, and we are also concerned about the direction of the core business,\" the Peel Hunt analysts said.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Nick Bubb described the announcement from Sports Direct about the delay to its results as \"devastating\".\n\n\"The company hasn't updated the City since its interims in December and House of Fraser is clearly a disaster area, so this is a serious situation,\" he said.\n\nAs well as citing the \"complexities of integration into the company of House of Fraser\", as one the factors behind the delay to its results, Sports Direct also pointed to \"increased regulatory scrutiny of auditors\".\n\nSports Direct said that other companies' audits were also taking longer, and Mr Bubb noted that Superdry has delayed its results earlier this month due to complexities in the figures.\n\nThe accounting regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, had looked into Grant Thornton's audit of Sports Direct's 2018 results as part of its annual review process.\n\nThe regulator found that, overall, 50% of Grant Thornton's audits were below the acceptable standard.\n\n\"These factors have led to a need for the company to compile more information than in previous years,\" Sports Direct said.\n\n\"Sports Direct would note that its core principles in regards to its financial statement are be conservative, consistent and simple,\" it added.", "The life and achievements of Alan Turing - the mathematician, codebreaker, computer pioneer, artificial intelligence theoretician, and gay/cultural icon - are being celebrated to mark what would have been his 100th birthday on 23 June.\n\nTo mark the occasion the BBC has commissioned a series of essays to run across the week, starting with this overview of Turing's legacy by Vint Cerf.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Cellan-Jones gets a sneak preview of an exhibition dedicated to the life of work of scientists and computer pioneer Alan Turing.\n\nI've worked in computing, and more specifically computer networking, nearly all my life. It's an industry in a constant state of innovation, always pushing beyond the limits of current capability.\n\nIt is sometimes said that \"broadband\" is whatever network speed you don't have, yet!\n\nThings we take for granted today were, not that long ago, huge technological breakthroughs.\n\nAlthough I've been lucky enough in my career to be involved in the development of the internet, I've never lost sight of the role played by my predecessors, without whose pioneering labour, so much would not have been accomplished.\n\nTuring studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge before obtaining a PhD from Princeton University in the US\n\nThis year, in the centenary of his birth, there is one man in particular who is deservedly the focus of attention: Alan Turing.\n\nTuring was born into a world that was very different, culturally and technologically, yet his contribution has never been more important.\n\nHis is a story of astounding highs and devastating lows. A story of a genius whose mathematical insights helped save thousands of lives, yet who was unable to save himself from social condemnation, with tragic results. Ultimately though, it's a story of a legacy that laid the foundations for the modern computer age.\n\nIn 1936, while at King's College, Cambridge, Turing published a seminal paper On Computable Numbers which introduced two key concepts - \"algorithms\" and \"computing machines\" - that continue to play a central role in our industry today.\n\nHe is remembered most vividly for his work on cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park during World War II, developing in 1940 the so-called electro-mechanical Bombe used to determine the correct rotor and plugboard settings of the German Enigma encryptor to decrypt intercepted messages.\n\nIt would be hard to overstate the importance of this work for the Allies in their conduct of the war.\n\nAfter the war, Turing worked on the design of of the Automatic Computing Engine (Ace) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and in 1946, he delivered a paper on the design of a stored program computer.\n\nHis work was contemporary with another giant in computer science, John von Neumann, who worked on the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (Edvac).\n\nAce and Edvac were binary machines and both broke new conceptual ground with the notion of a program stored in memory that drove the operation of the machine.\n\nStoring a program in the computer's memory meant that the program could alter itself, opening up remarkable new computing vistas.\n\nThe bombe decryption machine - based on Turing's designs - was used to work out the daily settings of the German's Enigma machine in World War II\n\nRemarkably, the Ace designs found their way into the Bendix Corporation's G-15 computer by way of Harry Huskey who had spent 1947 working on the Ace project at NPL.\n\nThe first Bendix G-15 ran in 1954, the year that Alan Turing tragically died.\n\nIn 1949, Turing became the deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Manchester where he focused on the software needed to drive the Manchester Mark 1 stored program computer. In 1950, he published a paper entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he explored the notion of artificial intelligence.\n\nIn this paper, he posed the so-called Turing Test in which an artificial intelligence would be judged intelligent if another human could not tell the difference between the responses of a human and the artificially intelligent machine.\n\nWhile this too-short and incomplete summary does not do justice to Alan Turing's immense contributions to the birth of computer science and computing, it has great personal resonance for me.\n\nAs it happens, I share the same birth date with Turing - mine is June 23 1943, when his code cracking was at a peak.\n\nEven more coincidental, the first computer I ever got to programme was a Bendix G-15 at UCLA that my best friend, Stephen Crocker, was able to obtain access to in 1960 when we were both in our teens.\n\nThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) calls its highest award the Alan M Turing Award which includes a $250,000 (£160,000) prize that is partly subsidised by Google.\n\nMy colleague Robert Kahn and I were so honoured in 2004 with this recognition for our work on the internet.\n\nTuring's legacy continues to evolve, astonish, challenge and excite. His insights and fearless approach to daunting problems set benchmarks for decades to come.\n\nHis clarity of thought and creative genius infused those with whom he worked. His conceptual notions, such as the Universal Turing Machine, provided the basis for serious analysis of computability and decidability.\n\nHis practical realisations of computing engines, special systems like the bombe and general purpose ones such as Ace, shed bright light on the feasibility of purposeful computing and lit the way towards the computing rich environment we find in the 21st Century.\n\nHad he lived to see 2012, one wonders what his thoughts might be and what new ideas he would challenge us to think about.\n\nAs my own journey into computing and networking continues to unfold, I find myself wondering and wishing that Turing were still around to consult.\n\nWhen plans to build Turing's Ace leaked the press dubbed the proposed computer a \"giant brain\"\n\nHis fresh way of articulating problems would surely cast new light on solutions.\n\nIn addition to working towards higher speeds and more parallelism in computing and communications, I have spent some serious time thinking about and helping to formulate methods for communication across the long distances of the solar system.\n\nMy colleagues and I have had to re-think the basic communication paradigms for large scale networking owing to the slow nature of light speed propagation (eg 20 minutes one way from Earth to Mars) and disruption caused by planetary motion.\n\nThe problems only get worse when thinking about interstellar communication. Yet, these ideas must inevitably be confronted and solved as the human race continues its drive to expand beyond the planet of our origin.\n\nMortality is an affliction that limits our ability to explore our galaxy. Turing's ideas for artificial intelligence make one wonder whether the legacy of the human race will be intelligent robots that might be maintained in perpetuity to serve as our surrogates in a migration to the stars.\n\nTuring is a hero to so many Google engineers, and we are deeply gratified to help commemorate and preserve his legacy.\n\nLast year Google helped Bletchley Park raise funds to purchase Turing's papers so they could be preserved for public display in their museum.\n\nLondon's Science Museum will host an exhibition exploring Turing's life until June 2013\n\nMore recently, we've funded and collaborated with the London Science Museum as they put together their stunning new exhibition \"Codebreaker: celebrating the life and legacy of Alan Turing\".\n\nThey've gathered an amazing collection of artefacts - including items loaned by GCHQ, the government intelligence agency, that have never before been on public display. But the most impressive part isn't the items on show, but the way they're woven together to tell a story not just of his scientific achievements, but of the man himself.\n\nIt illuminates Turing, the man, and explains what he contributed in a profoundly moving way that anyone can understand.\n\nI hope it will help make Turing a hero and household name beyond the technical community that reveres his memory.\n\nIndeed, 2012 has been dubbed the \"Alan Turing year\" by the scientific community, with a series of events and lectures taking place all over the world. I'm personally taking part in several.\n\nTo celebrate his birthday (and mine!) I will be speaking at the Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester about his legacy in the networked world. I hope you'll join me - whether in person, or in spirit - in commemorating the life and work of this truly remarkable genius.\n\nVint Cerf is a computer scientist who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols used to create the internet's underlying architecture. He was later dubbed one of the \"founding fathers of the internet\". In 2005 he joined Google to help the search giant develop its network systems, and continues to serve as its chief internet evangelist.", "There will never be another finish to a World Cup final like that.\n\nFor England to win it, in front of a full house at Lord's in that incredible atmosphere, on free-to-air TV, with a massive audience on the radio and online, could not have been any better.\n\nIf that doesn't show people what an amazing sport cricket is and entice them to get into the game, I'm not sure what will.\n\nIt was the most ridiculous game of cricket, tied twice. You can debate the fairness of winning on the amount of boundaries scored, and you have to have some sympathy for New Zealand. How would we feel about that system if England had lost?\n\nBut, if the objective of this summer was to sell the game, maybe if England had lost we would still feel the final was something that would put cricket right up there as a sport everyone should get involved in.\n\nEverything that was wanted to be achieved was achieved, and so much more on top. Now cricket has an amazing platform from which to build.\n\nI don't think the England and Wales Cricket Board, and those of us who love cricket, can have asked for anything more.\n\nThere were times when I thought England had lost. In fact, until that flukey throw glanced off Ben Stokes' bat and went for four overthrows, they were second-favourites.\n\nThat was a massive slice of fortune, one that makes you think someone was looking down on England.\n\nThe curious thing is, had it not gone for four, it wouldn't have given them an advantage, because Stokes wasn't going to run. But, once it hit the rope, that was that.\n\nIt was such a strange thing to happen at such a crucial moment and ultimately saved them.\n\nThat is not to underestimate the role Stokes played in England's salvation.\n\nThis is a man who conceded four successive sixes in the final over of the 2016 World T20 final defeat and a year ago was standing trial for affray.\n\nUnderneath all of that, he has always been a fantastic cricketer, one helped through it all by the support of a wonderful family.\n\nIn the company of Jos Buttler, he turned things around - the pair of them using all of their one-day experience and nous.\n\nSome may talk about redemption, but to me, that's not the point. Stokes was merely doing his job, albeit doing it very, very well.\n\nWhile it was Stokes at Lord's, the planning that went in to that day was led by Andrew Strauss, Trevor Bayliss and Eoin Morgan.\n\nMorgan, the captain, is an extraordinary man. He has changed so much from the player that first came into the England team, one who was quite difficult to talk to, especially when it came to his Irish background.\n\nHe has matured beyond all recognition into an engaging, calm and thoughtful leader. I have so much admiration for him.\n\nFour years ago, the captaincy was thrust upon him on the eve of a World Cup that turned out to be a truly dismal tournament for England.\n\nTo turn things around, he put himself on the line with a new way of playing and by backing the players he wanted.\n\nNot only that, he recognised just how big this World Cup was for the game as a whole. He showed incredible humility and I am so, so pleased that he has become the first England captain to get his hands on the trophy.\n\nAlong with Bayliss, they have created an environment for the players to thrive.\n\nBayliss was hired to win the World Cup and that is what he has done. Outwardly he is unflappable, setting the tone in a dressing room where players are encouraged to take risks.\n\nThere was one shot that Buttler played on Sunday, a scoop over his shoulder, that left me wondering how he had the courage to do it.\n\nIf he had missed it, and had his middle stump blown out, there are some circumstances where he would have been castigated.\n\nNot in this England team, and that is a mentality that comes from Bayliss allowing the players to express themselves without fear of failure.\n\nBayliss' appointment, being aligned with the former assistant coach Paul Farbrace, was part of the vision of Strauss, the ex-director of cricket who presided over England's new attitude to one-day cricket.\n\nIt was Strauss and ECB chairman Colin Graves who earmarked this World Cup, putting new emphasis on the 50-over game and bringing the white-ball players in line with those who play in Tests.\n\nAnyone who was in Adelaide four years ago to see England dumped out by Bangladesh will know what a remarkable transformation they have been through. The majority of that came on Strauss' watch and I am delighted he was at Lord's to see the end result.\n\nStrauss was working for Sky, who can take great credit for making the game available on free-to-air television.\n\nSky do their thing, and that is great, but now they have probably secured subscribers of the future.\n\nNot only that, but cricket will have new players and supporters, because the game could not have advertised itself any better.\n\nWas it better than 2005, the unforgettable Ashes? That series will always be right up there, but to be there while Morgan did a lap of honour, watched by 29,000 people swept away by the occasion, was about as special as it gets.\n\nIt really was a perfect day.\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup", "A Punch magazine tribute to Mary Seacole in 1857 (left) and a London statue of British-Indian agent Noor Inayat Khan\n\nComedian Sanjeev Bhaskar and presenter Sandi Toksvig are among those calling for a historic figure from a black and ethnic minority background (BAME) to feature on the new £50 note.\n\nThe Bank of England last month asked the public to nominate a British scientist to feature on the note.\n\nCampaigners say the chosen figure should recognise \"the contribution of ethnic minorities\" to British culture.\n\nCrimean War nurse Mary Seacole is among their suggested candidates.\n\nAnother is wartime secret agent Noor Inayat Khan, the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France.\n\nMore than 200 people, including Lord Victor Adebowale and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, signed the letter published in the Sunday Times.\n\n\"We do not lack candidates, and arguably their achievements were the greater for having been made at a time when many careers and were effectively closed to them, whether through colonial rules, racism, or the legacy of slavery,\" it states.\n\nGreat British Bake Off and QI presentter Sandi Toksvig is one of the faces behind the campaign\n\nThe letter also points out that \"no-one from an ethnic minority has yet featured on a banknote\" despite BAME communities representing \"14% of the British population\".\n\n\"Changing this would send a message that the contribution of ethnic minorities to Britain's history, culture and economy is recognised and valued,\" it reads.\n\n\"What better representation of 'global Britain' could there be?\"\n\nLate last month the Bank said it had received 174,112 nominations for the £50 portrait in less than four weeks.\n\nIt released a list of more than 800 eligible nominees, including Seacole along with computing pioneers Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Hawking.\n\nTo be eligible, the individual must be real, deceased and have contributed to any field of science in the UK.\n\nThe final full list is yet to be released; nominations closed on Friday.\n\nStephen Hawking and Ada Lovelace are being considered\n\nWanda Wyporska, the Equality Trust executive director, said it was time \"our black heroes and heroines\" were recognised for their contribution to British society.\n\n\"Now more than ever, we need to celebrate the rich diversity of UK society: representation on bank notes is a great way to do this,\" she said.\n\nSteam engine pioneers James Watt and Matthew Boulton appear on the current £50, issued in 2011.\n\nSpace scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, author and genetics expert Emily Grossman, and theoretical and particle physicist Simon Singh are among those responsible for drawing up a shortlist.\n\nThe final choice will be made by Bank of England governor Mark Carney in 2019.", "Police escort far-right protesters in the east German town of Chemnitz\n\nPolice in Germany have removed nearly 200 black crosses put up by far-right activists in the east of the country.\n\nThe spray-painted wooden crosses commemorating German people allegedly killed by foreigners were fixed to road signs or planted at the roadside.\n\nPolice are now investigating suspected incitement to racial hatred.\n\nOfficials say there is no evidence for far-right claims that foreigners have killed thousands of Germans since 1990, when Germany was reunified.\n\nThe black crosses began appearing in Germany in 2014, before a big influx of migrants to the country took place in 2015.\n\nA number of crosses have since been put up every July in the years since.\n\nThe crosses put up this year appeared in the north-eastern federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They bore xenophobic slogans such as \"migration kills\", \"stop the death of the people\" and \"we don't forget German victims of foreigners\".\n\nMany appeared in impoverished areas. Local media quoted intelligence reports as saying that the far-right scene in the region was well organised and networked.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NDR MV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim died in hospital after being found with a \"number of stab wounds\"\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in London.\n\nThe 19-year-old man is in custody after the 22-year-old victim was found with a \"number of stab wounds\" in Greenwich on Wednesday, police said.\n\nDespite \"extensive efforts of medical staff\" to save the victim's life, he died about six hours after being found in Tellson Avenue at about 14:45 BST.\n\nThe Met said the suspect was arrested at an address in Lambeth on Sunday.\n\nIt is believed the 22-year-old victim was attacked in an alleyway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cash use is falling, with predictions that fewer than one in 10 transactions will be completed with notes and coins in 10 years' time.\n\nTen years ago, cash was used in six out of 10 payments, but it has been overtaken in popularity by debit cards, driven by the use of contactless technology.\n\nA review of payments, published by banking trade body UK Finance on Thursday, said cash was here to stay, but would play a less important role in the future.\n\nThe most recent figures show cash payments are still common, but declining - down 16% from 2017 to 2018, while debit card use is rising.\n\nContactless payments on debit cards were once used primarily by young adults, but older consumers have adopted the technology, with some of the biggest rises in the last year among pensioners.\n\nThe use of contactless was given a massive leg-up a few years ago, when it was adopted by the London Underground. Now, however, other regions have caught up with - or overtaken - London in terms of the proportion of adults who make contactless payments.\n\nTheories about the lower take-up in the North West of England include an ageing population in coastal towns sticking with cash, plus the lack of digital access owing to a lack of connectivity in areas such as the Lake District.\n\nOverall, this means that debit cards are used more than any other form of payments in our monthly outgoings, but cash is far from dead.", "Watch the moment that Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win England the World Cup.\n\nFOLLOW REACTION: England beat New Zealand to win first World Cup title\n\nWATCH MORE: Wood run out off the last ball as World Cup final ends in a tie\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Boris Johnson (l) and Jeremy Hunt (r) made the comments during a head-to-head debate run by The Sun newspaper\n\nBoth candidates to be the UK's next PM have condemned tweets by Donald Trump which called on four Democratic congresswomen of colour to \"go back\".\n\nDuring a head-to-head debate run by The Sun, Jeremy Hunt called the remarks \"totally offensive\", while Boris Johnson said they were \"unacceptable\".\n\nBut neither would go as far as branding the US president's comments racist.\n\nMr Trump said the women \"originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe\".\n\nHe faced a backlash for the series of tweets on Sunday aimed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley - who were all born in the US - and Ilhan Omar - who went to the US as a child refugee when she was 12.\n\nHis remarks were widely condemned as racist, and as having gone beyond previous statements and actions by the president that drew allegations of racism.\n\nBut Mr Trump doubled down on his comments on Monday, accusing the congresswomen of \"hating our country\".\n\nEarlier, he also launched another Twitter tirade, calling on the women themselves to apologise.\n\nAll the women called the president racist and were backed by members of the Democratic Party.\n\nAsked about the tweets during the debate, Mr Hunt - who is married to a Chinese woman - said he would be \"utterly appalled\" if someone said the same thing to their three children, who were born in the UK.\n\n\"It is totally un-British to do that, so I hope that would never happen,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"If you are the leader of a great, multi-racial, multi-cultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from.\n\n\"That went out decades and decades ago and thank heavens for that.\"\n\nHe also echoed comments made by outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, who earlier called the tweets \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left), Rashida Tlaib (centre) and Ayanna Pressley (right) accused the president of racism\n\nBut asked by The Sun's political editor, Tom Newton-Dunn, if they thought the comments were racist, neither candidate would say.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"Look, I'm foreign secretary, this is a president of a country which happens to be our closest ally, and so it is not going to help the situation to use that kind of language about the president of the United States.\n\n\"I can understand how many people in this country would want politicians like me to use those words and would feel that sentiment, but...I hope I have made absolutely clear how totally offensive it is to me that people are still saying that kind of thing.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I simply can't understand how a leader of that country can come to say it.\"\n\nPressed again, he added: \"You can take from what I said what I think about President Trump's words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe candidates were also questioned about the possibility of a future trade deal with the US.\n\nMr Hunt said whenever he had met with the US president and his administration, they had \"stressed how enthusiastic\" they were to do a deal.\n\nBut he admitted that Mr Trump would be a \"very tough and crude\" negotiator.\n\nMr Johnson agreed, calling the administration \"ruthless\" and saying the country would put \"tough conditions\" on any agreement with the UK.\n\nBut he added that this did not mean it was \"impossible to do a good deal\".", "At the Made in America showcase, the president responded to questions about the meaning behind his weekend tweets, which some critics say were racist toward four Democratic members of Congress.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEngland have beaten New Zealand in a thrilling final at Lord's to win the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup. Who are England's newest world champions?\n\nThe England squad is made up of 15 new world champions, but they have come from all around the globe.\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan was born in Dublin, Jofra Archer in Barbados and Jason Roy in South Africa.\n\nMan of the match Ben Stokes was born in New Zealand but moved to Cockermouth in Cumbria when he was 12 when his father Gerard was made head coach at Workington Town rugby league club.\n\nThe young Stokes turned out for Cockermouth Cricket Club and is well-remembered there.\n\nJohn Grainger from the club said Stokes' success had been an inspiration.\n\nMore than 2,500 people turned out to see England's hero when he visited the club two years ago, and Mr Grainger said: \"He was almost the Pied Piper of Cockermouth.\"\n\nBen Stokes and Joe Root are two of England's 15 new world champions\n\nSpeaking from his home in New Zealand, Stokes' dad joked he was \"probably the most hated father in New Zealand\" while his mum Deb said she was \"numb\" and \"hiding under my blanket\" during the game.\n\nMr Stokes said both teams did their nations proud and the game is \"already in the annals of folklore as the best game of one-day cricket ever played\".\n\nHe said: \"When we were watching it, it was an incredible feeling to have your son out there doing what he does and then getting right down to the last ball.\n\n\"He was very emotional [after the game]. He doesn't usually show that, but it was a special day for us as a family.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Stokes said: \"At the end of the game I just cried my eyes out.\n\n\"[Stokes] was absolutely beaming. I think he was a little bit gobsmacked. He actually said 'I still can't believe this'. It was great.\n\n\"We'll probably catch up with him in two or three days for a proper talk.\"\n\nBen Stokes hit an unbeaten 84 before the match went to the super over\n\nWicketkeeper Jos Buttler, who completed the match-winning run out, comes from the opposite end of England - Somerset.\n\nHis mother Pat watched her son from the Tavern Stand at Lord's and said there was some confusion in the final moments surrounding the super over.\n\n\"When the scores were level we thought we might have won,\" she said.\n\n\"Everybody stood around looking and thinking 'have we won, because we beat them in the group stages?'\n\n\"But it wasn't to be and we had to do it all again.\n\n\"We still didn't know we'd won until Jos set off on his victory charge.\"\n\nMs Buttler said she was able to celebrate with her son in the Long Room at Lord's and on the pitch after the game but is yet to speak to him the day after he became a world champion.\n\n\"I'm told he's still asleep,\" she said.\n\nJos Buttler celebrated with his family after removing the bails for the match-winning run out\n\nMeanwhile, celebrations were also under way in Sheffield, home city of Joe Root.\n\nCrowds cheered on the batsman at Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club, where the 28-year-old made his cricketing debut.\n\nJosh Varley, first-team captain, said: \"The atmosphere was fantastic. I can't put into words how amazing it was.\"\n\nChris Stewart, who taught Root at school, remembers the batsman as a \"lovely, really well-grounded lad\".\n\nMr Stewart, a teacher at Dore Primary School, said: \"He was sensible, conscientious, a brilliant artist and obviously a tremendous sportsman.\"\n\nReflecting on Sunday's win, he said: \"Nothing will surpass it. It was absolutely tremendous.\"\n\n\"It was brilliant for the whole country and hopefully it's going to bring some children on and inspire the next generation of cricketers,\" he added.\n\nHis wife Katie Stewart, who is captain of the collegiate's women's cricket team, said: \"I feel really humbled and privileged to have a connection here.\"\n\nAdil Rashid was born in Bradford, Jos Buttler in Taunton and Moeen Ali in Birmingham\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Mail is releasing special commemorative stamps and repainting post boxes gold and white at each ground which hosted a game in both the men's and women's world cups, both tournaments having been won by England.\n\nAnd T20 clubs said they have noticed an increase in ticket sales.\n\nA spokesman for Sussex Cricket Club said: \"It's been really good to have cricket in the public eye for two months and then England winning it.\"\n\nHe said their first game of the season against rivals Surrey on 26 July is \"effectively a sell out\" while there has also been a rise in the number of season tickets sold.\n\nThe Durham Jets said it was too soon to say if the world cup has had an impact but a spokesman said it was expected to have some affect.\n\nHe also said the number of children going to games has increased although that could be due to other initiatives as well as the world cup.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I have to pick an item every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10-hour day'\n\nThousands of workers in Amazon sites around the world are staging protests about pay and conditions as the online retailer begins its annual sale.\n\nOn Monday, Amazon starts offering discounts to its Prime service members.\n\nUnions say that 2,000 workers are on strike in Germany, while in the US, workers in a Minnesota centre reportedly plan a six-hour stoppage. In the UK, week-long protests are planned.\n\nWilliam Stolz, a picker at a warehouse in the Shakopee warehouse in Minnesota, told the BBC that workers wanted \"safe, reliable jobs\" from Amazon.\n\nHe says he has to pick an item about every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10 hour day.\n\n\"The speeds that we have to work are very physically and mentally exhausting, in some cases leading to injuries,\" he said.\n\n\"Basically we just want them to treat us with respect as human beings and not treat us like machines,\" he said.\n\nPrime Day begins on Monday, but actually lasts 48 hours. The Seattle-based retailer, founded by Jeff Bezos, says new deals will launch as often as every five minutes \"giving shoppers plenty of reasons to come back again and again\".\n\nOne of the most valuable public companies in the world - making Mr Bezos the world's richest man - Amazon rang up total sales of $235bn (£188bn) of online sales last year.\n\nIn Germany, where Amazon employs 20,000 people, labour union Verdi said more than 2,000 workers at seven sites had gone on strike under the logo \"no more discount on our incomes\".\n\n\"While Amazon fuels bargain hunting on Prime Day with hefty discounts, employees are being deprived of a living wage,\" said Orhan Akman, retail specialist at Verdi.\n\nIn the UK, GMB union officials handed leaflets to workers arriving at the site in Peterborough in the East Midlands, and in the coming days protests are expected at other sites such as Swansea and Rugeley, in the West Midlands.\n\nMick Rix, GMB national officer, said: \"Amazon workers want Jeff Bezos to know they are people not robots. It's prime time for Amazon to get round the table with GMB and discuss ways to make the workplaces safer and to give their workers and independence voice\".\n\nUnions say that 2,000 workers are on strike in Germany\n\nWhile the GMB was not calling on shoppers to boycott Amazon, he said customers could act.\n\n\"We're not calling for economic damage for Amazon,\" he said. \"What we're asking for is for people to be aware. Leave feed back on Amazon\".\n\nIn response, Amazon said it \"provided great employment opportunities with excellent pay\".\n\nIt encouraged people to compare its operations in Shakopee with other employees in the area.\n\nIn the UK, where it employs 29,500 people, a spokesperson said the company offered industry-leading pay starting at £9.50 per hour and was the \"employer of choice for thousands of people across the UK\".\n\nIt said its German operations offered wages \"at the upper end of what is paid in comparable jobs\" and it was \"seeing very limited participation [in strikes] across Germany with zero operational impact and therefore no impact on customer deliveries\".\n\nIn total, Amazon has a global workforce of 630,000, with 300,000 in the US.", "The man tasked with working out how to improve UK railways says a \"Fat Controller\" type figure, independent from government, should be in charge of day-to-day operations.\n\nThe former boss of British Airways, Keith Williams, said government involvement should be limited to overall policy and budget decisions.\n\nBut he said the Department for Transport should not manage the system.\n\nHis review of the rail system will be published this autumn.\n\nThe Fat Controller is a fictional character who manages the railways in Thomas the Tank Engine, the children's television series based on The Railway Series books.\n\nMr Williams said he also believed that, in the future, rail franchises should be underpinned by punctuality and other performance-related targets.\n\nThe government launched the review after passengers in northern and southern England experienced chaos over several weeks last summer following the introduction of a new timetable.\n\nBy December, punctuality across the country had dropped to a 13-year low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Somebody needs to be accountable to the public'\n\nIn a BBC interview Mr Williams insisted the interests of passengers would shape every aspect of his work and that the creation of an individual or organisation with oversight of the entire rail system would be \"key for regaining public trust.\"\n\n\"Someone needs to be accountable to the public,\" he said.\n\nHe is still to decide on what relationship the individual or organisation would have with government but he said Network Rail, the public company managing rail infrastructure, should not take on an overall managerial role.\n\nThe idea has echoes of the Strategic Rail Authority, a body which, from 2001 to 2006, provided \"strategic direction\" for the industry.\n\nMr Williams had already said that the current rail franchising model was finished, but he has now indicated that a franchise should last longer than the current average of seven to eight years.\n\nHe argues that if train companies were in charge of networks for more time they would have more incentive to invest.\n\nAs things stand, under a franchise agreement, a train company will make a series of commitments to the government which have to be delivered.\n\nAccording to Mr Williams, a franchise should no longer be about \"how many ticketing offices there are in a station\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future?\n\nHis team is looking into how franchises could focus instead on performance targets such as punctuality and whether or not services have the correct number of carriages - something which continues to be a problem for passengers in the north of England.\n\nThe rail review also looks set to recommend an overhaul of the complicated rail ticketing system, which has not been reformed since the mid-90s.\n\n\"Pay-as-you-go across regions and cities has been difficult to implement because of the fares system that exists today,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nHe said a national system should be created to allow more third-party companies like thetrainline.com to improve the way people buy tickets.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of rail union RMT, said it had warned that \"Keith Williams had been hand-picked by Chris Grayling and the Tories to try and get them off the hook over the privatised chaos on our railways\".\n\nHe added: \"RMT also warned that Keith Williams would side 100% with his big-business mates and duck the issue of public ownership of the railways - the option supported by over two-thirds of the British people.\n\n\"He has and after months of deliberation has come up with the classic cop-out of another unaccountable quango.\"", "With schools breaking up for the summer holidays, there are fears about a rise in violence\n\nNew figures from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan show what he says is a clear link between poverty in the capital and the rise in serious youth violence.\n\nThe data shows that the poorest areas of London are most likely to experience the highest levels of serious crime among youngsters.\n\nThe data comes amid fears that the end of the school year could see a rise in knife crime across major cities.\n\nMr Khan says he is funding 43 summer projects for vulnerable youngsters.\n\nHe is also appealing to the government for more cash.\n\nLondon has experienced a rise in killings since 2012 - and 2018 was the worst year on record for the city for a decade.\n\nThe study for the mayor's office shows that the poorer an area of the city is, the higher the rates of youth violence are likely to be.\n\nRichmond upon Thames has the lowest level of youth violence in the capital - and it is also the least deprived borough in the city, based on official figures.\n\nTower Hamlets in east London is one of the poorest areas in England - and the data shows it has now one of the highest rates of youth violence in the capital.\n\nOther official statistics, such as rates of adolescent mental health, teenage pregnancies and domestic abuse, also reveal a correlation between serious youth violence and the poorest areas of London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said in March there was \"some link\" between falling police numbers and a rise in violence crime.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Khan said: \"There are still some who say that to acknowledge this link between poverty, deprivation and crime is somehow to excuse criminality and to let the criminals off the hook. I say this is dangerous rubbish.\n\n\"There's never any excuse for criminality. But we have to face the reality that for some young people growing up today, violence has become normalised.\n\n\"And - with hope at rock bottom... turning to crime and gangs has become an all too easy route to satisfy the lure of gaining respect and money - however misguided this is.\"\n\nWith schools breaking up for the summer holidays, Mr Khan said he was putting £360,000 into 43 projects intended to work with 3,500 young people who are at risk of getting involved in crime.\n\nHalf of the summer projects are in neighbourhoods which are in the top 10% for rates of serious youth violence.\n\n\"It's time for the government to acknowledge that this is a national problem that requires an urgent national solution. No more scratching around the edges. We need a proper national strategy,\" said Mr Khan.\n\nThe government confirmed at the weekend it wants to create a new \"public health duty\" to legally compel schools and other bodies to spot and act on the signs of serious violence.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the change was not enough on its own and called on the next prime minister to ensure preventative services had the \"right resources\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May, who has pledged £100m for police in the worst-hit areas, is meeting youngsters on Monday to hear about their experiences of serious violence.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's World Cup-winning cricket team have met Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street.\n\nBoth England and New Zealand scored 241 runs from their 50 overs in Sunday's final at Lord's, before Eoin Morgan's side won after a dramatic super over.\n\nThe victory meant England won the World Cup for the first time after losing in the finals of the 1979, 1987 and 1992 competitions.\n\nMay and Morgan were pictured sharing a joke before they posed with the trophy.\n\nCricket fan May was at Lord's on Sunday and tweeted 'well done' to the team after their victory.\n\nAnother former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, who is an honorary life vice-president of Surrey County Cricket Club, was also at the reception at Downing Street.\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup\n• None England halfway to 'pinnacle' of World Cup-Ashes double, says Root\n\n\"You have helped the nation fall in love with cricket once again,\" May told the England players.\n\n\"The final was not just cricket at its best but sport at its best - courage, character, sportsmanship, drama, incredible skill and even the odd slice of luck - all combining to create a real thriller, one of the great sporting spectacles of our time.\n\n\"It was a fitting end to what has been a great tournament - and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in once again making our country a sporting showcase for the world.\"\n\nFind out how to get into cricket with our inclusive guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTennis fans must \"wake up to the greatness\" of Novak Djokovic after he won his 16th Grand Slam, says his former coach Boris Becker.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic, 32, won his fifth Wimbledon title by beating Centre Court favourite Roger Federer in a classic.\n\nVictory in the longest ever Wimbledon singles final moved him closer to Federer's men's record of 20 major triumphs. Rafael Nadal, with 18, separates the pair.\n\nDjokovic struggled to win over a pro-Federer crowd, who clapped some of his misses and jeered him at one point during a tense final set.\n\n\"It triggered him to fight in the fifth set,\" said Becker, who coached Djokovic between 2013 and 2016.\n\n\"He got a bit riled and gave some stares to people in the crowd but that's how he works, that's how he ticks.\n\n\"There comes a point when you get frustrated, but I thought he handled himself well and was mentally well prepared.\"\n\nSwiss second seed Federer, 37, was aiming for a record-extending ninth men's singles title at the All England Club, which would have matched Martina Navratilova's all-time leading tally.\n\nFederer is the darling of the Centre Court crowd and was backed by the majority of the 15,000 fans in what became an increasingly partisan atmosphere.\n\nThat was most apparent when Djokovic was booed when he went over to chair umpire Damian Steiner to discuss what he felt was a late Hawk-Eye challenge from Federer.\n\n\"Federer is the greatest of all-time here and has the right to get that love, but on the other side you have to respect a four-time champion a little bit more,\" said Becker, a three-time winner at SW19.\n\n\"I hope next year, if they played again, it would be more even.\n\n\"He came into the party that was the Roger and Rafa party and he became the party pooper.\n\n\"Now, after 16 majors, people have got to wake up to the greatness of Novak Djokovic.\"\n\n'Djokovic wants to be the greatest'\n\nDjokovic retained his Wimbledon title by fighting off two championship points before beating Federer with a record four hours 57 minutes on the clock.\n\nAnd Becker believes the world number one will not rest until he has surpassed Federer and Nadal.\n\n\"Novak is not quite happy yet,\" the German said. \"He's one of the greatest of all of time but he wants to be the greatest of all time.\n\n\"He should be more than proud to have achieved 16 majors. If you told him that 15 years ago he would have said 'I don't believe you' and he would have taken one or two.\"\n\nDjokovic's triumph means he has now won four of the past five Grand Slam titles and, being almost six years younger than Federer, could add plenty more barring a loss of form or fitness.\n\nHis pursuit of Federer and Nadal is made more remarkable by the fact he won his first major in 2008 - when Federer had claimed 13 and Nadal five - and only added a second three years later.\n\n\"Honestly I think he can overtake them, but I wouldn't like to say that for sure,\" said Becker. \"The race is on.\n\n\"This endless talk of who will be the most successful will continue as long as all three of them are playing.\n\n\"I don't see the end of the road for any of the three. I believe all of them will win more Grand Slams.\n\n\"Novak's work ethic is 24/7 and he actually admitted at the end that Federer - still reaching Grand Slam finals at the age of 37 - inspired him.\"\n\nTim Henman, a former British number one and three-time Wimbledon semi-finalist, also believes Djokovic's hunger will only increase.\n\n\"This victory will motivate him to keep putting in the hard work and winning more titles. Federer and Nadal are very much in his sights,\" he added.\n\n\"He's a year younger than Nadal and five younger than Federer - we all know he fancies overtaking those two.\"\n\n'Sometimes it is lost Djokovic is one of the greatest grass-courters'\n\nDjokovic's fifth Wimbledon win, in addition to triumphs in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2018, saw him move alongside Swedish great Bjorn Borg in terms of Open era victories.\n\nOnly Federer (eight) and Pete Sampras (seven) have won more since the sport became open to professional players in 1968.\n\n\"I think because of Federer winning eight, it is sometimes lost that Djokovic is one of the greatest grass-court players in history,\" Henman said.\n\n\"He's up to five and you wouldn't put it past him winning more titles in future.\"\n\n'This will sting Federer' - but he can win more Slams\n\nFederer, who turns 38 next month, was bidding to become the oldest Grand Slam men's singles champion in the Open era and missed two opportunities for the title at 8-7 in the decider before going on to lose about 45 minutes later.\n\n\"There's no doubt Federer will be massively disappointed,\" Henman said.\n\n\"In terms of disappointments in his career this will be right up there. To have two match points and against one of his biggest rivals on his favourite court - it will hurt.\n\n\"I know he's good at controlling his emotions, but this will sting for a long, long time.\"\n\nBecker does not think Federer has seen his last chance of Wimbledon glory disappear, however.\n\n\"I think he can go from strength to strength. I was very impressed with his fitness and his quality of play against Nadal and Federer,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't see him slowing down yet.\"", "Watch the moment Eoin Morgan and England lift the Cricket World Cup trophy after a dramatic sudden-death super over against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nWATCH MORE: The moment England won the World Cup\n\nREAD MORE: England win their first men's Cricket World Cup in dramatic finale\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the protesters have glued themselves around the boat\n\nClimate protesters have blocked a key city centre road in Cardiff, with commuters warned to expect disruption.\n\nA number of members of Extinction Rebellion are outside Cardiff Castle and have parked a green boat in the middle of the street.\n\nThe group want to raise awareness about climate change but there have been calls for them to end the protest.\n\nMotorists have been warned to avoid the city centre as police expect disruption to last into the evening on Monday.\n\nCardiff Bus said it experienced severe delays to services and commuters also faced delays during the morning rush hour.\n\nPolice have closed the road to vehicles from the junction with Queen Street to Westgate Street.\n\nA boat has been placed in the middle of the busy road\n\nCardiff is one of \"five centres of disruption\" planned by the group, with others due to take place in Leeds, Glasgow, London and Bristol during the \"five-day national campaign\" of protests.\n\n\"We want to achieve some serious changes by the government, we are hoping to raise awareness, get people talking about it,\" said Livvy, one of the protesters.\n\n\"If you weigh it up against the disruption down the line, this is nothing compared to what will happen if we do nothing.\n\n\"We are going to hold this site as long as we can. We fully intend for it to remain peaceful for the duration, we don't want any aggression or violence.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion Wales said the Cardiff protest was aimed at highlighting the need for the Welsh Government to \"dramatically accelerate its actions in tackling the climate crisis and ecological emergency\".\n\nStaci Sylvan, 40, from the group, said: \"In Carmarthen, where I live, we suffered a massive flood last October, we have never seen anything like it before.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cardiff bus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Out of a population of about 10,000, 100 were displaced or made homeless. Some of these people have been rehomed, but some still have no home.\n\n\"This has affected people on low incomes the most as there are no more houses available for them. Also there are some businesses who have not yet managed to reopen, maybe they never will.\n\n\"To me this is an issue about my children's future but also about equality, it is always the poorest people who suffer most from climate-related disasters.\n\n\"I want the government to do something about it now, not wait for more disasters and more people to suffer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A local worker said the protest had affected business and would not win support for their cause\n\nProtester Liz Shaw, 28, from Pembrokeshire, said: \"I don't feel like I'm putting myself or others at risk. I got up at 4.30am today to be here.\n\n\"I got involved after the April rebellion because I felt people didn't realise the urgency of climate change. We have only got 12 years left.\"\n\n\"I quit my job as a shop assistant at Bangor University in April. My heart wasn't in my shop job. But I felt so helpless about the climate crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"We're planning on camping here till Wednesday, maybe longer.\"\n\nProtestors have set up camp on grounds next to City Hall\n\nRowena, 33, from Oswestry, who has glued herself to the boat, said: \"I feel very privileged to be able to give up my freedom for the cause.\"\n\nThe protest has been supported by Bishop of Llandaff, the Right Reverend June Osborne, who said: \"We support peaceful protests that raise awareness of the need to act now, to find the political will to protect the interests of future generations.\"\n\nBut South Wales Central AM, Andrew RT Davies, said protesters were taking the wrong approach.\n\n\"Tackling climate change is a hugely important issue and one which the majority of the public is fully behind,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the one sure way to lose hearts and minds in such a battle is to disrupt hardworking people on their morning commute, which is what's happened in Cardiff today.\n\nBakery shop worker Ana Mitchell says staff have to carry heavy boxes around the city centre\n\n\"I hope these protesters will now do the right thing and bring this disruption to an end.\"\n\nAna Mitchell, a barista and shop assistant at Portuguese bakery Nata and Co on Castle Street, said: \"The road being shut affects our trade.\n\n\"We have to take boxes of fresh food to our two other shops around Cardiff. We had to walk to the Hilton hotel and back with them.\n\n\"It is affecting us and the other shops.\"\n\nIn a statement, South Wales Police said it would do \"everything we can to minimise disruption\" during the \"five-day national campaign\" of protests.\n\n\"But we appreciate that it only requires a relatively small number of protestors to cause issues in the city centre,\" it added.\n\n\"We are aware of delays to public transport across the city and we are liaising closely with Cardiff council.\"", "Labour peers want to investigate claims senior figures in the party interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with anti-Semitism complaints.\n\nThey said accounts of staff in a BBC Panorama programme were \"powerful and shaming\", but the party's response had been \"heartbreaking\".\n\nThey said it was now time to \"rebuild confidence\" in Labour's processes.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said shadow cabinet will meet on Monday to discuss the issue of anti-Semitism.\n\nIt was announced at a meeting of Labour MPs, where further concerns about the issue were raised - although leader Jeremy Corbyn did not attend.\n\nOur correspondent said there was strong support at the parliamentary party for those former members of Labour's staff who had spoken to the BBC about their concerns.\n\nThe letter from the peers comes as Labour staff also condemned the party's response in a motion to their union.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen the documentary aired, a Labour spokesman said the former employees who had talked to the BBC were \"disaffected\", and included some officials \"who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\".\n\nBut in a motion to the GMB, staff said whistleblowers should \"be commended and supported, never attacked\", and called for the party to apologise to them.\n\nOver 200 current and former staff also wrote to Mr Corbyn to say the party had treated whistleblowers in an \"appalling and hypocritical\" way, and that the \"moral responsibility\" for the anti-Semitism crisis lay with Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe Labour leader visited the party's headquarters in London on Monday to talk to staff - but did not give a full speech.\n\nOne of his local councillors in the Borough of Islington has also resigned from the party over the row.\n\nGary Poole, who represents the St Mary's Ward in Mr Corbyn's constituency, said he \"cannot in good conscience remain a member of a political party that has singularly failed to adequately address the scourge of anti-Semitism\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe four peers who signed the letter to Mr Corbyn - Baroness Angela Smith, Lord Toby Harris, Baroness Dianne Hayter and Lord Tommy McAvoy - wrote it after three other peers resigned from the Labour Party because of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nLord Triesman, general secretary of the party between 2001 and 2004, accused Mr Corbyn of anti-Semitism and said the party was no longer \"a safe environment\" for Jewish people.\n\nThe four peers said it was \"deeply saddening, but not surprising\" that their colleagues had resigned due to the \"toxic and endemic problem [the party] has failed to eradicate\".\n\nThey also criticised the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) by the party so former staff would not speak about their experiences - especially as the party had openly campaigned against them in other situations.\n\nThey said a minimum of five steps needed to take place internally:\n\nThey wrote: \"The purpose of these proposals is to ensure the Labour Party can regain the trust of its members, supporters and the wider public.\n\n\"Without full openness, this is a cancer that will continue to grow - and, in hurting us, it will most hurt those that need a Labour government.\"\n\nOur correspondent said the BBC has been told there will be a concerted push to make the system more independent at a meeting of Labour's ruling national executive next week.", "One of these men will be the next prime minister\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are taking part in the second and final head-to-head debate of the Conservative leadership campaign.\n\nThey are facing 90 minutes of questions from Sun newspaper readers.\n\nThe event started at 19.00 BST and is being streamed live on the newspaper's website and broadcast on Talk Radio.\n\nThe result of the contest to succeed Theresa May as prime minister will be announced on 23 July, with the winner taking office a day later.\n\nVoting in the postal ballot to choose the next Tory leader began about 10 days ago.\n\nIt is estimated that well over half of the 160,000 or so Conservative Party members eligible to take part have already returned their ballot papers.\n\nIn Monday's debate, billed by the newspaper as The Final Showdown, the two men were questioned about their strategies for delivering Brexit, and their policies on domestic issues such as crime, tax and health will also come under scrutiny.\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt, and his predecessor in the role Mr Johnson, are also being pressed on their foreign policy record, including their relationship with US President Donald Trump.\n\nIn the run-up to the debate, the pair have been urged to condemn recent remarks directed at four US Democratic congresswomen by Mr Trump telling them to \"go back\".\n\nNo 10 has said the comments were \"completely unacceptable\" while Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said the two candidates needed to say so publicly.\n\nDuring a live debate on ITV last week, the two men clashed over Mr Trump's attacks on the UK's top diplomat in the US - which led to his subsequent resignation.\n\nAfter days of criticism, Mr Johnson conceded on Friday that he should have been stronger in his support for Sir Kim Darroch after diplomatic cables in which the diplomat described the White House as clumsy and inept were leaked to a newspaper.\n\nSky News abandoned plans for a one-on-one TV debate after Mr Johnson declined to take part while the BBC decided not to proceed with a special edition of Question Time featuring the two politicians after Mr Johnson's team expressed concerns about the format.\n\nThe last of 16 UK-wide hustings, in which the two men have faced questions from Conservative Party members, takes place in London on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Floods cause death and destruction in north India\n\nMore than three million people have been displaced across north and north-eastern India amid monsoon rain that has cost lives and destroyed homes.\n\nStorms and floods have ripped through areas of Nepal, Bangladesh and India, killing more than 130 people.\n\nAt least 67 people lost their lives in Nepal in torrential rains, police there said on Monday.\n\nThirty people were reported missing while 38 were injured, Nepalese police added.\n\nHeavy rains also caused deaths in Bangladesh, including in overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps. More bad weather is expected in the coming days.\n\nThe Brahmaputra River, which flows through India, Bangladesh and China, burst its banks, swamping more than 1,800 villages in India's north-east Assam state, Reuters reported on Monday.\n\nAlmost 2 million have been displaced in the northern Indian state of Bihar due to rising flood waters, the government said. More than 1.7 million people in Assam fled their homes.\n\nAt least 29 people died in Bangladesh in the past week, including 18 hit by lightning and seven who drowned when their boat sank in the Bay of Bengal.\n\nA man carries his belongings towards dry ground in Kathmandu\n\nCox's Bazar in Bangladesh - where more than a million Rohingya refugees are encamped after fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar - has been hit by at least 58.5cm (23 inches) of rain this month, according to the country's meteorological department on Sunday.\n\nHundreds of landslides since April have killed at least 10 people in the camps, including two Rohingya children in the past week.\n\nThe monsoon season lasts from June to September and wreaks havoc across South Asia every year. More than 1,200 people died in the region amid storms and landslides last year, when India's Kerala faced its worst floods in nearly a century.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA few months ago the World Cup wasn't even on the radar of England's new bowling star Jofra Archer. The Barbados-born paceman wasn't eligible to play.\n\nBut on Sunday, the 24-year-old found himself charged with the responsibility of bowling a super over in the World Cup final for England against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nYet he might just have predicted it all. In true Nostradamus style.\n\nThe bowler's old tweets seemed to foresee the dramatic events we witnessed on Sunday - as England won after the most thrilling climax - with spooky accuracy.\n\nFirst of all, he knew that one day he would be part of the England side way back in early 2014, when he was just 18 years old....\n\nHe also knew that, one day, England would send the nation into a nervous frenzy as the drama unfolded at Lord's...\n\nWe know how you feel, Jofra!\n\nA year later, the then 19-year-old even knew what was coming - predicting a super over.\n\nA six-week World Cup came down to this.\n\nNew Zealand had to score 16 from six balls to win the tournament. Did Jofra know that all along? This tweet from 2013 is again uncanny...\n\nPlaying in just his 14th international match, Archer was the one chosen by England captain Eoin Morgan to bowl the crucial six balls.\n\nArcher looked calm and composed while the rest of us were shaking, too nervous to function normally.\n\nAgain, it was one of the bowler's old tweets that told it best...\n\nEngland sent out Stokes and Buttler to bat. Lord's roared in anticipation.\n\nThe duo stayed calm. They hit two boundaries on their way to posting 15-0 from their six balls.\n\nThe drama had everyone gripped. Cricket was gaining new fans. For others it was too much...\n\nAfter all that had gone before, the final over was never going to be easy.\n\nA wide from Archer increased the English doubts and made the Kiwis believe. Then a huge six from batsman Jimmy Neesham. Was it going to be agony for England?\n\nBut Archer wasn't done yet and neither were England. He corrected his lines.\n\nNew Zealand needed two to win from the final ball. One run would not be enough for them.\n\nArcher bowled full. Batsman Martin Guptill pushed into the deep. Lord's held its breath. The batsmen turned for the second run. This is it. Here comes the throw. GONE!\n\nEven the most experienced of players, and cricket lovers who thought they had seen it all before, did not know what to do.\n\nLaugh, cheer or cry? Maybe all three at once.\n\nFor New Zealand, though, it was the agony of defeat in one of the most painful ways possible.\n\nAgain, Archer had predicted - in 2014 - how the Blackcaps would feel....\n• None Report and highlights: England beat New Zealand to win World Cup for the first time\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup\n\nLet's rewind - how did we get to the super over?\n\nIt was the most incredible finish cricket - perhaps all sport - has ever seen. And it concluded a match that had absolutely everything.\n\nIt had us all gripped, nervously watching through our hands or from behind sofas with hearts thumping in our chests.\n\nNerves were jangling throughout the day as England edged closer and closer to their target of 242, which looked so distant when England slipped to 86-4.\n\nA truly remarkable ending took its first twist when, in the penultimate over, key England batsman Stokes was caught on the boundary by Trent Boult - but there was a 'catch'.\n\nBoult had inadvertently stepped on the boundary rope when grasping the ball. That meant, rather than Stokes having to slump back to the famous Lord's pavilion, six more runs were added to England's total and Stokes survived.\n\n'My heart is jumping out of my chest'\n\nEngland needed 15 from the final over to win. For Stokes, this was his chance of redemption. He has had difficult times on and off the field in recent years.\n\nIn 2016 he was the bowler hit for four sixes by Carlos Brathwaite in the final over of the World Twenty20 final as West Indies beat England. Sunday's final also came 11 months to the day since he was cleared of affray in court.\n\nFrom the third ball of the final over, the all-rounder sent Lord's into delirium. He swept fast bowler Boult into the stands for six more. England needed nine from three balls.\n\nStokes then flicked two into the deep. It didn't look like being enough but as the throw came in, the ball hit the bat of the diving Stokes and deflected to the boundary.\n\nIt was the strangest of six runs, unlike any Lord's had seen. Unlike anything cricket had ever seen.\n\nPerhaps, BBC Sport reader Adam summed it up best...\n\nBut despite those runs, two run-outs came next.\n\nNobody could believe it. After 100 overs, the teams could not be separated. The match was tied. A super over - the best of six balls - was needed to decide who would take home the trophy.\n\nWhile journalists up and down the land checked the specific rules, fans drew parallels with some of English sport's other nail-biting moments.\n\nAt the same time, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic were battling it out in a final-set tie-break across London. The way both events built to simultaneous crescendos was impressive.\n\nIt was as if the sporting gods - and Archer - had planned it all along.", "Head teachers should have had more support as demonstrations took place, Sara Khan said\n\nThe government was \"too slow to respond\" to \"mob\" protests over LGBT teaching outside Birmingham schools, according to the woman tasked with challenging extremism.\n\nSara Khan told the BBC's Panorama more support should have been given to head teachers dealing with demonstrations.\n\nMs Khan was appointed by the home secretary to lead the Commission for Countering Extremism.\n\nShe said the Department for Education \"could have done so much more\".\n\n\"I think they were too slow to respond,\" said Ms Khan.\n\n\"There's a lot of confusion about what's actually being taught and I think the DfE could have played a very important role in clarifying to parents this is what's actually being taught, not the misinformation that we're seeing out there.\"\n\nProtests began at Parkfield Community School, where most pupils are Muslim, in February. Parents called for an end to the use of story books featuring same sex couples, as part of a programme teaching about equality.\n\nProtesters chanted \"Our children, our choice\", arguing their religion did not accept homosexuality.\n\nWeeks later, the school suspended its \"No Outsiders\" programme, to consult with parents.\n\nProtests were also held at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham. Campaigners said homosexuality was morally wrong and it was inappropriate to teach young children about same-sex relationships.\n\nThe schools, however, said they were teaching children about diversity in society and all the groups covered by the Equality Act.\n\nFrom September 2020, it will be compulsory to teach relationships education for primary-age pupils and relationships and sex education (RSE) for secondary-age pupils.\n\nOne of the books that forms part of the equality programme in some schools\n\nThe government says it wants primary schools to teach children about same sex relationships but, as with the rest of the curriculum, it would be up to them to decide when it was \"age appropriate\".\n\nThe guidance for schools also says teaching should be \"with respect to the backgrounds and beliefs of pupils and parents\".\n\nThe government has said parents should be consulted about what was taught, but they would not have a veto.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds told the BBC: \"We want children to grow up understanding that some people are different, some relationships are different from what they may have experienced, but all are valuable.\n\n\"We trust individual schools, individual head teachers, to know their cohorts of children, and to determine how and when to address what can be obviously sensitive subjects.\"\n\nPanorama has learned Parkfield Community School believed it was getting a very different message, and that it felt under pressure from the Department for Education to suspend its equality programme to get the school out of the news.\n\nDamian Hinds says the government trusts schools how to approach LGBT issues\n\nA letter seen by the programme from the school to a DfE official suggested: \"The DfE would like us to stop our teaching of equality to make this issue disappear.\"\n\nIt also quoted a department official saying: \"Our top priority is that Parkfield School is no longer on national news.\"\n\nThe DfE said it did not accept pressure was applied to stop teaching about equality at Parkfield. It said any suggestion the dispute should be kept out of the media was not intended to silence the school but to bring an end to the protests and encourage consultation.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said the suspension of the programme made the situation worse.\n\n\"It gave an impression, it gave almost licence, to people in communities that actually if they turned up outside of a school with loud hailers and protest that other schools would back down too,\" said Rob Kelsall, national secretary of the NAHT.\n\n\"I think that was a fatal mistake.\"\n\nOther schools were also seeing a push back from parents and campaigners, he added.\n\n\"We're seeing cases being referred almost on a weekly basis now… over 70 schools where these issues have been raised directly.\n\n\"Letters being sent to school leaders asking the school to stop teaching relationship education, threats to withdraw their children, through to organised rallies and events.\"\n\nHuman rights and LGBT activist Peter Tatchell said he thought the protesters were \"declaring war on LGBT kids\".\n\n\"They're saying that these children should not get love and support and advice in their school,\" he said.\n\nPauline Gallagher hopes Catholic Family Voice can work with the Muslim protesters\n\nPanorama has spoken to other religious groups around the country which said they had been energised by the protests in Birmingham and were looking to build campaigns of their own.\n\nPauline Gallagher lives just outside Glasgow and has set up a group called Catholic Family Voice.\n\nShe has been impressed by the protesters in Birmingham, and said she hoped to join forces with those involved.\n\n\"The Muslim community in Birmingham are total stars as far as we are concerned and they are trailblazers,\" she said. \"We are encouraged by what we see. I would say we're excited.\"\n\nOther groups have been taking their message directly to the school gates. Susan Mason has been actively leafleting schools.\n\n\"I'm aiming to disrupt essentially,\" she said. \"I'm not wanting riots and protests outside schools, but either the parents need to be satisfied or the school will need to change what it's doing.\"\n\nJudith Nemeth runs The Values Foundation, set up last year to promote the views of faith and traditional family values in education.\n\n\"There's no way that people of faith will teach it's OK to be gay,\" she said. \"They won't because the bible tells us it isn't OK to be gay.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean that we are intolerant of people who do follow that lifestyle. Nobody's being judgemental here, nobody's being homophobic.\"\n\nSex Education: The LGBT Debate in Schools - Panorama, will be broadcast on BBC One on Monday 15 July at 20:30 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe two biggest moments in English cricket history happened 14 years apart in London and were broadcast live free-to-air on Channel 4.\n\nThat is where the comparisons end.\n\nOne England team played in whites, the other pale blue.\n\nIn the 2005 Ashes, the underdogs overcame perhaps the greatest team to have ever played Test cricket. Come the 2019 World Cup, England were the world's number one side and overwhelming favourites.\n\nA glorious sunny Sunday at Lord's ended by Jos Buttler demolishing the stumps, as opposed to bad light at The Oval when the umpires delicately flicked off the bails.\n\nAnd so, rightly, the celebrations that followed those two great victories have followed the same pattern of contrast.\n\nThe unforgettable parade through London, ending in players swaying on a stage in Trafalgar Square was right for the time.\n\nEveryone connected with English cricket had been put through Ashes-shaped emotional turmoil not only in that summer, but in the previous 18 years of failing to win the urn.\n\nWhen the wait is that long, and when eras of Ashes pain and terrestrial TV coverage were ending, a boozy knees-up with everyone invited was the perfect way to celebrate.\n\nAndrew Flintoff's star was enhanced as much by his efforts in the bar as on the field. Matthew Hoggard insulted Prime Minister Tony Blair. Kevin Pietersen dated Caprice.\n\nThere will be no dating of models this time around, mostly because all the class of 2019 are family men.\n\nThere will be no parade, not yet anyway. At The Oval on Monday, the celebrations were more intimate and focused on the next generation.\n\nThat was entirely in keeping with the mood of the World Cup win. If 2005 was an end, 2019 may be a beginning.\n\nThe England players were actually guests at this party. Children were scheduled to play cricket here regardless.\n• None The champagne super over - a very English way to win a World Cup\n\nWhen the magic at Lord's unfolded as it did, this presented the perfect opportunity for England to connect with the youngsters they hope to inspire.\n\nFamilies bustled in from Oval tube station. If they were expecting to be kept waiting by an England team hampered by the excesses of its celebrations, they were wrong.\n\nEngland were actually early, gathering in the home dressing room as fans and photographers strained to get a view.\n\nWhen they emerged, down the stairs and each with a medal around their neck, they were announced individually to cheers that gradually increased in volume.\n\nThey walked through a tunnel of flag-wavers and high-fived the children that gathered around. When Eoin Morgan appeared last, holding the trophy, he was engulfed by youngsters wanting to touch the silverware.\n\nAs camera crews buzzed around, trying to grab a word, the players split off to address groups of children individually. If the idea was that they would play some cricket, it went out of the window in favour of adulation and autograph hunting.\n\nJofra Archer nursed a cup of coffee. James Vince's shades were never removed. Ben Stokes held on to a bottle of water as if his life depended on it and mumbled that he had \"felt better\".\n\nThese delicate dispositions were a nod to 2005, but it seems unlikely that anyone will do something nasty in a plant pot when the team visits Downing Street later on Monday.\n\nAs more and more gathered around, jostling for position, looking for a selfie or signature on a shirt, the decision was taken to clear the field and for the players to briefly go back to the dressing room. One member of ECB staff said it was for the safety of the excited children.\n\nNaturally, that led to disappointment. One mother had to explain to her son that the World Cup had \"gone back in\", while another lad, autographs on his turqoise AllStars shirt complained that he \"wanted to find Ben Stokes\".\n\nAs The Oval regrouped, Jason Roy vaulted a rail between the dressing rooms and pavilion like a man with a perfectly working hamstring.\n\nPhotographs were taken, players with newspaper columns were taken to one side, fans were asked to return to the stands.\n\nWhen the players re-emerged, they strolled the outfield on a mini lap of honour. Liam Plunkett clapped his hands and asked for noise, Stokes stopped other players from heading back to the dressing room to make sure that all parts of the crowd were acknowledged.\n\nThe Oval wasn't full - far from it - but there were still plenty there wanting to celebrate with their new heroes.\n\nAs journalists began to drift away, the players were left with a small group of fans underneath Archbishop Tenison's School.\n\nThe children leaned over the wall that separated the stand from outfield and the trophy was walked along, allowing everyone to get a feel for the biggest prize in one-day cricket.\n\nAnd then it was all done. No open-top bus was needed. No traffic was stopped. There wasn't a drop of booze in sight.\n• None Make a film of the match and send it to schoolchildren - Boycott", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The manta ray was helped by divers after being seen in distress last week\n\nWhen Freckles the manta ray approached divers Jake Wilton and Monty Halls in Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, they were shocked to see fishing hooks embedded under her right eye.\n\nMore surprising was that she stopped near them, appearing to ask for help.\n\nJake dived down several times, each time swimming up close and removing the hooks from her skin. Freckles waited patiently for him to finish.\n\nJake has since checked in on Freckles and told BBC News that she's doing well, and may even have recognised him.\n\n\"I went down for a dive [to check up on her] and she stopped and hung around for about 30 seconds above me - it was pretty wild,\" he said. \"They have self-awareness and can recognise individual manta rays, so she could have recognised me.\"\n\nFreckles - so-named because of a unique pattern of freckles on her belly - is thought to be about 30 years old, making her a venerable old lady in manta ray years.\n\nJake says it's likely she had been skimming the sea bed to scoop up plankton when the discarded hooks, used in recreational fishing, got caught near her eye.\n\nThe manta ray is called Freckles because of the unique markings on her belly\n\nIt's a common problem in Coral Bay, he says, although he adds that \"this is the first time we've had one actually approach us and try and get [the hooks] out\".\n\n\"It's all purely accidental, but a lot of the reefs out in the bay are areas where manta rays visit to be cleaned by little wrasse [fish], to keep them healthy,\" he explains. \"People fish on those cleaning stations, and then accidentally hook the manta rays.\"\n\nBoats are another big danger for manta rays in the area - most of the injuries the divers see are caused by boat propellers.\n\nJake says he and his colleagues are trying to push for areas of protection on the reef, \"to at least give [the manta rays] some safe spots\".\n\n\"All of the residential manta rays, who were already established here before tourism, are coming to the end of their lifespan,\" he says.\n\n\"So the biggest worry now is, when these guys go, the new manta rays that are coming in... are they going to call this place home, or are they going to come here and think, 'Oh this isn't a very good place to get cleaned, there are too many boats, too many tourists'?\"\n\nManta rays aren't dangerous - in fact, they're widely considered gentle giants of the sea. Jake adds that they're extremely intelligent, and that they have great memories.\n\n\"Over their life they'll have certain areas that they visit at certain times of the year, and they remember those spots and have relationships with other manta rays,\" he says.\n\n\"That's why it's so important to protect those areas, because they have to return to them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForest fires raging across Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle have prompted authorities to ask for international assistance.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, 44 fires were burning from Lapland in the far north to the southern island of Gotland.\n\nHot weather and persistent drought are the main causes, and the national weather service has issued fire warnings for almost the entire country.\n\nItaly and Norway have both dispatched firefighting aircraft to help.\n\nSweden said Italy had sent 13 people in two Canadair CL-415 \"waterbombers\", each of which can carry 6,000 litres of water at a time.\n\nNorway's national broadcaster NRK, meanwhile, reported that 10 helicopters had been despatched to aid its neighbour - six on Tuesday and another four on Wednesday - despite the risk of similar fire outbreaks in Norway itself.\n\nThe wildfires have raged in parts for days and without a break in the hot dry weather they have shown little sign of stopping.\n\nMany people have been evacuated from their homes in Sweden, while others have been told to shut off all ventilation to keep smoke outside.\n\nFire chief Britta Ramberg told Swedish media the fire in Jämtland was \"the largest and spreading the fastest\". Official advisories said that this blaze grew from 1,600 hectares to 3,000 on Tuesday alone, and that firefighters had been unable to contain it.\n\nMany firefighters were being recalled from holiday to join the operation.\n\nAbove Karbole, where fires have burned since the weekend, smoke blotted out the sun\n\nNine important public warnings have also been issued - a record number - as temperatures have hovered near or exceeded 30C for an extended period.\n\n\"The last time we saw wildfires of this calibre was 12 years ago,\" a rescue officer in the popular winter tourist town of Jokkmokk told AFP.\n\nSos Alarm, the emergency number operator in Sweden, said its services were stretched because of the fires.\n\nIt said it was also getting higher numbers of calls from people enjoying the long sunny spell who had run into trouble while swimming, boating or biking.\n\nStockholm Fire Department shared this picture, showing the location of each of the fires across the country as of 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Wednesday:\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.", "Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga walked 35 metres off the ground in front of hundreds of people in Montmartre, Paris.", "Police released CCTV images of three men they want to speak to about the attack\n\nA three-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a suspected acid attack in a shop.\n\nThe boy was \"deliberately attacked\" at Home Bargains in Worcester at 14:15 BST on Saturday, West Mercia Police said.\n\nHe has since been discharged from hospital after being treated for serious burns to his arm and face.\n\nA 39-year-old man from Wolverhampton has been arrested in connection with the attack at Shrub Hill Retail Park, Tallow Hill.\n\nThe boy was discharged from hospital on Sunday afternoon, though the \"long-term implications of his injuries are unknown\" Ch Supt Mark Travis said.\n\nThe boy was \"out with his young family\" when \"acid or a corrosive substance\" was either \"thrown at or sprayed towards him\" in what the officer described as a \"very rare\", \"deliberate attack\".\n\nThe city's MP said it was \"horrific\", while the city council leader described it as \"pure evil\".\n\n\"The three men in the photo may have information vital to our investigation,\" Ch Supt Travis said.\n\n\"I am sure someone will recognise them and I would urge anyone with information to contact us as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nPolice said the three men may have \"vital information\"\n\n\"The incident will rightly shock the local community and I would like to reassure local people that we are carrying out a thorough investigation to identify those responsible,\" Ch Supt Travis added.\n\nThe motive for the attack is so far \"unclear\", he said.\n\nOfficers said they were working to determine what the substance involved was and exactly what happened.\n\nThe 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm, and remains in police custody.\n\nRobin Walker, MP for Worcester, described it as \"horrific\".\n\n\"The shock will be universal. Anyone conducting such an attack on a small child is just appalling,\" he said.\n\nOfficers said they were working to determine what the substance involved was and exactly what happened at the store\n\n\"It's an issue which rightly there has been a lot of concern in Parliament [about] and a move to toughen sentences for any kind of acid attack,\" he added.\n\n\"But particularly the nature of this being a small child is very concerning indeed.\n\n\"At this stage the key thing is for the police to act quickly and see if they can track down the perpetrator and understand what's behind it, because it is an unthinkable thing to happen.\"\n\nA Home Bargains spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with this young child and his family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nCh Supt Travis said: \"I would like to praise the staff in store and emergency services who provided fantastic care and as a result that has mitigated the impact on the little boy.\"\n\nWorcester City Council leader Marc Bayliss said it was \"absolutely pure evil\".\n\n\"Worcester is not that sort of place. We are a quintessential small English city,\" he said.\n\n\"I have never heard of an acid attack in Worcester, so this is absolutely not something we have any experience of.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information to come forward, saying: \"Think if this was a member of your family, an innocent child, a three-year-old probably scarred or damaged for life by this.\n\n\"We need to bring the perpetrators to justice and quickly.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 950,000 antidepressants have been prescribed to children since April 2015\n\nThe number of antidepressants prescribed to children in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland has risen over the past three years, figures obtained by BBC's File on 4 reveal.\n\nIn England, there was a 15% rise. Scotland saw a 10% increase. And in Northern Ireland the number rose by 6%.\n\nIn total, there were 950,000 prescriptions issued between April 2015 and March 2018.\n\nExperts have linked the rise to waits for specialist mental health services.\n\nAntidepressants should prescribed to children only under close supervision.\n\nNHS England, NHS Scotland and the Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland all say they are committed to improving child mental health services.\n\nNHS Wales was unable to provide prescription figures because it does not hold the data requested.\n\nThe figures were obtained by Freedom of Information requests and relate to a group of powerful antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).\n\nThe total number of prescriptions rose from 290,393 in 2015-16 to 330,616 in 2017-18.\n\nThe steepest increase was seen in the youngest patients, those aged 12 and under, where the number of prescriptions rose on average by 24%, from 14,500 to almost 18,000.\n\nMental health charity Young Minds links increases in antidepressant prescriptions to the length of Camhs waiting times\n\nDr Bernadka Dubicka, who chairs the child and adolescent faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: \"Currently only one in four children and young people are treated for their mental health problems.\n\n\"The fact that prescriptions for antidepressants are rising could reflect a slow but steady move towards treating everyone who is unwell.\n\n\"But the importance of giving children access to psychological therapies cannot be overstated.\n\n\"What we don't know from today's data is why these antidepressants are being prescribed, and how.\n\n\"It is vital that they are being used judiciously, monitored carefully, and the risks and benefits of taking them are assessed in each individual case.\"\n\nThe mental health charity Young Minds says waiting times for specialist child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) have been increasing too, making it difficult for families to get support.\n\nMarc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said: \"The government recently suggested that the average waiting time for general access to Camhs is around 12 weeks, which is a long time to be in distress.\n\n\"And that is why front-line professionals are turning to prescription pads, because they're thinking, 'I'm seeing someone in front of me in crisis with a level of distress I don't want to leave them with - how do I offer them some kind of alleviation from that?'\"\n\nIn rare cases, antidepressants can trigger thoughts of suicide and self-harm in children.\n\nAnd the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has clear guidelines:\n\nHowever, File on 4 has heard concerns these guidelines are not always followed.\n\nReece Burrowes, 17, killed himself soon after being prescribed the antidepressant Sertraline\n\nReece Burrowes, 17, was found dead in a park in south-east London on 6 December 2015, days after being prescribed an antidepressant called Sertraline by his GPs.\n\nAlthough the inquest into Reece's death recorded a verdict of death by suicide and no blame was assigned to Reece's doctors or Sertraline, File on 4 has been told several of the NICE prescribing guidelines were not followed by doctors.\n\nReece's stepfather, Simon Banks, said: \"There are NICE guidelines, which you know in theory they should follow, but I know one of the concerns is that their thinking, 'If I do refer them to Camhs, there's potentially a waiting list.'\n\n\"From what we've gone through, our view would be don't give the medication, and wait.\n\n\"But I can imagine it's a very difficult call for the doctor to make.\"\n\nDr Shruti Garg, a Camhs consultant at the Manchester Foundation NHS Trust, said problems with young people transitioning out of Camhs services could also be leading to increases in prescription rates.\n\n\"Camhs services across most parts of the country cover only up to the age of 16 - adult mental health services start at 18, so there is a gap for the provision of services across these services.\"\n\nThe Department of Health in England told the BBC it had pledged £1.7bn to transform Camhs.\n\nThis, it said, would help to provide greater access to a wider range of therapies, although there would still be patients who would benefit from antidepressants.\n\nIn Scotland, Minister for Mental Health Clare Haughey said young people's mental health was a priority and £5m has been invested to create a taskforce to improve Camhs services.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland said the vast majority of referrals accepted into Camhs were seen within nine weeks and it was currently planning to spend an extra £1m on Camhs projects.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, you can access resources online via BBC Action Line.\n\nFile on 4: Counting the Cost: Anti-depressant Use in Children is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 BST on 24 July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bank will house its technology, functions and operations teams at the new hub\n\nBarclays has unveiled plans to create up to 2,500 jobs at a new hub in Glasgow, in a major boost to Scotland's financial services sector.\n\nThe bank will house its technology, functions and operations teams at a campus at the planned Buchanan Wharf development on the banks of the Clyde.\n\nBarclays said it would \"play a pivotal role\" in its \"long-term strategic priorities\".\n\nThe move would double Barclays' current workforce in Scotland.\n\nBarclays has agreed to purchase the campus development from Drum Property Group and is currently finalising the design of the new facility as part of the wider Buchanan Wharf development.\n\nThe bank's existing Scottish operations are expected to start transferring to the new campus from 2021.\n\nBarclays says up to 5,000 staff will be based at the new Buchanan Wharf campus\n\nScottish Enterprise has agreed to provide a grant of £12.75m towards the project.\n\nThe offer requires that at least 42% of the new jobs are of \"high value\", with at least 341 posts made available for disadvantaged workers or those who have a disability.\n\nThe development will make the bank one of Glasgow's largest commercial employers.\n\nPaul Compton, chief operating officer at Barclays, said: \"The Glasgow campus, alongside others in Whippany, New Jersey, and Pune, India, is part of a global strategy to create world-class facilities for our functions, technology and operations teams.\n\n\"This new campus at Buchanan Wharf is a flagship project for the bank, which builds on Barclays' long history in Scotland and clearly demonstrates our commitment to supporting the UK economy.\"\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the project would be \"transformational for Glasgow\".\n\n\"This is fantastic news for Glasgow. This is the kind of investment that will create lots of jobs ... but it is also the kind of investment that will be transformational for this part of the city.\n\n\"It is likely to act as a magnet for other investment that will see the regeneration of a part of Glasgow that has long needed it.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new campus will strengthen Glasgow's financial services sector and shows Scotland continues to be a highly attractive location for inward investment.\n\n\"I am particularly pleased that as part of this investment, Barclays has committed to employing local people who often face barriers into work, including those with disabilities and young people.\"\n\nHow the site in Tradeston looks at the moment\n\nPaul Lewis, from Scottish Enterprise, said: \"This investment establishes Glasgow as a key global site for Barclays, providing a platform for growth whilst also securing existing operations in Scotland.\n\n\"It will breathe new life into a part of the city with huge potential and bring significant new jobs, including employment specifically for disadvantaged workers.\"\n\nBuchanan Wharf is a major mixed-use scheme currently being developed by Drum Property Group.\n\nDrum managing director Graeme Bone said the project was \"setting a new benchmark for large scale development across Scotland\"\n\nHe added: \"Our development will be one of Scotland's largest single-site construction projects, bringing together over a million square feet of prime Grade A office space with residential accommodation, and an exciting mix of amenities and landscaped public spaces.\"\n\nThe prospect of up to 2,500 more Barclays jobs in Glasgow is very good news for the city in several ways, but it should also be treated with some caution:\n\nBut two words of caution: the numbers are \"up to 2,500 jobs\". And as some of them are being relocated from London and possibly elsewhere, Glasgow will still have to fight and make its case if that potential number is to be reached.\n\nThe other: banking is changing very fast, and the pace is about to pick up. Many jobs are vulnerable to being replaced by technological advances.\n\nWhile some of those will be developed by Barclays' workforce in Glasgow, those working in the sector can't afford to be complacent. Expect continuing employment churn.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-8 -6 -5 -4 T Finau (US), M Kuchar (US), J Spieth (US)\n\nFrancesco Molinari has become the first Italian to win a major, holding off a pack of star names to claim The Open Championship at Carnoustie.\n\nMolinari produced a two-under final round of 69 in windy conditions on the Scottish links to finish eight under.\n\nHe finished two ahead of four players, including home favourites Justin Rose and Rory McIlroy, tied on six under.\n\nTiger Woods finished five under after leading midway through the round, with Jordan Spieth on four under.\n\nMolinari, 35, emerged from a six-way tie for the lead, when all the players were either on the back nine or in the clubhouse, to lift the Claret Jug.\n\nThe Europe Ryder Cup player started the final day three shots adrift of overnight leaders Spieth, Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele, but maintained composure while his rivals all dropped shots in a thrilling battle for the lead.\n\n\"It is absolutely amazing,\" Molinari said. \"I think it will take a long time to sink in. It has been a great week.\n\n\"The course bit me a few times in the first two days, but to go bogey-free around this track at the weekend is incredible.\"\n• None The Cut podcast: Day four review - The Italian Job\n• None Rory McIlroy has 'no regrets' after tie for second\n\nMolinari, ranked 15th in the world, had been tipped by a number of experts before the tournament as a player to watch at Carnoustie - and he proved them right with an assured display over the four days.\n\nDespite a modest Open record, he had been backed on the strength of a fine few months that saw him claim the PGA Championship at Wentworth - his biggest win on the European Tour - and his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Quicken Loans Classic.\n\nSteady opening rounds of 70 and 72 took him into the weekend, before a stunning 65 on Saturday propelled him into contention.\n\nMolinari stressed the importance of making pars on Sunday in an interview after his third round, and he fulfilled his target by beginning with 13 pars in succession in testing conditions.\n\nThat steady sequence was ended with a birdie on the par-five 14th, before a glorious approach on the 18th allowed him to pick up another shot.\n\nAfter finishing his round, Molinari looked anxious as he waited in the scorer's cabin, watching nearest remaining challenger Schauffele bogey the 17th.\n\nThe 24-year-old American needed to eagle the last hole to force a play-off, but his approach landed short, allowing Molinari to celebrate with his caddie and wife.\n\nWoods back among the world's best\n\nWoods is a global star who has transcended the sport since he won his first major at the 1997 Masters aged 21.\n\nThirteen more majors followed over the next 11 years as the American looked on course to break Jack Nicklaus' tally of 18 major victories - a record that has stood since 1986.\n\nBut his career derailed when a series of personal scandals were followed by a serious back injury, leaving many questioning whether he would ever return to anywhere near his best.\n\nRanked 650th at the start of the year, Woods has answered that positively with his lowest 72-hole total at a major since the 2012 Open.\n\nWoods' surge was accompanied by fervent support on the Scottish links, with a buzz of excitement following the 42-year-old around the course and on social media. His challenge helped attract a record Carnoustie crowd of 172,000 attend over the week.\n\nTwo birdies on the front nine on Sunday, coupled with dropped shots for Spieth and Schauffele, helped him take the outright lead of a major for the first time since his peak years.\n\nBut a double bogey at the 11th derailed his bid for a first major since the 2008 US Open and, although a birdie on the 14th briefly reignited his hopes, he had to settle for a share of sixth place after signing for a level-par 71.\n\nEngland's Rose and Northern Ireland's McIlroy were rated as the leading home hopes going into the 147th Championship and still had outside chances when they stepped onto the first tee on Sunday.\n\nRose only just made the cut by sinking a birdie on the 18th in Friday's second round, but a career-best round at a major of 64 on Saturday gave him hope of a first Open title.\n\nMeanwhile, McIlroy started the day a shot better off at five under as he aimed to claim his first major since the 2014 PGA Championship.\n\nBoth players appeared to have lost their chances of threatening the top of the leaderboard until they each made an eagle at the par-five 14th - Carnoustie's easiest hole - to move back into the reckoning.\n\nRose also birdied the last to finish on six under, a score that was matched by McIlroy shortly afterwards with pars on the final four holes.\n\nA play-off looked their best hope of an unlikely success - until Molinari also took advantage of the 14th to take control.\n• None Amateur Sam Locke to consider future after 'a week I'll never forget'\n\nAnother Englishman, Tommy Fleetwood, moved to six under with a birdie on the first, only to drop four shots in three holes before the turn and end up three under for the tournament with a two-over 73.\n\nFleetwood finished two shots adrift of compatriot Eddie Pepperell, who shot a 67 - the lowest round of the final day - to earn his best finish at a major.\n\nPepperell, 27, was set to commentate for BBC Radio 5 live before claiming a late qualification spot, going on to finish in sixth place and earning prize money of £287,000.\n\nDefending champion Spieth was looking to become the first man since Padraig Harrington in 2008 to win back-to-back Open titles - which he also achieved on Royal Birkdale and Carnoustie.\n\nThe 24-year-old American was the favourite to reclaim the Claret Jug going into the final round, holding a share of the lead at nine under with Schauffele.\n\nBoth players dropped three shots between the fifth and seventh holes, though, dealing a major blow to their chances of victory.\n\nSpieth dropped two more shots on the back nine to card a five-over 76, while Schauffele signed for a three-over 74.\n\n\"We were in the strangest spots possible on the golf course, where we didn't think we would be,\" said Schauffele.\n\n\"Every time I looked up at the leaderboard, there's four, five, six guys in the lead, and five, six guys one back.\n\n\"I figured looking at the board isn't going to do me any good and I was just happy to claw my way back in a little bit.\"\n\n'Hottest player on the planet!' - golfers react to Molinari's win", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Channel 4 Dispatches presenter Datshiane Navanayagam was made homeless as a child and again as a working adult.\n\nMore than half of families living in temporary accommodation in England are in employment \"working every hour they can\", says housing charity Shelter.\n\nIts analysis suggests 55% of families (33,000) living in temporary digs were also working in 2017 - up 73% on 2013.\n\nThe charity blames a mix of expensive private rents, a housing benefit freeze and a chronic lack of social housing.\n\nThe government said it was investing £1.2bn to support homeless people.\n\nTemporary accommodation is the property offered to people by local authorities after they have been declared without a permanent home.\n\n\"The link between an income and a job, which used to be enough to secure a home, is just completely breaking down in the housing market,\" Greg Beales, Shelter's director of policy, told BBC Breakfast.\n\nChief executive Polly Neate said it was disgraceful that families were forced to experience homelessness despite working \"every hour they can\".\n\n\"In many cases, these are parents who work all day or night before returning to a cramped hostel or B&B where their whole family is forced to share a room,\" she added.\n\n\"A room with no space for normal family life like cooking, playing or doing homework.\n\n\"We cannot allow struggling families to slip through the cracks created by our housing crisis - the government must urgently come up with a new plan for social housing that delivers the genuinely affordable homes we desperately need.\"\n\nBased on Shelter's research, Channel 4 Dispatches has created a programme looking at homelessness in working people.\n\nPresenter Datshiane Navanayagam has experienced homelessness herself - as a child and then again as a working adult.\n\n\"The basic reason why anyone goes to work, is because they think that should at least afford them somewhere to live and when that's not happening, you're in a very frightening situation, \"she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMary and her children lived in three temporary homes in two years\n\nOne mother of three, Mary Smith, who lives in temporary accommodation with her sons in Watford, described how she struggled to hold on to her job in a shoe shop because of her housing situation.\n\nShe said: \"Sometimes I even think that I don't want to wake up in the morning, but I do.\n\n\"I get on with it because I have other people relying on me.\"\n\nShe added: \"Letting my colleagues know at work what's happening is very hard.\n\n\"Luckily I have an understanding manager now, but I nearly lost my job when I first became homeless because the transport links from my hostel were so bad.\n\n\"We've lived in three different places in two years, and it's been really tough on the children.\"\n\nThe charity's analysts arrived at the 33,000 figure by combining Department for Work and Pensions statistics on the number of families known to be in work but homeless, official data on homelessness from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and housing benefit data.\n\nA MHCLG spokesman said its Homelessness Reduction Act would ensure more struggling people are provided with support.\n\nHe said: \"Councils have a duty to provide suitable temporary accommodation to those who need it, and families with children get priority.\n\n\"So families can get a permanent home, we are investing £9bn in affordable properties, including £2bn for social rent housing.\"\n• None Households in temporary housing up by 6%\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Millions of \"just about managing\" families are no better off today than those in 2003, new research from the Resolution Foundation indicates.\n\nThe remarkable income stagnation for so many reveals that the economy has been failing to generate income for people over many years despite record levels of people in work.\n\nIn 2003, households on the lower half of incomes typically earnt £14,900.\n\nIn 2016/17 that figure had fallen to £14,800, the research shows.\n\nBoth figures are adjusted for inflation and housing costs.\n\nThere are over eight million low and middle income households, just under half of which have children.\n\nAnd it is not just poorer households which have been facing a pay squeeze.\n\nOn average, incomes for all households in 2017/18 increased by just 0.9%, the lowest rise for four years and less than half the average between 1994 and 2007, just before the financial crisis.\n\nFor the poorest third of households, incomes actually fell by up to £150 in the last year.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation report said that surveys revealed that over 40% of low to middle income families feel they would be unable to save £10 a month and over 35% would be unable to afford a holiday for one week with their children.\n\n\"We appear to have a picture of generalised stagnation for many, with lower income households actually going backwards,\" the Resolution Foundation's Living Standards Audit says.\n\n\"The apparent falling away of the bottom from the middle in 2017/18 represents a disturbing new development.\n\n\"This pattern has clear implications for poverty - captured by the number of people living in households with incomes below 60% of the median [the middle figure of a set of income figures ranked from high to low].\n\n\"There are good odds that 2017/18 delivered a notable increase [in poverty].\n\n\"Relative child poverty may have risen to its highest rate in at least 15 years, despite high levels of employment.\"\n\n\"Child poverty\" is calculated by the number of under-16s living in a household that earns less than 60% of the average income.\n\nThe big questions are why the income stagnation has happened and what can be done about it.\n\nOn the \"why\", research by the Foundation - which was set up to look at the problem of low incomes - reveals that the economy has struggled to create wealth for people in work.\n\nAlthough employment rates are high, which is good for those in work, many of the jobs are lower paid.\n\nThat's because people who are moving from unemployment into employment, such as single parents, tend to take jobs towards the lower end of income levels.\n\nOnce in jobs there is also a lack of \"progression\" into higher paid jobs.\n\nProductivity levels for the whole economy - the ability to create more value for every hour somebody works - have also been poor since the financial crisis.\n\nRather than investing in new innovations - such as computer technology or robots which could increase the amount people produce - firms have been holding onto cash to get them through the tougher economic conditions.\n\nWhat are called \"non-wage costs\" have also increased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The former prime minister says there's a 'real risk' of a rise in child poverty in the UK.\n\nBusinesses now have to pay more into employees' pensions and, for larger firms, have to pay costs such as the apprenticeship levy to encourage better standards of training.\n\nManagers have also been criticised for being too conservative about taking on new ways of working.\n\nBenefit cuts since 2010 also affect lower income households far more than those on higher incomes.\n\nPut those factors alongside the poor economic growth the UK has been experiencing, along with many other developed Western economies, since 2008 and the reasons behind the living standards problem become clearer.\n\nImproving productivity is key to helping people out of poverty\n\nWhen it comes to solutions, the key is productivity.\n\nEconomists argue that once in work, people should be encouraged to apply for promotions, increasing their skill levels and their pay.\n\nFirms should be encouraged to invest in innovations to make their firms more efficient and better able to create wealth for every hour worked.\n\nBetter economic growth, which leads to higher incomes, is reliant on a number of factors - certainty about the future (in relatively low supply at present because of the Brexit process); global growth (Britain is an exporting nation so the better growth is elsewhere, the better for the UK); and investment in better and higher-value skilled jobs (which means focusing on education and skills and making managers better at exploiting opportunities that are available).\n\nWithout a firm focus on such issues, the Resolution Foundation report reveals that, over the next decade, it is likely that \"just about managing\" families are likely to remain just that.", "Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has questioned the UK's decision to abandon its \"principled opposition\" to the death penalty in the case of two Islamic State suspects.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, she said it was not possible to be a \"little bit in favour\" of the death penalty.\n\nSecurity Minister Ben Wallace defended the government's approach, saying it took a \"rare decision\" in this case to ensure the suspects face a trial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three politicians give their view on a Brexit \"no deal\"\n\nA deal with the EU can be reached by October but the UK is preparing for the possibility of no deal, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has said.\n\nHe said he would return to Brussels for talks on Thursday and strain \"every sinew\" to get \"the best deal\".\n\nBut the government had plans in place in case talks did not end well, he told the BBC.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said there must be a \"serious stepping up of negotiations\" to avoid no deal.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019, but the two sides have yet to agree how trade will work between the UK and the EU afterwards.\n\nTheresa May hopes the government's plan, detailed recently in the Brexit White Paper, will allow the two sides to reach a deal on relations by the autumn.\n\nDowning Street said on Sunday that cabinet ministers would be promoting the plan across Europe over the summer.\n\nTheresa May would \"take the lead\" by meeting the Austrian chancellor, Czech prime minister and Estonian prime minister next week.\n\nMrs May said: \"We must step up the pace of negotiations and get on to deliver a good deal that will bring greater prosperity and security to both British and European citizens.\n\n\"We both know the clock is ticking - let's get on with it.\"\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show if the \"energy, ambition and pragmatism\" the UK brought to negotiations was reciprocated, a deal would be done in October.\n\nHe noted that 80% of the withdrawal agreement was already settled.\n\nAnd he said it was \"useful\" that EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier had raised questions about the prime minister's blueprint for the UK's future trading relationship with the EU.\n\n\"The fact Michel Barnier is not blowing it out of the water but asking questions is a good, positive sign - that's what we negotiate on.\"\n\nBut he said preparations such as hiring extra border staff were being made because \"any responsible government\" would make sure plans were in place in case negotiations failed.\n\nTechnical notices would be released for businesses and citizens affected during the summer to be \"very clear about what they should do and what we are doing on their behalf\" he added.\n\nAsked about European Commission comments that there were no arrangements in place for UK and EU expats in the event of no deal, Mr Raab said: \"Well, I think that's a rather irresponsible thing to be coming from the other side.\n\n\"We ought to be trying to reassure citizens on the continent and also here.\n\n\"There is obviously an attempt to try and ramp up the pressure.\"\n\nWe've heard it often enough: \"No deal is better than a bad deal\".\n\nBut for EU negotiators to believe the UK would walk away without agreement, the government has to be seen to be taking that option seriously.\n\nAnd so we are told about \"planning\" and \"technical notices\" to prepare for a \"clean break\" Brexit.\n\nReports of food stockpiles and a motorway becoming a lorry park are dismissed as \"unhelpful snippets\" but contingency plans will be made nonetheless.\n\nBoth sides agree a deal needs to be reached by October, and negotiations are likely to go down to the wire.\n\nSo even if a deal appears to be in sight, expect the talk of the UK leaving the EU without one to continue.\n\nHe added that the prospect of people being removed from the UK was \"far-fetched and fanciful\" and said it would be \"frankly irrational\" for the EU to go for the \"worst case scenario\" of no deal.\n\nBut the UK had to be prepared with things like allocating money, preparing treaty relations, and hiring extra border staff \"so that Britain can thrive, whatever happens,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn, on a visit to the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset, said it seemed the priority was preparation for no deal.\n\nHe added that would be \"very bad\", as \"we then go onto World Trade Organization tariff rates that would hit the manufacturing industry and hit the food processing industry, and hit an awful lot of things in Britain very rapidly\".\n\n\"There has to be a serious stepping-up of negotiations to reach an agreement on customs and on trade.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Raab suggested to the Sunday Telegraph that he was still persuading other cabinet ministers that the government's \"pragmatic\" strategy for leaving the EU was the \"best plan\" and that the UK could refuse to pay its so-called divorce bill, a payment from the UK to the EU estimated to be about £39bn, if it does not get a trade deal.\n\nTheresa May's proposal for a future trade relationship with the EU sparked two cabinet resignations, including Mr Raab's predecessor David Davis.\n\nThe White Paper proposes close ties in some areas, such as the trade in goods, but will end free movement and the jurisdiction of the European Court, and allow the UK to strike trade deals with other nations.\n\nCritics at Westminster say it is an unworkable compromise which would leave the UK being governed by the EU in many areas, but with no say in its rules.\n\nAnd EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier questioned on Friday whether UK plans for a common rulebook for goods and agri-foods were practical and said the EU would not run the risk of weakening its single market.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Davis, whose resignation from Mrs May's top team was followed by that of former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, told the Sunday Express the government should \"start again\" on withdrawal plans.", "Bob Higgins denied all the charges involving 24 complainants, most of whom were Southampton and Peterborough Utd trainees\n\nA former Southampton football club youth coach has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a young trainee.\n\nBob Higgins, 65, was found not guilty of another count of the same offence.\n\nThe jury at Winchester Crown Court did not reach verdicts on 48 other counts of the same charge and was dismissed.\n\nThe prosecution said it would seek a retrial. Higgins denied all the charges involving 24 complainants, most of whom were Southampton and Peterborough trainees.\n\nThe allegations related to a period between 1971 and 1996 when Mr Higgins coached at Southampton and later at Peterborough United.\n\nThe jury was discharged after deliberating for a total of 25 hours and 25 minutes, at the conclusion of a trial which lasted eight weeks.\n\nHiggins was found guilty by a majority of 10 to two of indecently assaulting one teenage boy in a car in the 1980s.\n\nHe was found not guilty of indecently assaulting another teenage boy. Neither youngster can be named.\n\nA retrial on the remaining charges would be likely to be be held next year.\n\nHiggins showed no emotion as the jury returned its verdicts. He was granted bail on condition he surrenders his passport.\n\nThe judge rejected a defence application for reporting restrictions to be imposed in advance of a retrial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Full-fibre broadband should be fitted as standard in all new homes, the government has said.\n\nThe proposal comes as part of a new national telecoms strategy drawn up by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).\n\nUnder its targets, all of the UK will have full-fibre broadband coverage by 2033, replacing the copper wire network that currently delivers the service.\n\nIt proposes legislation to encourage more private infrastructure investment.\n\nEarlier this month, research was published indicating that the UK has slipped from 31st to 35th place in the global broadband league tables, behind 25 other European countries.\n\nThe data was collected by M-Lab, a partnership between Google Open Source Research and Princeton University's PlantLab, and the results compiled by UK broadband comparison site Cable.\n\nGovernment statistics suggest only 4% of UK premises have a full-fibre link - compared to 79% in Spain and 95% in Portugal.\n\n\"We want everyone in the UK to benefit from world-class connectivity, no matter where they live, work or travel,\" said DCMS Secretary Jeremy Wright.\n\n\"This radical new blueprint for the future of telecommunications in this country will increase competition and investment in full-fibre broadband, create more commercial opportunities and make it easier and cheaper to roll out infrastructure for 5G.\"\n\nThe DCMS said its plans would \"drive competition and commercial investment in full-fibre networks across as much of the UK as possible\".\n\nHowever, it acknowledged that in some parts of the country, it was unlikely that the market could deliver by itself.\n\nThe strategy also aims to boost access to 5G mobile services\n\nAs a result, the government would support investment in the most difficult-to-reach areas.\n\n\"We have already identified around £200m within the existing Superfast broadband programme that can further the delivery of full-fibre networks immediately,\" it added.\n\nThe chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, Sir John Armitt, welcomed the government's review, which he said echoed his commission's own recommendations.\n\n\"As well as broadband, this plan will also leave the UK well-placed to introduce the latest 5G mobile technology,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, UK infrastructure provider Openreach said it was \"encouraged by the Government's plan to promote competition, tackle red tape and bust the barriers to investment.\"\n\nHowever, it said, the economics of cabling up the UK were \"challenging\" for all parties involved. It suggested a review of business rates could help get things moving.\n\nAndrew Ferguson, editor of the Think Broadband site, said the strategy turned visions of full-fibre coverage into \"slightly firmer targets\".\n\nHowever, he added, there was one \"very important caveat\" to the strategy which might slow the take up of full-fibre in the UK.\n\nIn nations such as Spain, he said, full-fibre was the first decent broadband people were offered which meant people enthusiastically signed up.\n\n\"Getting the UK to upgrade to full-fibre if they are getting decent speeds from a VDSL2 or cable broadband connection may be harder,\" he said, adding that how the packages were priced would be a factor in adoption.\n\nFitting full-fibre often means engineers have to visit homes to connect them up\n\nDana Tobak, head of full-fibre ISP Hyperoptic, said \"education\" would be an important part of the conversion process as installing the technology in homes and business typically involved more work than existing methods that rely on both copper and fibre.\n\n\"We do have to appreciate the physical and work element of full-fibre and we have found that consumers do not yet quite understand that,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she added, the opportunities for novel uses that full-fibre offered would make it an easier sell to many people.\n\n\"It's not just about how fast we can download a movie,\" said Ms Tobak. \"That's just a function of how we use it today.\n\n\"This commitment from the government will get people building the applications of tomorrow,\" she said. \"It will fundamentally change lives as we get used to it.\"", "Armed police were guarding the scene outside the hotel\n\nSix people have been arrested after a woman had her neck slashed in a hotel.\n\nPolice said the victim managed to flag down officers outside Beetham Tower on Deansgate, Manchester, at about 11:10 BST.\n\nFour men, a woman and a teenage girl have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe victim was taken to hospital with lacerations to her neck but later discharged, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nCordons are in place outside the Hilton, where three marked police cars remain.\n\nDet Insp Patrick Goodrich said: \"Thankfully the woman's injuries were less serious than first thought, but we could easily have been dealing with her death - the thought is terrifying.\"\n\nGMP also said the attack is not believed to be related to terrorism or thought to be a random act. Armed officers are no longer at the scene.\n\nThe hotel is located in the Beetham Tower\n\nThe four arrested men are aged 20, 24, 26 and 26, the woman is 20 and the teenage girl is 17.\n\nThey are all in custody for questioning and inquiries are ongoing, police said.\n\nA section of pavement opposite the hotel outside the 340 Deansgate office building has also been blocked off.\n\nAnthony Hilton, 32, who works in a nearby letting agents, told the Press Association: \"There must have been 15 undercover and normal police cars out in the street.\n\n\"Police were running to and fro from the car park and the Hilton hotel.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Hilton said a \"serious incident\" took place at the hotel.\n\n\"The matter is now in the hands of the Greater Manchester Police and we are co-operating fully as they conduct their investigation,\" she said.\n\nMedical equipment was seen on the floor opposite the hotel\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A graphic novel has made it onto the Man Booker longlist for the first time.\n\nSabrina by Nick Drnaso tells the story of a girl who goes missing, leaving behind a videotape with clues about her disappearance.\n\nChicago-born Drnaso, who is 29, won an LA Times book prize with his first collection Beverly.\n\n\"Given the changing shape of fiction, it was only a matter of time before a graphic novel was included,\" the judges said.\n\nThis year's Man Booker Prize longlist consists of six writers from the UK, three from the US, two from Ireland and two from Canada.\n\nThe eligibility rules were changed in 2013 to allow international authors to be nominated, as long as their book was written in English and published in the UK.\n\nThe longlist for the £50,000 prize will be whittled down to six in September before the final winner is announced on Tuesday 16 October.\n\nMichael Ondaatje latest novel Warlight is about two orphans in post-war Britain\n\nThe list also includes Michael Ondaatje's latest novel, Warlight.\n\nOndaatje's epic romance The English Patient shared the 1992 Booker prize with Barry Unsworth's 18th Century slave tale Sacred Hunger.\n\nTwo weeks ago, The English Patient won the Golden Man Booker Prize at a festival to mark the literary award's 50th anniversary.\n\nAll 51 previous winners were considered by a panel of judges, who whittled them down to one from each decade.\n\nThe Man Booker Prize has been running since 1969 and is one of the most prestigious awards in literature.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGermany's football association (DFB) has \"emphatically rejected\" allegations of racism from Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, but says it could have done more to protect him from abuse.\n\nOzil, 29, said he no longer wants to play for Germany, citing \"racism and disrespect\" within German football.\n\nThe midfielder says he received hate mail and threats, and was blamed for Germany's disappointing World Cup.\n\nThe DFB said it \"regrets the departure of Mesut Ozil from the national team\".\n\nIt added in a statement: \"We emphatically reject the DFB being linked to racism. The DFB has been very involved in integration work in Germany for many years.\"\n\nOzil was criticised by the DFB and in the German media after being photographed with controversial Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an event in London in May.\n\nHe received more criticism after Germany were knocked out of the World Cup in the group stage.\n\nThe DFB conceded it had not handled the matter well, adding: \"It is regrettable that Mesut Ozil felt that he had not been sufficiently protected as a target of racist slogans.\"\n\nIt stressed its commitment to equality, saying: \"The DFB stands for diversity, from the representatives at the top to the boundless, day-to-day dedication of people at the base.\"\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nOzil, a third-generation Turkish-German, was born in Gelsenkirchen and was a key member of his country's 2014 World Cup-winning side.\n\nA month before Germany defended their title, Ozil met Erdogan, along with fellow Germany international Ilkay Gundogan, a Manchester City player who is also of Turkish descent. Ozil says he and Gundogan talked about football with the president.\n\nAfterwards, photographs were released by Turkey's governing AK Party in the build-up to elections in the country, which Erdogan won.\n\nMany German politicians questioned Ozil and Gundogan's loyalty to German democratic values. Germany has previously criticised the Turkish leader's crackdown on political dissent following a failed coup.\n\nThe players met the German FA president to explain the image, though Ozil had not issued a public statement on the matter until Sunday.\n\nHe said Erdogan had also met the Queen and Prime Minister Theresa May while in England, and said he would have been \"disrespecting his ancestors' roots\" had he not posed for photographs with the Turkish president.\n\n\"It wasn't about politics or elections, it was about me respecting the highest office of my family's country,\" he added.\n\nOzil has 92 caps and has been voted the national team's player of the year by fans five times since 2011.\n\nHe said his recent treatment made him \"no longer want to wear the German national team shirt\".\n\n\"I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,\" he said.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel \"respects\" his decision as he has done much for the national side, her spokesperson said on Monday.\n\nAnti-discrimination charity Kick It Out said the \"racist treatment\" Ozil has faced in Germany since his country's World Cup exit was \"disgraceful\".\n\nSeveral fellow footballers have come out in support of the Arsenal player.\n\nAmong them is club-mate Hector Bellerin, who said: \"Surreal that someone who has done so much for his country on and off the pitch has been treated with such disrespect. Well done Mesut for standing up to this behaviour.\"\n\nGermany is home to about three million people of Turkish descent - a point regularly raised in political debate in the country, where immigration and the rise of far-right parties are key issues for many.\n\nIn his statement, Ozil questions why other dual-heritage team-mates have not been subjected to the same treatment.\n\n\"Is it because it is Turkey? Is it because I'm a Muslim? I think here lays an important issue,\" he said.\n\nGerman newspapers have criticised Ozil's decision to quit the national team.\n\nThe popular tabloid Bild said despite Ozil's appeals for respect for the highest office of his family's country, he \"ignores that Erdogan stands against the values of his German and Turkish homelands\".\n\nIt noted the footballer failed to mention in his \"yammer Facebook post\" that Erdogan is \"transforming the freedom-loving, religiously moderate Turkey into an Islamist dictatorship\" and \"has almost extinguished free media and freedom of expression\".\n\nFrankfurter Allgemeine argued Ozil's resignation has left behind a \"pile of shards\", adding his \"sweeping blow\" will immerse the German FA in crisis.\n\n\"In many ways, Ozil has overshot the target,\" the daily said, describing Ozil's attacks on the media as \"absurd\" and \"outrageous\".\n\nDie Welt commented that the commitment in wearing a German football shirt means \"more than a good game\".\n\n\"National players are role models, especially for young people with migration background,\" it said.\n\n\"Germany has to formulate its expectations clearly, and every athlete wandering between cultures has to decide whether he can or wants to do that. Those who accept the German passport and put on the national jersey must know what that means for them. The Ozil case made that clear,\" the paper added.\n\n\"An extremely accomplished footballer provides a perfectly reasonable explanation for meeting with President Erdogan. But imagine the pressure under which he felt compelled to make this statement. What a pity for those who claim to be tolerant and multiculturalist,\" presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said.\n\n\"I congratulate Mesut Ozil who scored the most beautiful goal against the virus of fascism by leaving the German national team,\" Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said.\n\n\"We wholeheartedly support the honourable stance that our brother Mesut Ozil maintained,\" Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoglu said.\n\nOzil's decision was breaking news across Turkish media outlets on Sunday, and continued to be a major story on Monday.\n\nSeveral channels, including the pro-government A Haber news channel, featured commentary about his move in their morning bulletins.\n\nMeanwhile, pro-government newspapers harshly criticised Germany on their front pages on Monday, accusing the country of \"fascism\".\n\n\"Harsh response from Ozil against racism\", said Sabah, while Milliyet went with: \"Red card for racism.\"", "Shagufta Khan was the director of Best Meet and Greet Ltd\n\nA woman has admitted misleading Gatwick holidaymakers who paid for their cars to be stored securely, when instead they were left in fields and public car parks.\n\nShagufta Khan, 42, was the director of Best Meet and Greet Ltd, which West Sussex County Council's Trading Standards team investigated after complaints.\n\nAt Hove Crown Court Mrs Khan admitted engaging in unfair and misleading commercial practice.\n\nShe will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nCars were kept in fields, not in a secure place as advertised\n\nThe court heard the company's website contained cheap short-term offers which pushed customers to book quickly, and it had false testimonies from \"satisfied\" customers.\n\nMrs Khan, of Stace Way, Crawley, also \"misled customers on the characteristics of their car parking\", by claiming vehicles would be securely guarded at all times, when actually they were stored in public car parks and muddy fields.\n\nThe court heard it was \"not likely\" Mrs Khan was the person with ultimate control over the company, and there was a strong chance other people were involved.\n\nCars were brought back filthy after being kept with Best Meet and Greet Ltd\n\nBest Meet and Greet is one of various firms which has been investigated by Trading Standards for similar reasons, including Gatwick First Parking and London Parking Gatwick.\n\nKaren Aldous used the service, and when she returned from her holiday Best Meet and Greet were unable to find the vehicle. After four-and-a-half hours it was returned, but it was dented and covered in mud.\n\nShe said: \"The repairs have been estimated at around £700, and I think Best Meet and Greet should cover the cost of those repairs.\"\n\nThe company website claimed the facility was manned and guarded 24/7\n\nAfter the conviction Richard Sargeant, Trading Standards team manager, said: \"We think this is very serious; customers are being defrauded.\n\n\"This company was making statements on their website and they were false. Consumers paid good money for their cars to be securely parked, but they weren't - they were parked unprofessionally in a field.\"\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said: \"Gatwick Airport strongly recommends passengers use official on-airport parking, or companies registered with Gatwick's approved off-airport parking operators scheme.\n\n\"While we sympathise with all affected passengers, it is important to stress that Gatwick has no relationship with the parking operator involved in this trial.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paramedic 'horrified' to learn boy could be acid attack victim\n\nThree men have been arrested after a three-year-old was seriously injured in a suspected acid attack.\n\nThe boy was in a pushchair when he was \"deliberately attacked\" at Home Bargains in Worcester at 14:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nWest Mercia Police said the men, aged 22, 25 and 26, were arrested in London on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nParamedic Nick Carson, who treated the boy, told the BBC it was \"horrific\".\n\nDoctors discharged the toddler from hospital on Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe was treated for serious burns to his arm and face and the \"long-term implications\" of his injuries are unknown, the force said.\n\nCh Supt Mark Travis said the motive for the attack is so far \"unclear\".\n\nFour people have been arrested in total and police have appealed for witnesses\n\nIn an exclusive interview, the paramedic said the liquid used in the attack was \"pink in colour, had quite a strong smell - not a bleach or acidy type smell\".\n\nMr Carson said the toddler was distressed to begin with, but calmed down very quickly once he was treated. The mother, he said, was \"concerned but not panicking\".\n\nThe three arrested men were detained at an address in Walthamstow, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA 39-year-old man from Wolverhampton arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm remains in police custody.\n\n\"Acid or a corrosive substance\" was either \"thrown at or sprayed towards\" the boy when he was with his family at Shrub Hill Retail Park, in Tallow Hill, police said.\n\nCh Supt Travis said the family is receiving specialist medical and police support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Community shock in Worcester over 'acid' attack on boy\n\n\"We are hoping the injuries won't be life changing. They are serious and at the moment it's just that little bit too soon to say, but things look positive.\n\n\"Everything that can be done to provide support is being done, support for the family has been great.\n\n\"I absolutely understand the community will be concerned, these are life changing incidents, this is something that lasts forever and we need to send a message that this is unacceptable.\"\n\nHe said the force was keeping \"an open mind as to the circumstances of the incident\" and was still \"appealing for anyone with information to come forward\".\n\nThe boy was with his mother at the time, and staff and shoppers tried to help before paramedics arrived.\n\nPolice rejected any link between the attack and a protest by The English Defence League which took place in the centre of Worcester on Saturday, against plans to build a mosque in the city.\n\nCh Supt Travis said: \"We have looked at all the possible links and at the moment there is nothing to suggest there is any link between the activity on Saturday with the protests and this particular incident.\"\n\nBev Sidhu said the experience was \"unnerving\"\n\nBev Sidhu, who was in the area at the time, said: \"The supervisor from Home Bargains came and said, 'Look, there was a hazardous acid used on someone'.\n\n\"But that's all they let us know until the next day, but obviously it was just unnerving really, because it was just confusion.\"\n\nA Home Bargains spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with this young child and his family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed it was called to the scene and liaised with the Hazardous Area Response Team for specialist advice.\n\nThey treated the boy at the shop before he was taken to hospital.\n\nRobin Walker, MP for Worcester, described the attack as \"horrific\".\n\n\"The shock will be universal. Anyone conducting such an attack on a small child is just appalling,\" he said.\n\nThe boy has been discharged from hospital after being treated for burns to his arm and face\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children cool themselves using water jets at a park in Tokyo\n\nTemperatures in Japan have hit a record high, with officials issuing a fresh warning to stay safe.\n\nJapan has for days been in the grip of a deadly heatwave, although the numbers reported killed vary widely from 15 to as high as 40.\n\nOn Monday, the thermometer peaked at 41.1C (106F) in Kumagaya, near Tokyo, breaking the previous national record of 41C from 2013.\n\nMore than a dozen cities have seen temperatures of about 40C.\n\nJapan's disaster management agency urged people to stay in air-conditioned spaces, drink water and rest to prevent heat exhaustion.\n\n\"People in areas where temperatures are as high as 35 degrees or higher should be extremely careful\" to avoid heatstroke, a meteorological agency official told news agency AFP.\n\n\"And even at lower temperatures, the heat can be dangerous for small children and elderly people, and depending on the environment and activities you are doing,\" the official warned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Yokohama, a city south of Tokyo, people took part in an event known as uchimizu, or \"water ceremony\" - pouring or sprinkling cold water on to the hot pavements in an attempt to cool them.\n\nPeople fill wooden buckets with water before pouring it over pavements in an attempt to cool the streets\n\nAlready this summer, more than 10,000 people have been taken to hospital as a result of the heat, according to the country's Kyodo news agency.\n\nOn Monday, a number of senior citizens died as a result of the intense heat in prefectures surrounding Tokyo, according to the local authorities.\n\nA day earlier, the Tokyo Fire Department dispatched ambulances some 3,125 times within the capital, the largest figure for a day since it began emergency services in 1936, as heatstroke and exhaustion contributed to emergency calls, AFP reports.\n\nTokyo's governor, Yuriko Koike, said the recent heatwave was \"exactly like living in a sauna\".\n\nMore than a dozen cities have seen temperatures of about 40C\n\nThe previous high was the 41C recorded in the western prefecture of Kochi in August 2013, the Japan Meteorological Agency says.\n\nThe current heatwave being the hottest on record has raised some concerns about the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.\n\nOlympic officials and Tokyo's local government have been discussing measures from solar-blocking paint on roads to mobile misting stations to tackle the heat.\n\nMs Koike said the concerns were not just for the athletes participating in the games, but for spectators \"who are cheering on the road\".\n\n\"Countermeasures against heat is one of the major pillars for the success of the 2020 Olympics,\" she told reporters at a press conference on Monday.", "Your yoghurt carton might be buried in landfill\n\nYou try to be virtuous, wiping the curdling yoghurt off a plastic pot, then putting it in the recycling bin.\n\nPerhaps you envisage the pot eventually re-incarnated as a frisbee or maybe even a plastic bench.\n\nBut don’t rest easy. Your pot might get burned or buried in landfill, and you’d never know.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) says over half of the packaging reported as recycled is actually being sent abroad to be processed.\n\nAs a result, it says, the government has little idea of whether the recyclables are getting turned into new products, buried in landfill or burned.\n\nWhile an illusion of success has been created by the UK’s system for recycling packaging, the NAO says, the reality may be quite different.\n\nThe UK is said to have increased recycling from under a third in 1998 to nearly two thirds last year, easily beating the EU target.\n\nBut the NAO says most of the recorded increase in recycling has been due to the UK exporting its waste problem.\n\nMichael Gove, the Environment Secretary, is already on record saying the UK has got to stop exporting its dirt.\n\nReducing waste and using resources better, as well as tackling packaging waste is key to that.\n\nThe environment department Defra estimates that UK packaging recycling rates have increased from 31% in 1998 to 64% in 2017. That beats the EU target of 55%.\n\nBut since 2002 the quantity of packaging waste exported has increased six-fold, whilst the quantity recycled in the UK has remained the same.\n\nWhat’s more, the figures don’t take into account the risk of undetected fraud and error.\n\nThe NAO says there’s nothing to prove that packaging sent for recycling actually gets recycled.\n\nNor does Defra have evidence that the system has done what it’s supposed to have done by encouraging companies to minimise their use of packaging or make it easy to recycle.\n\nThe NAO's report found only 25% of the firms most likely to misbehave over re-processing or exporting waste are inspected, while just 40% of planned compliance visits were actually carried out.\n\nAn Environment Agency spokesperson, said \"where we find any evidence of fraud or error in data reported to us, we remove that information from the overall packaging recycling data and calculations\".\n\nBut Amyas Morse, the head of the NAO, said \"a tighter grip on packaging recycling is needed\".\n\n“Twenty years ago, the government set up a complex system to subsidise packaging recycling, which appears to have evolved into a comfortable way of meeting targets without addressing the fundamental issues.\n\n“The government should have a much better understanding of the difference this system makes and a better handle on the risks associated with so much packaging waste being recycled overseas.\"\n\nCurrently large firms handling over 50 tonnes of packaging a year need to show they have recycled a certain amount of packaging.\n\nThey do this by paying for a credit note - a Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) - from a recycling firm to contribute to improving recycling.\n\nUK consumers use around 13 billion plastic drinks bottles a year but more than three billion are not recycled\n\nDefra says the scheme raised £50m in 2016. The cash was to be used for \"capacity building\" in the recycling system through increasing collection and processing of recyclables.\n\nBut critics say the scheme is so opaque it is hard to tell exactly how the money is spent.\n\nLocal councils, which have to run waste collection and litter services, complain they don’t see a penny of it.\n\nA government spokesman says that scheme has increased recycling rates \"significantly\".\n\n“However, there is much more to do. We don’t recycle enough waste, and we export too much of it.\n\n“That’s why we have already committed to overhaul the system, and we will set out our reforms in the Resources and Waste Strategy later this year.”", "A trial of new scanners at Heathrow Airport could mean passengers will not have to remove liquids from their hand luggage.\n\nThe machines take a 3D X-ray, allowing security staff to check items without requiring them to be removed from bags, and can detect explosives.\n\nThe worldwide rules began in 2006 after a terror plot was stopped by UK police.\n\nThe Department for Transport said a \"small number\" of trials was set to last between six and 12 months.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"The UK has some of the strictest security measures in the world, and we are leading the way in using new technology to improve security screening and provide a better experience for passengers.\n\n\"If successful, this could lead in future to passengers no longer needing to remove items from hand luggage for screening.\"\n\nThe DfT added: \"We continue to work closely with our international counterparts to harness the latest advances in technology.\"\n\nThe new computerised tomography (CT) scanners have also reportedly been tested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and John F Kennedy airport in New York. It comes five years after the European Commission said it hoped the restrictions across Europe could be ended through \"technological screening\".\n\nThe current rules specify that containers of liquid must hold no more than 100ml and fit in a small transparent, resealable plastic bag, which needs to be removed from hand luggage during pre-flight security checks.\n\nThey were introduced amid fears transatlantic flights could be brought down by terrorists hiding liquid explosives in small drink bottles.\n\nBut it has resulted in longer security checks, and has coincided with the rise in travel on low-cost airlines where many passengers only carry hand luggage.\n\nSecurity policy for all UK airports is set by the DfT.\n\nThe DfT said the new technology allows baggage screeners \"to use 3D imagery to look at objects from all angles\".\n\nIt said while the the trials take place, the rules remain the same and passengers should expect to remove items if requested during the security screening purposes.\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman confirmed the airport was \"looking at new technologies that can both improve the passenger experience and strengthen our security\".", "\"He told me that there was a hit list, and that there were people willing to finance it being carried out.\"\n\n\"I agreed of course… If you refuse a request like this you probably end up dead.\"\n\nThe broad-smiling, blond-bearded, would-be killer - Oleksiy Tsymbaliuk - is sitting next to me in my car.\n\nTsymbaliuk, a former Orthodox priest, is the unlikely starting point for the extraordinary tale of how the Ukrainian security service says it faked a murder in order to stop a murder. In doing so, it tried to expose what it says is Russia's involvement in the killing of political opponents.\n\n\"I am Arkady Babchenko's assassin,\" says Tsymbaliuk (pictured below) with a laugh as we shake hands.\n\nAt the end of May 2018, news of the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko sent a shiver around the world.\n\nBabchenko was an outspoken critic of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, so it was not a huge surprise when his body was found face down in a pool of blood in Ukraine's capital, Kiev.\n\nWith the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK city of Salisbury fresh in people's minds, the case was quickly seized on as another possible case of Russian aggression.\n\nWithin hours it had been raised at the United Nations Security Council.\n\nBut all was not as it first seemed.\n\nTwenty hours after he \"died\", Arkady Babchenko (pictured below) was unveiled at a press conference - tired, apologetic and very much alive.\n\nThe entire murder had been staged by Ukraine's security service, the SBU, as part of a highly controversial attempt to expose what it says is Russia's role in political assassinations.\n\nNow, for the BBC's Panorama and Our World TV programmes, and Assignment on World Service Radio, I have pieced together the most complete account yet of how and why this incredible hoax was carried out.\n\nIf it wasn't for Oleksiy Tsymbaliuk, Arkady Babchenko would almost certainly be dead.\n\nA brief flick through the pictures on Tsymbaliuk's Facebook profile provides a crash course in a life already well lived.\n\nThere are pictures of him wearing flowing golden robes - when he was an Orthodox priest.\n\nOthers show him in military outfits and holding guns - when he was a volunteer for right-wing groups in war-torn eastern Ukraine. For the past four years a mix of volunteers and the regular army have been fighting rebels backed by Russia.\n\nIn early April 2018, Tsymbaliuk was approached by an old contact from eastern Ukraine. A weapons manufacturer called Borys Herman (pictured below).\n\n\"I was asked by Herman to kill some people, mostly Russians.\n\n\"He told me that they're working against Ukraine, they're our enemies, they must be bumped off, and a group of people have allocated a budget to carry this out.\n\n\"I agreed, of course,\" he says with a chuckle.\n\nTsymbaliuk thinks Borys Herman chose him because he thought he could be easily manipulated, and he was soon receiving information about the first target.\n\nIn fact, Tsymbaliuk had immediately reached out to Ukraine's security service the SBU.\n\n\"We got the information and began to work with Mr Tsymbaliuk,\" Vasyl Hrytsak the head of the SBU told me.\n\nHrytsak said the SBU was already aware of Herman's activities and considered him to be a conduit of funds for pro-Russian activity inside Ukraine.\n\n\"We told him [Tsymbaliuk] how to behave in such a situation and how to act to gain more information about the crime.\"\n\nFrom then on, Tsymbaliuk recorded all his interactions with Herman.\n\n\"I named the price at $30,000 (£22,600) and Borys Herman said he'd add $10,000 (£7,500) to pay for his beers,\" Tsymbaliuk says with a smile.\n\nThe first tranche of money was delivered in a car outside a shopping centre. Guided by his minders at the SBU, Tsymbaliuk filmed the meeting with a secret camera.\n\nIn the footage, which has been released publicly, the two men's voices can be heard discussing how to count the money.\n\nWith the first instalment paid, the SBU decided it was time to contact the target, Arkady Babchenko, and start making plans to stage the murder.\n\n\"We received information that there were several units in Ukraine. And that this killing [of Babchenko] was just a test run for other assassinations,\" says SBU chief Hrytsak (pictured below).\n\n\"Only by staging this crime could we get the list of targets which we knew existed.\n\n\"We had to know more about who was involved in preparing and commissioning this terrible crime.\"\n\nA meeting was quickly arranged between Arkady Babchenko and the SBU - where he was given documents and played recordings of Herman and Tsymbaliuk talking.\n\nIt's worth briefly dwelling on the Russian journalist's back story and why people might have wanted him dead.\n\nIn the 1990s, Babchenko was a conscript in the Russian army. He fought in Chechnya and then became a war correspondent in Georgia and later Ukraine.\n\nHaving seen at first hand Russia's involvement in eastern Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea, his coverage and criticism of President Vladimir Putin - pictured below at his 2018 inauguration ceremony - became evermore acute.\n\n\"A little dictator who lives completely in his own world. He wants to be like Napoleon, collecting together all Russian lands.\"\n\nBy early 2017, Babhenko's views and social media posts had made him too many enemies and he was receiving death threats.\n\nAlong with his family, he fled Russia. He moved to the Czech Republic, Israel and eventually Ukraine.\n\nThere an old friend from Moscow, fellow Russian exile Aider Muzhdabaev (pictured below), offered him a job hosting a show on the Crimean TV channel ATR.\n\n\"Babchenko was calling for a boycott of the football World Cup,\" Muzhdabaev told me in the station's TV studio.\n\n\"He wanted more sanctions put on Russia and was writing that it was impossible to negotiate with Putin's terrorist state.\"\n\nLate one evening in early May, after being briefed by SBU agents on the plot, Babchenko returned home to his wife Olga.\n\nHe immediately went to the fridge and poured her a stiff drink.\n\n\"Before I drank, I turned to him and said, 'What's happened? Tell me.'\"\n\nOlga (pictured below) is speaking to me in a safe house that we've rented for the interview.\n\nIn a soft matter of fact way, she tells me how her husband explained the threat against him and the SBU's plan to fake his death.\n\n\"I wanted to escape, to hide, to grab my husband and child and just run far away. I didn't know where to. Maybe a desert island.\n\n\"I asked: 'What are we going to do?' Arkady, without hesitation, replied that he had made a decision: 'We will catch these reptiles.'\"\n\nFor the next few weeks Babchenko was forced to lay low while the fake murder was prepared. At one point, he had to pretend he had hurt his leg to justify staying inside his apartment.\n\nThen, on 29 May, the all clear was given for the special operation to start.\n\n\"Everything was simple really, there is nothing special to tell. I finished my soup, called a taxi and went to kill Babchenko.\"\n\n\"We had a make-up person who put shadows on my face, as if I'd lost lots of blood. My lips were smeared. Then they poured pigs blood into my mouth.\n\n\"Then, when I pretended to be shot, I fell to my knees and coughed a little to make the blood splatter. The make-up person put a blood clot in my nose with the words, Sorry, but we have to do this'.\n\n\"I said, 'Carry on - this is your work. This is your job, mine is to lie here.'\"\n\n\"My role was to not interfere and concentrate as much as possible on myself and acting the right way.\n\n\"I was thinking about how I should behave so it would be as natural as possible.\"\n\n\"What did I see when I opened the door? I saw a man in a pool of blood. Everything looked very real. The make-up people did a great job.\n\n\"For a moment I thought: 'If this was real it would be awful.' I wished him good health.\"\n\n\"I replied, 'Don't make me laugh because I've been killed. It will crack the blood that has dried.'\"\n\nTsymbaliuk left the apartment. Olga called the police and ambulance.\n\nBabchenko's body was taken away, leaving his close friends to grieve.\n\n\"Aider [Muzhdabaev] arrived first. It hurts to remember how he wept like a child whose mother had just been killed in front of them.\n\n\"I've never seen a man cry so much before. He just howled.\n\n\"I wanted to tell them everything. But I knew I couldn't. This was the hardest part of the whole operation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the staged murder was carried out\n\nWorried about the possibility they were being watched, the paramedics pretended to treat Babchenko.\n\nThe ambulance then pulled over, he was pronounced dead and taken to the mortuary.\n\nDetails of Babchenko's \"death\" were soon confirmed by a police spokesman and a photo leaked to social media of him lying face-down in a pool of blood.\n\nAider Muzhdabaev - his friend in exile from Moscow and TV station boss - went outside the Babchenko apartment to brief a growing crowd of journalists.\n\n\"It's a huge loss for journalism because he was one of the few individuals who wrote the real truth about Russia and that is why he was killed,\" he told them.\n\n\"It's clear this is a direct, calculated terrorist act made on the orders of the Russian Federation.\"\n\nBabchenko sat up on the slab and came back to life.\n\n\"It was the strangest two-to-three hours of my life. I was sitting in the morgue wrapped in a sheet like Gandhi.\n\n\"I was smoking and watching TV news about what a wonderful guy I was. Next door, a pathologist was sawing a skull, performing an autopsy.\"\n\n\"I envied him at this point because he did not have to talk to anyone.\n\n\"I thought he was probably in a peaceful place at this point and I was stuck in this agony, because at that moment, everyone was concentrating on me.\"\n\nWithin hours it was mentioned at the UN Security Council in New York and countries, including the UK, issued statements expressing their concern.\n\nUkraine's Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman, went a step further, blaming his neighbour to the east.\n\n\"I am confident that the Russian totalitarian machine did not forgive him his honesty and principled stance,\" he posted on Facebook.\n\nMeanwhile, the \"hitman\" Tsymbaliuk was informing Herman that the job had been completed.\n\nHe sent him a text using an agreed nickname for the Russian journalist.\n\n\"I wrote to him that: 'The worm has been squashed'. Check the news,\" he says.\n\nSeveral hours later, Herman replied saying he'd drunk too much and was hungover. But plans were made to meet up the next day.\n\nBefore that could happen the security agencies stepped in.\n\n\"We had a plan to wait for longer, to allow things to develop,\" says Vasyl Hrytsak, the head of the SBU.\n\n\"The next day Borys Herman was supposed to pay off Tsymbaliuk for the completed job. But there was lots of noise around the case. All the media was talking about it - so we had to take some steps.\"\n\nWhen information came through that Herman had bought a ticket to fly to Italy, the SBU's agents swooped in and arrested him.\n\nAt 17:00 on 30 May, a tired looking Babchenko was revealed to a packed press conference at SBU headquarters.\n\nTo gasps of astonishment, Vasyl Hrytsak explained to journalists it had all been staged.\n\nAn emotional Babchenko took the microphone to say sorry for misleading people.\n\n\"I've had to bury colleagues. I've had to bury friends. I know the sickening feeling when you bury your own,\" he said.\n\n\"But there was no other way.\"\n\nMobile phone footage from Babchenko's TV channel shows his colleagues cheering and staring open-mouthed at their own coverage of the press conference.\n\n\"I just ran outside and lay on the grass,\" his boss Aider Muzdabhaev told me.\n\n\"I lay there for about one-and-a-half hours looking at the sky. I felt very good.\"\n\nPlenty of Ukrainians saw this as a simple \"win\".\n\nBut not everyone was quite so delighted.\n\nFor some, particularly those observing from abroad, this wasn't a good news story.\n\n\"I think it was infantile. I think it was a disaster for Ukraine,\" said Michael Bociurkiw (pictured below), a global affairs analyst with particular focus on Ukraine.\n\n\"To many people, I think it sounded like Ukraine was taking a page out of the Russian playbook of using fake news to convince people of something.\"\n\nSo what then did Ukraine get out of it? And why was it necessary for it to be taken so far?\n\n\"Even if we just saved the life of Arkady Babchenko it's a success,\" Vasyl Hrytsak says defensively.\n\n\"But thanks to this operation we've also got a list of 47 targets - journalists, activists past and present, citizens of the Russian Federation.\n\n\"We got information about the activities of the Russian special services on our territory.\"\n\nThat list - according to the SBU - was obtained from the phone of Borys Herman when they arrested him the day after the fake assassination.\n\nThe SBU says it was only sent to him from his contact in Russia once the Babchenko death was confirmed, hence justifying the fakery.\n\nThe first man on the list is Babchenko's boss Aider Muzhdabaev. He immediately accepted the offer of round-the-clock state protection.\n\nOthers are much more cynical. They point to the fact that a significant number of those on the hit list are Ukrainian journalists with relatively little to do with Russia.\n\nSonia Koshkin (pictured below) is one of those who has refused protection.\n\nShe believes that the hit-list of 47 is - like the murder - fake, and that 17 names including hers were added to the 30 Russian-linked ones by the Ukrainian security service.\n\n\"Primarily the aim was to scare. Because when a person is scared they change their behaviour,\" says Koshkin.\n\n\"They're nervous. They don't think about what interview to do or what post on FB to leave - they are just thinking about how to stay alive and their security.\"\n\nSo what, I ask her, is going on?\n\n\"I think this story will come to nothing. It's just a big bang to frighten people.\"\n\nThe SBU insists the list it released is the original one.\n\nUkraine says links to Russia's security services have been exposed through a man called Vyacheslav Pivovarnik (pictured below).\n\nA Ukrainian, who according to the SBU now lives in Russia, it's claimed that Pivovarnik was a key player. Providing the orders, hit list and money to Borys Herman.\n\nOn the 15 June it was announced that Pivovarnik had been charged in absentia by Ukraine. The BBC has sought to get his response to the charges, but has not been able to contact him.\n\nThe SBU told me that the morning after Babchenko's fake murder, the following messages talking about making a final payment to the \"assassin\" Tsymbaliuk were exchanged over the messaging platform Signal.\n\n\"Hello to the alcoholic [a reference to Herman's drinking].\"\n\n\"Hi, the Church [a reference to Tsymbaliuk the monk/priest] is asking for a second payment, but I am empty.\"\n\n\"15 [reference to the outstanding balance of $15,000]\"\n\nSo far, no journalist has managed to track down Pivovarnik, so attention has focused on Borys Herman, the alleged middle-man.\n\nGiven the recordings and messages that exist Herman hasn't denied plotting either with Tsymbaliuk or with Pivovarnik.\n\nHis defence is that it was all an act - and that he was also working for Ukraine's security service. He says he specifically chose Tsymbaliuk as the assassin because he was a priest - hence unable to kill.\n\nWhen Herman appeared in court in Kiev, I asked him why we should believe that he didn't want to kill Arkady Babchenko.\n\n\"Because I am not an idiot. Why do I need it? Why do I need it in my situation… to do something so foolish?\n\n\"My job was to get the hit list - and in order to get that I had to make it look like it is happening.\"\n\nSo far, despite my repeated requests both to him and his lawyer, Herman has not been able to provide any firm evidence to prove he was working for Ukraine's security service.\n\nWith Pivovarnik almost certainly remaining in Russia, it appears unlikely that the Russian link to the investigation will ever be fully revealed.\n\nThe BBC approached the Russian government for its response to the Babchenko case and the way Ukraine had handled it.\n\n\"My first feeling was that it's magic, it's great, he's alive,\" Maria Zakharova (pictured below), the foreign ministry spokesperson says, before twisting the knife.\n\n\"But immediately I got another feeling… I mean the Ukrainian officials who were involved in this thing… did they realise what they did?\n\n\"Because now nobody will trust Ukrainians and the Ukrainian government any more in any sort of future cases.\"\n\nAnd what of the fears that Babchenko and other Russian dissidents have - that they are targets in Kiev?\n\n\"This is ridiculous, this is absolutely absurd,\" says Zakharova.\n\n\"Russia as a state has nothing to do with Arkady Babchenko. He's a free man in a free world. He can do whatever he wants.\"\n\nFor those directly involved in the fake murder, life will never be the same again.\n\nTsymbaliuk, the hit-man, seems the least fazed by the experience.\n\nAs we drove around Kiev together he told me he was planning to write a book about his experience.\n\n\"The war in our country is not over,\" he says. \"I'm not going to change anything in my life. I will return to war. To live. To work. To fight.\"\n\nArkady and Olga Babchenko may never feel secure in Ukraine again.\n\n\"I'm worried,\" Olga says. \"I do not feel safe. At the moment, yes, we are in a safe place - but I do not feel safe. One day it will be necessary to venture outside our protected territory. What will happen in the future - we just don't know.\"\n\nArkady Babchenko, himself, still burns with indignation when pushed on the ethics of what he did.\n\n\"I understand where all this criticism comes from. It comes from people who talk hypothetically about morality and ethics and about good and evil.\n\n\"Well guys, I wish you were in my situation. When they come to you and say, 'Someone has paid money to have you killed.' Will you say, 'No, I refuse because my readers will not understand. It will violate the ethical standards of journalism.'\"\n\n\"By doing so people will die - because this network would not have been exposed.\"\n\nWatch The Faked Murder that Fooled the World from Panorama on BBC One at 20:30 on Monday 23 July - or on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nAlso showing on Our World on the BBC News Channel at 04:30 and 21:30 on Saturday 28 July - and 03:30 and 21:30 on Sunday 29 July - or available via the Our World website.", "UK drivers are being urged to test their eyesight after a DVLA survey suggested 50% of motorists were not aware of the minimum standards needed for a licence.\n\nDrivers must be able to read a number plate from 20m (65ft) away.\n\nBut the agency's survey found only half of drivers knew about the eye test and used it to regularly self-check, as they are legally required to do.\n\nThose who do not pass the test should visit an optician, a DVLA doctor said.\n\nLearner drivers must pass the eye test as part of their practical exam - and are then legally obliged to ensure their sight remains good enough to drive thereafter.\n\nThe DVLA's Wyn Parry warned vision can \"naturally deteriorate over time\", adding that regular checks to ensure good eyesight were \"essential for safe driving\".\n\nPerforming the test can be done on any street and only takes \"a couple of seconds\", said Dr Parry.\n\nFive car lengths is said to roughly match the 20m distance, with drivers being encouraged to use the measure to test their vision on the number plates of passing cars.\n\nThere are currently 48 million registered drivers in the UK, according to the DVLA.\n\nLast year, the Association of Optometrists called for those behind the wheel to have compulsory eye tests every 10 years.\n\nOne in three optometrists said they had seen patients who continue to drive with vision below the legal standard, the association said.\n\nDrivers over the age of 70 must actively make a declaration every three years that they are fit to drive - but do not actually have to pass a test.", "Jeremy Hunt has warned that without a \"change in approach from the EU negotiators\", there is now a \"very real risk of a Brexit no deal by accident\".\n\nThe foreign secretary said \"many\" in the EU believed they just had to \"wait long enough and Britain will blink\" but \"that's not going to happen\".\n\nHe warned of \"unintended geopolitical consequences\" with just Vladimir Putin \"rejoicing\" if there was no deal.\n\nGermany's foreign minister says it wants a deal \"not a disorderly Brexit\".\n\nHeiko Maas, who held talks with Mr Hunt in Berlin, said: \"We know that everyone has to make mutual concessions to get this deal.\n\n\"We know that the European Union has its interests, overall interests, so not just individual member-states but EU institutions.\n\n\"And of course Britain doesn't want to unnecessarily complicate framework conditions for economic activity, but also security questions, or our foreign policy cooperation.\n\n\"It becomes more difficult anyway as a non-member of the European Union.\n\n\"So, we've agreed we will prepare bilaterally for the time after Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hunt said a no deal would be \"challenging\" but the UK would still \"thrive economically\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019, but the two sides have yet to agree how trade will work afterwards.\n\nMr Hunt's trip to Germany comes at the start of a concerted push by British government ministers to sell the UK's latest Brexit blueprint across the Continent.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May will meet the Austrian chancellor and Czech and Estonian prime ministers this week, saying both sides know \"the clock is ticking\" on negotiations.\n\nThe EU and the UK want a deal in place by October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May is asked how she unwinds\n\nSpeaking to workers at a factory in Newcastle, Mrs May said she was working to get a deal that MPs would support when it comes before Parliament - but was also \"stepping up\" government preparations for no deal being reached.\n\nShe was asked about Treasury forecasts of an economic hit to the North East of England after Brexit - in response she said the government wanted \"frictionless\" trade at borders and also promised investment in transport infrastructure and skills.\n\nAnd asked how she unwinds from the \"world's most stressful job\", she said she enjoyed walking, cooking and watching US crime TV series NCIS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three politicians give their view on a Brexit \"no deal\"\n\nThe government's plan has been set out in a White Paper which proposes close ties in some areas, such as the trade in goods, but will end free movement of people and the direct jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK.\n\nCritics at Westminster say it is an unworkable compromise, which would leave the UK governed by the EU in many areas, but with no say in its rules.\n\nThe plan sparked two cabinet resignations - former Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nAfter Parliament rises for the summer recess on Tuesday, Downing Street said the UK negotiating team would be travelling to Brussels while the foreign secretary, chancellor, home secretary, business secretary and the minister for the Cabinet Office will meet counterparts across Europe.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, questioned on Friday whether UK plans for a common rulebook for goods and agri-foods were practical and said the EU would not run the risk of weakening its single market.\n\nHe questioned whether the plans could work without causing extra bureaucracy and said there were \"practical problems\" about how tariffs would be determined and collected.\n\nNew Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has said a deal could be done by October - but also that making \"no deal\" preparations such as hiring extra border staff was part of being a \"responsible government\".\n\nThe Times has reported that the head of Amazon in the UK, Doug Gurr, warned of potential \"civil unrest\" in the event of \"no deal\" at a meeting with Mr Raab on Friday.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it seemed the government's priority was preparing for no deal, which would be bad for industry.\n\n\"There has to be a serious stepping-up of negotiations to reach an agreement on customs and on trade,\" he said.", "A record number of primary school children are leaving school severely obese, according to new figures from Public Health England.\n\nData for 2016/17 shows one in 25 10 to 11 year olds were severely obese.\n\nThat's more than 22,000 children, and the highest level since records began.\n\nLevels of childhood obesity have remained fairly stable in recent years, but the new analysis shows that severe obesity has been on an upward trend over the last decade.\n\nThe data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for children for the year 2016/17 has detailed the trends in severe obesity for the first time.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the trends were \"extremely worrying and have been decades in the making - reversing them will not happen overnight.\"\n\nShe said \"bold measures are needed to tackle this threat to our children's health\".\n\nThe Department of Health recently announced the second phase of its childhood obesity plan to help halve childhood obesity by 2030.\n\nAs part of that, sweets and high-fat snacks will be banned from supermarket checkouts, and there will be tighter restrictions on junk food ads on TV.\n\nCaroline Cerny, of the Obesity Health Alliance, said the government's obesity plans need to be \"fully and swiftly implemented\".\n\n\"It's very concerning that the number of children with a weight that is classified as severely obese is now at an all-time high. Children with obesity are five times more likely to have obesity as adults, putting them at risk of diseases including Type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart and liver disease, as well as associated mental health conditions.\"\n\nDr Max Davie, Officer for Health Promotion for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), said although the new data was \"shocking\" it was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"The Government's childhood obesity plan is encouraging but if the policies within it are not quickly enacted, more children are going to face a life that's limited in quality and expectancy\" he said.\n\n\"Obesity is entirely preventable, so this new data should be the springboard the government needs in order to put these policies in place and begin turning around lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethany Haines said the men should face justice for her father's murder\n\nThey were allegedly members of an Islamic State cell notorious for killing Western hostages and putting their deaths on camera.\n\nWestern media dubbed them \"the Beatles\" because of their British accents.\n\nToday one is dead, killed by a US drone, a second is in prison in Turkey for terrorism, and the last two are in the custody of US allies in war-torn Syria.\n\nThe Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who are holding them say they have yet to receive a request from any country to hand them over.\n\nVictims' families want Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh to face justice, but the question of where justice might best be served is complex.\n\nUS journalist James Foley was beheaded by IS in 2014 - a crime \"beyond imagination\", his mother Diane told BBC News.\n\nBritish fighters Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces\n\nShe said she would like to see the captured fighters tried in the US.\n\n\"But as long as they're brought to fair trial and detained and justice is served, I would be most grateful,\" she added.\n\nTwo other American hostages, journalist Steve Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig (also known as Abdul-Rahman Kassig), were killed by IS too.\n\nThe US defence department said it was \"still considering options\" but a spokesman added: \"Our intention is to hold anyone accountable who commits acts like those they are alleged to have committed.\"\n\nThe US Congress has been deeply opposed to terror suspects being held on US soil. So one option could be to send the suspects to Guantanamo Bay, the US detention camp in Cuba that was set up to hold jihadists captured in the \"war on terror\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump said during the 2016 election campaign he wanted to \"load it up with some bad dudes\". Last month, Mr Trump signed an order keeping the camp open.\n\nHuman rights groups argue the very existence of Guantanamo and internment without trial play into the hands of jihadist recruiters, who portray it as an example of US injustice.\n\nBritish hostages Alan Henning and David Haines, who had gone to Syria for humanitarian reasons, were both killed by IS.\n\nMr Haines's daughter Bethany told BBC Scotland she hoped his killers died a \"slow, painful death\" and said she would want to look Kotey and Elsheikh in the eye if they stood trial.\n\nFrench journalist Nicolas Henin was held hostage by IS for 10 months and believes \"the Beatles\" were among those holding him.\n\nHe told BBC News he wanted Kotey and Elsheikh returned to the UK to face justice.\n\n\"I would like to see them brought back to Britain, just like I would like to see all other European jihadis brought back to their home countries, to be judged fairly in their home country,\" he said.\n\n\"Because the worst thing we can do with a terrorist is to deprive him from his right because then you make the terrorist a victim.\"\n\nHowever, the BBC understands Kotey and Elsheikh, who grew up in west London, have both been stripped of their British citizenship.\n\nA British defence minister, Tobias Ellwood, has called for Kotey and Elsheikh to be tried in an international criminal court.\n\nIt is important that \"terrorists from any origin are transparently and fairly held to account for their actions\", he said.\n\nThe International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, can prosecute suspects for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.\n\nHowever, barring a UN Security Council request, it will prosecute cases only when states are unwilling or unable to do so, and is not intended to replace national criminal systems.\n\nIt has been accused of focusing too much on war crimes in Africa, such as in Darfur and Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe prospect of an international criminal tribunal being set up for Syria, modelled on those for the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda, seems remote.\n\nThe conflict drags on and deep divisions, most notably between the US and Russia, continue to beset the UN Security Council.\n\nAnother country with a potential claim on prosecuting Kotey and Elsheikh is Japan.\n\nIS beheaded two of its citizens, Haruna Yukawa and journalist Kenji Goto.\n\nThe captured IS fighters could just remain in Syria, of course.\n\nHowever, the situation there is fluid as the SDF battles IS remnants, forces loyal to the Syrian government and, increasingly, Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The group known as \"The Beatles\" beheaded IS hostages\n\nLast year, Turkey jailed the third living member of \"the Beatles\", Aine Davis, for seven-and-a-half years for membership of a terrorist organisation.\n\nSpanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who was subjected to mock executions, told BBC News at the time it did not matter where Davis was tried.\n\n\"He should face justice wherever it is,\" he said. \"It doesn't matter if it's in England or Turkey or wherever. He should be in jail forever.\"\n\nThe fourth and most infamous \"Beatle\", Mohammed Emwazi, who appeared in beheading videos, was killed by a drone strike on his car in the IS stronghold of Raqqa in 2016.", "A new drug to treat malaria has been given the green light by authorities in the United States.\n\nThe medicine is specifically for the recurring form of malaria - caused by the parasite plasmodium vivax - which makes 8.5 million people ill each year.\n\nThis type of malaria is a particular challenge to get rid of as it can remain dormant in the liver for years before reawakening many times.\n\nScientists have described tafenoquine as a \"phenomenal achievement.\"\n\nRegulators around the world will now look at the drug to see if they can recommend it for their populations.\n\nRecurring malaria is the most common type of malaria outside Sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nChildren can be particularly at risk, getting several bouts of malaria from a single bite, missing lots of school and getting weaker each time they get the disease.\n\nAnd infected people can act as unwitting reservoirs of the disease because when the parasite reawakens in their bodies a mosquito can carry that parasite on to someone else.\n\nThis can make it hard to eliminate around the world.\n\nNow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has given the seal of approval to tafenoquine, a drug that can flush the parasite out of its hiding place in the liver and stop people getting it again.\n\nIt can be taken alongside another medicine to treat the immediate infection.\n\nThere is already a medication that can be used to get rid of malaria hiding in the liver called primaquine.\n\nBut unlike the single dose of tafenoquine needed, primaquine often needs to be taken for 14 days.\n\nSome experts are concerned that many people feel better after just a few days and stop taking the pills, allowing the parasite to awaken at a later date.\n\nThe FDA says the drug is effective and approves it for use in the United States but points out that there are important side effects to be aware of.\n\nFor example people with an enzyme problem, called G6PD deficiency, should not take the drug as it can cause severe anaemia.\n\nThe regulator recommends people are tested for the deficiency for this before it is given - which can pose a problem in poorer areas where malaria is common.\n\nThere are also concerns that at higher doses it can be a problem for people with psychiatric illnesses.\n\nBut despite these cautions there is hope the drug, together with bed nets and other precautions, will help reduce the amount of vivax malaria in the world.\n\nProf Ric Price, of Oxford University, told the BBC: \"The ability to get rid of the parasite in the liver with a single dose of tafenoquine is a phenomenal achievement and in my mind it represents one of the most significant advances in malaria treatment in the last 60 years.\"\n\nMeanwhile Dr Hal Barron, president of research and development at GSK, the company that manufactures the drug, said it was a significant milestone for people living with this type of relapsing malaria.\n\n\"Together with our partner, Medicines for Malaria Venture, we believe Krintafel will be an important medicine for patients with malaria and contribute to the ongoing effort to eradicate this disease.\"\n\nTafenonquine has been in existence since the 1970s but working with Medicines for Malaria, GSK has repurposed the drug so that it can be used to get rid of malaria parasites in the liver.\n\nThe next step will be for the drug to be assessed by regulators in countries where this form of malaria is a significant problem.", "Tesco is planning to open a number of stores in a mystery new format.\n\nThe store chain, the country's biggest food retailer, would not comment, but there are strong hints the new-look stores will be aimed at challenging discounters, such as Aldi and Lidl.\n\nA whole range of jobs are on offer at new-format stores in Wandsworth, London, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire and Immingham, Lincolnshire.\n\nReports suggest it could be called Jack's, after Tesco founder Jack Cohen.\n\nThe job adverts, which are headed \"Tesco - New Store Format\" all contain a line saying: \"The new retail format will be operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco.\"\n\nTesco's move comes as retailers face an increasingly competitive environment.\n\nSince their entry into the UK, discount chains Aldi and Lidl have steadily increased their share of the market and now account for 14% of grocery sales.\n\nOn top of that, internet behemoth Amazon has edged slowly but steadily into food retailing.\n\nLast year, Amazon bought upmarket grocer Whole Foods. In the UK, Amazon offers food sales through its Amazon Fresh service, although currently that is still focused on Greater London and parts of the South East.\n\nAldi is one of the discount chains to have made great inroads into the UK's grocery sector\n\nThe established supermarkets have been trying to stay in the game\n\nEarlier this month, Tesco announced it was planning a buying partnership with France's Carrefour - a \"strategic alliance\" whereby the two will try to use their joint buying power to cut costs and offer lower prices to customers. This came after Tesco took over the wholesale giant, Booker.\n\nIn April, Sainsbury's said that it was in advanced talks to buy Asda from US retail giant Walmart.\n\nSome analysts warned any move by Tesco to take on the discounters would need sensitive handling.\n\nThomas Brereton, retail analyst at GlobalData, said: \"The possibility of Tesco opening a discount fascia in a bid to neutralise the growing threat posed by German discounters Aldi and Lidl looks a bold move, but orchestrating the emergence of a new brand without damaging the reputation of the main Tesco image will require pinpoint precision to succeed.\"\n\nThat point was echoed by Mark Dodds, chairman of the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Food, Drink and Agriculture committee.\n\n\"Getting the branding balance right will be vital if Tesco is to succeed in taking on the discount supermarkets. If the brand is too different it will have a tough job becoming established in the market,\" he said.\n\n\"On the other hand a brand too close to its core runs the risk of cannibalisation of current sales.\"\n\nLast year, Tesco, which employs 440,000 people, reported profits of £1.3bn with sales of £57.5bn.", "Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against a law denying surrogacy to gay couples and single fathers.\n\nDemonstrators held their gathering in the central Rabin Square, and at one point briefly blocked a major motorway. At least one person was arrested.\n\nIsrael's parliament on Wednesday allowed surrogacy for single women and women unable to bear children.\n\nPreviously, only heterosexual married couples were granted the same rights.\n\nThe legislation also envisaged state funding for surrogacy.\n\n\"We came here today (Sunday) to say to the government 'No more',\" demonstrator Oz Dani in Rabin Square was quoted as saying by Reuters.\n\n\"We want equality and we want equal rights for everyone.\"\n\nSimilar rallies were also held in several other cities, including Jerusalem.\n\nMany protesters said gay couples wanting to have children were being forced to seek surrogate mothers abroad and pay large sums of money.\n\nA number of Israeli companies said they were ready to make financial contributions to help such couples.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously supported the extension of surrogacy rights to gay couples and single men.\n\nBut he voted against this last week, saying that otherwise the entire bill would have been blocked in parliament.", "The 79-year-old woman was praying when a 100kg (220lb) stone fell just a few feet away.", "Ryanair says its profits in the April to June quarter have been hit by higher wage costs as the airline faces strikes by staff over pay and conditions.\n\nIt said higher oil prices and a fall in fares also dented profits, which fell 20% to €319m (£285m).\n\nRyanair is facing more strikes in the next few days. Pilots in Dublin will strike on Tuesday, while cabin crew in Europe will strike later this week.\n\nRyanair also said average fares this summer would be lower than expected.\n\nIt put this down to tough competition, the heatwave in Northern Europe and uncertainty caused by the strikes.\n\nRyanair said staff costs were up by 34% because of a 20% increase in pilot pay, 9% more flight hours and a 3% general pay increase for non-flight staff.\n\nHowever, it said it expected to meet profit forecasts of €1.25bn-€1.35bn for the full year. Shareholders, though, were disappointed, marking the shares down 5% in morning trading.\n\nStaff at the airline are continuing to fight for better pay and conditions. Ireland-based pilots have held two 24-hour walk-outs and are due to hold another one on Tuesday.\n\nIn addition, this coming week will see 300 of its daily 2,400 flights cancelled on Thursday and Friday because of industrial action by cabin crew in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium.\n\nIndustrial action has dogged the company for some months. In December last year it said it would recognise trade unions - reversing its previous policy - in an attempt to avoid strike action over the Christmas period.\n\nBut problems continue, and the airline acknowledged that further disruption was likely.\n\n\"While we continue to actively engage with pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe, we expect further strikes over the peak summer period,\" said chief executive Michael O'Leary.\n\nThe pilots' main concern is over \"seniority lists\", a system used by many airlines to determine a number of things within an airline, including which aircraft type a pilot flies and their schedule.\n\nCabin crew are taking action over a whole host of issues, including pay. Among other things, they are asking for a \"fair living wage\" and employment contracts written in their own language, based on local, rather than Irish, law.\n\nThe airline also said it was concerned about the danger of a hard Brexit, warning that the risk of one was being \"underestimated\".\n\nIt warned UK shareholders they may have to lose their voting rights in the event of a hard Brexit.\n\nRyanair said: \"While there is a view that a 21-month transition agreement from March 2019 to December 2020 will be implemented (and extended), recent events in the UK political sphere have added to this uncertainty, and we believe that the risk of a hard Brexit is being underestimated.\n\n\"It is likely that in the event of a hard Brexit our UK shareholders will be treated as non-EU.\n\n\"We may be forced to restrict the voting rights of all non-EU shareholders in the event of a hard Brexit, to ensure that Ryanair remains majority owned and controlled by EU shareholders.\"", "The new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab unveiled the White Paper on Thursday\n\nThe government has published its long-awaited Brexit White Paper. The document is 104 pages long and follows last week's Chequers agreement which set out the sort of relationship the UK wants with the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe White Paper is split into four chapters: economic partnership, security, cooperation and institutional arrangements. Most of the debate surrounds the first section, the future economic relationship.\n\nSo here are the key excerpts from the chapter on \"economic partnership\" and what they mean.\n\nThis is a line that emerged in the Chequers statement last Friday, and it is one of the most important in this White Paper.\n\nIt is the UK government's answer to the concerns expressed by businesses that rely on \"just-in-time\" manufacturing supply chains (such as car manufacturers), and to the need to avoid the reimposition of a hard border in Ireland.\n\nThe White Paper proposes a free trade area for goods - but it is very close to single market membership for goods in all but name.\n\nThe suggestion of a common rulebook sounds very collaborative, but it does - in effect - mean the UK agreeing to take on the EU's rules and regulations in all these areas.\n\nIf the UK parliament chose not to sign up to any of those rules, the idea of frictionless trade would begin to fall apart. The other big sensitivity in this section will be the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).\n\nThe White Paper says the role of the ECJ in the UK will come to an end, and it sets out detailed proposals for joint institutional arrangements to police future economic ties.\n\nBut the ECJ is the ultimate legal authority on EU rules with which the UK proposes to harmonise.\n\nThere's more detail here about how the UK proposes to combine bits of its two previous customs proposals, to create an entirely new customs relationship with the EU.\n\nIt would take advantage of new technologies to make trade as frictionless as possible, but it would still involve the UK collecting EU tariffs (taxes on imports) at UK borders on the EU's behalf - something which isn't done anywhere else in the world on any significant scale.\n\nThe White Paper says the UK would also apply its own tariffs, and an independent trade policy, for goods intended for consumption in the UK. In other words, it would still seek to strike its own trade deals around the world, even though it would be bound by EU rules and regulations.\n\nFor once, Brexiteers and the EU appear united - neither thinks the proposal has much chance of working because of its sheer complexity.\n\nUnsurprisingly the UK government disputes that, and says it wants to be at the cutting edge of global customs policy.\n\nBut it's also worth noting that the White Paper says the Facilitated Customs Arrangement (FCA) would have to be phased in - which is code for saying that it wouldn't be ready by the end of the proposed transition period in December 2020.\n\nThe White Paper confirms that the UK will seek active participation in (if not full membership of) the European Aviation Safety Agency, the European Chemicals Agency and the European Medicines Agency.\n\nThe government is keen to address business demands that they only need to go through one approval mechanism to access both markets, in highly regulated parts of the economy.\n\nThe EU has previously ruled out full UK membership of these agencies, and noted that it would have to accept the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice if it were to sign up to their rules and regulations.\n\nThe White Paper accepts that the UK would not have any voting rights in the way the agencies go about their business, and that it would have to make appropriate financial contributions to them.\n\nThis is part of the pragmatic Brexit the government is now advocating, but it is not the resumption of full UK sovereignty that some leading leave campaigners had promised.\n\nThe section on services confirms that the UK is seeking a looser relationship with the EU for roughly 80% of the UK economy.\n\nFinancial and other services will no longer be able to take advantage of passporting, which gives them automatic access to other EU markets (the UK's Financial Conduct Authority says about 5,500 UK financial firms currently have EU passporting rights).\n\nThe government has abandoned plans for a new relationship based on the concept of mutual recognition of financial regulations, partly because it had been so comprehensively rejected by the EU.\n\nBut it is still seeking something more ambitious than the \"equivalence' regime\" that the EU has with most other third countries (part of the problem with that is that it can be withdrawn, by either side, with just 30 days notice). So, the UK argues that the importance of the City of London to the EU's entire financial system means a more ambitious solution needs to be found.\n\nThe trouble with a lot of these proposals though is that the EU will see them as cherry-picking from the four freedoms that underpin the single market. It has already said that the UK cannot have full access to the single market for goods and not services, especially if it is determined to end the free movement of people.\n\nThe White Paper emphasises repeatedly that free movement of people will come to an end.\n\nFull details of a new immigration policy are due to be published in a separate White Paper, which has already been delayed several times.\n\nBut there are hints in this document of what could be to come - it sets out proposals for a mobility framework, which is pretty standard in trade agreements.\n\nIt could - among other things - \"allow citizens to travel freely, without a visa, for tourism and temporary business activity.\"\n\nBut some Brexiteers fear that what will eventually emerge will be free movement under another name, and they are already suspicious that this is just an opening bid from the government.\n\nThe EU will certainly push for further concessions if the UK is to get anything close to the economic relationship it wants.\n\nPart of the problem for the UK is that it is asking the EU to be a little bit more flexible in the way it interprets its rules-based system.\n\nBut that request is being made at a time when the EU thinks its rules are under threat from external sources like President Trump, and internal sources like governments in Italy, Hungary and Poland.", "The 1963 recording with The Konrads features Bowie performing under his birth name David Jones\n\nThe first known studio recording of David Bowie is set for auction after being found in an old bread basket.\n\nThe 1963 demo tape, rejected by Decca, features a 16-year-old Bowie - then known as David Jones - singing I Never Dreamed with first band The Konrads.\n\nThe tape, expected to fetch £10,000, is being sold by the band's drummer David Hadfield, who uncovered it in his loft.\n\nAuctioneer Paul Fairweather described the tape as a \"significant recording, completely unique\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A clip of a 1963 recording, thought to be the first, of a teenage David Bowie singing\n\nHe said it offers new insight into Bowie as a \"fledgling musician who would go on to super stardom.\"\n\nThe recording captures Bowie, later known as one of music's great experimentalists, at a time when he remained unsure of his musical direction.\n\nBowie was The Konrads' saxophonist but it was decided that he should sing lead vocals for the tape.\n\nHadfield said: \"David had no inclination to become a singer at this point, his heart and mind were focused on becoming a world class saxophone player.\n\nBowie went on to become one of the most influential solo artists of all-time\n\n\"Our agent, Eric Easton, who also managed the Rolling Stones, asked us to do a demo so he could try and get us an audition at Decca.\n\n\"We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song.\n\n\"Decca initially turned us down, but when they eventually gave us an audition later that year, vocalist Roger Ferris was the lead voice and David sang backing harmonies.\"\n\nBowie left the band shortly after the audition, which did not get the band signed.\n\nHe would eventually return as a solo artist six years later - changing his name in 1966 once The Monkees' Davy Jones achieved stardom.\n\nSigned to Mercury Records, he released Space Oddity - a stand-out on his self-titled second album - in 1969.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The many faces of David Bowie\n\nHis global breakthrough came with 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.\n\nFollowing this success, Space Oddity was reissued under RCA records in 1975 and went on to become Bowie's first UK number one.\n\nHis ever-changing artistic persona would ultimately reshape attitudes to fashion, gender, music and culture.\n\nThe Brixton-born star died of cancer in January 2016, two days after the release on his 69th birthday of his 25th studio album, Blackstar.\n\nHatfield's newly released recording is part of a trove of memorabilia, including letters, bills, booking forms, photographs and promotional sketches from Bowie's early career.\n\nThe collection is set to go under the hammer at Omega Auctions, in Newton-le-Willows, in September.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ebony Roberts and Jalisa Andrew: \"We suddenly had to find £5,000\"\n\nThere has been a \"significant\" rise in homes being valued at less than what buyers have agreed to pay, the UK's largest mortgage advisers have said.\n\nThese \"down valuations\", by lenders, can mean buyers having to pay thousands of pounds extra, up front, to avoid the sale collapsing.\n\nEstate agents Emoov said it reflected surveyors predicting a financial crash.\n\nUK Finance said lenders, which it represents, were right to ensure property values were realistic.\n\nThe organisation said borrowers also benefited from houses having an \"independent valuation\".\n\nThe mortgage advisers London and Country told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the number of advisers that felt down valuations had been on the increase \"outweighs\" those that had seen no change.\n\nEmoov, one of the UK's largest digital estate agents, said one in five of its sales now resulted in a down valuation.\n\nTwo years ago, it was fewer than one in 20, it added.\n\nThis is the highest rate since the UK's financial crash in 2008, according to agents from 10 mortgage adviser groups contacted by the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nEmoov's chief executive Russell Quirk said he believed it was the result of surveyors - who carry out the property valuations for the mortgage providers - \"simply covering their backs\".\n\nHe added: \"Surveyors are prophesying a [financial] crash. The system is built to protect them.\"\n\nThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said: \"The market value is based on comparable market evidence, usually a minimum of three sales transactions of similar properties in the local area, and also the professional's knowledge of the local market including supply and demand dynamics.\n\n\"For this reason, it is quite possible that the valuation for the lender - the market value - does not match an asking price for a property that has been set by the seller or agent.\"\n\nEbony Roberts and her fiancee Jalisa Andrews, from Port Talbot in South Wales, have experienced two down valuations while trying to buy their first home together.\n\n\"We got right through to the very end stages of buying a house we had our hearts set on... but then we had a problem when the mortgage valuation came back,\" Ms Roberts said.\n\n\"We had a down valuation of £10,000. The seller would not drop their price, so we lost that house.\"\n\nThen it happened again, on another property.\n\nWorried they would lose that house too, they borrowed £5,000 from family members at short notice.\n\n\"Our broker even said, 'You're having a bad run,'\" explained Ms Andrews.\n\nPhil Broodbank says the surveyor did not look inside his house when valuing it\n\nThose remortgaging their houses after doing renovation work are also among those most affected by down valuations.\n\nPhil Broodbank, from Wirral, bought his house for £180,000 a few years ago and spent up to £25,000 renovating it.\n\nWhen the time came to remortgage, a surveyor valued his house at £200,000 without visiting it in person - in what is known as a \"drive by\".\n\nThis valuation was £20,000 lower than a local estate agent had valued the property.\n\nMr Broodbank blames the surveyors for what happened.\n\n\"They didn't actually take a look at the property. For all they know the inside could be a complete shell.\"\n\nThe surveyor's valuation would have meant Mr Broodbank paying around £50 a month extra on his mortgage over five years, as his interest rates would have been higher.\n\nInstead, he says he lost hundreds of pounds in fees by choosing to go with another bank, who valued his property at £220,000.\n\nUK Finance, which represents the banking industry, said: \"Lenders have a responsibility to ensure that the value of property taken as security on mortgage loans is current and realistic.\n\n\"Although the valuation is carried out for the lender, borrowers also benefit from a realistic independent valuation as it could help them avoid paying over the odds for the property they are buying.\"\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel in the UK.", "North Korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests so far and each one has taken it closer to what decades of international talks have tried to prevent - a nuclear weapon in the hands of one of the world's most unpredictable states.\n\nYears of posturing - and attempts at negotiation by foreign powers - culminated in October 2006 with an announcement by Pyongyang that it had carried out its first nuclear explosion.\n\nLike all tests that would follow, it took place underground, in tunnels dug into a remote mountainous site called Punggye-ri, in the north-east.\n\nAll of the tests have been conducted underground at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east\n\nThe device is assumed to have used plutonium, sourced from the North's nuclear facility at Yongbyon.\n\nInternational observers estimated the blast had an energy discharge of about a kilotonne, less than a tenth of the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.\n\nMany believed this indicated a nuclear \"fizzle\" rather than a fully effective blast.\n\nBut the North said it had joined the nuclear club, and that its bomb would contribute to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe second test was bigger, with an estimated yield of between two and eight kilotonnes.\n\nNorth Korea said it had achieved a \"higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology\".\n\nThe second test, here applauded by Party officials, was seen as an attempt by the North to prove it could still conduct a test despite political uncertainty\n\nThe nuclear tests are initially detected by the seismic waves they generate\n\nWhile the international consensus was that a nuclear test had happened, no radiation was detected. The ability to contain a nuclear test would in itself be a big advance for the North.\n\nIt also followed hard on the heels of a rocket launch which put a satellite in space, but which was seen as a cover for a missile test.\n\nBoth were seen as an attempt by ailing leader Kim Jong-il to prove the North's nuclear capacity before he died.\n\nIn the early hours of 12 February 2013, unusual seismic activity was again detected around Punggye-ri.\n\nThe North said it had tested \"a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously\".\n\nSatellite images in days before the blast had indicated a test was about to take place\n\nThe reference to \"miniaturised\" stoked fears that Pyongyang was closer to producing a device small enough to fit on a long-range missile.\n\nSpeculation was rife that the test involved a uranium device, though this has never been confirmed beyond doubt.\n\nA successful uranium test would mark a significant leap forward in North Korea's nuclear programme. The North's plutonium stocks are finite, but if it could enrich uranium it could build up a nuclear stockpile.\n\nPlutonium enrichment also has to happen in large, easy-to-spot facilities, whereas uranium enrichment can more easily be carried out in secrecy.\n\nThe first indication was again a report of an \"artificial quake\" in North Korea, registering about magnitude 5.1, close to Punggye-ri.\n\nNorth Korea later announced it had conducted its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb.\n\nH-bombs, also known as thermonuclear warheads, are massively more powerful than atomic bombs, using fusion - the merging of atoms - rather than fission to unleash enormous amounts of energy.\n\nThough again it has never been confirmed, that claim alarmed the international community.\n\nObservations from afar suggested the blast detected was not large enough to have been a full thermonuclear device, but may have involved some nuclear fusion.\n\nAgain, North Korea said the device had been miniaturised.\n\nA few months later, on 9 March, Kim Jong-un announced that North Korea scientists had been able to do what had long been feared, and make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a warhead.\n\nIt came after days of threats to carry out \"indiscriminate\" attacks on the US and South Korea. But analysts at the time said it was impossible to confirm.\n\nNorth Korea announced its fifth nuclear test in 2016 in September.\n\nEstimates of the explosive yield have varied. South Korea's military said it was about 10 kilotonnes but other experts say initial indications suggest 20 kilotons or more.\n\nThe bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.\n\nNearly a year later, on 8 August 2017, information leaked to the Washington Post indicated US intelligence officials believe North Korea's claim that it has the technology to fit its missiles with nuclear warheads.\n\nThe new assessment comes only weeks after North Korea tested what intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), it says were capable of reaching the US mainland.\n\nNorth Korea claimed it has successfully tested what the world has worried about - a miniaturised hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to a long-range missile.\n\nHours before state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a hydrogen bomb\n\nSeismic readings of 6.3 indicated the test was bigger than any other that has been conducted.\n\nSome early estimates said that the test came in at about 100-150 kilotonnes, potentially 10 times larger than last time.\n\nNorth Korean state media called it a \"perfect success\" and a \"very meaningful step in completing the national nuclear weapons programme\".", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish League Cup\n\nIt was the scoreline that the late, great Eric Morecambe always used to joke about but had never come true - until now.\n\nEast Fife 4 Forfar 5 was the much-loved comedian's idea of the ultimate tongue-twister for anyone trying to read out the football results.\n\nOn Sunday, that result finally happened for the first time in the fixture's history - sort of.\n\nThe Scottish League Cup Group B tie between the sides went to penalties after a 1-1 draw. And the score in the shootout? East Fife 4 Forfar 5.\n\nHad he lived to see that, it would surely have raised a smile from Morecambe, who came up with the score as a jokey greeting whenever he met his friend James Alexander Gordon, the popular announcer who read the classified results on the BBC for 40 years.\n\n\"Eric never called me James,\" Gordon, who died in 2014, once recalled. \"Whenever I saw him over a 20-year period, he would say 'East Fife 4 Forfar 5'. I've got a tape of that.\"\n\nBefore Sunday, there had been two occasions when the scoreline almost occurred. In April 1964, it happened with the wrong team at home - finishing Forfar 5 East Fife 4. And in October 2011, a meeting between the sides ended East Fife 4 Forfar 3.\n\nAnton Dowds claimed the opener on Sunday for East Fife, who had Chris Kane sent off before John Baird equalised.\n\nGroup games go to penalties under the League Cup format. With the shootout score at 4-4, Forfar keeper Marc McCallum saved Daryl Meggatt's kick before Thomas Reilly converted to seal a bonus point for the visitors - and make a little piece of sporting history.\n• None Find out how you can follow the 2018-19 season on BBC Sport\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(4), Forfar Athletic 1(5). Thomas Reilly (Forfar Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty saved! Daryll Meggatt (East Fife) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(4), Forfar Athletic 1(4). Dylan Easton (Forfar Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(4), Forfar Athletic 1(3). Anton Dowds (East Fife) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(3), Forfar Athletic 1(3). Ross Meechan (Forfar Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Ross Davidson (East Fife) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(3), Forfar Athletic 1(2). Dale Hilson (Forfar Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(3), Forfar Athletic 1(1). Brett Long (East Fife) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! John Baird (Forfar Athletic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(2), Forfar Athletic 1(1). Aaron Dunsmore (East Fife) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(1), Forfar Athletic 1(1). Andy Munro (Forfar Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! East Fife 1(1), Forfar Athletic 1. Craig Watson (East Fife) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Patrick Slattery (East Fife) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The prosecution said Lee Savage was a \"violent sexual predator\"\n\nA \"sexual sadist\" has been jailed for raping three women he met through the internet dating website Plenty of Fish.\n\nLee Savage attacked females from Cumbria, South Tyneside and Dumfries and Galloway between 2015 and earlier this year.\n\nThe 25-year-old, of Skiddaw View, Penrith, originally denied a total of 10 offences of rape and sexual assault but then changed his plea to guilty.\n\nHe was given a life sentence and must serve a minimum of 11 years in jail.\n\nProsecutor Tim Evans told Carlisle Crown Court earlier that Savage was a \"persuasive and manipulative man as well as a violent sexual predator\" who had carried out a \"planned and persistent rape campaign\".\n\nIn a statement, one of his victims said he had \"violated my whole life\".\n\nThe court heard the first rape, in January of 2015, was committed less than four months after Savage was given a community order for sending explicit images to a 13-year-old girl he had befriended on Facebook.\n\nSentencing him for his latest crimes, Judge James Adkin told him: \"You are, in my judgement, a sexual sadist.\"\n\nSavage initially claimed each of the women had consented to sex, but he changed his plea after facing \"overwhelming evidence\", Isla Chilton, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said.\n\nHe must also sign the sex offenders register for life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nukes, Trump Towers and human rights - what might peace look like between the US and North Korea?\n\nNorth Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.\n\nSatellite images of the Sohae station seen by US-based monitoring group 38 North suggest Pyongyang is complying with a promise made to the US in June.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un had vowed to destroy an engine test site, but did not specify which one.\n\nPyongyang has maintained that Sohae is a satellite launch site.\n\nBut US officials suspect that it has been used to test ballistic missiles.\n\nThe satellite imagery appears to show the dismantling of facilities at North Korea's Sohae site\n\nDuring a landmark meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore last month, the two leaders signed a deal to work towards the \"complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula\".\n\nBut the deal was criticised for a lack of details on when or how Pyongyang would renounce its nuclear weapons.\n\nThe apparent dismantling of the Sohae test site comes amid rising questions over North Korea's willingness to stick to the pledges made at the 12 June summit.\n\nEarlier on Monday, President Trump said that he was \"very happy\" with the progress in relations with North Korea, saying that Pyongyang had not launched any missiles or carried out any nuclear tests during the last nine months.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt follows comments from the US president last week that there was \"no time limit\" for North Korea to denuclearise and no need to rush the process.\n\nThose reports indicate that North Korea's only official nuclear enrichment site at Yongbyon is being upgraded, and that the country was stepping up enrichment at other secret sites.\n\nThe reports cannot be independently verified, but have been deemed accurate by respected North Korea watchers.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a total of six nuclear tests, the most recent of which took place in September last year.\n\nThe North has in the past two years quickly advanced its nuclear programme, and claims that it has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile that is able to reach as far as the continental US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA small fleet of whaling vessels have caught their first whales in Japan's first commercial hunt in decades, in defiance of international criticism.\n\nThe whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 minke, Bryde's and sei whales this year in Japanese waters.\n\nJapan's last commercial hunt was in 1986, but it has continued whaling for what it says are research purposes.\n\nIt has now withdrawn from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) so is no longer subject to its rules.\n\nIWC members had agreed to an effective ban on whale hunting, but Japan has long argued it is possible to hunt whales in a sustainable way.\n\nThe fisheries ministry has set a kill cap for the season of 52 minke, 150 Bryde's and 25 sei whales - a total of 227 animals.\n\nLast year's catch quota, under its scientific programme - which Japan said aimed to gather population data - was 333 whales.\n\n\"The resumption of commercial whaling has been an ardent wish for whalers across the country,\" the head of the agency, Shigeto Hase, said at a departure ceremony in northern Kushiro for the small fleet.\n\nHe said the resumption of whaling would ensure \"the culture and way of life will be passed on to the next generation.\"\n\n\"My heart is overflowing with happiness, and I'm deeply moved,\" said Yoshifumi Kai, head of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association. \"People have hunted whales for more than 400 years in my hometown.\"\n\nJapan killed hundreds of whales each year under its research programme\n\n\"I'm a bit nervous but happy that we can start whaling,\" one whaler told AFP news agency before setting sail.\n\n\"I don't think young people know how to cook and eat whale meat any more. I want more people try to taste it at least once.\"\n\nAccording to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, minke and Bryde's whale are not endangered. Sei whale are classified as endangered, but their numbers are increasing.\n\nConservationist groups like Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd remain critical of Japan's resumption of whaling, but say there are no concrete plans for action against the country.\n\n\"This is a sad day for whale protection globally,\" said Nicola Beynon of Humane Society International, accusing Japan of beginning a \"new and shocking era of pirate whaling\".\n\nJapan says whaling is part of its culture\n\nJapan \"is out of step with the international community\", Sam Annesley, executive director at Greenpeace Japan, said in a statement when Tokyo announced its whaling plans last year.\n\nLike other whaling nations, Japan argues hunting and eating whales are part of its culture.\n\nA number of coastal communities in Japan have hunted whales for centuries but consumption only became widespread after World War Two when other food was scarce.\n\nWhales were brought to the brink of extinction by hunting in the 19th and early 20th Century. In 1986, all IWC members agreed to a hunting moratorium to allow whale numbers to recover.\n\nWhaling countries - like Japan, Norway and Iceland - assumed the moratorium would be temporary until everyone could agree on sustainable quotas. Instead it became a quasi-permanent ban.\n\nSince 1987, Japan has killed between 200 and 1,200 whales each year under an exemption to the ban allowing scientific research.\n\nCritics say this was just a cover so Japan could hunt whales for food, as the meat from the whales killed for research usually did end up for sale.\n\nIn 2018, Japan tried one last time to convince the IWC to allow whaling under sustainable quotas, but failed. So it left the body, effective from July 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The plane veered into a hangar before bursting into flames\n\nA light aircraft has crashed into an airport hangar in Texas killing all 10 people on board.\n\nThe plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air, crashed shortly after take-off at Addison Airport.\n\nIt veered into the hangar before bursting into flames, a local fire department official said.\n\nDarci Neuzil, the airport's deputy director, said it took off around 09:00 local time (15:00 GMT), bound for Florida.\n\nEmergency services were quickly on the scene, around 10 miles (17km) north of Dallas, but there were no survivors. Two crew members and eight passengers were on board.\n\nA family of four was reportedly among those killed. John Paul II High School in Plano, Texas, sent a letter to families on Monday that said one if its students, her brother, mother and stepfather had died in the crash, according to NBC News.\n\nAuthorities have not released the identities of the victims, pending notification of next of kin.\n\nSmoke billows from the hangar where the plane crashed\n\n\"I visited the scene and was briefed by incident command,\" Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted.\n\n\"Please pray for the families who lost loved ones in this tragedy. Team in process of notifying them.\"\n\nVideo footage shows columns of thick black smoke billowing from the hangar. No-one was inside when the aircraft plunged through its roof.\n\nWitnesses who saw the crash told local media that the private plane struggled during take-off and appeared to lose power.\n\n\"It looked like it was clearly reduced power,\" eyewitness David Snell told Texas TV station KDFW.\n\n\"I didn't know if it was on purpose or not, but then, when the plane started to veer to the left, and you could tell it couldn't climb.\n\n\"My friend and I looked at each other and we're like, 'Oh my God. They're going to crash.'\"\n\nNo-one was inside the building when it was hit\n\nThe accident left a gaping hole in the side of the charred building.\n\nUnnamed sources told CBS that the plane suffered engine failure, but this has not been officially confirmed.\n\nBruce Landsberg, NTSB chairman, told US media that the plane had recently changed owners and its tail number was not immediately available.\n• None NYC crash pilot 'did not know where he was'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I am a fit, very healthy, very active person\"\n\nDowning Street has said it would be \"unacceptable and inappropriate\" for any civil servant to claim Jeremy Corbyn was \"too frail\" to become PM.\n\nNo 10 said the cabinet secretary would write to the Labour leader after the party demanded an inquiry into alleged comments by officials to the Times newspaper.\n\nIt is unclear whether Sir Mark Sedwill will order an investigation.\n\nMr Corbyn has said the civil service has a duty to be non-political.\n\nThe Times reported on Saturday that it had been told by two senior civil servants that the 70-year old may have to stand down due to health issues.\n\nThe article drew an angry response from Labour, which denounced the comments as a \"scurrilous\" attempt to undermine the party's efforts to gain power.\n\nAsked about the row, Theresa May's official spokesman said: \"Impartiality is one of the fundamental values of the Civil Service and underpins its ability to effectively serve the government of the day.\n\n\"It would clearly be inappropriate and unacceptable for comments of this sort to have been made or briefed to the press.\"\n\nRaising the issue in the House of Commons, shadow minister Jon Trickett called on ministers to \"root out the miscreants\" in the civil service responsible for the \"undemocratic and unconstitutional\" comments.\n\nBut responding for the government, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd suggested his criticism was premature, given the cabinet secretary had yet to look into the matter.\n\nShe said she had \"complete confidence in the fairness and independence of the civil service\".\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow said the principle that the civil service was politically neutral was an \"absolutely sacred\" one.\n\nHe added that the Labour leader \"looked perfectly healthy to me\".\n\nMr Corbyn has called it \"a farrago of nonsense\" and \"tittle tattle\".", "The White House press secretary was caught on camera battling to allow US media into the meeting between her boss and the North Korean leader.\n\nStephanie Grisham is seen jostling with North Korean security staff, and a voice can be heard saying \"I need help\".\n\nIt happened outside the room where Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were having a sit-down meeting.\n\nA group of photographers, camera crews and reporters known as the US pool are routinely given close access to the president by his aides to report on his work.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death in south London in the early hours of Saturday\n\nA heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in south London has been described as \"a beautiful person\" and \"amazingly intelligent\".\n\nTributes have been paid to 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, who was pronounced dead at a house in Raymead Avenue, Croydon, on Saturday.\n\nHer baby was delivered at the scene and is in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 29-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed until a date in early August, Scotland Yard said.\n\nA 37-year-old man, who was also held on suspicion of murder, has been released under investigation.\n\nThe Met said it was keeping an \"open mind as to motive\" .\n\nMs Fauvrelle's brother paid tribute to her on Facebook.\n\nIn a post, Stephan Alexander Simpson, said: \"Words can't describe the pain we're feeling.\n\n\"You couldn't have been a better sister, and I thank you for always being there for me, helping whenever I needed it.\n\n\"A beautiful person who's life has been taken from her. I'll stay strong, you'll always be in my thoughts, so please keep watching over us.\n\n\"I love you more than you can possibly imagine. Rest in peace Kelly.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Stephan This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Fauvrelle's colleagues at Croydon Delivery Office, said they were \"devastated\" and \"in shock\" by the death.\n\nDave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said: \"Kelly leaves behind a baby fighting for their life, a family devastated by the loss and colleagues who are in total shock.\n\n\"The union will do everything possible to help Kelly's family and our members during this period.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dave Ward This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAaleeah Knowles also paid tribute to Ms Fauvrelle, saying: \"Kelly - I'm devastated to hear what happened to you. You didn't deserve this. You were amazingly intelligent and bright and I'm just devastated.\"\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"I am so sorry to the family of Kelly Mary, no mother nor baby should have to be hurt in anyway let alone this way.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 💖🍸🍭One To Change🍭🍸💖 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by 💖🍸🍭One To Change🍭🍸💖\n\nLinda Onar added: \"My heart goes out to the family and friends of Kelly. Just hoping and praying the little one pulls through.\"\n\nMs Fauvrelle was found with stab wounds at a property in Raymead Avenue\n\nMedics fought to save Ms Fauvrelle after being called at about 03:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be held soon, the Met said.\n\nA forensic team was seen arriving on Sunday morning\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said it had been \"a horrible weekend\" where \"four Londoner's have lost their lives\" including \"a young mum\".\n\nElsewhere in the capital, a 54-year-old man died after being assaulted in Brixton and a man believed to be in his late 20s was stabbed to death in Newham.\n\nAn 18-year-old also died after taking himself to hospital with stab wounds following a fight in Walworth.\n\n\"These four families are devastated,\" Mr Khan said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Farage said he was prepared to meet Boris Johnson in the \"de-militarised zone\"\n\nThe Brexit Party has pledged to scrap all interest paid on student tuition fees as it steps up its preparations for a snap general election.\n\nLeader Nigel Farage told a rally in Birmingham rates of up to 6% on loans were \"outrageous\" and \"close to usury\".\n\nThe party suggested it would go further and reimburse graduates for \"historic\" interest payments made on their loans.\n\nThe party also unveiled the first 100 candidates selected to represent the party in the next general election.\n\nIn anticipation of a snap poll this autumn, it said it hoped to have 650 candidates in place by the time the new Conservative leader is chosen at the end of July.\n\nThe Brexit Party, which was launched by Mr Farage three months ago, topped the polls in May's European elections - getting 29 MEPs elected to Brussels.\n\nMr Farage told activists at the Big Vision rally that his party should \"not be ashamed of being called an one-issue party\" by its rivals when that policy was delivering on the biggest democratic vote in the country's history.\n\nHowever, he told supporters that the party must not rest on its laurels after its electoral success and had to develop other policies as well as on Brexit.\n\nEncouraging party members to contribute their ideas, Mr Farage said that instead of a single party conference in September, it would be holding 11 regional rallies.\n\nBy leaving the EU without a deal, axing HS2 and halving the overseas aid budget, Mr Farage claimed the party would free up to £200bn to spend on economic development outside London.\n\nThe party would also demonstrate how \"passionate\" it was about helping young people by reducing the financial burden on graduates leaving university.\n\nMr Farage said the current system in England and Wales, where interest charges begin to build up on loans as soon as a student begins at university and about £6,000 can be owed before a student even graduates, was \"unfair\" and young people deserved better.\n\n\"No wonder so many people in their middle to late 20s who want to buy houses, perhaps start families, feel financially they cannot do it,\" he said.\n\n\"Because they are paying interest rates which in the old days we would have called usury... It is outrageous, it is unfair and it has to end.\n\n\"We will use that £200bn to wipe away the interest on those debts, I suspect to the great relief of millions of young people in this country.\"\n\nEarlier, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice suggested the party would go further and \"cancel all of the historic interest that has been charged on student loans to date\".\n\n\"It is a serious pledge we are making to young people. We think it will be a much fairer system and the country can afford it.\"\n\nA recent independent review of student finance did not recommend specific changes to interest charges while advocating a lowering in the maximum level of fees to £7,500.\n\nTory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has said any graduate who launches a start-up employing more than 10 people for five years should have all their loan repayments waived.", "Riot police seal off the main roads in Hong Kong Image caption: Riot police seal off the main roads in Hong Kong\n\nWe're now suspending our live coverage of the dramatic and fast changing events which have been taking place in Hong Kong.\n\nLive footage suggests that the situation is calm now, with riot police fully in charge and no sign of demonstrators near the government district.\n\nThis is a dramatic turnaround from only a few hours ago, when crowds stormed and ransacked Hong Kong's parliament.\n\nIt followed weeks of unrest in the city over a controversial extradition law.\n\nYou can still follow all the latest developments on this and other news stories on the BBC News website.", "The leadership of the Church of England needs to better reflect the minorities who make up its congregations, the UK's first black female bishop has said.\n\nCaribbean-born Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin said her appointment should broadcast how diverse the Church was.\n\nShe described being racially abused in the street recently, when a passer-by told her to \"go back to Africa\".\n\nCurrently chaplain to the Queen and Commons speaker, she will become Bishop of Dover in November.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rev Hudson-Wilkin said: \"It's been a long time coming and we're working at it and we are going to hold them [the Church] to account,\" she said.\n\n\"The reality is minority ethnic membership makes up a significant part of the Church and this must be reflected in its leadership, not just with one person here and another person there.\n\n\"It must begin to filter through so that young people in minority ethnic background growing up within the life of the Church, within the life of this country, can see images of themselves reflected throughout.\"\n\nShe added: \"Visibility is important because if people can see it, then though know they belong.\"\n\nRev Hudson-Wilkin has openly criticised the Church's lack of diversity and has accused it of \"institutional racism\" in the past.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs with any institution which has worked in a particular way for a long time, it was \"always going to be difficult to see the change that is necessary\", she said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Church of England is asking urge Christians to sign up to a digital charter to help foster a \"positive atmosphere\" online.\n\nThe charter centres on five principles of truth, kindness, welcome, inspiration and togetherness, the Church says.\n\nIt will be launched by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby during a visit to Facebook's UK headquarters.\n\nHe said: \"Each time we interact online we have the opportunity either to add to currents of cynicism and abuse or to choose instead to share light and grace.\"\n\nOne of the Church's social media principles is to ensure the safety of children online\n\nIt is also setting rules for people posting on its own social media accounts.\n\nPeople who post inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive comments on national social media accounts run by the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York may be reported or blocked, the guidelines say.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters have stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo) building and are occupying the council's chamber.\n\nHundreds of demonstrators forced their way into the building by smashing through doors and steel shutters.\n\nThe group are a breakaway part of a peaceful protest involving hundreds of thousands of people on the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of protests against a controversial bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.\n\nThe group of breakaway protesters smashed their way into the LegCo building.\n\nMany were wearing hard hats, face masks and glasses.\n\nImages from inside LegCo show protesters smashing up the chamber building and flying both the union jack and colonial flag.\n\nOnce they entered the chamber, the Hong Kong emblem was spray painted black and a colonial Hong Kong flag was placed on the seat of the legislature's president.\n\nHong Kong is a former British colony and has been part of China since 1997 under a \"one country, two systems\" deal. Pro-democracy events are held every year on the anniversary of the handover.\n\nHowever, the anniversary this year comes in the midst of protests against the extradition bill.\n\nThe Hong Kong emblem in the LegCo building was spray painted black (above).\n\nProtesters also sprayed slogans onto the walls of the chamber building.\n\nPortraits of some legislative council members were damaged and ripped from the walls. The outside walls of the building were also daubed with graffiti.\n\nProtesters then left the building after police warned that they would \"take reasonable force\" to remove them from the area.\n\nTear gas was fired at the protesters who chose to stay in the area.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. German sea captain Carola Rackete is arrested in Lampedusa after migrant rescue in Mediterranean\n\nThe German captain of a charity ship said she disobeyed orders not to dock in Italy because she feared for the lives of the rescued migrants on board.\n\nSea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete apologised to the crew of a patrol boat her vessel trapped against a quayside.\n\nShe denied Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's accusation that she had tried to ram the boat in an \"act of war\".\n\nItaly's government has taken a tough stance to try to clamp down on migrant rescue boats entering Italian waters.\n\nAfter a two week stand-off with Italian authorities, Ms Rackete, 31, refused to obey a military vessel as she navigated towards Italy's Lampedusa island on Wednesday.\n\nShe was arrested on Saturday.\n\nShe said her decision to enter Italian waters was \"not an act of violence\" and that her aim was simply to get \"exhausted and desperate\" people on to dry land.\n\nMr Salvini described Ms Rackete as a \"pirate\" and an \"outlaw\". She is now under house arrest and scheduled to appear in court on Monday. She could face 10 years in prison if convicted.\n\nHer ship had rescued 53 migrants off Libya on 12 June, in an operation organised by the German non-governmental organisation (NGO) Sea-Watch. Italian authorities later removed 13 of the passengers for health reasons.\n\nThe Sea-Watch 3 was carrying 53 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya on 12 June\n\nIn an interview published by Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday, Ms Rackete said she had not meant to put anyone in danger and had made an \"error of judgement\" when calculating the position of the police boat that she jutted into.\n\nShe said she had disobeyed orders because some migrants had already started self-harming and she was \"afraid it would lead to suicides\".\n\n\"For days, the crew had taken turns to stay on call, even at night, for fear that someone would throw themselves overboard. For those who cannot swim, that means suicide,\" she said.\n\nSea-Watch spokeswoman Haidi Sadik told the BBC that the migrants were now receiving care on Lampedusa. She insisted that Ms Rackete had followed both maritime and international humanitarian law.\n\n\"When you rescue people at sea you must take them to the nearest safe port,\" Ms Sadik said.\n\nMs Rackete did not dock in Italian waters to make a \"political point\", but to uphold her duty to rescue people, Ms Sadik said.\n\nA crowdfunding appeal set up in support of Ms Rackete following her arrest, and backed by two prominent German television hosts, had raised more than €750,000 (£670,000) by Monday morning.", "In just one week Hong Kong has witnessed two of its largest ever protests, as well its most violent protest in decades. At the forefront of these demonstrations are young people, many barely out of their teens. Why did they get involved - and how did they manage to force the government's hand?\n\n\"We screamed at people to run.\"\n\n\"My parents kicked me out after the protests.\"\n\n\"It was the first time I got tear-gassed - tears were coming uncontrollably out of my eyes.\"\n\n\"I'm afraid to give my real name.\"\n\nThese are not words anybody would have expected to come out of the mouths of Hong Kongers - and certainly not ones aged between 17 and 21.\n\nUntil recently the stereotype of a \"typical\" Hong Kong teen would have been one more interested in studying or making money than political activism or creative thinking.\n\nBut last week saw the streets around Hong Kong's legislature taken over by young people wearing masks, setting up barricades, and throwing gas canisters back at police.\n\nMany of them were even too young to have taken part in the last Hong Kong protest to hold the world's media rapt - the 2014 Umbrella protests, when tens of thousands of people slept in the streets for weeks, demanding democratic elections.\n\nThe 2014 protests - which were also known as the Occupy Central protests - ended without any concessions from the government.\n\nThis time round it has been different.\n\nThe latest demonstrations, against a controversial bill that would allow people in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China has, strikingly, forced the government to apologise, and pause its plans - effectively shelving them say many analysts.\n\nSo what is different this time round? And what role has this generation of young activists risking tear gas, rubber bullets, and even arrest (let alone their future employment prospects) played?\n\nHong Kong's youth have experienced something of a political awakening in the last two decades - the proportion of registered voters aged 18-35 rose from 58% in 2000, to 70% in 2016.\n\nAnd it's not surprising, when you consider that Hong Kong's political future is an increasingly pressing issue.\n\nThe territory currently enjoys special rights and freedoms due to a handover agreement between the British, who previously colonised Hong Kong, and the Chinese government.\n\nBut in 2047, the agreement enshrining Hong Kong's special status expires - and nobody really knows what will happen then.\n\nFor today's youth, 2047 feels strikingly close - and their protest is driven by this uncertainty, as well as a feeling that the Chinese government is closing in anyway.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests returned to Hong Kong streets following the suspension of the extradition bill\n\nNo longer certain the system will protect them, they are modifying their protest techniques and learning the art of sophisticated dissent.\n\nEvery single protester I interviewed who had taken part in Wednesday's unauthorised protests asked me to protect their identities - fearing arrest.\n\n\"We kept face masks on at all times during the protest, and afterwards we tried to delete our records on our iPhones and Google Maps,\" says Dan, an 18-year-old student who helped protesters build a barricade with fences.\n\nSome have taken to buying paper train tickets, rather than using their prepaid travel cards - on the basis this could make it harder for the authorities to trace their whereabouts.\n\nMeanwhile, many have become cautious about what they say on public social media - and are only willing to communicate on secure apps with self-destruct functions, such as Telegram.\n\nJackie has been sleeping at university - fearing police could arrest her at home\n\n\"During the Occupy protests, most of us didn't think about protecting ourselves, we used Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp to spread messages. But this year, we see that freedom of speech is getting worse in Hong Kong,\" says Jackie, a 20-year-old student leader.\n\nSeveral people - including students and teachers from Hong Kong's most prestigious institutions - have been arrested, some of them from hospital where they were having injuries treated.\n\nA 22-year-old who was identified as the administrator of a Telegram group sharing information about the protests was also arrested on \"public nuisance\" charges.\n\nJackie fears that, amid all this, student leaders involved in Wednesday's protests may be targeted because of their higher profile.\n\n\"I've been sleeping at my student union office because I'm afraid of being detained if I go home,\" she says.\n\nThis is typical of a more broken relationship with law and order officials, and compared to earlier protests, these activists have diminished faith in police.\n\nOn Thursday, rumours circulated that police intended to search student bedrooms at a dormitory at the University of Hong Kong , where two residents had been arrested the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmid the panic, students quickly called local legislators and lawyers, who surrounded the building - although ultimately, no police entered the hall.\n\nDan says police actions during the Occupy protests - where a number of police were jailed for beating up a protester - had also damaged his trust.\n\n\"Before that, I believed police were supposed to be law abiding and help citizens… now, I realise that some police may let their personal emotions get the better of them.\"\n\nThese students and young workers seem more willing to defy public assembly laws, and risk arrest for a cause, than previous generations of protesters.\n\nThey argue they have more to fight for, as they have come of age in a more precarious political environment.\n\nTom, 20, helped manage supplies during Wednesday's protest, and says he's an activist because of \"the era I'm growing up in\".\n\nHis generation grew up experiencing witnessing political rows, such as plans in 2012 to make children take Chinese \"patriotism\" classes, that critics said would \"brainwash\" students and gloss over the Chinese government's human rights abuses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've seen government policies and moves to suppress the freedoms we have grown up with - and it makes me feel strongly that I don't want Hong Kong to lose its core rule of law and freedoms.\"\n\nOther young people have complained about government policies, including the recent introduction of a law punishing those who disrespect the Chinese national anthem, the disqualification of pro-democracy and pro-independence legislators, and the jailing of a pro-independence activist.\n\nThe Occupy protests have left a clear - if complicated - legacy for today's protesters.\n\nMany of Wednesday's protesters were too young to take part in 2014's protests - but see them as both an inspiration and a lesson learned.\n\nBen, 20, says his parents did not let him join the Occupy protests.\n\nBut now, as a university student, he takes a leading role organising protests and legal support for students at risk of arrest.\n\nUniversity students Ben and Tom helped the protesters with supplies and legal advice\n\nHe describes the 2014 protests as a \"failure\" - as the protesters were split over their goals, including what sort of \"universal suffrage\" would be acceptable.\n\nBut this time, there is a crucial difference - because protesters are not demanding more democracy, but fighting to keep what rights Hong Kong currently has.\n\nThere is a greater incentive to stay united, because protesters are \"fighting to make sure we don't lose our existing freedoms\", he says.\n\nThe Occupy protests spurred more young people to get involved in student politics and gave them the confidence to claim the streets as their own.\n\nJackie, who helped run a first-aid station last Wednesday, describes them as her \"political awakening\".\n\n\"Previously I was not that involved in politics - but the movement made me realise how important it is.\"\n\nThey also taught today's youth just how to prepare for standoffs with the police.\n\nOn one university campus, students stockpiled dozens of bags and cardboard boxes of medical supplies, such as inhalers for people affected by tear gas, and saline water to wash away pepper spray.\n\nStudents said many items had also been donated by members of the public.\n\nThis meant that they were a much more effective crowd on the Wednesday when things turned violent.\n\nThey also prepared large amounts of drinking water\n\nWhat do their parents think of all this? It varies.\n\nIngrid, 21, joined Wednesday's protests after she finished work, helping to deliver first aid materials to the frontline.\n\nShe says her parents, who supported the police, kicked her out of the house after she went home - although they let her return a few days later.\n\nMeanwhile, Jackie \"didn't dare\" tell her parents and grandparents about her role organising the protests, but when they saw her on the news they were supportive and asked her to stay safe.\n\nOf course, it would also be a mistake to treat these protests as purely a youth movement.\n\nLeader Carrie Lam also came under pressure from several quarters, including from businesses groups, her church, and her alma mater.\n\nSt Francis Canossian College was among the hundreds of groups to issue a petition against the bill - a significant move in Hong Kong where the top schools are considered highly prestigious, and alumni networks are influential and a source of pride.\n\nOne alumni who signed, 22-year-old Aubrey Tao, said Ms Lam often quoted the school motto, and she hoped to show her that \"as a Franciscan, you shouldn't rule in this way\".\n\nAubrey Tao, who did not attend Wednesday's protest, says the bill rekindled her concern for politics\n\nBut it was the unauthorised, youth-led demonstrators on Wednesday - and their ability to camp out in numbers, organise and force the police hand - which many see as a critical factor in forcing the government to stop and pause.\n\nThe wider population could easily have condemned the students - as they have done with previous protests that turned violent.\n\nBut it seems this time, they felt the police went too far.\n\nDuring clashes, riot police responded with rubber bullets, beanbag shots and 150 canisters of tear gas - more than was used during the entire 79 days of the Umbrella protests.\n\nPolice defended their approach, saying it was necessary to respond to the \"riot\", and that protesters had attacked officers with bricks and iron poles.\n\nSome protesters who spoke to the BBC also confirmed they saw water bottles, or sticks, being thrown at police by others.\n\nNonetheless, the sight of young protesters being pepper sprayed and facing large amounts of tear gas still left many angry at the authorities - and at Ms Lam, who had defended the police.\n\nOrganisers say 6,000 people took part in a \"mother's rally\" on Friday\n\nIn one viral video, a middle aged woman was seen screaming at police officers, reminding them \"you are going to be dads in the future\".\n\nFollowing the clashes, church groups went to join the protesters on the streets, singing \"Hallelujah\" to the police for hours.\n\nAnd thousands of women gathered for a \"mother's rally\", holding placards with slogans such as \"don't shoot our kids\".\n\nAs the public mood intensified, former government officials began to speak out, urging Ms Lam not to rush through the legislation at such a heated time.\n\nEven some pro-Beijing lawmakers and officials started calling for a delay, admitting they had underestimated the public reaction to the bill - a significant response in a legislature where only about half the seats are directly elected by the public, and pro-Beijing groups hold the balance of power.\n\nProtesters have called on Carrie Lam to resign\n\nIt's not clear where Hong Kong goes next - Ms Lam announced on Saturday that the bill would be paused, but even more people took to the streets on Sunday, demanding it be withdrawn entirely.\n\nSome at Sunday's rally were protesting for the first time, saying they had come out to take a stand against police violence, and show their support for the young protesters.\n\nWhat is clear is that the events have changed perceptions of protests in Hong Kong.\n\nJournalists accused the police of being heavy handed to the press - and wore their riot gear at a briefing in protest\n\nTom says the anti-extradition movement \"broke through the past 30 years of protest traditions\".\n\n\"We never would have thought before that singing hymns in front of police for hours, mothers gathering for a protest, or reporters wearing their riot gear in a silent protest, would have worked.\"\n\nIngrid, who says she was tear gassed for the first time in her life on Wednesday, described the experience as agonising.\n\n\"It stung, I couldn't see - and I was in a dress and boots. I didn't know that water reacts with the itchiness - so when I took a shower I actually felt like I was in hell, it was scalding. I never want to hear that popping sound [of a gas canister] again.\"\n\nAnd yet, she said she would keep protesting.\n\n\"My concern for how this city I call home will turn out far outweighs my fears for my personal safety.\"", "The BBC's Danny Vincent reports from inside parliament after protesters broke into the Legislative Council debating chamber.\n\nHundreds have entered the building, spray-painting messages on the walls and carrying supplies for those occupying the premises.", "Five whaling ships set sail from Kushiro in Japan for the country's first commercial hunt since 1986.\n\nThe ships are allowed to catch up to 227 whales in Japanese waters, after it pulled out of an international whaling moratorium.\n\nShigeto Hase, the Director General of the Japanese Fisheries Agency, said many people had been hoping for this moment but conservationist groups like Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd remain critical of Japan's resumption of whaling.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump met in Panmunjom, the so-called truce village inside the border zone, where negotiations between South and North Korea have often taken place.\n\nPresident Trump said: \"Stepping across that line was a great honour\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the European Commission president is chosen\n\nMarathon talks among EU leaders in Brussels have so far failed to produce agreement on a candidate to replace European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The contest is still wide open.\n\nMr Juncker, at the helm of EU business since 2014, is to pass on the baton at the end of October. \"I am glad to see that I am not easy to replace,\" he chuckled in response to the delayed decision.\n\nThe European Council - the EU government leaders - were meeting again on Tuesday with hopes of a breakthrough. Meanwhile, newly-elected MEPs were also meeting in Strasbourg.\n\nThe May European elections left the 28-nation bloc's parliament more fragmented, complicating decision-making.\n\nThe role of Commission president, whose candidacy requires parliamentary approval, proposes new EU laws, enforces the bloc's rules and handles trade deals. So who might run it, based on what we know so far?\n\nFor: A big name in Danish politics, Ms Vestager has spent the past five years as competition commissioner, spearheading EU anti-trust investigations that have ended in big fines for technology giants Google and Apple.\n\nHer battle to protect consumers and make large firms pay earned her the wrath of US President Donald Trump last year, who is reported to have told Mr Juncker following news of the hefty fines: \"Your tax lady, she really hates the US.\"\n\nMs Vestager is certainly causing a buzz and the liberal group, now called Renew Europe, gained ground in the elections, partly thanks to the arrival of President Macron's party.\n\nAgainst: She may struggle to win support from the biggest group in parliament, the centre-right European People's Party. And she risks being dropped if the European Council decides that the \"Spitzenkandidaten\" race of lead candidates cannot work. She is one of three Spitzenkandidaten put forward by the European Parliament - along with Manfred Weber of the centre right and Frans Timmermans of the centre left.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel is quoted as saying that if EPP choice Manfred Weber is ditched, then Mr Timmermans and Ms Vestager are ruled out too.\n\nWhat she says: \"I have worked with breaking monopolies. This is also what voters have been doing. The monopoly of power is broken,\" she declared after the elections that broke the majority of the two big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament.\n\nFor: Frans Timmermans has the wind in his sails, having led the Dutch centre-left Labour party to a dramatic, unexpected victory in the European elections, winning 19% of the vote on the back of a pro-European campaign.\n\nThe First Vice-President of the European Commission emerged as front-runner during the marathon talks in Brussels. He helped steer through EU legislation banning plastic straws and negotiated the EU's 2016 deal with Turkey to reduce the flow of migrants.\n\nHe was lampooned by political opponents as Eurocrat \"Hans Brusselmans\"; but the negative message failed and the multi-lingual Labour leader took advantage of his election campaign to push for the Commission presidency.\n\nAgainst: He is disliked in Poland, Hungary and Romania for challenging their governments over rule of law, and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said his candidacy was \"unacceptable for us, it would be a total catastrophe\". Italy has also opposed him.\n\nWhat he says: Warning of the risks of nationalism he said last month: \"People who used to vote for my party and many parties here are now voting for nationalist parties, sometimes even extremist parties. That's our fault,\" he said. He also spoke of Brexit as leaving the UK looking like \"Game of Thrones on steroids\".\n\nHis latest policy proposals for the bloc include a minimum EU-wide rate of corporation tax of 18%, and the implementation of a minimum wage in every member state.\n\nFor: A high-flyer in the EPP, the 46-year-old Bavarian's candidacy has been endorsed by Chancellor Merkel and he has led the EPP since 2014.\n\nAgainst: The EPP lost ground in the elections and Mr Weber, initially a favourite, seems all but out of the race as the liberals and socialists say they will not back him. Critics question his qualifications for the top EU job; he has never held a government post.\n\nAt the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron said all three lead candidate names were \"tested\" and \"there was no majority\". Greece's socialist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared that Mr Weber's candidacy had divided Europe and was \"off the table\".\n\nWhat he says: He has advocated strengthening security across the bloc and protecting the \"European way of life\". In a Twitter post in November, which featured a promotional video, he wrote: \"Here and everywhere else people are asking us to bring Europe back home.\"\n\nHe has promised to appoint a commissioner to oversee a new relationship with Africa to help control migration to Europe, and has said that future trade deals with other countries should include clauses banning child labour.\n\nFor: After the Green surge in the May elections, her group is now the fourth biggest in the European Parliament and environmental issues are at the heart of the EU's agenda for the next five years. In her home country, Germany, the Greens now top the opinion polls.\n\nSka Keller stood as Green \"Spitzenkandidat\" in 2014, and is as focused on the rights of migrants as on the environment.\n\nShe became an MEP in 2009 at the age of 27 and has said that, while she aims to represent everybody, young people in particular need a louder voice in Europe. She has a masters in Islamic Studies, Turkology and Jewish Studies.\n\nAgainst: Up against the other candidates, Ms Keller is likely to struggle to find the support of enough member states. Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - heavily reliant on coal - are resisting the green ambitions of many EU partners.\n\nWhat she says: Ska Keller wants to tackle climate change but not through banning air travel. \"If trains become cheaper and better, we'll make short-haul flights redundant.\"\n\nFor: He may not be a candidate, but few EU figures have had a profile as dominant as this 68-year-old former French foreign minister, who succeeded in keeping 27 countries on the same page during the bloc's Brexit negotiations with the UK.\n\nHe is admired by President Macron, who said he was \"one of the European leaders that have eminent qualities and can be on the list [of candidates for EU top jobs]\".\n\nAgainst: Once said by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to possess the \"charisma of an oyster\", Mr Barnier is known for choosing his words carefully and has a precise manner when addressing leaders - often with a formidable stare.\n\nHe is also known for backing the legacy of post-war President Charles de Gaulle, who advocated a centralised economy, powerful presidency and independent foreign policy.\n\nWhat he says: \"Now more than ever, we Europeans need collective action in defence of our values and a rules-based international order. This could be Europe's moment, based on a more robust and decisive European Union.\" (January 2019 opinion piece)\n\nFor: The Dutch prime minister is a head of government - a definite advantage in the contest for either the role of Commission chief or European Council president. He is also a liberal, and his group boosted their numbers in the European elections.\n\nThe EU is also anxious about the economic impact of Brexit, and the Netherlands is one of the UK's closest partners, so Mr Rutte could score political points there, as a safe bet for avoiding a collision with the UK. He has warned that Brexit will \"diminish\" the UK's status internationally.\n\nAgainst: He is backing Margrethe Vestager who, as a liberal woman from one of the smaller EU nations, is seen as a strong candidate. He has expressed no interest in getting the Commission president job. There is already a prominent Dutch \"Spitzenkandidat\" and EU veteran in the race - Frans Timmermans.\n\nWhat he says: \"I'm staying in the Netherlands. I already have a top post: prime minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and being a member of the European Council. And I love it.\"\n\nFor: The 63-year-old, a political independent, has served two consecutive terms as Lithuania's president. She served as EU budget commissioner in 2004-2009, so she has plenty of experience of EU business. Her presidential term ends in July - good timing for a move to Brussels.\n\nIn terms of EU efforts to achieve gender and geographical balance, she has the advantage of being a woman from a small, eastern European state. She could be a compromise candidate, as she is not tied to any particular party.\n\nAgainst: She is nicknamed \"Steel Magnolia\" for her tough stance on corruption and relations with Russia. The EU is keeping sanctions against Russia in place, condemning its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. But many EU countries depend on Russian gas, and Ms Grybauskaite's stance is unlikely to ease tensions with the EU's huge neighbour.\n\nWhat she says: \"My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.\"", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "New laws should be brought in within six months to protect elections from online interference, MPs have said.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said rules around political advertising and campaign funding were wholly inadequate for the digital age.\n\nIt wants stronger checks for online donations, clearer records on digital spending and information about who is behind adverts.\n\nThe government agreed there needed to be \"robust safeguards\".\n\nA spokesman said they had already pledged to hold a consultation on the issues later this year.\n\nThe select committee has issued its plea in a report as a response to the consultation on the government's online harms whitepaper - which closed on Monday.\n\nThe committee said the paper \"has scant focus on electoral interference and online political advertising\" or analysis about foreign players targeting voters, despite its recommendations.\n\nDamian Collins, chair of the DCMS Committee said: \"We know that our electoral laws are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"Political campaigns are fought online, not through the letterbox, and our laws need to be brought up to date with the digital age.\n\n\"We've repeatedly highlighted threats to our electoral system and it's essential that public confidence is restored.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"The government agrees we need robust safeguards against hostile states, foreign lobbyists and shadowy third parties in place for the digital age.\n\n\"We have already pledged to publish a consultation paper on electoral integrity - it is an important convention that the laws affecting political parties should not be changed by governments without proper consultation and discussions with political parties.\"\n\nThe call comes after a row over party funding in the European elections earlier this year.\n\nThe Electoral Commission visited the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding after it was accused by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\" online.\n\nIt later said the party's funding system left it open to \"a high and on-going risk\" of impermissible donations.\n\nBut the Brexit Party's leader, Nigel Farage, accused Mr Brown of \"a disgusting smear\" and said no rules had been broken.\n\nUnder UK law, donations of £500 or above must be made by a \"permissible donor\" - someone who is listed on the electoral register or a company registered in the UK.\n\nAmounts below that do not have to be declared, but some critics have said there is no way of telling whether those smaller amounts come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system may be being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The investiture ceremony took place in Caernarfon Castle\n\nPrince Charles begins his annual summer visit to Wales on Monday, as he marks 50 years since his investiture.\n\nThe prince was 20 when he was crowned in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle.\n\nThe lavish event was watched by a TV audience of millions around the world, but polarised opinion in Wales.\n\nCharles was just nine years old when a recorded message from Queen Elizabeth II announced to an excited crowd at the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff that she intended making him Prince of Wales.\n\nReporter Brian Hoey, who was working at the games for the BBC, recalled: \"At that moment, there was uproar. The crowd really went crazy.\"\n\nFormer Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan Sir Norman Lloyd Edwards, who went on to know the prince well, also recalled the excitement at Cardiff train station, where he was at the time of the announcement.\n\n\"It didn't have a roof, but if it had had a roof it would have come off,\" he said. \"There was enormous excitement on the platform and in the railway station.\"\n\nAmong the guests invited to the investiture 50 years ago was Sir Nicholas Soames, a lifelong friend of the prince.\n\nCharles was crowned Prince of Wales in front of huge crowds\n\n\"It was one of the greatest days of my life and of course, it was made the more extraordinary because of what was actually happening,\" he said. \"Here was the creation of the Prince of Wales in the most wonderful and moving ceremony in that magnificent castle.\"\n\nStreet parties were held across the country, but it also polarised opinion between those who supported the role and those who believed it was an imposition on the country.\n\nThe investiture was conducted against a backdrop of protests and even bombings.\n\nOne of the bombs, which exploded at council offices in Abergele in the early hours of the day of the investiture, killed the two men it has always been assumed planted it.\n\nFive decades on, there are no major commemorations planned in Caernarfon.\n\nDafydd Iwan said the investiture \"came out of nowhere\" amidst political turmoil\n\nIn the late 1950s, Welsh nationalism was yet to spark into life. Eleven years later, when Charles was crowned, it was a different story.\n\nFor Welsh folk singer and former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan, it was easy to be cynical about the event, which took place in the castle built by Edward I - the English king who had killed the last Welsh Sovereign Prince of Wales in the 13th Century.\n\n\"The 60s was a period of great change and amidst all the political turmoil came the investiture from nowhere,\" said Mr Iwan.\n\n\"We felt we had to resist that in 1969. We couldn't forget the way the title Prince of Wales had been taken from us, as it were, and given to the heir to the throne.\"\n\nDafydd Iwan's protest song \"Carlo\" became an anthem for the protests and he said he remains opposed to the position of Prince of Wales.\n\nBut Mr Iwan added: \"There's no point in painting him as an evil character.\n\n\"I think he has done some excellent work through the Prince's Trust. I mean, he's done the best of a bad job. He has contributed, yes.\"\n\nSince then, the prince has worked on projects in areas of interest to him; urban regeneration, the environment, architecture, sustainable farming, music and the arts.\n\nHe also set up the Prince's Trust and Prime Cymru, which provide skills support and training to young people and the over-50s in Wales and elsewhere.\n\nIn all, he has set up or become involved with 42 different charities or organisations in Wales.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall unveiled a plaque to mark the new name for the Second Severn Crossing\n\nAs early as 1970, the prince was making speeches about plastic pollution, telling a conference in Cardiff: \"When you think that each person produces roughly 2lbs of rubbish per day using non-returnable bottles and plastic containers, it is not difficult to imagine the mountains of refuse that we shall have to deal with somehow.\"\n\nHe eventually bought a home in Wales - at Myddfai in Carmarthenshire, the first royal residence in the country for hundreds of years - in 2006.\n\nAnd even now, even though he is the longest-serving Prince of Wales, there are some dissenting voices. When the Second Severn Crossing was renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge, more than 38,000 people signed a petition asking for it to be named after someone else.\n\nBut those close to the prince say he takes his role as the royal representative of Wales very seriously. Sir Norman had regular meetings with Charles in Wales, and says privately he is very passionate about the role.\n\n\"What I learned was that he is a very caring man indeed, and cares for the country, cares for the people,\" said Sir Norman.\n\nThe prince is involved in the ongoing transformation of an oil refinery near Neath into a new village with 4,000 homes using local craftsman and a regional supply network which, he says, is better for the environment. And he uses Welsh firms as suppliers, spreading the name of local producers across the world.\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, said he received regular letters from the prince while in government and that he has urged the prince to continue to speak out on issues close to him, even when he becomes king.\n\nIf Charles becomes king, Prince William would be in line to be the next Prince of Wales. Having lived on Anglesey where he worked as an RAF search and rescue pilot, and been a regular and visible supporter of Welsh sport, he already has connections to the country. But are we likely to see another grand ceremony like that at Caernarfon Castle in 1969?\n\nBBC Wales' St David's Day poll earlier this year found the majority of respondents - 61% - were in favour of another investiture.\n\nBut Welsh academic and former international footballer Prof Laura McAllister said she thought that would not be wise.\n\n\"We are in a different environment now where people are less deferential to authority, and particularly towards Royalty, where they feel there are inequalities and privilege being reflected at a time when a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet,\" she said.\n\n\"If there was a decision to hold an investiture for Prince William, I would be incredibly surprised if this didn't prove to be a very, very divisive and significant moment in the political history of Wales.\"\n\nCharles: Prince for Wales? is on Monday, 1 July at 20:30 GMT on BBC One Wales and will also be available on the BBC iPlayer", "Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering after a police operation in Belfast.\n\nSix properties were searched across the city on Monday and six men and five women arrested.\n\nPolice said they identified almost £16m which has been deposited to thousands of bank accounts.\n\nThey have linked the money to criminal activity carried out by Chinese organised crime groups.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ian Wilson said: \"During our investigation we identified that a significant volume of suspected criminal cash was being laundered out of the country through a number of bank accounts held here in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"In total, almost £16m has been deposited to thousands of bank accounts across the UK from the accounts since January 2018.\n\n\"We believe that the majority of this money is derived from a range of criminal activity carried out by Chinese organised crime groups.\"\n\nThe six men who have been arrested are aged 35, 41, 44, 48 and 67, while the five women are 32, 34, 36, 38 and 60.\n\nPolice said the operation was supported by the National Crime Agency, Immigration Enforcement and Border Force and is part of UK wide operation, led by the National Economic Crime Centre.\n\n\"Money laundering is often a critical enabler of organised criminality and today's operation is part of a wider ongoing investigation,\" Det Ch Insp Wilson said.\n\n\"We are committed to keeping people safe by robustly pursuing those who are involved in laundering criminally derived money and enabling criminals to access the profits gained from their involvement in a range of illegal activities.\"", "The girl's mother told BBC correspondent Fiona Lamdin her daughter was \"traumatised\" by what had happened\n\nA 10-year-old girl from Bristol was stopped from flying to Djibouti from London because of fears she was at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe girl was detained by police at an airport on Thursday and is now the subject of an FGM protection order.\n\nHer mother said the family was being \"treated like criminals\" and they had \"done nothing wrong\".\n\nBristol City Council said: \"Where there is concern for the welfare of children and families we will act.\"\n\nNimko Ali said she would rather parents \"felt a little bit offended\" than a child \"be subjected to one of the most horrific forms of child abuse\"\n\nThe girl's mother, who did not want to be identified, spoke to BBC correspondent Fiona Lamdin.\n\nShe said: \"Why do I have to tell them where I am going? Why? We have no freedom of movement. We have done nothing wrong. I'm not going to send my daughter to an unsafe place.\n\n\"I have a sister who is five years younger than me and she hasn't had FGM and she is a mum now, she has daughters and even my nieces they haven't had any FGM so I wasn't even thinking of that.\"\n\nAnti-FGM campaigner Nimko Ali said: \"When it comes to FGM I think the key indicator is that children - girls specifically - are being taken out of school just before the summer holidays because that is the specific time when FGM risk is heightened.\n\n\"I can understand that the family is upset that their holiday plans might have been interrupted but I think the police and the border agency had a legitimate reason in order to stop a child being taken out of the country during term time.\n\n\"Ultimately, I'm actually really grateful and thankful that the police and border agency have put the child's safety above that of community relations and walking on cultural eggshells.\"\n\nA Bristol City Council spokesman said: \"Our commitment continues to be one where we put the safety of children and families first but to do so in an inclusive fashion supported by open dialogue.\n\n\"Agencies remain in communication with the family impacted by this case, and will continue to be so, to explain the action taken and the reasons why.\"\n• None FGM- What is it- - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More money is needed to tackle the \"severe risk\" posed by potholes on local roads in England, according to a Commons transport committee report.\n\n\"Most people won't have to go further than the local shops to spot a pothole that poses a risk of injury or damage,\" said Labour MP Lilian Greenwood.\n\nThe Filling the Gap report said a lack of targeted funding was the key issue.\n\nMPs have called on the Treasury to provide a \"front-loaded\" five-year fund to deal with local road maintenance.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Ms Greenwood said \"cash-strapped councils\" were currently being forced to divert money intended to tackle poor roads to fund other, more vital, services.\n\n\"Local authorities are in the invidious position of having to rob Peter to pay Paul,\" she said.\n\n\"Cash-strapped councils are raiding their highways and transport budgets to fund core services.\"\n\nSince 2010, council spending power, including funding from central government and local taxes, has fallen by almost 30%.\n\nWhile main roads and motorways in England, Scotland and Wales are maintained by Highways England, Transport Scotland and the Welsh Government respectively, councils are responsible for the upkeep of local, typically more minor, roads.\n\nPotholes - collapsed areas in the tarmac resulting from the pressure of traffic and bad weather - are a menace for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.\n\nIn his Budget last October, Chancellor Philip Hammond promised an extra £420m for councils in England to deal with \"potholes, repair damaged roads, and invest in keeping bridges open and safe\".\n\nBut the transport committee report states there is still not enough funding - and current funds are not allocated effectively.\n\nThe committee's 10th Report of Session 2017-19 said deteriorating roads can result in greater cost to taxpayers - with quick-fixes often proving more expensive in the long-term.\n\nIt called for a longer-term strategy to allow councils to plan ahead and encourage innovation and collaboration.\n\n\"Now is the time for the department to propose a front-loaded, long-term funding settlement to the Treasury as part of the forthcoming spending review,\" said Ms Greenwood.\n\n\"Almost every journey begins and ends on local roads: the DfT must work with the public and local authorities to make them safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland reignited their World Cup campaign with a superb display to defeat India by 31 runs at an electric Edgbaston.\n\nThe hosts bounced back from successive losses to defeat the only unbeaten team left in the tournament and will definitely reach the semi-finals with a win against New Zealand on Wednesday.\n\nJonny Bairstow crunched 111 as he reunited with the fit-again Jason Roy for an opening stand of 160.\n\nRoy made 66 and Ben Stokes added some late impetus with 79 to lift England to 337-7.\n\nAlthough England's bowling was disciplined, there was the fear that India could pull off the highest chase in World Cup history when Virat Kohli was sharing 138 with Rohit Sharma, who went on to complete a century after Kohli departed for 66.\n\nWith 102 needed from the final 10 overs, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya briefly raised the hopes of the ecstatic India fans, only for England to hold their nerve and restrict India to 306-5.\n\nIf England beat the Black Caps at Chester-le-Street, they will finish second or third in the group and will be in the second semi-final, probably against India or Australia, at Edgbaston on 11 July.\n\nLose, and they will go out if Pakistan beat Bangladesh at Lord's on Friday.\n\nIndia, meanwhile, still need one win from their final two games against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to be certain of a place in the last four.\n\nTop four go through to semi-finals\n\nA shock defeat by Sri Lanka followed by a heavy loss to Australia left England, the pre-tournament favourites, facing an unthinkable early exit if they did not win their final two games.\n\nThe odds against them seemed to be growing. Not only would they have to overcome the impressive Indians at an Edgbaston that would be crammed with away support, but there remained a doubt over Roy, who tore his hamstring just over two weeks ago.\n\nSure enough, in terms of support, Birmingham was more like Bengaluru, a raucous mix of India shirts and flags, with drums and horns creating a constant din.\n\nBut, with their backs against the wall, England were restored to somewhere near their best, not least with an almost faultless display in the field.\n\nThey were helped by winning the toss and choosing to bat first on a good pitch and, more importantly, the return of Roy, who showed no effects of his injury by seamlessly slipping back into his hugely successful partnership with Bairstow.\n\nAnd, even when faced with Kohli and Rohit, then Dhoni and Pandya, England's bowlers did not buckle, to the extent that India's first six did not come until the final over.\n\nFollowing the defeat by Australia, Bairstow responded to criticism of the England team by saying \"people were waiting for us to fail\".\n\nHere, he let his batting do the talking, with a bristling, belligerent and brilliant hundred.\n\nHe needed fortune early on, twice inside-edging past his own stumps, but after that bullied the ball through the leg side - all of his six sixes and seven of his 10 fours came on the on side.\n\nRoy also had luck. He could have been caught down the leg side on 21 off Pandya, only for the appeal to be turned down and India to decide against a review that would have revealed a brush of the glove.\n\nAfter Roy was brilliantly caught at long-on by diving substitute fielder Ravindra Jadeja off the left-arm wrist spin of Kuldeep Yadav, India worked their way back into the game.\n\nIn a 10-over spell, England managed only 25 runs, no boundaries and lost both Bairstow and Eoin Morgan.\n\nBut Stokes, already with two scores of 89 and an 82 not out in the tournament, recaptured the momentum to give England 121 from the final 13 overs.\n\nIndia beaten for the first time\n\nIndia arrived with victories in all five of their completed games and it is to their credit they remained in this contest for so long.\n\nEven after spin pair Kuldeep and Yuzvendra Chahal conceded 160 runs in their combined 20 overs and Mohammad Shami, who claimed five wickets, was punished by Stokes, the chase remained manageable thanks to the nerveless death bowling of Jasprit Bumrah.\n\nAfter KL Rahul was caught and bowled in Chris Woakes' opening spell of five overs for eight runs, which began with three successive maidens, Kohli and Rohit were forced to build with patience.\n\nRohit, dropped at second slip by Joe Root off Jofra Archer on only four, struggled for timing, but Kohli was typically classy with drives and clips off the pads.\n\nJust as England concerns were rising, Kohli sliced to point off Liam Plunkett, who more than justified his recall at the expense of Moeen Ali.\n\nKohli's dismissal sparked Rohit into life before the superb Woakes induced a toe-end to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and followed that up with an astonishing diving catch on the deep square-leg boundary to remove Rishabh Pant.\n\nThe India fans chanted Dhoni's name when he arrived at the crease, however after Pandya holed out to long-on to give Plunkett his third wicket, their hero was reduced to a curious mix of singles and unsuccessful swings, and Edgbaston was emptying before the match was over.\n\nMorgan praises players - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We played extremely well. Jason Roy and Bairstow at the top were magnificent to watch. The continuation of partnerships throughout took us to a formidable total.\n\n\"Our bowlers bowled well too. Liam Plunkett has been outstanding for us for four years, absolutely outstanding, particularly in that middle period of the innings.\n\n\"No game in this tournament is easy. Every game has been extremely tough and it will continue to be.\"\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"Every team has lost a game or two here and there.\n\n\"No-one likes to lose but we have to take it in our stride. We have to accept it.\n\n\"We are still playing good cricket. We will learn from it and move forward.\"", "Michael Barrymore had been suing Essex Police over his arrest following the death of Stuart Lubbock at his home\n\nMichael Barrymore has dropped a compensation claim for being arrested over the death of a man at his home.\n\nBarrymore was investigated following the death of Stuart Lubbock in his swimming pool 18 years ago. He sued Essex Police claiming the arrest had damaged his career.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges concluded the 67-year-old TV presenter would be entitled to only \"nominal\" damages.\n\nMr Lubbock's father Terry said: \"That's brilliant news. I'm raising my arms.\"\n\nMr Lubbock, 74, added: \"I am still determined to get justice for Stuart. He was only 31 when he died. I am determined to hang on to the end for him.\"\n\nMr Lubbock was found dead in the entertainer's swimming pool in March 2001\n\nStuart Lubbock's body was found in the pool in Roydon, Essex, in March 2001 after a party in which drugs and alcohol were taken.\n\nIn 2007 Barrymore was arrested in connection with the death, but was later released without charge, and withdrew from public life.\n\nHis arrest was found to be unlawful because the arresting officer did not have reasonable grounds to suspect Barrymore, a high court judge ruled.\n\nHe said it was \"devastating\" to his career and had valued his claim at more than £2.4m because of lost earnings.\n\nEssex Police argued that he was entitled to only a \"nominal\" payout, and appeal judges ruled in the force's favour.\n\nA spokeswoman said the claim had been discontinued by agreement and it had made no payment to the entertainer.\n\nBarrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Stuart Lubbock died\n\nBarrymore - real name Michael Parker - and a lawyer who represented him were not available for comment.\n\nIn a statement Essex Police said: \"At the heart of this case remains the fact that the family of Stuart Lubbock continue to live with the pain of the unanswered questions surrounding his death on March 31 2001.\n\n\"We continue to search for justice for Stuart's family and would ask anyone who has information about his death to call us or Crimestoppers anonymously. It is never too late to do the right thing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 20,000 people marched through Kilmarnock in protest at the closure\n\n\"It was horrible. You felt sick,\" recalls Ronnie Rankin, of the mass staff meetings at the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock on 1 July 2009.\n\n\"You couldn't wait to get out of there that morning.\"\n\nThe plan had been kept from all but the most senior managers at Diageo. Those making the announcement did not know if they would keep their jobs.\n\nKevan Knox was a team leader on the bottling line. \"I'd been there 35 years at the time, and my wife for 36 years, and it really was a concern for us, because both of us were losing our jobs potentially. How would we manage with mortgages and cars?\"\n\nAlex Rae worked in spirits supply and blending. \"I thought I'd be there until I retired, because that's how sound it was. The day it was announced, it was out the blue - a bolt of lightning.\"\n\nThe Johnnie Walker brand is stronger than ever\n\nThe announcement - 10 years ago today - came out the blue for the Scottish government as well. First Minister Alex Salmond was furious, and took part in a march of 20,000 people through Kilmarnock, pledging \"we're not going to walk away\". Nor was he going to let the plant's owner, Diageo, walk away.\n\nYet it did. More than 700 jobs went when the plant was finally wound down and closed in 2012. Production moved to Shieldhall, at Braehead on the west side of Glasgow, and to Leven in Fife.\n\nTen years on, Johnnie Walker is striding on stronger than ever. A consultancy, Brand Planet, named it as the 25th most valuable brand in Britain in 2018, worth £3.6bn - the world's biggest whisky brand, the biggest commercial brand in Scotland, and more valuable than Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Morrison's and Marks and Spencer.\n\nBut in its home town, there is nothing left of that red brick plant. On a 10-acre site overlooking Kilmarnock station and the town centre, a large modern building is now home to Ayrshire College.\n\nWorkers at the old site believed their jobs were secure\n\nOn the remaining 23 acres, there is only the pulverised remains of the brick and concrete.\n\nThis summer, diggers move in to start on the Halo Regeneration Project. It has a budget of £65m. Its executive chairwoman, Marie Macklin, who grew up near the plant, talks of 1,500 jobs and £100m of added value to the Scottish economy.\n\n\"This will give our town the belief that they can change the world, the same way that Johnnie Walker did,\" she told me. \"We're at the forefront now of the next industrial revolution\".\n\nThe first building will be an innovation hub for start-up companies and some that have already made a start. Marie Macklin is an investor in such firms.\n\nTo the west, there will be \"live-work\" units - an innovative idea that harks back to the days when artisans lived above the workshop.\n\nMs Macklin says that start-up entrepreneurs go through an intense phase where they might as well be next to their workplace because it's such a demanding and engrossing role.\n\nThere will be manufacturing units, with corprates already interested in occupying them.\n\nTowards the housing estate which brought wider notoriety to Kilmarnock through the BBC Scotland TV series The Scheme - now partly redeveloped - there is to be a \"wave-surf\" leisure centre. All that and more than 200 new homes.\n\nScottish Power has signed up as one of the supporters, making the Halo site a pilot for a green industrial village, featuring electric-powered transport.\n\nNothing remains of the old plant, but new plans are being drawn up to redevelop it\n\nLast month, Barclays made a big commitment to regeneration of the Ayrshire town, when its chief executive visited to announce it would be one of four UK towns to get a special focus to help boost their economic prospects. Bury in Lancashire is the other one so far named, with a seaside town and a rural community to follow.\n\nDiageo remains involved. It handed one part of the site to Ayrshire College for £1, and it puts unemployed people through training there - aimed at jobs pulling pints and pouring drams in the hospitality sector.\n\nThe Halo project got the remainder of the land for another pound. This was on Diageo's condition that it was not merely a commercial development, but one with strong outcomes for the town. The distilling giant has followed through with a £2m investment in Halo.\n\nIt is pouring tens of millions into the Johnnie Walker visitor experience on Edinburgh's Princes Street and at four contrasting Scotch distilleries. That has irritated those in Kilmarnock, who reckon its heritage should have been part of that tourism trail.\n\nNews of the closure was a crushing blow to the town\n\nBut Diageo is in talks - with a more modest budget - to help those who want to mark the 200th anniversary, next year, of John Walker corking his first bottle.\n\nThe company says that 707 people were employed at the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock when the closure announcement was made. Of those, 194 continued to work with the company after the plant closed. Some 431 took voluntary redundancy packages.\n\nThis process was eased by offering voluntary redundancy terms to older workers at other plants, creating space for those from Kilmarnock. Some moved home from Ayrshire to Fife, to work at Leven.\n\nA much larger number went to work at Shieldhall. But anecdotal evidence suggests that it didn't work as well as hoped. The early and late shifts fitted poorly with a commute of up to an hour, for which public transport wasn't much help.\n\nKevan Knox had to apply for a similar job to the one he was losing at the Hill Street plant, and spent three years being uncertain if that was going to be permanent. His wife Elaine commuted to the Glasgow plant for four months, before giving up. It didn't fit with family life.\n\n\"It was a period of uncertainty,\" recalls Kevan. \"Folk make you promises, but you need to know if you're actually getting a job. So we went through huge stress at that stage.\"\n\nRonnie Rankin was in logistics, and moved to Shieldhall, until Diageo handed the logistics operation to a contractor.\n\nHe now works, along with Kevan Knox, in a similar role at the expanding whisky production operation being run by Loch Lomond Group in Catrine, East Ayrshire.\n\nAlex Rae recalls: \"After 35 years (working), I had to go to the job centre. I'd never been there before. And that's daunting in itself, just to get through the doors.\n\n\"I lasted a month, and didn't go back, just trying to go and get something. It was degrading. You see some sights in there. Sometimes you get tarred with the same brush.\n\n\"Some (of the staff) are very nice. Some don't even look up. It's just 'sign that and away you go'. I'd meet people there and you'd blether and sometimes you'd hear there's a job going here or there, but we were all after the same jobs, and they were never full-time.\"\n\nIt has only been in the past year that Alex Rae has joined his friends in having a full-time and permanent job with Loch Lomond distillers.\n\nSays Kevan Knox: \"There are people we know who didn't get a job and, basically, their whole lifestyle changed. I know of certain folk who don't come out their house any more. They've not been able to find a job, and their whole life spiralled downwards.\n\n\"To be fair to the company, they tried to job-match people, but some couldn't go because of transport or commitments at home.\"\n\nOther companies had to change radically when the supply chain to Kilmarnock fell away. In 2009, one unofficial media spokesman for the area was Marco Sinforiani, whose family has long run a newsagent close to the plant.\n\nWith lower footfall, there was a sense of doom back then. But the shop remains open, having diversified into specialist drinks, notably gins, and specialist pasta. There is footfall from college students.\n\nAlex Milligan was chief reporter at the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper, having joined it in 1971.\n\nTo him, the Johnnie Walker closure was the final blow in a series of closures on which he had reported. Listening to him, it's striking how diverse the Kilmarnock manufacturing base had been, but it now reads like a roll-call of closures: Saxone shoes, Massey Ferguson combine harvesters, Glenfield and Kennedy water valves and fittings.\n\nDiageo's departure was worse than the others, says the veteran journalist - by being so big, the last of the big manufacturing employers, and being so much part of the town's identity.\n\n\"It all started here in a grocer's shop and mushroomed into a major force all around the world. For the company to shut up shop and say 'we're off - cheers', betrayal is probably a word that sums it up.\"\n\nKevan Knox has less harsh feelings: \"I feel let down. I wanted to be with Diageo for life, and that's not happened. Personally, it's cost us. My wife and I didn't get the pensions we wanted. I wanted to see the 40 years out, and was three years out from that. But it gave us a good life.\"\n\nAlex Rae concurs. \"You've got to let bygones be bygones. One door closes, and another opens\".", "Djalili took part in the Rhondda Arts Festival Treorchy\n\nComic Omid Djalili has upset some social media users in Wales with a joke about the Welsh language.\n\nThe comedian posted a picture of a road sign for Nantgaredig and the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, bearing the translation Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol.\n\nNext to that the 53-year-old Londoner tweeted: \"There are worse things than being Welsh, dyslexic & having a terrible stutter. But not many.\"\n\nMarc Jones wrote: \"Disappointing that someone with Iranian heritage reckons it's OK to have a pop at a minority culture.\"\n\nThe Barry Horns said: \"The showbiz class is rammed with upper middle class people who sneer at Wales.\"\n\nThe account later added: \"Imagine the uproar if Rhod Gilbert made a joke about Iranians.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Omid Djalili This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeledd ap Gwynfor tweeted: \"There are worse things than being English, ignorant & having a terrible sense of bigotory (sic). But not many.\"\n\nDjalili - who starred in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Bond movie The World Is Not Enough - responded to a number of the messages.\n\n\"Good point well made,\" he said to Emyr Gareth, who posted a picture of an English sign featuring the word \"Loughborough\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Omid Djalili This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Any language looks strange when viewed through the prism of another language,\" Mr Gareth tweeted. \"As a Welsh speaker, this sign looks like a cat's walked over the keyboard! Loughborough - seriously?!\"\n\nLouise Barfe issued a \"gentle reminder\" that BBC Radio 4 head of comedy Sioned Wiliam was a Welsh speaker.\n\n\"Going to suggest to Sioned a show with the superb replies,\" Djalili replied.\n\nDjalili retweeted a number of replies to his tweet.\n\nHowever, not everyone was irritated by the joke.\n\nOnlyOneCardiffCity tweeted: \"Message to the far-too-easily-offended-of-Twitter. Learn to take a joke. Embarrassing babies.\"\n\nDjalili's remarks follow a gig he played on Saturday, June 29, at Treorchy's Park and Dare theatre as part of the Rhondda Arts Festival Treorchy.", "Councils have a legal duty to provide a range of services, including waste collection\n\nCouncils in England and Wales have warned they are \"completely in the dark\" about how much money they will get from central government next year.\n\nThe Local Government Association says councils need \"urgent guarantees\" they will get enough to provide key services like child protection and social care.\n\nMore than 90 of its members fear they will run out of money to meet their legal obligations within five years.\n\nMinisters said councils had been given extra funding for vulnerable residents.\n\nThe Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government said total funding for local authorities had gone up by nearly 3% this year to £46.4bn, with an extra £650m to help councils provide care for the elderly.\n\nThe recent cash crisis at Northamptonshire County Council - which is to be scrapped and replaced by two separate new authorities - has highlighted the financial plight facing local government.\n\nAhead of the start of the LGA's annual conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday, council leaders have warned the future financial viability of other local authorities is in doubt.\n\nIncreasing demand on councils for adult social care and children's services meant likely cuts elsewhere, the body - which represents more than 300 councils - warned.\n\nNearly 50 councils have told the organisation they may not be able to fund services they are legally obliged to provide - such as care for the elderly, shelter for homeless people, bin collections and libraries - by 2022-3.\n\nA further 40 or so councils fear they will run out of money to properly fulfil their legal duties by 2024-5.\n\nThe annual funding councils get from government each year has fallen 49% in real terms since 2010.\n\nIn 2016, councils agreed a four-year financial settlement with the government, giving them greater financial freedom in return for shouldering more responsibility for care provision and hitting efficiency targets.\n\nBut hopes many councils would become virtually self-funding by the end of the decade, by allowing them to retain up to 75% of the business rates they charge on High Street shops, have proved optimistic as financial pressure on their core services has grown more acute.\n\nAccording to the LGA, the funding \"gap\" facing local government is set to rise from an estimated £3.1bn next year to £8bn by 2024-5 unless urgent action is taken.\n\nLord Porter, the outgoing chair of the organisation, said the situation was not helped by uncertainty over Brexit and the Conservative leadership.\n\nJames Brokenshire has insisted government is listening to councils' concerns\n\nThe Conservative peer, who will step down this week, said whoever succeeds Theresa May in Downing Street must make the financial sustainability of councils their top priority in the government's Spending Review due in the autumn.\n\n\"Councils would normally have started their budget-setting planning process but remain completely in the dark about how much funding they will have next year,\" he said.\n\n\"Communities relying on the vital local services that make a difference to their lives deserve better.\n\n\"Urgent guarantees are needed that councils will have the funding they need to ensure our vital public services survive the uncertainty ahead.\"\n\nAt the very least, he said ministers must confirm the continuation of key funding programs, such as the Better Care Fund, worth £1.8bn this year.\n\nHe also called again on local authorities to be able to raise council taxes by whatever amount they felt necessary without having to get the consent of residents through a referendum if increases were deemed excessive.\n\nBoth Tory leadership contenders, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, have pledged more money for social care although this could be put in doubt by a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government is currently consulting on local authorities' changing financial needs and resources, the outcome of which is likely to influence future funding settlements.\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire has said ministers recognise the financial pressure on councils and have sought to meet their demands for more resources.\n\nThese include £4.3bn in ring-fenced resources for adult social care this year, £100m to end rough sleeping and nearly £60m to help councils prepare for the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nIn a statement, the department said councils had received nearly £200bn over the past four years and their future needs would be considered in the Spending Review.\n\n\"Ultimately councils are responsible for managing their own resources and we are working with local government to develop a funding system for the future,\" it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nHead coach Phil Neville says it would be considered a \"failure\" if England do not beat the USA to reach the Women's World Cup final.\n\nThe Lionesses face the defending champions and world number one side in the semi-finals in Lyon on Tuesday - in a game live on BBC One (20:00 BST).\n\nEngland, ranked third, have never gone beyond the last four at a World Cup.\n\n\"Nobody cares who loses a semi-final, it's all about winning,\" said Neville.\n\n\"No-one cares about silver and bronze - it's the gold medal everyone wants.\"\n\nEngland lost out against Japan in 2015 and went on to beat Germany in the third-place play-off to secure the team's best-ever finish.\n\nThey then made the last four at Euro 2017 but lost to hosts and eventual champions the Netherlands.\n\n\"My players now want to win,\" he added. \"If we don't get the right result, we'll feel the disappointment and we'll see that as a failure.\n\n\"That's not me being negative, that's just our expectations, our belief and our confidence.\"\n• None Are England ready to win the World Cup?\n• None 'Something is happening' - Neville dreams of glory\n\n'This time the prize is even bigger'\n\nThree-time champions the USA have lost just once in their last five internationals against England, and won 3-0 in their only World Cup encounter in the 2007 quarter-finals.\n\nBut Neville's side will be boosted by their performance against Jill Ellis' team in the SheBelieves Cup earlier this year, a game which they drew 2-2 on American soil.\n\nEngland came away with the silverware from the invitational event and Neville said: \"The March game was a good game for both teams.\n\n\"We played really well and that game gave us great confidence and belief.\n\n\"We were the ones that stood on that platform and lifted that trophy. When you win something, it gives you the taste of it and this time the prize is even bigger.\"\n\nNeville was asked about the presence of a USA official at England's hotel, reportedly seeing if it was suitable for them if they reach the final, which is also in Lyon.\n\n\"It's not a concern,\" he said. \"The only thing I would say is it's not something that I would want my team ops person doing. It's not something that England would do.\n\n\"But it's their problem. I'm sure that Jill [Ellis] probably wouldn't have been happy with that arrangement.\"\n\n'We are not an arrogant team'\n\nThe USA have never failed to reach the Women's World Cup semis and are four-time finalists - where their only defeat came in a penalty shootout against Japan in 2011.\n\nFollowing their 3-0 group win over Chile in France, when coach Ellis made seven changes, defender Ali Krieger said the Americans had \"the best team in the world, and the second best team in the world\".\n\nWhen asked if those comments showed arrogance within the team, Ellis responded: \"Really it's a comment about ourselves and how she feels.\n\n\"She has the right to say that. It's important that our team has confidence and I don't think in any way this is an arrogant team.\n\n\"This team knows they have to earn everything, that we've got tough opponents still ahead of us and we have to earn the right to advance in this tournament.\"\n\nNeville said his side now have the same attitude as Tuesday's opponents, referencing the USA's quarter-final when they held on to win 2-1 against hosts France.\n\n\"The USA have that ruthless streak,\" he said. \"Their game management in the last few minutes against France was fantastic.\n\n\"They took the ball into the corner and they celebrated like winners and that's what my team have got now.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Childcare in England risks becoming the preserve of the wealthy, unless a £660m funding gap in a free childcare scheme is plugged, MPs are warning.\n\nSevere financial strain has been placed on private and independent nurseries offering the government's flagship free 30-hours scheme, they report.\n\nAnd those operating in poor areas are more likely to be threatened with closure, they say.\n\nThe government said low income families received help with childcare costs.\n\nThe national scheme offers working parents of three and four-year-olds 30 hours of free childcare a week - up from 15 hours in 2017.\n\nBut early years providers have long said the level at which these hours are funded by a government grant has meant operators have had to find other ways of making up the difference.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Childcare and Early Education heard evidence of a potential reduction in nursery places in deprived areas, while in affluent areas an increase in places looks likely.\n\nThis was highlighted by Nicole Politis, director of the Portico Nursery Group, who told the parliamentary inquiry that she had a number of nurseries in different socio-economic areas.\n\nShe said: \"Three years ago, nurseries in these deprived areas were completely full.\n\n\"Now, those in affluent areas are full, and in deprived areas the numbers of children attending are so low that I'm having to close them.\n\n\"Sadly, some parents cannot afford the additional fees, and this is being exacerbated by the roll-out of Universal Credit.\n\n\"In the end, this means that the [30-hours] scheme is not always reaching the most vulnerable families.\"\n\nThe APPG report said: \"Should this trend continue, we risk facing a situation where only wealthy families are able to access childcare services, leading to significant reductions in educational opportunities for children, as well as more challenges to parents looking to go back into work.\"\n\nAccording to the National Day Nurseries Association, the rate at which early years providers are closing has increased by 66% since the introduction of the scheme, and they are closing fastest in more deprived areas.\n\nTulip Siddiq MP, chairwoman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Childcare and Early Education, said: \"We know that the early years are hugely important to a child's physical and mental development and future life chances.\n\n\"However, there is a significant body of evidence to demonstrate that childcare providers are battling to achieve and maintain financial sustainability, and that government policies are a major cause of this challenge.\"\n\nChildren and Families Minister Nadham Zahawi said there had been a huge increase in the number of children benefitting from 30 hours free childcare.\n\nHe added that this meant parents were spending less on childcare and could work more flexibly.\n• None The All Party Parliamentary Group for Childcare and Early Education The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nominees for the top EU jobs must be a balance of nations and gender, Latvia's PM says.\n\nKrisjanis Karins, a conservative, was speaking before a Brussels summit of EU leaders.\n\nThe leaders are split, especially over a successor to Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.", "George Osborne and his wife Frances are divorcing, with the couple saying they will remain \"good friends\".\n\nThe former chancellor, who is now editor of London's Evening Standard, said the end of their 21-year marriage was sad but had been a mutual decision.\n\nThe couple have two teenage children.\n\nMr Osborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum, but recently endorsed Boris Johnson's Tory leadership bid, prompting speculation of a return to frontline politics.\n\nThe pair met at a friend's house over Sunday lunch, before marrying in 1998.\n\nFrances Osborne, the daughter of former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Howell, is a successful writer.\n\nHer best-selling books include The Bolter, a biography of her great-grandmother, the English aristocrat Idina Sackville.\n\nIn a statement released on Monday, the couple said: \"George and Frances Osborne have sadly decided to divorce after 21 years of marriage.\n\n\"This is a long thought-through and mutual decision. They remain good friends and jointly devoted to their wonderful children.\n\n\"For the sake of their children, they ask that the family's privacy is respected. Neither George nor Frances will be making any comment.\"\n\nAs well as editing the Evening Standard, Mr Osborne, 48, has a number of other jobs, including chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.\n\nHe stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunt: We must be clear about the facts of no deal\n\nJeremy Hunt has said he would decide by the end of September whether there is a \"realistic chance\" of reaching a new Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nThe Tory leadership contender said he would deliver a provisional \"no-deal Brexit budget\" in early September and then give the EU three weeks.\n\nHe vowed to abandon talks after that if there was no \"immediate prospect\" of progress and move to a no-deal footing.\n\nHis rival Boris Johnson has vowed to leave \"come what may\" by 31 October.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Mr Johnson said it was important to have a \"hard deadline\" for leaving, adding that previous no-deal preparations had \"sagged back down\" after exit dates were not met.\n\nThe Conservative Party's 160,000 members will begin voting next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nIf successful, Mr Hunt said he would \"engage\" with fellow EU leaders during August, and task a new negotiating team with producing an \"alternative exit deal\" - including ideas to solve the Irish border issue - to be published by the end of the month.\n\nAt the same time, he said preparations for no deal would continue in earnest, and all leave for civil servants at government departments would be cancelled unless he received guarantees that no-deal planning was \"on time and on track\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the timeline Mr Hunt was setting out was very tight - especially given the notice the government's fiscal watchdog, the OBR, usually needs to prepare for a Budget.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe foreign secretary also warned MPs against attempting to block a no-deal Brexit, warning it could make it harder to get a new agreement by giving the EU \"misplaced confidence that we'll give ground\".\n\nHe added that detailed preparation plans for no deal were needed to make it a \"credible threat\" to the EU, and give the UK \"leverage\" in the talks.\n\nIn a direct challenge to his leadership rival, he said the chances of a no-deal Brexit were \"far from\" the million to one odds recently quoted by Boris Johnson, and it would not be possible to deliver it \"on a wing and a prayer\".\n\nA no-deal exit on 31 October remains the default position in UK law after MPs rejected the agreement Theresa May agreed with Brussels three times.\n\nIf that does happen, the UK will automatically begin trading with the EU under the basic World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nUnder these rules, the tariffs - the taxes on imported and exported goods - will be different to what the UK currently trades under, which means the cost to farmers to export products could change or they could be affected by competition from abroad.\n\nThe National Farmers Union has said British farming will be \"damaged\" if that happens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: Who is the Conservative leadership contender?\n\nIn a speech in London, Mr Hunt said a government led by him would cover the costs of the tariffs that would be imposed on the exports of the farming and fishing industries.\n\nHe promised to create a temporary \"no deal relief programme\" - designed to be similar to US President Donald Trump's promise of £16bn for farmers affected by Chinese tariffs.\n\n\"If you're a sheep farmer in Shropshire or a fisherman in Peterhead I have a simple message for you,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"I will mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit on you and step in to help smooth those short-term difficulties.\n\n\"If we could do it for the bankers in the financial crisis, we can do it for our fisherman, farmers and small businesses now.\"\n\nFarmers are worried about a no-deal Brexit, and this £6bn pledge comes on top of the undertaking by the government to pay farming subsidies at EU levels until 2022.\n\nBeef and lamb exports, for example, would face 40% tariffs in the case of no deal, and that would be after the EU had approved the UK as an exporter of animal products, which the National Farmers Union (NFU) says could take a minimum of six months.\n\nThe UK exports about £14bn of agri-foods to the EU a year, so Jeremy Hunt's pledge would cover a lot of disruption but not the \"devastation\" that the NFU is warning of.\n\nMeanwhile, he would have to take care that this new regime did not fall foul of WTO rules on either state aid or export subsidies.\n\nMr Johnson also promised to support the rural community after Brexit during a meeting with farmers in Cumbria last week, insisting farmers \"should be assured that we will support the rural community, with price support, efficiency payments, whatever\".\n\nMeanwhile, one of his leading backers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times the days of public sector \"pay freezes\" under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"People in the public sector need to be properly rewarded for the brilliant job they do.\"\n\n\"Now that there's money available, we need to show the public sector some love,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason's guide to the political life of Boris Johnson\n\nBut during a campaign visit in Kent on Monday, Mr Johnson declined to make a detailed pledge on public sector pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nHe also defended his spending promises during the campaign so far, insisting he had a \"very carefully costed programme\".\n\nIt does all raise the question - where on earth is the cash for all these pledges going to come from? Have Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt discovered the proverbial \"magic money tree\"?\n\nNo, instead they're looking to dip into the chancellor's back pocket.\n\nPhilip Hammond has suggested he has £26bn of what is called \"headroom\" in his current fiscal forecasts - basically, scope to borrow that much more - and Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt are saying they'd do just that.\n\nTo many Tories this sits at odds with the thrust of Tory thinking.\n\nThe other thing which makes the spending pledges slightly more dubious is that Mr Hammond says, \"Ok, I've got this headroom - but if we come out with no deal then all the money is going to have to be put into propping up the economy and getting us through that.\"\n\nBoth leadership contenders have unveiled plans to cut taxes and spend more, designed to win support for their candidacies, but questions have been raised about how they would pay for the pledges.\n\nEarlier in the campaign, Mr Johnson said he wanted to raise the threshold for the higher rate of income tax, predicting this would stimulate the economy, and increase government revenues.\n\nHe has said he would partially fund some of his plans from \"fiscal headroom\" carved out by current Chancellor Philip Hammond in his current spending plans.\n\nThis amount - estimated at £26.6bn at the spring statement - is an additional amount the UK could borrow without breaking self-imposed limits on government borrowing.\n\nThe figure is based on projections that assume the UK left the European Union with a deal, but Mr Hammond has warned that handling a no-deal exit would absorb that potential cash.\n\n\"Either we leave with no deal or we preserve our future fiscal space - we cannot do both\", he said last month, and on Monday, he reiterated that message.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSources close to Mr Hunt have also suggested he would use this \"headroom\" to partially fund his pledge to boost defence spending by £15bn over the next five years.\n\nBut economist Paul Johnson, from think thank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, pointed out that the £26.6bn is \"a one-year target so can't fund permanent tax cuts/spending increases\".\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Johnson said he would be prepared to borrow more to finance \"great objectives\" in his spending plan, whilst keeping \"fiscal responsibility\".\n\nHe told Sky News there was up to £25bn \"available\" in the short term, due to the improved state of the public finances, which \"we intend to use\" on education, policing and broadband rather than reducing the deficit.", "The person is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi on Sunday afternoon\n\nA suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden.\n\nThe body - believed to be that of a man - was found in Offerton Road, Clapham just before 15:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nPolice said it was thought the individual fell from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi.\n\nA neighbour said the body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden.\n\nThe man, who did not want to be named, said he heard a \"whomp\" so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and \"blood all over the walls of the garden\".\n\n\"So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken,\" he said.\n\nThe neighbour, who asked not to be named, said a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on an plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.\n\nThe plane spotter had arrived almost at the same time as the police and told them the body had fallen from a Kenyan Airways flight.\n\n\"If it had been two seconds later, he would have landed on the common where there were hundreds of people - my kids were in the garden 15 minutes before [he fell]\", the neighbour added.\n\n\"I spoke to Heathrow. They said this happens once every five years.\"\n\nDescribing the victim, he said: \"One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where do stowaways hide on planes?\n\nOfferton Road in Clapham, on a bright summer's day, is a tranquil and leafy corner of south-west London.\n\nYou could be forgiven for thinking nothing of any significance had happened here recently.\n\nOther than journalists arriving, there is little activity, with many people presumably out at work.\n\nBut every 30 seconds or so the quiet is punctured by the din of jet engines travelling overhead, indicating the road's position directly underneath a major highway for aircraft, heading for Heathrow from across the globe.\n\nThe Met Police said a post-mortem examination would be carried out in due course and the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nKenya Airways said the aircraft was inspected and no damage was reported.\n\nA bag, water and some food were found in the landing gear compartment on the aircraft when it landed.\n\nThe discovery of the stowaway who started his journey from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi has raised questions about the effectiveness of security checks in place there.\n\nThe airport is already under a state of heightened security largely responding to the threat posed by the militant group al-Shabab, based in neighbouring Somalia.\n\nA similar incident took place in 1997 when the body of a young man was found hanging in the nose-wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Nairobi after it landed at Gatwick Airport.\n\nThe Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) says a team has been assembled to investigate how the stowaway got on board the plane.\n\nThe KAA carries out security drills at the airport - most recently in November 2018.\n\nA spokesman for Kenya Airways said: \"The 6,840km (4,250-mile) flight takes eight hours and 50 minutes. It is unfortunate that a person has lost his life by stowing aboard one of our aircraft and we express our condolences.\n\n\"Kenya Airways is working closely with the relevant authorities in Nairobi and London as they fully investigate this case.\"\n\nIt is not the first death of this kind on the Heathrow flight path.\n\nIn June 2015, one man was found dead on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com's headquarters in Richmond, west London, while another was found in a critical condition after they both clung on to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg.\n\nIn August 2012, a man's body was found in the undercarriage bay of a plane at Heathrow after a flight from Cape Town.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Pakistan this autumn, the first royals to travel to the Islamic republic in more than 13 years.\n\nDetails of the trip will be given in \"due course\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nThe last royals to visit Pakistan were the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in 2006.\n\nPrince William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, travelled to Pakistan several times for charity work during her lifetime.\n\nCharles and Camilla visit the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore in 2006\n\nIn her last visit to the republic in 1997, the Queen sparked controversy when she used an address to parliament in Islamabad to call on Pakistan and India to settle their differences.\n\nThe high commissioner for Pakistan, Mohammad Nafees Zakaria, welcomed Kensington Palace's announcement of an autumn visit, saying: \"The people of Pakistan still cherish and fondly recall the visits of Her Majesty The Queen to Pakistan during 1961 and 1997.\n\n\"The upcoming royal visit is a reflection of the importance the United Kingdom attaches to its relations with Pakistan.\"\n\nHe added the countries \"enjoy historical links which both sides wish to strengthen further\".\n\nThe Queen and the then-President of Pakistan Leghari Farooq in October 1997\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1997\n\nThere have been a number of security incidents in Pakistan in recent months, including a bombing outside a shrine in Lahore that killed nine people and an attack by armed militants on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar, Balochistan.\n\nThe Foreign Office warns on its website \"terrorists are very likely to try and carry out attacks in Pakistan\".\n\n\"There's a high threat of terrorism, kidnap and sectarian violence throughout the country, including the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi,\" it says.\n\n\"Foreigners, in particular westerners, may be directly targeted.\n\nIt advises against all travel to a number of areas in Pakistan, including the city of Peshawar, northern and western Balochistan, the Karakoram Highway between Islamabad and Gilgit, and the federally administered tribal areas.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people of Pakistani origin currently live in the UK and 270,000 British nationals visit the country every year.\n\nEarlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they will tour southern Africa in the autumn.", "Frances Hui speaks at a New York rally in support of Hong Kong protesters\n\nThe protests in Hong Kong have heightened tensions between the territory and China, and generated headlines the world over. They have also deepened unease many thousands of miles away - on US campuses.\n\n\"I am from a city owned by a country that I don't belong to.\"\n\nSo began a column written by a 19-year-old Hong Kong student at a university in Boston. The piece, entitled \"I am from Hong Kong, not China\", in a student paper at Emerson College placed its author Frances Hui at the centre of a storm.\n\nSoon after publication in April, well before the protests in Hong Kong erupted, Hui's social media accounts were on fire. She received overwhelming support, including from Joshua Wong , Hong Kong's most prominent student activist who liked Hui's post.\n\nBut the support was joined by a wave of criticism from mainland Chinese students at Emerson.\n\nOne called Hui \"ignorant and arrogant\". Some commented that she and her parents should be ashamed. Another said Hui grew up enjoying electricity and fresh water supplied by the mainland, \"but now you claim you are Hongkonger, not Chinese?\"\n\nThe most striking comment reads: \"Anyone who offends our China will be executed, no matter how far they are.\"\n\nThe sentence is originally from an ancient Chinese history book dated back more than 2,000 years. After being featured prominently in a popular Chinese nationalist action film in 2017, it's now frequently cited by Chinese netizens where they see China is under attack.\n\n\"I had a panic attack when I saw that comment,\" Hui told the BBC.\n\nShe soon noticed some mainland Chinese students stared at her on campus, and some tagged her social media accounts, commenting that she looked \"small and weak\" in person.\n\n\"I felt I was being monitored,\" says Hui. She says many mainland Chinese take it personally when China is criticised, unlike Hong Kong people who often criticise their own government.\n\nSince the 1997 handover, Hong Kong people's growing distrust in the city's government and Beijing has been reflected in multiple large-scale protests, most recently in June when a massive march against a controversial extradition bill took place.\n\nChina promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy within the \"one country, two systems\" framework, but many now worry the city's political freedom is tumbling due to Beijing's tightened grip.\n\nThe political tensions have permeated interactions between mainlanders and Hong Kong people, even across the Pacific at American campuses.\n\nThree days after Hui's article was published, three mainland Chinese students at Emerson penned a letter of response in the student newspaper, the Berkley Beacon.\n\nIt is globally and legally agreed that Hong Kong is a part of China, they wrote. The three co-authors turned down the BBC's interview request.\n\nXinyan Fu, one of the three Chinese students, wrote in a public Facebook post that they respect Hui's political views and freedom of speech, but think her article is factually flawed.\n\nFu called for her fellow classmates to refrain from personal attacks, but that did not seem to work. Under Fu's post, one commenter wrote: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nHui says she welcomes rational and respectful debate through the student paper. She insists her article did not argue Hong Kong is not part of China. Instead, it is about her \"Hongkonger\" identity. It's personal and should not be amended by others.\n\nThough Hong Kong is legally Chinese territory, Hong Kong citizens have diverse self-identities.\n\nAccording to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Programme of The University of Hong Kong in December 2018, 15.1% of Hong Kong people identified as Chinese, in contrast to 40% as Hongkonger. 43.2% of them said they have mixed identity, Hongkonger in China, or Chinese in Hong Kong.\n\nA protester and Umbrella Movement supporter in Hong Kong on 21 June\n\nIn the 18 to 29 age group, merely 4.1% Hong Kong people identified themselves as Chinese, while 59.2% of them said they are Hongkonger, Hui included.\n\nA mainland classmate agrees with her view, yet this person did not voice support publicly, fearing backlash from other mainland students, Hui says. The Chinese student who threatened to \"execute\" Hui was reported to the school, but Hui is unaware of any disciplinary actions taken by the college.\n\nIn a statement provided to the BBC, Emerson College said it is deeply committed to fostering a respectful exchange of diverse viewpoints and perspectives.\n\nInternational students account for 16% among the college's student body, with most of them coming from mainland China and Taiwan.\n\nIn June, when an estimated one million Hong Kong people took to the streets, most American colleges were on summer break. The quarrel between Hui and her mainland Chinese classmates was put on hold.\n\nHui moved her battlefield off campus. She co-organised and attended demonstrations in the US in support of the Hong Kong protesters.\n\nIn a demonstration in New York, she wore a black T-shirt with \"I am a Hongkonger\" written in English and Chinese. \"Protect Hong Kong!\" She led the crowd to chant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests returned to Hong Kong streets following the suspension of the extradition bill\n\nFor some Hong Kong students in the US, the anti-extradition protests became an opportunity for open discussions with mainlanders.\n\nKenneth Tsui, a Hong Kong student at Maryland University, lives with a roommate from mainland China who after seeing the protests was asking Tsui questions about it. He and his Chinese classmates are used to debates in American classrooms, Tsui says, therefore even if they fail to convince each other, they usually agree to disagree.\n\nDuring the protests, Kaze Wong, a Hong Kong student at Johns Hopkins University, announced his support through emails and social media. He got a plethora of responses from mainlanders, most of whom wanted to learn about the protesters' perspectives, says Wong.\n\nOne of Wong's mainland Chinese friends at Johns Hopkins, Andre Wang, offered to help spread the word.\n\nA protester at an anti-extradition rally in New York\n\n\"To me, Hong Kong represents hope. It shows me an alternative of ethnic Chinese society. Perhaps one day the mainland can be free like Hong Kong,\" says Wang, who retweeted protest photos on Sina Weibo, an equivalent of Twitter in China. The posts were soon deleted.\n\nWang is supportive of the anti-extradition movement, but he says many Chinese students are indifferent because they were taught to go \"numb\" to politics and just accept what it is.\n\nThe unpleasant exchanges experienced by Hui are hardly unexpected, Kaze Wong says. \"The young generations in Hong Kong and mainland China have very different self-identities.\"\n\nBoth Wong and Kenneth Tsui have friendly interactions with their mainland friends. They frequently share meals, plan grocery trips and work in the labs together. Yet both Wong and Tsui identify themselves as \"Hongkonger\".\n\n\"I always introduce myself as a Hongkonger,\" Wong says, \"If someone says I am from China, I'll go the extra mile to explain 'one country, two systems' to them.\"\n\nHui's column speaks the mind of many young Hong Kong people born in the 1990s or after, Wong says.\n\nProtesters hold up their mobile phones outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong on 21 June\n\nAt the year of handover, they were very young or not yet born. After witnessing first-hand and participating in waves of social movements against Beijing, their Hongkonger identity has grown stronger and stronger, says Wong.\n\nIn June, Wong and Tsui attended an anti-extradition demonstration in Washington DC, one of many gatherings taking place overseas in solidarity with the Hong Kong protesters. Afterwards, participants posed for photos in front of the White House. Wong noticed some, probably from mainland China, quietly walked out of the frame.\n\nEven thousands of miles away in the US, protesting against Beijing can be much too risky for the Chinese.", "The success of Scotland's capital city is obvious but does it spread to all the country?\n\nThe city of Edinburgh is no place to judge the success or otherwise of 20 years of devolved government.\n\nIts transformation is obvious. The streets of Scotland's capital teem with energy. The city centre is a forest of cranes as a vast new mixed-use development replaces the unlovely old concrete of the St James Shopping Centre. This is a prosperous, open city of many languages and a booming economy.\n\nSo I went instead to the corner of Scotland where I grew up, to get a sense of what the Scottish Parliament looks like from there.\n\nI spent my high school years at Stranraer Academy, which was then one of the biggest comprehensive schools in the country. Galloway was - and remains - a fine place to raise a family but it felt, 40 years ago, like a long way from anywhere and very distant indeed from any centre of power.\n\nHas the return of political power from Westminster to Edinburgh changed anything here?\n\nAllan returned to his old school to talk to Stranraer Academy pupils\n\nNot if you ask today's Stranraer Academy school kids. \"We feel like lower class citizens\" one of them told me. \"Edinburgh and Glasgow are the higher class in Scotland\".\n\nI asked whether they got the educational opportunities they wanted. \"They used to teach French, German and Spanish here\", one girl said. \"Now we can only study French and even then there are only two French teachers [for a school with nearly 1,000 pupils]\".\n\nI asked for a show of hands among the dozen or so senior-school kids I was sitting with. How many of you expect to have to leave this area when you turn 18? Every hand except two went up instantly.\n\nPlaces like Stranraer can still feel a long way from the seat of power\n\nForty years after I left here, what you might call peripheral Scotland still feels a long way from the centre political power. The birth of the Scottish Parliament doesn't seem to have done much to narrow the perceived gap.\n\nJames Mitchell, professor of politics at Edinburgh University, says: \"The same argument that was always applied for having a Scottish Parliament - that Scotland was distinct and different - equally applies at the local level.\n\n\"The local authorities and communities are diverse with different interests, different priorities.\n\n\"We stand out in comparative European terms as one of the most centralised places in Europe.\"\n\nScotland's first First Minister Donald Dewar and Presiding Officer Sir David Steel arriving for the opening the new Scottish Parliament on 1 July 1999\n\nScotland's inaugural First Minister Donald Dewar said 20 years ago - at the opening of the country's first parliament in nearly 300 years - that \"this is about more than our politics and our laws - this is about who we are, how we carry ourselves\".\n\nDewar died only 15 months after giving what probably remains the best speech ever delivered in the new parliament. But had he lived, he would scarcely recognise today's political landscape.\n\nHis own party, Labour, is a shadow of its old self. It had won every election in Scotland for nearly half a century. Then, 10 years after it created the Scottish Parliament, Labour collapsed. This year, it came fifth - (yes, fifth)- in the European elections with less than 10% of the popular vote in Scotland.\n\nThe party that fought tooth and nail to oppose the very existence of the parliament - the Conservatives - have paradoxically been revived by it. They - under the leadership of Ruth Davidson - are now the second largest party.\n\nBut it's the SNP whose fortunes have been most radically transformed. Labour adopted devolution in the 1970s and 1980s partly in response to the electoral threat the SNP was beginning to pose. Famously, as the Labour Defence Secretary George Robertson put it, a Scottish Parliament was what would \"kill nationalism stone dead\".\n\nIt is the SNP whose fortunes have been most radically transformed by 20 years of devolution\n\nInstead, the SNP, which won power in 2007 and has held it ever since. It also led Scotland to within five percentage points of independence in the referendum of 2014.\n\nForty years ago, as a first year student at Edinburgh University, I voted for the first time. The occasion was the 1979 devolution referendum. Scotland returned a small majority in favour of a devolved assembly, but the number fell short of the high bar set by the Labour government in London, which required at least 40% of all registered voters to vote in favour. Scotland, then, could not muster sufficient enthusiasm to cross that threshold.\n\nThe 18 years of Conservative government after 1979 changed Scottish public opinion profoundly. The more Mrs Thatcher and, later, John Major ruled out a referendum on devolution, the more popular support for it grew. By 1997 there was a rock solid pro-devolution consensus in Scottish society. Scotland voted for it by a majority of three to one.\n\nThe new Scottish Parliament was seen as a way of bringing power home, says Allan Little\n\nScots saw the new parliament not just as a way of bringing power home but also as a way of blocking policies that had majority support in Westminster but which were unpopular in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament, for example, blocked university tuition fees and it dropped prescription charges. The Scottish government declined to lift the threshold for entering the higher rate income tax bracket when Westminster did that for the rest of the UK.\n\nAre we at a similar crossroads now, another 1979?\n\nThere is certainly a new danger for those who want to keep Scotland in the UK, a danger openly acknowledged by both Ruth Davidson and Gordon Brown, both passionately pro-Union Scots: Brexit.\n\nScotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU but will have to leave anyway.\n\nScotland did not vote for Mrs Thatcher but went through the profound changes she pursued nonetheless. The more Mrs Thatcher set her face against devolution the more the Scots demanded it. The Scottish Parliament grew, in part, out of that experience.\n\nSimilarly, Brexit, rejected by Scotland, has the potential to forge a similar shift in public opinion in Scotland. And each time I hear a contender for the leadership of the Conservative Party declare that they will \"not allow\" another referendum on independence, I hear the distant echo of the 1980s, and sense a further strain on the bonds holding this old Union together.\n\nAllan Little's Children of the Devolution is on BBC Scotland on 2 July at 22:00 and on the iPlayer\n• None Scotland and Britain 'cannot be mistaken for each other'", "US President Donald Trump has met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), an area that divides the two Koreas.\n\nMr Trump became the first sitting US president to step foot in North Korea after crossing the demarcation line.\n\nMr Kim said their meeting was a symbol of their \"excellent\" friendship. Mr Trump said it was a \"great day for the world\".\n\nMr Trump invited Mr Kim to meet him at the DMZ on Twitter. Mr Trump said had the North Korean leader not turned up, \"the press was going to make me look very bad.\"\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in joined Mr Kim and Mr Trump at the DMZ. Mr Moon said 80m people on the Korean Peninsula had been given hope on denuclearisation and peace.\n\nThe two leaders were only due to meet for a short time, but ended up speaking for around an hour. In a news conference, Mr Trump confirmed that he had invited Mr Kim to the White House but nothing has been formally arranged.\n\nIn South Korea, people watched the meeting on television screens.\n\nWhite House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were also part of the group visiting the DMZ. Ms Trump described the event as \"surreal\".\n\nAhead of the meeting, Mr Trump and Mr Moon visited a nearby observation post.\n\nMr Trump's business suit was in contrast to his predecessor Barack Obama who wore a bomber jacket and binoculars - and may have been intended to send a different message about the visit.\n\nAfter his talks with Mr Kim, the US president flew by helicopter to address military personnel stationed in South Korea in Osan Air Base, south of Seoul. He told them stepping into North Korea had been \"a historic moment and a very good moment\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nFifteen-year-old American qualifier Cori Gauff caused a stunning upset by defeating five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the first round.\n\nFellow American Williams had won four Grand Slam titles - including two at Wimbledon - before Gauff was born.\n\n\"It's the first time I have ever cried after winning a match,\" said Gauff, who previously said Venus and sister Serena were her \"idols\".\n\n\"I don't know how to explain how I feel.\n\n\"I definitely had to tell myself to stay calm, I had to remind myself that the lines are the same lines, the courts are the same size and after every point I told myself 'stay calm'.\"\n• None Edmund & Watson through to round two\n\nGauff will play Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova - 15 years her senior - in the second round.\n\nWilliams turned professional 10 years before her opponent was born, with Gauff being the youngest player to qualify for the main Wimbledon draw since the Open era began in 1968.\n\nShe previously said the Williams sisters inspired her to first pick up a tennis racquet.\n\n\"Venus told me congratulations and keep going, she said good luck and I told her thanks for everything she did,\" Gauff added.\n\n\"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her - I told her she was so inspiring and I've always wanted to tell her that but I've never had the guts to before.\n\n\"My parents will be super happy, my dad was jumping up every time I won a point. I'm so happy they spent all their time on me and my brothers and making sure we're successful.\n\n\"I never thought this would happen. I'm literally living my dream right now.\n\n\"I'm really happy Wimbledon gave me the chance to play, I never thought I would get this far.\"\n\n'The sky's the limit' - a debut to remember\n\nIn a sharp introduction to the Wimbledon stage, Gauff initially struggled to return Williams' serve but she soon impressed with big serves of her own.\n\nGauff, who won the French Open junior title last year, went a break up on Williams for 3-2 in the first set, proving a solid wall that her veteran opponent simply couldn't break down, hitting only two unforced errors throughout the set.\n\nAfter sealing the set in 35 minutes, she went a break up in the second after Williams double-faulted, only to do the same herself on her own serve as Williams looked to claw back.\n\nShe went on to scupper three match points before Williams created a break point, but she failed to capitalise on the chance as Gauff clinched a memorable win on the fourth time of asking.\n\nIt marks only the second time Williams has been beaten in the first round at Wimbledon since her 1997 debut.\n\nAsked about Gauff's future, Williams said: \"I think the sky's the limit, it really is.\n\n\"She did everything well today. She put the ball in the court, which was much better than I did. She served well, moved well. It was a great match for her.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Boris Johnson's leadership team have promised \"no change\" to how Scottish government funding is calculated if he becomes prime minister.\n\nJeremy Hunt had already pledged to \"maintain\" what's known as the Barnett formula, and had challenged his rival to match his commitment.\n\nAt one point he claimed it amounted to a multi-billion pound \"present\" from English taxpayers to Scotland.\n\nOne Hunt supporter, John Lamont MP, welcomed what he said appeared to be a \"U-turn\" by Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt and Mr Johnson are competing against each other to become the next Conservative leader.\n\nThe Barnett formula is used to share funds across the UK with allocations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland linked to their populations and any changes in spending in areas such as health and education in England.\n\nIt's controversial because levels of public spending per head are higher in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales than they are in England.\n\nMr Johnson, a former London mayor, has been a persistent critic. In 2014, he said the then prime minister, David Cameron, had made a \"slightly reckless promise\" to retain it.\n\nJeremy Hunt had challenged Mr Johnson to match his commitment\n\nHe had previously described the system as being of \"amazing political antiquity\" and producing \"inequitable outcomes\".\n\nThe SNP were among those expecting Boris Johnson to review funding arrangements for the devolved governments if he became prime minister.\n\nMSP Tom Arthur said: \"With the hard right-wing of the Tory party threatening to axe the Barnett formula and slaughter Scotland's public services it's time to take our future into our own hands.\"\n\nBut Boris Johnson's campaign has indicated that the system will stay the same if he replaces Theresa May in Number 10.\n\nA campaign source said: \"There'll be no change to the Barnett formula if Boris wins the leadership of the Conservative and Unionist Party and becomes prime minister.\n\n\"For the SNP to suggest otherwise shows a hitherto unseen level of desperation and underlines just how much they would fear a Conservative and Unionist Party led by Boris.\"\n\nThe Hunt campaign had also questioned Mr Johnson's commitment to existing funding arrangements.\n\nConservative MP John Lamont MP, who is a prominent supporter of Mr Hunt, said: \"I'm pleased that despite what Mr Johnson has said in the past about reviewing the special funding arrangements for Scotland, he has now apparently u-turned on this policy.\n\n\"Jeremy Hunt has always been clear that he supports the continuation of the Barnett formula, no if, buts or U-turns.\"", "In a tiny room on the edge of a nondescript building complex sits an unlikely participant in Hong Kong's protest movement. Behind his laptop computer, Tony (not his real name) monitors scores of groups on private messaging app Telegram and online forums.\n\nOrganisers say volunteers like Tony are running hundreds of Telegram groups that are powering Hong Kong's protest turned civil disobedience campaign. They claim that more than two million people have taken to the streets in recent weeks to express opposition to a controversial extradition law.\n\nHong Kong has experienced a series of mass rallies against the proposed law, which critics fear could spell an end to its judicial independence. Protestors expect a large turnout on 1 July, the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.\n\nMany of the calls to protest are made anonymously, on message boards and in group chats on encrypted messaging apps.\n\nSome groups have up to 70,000 active subscribers, representing about 1% of Hong Kong's entire population. Many provide updates and first-hand reports relating to the protests, while others act as a crowdsourced lookout for police, warning protestors of nearby activity.\n\nThere are also smaller groups made up of lawyers, first aiders and medics. They provide legal advice and get supplies to protesters on the front lines.\n\nDemonstrators say the online co-ordination of protests offers a convenient and instant way to disseminate information. The chat groups also let participants vote - in real time - to decide the next moves.\n\nVotes are held in anonymous Telegram groups. In this one, 61% voted to \"return\" and 39% said \"police station\"\n\n\"They tend to only work when the choices are few or obvious. They do work when the situation lends itself to a black and white vote,\" Tony explains.\n\nOn the evening of 21 June, close to 4,000 protesters voted in a Telegram group to determine whether the crowd would return home in the evening or continue to protest outside Hong Kong's police headquarters. Only 39% voted to take the protests to the police headquarters - but there was still a six-hour siege of the building. Other apps and services have also helped the protesters organise their activity.\n\nIn public areas, posters and banners advertising forthcoming events are spread over Airdrop, which lets people share files with nearby iPhones and iPads.\n\nThis week, a group of anonymous activists raised more than half a million dollars on a crowdfunding website. They plan to place advertisements in international newspapers calling for Hong Kong's extradition bill to be discussed at the G20 summit. The demonstrators say technology has made this a leaderless protest movement.\n\n\"The deeper cause is a result of the distrust towards the authorities,\" said Prof Edmund Cheng, from Hong Kong Baptist University. \"Many protest leaders in the Umbrella Movement have been prosecuted and imprisoned,\" he said, referring to pro-democracy protests in 2014.\n\nIn April this year, nine leaders of those protests were found guilty of inciting others to cause a public nuisance.\n\n\"There are several potential charges you could be facing if you were to participate with an obvious organised movement or protest,\" says Tony.\n\nMany of Hong Kong's protesters go to great lengths to avoid leaving a digital footprint.\n\n\"We are just using cash, we don't even use ATMs during the protest,\" says Johnny, a 25-year old who has been attending demonstrations with his partner.\n\nHe uses an old mobile phone and fresh Sim card each time he attends a protest.\n\nAnother group administrator - who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals - said some people use multiple accounts to hide their online footprint.\n\n\"Some of us have three or four phones, an iPad, desktops and notebooks. One person can control five or six accounts. People won't know they are the same person and also multiple people use one account,\" they told the BBC.\n\nTony believes that decision-making via group votes could protect individuals from charges. He argues chat group administrators have no affiliation to political parties and have no control over what members post in their groups.\n\n\"The government is not going to arrest every single participant in this movement. It is not feasible to do so,\" he says.\n\nBut he recognises that law enforcement may pursue other avenues.\n\n\"They will pick influential targets or opinion leaders and make an example of them so that they could warn off the other participants.\"\n\nOn 12 June, one administrator of a Telegram group was arrested for allegedly conspiring with others to storm Hong Kong's law-making complex and barricade the surrounding roads.\n\n\"They want to let others know that even if you hide on the internet they may still come to arrest you in your home,\" said Bond Ng, a Hong Kong lawyer who represents several arrested protesters.", "Linthorpe Road is a main through route in the town\n\nIn Middlesbrough, a bag of heroin can cost as little as £5. It is not the only town in England to see problems with the drug and homelessness. BBC Tees reporter Adam Clarkson spent an evening on the streets with people who wanted to tell their stories.\n\n\"You want hardcore? I'll show you hardcore.\"\n\nLongshank is 46 years old. That's not his real name but how he wants to be referred to. He's homeless and has promised to \"show me the ropes\". About five years ago, he found himself sleeping rough. He had struggled with alcohol addiction for years, but said it was the death of his wife that saw his life spiral out of control.\n\n\"She was my partner in crime, the best thing that ever happened to me. I was with her 31 years. It broke my heart,\" he said.\n\nHe's drinking a two-litre bottle of cider when we meet. He drinks at least one every day.\n\n\"I get wrecked just to get numb. I can't face the music,\" he adds, \"But life has to go on.\"\n\nHe describes his life as \"horrendous\".\n\nDiscarded needles and syringes are easy to find\n\nTwo days ago, somebody threw a bucket of urine at him.\n\n\"It was in the middle of Linthorpe Road. I was just sat there. They swilled me. You wouldn't believe it. I've never been so humiliated.\"\n\nWe walk to the same spot when a drunk man, who is known to Longshank, becomes aggressive towards me. Things become heated, but calm down as the man bursts into tears. He says he and his partner recently lost a baby, and are facing the prospect of becoming homeless.\n\nEvidence of drug use can be found in many back streets\n\nI am told that arguments and violence \"come with the territory\".\n\nLongshank then shows me \"the bedroom department\" - a sheltered car park behind a restaurant, where many rough sleepers congregate. This is where I meet a 22-year-old who introduces himself as Little Man. Little Man says he has been using heroin since the age of 12.\n\n\"It's upsetting. I didn't have to go down this route. It breaks my heart, I could do more with my life. There's guaranteed to be a drug dealer within 100ft,\" Little Man says.\n\nThe bins where homeless people sometimes sleep\n\nI watch as Little Man, Longshank and a number of others pass around a bag of heroin. The powder is melted, mixed with vinegar and put into a syringe.\n\nOne man injects himself in his groin.\n\nTom Le Ruez, Middlesbrough Council's drug-related deaths co-ordinator, says mixing vinegar is \"not a particularly good idea\".\n\n\"It isn't advised that people inject at all, but injecting in environments like dark alleys increases the risk that people will damage their veins.\"\n\nA bag of heroin costs as little as £5, I am told. Little Man says it's very easy to find. A member of staff comes out of the back door of the restaurant. She tells me Longshank is \"no bother\", but other people are known to start fires and defecate behind their bins.\n\nPeople on the streets try to find shelter where they can\n\nThree men arrive and ask if anybody wants to buy drugs. The atmosphere becomes tense when they realise I'm a journalist. Longshank says we need to leave, so we go back to Linthorpe Road. Longshank tells me he was given a flat by the local authority, but it was taken off him when he chose to sleep rough instead.\n\n\"I had appointments the next morning at the other side of town. I couldn't walk all that way to walk back again; there's no method in the madness.\"\n\nI ask Longshank if he's using that as an excuse. He tells me it's possible he is.\n\n\"I'd miss all of these guys. It's not all doom and gloom, you know? We have a giggle. The streets are addictive, it is an addiction. It's worse than a drug.\"\n\nIn 2018, the North East saw the second biggest rise in rough sleepers, with a 29% increase. Despite this, the wider region has had the lowest number of rough sleepers in the country since the government began collecting data with an \"annual single-night snapshot\" in 2010. But Tracy Guy from Shelter said the true scale of homelessness in the North East is \"largely hidden from view\" as people are \"trapped in temporary accommodation or sofa-surfing with friends and family\".\n\nLittle Mix, The 1975 and Miley Cyrus performed in the town for Radio 1's Big Weekend\n\nAccording to Middlesbrough Council, there are 11 rough sleepers in the town. That number has risen every year since 2016.\n\nThe town has seen drug-related mental health hospital admissions rise from 16 per 100,000 people in 2013-14 to 43 in 2016-17.\n\nDebbie Cochrane, Middlesbrough Council's homeless lead, says help is offered to them every week.\n\n\"If they say no, that's fine,\" she says, \"but it doesn't mean we're going to stop trying because one week they might say 'I don't want to live like this any more' and that's when they would be welcomed with open arms.\n\n\"That's their life and we're not here to judge. It's not up to us to say 'that's wrong'. If that's how they want to live then that's fine, but the opportunity is there to break away - if that's what they want to do.\"\n\nLongshank and I part ways. I go home, and he continues the cycle of begging, buying drugs and using them.\n\n\"Every day, it's the same\" he says. \"It's like space invaders. It's a game.\"", "The star's set included hits like Spinning Around, Shocked, Confide In Me and I Should Be So Lucky\n\nKylie Minogue blinked back tears as she finally got to play Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, 14 years after cancer forced her to cancel a headline slot.\n\n\"In 2005 I was meant to be here,\" she told the crowd. \"Circumstances meant that I did not make it.\"\n\nAs fans chanted her name, she became emotional and had to compose herself before describing how she'd eventually watched the 2005 festival from afar.\n\n\"I wished things were different - but life is what it is,\" she said.\n\n\"We're all here in this moment.\"\n\nThe crowd welcomed her back to Worthy Farm with open arms, singing in unison to hits like I Should Be So Lucky, Especially For You and Kids, and cheering as she shot pride-coloured confetti into the air.\n\n\"Do I even need to sing?\" the singer asked during I Should Be So Lucky, her face lit up in a million-watt smile.\n\nThere were guest appearances from Chris Martin on a flamenco-tinged Can't Get You Out Of My Head and Nick Cave, for the gothic murder ballad Wild Rose.\n\nIn an intense, sexually-charged performance, they locked eyes throughout, slowly moving closer until they ended up in each other's arms, Kylie singing the final lines with her head pressed to his chest.\n\nShe later paid tribute to Glastonbury's spiritual godfather, by mashing up Slow with David Bowie's Fashion.\n\nStars held roses aloft as she duetted with Cave\n\nBut it was the pop classics that really got the crowd moving. Who'd have guessed in 1990 that, 29 years later, Better The Devil You Know would eventually become one of Glastonbury's biggest songs?\n\nNot Kylie - who for a long time shunned the bubblegum pop of her early albums. But in recent years, she's embraced the kitsch pleasures of tracks like Locomotion (mixed here with Donna Summer's Bad Girls) and Je Ne Sais Pas Pourqois.\n\nFestival-goers eagerly came along for the ride, although they seemed to know recent hits like All The Lovers better than 90s classics Shocked and Hand On Your Heart.\n\nThey even cheered her costume changes - four in all, from the white flared trouser suit of her opening number, to the shimmering gold dress and vertiginous heels she wore for the encore.\n\n\"Just so you know, I've never seen so many people in my entire life,\" said the star, pausing to survey the fans who'd congregated at the Pyramid Stage.\n\nYou and the rest of us, Kylie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kardashian West's new range is due to be launched this month\n\nKim Kardashian West is to change the brand name for her latest fashion line following accusations of cultural appropriation.\n\nSome Japanese people on social media complained that the trademarked brand, Kimono Intimates - a play on her name - disrespected traditional clothing.\n\nKardashian West initially defended the name in The New York Times last week, saying she wouldn't change it.\n\nBut on Tuesday, she said she would be announcing a new name in due course.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kimkardashian This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe reality show star-turned-designer posted on Instagram: \"I am always listening, learning and growing... When I announced the name of my shapewear line, I did so with the best intentions in mind.\"\n\nKimonos are sometimes passed down through families\n\nShe added: \"After careful thought and consideration, I will be launching my Solutionwear brand under a new name.\"\n\nThe kimono, a loose long-sleeved Japanese robe, dates back to the 16th Century.\n\nAccording to the Victoria & Albert Museum, \"the kimono became the principal item of dress for all classes and sexes in Japan from the 16th Century and is still a symbol of Japanese culture\".\n\nOne Japanese woman, Yuka Ohishi, told the BBC last week: \"We wear kimonos to celebrate health, growth of children, engagements, marriages, graduations, at funerals. It's celebratory wear and passed on in families through the generations.\n\n\"[This] shapewear doesn't even resemble a kimono - she just chose a word that has Kim in it - there's no respect to what the garment actually means in our culture.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The couple met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013\n\nCountdown star Rachel Riley has married former Strictly Come Dancing professional Pasha Kovalev.\n\nRiley posted a picture on Instagram of the pair with the caption: \"Introducing the new Mr and Mrs Kovalev.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Riley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple married on Friday, according to records from Clark County, the area of Nevada in the US that includes Las Vegas.\n\nRiley also used Instagram in May to reveal she and her now husband are expecting a baby in December.\n\nRiley, who describes herself as \"a proud maths geek\", and Russian dancer Kovalev, have been together since 2014 after they were partnered in the 2013 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nEarlier this year, Kovalev announced he was leaving Strictly after eight years on the show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Rachel and Pasha are having a baby", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor has called on Tory leadership candidates to \"stop and think\" about their spending promises.\n\nBoth Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have announced a raft of policies during the contest, including cutting taxes and increasing spending on public services.\n\nBut Philip Hammond said they needed to \"be honest\" as the policies \"greatly exceed\" the Treasury's coffers.\n\nHe also said available money would be needed to support the UK economy in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg if the candidates were being honest with the electorate, he said: \"I think they need to be very careful about setting out these ambitions and being clear about the consequences of them.\"\n\nThe warning comes after Mr Hunt said he would decide by the end of September whether there was a \"realistic chance\" of reaching a new deal with the EU were he to become PM.\n\nThe foreign secretary said he would deliver a provisional \"no-deal Brexit budget\" in early September, but abandon talks at the end of the month if there was no \"immediate prospect\" of progress - instead moving to a no-deal footing.\n\nHis rival Boris Johnson has vowed to leave \"come what may\" by 31 October.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Mr Johnson said it was important to have a \"hard deadline\" for leaving, adding that previous no-deal preparations had \"sagged back down\" after exit dates were not met.\n\nThe Conservative Party's 160,000 members will begin voting next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nMr Hammond said the Treasury had \"built up fiscal headroom to protect against the cost of a no-deal Brexit\" and that money could be released \"if we have a smooth Brexit with a transition period in an orderly way\".\n\nBut he said the current proposals on the table from Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson would already require increased borrowing beyond the government cap, or spending cuts or tax rises elsewhere - even without a no-deal Brexit-shaped \"hole\" in the public finances.\n\nJeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have been busy spraying around hypothetical cash - whether on defence, on care for the elderly, on schools, for more police, the list goes on.\n\nIt is not politically surprising that they both want to signal they would turn on the spending taps a bit after a long, long period of cuts. But one of their erstwhile colleagues seems to have had enough.\n\nAfter making some carefully crafted warnings in the last couple of weeks, Chancellor Philip Hammond has tried to call a halt, telling the BBC that both of the candidates have to resist the temptation of a bidding war, worrying that the party's reputation is at risk too.\n\nMr Hammond told me the candidates needed to \"stop and think\". And that by his calculation, both of the candidates' plans \"greatly exceeds\" the amount of wriggle room they will inherit from No 11 if they are lucky enough to be the one that moves in next door.\n\nMr Hammond also said the headroom wasn't \"a pot of money sitting in the Treasury\", but a way of borrowing more without breaching government limits.\n\n\"Whether it is a leadership competition or a general election, there is always a temptation to get into a bidding war about spending more and cutting taxes,\" he said.\n\n\"But you can't do both, and if we're not careful, all we end up doing is borrowing more, spending more on interest, instead of on our schools, hospitals and our police, and delivering a bigger burden of debt to our children and grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said the candidates' policies were \"sensible and interesting ideas\", but said the government had \"built up a reputation for fiscal responsibility... and it is very important we don't throw that away\".\n\n\"We have to live within our means and people have to be honest about the consequences of either spending more money or of cutting taxes that will have implications for borrowing or spending elsewhere,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington has also warned the candidates about their spending promises, saying they had to \"raise the money honestly from somewhere\".\n\nThe de-facto deputy prime minister said: \"While in a short term crisis you can ease up on the borrowing, money borrowed has to be repaid by the next generation with interest - so you shouldn't take on extra borrowing lightly, nor should we be wanting to impose more taxes on people already working very hard.\n\nHe said the \"stewardship\" of Mr Hammond meant \"money is available\" to \"cushion the impact\" of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut, he added: \"I don't think any of us should pretend that no-deal would be easy even with the most meticulous and thorough planning.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: Who is the Conservative leadership contender?\n\nMr Hunt has said he wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and would be building a team to create an \"alternative exit deal\" to be published by the end of August.\n\nHe would then engage with other EU leaders, but keep up preparations at home for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the timeline Mr Hunt was setting out was very tight - especially given the notice the government's fiscal watchdog, the OBR, usually needs to prepare for a Budget.\n\nEarlier, one of Mr Johnson's leading backers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times the days of public sector \"pay freezes\" under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nBut during a campaign visit in Kent on Monday, Mr Johnson declined to make a detailed pledge on public sector pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason's guide to the political life of Boris Johnson\n\nA no-deal exit on 31 October remains the default position in UK law after MPs rejected the deal Mrs May had agreed with Brussels three times.\n\nIf that does happen, the UK will automatically begin trading with the EU under the basic World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nUnder these rules, the tariffs - the taxes on imported and exported goods - will be different to what the UK currently trades under.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nTop seed Novak Djokovic started his defence of the Wimbledon men's title by beating Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets as the pair opened up the tournament on Centre Court.\n\nInside the 15,000-seater arena, the 32-year-old Serb was never in serious trouble during a 6-3 7-5 6-3 win.\n\nDjokovic is aiming for a fifth Wimbledon title and a 16th Grand Slam.\n\nThe world number one will play American Denis Kudla, who beat Tunisian Malek Jaziri, in the second round.\n• None Live TV, radio and text from Wimbledon day one\n• None Seeds Zverev and Tsitsipas out on day one\n• None GB's Watson through to the second round\n\nTradition dictates the defending men's champion opens up the play on Centre Court on Monday, with four-time champion Djokovic earning that honour again after beating South Africa's Kevin Anderson on the same court 12 months ago.\n\nAs usual, anticipation crackled in the Centre Court air during the final moments before the players arrived, as those fortunate enough to have tickets for one of the nation's greatest sporting events - and sit in the pleasant SW19 sunshine - waited in excitement.\n\nThe noise ramped up to another level when Djokovic and Kohlschreiber strode out, followed by titters of amazement when the Serb opened with a double fault.\n\nThat led to Djokovic dropping his serve, accompanied by more gasps and murmurs, only for him to immediately break back and take control of the opening set.\n\nWith Goran Ivanisevic, a surprise new addition to Djokovic's coaching team, watching him alongside main coach Marian Vajda, the second set followed a similar pattern.\n\nThe 15-time major champion saw his opening serve taken as he trailed 2-0, instantly breaking back and restoring parity as Kohlschreiber, who beat Djokovic in Indian Wells earlier this year, offered more resistance in a tighter set.\n\nBut the German's level dipped at a crucial moment with some loose shots and allowed Djokovic to break for 6-5 and then serve out for the set.\n\nIn the third, 35-year-old Kohlschreiber again matched an opponent who had beaten him in 10 of their previous 12 encounters, only for Djokovic to find another gear and ruthlessly rattle off the final three games to win in two hours and five minutes.\n\n\"It felt great to be back on Centre Court - it is a sacred court. It has a special place in my heart,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"Opening rounds are obviously always tricky, especially if you get a quality opponent like Kohlschreiber who has a lot of experience.\n\n\"I know he is capable of playing some quality tennis, especially on grass, he takes the ball early, has a good slice, a quick serve.\n\n\"It was a great test for me. All three sets were close so I worked hard.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Pro-democracy activists stormed the building during a day of protests on the anniversary of Hong Kong's transfer of sovereignty to China from Britain.\n\nThe BBC's Nick Beake has been inside to see the damage.", "The S&P 500 index of US stocks has closed at a record high amid signs of progress in US-China trade talks.\n\nThe index closed at 2,964.33, beating 21 June's previous high, with technology stocks driving the rise.\n\nMarket watchers say more optimism around a potential trade deal between the US and China led to the movement.\n\nAnd gold, often seen as a safe asset in times of uncertainty, fell 2% to $1,382 per ounce, the biggest drop since June 2018.\n\nThe Dow Jones closed 0.44% higher at 26,717.43, while the Nasdaq finished 1.1% higher at 8,091.16.\n\nIn Europe, both the UK's FTSE 100 index and Germany's Dax closed 1% higher.\n\n\"We're right back on track,\" US President Donald Trump said after the countries agreed to restart trade talks.\n\n\"Gold tends to do well during times of concern over growth, market volatility or when markets think the powers-that-be are losing control of events,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at stockbroker AJ Bell.\n\n\"A trade deal would deal with all three issues and markets are happy to take the view that a deal is coming. Though it could still be a long time coming, if there is to be one at all.\"\n\nNegotiations between China and the US have dominated market moves for months as positive statements are often followed by extra tariffs, sending stock, currency and commodity markets up and down.\n\nThe latest moves follow a pledge to renew talks between the US and China, an agreement that was reached at the G20 summit in Japan.\n\nUS President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on $300bn of new tariffs on goods and relaxed restrictions on Huawei, while China agreed to make new purchases of US farm equipment.\n\nLast year, the US imposed three rounds of tariffs on more than $250bn worth of Chinese goods. China hit back by imposing tariffs ranging from 5% to 25% on $110bn of US products.\n\nA truce agreed last December collapsed and in May the US raised tariffs on $200bn of Chinese products to 25% from 10%. Again China retaliated with tariff on $60bn of US goods.\n\nThe price of gold is also retreating after gaining 8% in June, with prices exceeding $1,400 per troy ounce.\n\n\"Gold has just had a strong run. Nothing goes up in a straight line,\" said Mr Mould.\n\nWhile it earns no income, like a share or a bond would, gold's indestructible nature and its place in history as a store of value make it attractive to some investors in times of strife.\n\nOther safe-haven assets also declined, including the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. The dollar rose 0.4% against the yen to 108.26, and advanced 0.7% on the franc to 0.9830 francs.", "Christine and the Queens put on a powerful, theatrical show on The Other Stage\n\nThe Cure might have been headlining the Pyramid Stage, but Glastonbury's final day was all about envelope-pushing pop divas.\n\nBillie Eilish, Janelle Monae and Christine And The Queens played across the site, bringing with them messages of liberation, empowerment and acceptance.\n\nMonae, who headlined the West Holts stage, delivered a potent mix of sex and politics, encouraging the crowd to embrace their sexuality by declaring: \"Say it loud, I'm dirty and proud\".\n\nA field away, Christine and the Queens' Heloise Letissier was also preaching tolerance, pronouncing the Other Stage \"a safe space - because if there's no judgment, then anything can happen\".\n\nBoth artists identify as queer or pansexual - and their placement at the top of the bill felt like an affirmation.\n\n\"I have to say it's quite emotional for me to be here,\" said Letissier, \"because I didn't grow up used to winning. It feels like I'm winning something here and it scares me a little bit.\"\n\nShe revealed that as a child, unsure of how to fit in, she escaped into theatre, where she could dream her own universe into existence.\n\n\"So now, if I want to sing for four minutes and I'm a man, then it's true because I believe it.\n\n\"And that's exactly what I'm going to do,\" she said, launching into iT - a song about how she felt it necessary to adopt masculine characteristics to survive in the music industry.\n\nFor all its political content, Janelle Monae's set felt like a celebration\n\nMonae also discussed her inability to fit in as a \"queer black woman growing up in America\".\n\n\"I almost didn't make it here,\" she said. \"But something told me that we have to spread more love [because] the balance is off.\n\nMonae's set was full of colour and joy, the formerly buttoned-up performer shooting water guns into the audience and letting loose with big, goofy dance moves.\n\nDuring the delirious funk work-out QUEEN she even waggled her tongue like a latter-day Gene Simmons.\n\nLetissier's set was more theatrical, but no less sensual, as she tussled with dancers and ripped open her billowing red shirt.\n\nBut it was her vulnerability as she performed The Walker alone, under a single spotlight that really left an impression.\n\nEarlier on the same stage, teenage newcomer Billie Eilish opened up with her hit single Bad Guy - a song that turns the tables on sexual politics - her every word reflected back by hordes of delirious fans.\n\nThe 17-year-old had been bumped up the bill, having originally been booked for the John Peel Stage, before her career took off at the start of the year.\n\n\"Damn, there's a lot of you,\" she declared, but Eilish was supremely comfortable playing to thousands - even lying flat on her back to sing When I Was Older.\n\nShe was watched from the side of the stage by fashion designer Stella McCartney (who dressed the star in a jumpsuit themed around The Beatles' Yellow Submarine) and festival organiser Emily Eavis, who, on the basis of this performance, could be eyeing Eilish up as a future headliner.\n\nThe one person who wasn't satisfied was Eilish herself. \"There've been a lot of technical issues, which is why I look angry,\" she told the audience before she played Bury A Friend. \"I've been angry the whole show. Thank you for not leaving. You could have.\"\n\nThe line-up of strong female performers on Glastonbury's closing day also included Kylie Minogue, Stefflon Don and Miley Cyrus.\n\nCyrus gave a crowd-pleasing set spliced her own hits with a series of well-judged covers, including Dolly Parton's Jolene, Metallica's Nothing Else Matters, and Amy Winehouse's Back To Black - which she performed with Mark Ronson.\n\nShe also brought out her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, and rapper Lil Nas X to play the viral hit Old Town Road - one of the overall highlights of the festival.\n\nKylie set included hits like Spinning Around, Shocked, Confide In Me and I Should Be So Lucky\n\nImmediately before her, Kylie drew the biggest crowd of the entire weekend for a joyous, emotional set of pure pop.\n\nBut none of this is to denigrate The Cure, whose dreamy, transformative indie pop was the perfect antidote to a weekend of hedonism and heatwaves.\n\nThey drew a massive crowd to the Pyramid Stage and played almost every hit you could ask for, from Pictures Of You, In Between Days and Just Like Heaven.\n\nBut they really pulled out the stops on the thrilling seven-song encore.\n\n\"It's difficult to translate what we do,\" frontman Robert Smith told the crowd as he walked out for the final part of the show, then he stopped himself.\n\n\"Hang on… it isn't that difficult. The next half-hour is Glastonbury.\"\n\nThe Cure played for two-hours in a set that laid to rest the memories of their poorly-received headline slot in 1995\n\nFrom there, they rattled through Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Walk, Friday I'm In Love, Close To Me and Why Can't I Be You, before finishing on a euphoric Boys Don't Cry.\n\n\"That was good fun,\" said Smith, looking visibly moved. \"Thank you… And see you again.\"\n\nAnd with that, Glastonbury was over for 2019.\n\nThe festival returns next year, when it will mark its 50th anniversary.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death in south London in the early hours of Saturday\n\nA heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death has been named as Kelly Mary Fauvrelle.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 26-year-old, who was pronounced dead at a house in Croydon, south London, early on Saturday.\n\nHer baby was delivered at the scene by paramedics and is in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nPolice said a 29-year-old was in custody and a 37-year-old had been released under investigation.\n\nBoth men were arrested on Saturday. Scotland Yard said it was keeping an \"open mind as to motive\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman described it as \"a horrific incident\" and said the force's \"sympathies go out to [the woman's] devastated family\".\n\n\"At the forefront of our inquiries is understanding what exactly has led to these tragic circumstances, and we are doing everything we can to establish the facts.\"\n\nA large crime scene is expected to remain in place for some time, police said\n\nMedics fought to save the mother, who is believed to have been about eight months pregnant, after being called at about 03:30 BST.\n\nAn air ambulance, two ambulance crews and two response cars were sent to the scene by London Ambulance Service.\n\nA cordon is in place around the whole of Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, where the attack happened.\n\nChandra Mutucumarana, who has lived in the street since 1976, said he was \"utterly shocked\" and neighbours were \"upset for her but hopeful for the child\".\n\nChandra Mutucumarana said he was shocked\n\nOne neighbour paid tribute to the victim, describing her as a \"nice girl\", while another said she believed three women lived at the house, along with a small dog.\n\nOne resident, who lives two doors down, said she heard the animal barking when she got up at about 03.30 for prayers and added she was \"shocked and surprised\" to hear about the attack.\n\nForensics teams remain at the house, where officers could be seen swabbing an alleyway running alongside the property, while police officers are on guard at the front.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be held.\n\nThe forensic team was seen arriving on Sunday morning\n\nOn Twitter, London mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"Violence against women is endemic in society and devastating murders in the home, like this one, show the scale of the problem we face.\n\n\"My prayers are with this innocent child, and with the mother it has so tragically lost.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland's dreams of reaching their first Women's World Cup final were dashed as Steph Houghton's late penalty was saved in a dramatic semi-final loss to holders the United States.\n\nThe England skipper's 84th-minute spot-kick was held by Alyssa Naeher, shortly before Houghton's fellow centre-back Millie Bright was sent off for a second bookable offence, as the Lionesses exited at the last-four stage for a third major tournament in a row.\n\nWinger Christen Press and striker Alex Morgan scored with headers either side of Ellen White's instinctive equaliser as the USA took a deserved 2-1 lead in a frenetic first half.\n\nA spirited Lionesses side improved after the break and White thought she had equalised with a low strike from Jill Scott's flicked through ball, only to be found to be marginally offside on a video assistant referee (VAR) review.\n\nWhite was then clipped in the area and Phil Neville's side were awarded a penalty after another VAR review.\n\nBut Houghton could not convert from the spot and the wait for a senior England side to reach a first global final since 1966 goes on.\n\nThe USA, who were backed by the majority of the 53,512 crowd in a gripped Stade de Lyon, are through to their third consecutive World Cup final and will now bid for a record fourth title when they face either Sweden or European champions the Netherlands on Sunday.\n\nThose two sides meet on Wednesday, with the losers taking on the Lionesses in Nice in Saturday's third-place play-off.\n\nSo close but yet so far for England\n\nThe Lionesses were the first senior England side to reach the semi-finals of three consecutive major tournaments, after their third-place finish at the 2015 World Cup in Canada and their run to the last four at Euro 2017.\n\nAfter winning the invitational SheBelieves Cup in the USA earlier this year, victories over Scotland, Argentina and Japan saw them top Group D in France, as belief grew that they could win their first major trophy.\n\nConsecutive 3-0 victories over Cameroon and Norway in the knockout stages followed, but Neville's side were unable to play with the same composure on the ball against the confident defending champions.\n\nEngland came under intense pressure in the early stages and may have been slightly relieved to be only 2-1 down at half-time, after the lively Rose Lavelle twice went close for the holders.\n\nEngland had the better of the second 45 minutes and were rewarded with a late chance to level when Becky Sauerbrunn made contact with White's shooting leg when the Manchester City striker was poised to tuck home.\n\nHowever, Houghton's penalty was weak and Naeher saved low to her right - the third spot-kick out of four England have missed in this tournament.\n\nTwo minutes later Bright was dismissed for a second yellow card for a clumsy foul on Morgan.\n\nSome of the devastated England players sank to the ground in despair as the final whistle extended their wait for a first major title.\n\nPre-tournament favourites the USA, who have reached at least the semi-finals of every Women's World Cup, will now contest their fifth final.\n\nAfter narrow 2-1 wins over Spain and hosts France in their past two games, they showed their experience and clever game-management to see out a third consecutive win by the same scoreline.\n\nThey were rampant early on, and led through Press' powerful header, continuing their record of scoring inside the first 12 minutes in all of their games so far in this tournament.\n\nThey had almost netted even earlier, when Lavelle nutmegged Bright in the fourth minute and rounded Demi Stokes, only to see her close-range shot well saved by Carly Telford, who played in goal for England with number one Karen Bardsley out with a knock.\n\nMorgan's sixth goal of this tournament put her level with White again at the top of the standings in the battle for the Golden Boot, after White had turned home Beth Mead's excellent ball from the left to level for England.\n\nHampshire-born coach Jill Ellis' side went through without their star of the previous two matches, winger Megan Rapinoe, who was a surprise late absentee with a hamstring injury.\n\nThroughout this tournament, England head coach Neville - who took charge of the Lionesses in January 2018 - has insisted his side's style is \"non-negotiable\", but he raised eyebrows by tweaking his line-up tactically for Tuesday's semi-final.\n\nRather than playing wide on the right, Lyon winger Nikita Parris was moved to a more central role, playing as a deep striker in something closer to a 4-4-2 formation than the tried-and-trusted 4-2-3-1 that had seen the Lionesses through to the last four.\n\nToni Duggan and Fran Kirby were left out with versatile winger Rachel Daly and Arsenal's Beth Mead coming in to the side to start as wide midfield players. England had a 4-2-4 feel when they were attacking, but Neville's team were frequently overrun in midfield in the first half.\n\nThe introduction of Kirby at number 10 after the break and Parris' switch back out to the wings appeared to propel England back in to the game, as they rallied and saw more of the ball in the USA's half.\n\nUltimately, they remain without a win over the USA in the World Cup, having lost 3-0 in 2007's quarter-finals and being beaten in 10 of their 16 contests overall.\n\nBut the Lionesses have won over millions of new supporters at home, with record television audiences watching their run to the latter stages.\n\nAnd their next major tournament will be on home soil, with 2021's European Championship to be played in England.\n\n'I've moved on from this already' - reaction\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"We'll have to allow 24 to 48 hours for this to sink in and for them to get over this disappointment. Nothing I can say will make them feel better.\n\n\"Elite sport and being on top of the world means that on Saturday in Nice [in the third-place play-off] we have to produce a performance. It will tell me a lot about my players.\n\n\"I've moved on from this already and now I'm looking forward to Saturday's game. I'll see the attitude, commitment of my players. They won't let me down, because they never have.\"\n\nEngland captain Steph Houghton: \"It's hard to put into words. We took one of the best teams in the world all the way. I'm so proud but I'm disappointed with the penalty and the goals we conceded.\n\n\"Ultimately we know that we can beat them and our aim was to win and we didn't do that. I got told today [that I'd be taking any penalty] and I've been practising them a lot and I was confident.\n\n\"I just didn't get a good connection. I'm gutted. I've let the team down. I'm gutted and heartbroken. We were so close but I'm proud of everyone because we gave it everything.\"\n\nUSA boss Jill Ellis: \"I can't even express how proud I am. It was such a great effort from everybody. Everyone stepped up, and that's what this team's about.\n\n\"That was her [Alyssa Naeher's] shining moment. We have one more game. I couldn't be prouder of this group. We have four days this time in between, so that will help.\n\n\"I told them [in a post-match huddle]: 'Stay humble. We've got one more.'\"\n\nEngland off the spot - the stats\n• None USA become the first side to reach three consecutive World Cup finals - they played Japan in 2011 and 2015.\n• None USA set a new World Cup record of 11 successive wins with victory, beating Norway's previous mark of 10 in a row (1995-99).\n• None Steph Houghton is only the second player to miss a penalty in a World Cup semi-final. Both misses have been against USA, also Germany's Celia Sasic in 2015.\n• None England's Millie Bright became the fourth player to be sent off at the World Cup.\n• None Christen Press' opening goal ended England's national record run of 381 minutes without conceding at the tournament.\n• None USA have never lost a World Cup game they have scored first in, winning 36 and drawing four.\n• None Ellen White is only the third player in World Cup history to score in three consecutive knockout games, after Carli Lloyd (2015) and Abby Wambach (2011).\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.\n• None Carli Lloyd (USA) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Nikita Parris (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Second yellow card to Millie Bright (England) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Francesca Kirby (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty saved! Stephanie Houghton (England) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Becky Sauerbrunn (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crowds of people take part in New York Pride march\n\nHundreds of thousands of revellers have thronged the streets of New York for WorldPride, one of the largest LGBT celebrations in the world.\n\nAround 150,000 people took part in the march, 50 years on from the Stonewall riots, with many more watching.\n\nThe riots, after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, helped to energise the fight for gay equality. This year's march started outside the inn.\n\nIt was billed as the biggest Pride march in history.\n\nLGBT groups held similar marches in other countries to mark the occasion, illustrating the global shift in attitudes towards gay rights.\n\nWorldPride brings together lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from all over the world to participate in a parade, rally and human rights conference. The event was last held in Lisbon in Portugal in 2017.\n\nThe New York march is the first WorldPride march to be held in the US.\n\nThis year's main parade - around 2.5 miles (4km) long - passed many LGBT landmarks, including the Stonewall National Monument and the New York City Aids memorial.\n\nUp to 150,000 people are expected to take part in the march itself\n\nNew York Mayor Bill DeBlasio was spotted attending the event\n\nNew York Mayor Bill DeBlasio joined the march outside the Stonewall Inn.\n\nA smaller Queer Liberation March and Rally was also held. The organiser, the Reclaim Pride Coalition, says that pride events, including the one in New York, have become too commercialised.\n\nIn a statement, the group said the alternative march was returning \"this event to the people, celebrating our victories and recommitting to fight our current battles\".\n\nThe New York Pride event was due to conclude with the WorldPride closing ceremony featuring performances from musical \"The Prom.\"\n\nSan Francisco, Chicago and Seattle were also hosting their own events.\n\nThis has been a weekend like no other. New York has always been a major destination for LGBT pride festivals - but this weekend's events have been its biggest yet.\n\nThere is a message of inclusion and equality that can be felt across the city, despite the presence of the two duelling pride parades.\n\nThe LGBT community has experienced so much positive change within the past 50 years and today activists are wondering what the next 50 years could bring. However, it is worth remembering that a weekend like this would still not be welcome in several cities in the United States and in many countries across the world.\n\nAmid a sea of rainbow flags - the symbol of the LGBT movement - joyous scenes abounded in New York, with characters as colourful as the costumes.\n\nBut some of those taking part were in a more reflective mood, showing gratitude to those in the LGBT movement whose activism made parades such as this possible.\n\n\"It's hard for us today, but can you even imagine what some of these people went through in the past?,\" Josh Greenblatt, a 25-year-old actor who took part in the march, said.\n\n\"There's no way to thank them other than to express ourselves fully, truly and wholeheartedly, and to lift each other up while we do it.\"\n\nLGBT supporters dance and sing in the street on June 30, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nAn LGBT rally in the Turkish capital, however, ended with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds.\n\nThe Istanbul event had been banned by Turkish authorities for the fifth year running, but several hundred demonstrators showed up anyway.\n\nElsewhere, North Macedonia held its first gay pride march on Saturday, while in Singapore, marchers called for scrapping a law banning gay sex.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Towie's Bobby Norris: People wish cancer on me because I'm gay\n\nMPs have called for \"urgent action\" from the government to fight the rise in online homophobia.\n\nThe Commons debate followed a petition calling for a new law - organised by reality TV star Bobby Norris.\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex cast member said he had been spurred into action by unacceptable abuse directed at him on social media.\n\nThe Home Office has said a range of offences already exist to prosecute hate crimes.\n\nBut it added that it had asked the Law Commission - an independent body that reviews the law in England and Wales - to review whether current hate crime legislation was effective in tackling online and offline abuse.\n\nSpeaking during the debate, Labour's Angela Eagle - who spoke passionately about her own sexuality in Parliament last week - said ministers needed to take steps to tackle the \"growing threat\" and \"increase in violence\" against LGBT people both online and in the real world.\n\nShe said: \"In London, a couple of weeks ago, two gay women were beaten and robbed by five teenagers for refusing to kiss each other on demand.\n\n\"In Southampton, two women kissing in the street were injured by an object thrown at them from a passing car.\n\n\"In Liverpool, two men were stabbed and seriously hurt in a homophobic knife attack and one of those held for the attack was 12 years old.\n\n\"In my view, the government have not reacted firmly enough to prevent this happening. I think our values of respect for diversity in society are now being tested and we must not be found wanting in our defence of them.\"\n\nThe Labour Party's Daniel Zeichner MP, who began the debate, said that laws governing the matter were \"fragmented\" and that politicians had failed to \"get to grips\" with regulation of the social media companies involved.\n\n\"The promotion of this kind of content contributes to an environment where problematic language and ideas are completely normalised, meaning there's a degree of desensitisation,\" he added.\n\n\"We must row back from this and take online homophobia for what its is: hate speech that must not be accepted.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Norris said the comments he had received had included, \"I hope you get cancer\" and \"go hang yourself\".\n\n\"I don't think you can ever fully prepare yourself,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I hear from some people who don't want to leave their houses because it's got so bad. I've heard of people hurting themselves, unfortunately some people even taking their own lives, it gets that severe.\"\n\nHe added that he thought creating a new law would send out a signal that online abuse linked to a victim's sexual orientation was unacceptable.\n\n\"People feel that little bit more brave when they're sat behind a computer screen or sat on their phone sending messages to people.\n\n\"Some people have specific trolling accounts - sometimes they don't even put a photo on.\n\n\"If we look at how easy it is to set up a social media account, I think people just need to be a little bit more accountable and a little bit more aware of what they are sending.\"\n\nMore than 152,000 people signed Mr Norris's e-petition. That surpassed the 100,000 figure required to have such an appeal considered for debate.\n\nJohn Howell, a Conservative MP, also took part. He described such abuse as being \"utterly cowardly\", since the perpetrators often hid their own identities.\n\nBut he added that it needed to be seen in the context of wider hate crimes, and that MPs should take account of the Law Commission's report due in 2020.\n\n\"The more that we can do to try to keep a check on online [abuse]... and that we take action against it, the healthier we will be,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a very important subject, not just for gay people but for all of us to show our common humanity in this area... and the protection of human rights.\"\n\nLabour's Luke Pollard MP, who is gay, added that more needed to be done to hold the social media companies responsible too.\n\n\"We need to recognise that online hate drives traffic,\" he said.\n\n\"Traffic is the basis of advertising. And advertising is the basis of the economic model for social media companies.\n\n\"So, hate drives profit and we need not to be blind to that.\n\n\"When reporting has been made [the tech firms] need to take that seriously because all too frequently when people report online abuse, it's not actioned by those people at the other end.\"\n\nThe SNP's Martin Docherty-Hughes, who is also a gay MP, added that no political party - including his own - could \"claim a clear conscience on the history of homophobia\".\n\nHe highlighted that the matter was a devolved issue, but that Holyrood was looking at whether it needed to reform its own laws.\n\n\"Crimes against LGBT people in Scotland have risen,\" he remarked.\n\n\"There is no place for complacency and the Scottish government's consultation on hate crime is looking to ensure the legislation is fit for the 21st Century.\"\n\nAccording to a 2017 study commissioned by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity Stonewall, one in 10 LGBT people had experienced homophobic, biphobic or transphobic abuse against them personally via the internet in the month prior to being questioned.", "Protesters have been removed from Hong Kong's parliament after an hours-long siege.\n\nPolice fired tear gas into the remaining crowd outside the building as they advanced. Most of the demonstrators had left the building by then, though a few still remained in the central chamber.\n\nHong Kong was marking the 22nd anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule. But as officials raised their glasses in celebration, protesters were rallying on the city's streets.", "Mr Hamm said he sometimes had to kill the prey himself in cases where the animals were badly wounded\n\nA cat flap that automatically bars entry to a pet if it tries to enter with prey in its jaws has been built as a DIY project by an Amazon employee.\n\nBen Hamm used machine-learning software to train a system to recognise when his cat Metric was approaching with a rodent or bird in its mouth.\n\nWhen it detected such an attack, he said, a computer attached to the flap's lock triggered a 15-minute shut-out.\n\nMr Hamm unveiled his invention at an event in Seattle last month.\n\nThe presentation was subsequently brought to light by tech news site The Verge.\n\nMr Hamm used two of Amazon's own tools to achieve his goal:\n\nHe explained that the most time-consuming part of the task had been the need to supply more than 23,000 photos.\n\nEach had to be hand-sorted to determine whether the cat was in view, whether it was coming or going and if it was carrying prey.\n\nMr Hamm had to create a database of thousands of images to train the software\n\nThe process took advantage of a technique called supervised learning, in which a computer is trained to recognise patterns in images or other supplied data via labels given to the examples. The idea is that once the system has enough examples to work off, it can apply the same labels itself to new cases.\n\nOne of the limitations of the technique is that hundreds of thousands or even millions of examples are sometimes needed to make such systems trustworthy.\n\nMr Hamm acknowledged that in this case the results were not 100% accurate.\n\nOver a five-week period, he recalled, Metric was unfairly locked out once. In addition, the cat was also able to gain entry once out of the seven times it had caught a victim.\n\nBut when a software engineer suggested that it might have been easier to teach his cat to change its behaviour rather than train a computer model, Mr Hamm defended his work.\n\n\"Negative reinforcement doesn't work for cats, and I'd challenge you to come up with a way to use rewards to prevent a behaviour that an animal exhibits once every 10 days at 3am!\" he tweeted in response.\n\nThis is far from the only time that machine learning tech has been used to try to help cat owners.\n\nAnother Amazon worker recently revealed he had used a similar set-up to try to prevent his cat from sitting on his living room table.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, developers at Microsoft previously shared details of a smart cat flap they had built that used facial recognition tech to recognise the owner's pet, but block access to other animals.\n\nOne expert told the BBC that the rapid roll-out of cloud-based artificial intelligence tools by the tech giants meant such experiments could now be carried out by increasing numbers of people.\n\n\"Amazon, Google and Microsoft have made it much easier to use AI by providing services like Sagemaker, that need little or no coding skill to use,\" said Martin Garner, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"But truly 'democratising AI', so that anyone can use it, is as risky as democratising dentistry - what the world really needs is more properly trained AI engineers.\"\n\nIn particular, there has been concern that image recognition tech is being deployed for use with humans before law-makers have had a chance to properly consider the implications.\n\nAmazon recently faced criticism that it was allowing US police forces to use Rekognition - another of its machine-learning tools - to identify suspects despite concerns that officers did not always follow its best practice guidelines.\n\nAnd the UK's surveillance camera commissioner recently warned that facial recognition could be used to create a \"dystopian society\" in which citizens are regularly tracked whenever they leave their homes.", "Simon Byrne is fifth PSNI chief in the 18 years since Northern Ireland policing was reformed\n\nSimon Byrne has officially taken over as the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on a five-year contract.\n\nThe 56-year-old was appointed after interviews were held five weeks ago.\n\nAt about 13:00 BST on Monday, he succeeded Sir George Hamilton and became the PSNI's fifth chief constable at a Policing Board event in Belfast.\n\nIt involved a short swearing-in ceremony in front of a justice of the peace.\n\n\"I said in my application that this was a unique service with unique challenges and I recognise that,\" said Mr Byrne.\n\n\"I am proud to be sat here with a list of things to do in front of me but, in terms of what's next, it would be remiss of me to be sat here in the shadow of the Belfast Giants and not use an ice hockey analogy.\n\n\"It's not where the puck is now, it's about where it's going next.\n\n\"My immediate plans are to get out and about across the service and communities of Northern Ireland to see for myself what's happening, how the organisation ticks and what's important to the communities that I'm going to police, before sitting down with the team to formulate more formal plans later across the summer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Byrne is arriving at a crucial time for the PSNI on several fronts.\n\nOne of his first calls will be whether to contest a court defeat over back pay involving 3,700 staff, which could cost the organisation £40m.\n\nThis month the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that officers and civilian staff were owed money for a shortfall in pay going back 20 years.\n\nThe PSNI post marks a resumption of Mr Byrne's career, which stretches back more than 35 years.\n\nSir George Hamilton's tenure as chief constable has ended after five years in the role\n\nHis last contract, as chief constable of Cheshire Police, ended in June 2018 while he was fighting a disciplinary case involving complaints of bullying staff.\n\nHe was exonerated and a review found the investigation was \"flawed\" and based on \"flimsy\" allegations.\n\nMr Byrne had the most experience of the four applicants for the £207,000-a-year job, having held high ranks in the Metropolitan, Merseyside and Manchester police forces.\n\nIt is understood temporary accommodation arrangements have been made for him.\n\nIt is not a contractual requirement that the chief constable assumes full-time residency in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, Mr Byrne tweeted on Monday morning that he looked forward to living \"full time in Northern Ireland as an active member of the community\".", "The government is pumping nearly £40m into improving the infrastructure for electric vehicles despite a sharp drop in hybrid car sales.\n\nThe Department for Transport will invest in UK engineering to \"transform\" the network of electric charge points.\n\nWireless charging and \"pop-up\" pavement technology are among the investments being made.\n\nSales of plug-in hybrid vehicles slumped by 50.4% in June after the government scrapped a £2,500 grant.\n\nBut the DfT said it was \"focusing on the cleanest, zero emission models\".\n\nNew UK car registrations for battery electric cars rose by 61.7% to 2,461 in June compared with the same month last year, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nHowever, the drop in demand for plug-in hybrid cars, which fell from sales of 4,571 vehicles last June to 2,268 vehicles last month, meant that overall the alternatively fuelled vehicle sector shrank for the first time since April 2017.\n\nA DfT spokeswoman said: \"The plug-in car grant has supported the purchase of 180,000 new cars with over £700m, including 100,000 plug-in hybrids.\"\n\nAs well as scrapping the grant for plug-in hybrid models last year, the government also reduced the subsidy for pure electric cars from £4,500 to £3,500.\n\nIt also announced last year that it would end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nNevertheless, the government is now investing £37m in a number of projects to make it easier for electric car owners to charge up their vehicles.\n\nThe government's new investment marks the first anniversary of the launch of the government's Road to Zero strategy, which wants \"almost every car and van\" in the UK to be zero emission by 2050.\n\nIt has handed £2.3m to a company called Char.gy, which is developing ways to deploy wireless charging technology on residential streets which would remove the need for trailing cables and additional infrastructure.\n\nUrban Foresight has been awarded £3m to roll out \"pop-up\" chargers which are built into the pavement, which are designed to help drivers without access to off-street parking.\n\nWireless charging for electric vehicles - which means getting rid of cables - could be arriving on a small number of UK streets relatively soon, according to Char.gy, one of the firms that has received development funding from the government.\n\n\"We are mimicking a cable being plugged in\", says Richard Stobart, chief executive of Char.gy, the company behind the project which has been awarded £2.3m by the DfT.\n\nIt works by installing a pad on the underside of an electric car.\n\nOnce that aligns with another pad hidden underneath the road surface, electricity is passed to the car via a process known as induction.\n\nFor now, virtually any fully electric car would have to be modified and fitted with a pad, costing around £1,000.\n\nThat's where the government cash comes in.\n\nUnder the pilot, some people will get the induction pads for free.\n\nOther residents in parts of Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and the London borough of Redbridge, where the scheme is being trialled, will be able to share the use of several car-club cars which will be fitted-out with induction pads.\n\nThis wireless charging project should start running in 2020.\n\nAt present, the UK has a network of more than 24,000 public charging connectors in nearly 9,000 locations, according to figures from the Department for Transport.\n\nJaguar Land Rover recently announced that it would invest millions of pounds in the UK to build a range of electric cars at its Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham.\n\nHowever, its chief executive Professor Ralph Speth criticised the number of charging points for electric cars in the UK.\n\n\"The current charging infrastructure is not really sufficient to cover the country, nor the hotspots of the cities. The government has to govern the process,\" he told the BBC.", "Jack Sargeant (middle) and Bernadette Sargeant at the inquest in November\n\nA former minister who was found dead after being sacked was not apologising over allegations about his behaviour towards women in his farewell note, his wife has told an inquest.\n\nCarl Sargeant, 49, was found hanged at home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, by his wife Bernadette on 7 November 2017.\n\nShe told the inquest in Ruthin he was apologising for taking his own life.\n\nMr Sargeant was sacked as communities and children minister over claims of inappropriate behaviour towards women.\n\nThe inquest has resumed after being adjourned in November following a legal challenge.\n\nMrs Sargeant told coroner John Gittins the farewell note in which her husband apologised for his actions was referring to his death.\n\nWhen asked whether there was \"another interpretation\" and perhaps he was apologising for wrongdoing, she said it was not the case.\n\nShe said: \"I said 'look Carl, have you done this?' And he said no. I still believe he hasn't done anything.\"\n\nThe court heard Mrs Sargeant woke up at about 10:30 on 7 November and found a note on the door to the utility room, where Mr Sargeant's body was found, saying not to go in but to call the police.\n\nBernadette Sargeant said her husband was \"driven,\" but had a unique ability as a politician to \"connect with anybody\"\n\nHer daughter Lucy tried to perform CPR on her father, but he could not be saved.\n\n\"I can't really describe how I felt... I don't think anybody expects to find somebody... I can't put into words.\" Mrs Sargeant said.\n\nShe told the hearing she had not seen anything like this coming, but: \"I just know the impact of the last few days.\"\n\nHer interpretation of his note was \"Carl was a dad first and a husband. We were his main focus, his family. He never wanted the press to be involved with us as a family.\"\n\nUnder questioning from Cathryn McGahey QC, representing Carwyn Jones, Mrs Sargeant said the former first minister and her husband were colleagues but \"not really friends\" as with other politicians.\n\nShe said he had helped Mr Jones in his bid to become first minister but had felt that it was less easy than previously to speak to him and there were times when he felt he was being \"blocked\" by members of Mr Jones' team.\n\nMs McGahey asked: \"You'd never heard about any incident in which he'd been silly towards other women?\" Mrs Sargeant said she had not.\n\nReferring to the note left, Ms McGahey said: \"The adverse publicity 'because of my acts' [which Mr Sargeant had written in the note] isn't talking about the family losing someone, is it?\"\n\nMrs Sargeant replied that \"to me it was,\" adding she thought he was referring to his death.\n\nMs McGahey made further references to extracts from the note including \"I've let you all down badly\" and \"leaving you with my shit\", adding: \"That's leaving you with what [Mr Sargeant has] done, isn't it?\"\n\nMrs Sargeant repeated she thought her husband was referring to his actions on 7 November.\n\nShe was also asked about an unspecified \"life event\" which had occurred a number of years ago and had affected Mr Sargeant's mental health.\n\nMrs Sargeant agreed that the family had needed to get help from professionals, but added: \"Eventually. Not at the beginning.\"\n\nMs McGahey said this showed the family knew where to access help if they needed it.\n\nMrs Sargeant said it was not easy to find help, particularly for a well-known person, and her husband was not up to it after the sacking because he was \"shell-shocked\" and \"wasn't able to function properly\".\n\nEarlier, Mrs Sargeant told the coroner her husband was called to Cardiff for the reshuffle on 3 November.\n\nAfterwards, he rang her, saying he had been removed from government and suspended from the Labour Party.\n\nMr Sargeant said: \"I've been binned\" and his wife replied: \"That's all right love.\"\n\nHe also mentioned there had been allegations, but strongly denied any wrong-doing, \"both to the first minister and to me, and the children\".\n\nMrs Sargeant said her husband had been \"quiet\" during the phone call. \"Carl's not a quiet person. You could feel, this has come as a total shock to him.\"\n\n\"He had no information. He was desperate for information.\"\n\nAt the time of the allegations the #MeToo campaign about sexual harassment of women was prevalent, and Mr Sargeant felt \"out of his depth\", she said.\n\nMr Sargeant sought legal advice and his wife described him as being \"shell-shocked\" and there was \"no clear definition\" of what he was alleged to have done.\n\nShe said he had no support, adding: \"I think he would have liked to have been offered it.\"\n\nThe inquest is being heard by coroner John Gittins\n\nMrs Sargeant said she and their children Jack and Lucy decided \"it was the right thing to do\" to travel down to his flat in Cardiff, and described Mr Sargeant as appearing \"vastly different\" from that morning.\n\nHe tried on \"numerous occasions\" to contact the Labour Party without success and she said not knowing what the allegations were \"devastated him\".\n\nWhen the couple returned to Connah's Quay on 6 November, Mr Sargeant received a text saying the first minister's wording had changed from \"allegations\" to \"incidents\".\n\nShe said her husband went a \"strange colour\" and shook his head.\n\nA BBC journalist called at the house that evening, which Mrs Sargeant said upset her husband.\n\nHe told her: \"That's my job but this is our home.\"\n\nThe inquest also heard that in 2013, Mrs Sargeant received a letter making allegations about her husband's behaviour around women.\n\n\"I showed it to Carl... we talked about it. I didn't believe it... that was it really,\" she said.\n\nThe coroner asked whether former First Minister Carwyn Jones was aware of some of Mr Sargeant's \"vulnerabilities\" as he had mental health problems, to which she replied yes.\n\nMr Gittins said he had the impression an unspecified \"life event\" acted as a catalyst to make matters worse.\n\n\"There was also a lot of pressure from Carl's job. He was a minister at this point. It took a lot for Carl to actually go to the doctors,\" his wife said.\n\nEventually he started taking anti-depressants and there was an improvement, she said, but his health started to decline between 2012 and 2014, with the main deterioration in the week before he died.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned until Wednesday.\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.", "Dominic Grieve's attempt to block the suspension of Parliament in the autumn will not be put to a vote on Tuesday.\n\nThe pro-Remain Tory MP had been seeking to amend the Northern Ireland Bill to stop a new PM forcing through a no-deal Brexit by proroguing Parliament.\n\nThe former attorney general had said such a move would be \"an end to democracy\".\n\nHowever, as one of his amendments was not selected MPs will not get to vote on it.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's deal. Currently, the date for exit is 31 October.\n\nIf that date is reached without a deal being agreed on the separation process, then the UK will leave without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nMr Grieve had tabled an amendment requiring the government to produce regular reports on the situation in Northern Ireland in the autumn.\n\nAlthough this would probably not block the closure of Parliament, it could provide a tool for MPs to block a no-deal Brexit come October.\n\nThe reports on Northern Ireland would have to be debated in Parliament if it was in session, and although the debates themselves might be insignificant, they could provide opportunity for MPs to take control of business.\n\nThis amendment was selected for debate, but a further amendment stating that MPs should be recalled to debate such reports if Parliament is closed was not.\n\nTherefore, the effort to block a no-deal Brexit carries less force.\n\nAn amendment on gay marriage, tabled by Labour's Conor McGinn was approved 383 votes to 73.\n\nThe amendment states that if the devolved assembly in Stormont is not restored by 21 October, then the UK government should legislate for same-sex marriage - with the caveat that a future assembly could overturn or amend the law.\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy's amendment - arguing that abortion law in Northern Ireland should be reformed to comply with human rights obligations - has also been approved 332 votes to 99.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Mr Grieve said: \"The idea that it is constitutionally proper to prorogue Parliament as a device for bringing about a no-deal Brexit is outrageous - I have never come across a more extraordinary suggestion.\"\n\nUnlike his rival Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson - the frontrunner in the Conservative leadership race - has not ruled out suspending Parliament.\n\nHe has said he could not \"envisage the circumstances\" in which he would do so. He has vowed to leave the EU on 31 October \"come what may\".\n\nLord Hague, a supporter of Jeremy Hunt, has opposed proroguing Parliament, arguing: \"It ought to be unthinkable that we could leave the EU by procedure, a procedural ruse.\"\n\nConservative Maria Caulfield attacked Dominic Grieve's tabling of the amendment as \"shameful behaviour\", and accused him of treating the people of Northern Ireland as a \"political football\".\n• None Why there's more to the Northern Ireland bill", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nIf Britain's Johanna Konta finds herself in a third set in Tuesday's Wimbledon quarter-final, she can draw confidence from the fact that on recent form she is likely to pull through.\n\nThe British number one came from behind to beat two-time champion Petra Kvitova to win her 13th of 15 three-setters in 2019 and faces Barbora Strycova next.\n\n\"That's something I can be really proud of,\" the 28-year-old said.\n\n\"It comes with match fitness, as well, with playing a lot of them.\"\n\nKonta will face Strycova on Centre Court after 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams takes on fellow American Alison Riske at 13:00 BST.\n\nThe Briton is one win away from emulating her 2017 feat of reaching the last four and two away from becoming the first British women's singles finalist since Virginia Wade won the title in 1977.\n\n\"The experience that I had in 2017 was a magnificent one. It was something that is incredibly special to me,\" Konta said.\n\n\"Equally how I'm doing so far, I'm just really pleased with the level I'm playing, how I'm competing, how I'm really just trying to find a way in each match that I play.\"\n\nShe has faced Czech world number 54 Strycova just once before, losing in straight sets on a hard court in Tokyo in 2017.\n\n\"She's a very crafty player,\" Konta said. \"She knows how to mix up the game. She knows how to play on this surface.\n\n\"To know... that I have the capability to stay there as long as I need to for however long, even if losing the first set, I know I have every opportunity to get back into the match.\"\n\nI admire Konta's fighting qualities. Everything about her game is very meticulously planned out. To me she is a better player now than when she got to the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nShe is mixing up her serve nicely. The team has looked back on her career and realised that variety is the spice of life and that could help her in the end.\n\nI'm not going to say she's the favourite to win this but she's got a shot at it, for sure.\n\nWilliams faces debutant - and has a Murray debate to settle\n\nIf Konta can beat Strycova, she would face the winner of the match between Williams and Riske, who beat world number one Ashleigh Barty to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final.\n\nWilliams will play two matches in one day on Centre Court, playing her singles quarter-final before returning to action after Konta's match to continue her high-profile mixed doubles partnership with Britain's Andy Murray.\n\nThey face American Raquel Atawo and Frenchman Fabrice Martin in the second round as former world number one Murray continues his comeback following hip surgery.\n\nThey gelled well in their first crowd-pleasing display on Saturday, but they still need to sort out one issue - their nickname.\n\n\"He did tweet Ser-Andy. I was like, 'I like Murena. My vote is still for Murena',\" Williams smiled.\n\nSeventh seed Simona Halep is the highest ranked player left in the women's singles after defeats on Monday for Barty and third seed Karolina Pliskova.\n\nShe faces China's Zhang Shuai, who is ranked 50th in the world but who has posed the Romanian problems in the past, including a stunning upset in the 2016 Australian Open first round.\n\n\"Things are different now,\" Halep said. \"I don't want to think about the past that much. I'm different and I'm feeling different on court. This is what matters.\"\n\nIn the other quarter-final, Ukrainian eighth seed Elina Svitolina takes on Czech world number 68 Karolina Muchova.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Environmental work could include reducing the risk of flooding by restoring floodplain woodlands\n\nFarmers in Wales would be offered money to carry out work which protects and enhances the environment, under new post-Brexit farming proposals.\n\nMinisters had proposed two grant schemes to replace EU funding, but the latest proposal rolls them into one.\n\nWelsh farmers receive subsidies worth about £300m a year from the EU, making up 80% of their income on average.\n\nHowever, it is not known how much money will be available to support agriculture after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe Welsh Government is asking people's views on its new plans after an earlier consultation attracted a record-breaking number of responses.\n\nThe Sustainable Farming Scheme will pay for work to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create habitats for wildlife and improve water quality.\n\nFarms will be visited by an adviser who will draw up a contract based on the environmental benefits they agree the farmer is, or could be delivering.\n\nThey will be rewarded for new environmental work - like planting new woodlands - but also for maintaining and enhancing what is already there.\n\nFarmers will also be able to access a range of business support, such as help with skills development or loans for new equipment.\n\nEnvironment and rural affairs minister Lesley Griffiths says the scheme will help pay farmers while protecting the environment\n\nThe scheme will help address challenges in sustainable food production, responding to climate change and increasing biodiversity, according to minister for the environment and rural affairs Lesley Griffiths.\n\n\"We believe future farm support should reflect this and reward farmers who take action to meet these challenges,\" she explained.\n\nMs Griffiths had initially hoped the new funding scheme would be phased in from 2021.\n\nThat aim has been dropped due to ongoing uncertainty around Brexit - which Ms Griffiths described as \"incredibly frustrating\" - but a multi-year transition is still promised.\n\nDairy farmer Abi Reader said uncertainty around Brexit made it difficult to plan for the future\n\nDairy farmer Abi Reader from Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, said it was \"complicated to plan when we don't know what is happening with Brexit\".\n\nShe said the subsidy was a \"safety net\" that helped her business to remain viable.\n\n\"We have high costs of production here because of things like our welfare standards, our environmental standards - which are world leading - and we need that little bit of protection to make sure that we can continue trading,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nFarmers have until 30 October to respond to the latest consultation, and have been offered the chance to \"co-design\" the final proposals in the autumn.\n\nMore than 12,000 responses were received the last time views were sought on farming after Brexit - a record for the rural affairs department.\n\nReversing a decline in biodiversity is one of the three challenges the Welsh Government says it is trying to address\n\nThe Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) warned that removing direct support payments based on how much land is farmed could see Welsh farmers disadvantaged compared with their counterparts in the EU.\n\n\"This concern would also relate to competition with farmers in Scotland and Northern Ireland if those countries retain some form of direct support,\" said Glyn Roberts, FUW president.\n\nPlaid Cymru's rural affairs spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said the Welsh Government had been \"stung into a change in tone\" after a \"hostile reaction\" to its earlier consultation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The couple said they turned to IVF after years of trying to have children\n\nAn Asian couple who tried to conceive through IVF has claimed that a mix-up at a California fertility clinic left them pregnant with the wrong children.\n\nA lawsuit filed by the couple in New York states that the couple was shocked to give birth to two boys who were not of Asian descent, US media reported.\n\nThe lawsuit says DNA tests confirmed the children were not related to the couple and they relinquished custody.\n\nThe fertility clinic has not commented on the allegations.\n\nThe couple - identified in the lawsuit only as AP and YZ to minimise the \"embarrassment and humiliation\" - say they tried for years to get pregnant before spending more than $100,000 (£80,000) on the IVF, or in vitro fertilisation, including medication, laboratory fees, travel and other costs.\n\nIVF is the process of fertilising an egg outside of the woman's body, before returning it to the womb to grow and develop.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York last week, accuses CHA Fertility and two men identified as its co-owners and directors of offences including medical malpractice and intentional infliction of emotional distress.\n\nIt reportedly notes that after giving birth on 30 March, the couple \"was shocked to see that the babies they were told were formed using both of their genetic material did not appear to be\".\n\nThere were earlier signs that things were amiss when a scan revealed they were expecting boys, despite the fact that the doctors had said they did not use male embryos during the treatment.\n\nDoctors reportedly told the couple that the scan was inaccurate, before they went on to have the baby boys in April. In addition to not being related to the couple, the children were not related to each other, according to the lawsuit.\n\nOn its website, CHA Fertility says it delivers the \"highest degree of personalized care...with the utmost sense of duty\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted the company for comment.\n\nLawyers for the couple told the BBC their clients suffered from \"the grossly negligent and reckless conduct of CHA fertility\".\n\n\"Our goal in filing this lawsuit is to obtain compensation for our clients' losses, as well as to ensure that this tragedy never happens again,\" the lawyers said.", "The government's attempts to find a technological solution to its Irish border Brexit problem have run into immediate difficulties with its own business advisers.\n\nThe BBC has obtained internal documents, including the terms of reference which some of its business experts are refusing to sign off on.\n\nThey are concerned the terms could be used to endorse a plan of action in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey are now asking for alterations.\n\nThe Business and Trade Union Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group - mostly made up of Northern Ireland business leaders - is one of three committees recently appointed by the government to come up with and test ideas for \"alternative arrangements\" to the so-called backstop.\n\nThey have been appointed by the Department for Exiting the European Union to advise on the feasibility of new technologies that could maintain the current free flowing Irish border after Brexit occurs.\n\nThe document says that the \"purpose and objective\" of the group is that \"alternative arrangements should be considered without prejudice to the UK's future customs and regulatory relationship with the EU\".\n\nAt a meeting, members of the committee asked ministers who were present to alter that objective to ensure their conclusions could not be used to endorse a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe document also ruled that the likely response of the Irish government and the European Union to new technological ideas were \"out of scope\".\n\n\"The focus of discussions should not be on the negotiability of proposals,\" the document says.\n\nSome participants at the meeting expressed concerns that there was no concrete commitment in the internal document to abide by the Joint Report - the 2017 agreement by the UK government and EU to avoid a hard border \"including any physical infrastructure or related checks and controls\".\n\nSome dairy farmers are concerned they will have to cull their herds\n\nThe Joint Report is not mentioned directly in the terms of reference nor in the background context paper prepared for all three advisory groups on alternative arrangements.\n\nIt is only referred to in an accompanying presentation, also seen by BBC News, that says the need to comply with international obligations and commitments \"includes considering the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and the 2017 Joint Report\".\n\nA source present at the meeting said that a number of concerns about the government approach to Northern Ireland were articulated at the meeting, including dairy farmers who process over a third of their milk across the border, warning that their herds would have to be culled.\n\nA government spokesperson said: 'We do not recognise this account of what have been a very constructive set of meetings with business leaders and technical experts.\n\n\"As is normal in a first meeting of advisory groups, some general comments were provided on our terms of reference, which we are finalising at present.\"\n\nHowever, both Conservative leadership candidates, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, say they plan to use technology to replace the backstop - an insurance policy that dealt with the Irish border by assuming a period of UK alignment with Europe on most customs and regulations issues, even after Brexit.\n\nThe Irish government and the EU have indicated openness to talk about technological solution, but expressed doubts that they will exist for many years, insisting that the backstop must be part of a negotiated EU exit.", "The pound is heading for two-year lows against the dollar as markets react to continuing Brexit uncertainty and signs that the UK economy is slowing.\n\nThe currency fell sharply after data showed slowing sales at UK retailers and economists forecast a contraction in the economy in the second quarter.\n\nAgainst the dollar, the pound fell below $1.25 and was close to its lowest level since April 2017.\n\nThe pound was also at a six-month low against the euro at just above €1.11.\n\nWith the holiday season getting underway, it means travellers from the UK will getting fewer dollars and euros for their pounds.\n\nSterling has been swayed by uncertainty in the aftermath of the EU referendum, but has been more stable in recent months because of confidence about the UK economy.\n\nHowever, recent economic surveys have suggested that the economy may now be weakening and Jane Foley, head of foreign exchange strategy at Rabobank, said this was being factored into the market.\n\n\"The economic picture is not particularly pretty,\" she said.\n\nThe pound fell 0.5% against the dollar at $1.2455, marking the lowest point for it since April 2017, excluding a brief \"flash fall\" in January this year.\n\nBack in May, the pound had been trading at around $1.27.\n\nLast week, a survey suggested the UK's manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest pace for more than six years.\n\nOn Tuesday, figures from the British Retail Consortium showed average sales growth slowed to 0.6% in the 12 months to June, the weakest reading since its records began in 1995.\n\nMs Foley also cited a survey by Bloomberg which showed that economists are expecting the economy to contract in the second quarter - for the first time since 2012.\n\nAn update on the UK economy is due on Wednesday when growth data for the three-month period to May will be released, and economists polled by Reuters expect growth of 0.1%.\n\nThat would be slower than the 0.5% rate seen in the first quarter of the year.\n\nThe market is also focusing on the Conservative leadership contest. Under Theresa May's premiership, the market had thought the chances of a no-deal were slim, but Ms Foley said that was not the expectation if Boris Johnson wins the leadership battle.\n\n\"That's what the market is worried about,\" she said.\n\nNeil Mellor, currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon, said that another factor at play was a strengthening in the dollar ahead of testimony by the head of the US central bank. This was helping to push the pound lower.\n\nJerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, testifies to the US Congress on Wednesday. Mr Mellor said he could provide a more hawkish tone - meaning interest rate cuts were less likely - than previously expected.", "Women surrounded the loyalist bonfire in Avoniel as part of a protest on Tuesday\n\nHundreds have gathered outside Avoniel Leisure Centre in east Belfast to protest at a council decision to remove a bonfire from its grounds.\n\nIt came after Belfast City Council said its initial decision to remove bonfire material had not been reversed.\n\nBonfire builders said removing tyres, reducing its size and moving it away from buildings meant there was no need for the council to take action.\n\nA barricade has been erected at the leisure centre gates.\n\nProtesters told BBC News NI they have tried to compromise with authorities but are now determined that the Eleventh night event will go ahead.\n\nTensions have been building ahead of bonfires being lit before the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nBonfires are lit in some Protestant areas in Northern Ireland on 11 July, the night before Orange Order members commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne with parades across Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at the protest, senior Orangeman Rev Mervyn Gibson said that there was \"no need for the tension that has arisen around this bonfire, but sadly we have a republican-dominated council who have failed their first real test at openness and compromise\".\n\nHe said bonfire builders had removed tyres, then reduced the height of the bonfire, but \"no matter what this community did it was not enough to appease those who oppose us\".\n\nHe added: \"I would appeal for calm at this bonfire - do not react, and I know that's going to be difficult, because there's anger here.\"\n\nA barricade of tyres and bins was erected at the gates to Avoniel Leisure Centre\n\nAlso speaking at Tuesday's protest were loyalist Jamie Bryson and Robert Girvin, from a group calling itself the East Belfast Cultural Collective, which represents a number of bonfire builders.\n\nAt Avoniel Leisure Centre, which closed early on Tuesday, the bonfire has been rebuilt after tyres were voluntarily removed.\n\nOrganisers say they have reduced the height of the bonfire to about 20 feet (6m).\n\nIt has also been moved further away from buildings in an attempt to meet council criteria.\n\nThe centre also closed early on Sunday after its entrance was barricaded by men said to have been acting in a \"threatening\" way towards staff.\n\nTranslink said that due to some potential disruption that there would be a diversion for east Belfast Glider services on Tuesday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, in other developments:\n\nIt is estimated there are 80-100 bonfires in Belfast this year, with 35 signed up to an official scheme funded by the city council.\n\n\"Efforts have been ongoing for several months to encourage bonfire builders to be mindful of the need to protect life and property,\" the city council said.\n\nEarlier, Mr Girvin said: \"We promised the young people if they took the tyres out they could have their bonfire.\n\n\"All that was done and still the council says no.\"\n\nHe said he would meet councillors from any party to address concerns over the Avoniel bonfire.\n\nLoyalist graffiti has appeared next to the site at Avoniel threatening contractors alleged to be involved in the removal of bonfire material\n\n\"Have dialogue with us. Tell us exactly what your issue is with this bonfire,\" he said.\n\n\"It follows Northern Ireland Fire Service guidelines. The tyres have been removed. He said complaints about other bonfires had been about \"the potential to damage property, life or the environment\".\n\n\"None of that is here. There's no potential for any of that so why remove the bonfire?\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Ciaran Beattie insisted the problem was just not the tyres but the height and mass of the bonfires and the threat posed to nearby buildings.\n\nHe insisted the council should still take action at Avoniel.\n\n\"Nothing has changed as far as we are concerned, bar the tyres being removed,\" he said.\n\n\"There is still a dangerous bonfire on that site\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mervyn Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor George Dorrian, Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) councillor John Kyle and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor Jim Rodgers said they were disappointed by Belfast City Council's decision.\n\n\"[Councillors] chose not to build on the progress made by bonfire builders when they removed the tyres yesterday evening from Avoniel bonfire,\" they said.\n\n\"This year has seen a dramatic improvement in the situation around bonfires throughout Belfast.\n\n\"We have spent months engaging with groups across the city and real progress is being made.\n\n\"We are confident that the community will fully enjoy the celebrations peacefully and respectfully.\"", "Downing Street's response is a classically formal \"thanks, but no thanks\". A stiff brush-off in riposte to the US president's digital tirade, which was extraordinary even by his standards.\n\nWith the current prime minister almost out of the door, and the UK ambassador in Washington leaving too, the remarks are unlikely to change much directly, and this allows Number 10 to try to shrug off the criticism.\n\nLess officially, though, there is real frustration. One senior Tory warned that \"we cannot bow down to this form of lunacy\" where the leader of another country tries to use online swagger to seek revenge on one of the UK's diplomats - not least from one of our most important allies.\n\nThe government, of course, has become rather used to managing the maverick. But this episode makes the choice of the next ambassador to the United States a controversy waiting to happen.\n\nAnd it brings up a crucial foreign policy question for the two men vying to be prime minister, which they could be asked in the leadership debate on Tuesday evening - do they try to tackle Donald Trump, tame him, or merely tolerate him?\n\nLooking the other way, would the next prime minister be blind to the damage that's already being done.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The video was shot on an action camera used by the group\n\nIndian authorities have released a video showing the final moments of a team of climbers whose bodies were recovered in the Himalayas.\n\nThe clip shows four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian slowly making their way up an unnamed peak in sunny weather.\n\nThe group was attempting to climb India's second-highest peak Nanda Devi when contact was lost on 26 May.\n\nSeven bodies were recovered but Briton Martin Moran remains missing.\n\nThe 1 minute 55 second clip released by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Monday shows the eight climbers roped together as they take steps up an unnamed peak.\n\nThe group pictured before they began their ascent in May\n\nThe camera with the footage was found buried in snow near the area where the bodies were eventually recovered in June, media reports said.\n\nAccording to ITBP spokesman Vivek Kumar Pandey, the group's weight could have caused a snow ledge they were on to give away, \"triggering an avalanche\".\n\nThe clip is now being used to help \"analyse what went wrong with their mission\".\n\n\"The GoPro was proved to be like the black box of an aircraft giving an insight into the last few moments of the climbers, ITBP deputy inspector general APS Nambadia said at a press briefing.\n\n\"It was mesmerising for us to see the footage.\"\n\nThe group began their ascent on 13 May, led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran whose Scotland-based company, Moran Mountain, has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nHe led a group consisting of: John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and University of York lecturer Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; Australian Ruth McCance; and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.", "The two contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party, vying to be the UK's next prime minister, have argued over the date the UK will leave the EU.\n\nJeremy Hunt says his worry is the UK is setting a \"fake deadline\" with 31 October.\n\nBoris Johnson says the EU will not take the UK seriously if no-deal is off the table.\n\nThey were both speaking on Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, the final televised debate of this contest.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAndy Murray and Serena Williams wowed Wimbledon again as their box office partnership continued with another straight-set win in the mixed doubles.\n\nBritain's Murray, 32, and American Williams, 37, moved into the last 16 with a 7-5 6-3 win over 14th seeds Fabrice Martin and Raquel Atawo.\n\nWilliams produced ruthless returning to win crucial break points in each set.\n\nThey now play top seeds Bruno Soares - the former men's partner of Murray's brother Jamie - and Nicole Melichar.\n\n\"We're in the groove of things so it's feeling good,\" Williams said. \"I'm having a blast, it has been really fun and it's a great atmosphere playing out there with Andy.\"\n\nMurray added: \"She returned brilliantly especially at the end of the first set, and the start of the second, hitting clean winners and making my job easy, but then I was missing mine on break points.\n\n\"We both played well and if she keeps returning like that we'll have a good chance.\n\n\"All matches are great for me, doubles especially, for the reactions and reflexes which has helped me and once I've finished here, hopefully on Sunday, I will get back and start practising some more singles.\"\n• None Murray column: 'Serena was making me laugh out there'\n• None Williams reveals she had therapy following US Open outburst\n\nThe stellar pairing between Britain's three-time Grand Slam singles champion, and a 23-time major winner widely regarded as the sport's greatest female player, has breathed new life into the mixed doubles at the All England Club.\n\nTheir match, again scheduled on Centre Court, was watched by a near-capacity 15,000 crowd who were given plenty of entertainment and responded by providing a crackling atmosphere.\n\nMurray opened the match to excited cheers from the home fans, many who probably thought they would never see him again on the court where he has won two singles titles.\n\nThe Scot, who had serious hip surgery in January, started with a solid service game which was finished by Williams hammering a stinging volley straight at Martin's calf - she quickly held both hands up in apology.\n\nBut it was a sign that the partnership - which Williams said has been christened 'Mur-rena' - meant business in this fun format.\n\nWilliams was back on Centre little over two hours after she beat Alison Riske to reach the semi-finals of the women's singles, yet looked far from fatigued as she turned the match in her team's favour.\n\nWilliams' backhand winner off a 138mph serve set up a fourth break point - this time on Martin's serve and for the set - only for Murray to dump a forehand into the net and the chance to disappear.\n\nMurray's returning game - usually his hallmark - was not quite on the same level as he sent another set point into the net at 6-5.\n\nBut it did not matter as the quality of his partner shone through moments later.\n\nWilliams hit a dipping cross-court winner to set up another chance and then hit almost the same shot to seal the opening set - greeting it with another loud roar and a twirl on the spot.\n\nWilliams continued to dismantle the big-serving Martin at the start of the second set, earning another break point when she reached to successfully convert a forehand winner which left even her pulling a face of shock.\n\nThat proved enough to take the set - and the match - when Murray delivered a clean ace out wide to win the match in one hour and 37 minutes.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The Fish and The Chip opened two years ago\n\nA fish and chip restaurant has closed down after the owners said they felt \"uncomfortable\" about the environmental impact of their business.\n\nThe Fish and The Chip, in St Nicholas Place, Leicester, was billed as a modern take on traditional fish and chips when it opened in 2017.\n\nHowever, its owners said a recent fishing trip had got them thinking about its green footprint.\n\nThey said they were working on a new food-based venture.\n\nThe Fish and The Chip The building has now been put up for sale\n\nA notice placed in the restaurant's window said: \"Our fishing trip was great but turned out to be a bit of an eye-opener.\n\n\"We saw the impact pollution is having on the oceans and fish stocks and we are not comfortable running a restaurant that has an impact on our environment.\"\n\nThe owners posted a sign explaining their decision to close\n\nThey did not say what form their new venture would take but said it would be based around \"gluten-free, plant-based food\".\n\nOwner Aatkin Anadkat said his main concerns were declining fish numbers around the world and fish eating plastic particles found in the water.\n\nHe said: \"Effectively you're serving your customers that and they're consuming it.\"\n\nThe WWF has described overfishing as one of the most significant drivers of declines in ocean wildlife populations and scientists recently said cod levels in the North Sea had fallen to critical levels.\n\nOwner Aatkin Anadkat said he was worried about serving fish that had eaten plastic particles\n\nMr Anadkat said he also understood some people might suspect the restaurant was actually being closed for business reasons.\n\nHe said: \"There is more than one reason - as with most things - but I've learned along the way that if something doesn't feel good, then you shouldn't do it.\n\n\"We're not going to be opening another site but we're certainly in the plant-based food business and it's a nice place to be.\"\n\nThe Fish and The Chip The Fish and The Chip described itself as \"the modern chippy\" when it opened in 2017\n\nA spokeswoman for The Vegan Society said: \"The number of vegans has quadrupled in the last four years and there are also increasing numbers of consumers looking for a more sustainable and compassionate diet who are keen to try more vegan food.\n\n\"This is the perfect moment for this business to move to being a full-time vegan one.\"\n\nMr Anadkat said he was also concerned about falling fish numbers\n\nMalcolm Hunter, from Friends of the Earth in Leicester, said: \"Halting climate change and protecting biodiversity doesn't necessarily mean that we have to give up eating fish - or meat and dairy entirely - but we do need to substantially reduce our consumption.\n\n\"In addition, we need to ensure what we do eat is produced sustainably.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have voted by the thinnest of margins for a process that would make it more difficult for a future prime minister to prorogue Parliament.\n\nTory MP Dominic Grieve wanted to amend the Northern Ireland Bill to stop a future PM forcing through a no-deal Brexit by suspending Parliament.\n\nHis amendment - to require ministers to regularly report on the situation in Northern Ireland - passed by one vote.\n\nIt could provide a tool for MPs to block a no-deal Brexit in October.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the approval of Mr Grieve's proposal was a \"tight but important victory\".\n\nHe tweeted that it \"makes it much harder for incoming prime minister to suspend Parliament\".\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's deal. Currently, the date for exit is 31 October.\n\nIf that date is reached without a deal being agreed on the separation process, then the UK will leave without one.\n\nMPs have consistently voted against this option, but the prime minister could try to get around that by closing Parliament - proroguing - in the run-up to Brexit day, denying them an opportunity to block it.\n\nMr Grieve had sought to get MPs' backing for a package of measures he hoped would require Parliament to sit through October in the run up to the UK's departure.\n\nOne amendment, stating that MPs should be recalled to debate reports on Northern Ireland if Parliament is closed, wasn't selected for debate by Speaker John Bercow - although it could be introduced in the Lords later.\n\nThat took some of the force out of Mr Grieve's efforts.\n\nHowever, two other amendments designed to make prorogation harder were put to a vote.\n\nThe first - approved by 294 votes to 293 - requires the government to produce fortnightly reports from October until December on the progress towards restoring the power sharing arrangements in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe second - which would have required the government to schedule debates on those progress reports - was defeated by 293 votes to 289.\n\nWhile the success of that one amendment probably won't block prorogation, it could make it more difficult - especially if the House of Lords subsequently revives Mr Grieve's more forceful attempt to stop Parliament being temporarily suspended.\n\nDuring the debate on Tuesday, Mr Grieve said: \"If the other place (House of Lords) in its wisdom decides to look at the totality of our amendments and decides that the amendment new clause 14 (on preventing prorogation) would add value and places it in, this House will have an opportunity before this Bill goes through in order to consider that and either reject it or accept it.\"\n\nMr Grieve said he did not think democracy would survive Parliament being prorogued to allow for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Heaven knows, if I've tried to do anything during this Brexit process it's to try to encourage a sound process and to prevent catastrophic cliff edge moments and to enable this House to make reasoned decisions.\"\n\nDuring the debate, Northern Ireland minister John Penrose said the government disagreed with Mr Grieve's suggestion for regular fortnightly reporting, with a vote on each occasion, calling it \"an excessive and unnecessary level of procedure\".\n• None Why there's more to the Northern Ireland bill", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nJohanna Konta failed in her bid to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals after an error-strewn display in a straight-set defeat by Czech Barbora Strycova.\n\nThe British number one started strongly, racing to a 4-1 lead, before collapsing to lose 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.\n\nLet down by her previously dominant serve, Konta could not find a way back as - like in June's French Open semis - she crumbled when expectation was high.\n\n\"I did my best, and my best today wasn't good enough,\" Konta, 28, said.\n\n\"Every decision I made, every thought process, every opportunity I gave myself, I have no regrets in doing.\"\n\nStrycova, who has reached her maiden Grand Slam singles semi-final just days after saying this could be her last Wimbledon, will face 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams next.\n\n\"I think this was one of the best matches I have played,\" the 33-year-old said.\n• None 'I don't think you need to pick on me' - Konta responds to 'harsh' questions about defeat\n• None In pictures - Lionesses enjoy day out at Wimbledon\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta came into the match boasting an incredible record of having lost just three of her 47 service games at these championships.\n\nDespite the fact she got an early break, the warning signs that her biggest weapon might not be firing properly were there in the opening game when she had to save a break point.\n\nThe errors began to creep in at 4-2 when she sent two forehands wide and wild backhand long to allow Strycova to get the break back.\n\nIt became a theme as Konta went on to produce 22 unforced errors in that opening set, with the Czech increasing in confidence as she gave Konta a lesson in effective drop shots to take it to a tie-break.\n\nThere Konta could not find a rhythm, sending a forehand into the net to hand the set to the world number world number 54.\n\nKonta is well versed in losing opening sets and winning in a third - with a record of 13 wins from 15 three-setters this year - but this time an early break in the second put a comeback out of reach.\n\nThe game was up for the Briton when she went long with a backhand - summing up everything that was wrong with this performance.\n\n\"I couldn't quite find the level that I needed to make it difficult and challenging for the kind of player she is,\" said Konta, who had lost to Strycova in 2017 in Tokyo in their only other meeting.\n\n\"She's a very difficult player to play on this surface, and in general. She's a very good player. It's just unfortunate I couldn't quite find the level needed to come through.\"\n\nFavourite tag seems to hamper Konta again\n\nKonta had been hoping to emulate her 2017 feat of reaching the last four and getting closer to becoming the first British women's singles finalist since Virginia Wade won the title in 1977.\n\nShe has enjoyed a successful year, reaching the French Open semi-finals and two WTA finals on clay, before transferring her good form on to grass.\n\nHer serve has been the key but against Strycova she won just 51% of her first-serve points.\n\nIn the previous two rounds she came past 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in three sets with accomplished displays but against the unseeded Strycova - where the Briton was now favourite - her game fell apart.\n\nHer mental strength has often been questioned and it will be once again, with this defeat echoing her Roland Garros semi-final loss to another unseeded Czech, Marketa Vondrousova.\n\nKonta, who was bidding to reach a fourth Grand Slam semi-final, denied that the pressure of expectation had got to her and refused to blame tiredness from back-to-back three-set matches.\n\n\"I was obviously nervous going into the match. But good nerves, excitement, anticipation,\" she said. \"I wouldn't say that had anything to do with the level that I played or any difficulty.\n\n\"I think it was a combination of just not finding my level, and her not giving me the opportunity to find my level more than anything.\"\n\nThis was a clever, skilful and tactically astute performance by Barbora Strycova. At the age of 33, she seized the opportunity to reach a first Grand Slam semi-final magnificently.\n\nJohanna Konta, though, was unable to play with anything like the freedom of earlier rounds.\n\nThirty four unforced errors in two sets tells its own story: Strycova's spins and relative lack of pace threw her out of kilter, but nerves and expectations also seemed to play a part.\n\nKonta played brilliantly to win her other Wimbledon quarter-final against Simona Halep two years ago, and also her recent French Open quarter-final with Sloane Stephens.\n\nBut just as in her Roland Garros semi-final with Marketa Vondrousova, Konta was the favourite here - and unable to play to the level she is capable of.", "You might have seen videos of Snowball the cockatoo dancing before.\n\nHe went viral in 2008 dancing to songs by the Backstreet Boys and Michael Jackson.\n\nBut now scientists in the US say his \"remarkably diverse spontaneous movements\" show dancing isn't limited to humans.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Trade union leaders have reached a common position on Brexit following a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe bosses of Labour's five-biggest affiliated unions back a referendum on any deal agreed by the Tory government or a no-deal exit from the EU.\n\nThey are calling for voters to be given the option to remain in the EU and expect Labour to formally back remain.\n\nIf Labour wins power in a general election, they want a \"confirmatory vote\" on any new deal negotiated.\n\nHowever, Labour's stance in a referendum campaign in these circumstances would \"depend on the deal negotiated\".\n\nMr Corbyn has faced calls to move policy in a more pro-EU direction.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson and other leading figures have called for an unambiguously pro-Remain stance amid criticism that confusion over Labour's message contributed to its poor performance in last month's European parliament elections.\n\nMr Watson welcomed Monday's agreement as a \"step in the right direction\" but said his party should not be supporting any form of Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Watson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a document seen by the BBC, Unite, Unison, the GMB, CWU and Usdaw appear to have moved towards the position advocated by Mr Watson and others by saying that \"remain\" should be an option on the ballot paper, and Labour should campaign for it.\n\nIn the event of a snap election and a Labour victory, they would expect the new government to negotiate a deal to leave the EU - a position favoured by the Unite union.\n\nHowever the deal should be put to a confirmatory vote - a position favoured by Unison and the GMB - and in this scenario \"remain\" should also be an option on the ballot paper.\n\nMr Corbyn, who pledged to consult the unions before any change in position, has previously said he would be prepared to back a referendum on any Brexit deal put to Parliament.\n\nThe text of the document agreed by Labour's five largest affiliated unions\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has not guaranteed either to campaign for the UK to stay in the EU or confirmed that this would even be an option on the ballot paper.\n\nThe Conservatives said Labour had \"no interest in delivering on the referendum result\" of 2016.\n\n\"Labour promised to respect the Brexit vote, but rerunning the referendum and backing remain would be an attempt to frustrate Brexit and ignore the democratic mandate to deliver it,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe agreement by the biggest Labour-supporting unions is significant.\n\nThe document sets out two scenarios. In the first, there would be a Conservative negotiated deal - or no deal - which Labour would oppose.\n\nUnder these circumstances, the unions say Labour should press for a referendum - something which in effect reflects Jeremy Corbyn's current position.\n\nBut the unions also say not only should \"remain\" be an option in any referendum, but that the party should also campaign for it.\n\nThis is the position which Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson and others - including the shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer - have been pressing the Labour leader to adopt following the loss of votes to the avowedly Remain parties at the European elections.\n\nSignificantly, voices on the left too, such as the shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis and some supporters of Momentum, have also been pushing in this direction.\n\nIt was thought, though, that the Unite leader Len McCluskey would hold out against campaigning to remain - but he has shifted.\n\nThe second scenario, though, offers some comfort for Mr McCluskey and Labour MPs in Leave areas.\n\nIf there is a snap election, and Labour forms the next government, then the unions would still expect a Brexit deal to be negotiated.\n\nThis deal would be put to the people, but with remain as an alternative.\n\nThat should keep most of the party's Remainers on side, though they will want guarantees (that so far these have been spoken about privately not publicly) they would not be prevented from campaigning against a Labour deal and for remain.\n\nBut other Remainers are more sceptical. They say that Labour should just ditch the idea of attempting to get a Brexit deal at all. And they worry that any election campaign would be dominated by media questions to Labour MPs on whether they would be prepared to vote against any deal negotiated by their own government.\n\nBut the mere fact the unions have made a decision will put fire in the belly of shadow chancellor John McDonnell and some other shadow ministers who have been pushing for Labour to clarify its policy swiftly, before an new Conservative leader is in place.\n\nThe question is whether Labour's shadow cabinet officially follows suit on Tuesday - but a potential obstacle to a shift in position has been removed today and makes a policy change all the more likely.", "Stranger Things' return to Netflix has been massively popular, with the third instalment breaking the streaming service's viewer records.\n\nMore than 40 million households watched the show in its first four days, according to Netflix, with 18 million-plus already having finished all eight episodes.\n\nBird Box topped the company's first list in January.\n\nEighty million people watched the horror-thriller film over four weeks.\n\nUmbrella Academy, about a dysfunctional superhero family, was listed as having 45m viewers within its first month - the most for a series in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nStranger Things 3 has almost achieved that figure in a tenth of the time.\n\nThe figures are for the number of households that have watched the series, which is different to the total number of people who will have actually seen it.\n\nNetflix says it counts a view when someone has watched at least 70% of an episode or film.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Netflix US This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Netflix US\n\nWhen They See Us, Ava DuVernay's drama series about the wrongfully-convicted Central Park Five, was announced as Netflix's most-watched series in the US following its May release.\n\nBut Netflix measured that using a different method - saying it had been the most watched series every day since its premiere - which is different to the Stranger Things \"households\" number.\n\nStranger Things - which follows a group of kids in a fictional 1980s Indiana, with lots of supernatural goings on - has been one of Netflix's most critically and culturally-acclaimed original series since its 2016 release.\n\nIt's helped launch the careers of Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard, and introduced a new audience to Winona Ryder.\n\nWith its numbers seemingly so high, and fans emotional over how the third series ended, don't be surprised if there's still a lot more to come from the town of Hawkins.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Donald Trump has been \"disrespectful\" towards the prime minister and the UK, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHis comments come after President Trump called Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, \"a very stupid guy\" amid a row over leaked emails.\n\nHe went on to criticise Theresa May over Brexit, saying she had ignored his advice and gone her \"own foolish way\".\n\nOn Sunday emails revealed the ambassador had called the Trump administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nMeanwhile, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox's scheduled meeting with the US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the US was cancelled on Tuesday.\n\nMr Hunt responded to Mr Trump's latest outburst by tweeting: \"Friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country.\"\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful also said he would keep Sir Kim in his post until he retires at Christmas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US in a TV debate\n\nDuring a televised debate, Boris Johnson, the current Tory leadership frontrunner, was pushed on whether he would keep the ambassador, but said he \"wouldn't be so presumptuous\" as to think he would be in a position to do that.\n\nMr Johnson said he had \"a good relationship\" with the White House and that it was important to have a \"close partnership\" with the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the row was a reminder of the \"tricky and sensitive\" nature of the UK's relationship with the US and the challenge facing the Tory leadership hopefuls in dealing with a president \"who seems to love stirring up controversy\".\n\n\"It's Jeremy Hunt, normally seen as the more cautious of the two, who's speaking much more plainly and directly to Donald Trump on the matter, while Boris Johnson has said only that he's not embarrassed about being close to the White House,\" she said.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's comments on Monday that the US would \"no longer deal\" with Sir Kim, the US State Department said it would continue \"to deal with any accredited individuals until we get any further guidance from the White House or the president\".\n\n\"We have an incredibly special and strategic relationship with the United Kingdom that has gone on for quite a long time - it's bigger than any individual or government,\" the department added.\n\nA spokesman for Theresa May said that Sir Kim is \"a dutiful, respected government official\" and confirmed there were no plans for Mrs May and Mr Trump to hold a call to discuss relations following the leak.\n\nNumber 10 also confirmed that Sir Kim would not be attending a meeting between Ivanka Trump and the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox in Washington.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"He isn't attending that meeting but he is supporting Liam Fox in other ways on his trip.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday Mr Trump tweeted: \"The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy.\n\n\"He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was handled.\n\n\"I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster!\n\n\"I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far...and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger...Thank you, Mr. President!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNumber 10 previously called the leak, reported in the Mail on Sunday, \"unfortunate\" and has begun a formal investigation. It said the UK and US still shared a \"special and enduring\" relationship.\n\nConfidential emails from the UK's ambassador contained a string of criticisms of Mr Trump and his administration, and said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and divided under his presidency.\n\nSir Kim, who became ambassador to the US in January 2016 about a year before Mr Trump took office, also questioned whether the White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned that the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".", "Instagram believes its new anti-bullying tool, which prompts users to pause and consider what they are saying, could help curb abuse on the platform.\n\nIt will also soon offer the targets of bullying the ability to restrict interactions with users who are causing them distress.\n\nInstagram has been under pressure to deal with its bullying problem after high profile cases, including the suicide of British teenager Molly Russell.\n\nIn a blog post, the firm’s chief executive Adam Mosseri said his firm “could do more” on the issue.\n\n\"We can do more to prevent bullying from happening on Instagram, and we can do more to empower the targets of bullying to stand up for themselves,” Mr Mosseri wrote.\n\n\"These tools are grounded in a deep understanding of how people bully each other and how they respond to bullying on Instagram, but they’re only two steps on a longer path.”\n\nInstagram said it was using artificial intelligence to recognise when text resembles the kind of posts that are most often reported as inappropriate by users.\n\nIn one example, a person types “you are so ugly and stupid”, only to be interrupted with a notice saying: “Are you sure you want to post this? Learn more”.\n\nIf the user taps “learn more”, a notice informs: “We are asking people to rethink comments that seem similar to others that have been reported.”\n\nMolly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017\n\nThe user can ignore the message and post anyway, but Instagram said in early tests that \"we have found that it encourages some people to undo their comment and share something less hurtful once they have had a chance to reflect.”\n\nThe tool is being rolled out to English-speaking users at first, with plans to eventually make it available globally, Instagram told the BBC.\n\nThe company said it will soon roll out an additional tool, called Restrict, designed to help teens filter abusive comments without resorting to blocking others - a blunt move that could have repercussions in the real world.\n\n\"We’ve heard from young people in our community that they’re reluctant to block, unfollow, or report their bully because it could escalate the situation, especially if they interact with their bully in real life,” Mr Mosseri said.\n\n\"Some of these actions also make it difficult for a target to keep track of their bully’s behaviour.”\n\nOnce a user has been restricted, their comments will appear only to themselves. Crucially, a restricted person will not know they have been restricted.\n\n\"You can choose to make a restricted person’s comments visible to others by approving their comments,” Mr Mosseri explained.\n\n\"Restricted people won’t be able to see when you’re active on Instagram or when you’ve read their direct messages.”\n\nBullying on social media, particularly Instagram, was brought into tragic focus earlier this year.\n\nThe father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life, said distressing content about depression and suicide on Instagram were partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\nIn April, the British government published its Online Harms white paper, a policy proposal that sought tighter controls on technology firms. It suggests the creation of an independent regulator to direct ways in which firms should deal with all manner of abuse, including bullying.\n\nThe paper was met with a mixed response, with some questioning its efficacy, and fears it could be overreaching.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Instagram boss Adam Mosseri discussed its anti-bullying plans in an interview in June\n\nAt Facebook’s recent developer conference, Mr Mosseri said a key focus of Instagram - which Facebook owns - is to tackle the bullying issue.\n\n“It’s really encouraging to see that the new feature has been rolled out,” said Alex Holmes, deputy chief executive of the Anti-Bullying at the Diana Award, and a long-time anti-bullying advocate.\n\nThe group has received some funding from Facebook for real-world anti-bullying initiatives in schools. Mr Holmes told the BBC he felt social media firms could still do more to actively teach users about decent behaviour.\n\n\"If you are under 18, you should have to go through awareness building when you sign up,” he said.\n\n\"I think it would be a pretty simple thing, for the first five minutes, to go through. Platforms should be able to make the issue of safety more appealing, more engaging.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370\n• None 'Instagram can't solve bullying on its own'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"The ambassador has not served the UK well\"\n\nPolice have been urged to open a criminal investigation into the leak of diplomatic emails which described the Trump administration as \"inept\".\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, told MPs he made the request in a letter to the Met Police.\n\nThe government has already launched an internal inquiry, saying it \"utterly deplores\" the publication of the memos.\n\nUS President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the UK ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, whose comments were leaked.\n\nIn a string of tweets about the UK, he said the US \"will no longer deal with him\", as well as making critical comments about Prime Minister Theresa May and her approach to Brexit.\n\nMr Trump's comments come after No 10 said the prime minister had \"full faith\" in the UK ambassador in Washington following the leak.\n\nEmails from the UK's ambassador, leaked to the Mail on Sunday, said Mr Trump's White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said it was \"the job of ambassadors to provide honest and unvarnished opinions\" but Mrs May \"does not agree with the assessment\".\n\nHe added: \"The leak is absolutely unacceptable and, as you would expect, contact has been made with the Trump administration setting out our view that we believe that it is unacceptable.\"\n\nForeign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told the House of Commons police could be involved if evidence of wrongdoing over the breach of confidentiality was found.\n\n\"The most important focus is to establish who is responsible for this despicable leak,\" he said.\n\nSir Kim Darroch said the White House is \"uniquely dysfunctional\"\n\nEarlier, Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the BBC the leak was \"unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic\", adding that whoever released the emails had \"maliciously\" undermined the defence and security relationship with the US.\n\n\"I hope if we can identify the individual, either the full force of internal discipline - or if necessary the law - will be brought to bear because this sort of behaviour has no place in public life,\" he said.\n\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Sir Kim had been \"betrayed\" and \"hung out to dry even though his only crime was to tell the truth\".\n\nShe added: \"He told the truth about Donald Trump and that was because it was his job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJust imagine if every heavily encrypted report to Whitehall from all UK ambassadors overseas was instantly available on your mobile.\n\nThe candour would cease immediately and they'd become ultra-bland and useless as a tool in policy-making.\n\nSo, damage in this case is considerable. There will be a large number of potential suspects.\n\nDiplomatic telegrams are seen by scores, often hundreds of people - ministers and officials - across several departments. That is to ensure grown-up and private conversations can be had based on large amounts of source material.\n\nOf course, there is damage to relations between the UK and the Trump White House too.\n\nMr Trump likes to dish out insults and criticism (remember his frequent belittling of Theresa May over Brexit, and his all out verbal attacks on the mayor of London) but he is pretty thin-skinned when the verbal arrows are aimed at him.\n\nThe one person who is not under suspicion in London is Sir Kim himself. After all, as his current political master, Mr Hunt, has made clear, he was just doing his job.\n\nAs the Foreign Office launched an investigation into the source of the leak to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Trump told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nIn the emails, the UK ambassador to Washington said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nSir Kim questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nDating from 2017 to the present day, the leaked emails said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true and policy on sensitive issues such as Iran was \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nAlthough the Mueller investigation later found allegations of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia were not proven, Sir Kim's emails said \"the worst cannot be ruled out\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt reacts to the UK ambassador's leaked emails about US President Donald Trump\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister and the UK leaves the EU by 31 October, \"people like\" Sir Kim would \"not be around\".\n\nAsked about speculation that he might take on the diplomatic role, Mr Farage said: \"I don't think I'm the right man for the job\", adding that he was \"not a diplomat\".\n\nHowever, he said he \"could be very useful\" when dealing with the US administration.\n\nSir Kim is the British ambassador to the US, which means he represents the Queen and UK government interests in the US.\n\nBorn in South Stanley, County Durham in 1954, he attended Durham University where he read zoology.\n\nDuring a 42-year diplomatic career, he has specialised in national security issues and European Union policy.\n\nIn 2007, Sir Kim served in Brussels as UK permanent representative to the EU.\n\nHe was the prime minister's national security adviser between 2012 and 2015, dealing with issues such as the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, Russian annexation of Crimea, the nuclear threat from Iran and the collapse of government authority in Libya.\n\nHe became ambassador to the US in January 2016, a year before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.", "MNEK has set up a writing camp dedicated to helping emerging LGBT singer-songwriters.\n\nHe says there isn't enough support on offer to those starting out in the industry and he's \"faced judgement\" because of his sexuality.\n\nThe Grammy winner hopes this camp will help emerging talent find a safe space to work in.\n\nArtists including Olly Alexander and L Devine are taking part in the event.\n\n\"I've been in situations where someone has told me that my video made them uncomfortable,\" MNEK explains to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"This was a straight man, and I really don't want to have to worry about making him uncomfortable.\n\n\"I should really be worrying about my own comfort and me putting out the best art that I can.\"\n\nThis writing camp, in association with Pride In Music, is offering support to those in a similar position.\n\n\"I wanted to do it because I just know there's a bunch of LGBT writing production talent that I really wanted to get to know each other, and really create a safe space for us to work and create.\"\n\n\"We never really get to do things like this,\" says Ryan Ashley who is a gay artist and part of MNEK's two day camp.\n\n\"I've never personally known there to be an LGBTQ camp of writers. So it's definitely more of a comfortable setting to be in. It's just an enjoyable experience and we get to write songs together.\"\n\nCaitlyn Scarlett is a pansexual artist who is friends with MNEK. She wants to find out what kind of music will come out of a camp completely made of queer people.\n\n\"You would be surprised how little stuff like this happens even though we're in a creative industry,\" says Caitlyn.\n\n\"There's been so many times where we've been in all-straight rooms and obviously that's life, but I think we can look out for ourselves and be kind to ourselves and actually enjoy each others company, and make music and be in safe spaces, says MNEK.\"\n\nRina Sawayama is a singer based in London but originally from Japan. She identifies as bisexual and pansexual, but when she's writing songs she often finds it easier to \"stick to the norm.\"\n\n\"I've had it quite a few times where I've written something and they've asked if we can change it to a boy because it's easier to pitch,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes you don't want to be the spanner in the works but actually why don't we make this song about a same-sex relationship.\n\nRyan doesn't think there's enough support from the industry he works in. But he wants to do more for the next generation of emerging LGBT artists.\n\n\"The labels aren't really championing LGBTQ artists yet, but that's the path we're all trying to open up for the people who come after.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "There was a lot of finger pointing, a lot of flailing, and a lot of squabbling between the two powerful politicians locked in the race to become our next prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson, who has been dreaming of this moment for years through a career of highs, and profound lows, with No 10 nearly in his grasp.\n\nAnd Jeremy Hunt, a politician who has held high office for nearly a decade, but who started this race believing that his bid for the biggest job was a long shot.\n\nThere was, inevitably, the usual sprinkling of attempted jokes from Boris Johnson. After weeks of holding it together he could not quite tame the instinct to jibe.\n\nJeremy Hunt was punctilious and precise in his usual manner.\n\nBut in a curious way they swapped sides too tonight. Hunt trying to provoke, to land spiky points and Mr Johnson trying hard not to offend, whether it was his ally in the White House, or the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth teams will leave Salford content with their candidates' performance.\n\nThe gaffe prone former foreign secretary avoided slipping on any banana skins, and managing not to commit on some of the more controversial issues before him. And the current foreign secretary managed to land his blows on his opponent.\n\nThere was perhaps though no jaw dropper, no moment that turned this race upside down.\n\nMr Johnson arrived the favourite and leaves in the same position. Mr Hunt turned up keen to show that he is ready to use sharp elbows to scrap and to make himself heard with attacks on his rival that are a contrast to his normal careful style.\n\nTheir respective status as the front runner and challenger may not have changed.\n\nYet while Jeremy Hunt may not, from this performance alone, manage to stop Boris Johnson's journey to No 10, he has at least shown that if he gets there, he is likely to face a very tricky time.\n\nConservative party members have their ballots now, and many will already have voted.\n\nBut there is technically still nearly two weeks for those forms to be filled in and put into the post. While the shouting is over for now, the decision is not yet done.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has challenged the next Tory leader to hold another referendum before taking Britain out of the EU, saying Labour will campaign for Remain.\n\nMr Corbyn says the party will take this position to stop \"no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit\".\n\nBut he does not say what he would do if he won a general election and was placed in charge of the Brexit process.\n\nSome senior members of his team want him to take a pro-Remain stance in all circumstances.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's John Pienaar, Mr Corbyn said Labour was now the \"party of choice\" when it came to Brexit.\n\nHe said he had done \"what I think a leader should do... an awful lot of listening\" - to party members, unions and the wider Labour movement - before coming to a revised position.\n\nHe said he would \"make a case\" to Parliament in September to get another referendum and in the meantime, Labour will \"do everything we can to take no deal off the table or stop a damaging deal of the sort Hunt or Johnson propose\".\n\nAsked if he had changed his position because of pressure from colleagues, Mr Corbyn said: \"Not a bit of it. I've been listening and I've enjoyed it.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said he could not say what Labour's position would be at a general election, but would decide it \"very quickly\", depending on the circumstances at the time, whenever one was called.\n\nIn a letter to members, he said Labour continued to believe the \"compromise plan\" set out for Brexit during cross-party talks with the government earlier this year was a \"sensible alternative that could bring the country together\".\n\nThis included a customs union, a strong single market relationship and the protection of environmental regulations and rights at work.\n\nMr Corbyn's statement followed a shadow cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, and a meeting with trade union leaders on Monday.\n\nThe bosses of Labour's five-biggest affiliated unions called for the move the party has made - but also for it to hold a \"confirmatory vote\" on any new deal it negotiated if Labour won a general election.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said there was disagreement about the second part of the unions' stance in shadow cabinet, with deputy leader Tom Watson wanting a \"straight Remain stance\", meaning a decision on it was \"kicked down the road\".\n\nThe deputy leader is among leading figures who have argued that confusion over Labour's message on Brexit contributed to its poor performance in the recent European Parliament elections.\n\nMr Watson said he was \"happy\" with the new Brexit position \"up to the election\", but the party had \"yet to cross that bridge\" when it comes to its manifesto for the next election.\n\n\"Our members have been telling us for some time now that they want us to be a Remain party and that they want us to put the new deal to the people,\" he added.\n\n\"We're now going to campaign for that and I'm very proud that the shadow cabinet have now listened to their concerns.\"\n\nShadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis said if a snap election was called, Labour would try to renegotiate the Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May, despite saying it \"very much looks like\" Labour is now the party of Remain.\n\nHe told the BBC's Politics Live: \"If we win that general election, we will come into power, and if we can renegotiate that deal - a Labour deal - we will, because that's what people asked for.\"\n\nSome Labour MPs, including Brexit-backing John Mann and Emma Lewell-Buck, said the party could lose votes in Leave-supporting areas as a result of the policy.\n\nMs Lewell-Buck, who quit her shadow minister role in opposition to a further referendum, said she was \"concerned\" and had a \"heavy heart\" over the decision.\n\n\"But I am also very clear that I am representing my constituents and I will continue to do that no matter what because they are the people who put me where I am,\" she said.\n\nThere's always a \"but\", it seems, when it comes to Labour and Brexit. What the party is saying explicitly is that it'll try to force the new PM to hold another referendum and if that happens it will back Remain. But we don't know what Labour would do in the event of a general election.\n\nThe feeling among some Labour people is, \"If you think it was hard to get here, trying to come to a manifesto position is going to be even harder,\" so they're just not going there yet.\n\nSometimes it feels Labour has been dragged kicking and screaming towards positions on Brexit, but it has at least got to a new one today. The question is whether it'll have to go further at some point.\n\nSome on the Remain wing will be delighted with Jeremy Corbyn's shift, but others will feel there's more to do.\n\nFormer Labour MP Chris Leslie - who left the party to found Remain-backing Change UK - said Mr Corbyn's stance had \"confirmed that if you vote Labour, you'll get Brexit\".\n\nHe said the position \"wasn't good enough\", adding: \"Brexit - whether a Labour Brexit or a Conservative Brexit - will cost people's jobs, put businesses in jeopardy, and diminish Britain in the eyes of our neighbours.\n\n\"Corbyn's refusal to be honest about that fact is a deep betrayal of the people Labour used to represent.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrat's Brexit spokesperson, Tom Brake, said Labour \"are still a party of Brexit\".\n\nHe added: \"Jeremy Corbyn can pretend all he likes that the Labour Party are finally moving towards backing the Liberal Democrat policy of a People's Vote, but it is clear it is still his intention to negotiate a damaging Brexit deal if he gets the keys to No 10.\"\n\nBut Miriam Mirwitch, chair of Young Labour, welcomed the move, adding: \"This vital shift shows that Labour is a party centred around democracy that has listened to what it's members have wanted for some time: a People's Vote in which Labour campaigns to Remain.\"\n\n28 September 2018 - Labour agrees if a general election cannot be achieved it \"must support all options… including campaigning for a public vote\"\n\nNovember 2018 - Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says Labour will \"inevitably\" back a second referendum if unable to secure general election\n\n6 February 2019 - Mr Corbyn writes a letter to Mrs May seeking five changes to her Brexit policy with no mention of a \"People's Vote\"\n\n25 February 2019 - Labour says it will back a public vote if its proposed Brexit deal is rejected\n\n14 March 2019 - Labour orders its MPs to abstain on an amendment calling for a second referendum\n\n27 March 2019 - The party instructs its MPs to support Margaret Beckett's amendment which calls for a confirmatory public vote on any Brexit deal\n\n30 April 2019 - NEC agrees that the European election manifesto will commit to a further referendum under certain circumstances\n\n9 July 2019 - Labour calls on the next PM to hold a referendum and pledges to campaign for Remain against \"no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit\"", "Primark founder and chairman Arthur Ryan has died after a short illness, the budget fashion chain has announced.\n\nMr Ryan established the High Street retailer as Penneys in 1969 in his hometown of Dublin in Ireland.\n\nFifty years on, the chain has expanded to over 350 stores in 11 countries across Europe and the US.\n\nPrimark chief executive Paul Marchant said 83-year-old Mr Ryan had been \"a true real retail pioneer\" and a \"gifted retailer and a visionary leader\".\n\n\"He innovated and was never complacent, despite many successes. He challenged us all to be the best we can be,\" he said.\n\nMr Ryan ran the company for four decades as chief executive and 10 years ago, he gave up his day-to-day control of the firm to become chairman instead.\n\nBut Mr Marchant said Mr Ryan had remained \"deeply connected\" to the business and had continued to regularly visit stores and walk the shop floor.\n\nThe chain is still known as Penneys in Ireland, but was renamed when it expanded to the UK to avoid legal issues with US department store chain JC Penney, which had trademarked the name.\n\nMr Ryan started the chain after being tasked by the wealthy Weston family to open a discount clothes retailer.\n\nCrowds were handed balloons as they ran into a new Primark store in Birmingham earlier this year\n\nPrimark has expanded rapidly in recent years, continuing to thrive in what has been a tough environment for many of its rivals.\n\nEarlier this year, Primark's parent company Associated British Foods said it expected sales and profit to continue to increase in the first half of the year.\n\nIn April, the chain opened its largest ever store in Birmingham, with the 161,000 sq ft five-floor space covering the entire site of a former shopping centre.\n\nGeorge Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, said Mr Ryan would be remembered as \"one of the great giants of retailing\".\n\n\"When my grandfather, Garfield Weston, and uncle, Galen Weston, recruited Arthur to run Penneys in 1969 with only one store in Dublin, they knew they were hiring an exceptional trader.\n\n\"But what three generations of Westons learned over the following decades was that Arthur was also a great leader and business builder, driven every day by a relentless desire to delight his customers.\n\n\"Arthur Ryan made fashion accessible to all and his legacy looms large.\"\n• None Are businesses using Pride without giving back?", "Chinese and Indian ethnic group workers have higher average earnings than their white British counterparts, the first detailed official figures show.\n\nBut the data on the ethnicity pay gap, showed all other ethnic groups have lower wages than white British workers.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said employees in the Bangladeshi ethnic group have the largest pay gap, earning 20% less than white British employees.\n\nOn average, ethnic minorities earn 3.8% less than white ethnic groups.\n\nThe categories are the official ones used by ONS.\n\nIn 2018, employees from the Chinese ethnic group earned 30.9% more than white British employees.\n\nHugh Stickland, senior ONS analyst, said: \"Overall, employees from certain ethnic groups such as Indian and Chinese, have higher average earnings than their white British counterparts.\n\n\"However, all other ethnic groups have average wages lower than for white British employees, with employees from the Bangladeshi ethnic group having the largest pay gap.\n\n\"However, once characteristics such as education and occupation are taken into account, the pay gap between white British and most other ethnic groups becomes narrower, though significant differences still remain.\"\n\nThe data - based on median gross hourly earnings between 2012 and 2018 - shows that the Chinese ethnicity group is the highest paid, receiving £15.75 an hour in 2018.\n\nThat group is followed by the Indian ethic group - which earns £13.47 an hour - and mixed/multiple ethnicity group, with a £12.33 hourly pay rate.\n\nThe median pay of the white British group was £12.03. The Bangladeshi group had the lowest median hourly pay of £9.60 with the second-lowest paid group being of Pakistani origin at £10 an hour.\n\nThe data comes after a report last year from the Resolution Foundation found black and ethnic minority workers were paid significantly less than their white counterparts.\n\n\"The harsh reality is that even today race still plays a real role in determining pay,\" said Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC.\n\n\"Ministers must take bold action to confront inequality and racism in the labour market. The obvious first step is to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting without delay,\" she said.\n\nThe government has consulted on whether mandatory reporting will help address disparities between the pay and career prospects of minorities.\n\nThe government has already introduced mandatory reporting on the gender pay gap - which stands at 9.6% in favour of men - and the ONS data also shows discrepancies in male and female earnings in the ethnic groups.\n\nThe Chinese and Indian groups, which both have the highest rate of hourly pay, were among those with the biggest gender gaps.\n\nChinese men on average earned 19.1% more than women and Indian men earned 23.2% more than women.\n\nBut women in the Bangladeshi ethnic group earn more than their male counterparts - with a 10.5% gap.\n\nThe ONS said, though, that the sample size for the Bangladeshi group was smaller and susceptible to inaccuracy compared with other ethnic groups.\n\nLondon, which has the highest proportion of its population classified as an ethnic minority group, also has the largest pay gap of 21.7%.\n\nThe ONS found this gap was reversed in other parts of Britain. In the north-east of England, for instance, employees from an ethnic minority group had average earnings that were 6.5% more than the average earnings of white employees.\n\nThe ONS says that where someone is born can have an influence on how much they are paid.\n\n\"By comparing those who were born in the UK and those who were not, it may give us an idea of what sort of effect having a UK education and the higher likelihood of speaking English as a first language may have on those from an ethnic minority background,\" the ONS said.\n\nIt found those in the Bangladeshi ethnic group - who had been born in the UK - earned 8% less than white British employees. But for Bangladeshi employees born outside the UK the gap was 26.8%.\n\nWhen taking other factors into account, such as education, UK-born employees in the Indian and Chinese ethnic groups do not have pay gaps that are \"statistically different\" from the UK-born white British employees, the ONS found.\n\nFor example, almost a third of workers in the Indian ethnic group work in professional roles which means they tend to be higher-paid.", "Writing on the school wall in Senegal: Progress to widening access to education has stalled, says UN report\n\nPromises by world leaders to raise global education standards by 2030 are unlikely to be kept, warns the United Nations' education agency.\n\nUnesco says on current trends, 30% of adults and 20% of young people will still be illiterate in poor countries.\n\nThere are 262 million young people without access to school, with the worst problems in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nThe UN agency warns that the numbers missing out on education are unlikely to fall much in the next decade.\n\nThe report examines progress towards global targets, the \"sustainable development goals\", which in 2015 the international community committed to achieve by 2030.\n\nThese included promises on education - but after four years, the projections from Unesco show, they are already off track and unlikely to be achieved without a significant change of direction.\n\nAbout 18% of children are without school places - and Unesco's report says on current trends this will have fallen to 14% by the end of the next decade, which will still mean 225 million out of school.\n\nThere had been more progress in the early years of the century, particularly in reducing the number of primary age children who do not even get the first basics of an education.\n\nRefugees in Chad: Conflicts have disrupted the educations of tens of millions\n\nThe out-of-school rate for primary years had fallen from 15% to 9% between 2000 and 2008 - but, the report says, progress then seemed to stall.\n\nThis has been linked to a reduction in overseas aid in the wake of the financial crash.\n\nBut it also reflects the fact there is a hard-to-reach group of children whose chances of going to school have been disrupted by war and violence, being forced to become refugees, corruption and political failure.\n\nThere are inequalities of access - such as barriers to girls and rural families getting an education.\n\nBut the biggest gap is related to poverty - with only 4% of youngsters in low-income families staying on to the end of secondary school.\n\nA classroom in Uganda: The biggest challenges to get all children in school are in sub-Saharan Africa\n\nThe report also highlights practical problems, such as an acute lack of trained teachers.\n\nThe proportion of teachers with at least basic training has fallen in sub-Saharan Africa, so the problem is worse now than at the beginning of the century.\n\nThe growing population has also been a challenge in this region - and 54% of all the children without school are now in sub-Saharan Africa, compared with 41% in 2000.\n\nAcross the world, the Unesco report says, by 2030 about 90% of adults will be literate. But in low-income countries, there will still be 30% of adults who are illiterate.\n\nUnesco also highlights the differences in outcomes between developing countries.\n\nLiberia is among the least likely to provide education for all its children, with many school buildings being damaged by conflict and many teachers leaving the country.\n\nEthiopia has seen an increase in access to schools\n\nBut Ethiopia is seen as making much better progress, investing more than a quarter of its budget on education and raising the numbers of girls in school and female teachers.\n\nNepal and Afghanistan are also seen as making considerable improvements in access to education.\n\nThis is the latest in a series of missed education targets after high-profile international pledges - despite education being seen as important for improving health and prosperity in poorer countries and preventing extremism.\n\nPromises made in 1990 to ensure access to primary education were not achieved by the deadline of 2000.\n\nDespite hardships, Afghanistan is commended for widening access to school\n\nThese were replaced by millennium goals for improving global education, which were missed by the 2015 deadline.\n\nThese were followed by the sustainable development goals set in 2015.\n\nThese promised that all children would be able to complete primary and secondary education by 2030.\n\nBut, the report from Unesco says, after almost a third of the 15-year target has elapsed, the trends suggest these goals are likely to be missed.\n\n\"The world is far off track on achieving international commitments to education,\" the report says.\n\n\"For several years now, no progress has been made on access into primary and secondary education. Only one in two young people complete secondary school.\"", "Robinson was found guilty of interfering with the trial of a sexual grooming gang\n\nEx-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson encouraged \"vigilante action\" against defendants when he filmed them in a Facebook Live, judges have said.\n\nRobinson was found in contempt of court last week over the broadcast, which he made in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.\n\nExplaining the decision, judge Dame Victoria Sharp said the video could have \"seriously impeded\" justice over a sexual grooming gang's trial.\n\nHis sentencing is expected on Thursday.\n\nIn a written ruling, Dame Victoria - President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court - gave the reasons why she and Mr Justice Warby had found Robinson guilty.\n\nShe said that the 36-year-old, from Luton, had claimed his intention in making the broadcast was to \"denounce the media\" for their behaviour.\n\nBut the judges found Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had encouraged others \"to harass a defendant by finding him, knocking on his door, following him, and watching him.\"\n\nThis created \"a real risk that the course of justice would be seriously impeded\", she said.\n\nTommy Robinson told the crowd outside the Old Bailey on Friday that he thought the decision was wrong\n\n\"All of this has to be assessed in the context of the video as a whole, in which the respondent [Stephen Yaxley-Lennon] approves and encourages vigilante action.\"\n\nThe judges were sure his words would have been understood by \"a substantial number of viewers as an incitement to engage in harassment of the defendants\", she added.\n\nDame Victoria said that using the dangers of using \"un-moderated platforms\" on social media were obvious and that Robinson's conduct created a risk that the defendants would be intimidated.\n\nMr Robinson's words during the broadcast \"had a clear tendency to encourage unlawful physical or verbal aggression towards identifiable targets\".\n\n\"Harassment of the kind he was describing could not be justified\", she said.\n\nDame Victoria added that Robinson's Facebook Live could have made the defendants \"feel intimidated\" which risked having a \"significant adverse impact on their ability to participate in the closing stages of the trial.\"\n\n\"That in itself would represent a serious impediment to the course of justice\", she said.\n\nThe judges also rejected Robison's evidence that he had made checks in the court over reporting restrictions as \"not credible\".\n\nThey found that he \"quite deliberately\" reported on the case, which he had told his viewers was the subject of a reporting restriction.\n\nDame Victoria said Robinson's right to freedom of expression \"could not justify an interference with fair trial rights\".\n\nA provisional date of 11 July has been given for Robinson's sentencing hearing.\n\nThe maximum sentence for contempt of court is two years in prison, but it can also be punished with an unlimited fine.", "Nicki Minaj is known for her provocative and highly sexualised performances\n\nRapper Nicki Minaj has cancelled a scheduled performance in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBT community.\n\nHer headline billing at the festival in Jeddah triggered an outcry from critics of the country's human rights record.\n\nOthers questioned how her revealing outfits and explicit lyrics would go over in the ultra-conservative kingdom.\n\nSaudi Arabia has been trying to ease restrictions on entertainment and to encourage growth in its arts sector.\n\nScrutiny of the country's human rights record intensified after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.\n\nIn March, the kingdom drew further criticism when it put 10 women's rights activists on trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Saudi women still can't do\n\n\"After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my scheduled concert at Jeddah World Fest,\" the singer said in a statement.\n\n\"While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression.\"\n\nOn Friday, the US-based Human Rights Foundation wrote an open letter to Minaj urging her to withdraw from the 18 July festival.\n\nIt called on her to \"refuse the regime's money\" and use her influence to demand the release of the detained women activists.\n\nLast week some on social media described the singer's decision to perform in Jeddah as hypocritical, contrasting her appearances at gay pride events with Saudi Arabia's stance on gay rights. Homosexuality is banned in Saudi Arabia.\n\nMinaj was not the first performer to cause controversy by accepting an invitation to perform in Saudi Arabia.\n\nEarlier this year, Mariah Carey defied calls from human rights activists to cancel her performance in the kingdom, while last December rapper Nelly came under fire for performing a \"men only\" concert.\n• None With French help, Saudis to embrace opera", "The battleship Markgraf was among those scuttled\n\nFour World War One warships sunk in Scapa Flow in Orkney in 1919 have been sold on eBay for a combined total of £85,000.\n\nThe Markgraf, Karlsruhe, Konig and Kronprinz Wilhelm are scheduled monuments, which recreational divers are not supposed to enter.\n\nThe asking price was over £800,000.\n\nThe three battleships sold for £25,500 each to a Middle Eastern company. The cruiser, Karlsruhe, sold for £8,500 to a private bidder in England.\n\nThe vessels, which were part of the German High Seas fleet, were deliberately scuttled 100 years ago.\n\nThey cannot be removed from the seabed.\n\nWhen the listing first appeared on online auction site eBay, some assumed the advert was a hoax.\n\nBut the seller explained that they had been bought from a defunct salvage company.\n\nDrew Crawford, mediating agent for owner of the wrecks - retired Tayside diving contractor Tommy Clark - said they were not certain as to the long-term intentions of the new owners, and the sale would depend on terms and conditions being met.\n\nHe said: \"We're finalising details of the sale with them.\n\n\"We hope to know more, ultimately, later this week.\n\n\"It's not very often ships or shipwrecks like this come up for sale, especially with the history these vessels have.\n\n\"It's a very rare occurrence and not something you see often at all.\"\n\nThe listing described the ships as \"pre-owned\"\n\nThe fleet had been interned in Scapa Flow after surrendering in the Firth of Forth.\n\nAdmiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the deliberate sinking of his ships in WW1 because he feared either the resumption of hostilities if treaty negotiations in Paris broke down, or the seizing of the fleet by the Allies as war reparations.\n\nDuring the 1920s and 30s a number of the vessels were lifted from the sea bed by commercial contractors, and broken up.\n\nSome historians argue that saved Orkney from the worst effects of the post-war recession.\n\nAnd the presence of the wrecks in Scapa Flow has made the area a destination of choice for divers, keen to see the remains on the sea bed.", "Recreational cannabis is legal in 10 US states\n\nTeenagers are less likely to use cannabis in places where the drug has been legalised, a new study suggests.\n\nResearchers at Montana State University looked at health surveys of US high school pupils between 1993 and 2017.\n\nWhile overall use among US youth went up, the likelihood of teen use declined by nearly 10% in states where recreational use was legalised.\n\nSome 33 states have legalised medical cannabis, while 10 states have also legalised recreational use.\n\nCannabis use remains illegal in all states for people under the age of 18.\n\nLead author of the study Mark Anderson told the Associated Press that the study, published in the medical journal Jama Paediatrics, \"should help to quell some concerns that use among teens will actually go up\".\n\nHis team analysed data on about 1.4 million teenagers in the US, taken from the Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys, an annual national survey carried out by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nDr Anderson said it was usually harder for teens to buy from licensed dispensaries - where proof of age is required - than from dealers, which could partly explain the drop. Cannabis sold in dispensaries is also often more expensive.\n\nDr Anderson said that the researchers did not find a change after medical cannabis was legalised - only when the drug was legalised for recreational purposes.\n\nIt may be harder for teenagers to buy from licensed dispensaries\n\nThe results echo those of a previous study, published last December, that found cannabis use among teens in Washington dropped after the state legalised the drug in 2012.\n\nBut the results contradicted a 2018 study from Colorado which found that the number of high school pupils who said they used cannabis stayed the same after recreational use was legalised in that state in 2014.\n\nDr Anderson told the US broadcaster CNN that, because most states that have legalised cannabis did so recently, the team would need to continue to track the data and update their findings \"in a few years\".", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. Our website, like our TV and radio services, strives for journalism that is accurate, impartial, independent and fair.\n\nOur editorial values say: \"The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences.\n\n\"Our commitment to impartiality is at the heart of that relationship of trust. In all our output we will treat every subject with an impartiality that reflects the full range of views. We will consider all the relevant facts fairly and with an open mind.\"\n\nResearch shows that, compared to other broadcasters, newspapers and online sites, the BBC is seen as by far the most trusted and impartial news provider in the UK [PDF].\n\nEven so, we know that identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience. 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End of twitter post 2 by CROWN OUT NOW 👑\n\nAnd Skin says it's not the first time she's been overlooked.\n\n\"It's one of those things - Beyonce said she was the first black female and I didn't really say anything then.\n\n\"I love Stormzy, it's all come from a place of love, but I did feel like I had to point out that we did it.\"\n\n\"At the end of the day - and I don't want to offend any Keith Flint fans out there - but you could argue Maxim was a frontman of the Prodigy.\n\n\"And they beat us to it in 1997!\"\n\nGoing back even further, there are bands like UB40 who had several black members and headlined in 1983.\n\nTheir lead singer was white, though - so it really comes down to how you define a \"black headliner\".\n\nMaxim from the Prodigy could also claim to be the first black British artist to headline Glastonbury\n\nSkunk Anansie formed in 1994, headlined Glastonbury in 1999, split up in 2001 and reformed in 2008.\n\nBut Skin says when they played Worthy Farm her race was never explicitly mentioned.\n\n\"It wasn't a conversation that was being had whether we were the first or I was the first black woman or anything like that.\"\n\nBut she thinks, under the surface, it was on people's minds.\n\n\"Glastonbury had a certain face at that time and it was white rock artists and not many women either.\n\n\"So there were a lot of articles and newspapers that were asking 'Why Skunk Anansie?', in the same way that, when he did it, people were asking 'Why Jay-Z?'\n\n\"Because there's a black face at the front of the band maybe people thought it wasn't rock enough - that it wasn't the right face for Glastonbury festival.\"\n\nStormzy used his set to talk about everything from politics to knife crime\n\nBut she thinks attitudes have now changed.\n\n\"Twenty years later Stormzy is there and it's just amazing to see,\" she says.\n\n\"To be honest I think 20 years is a bit too long. There could have been many black artists in that 20 years that could have had that slot and absolutely nailed it, from Dizzee Rascal to Goldie.\n\n\"But me and Maxim from the Prodigy are good friends and we're just really proud for this next generation and bigging up Stormzy.\n\n\"None of us want to put even a hint of shade on his amazing success. We're really delighted for him.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Rycroft, who resigned after 18 months as the Brexit boss, told the BBC no deal was \"fraught with risk\"\n\nEveryone should worry about no deal, the civil servant who was, until March, head of the Brexit department has said.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, who resigned after 18 months, told the BBC's Panorama no deal was \"fraught with risk\".\n\nAnd NI police said no deal could help recruitment for paramilitary groups.\n\nBoth the candidates in the race to replace Theresa May as prime minister - Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson - have said they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nFormer Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said there was \"no reason at all\" why new negotiations with the EU could not be completed in \"the next three months\".\n\nBut the EU has repeatedly refused to re-open negotiations.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March but this date was delayed after MPs repeatedly rejected Mrs May's deal. Currently, Brexit is set to take place on 31 October.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process, immediately coming out of the single market and customs union and institutions like law enforcement body Europol.\n\nThose against say it would damage the economy, especially industries like farming, and cause widespread disruption, but some politicians insist problems could be quickly overcome.\n\nThe government says it has been preparing for almost three years to minimise that disruption and to provide people and businesses with information they need to get ready.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview since stepping down as permanent secretary at the Brexit department, Mr Rycroft said the planning operation for exiting the EU was \"an unprecedented situation\" and \"the biggest exercise across government over the last few decades\".\n\nHe told Panorama: \"This has been an extraordinary exercise to which the civil service is responding brilliantly well… The planning I think is in good shape, absolutely… but of course what that doesn't mean is that there won't be an impact from Brexit, and particularly a no-deal Brexit, because that is a very major change and it would be a very abrupt change to our major trading relationship.\"\n\n\"The rational outcome over the next few months is to get a deal because that is overwhelmingly in the economic interest of both the EU and the UK.\"\n\nMr Rycroft continued: \"It's not in the UK's interest to have no deal, it's not in the EU's interest to have a no deal.\n\n\"I think everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation. We would be taking a step into the unknown.\"\n\nBut Sir Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today programme said no deal was the \"ultimate fall back\" and needed to be prepared for \"so that our partners are convinced that this is a deadly serious negotiation\".\n\n\"We have got three months to do this with a fresh approach,\" he said. \"We need some alternative arrangements for Northern Ireland - some of that technology is already in place - we need the right to exit the backstop if the negotiations fail, we need some improvements to the political declaration.\n\n\"These aren't the biggest things, but what they do require is some optimism and ambition and above all some energy.\n\n\"We will have a fresh team, a fresh prime minister and there is no reason at all why this can't be done in the next three months.\"\n\nA line of lorries seen in Kent during a trial of how routes from major ferry terminals will cope in case of a no-deal Brexit\n\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, additional checks on goods being delivered across the UK-EU border could result in delays on the roads - especially around the Port of Dover in Kent, which handles 17% of the UK's goods trade.\n\nRichard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, said working with the government to prepare for no deal had been \"a frustrating process\". He said: \"We have no clarity of the processes - what's actually going to happen on day one.\"\n\nMr Burnett told Panorama that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling had left him a voicemail expressing his disappointment after the RHA issued a press release following a private briefing.\n\nIn response, Mr Grayling said the haulage industry had been heavily involved in EU preparatory work and would continue to be so.\n\n\"It is obviously disappointing when someone issues a press release on the back of what was a private working group to discuss how we best approach both a deal and a no deal,\" he told the BBC. \"But we have continued to meet and engage with them.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland also told the BBC of its concern at the impact on security of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThere are fears that one could lead to the introduction of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - a situation Sinn Fein has said would lead to further calls for a referendum on Irish unification.\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs told Panorama: \"We know that the New IRA and other groups continue to recruit people and we believe that Brexit provides an opportunity for them to encourage people to recruit.\"\n\nBut he added that, despite their worries, to date the PSNI had not seen \"any upsurge\" in violence or recruitment being driven by Brexit.\n\nMr Mairs also expressed fears price differences on the border could create \"new opportunities\" for criminal gangs, claiming: \"We would see, traditionally, connections between some of those groups and more violent groups.\n\n\"The potential impact of a no deal on the economy in Northern Ireland is significant, and that would, in our view, present potentially significant security concerns.\"\n\nThe handling of Brexit has been the key issue in the Conservative leadership race.\n\nFrontrunner Mr Johnson has said the UK should prepare \"confidently and seriously\" for a no-deal Brexit, but believes the chances of it happening are \"one million to one against\".\n\nHe has said he will try to get a new deal negotiated with the EU, but has promised to leave the EU with or without one on 31 October.\n\nHis rival, Mr Hunt, also wants to change the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Mrs May and thinks this can be achieved by the end of October.\n\nHe has said he is prepared to delay Brexit beyond that date, if there is a prospect of getting a deal. If not, he would be prepared to leave without one but with \"a heavy heart\".\n\nMeanwhile MPs opposed to no deal are seeking ways to block such an outcome. Tory MP and ex-minister Sam Gyimah says there are \"30 plus\" Conservative MPs who would vote to block a no-deal Brexit.", "The family of actor Cameron Boyce has confirmed the Disney star has died at the age of 20.\n\nA spokesperson said he passed away in his sleep after suffering a seizure.\n\nHe made his acting debut in the horror film Mirrors but is best known for roles in Disney's Descendants and the TV show Jessie.\n\nHis death was confirmed on the evening of Saturday 6 July and linked to \"an ongoing medical condition\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by thecameronboyce This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron,\" a spokesperson said on behalf of his family.\n\n\"He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.\n\n\"The world is now undoubtedly without one of its brightest lights, but his spirit will live on through the kindness and compassion of all who knew and loved him.\n\n\"We are utterly heartbroken and ask for privacy during this immensely difficult time as we grieve the loss of our precious son and brother.\"\n\nCameron Boyce played the role of Carlos de Vil in Disney's Descendants\n\nCameron Boyce was only nine years old when he appeared in Mirrors. He then went on to play one of Adam Sandler's children in the movie Grown Ups.\n\nHowever it was on the Disney channel show Jessie that he became most well known as the character Luke Ross.\n\nThat led to him playing the part of Carlos de Vil in Descendants, the popular TV movie series which follows the lives of the children of Disney baddies.\n\nTributes have been paid by his fellow actors and fans.\n\nAdam Sandler posted a message on social media saying Cameron Boyce was \"the nicest, most talented, and most decent kid around\".\n\nCameron's Jessie co-star Skai Jackson wrote an emotional tribute to her friend, who she starred alongside for four seasons.\n\n\"Cam, you were one of a kind. My heart will be forever broken,\" she wrote alongside a number of videos featuring him.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Disney Channel spokesman described him as an \"incredibly talented performer\".\n\nThey said: \"From a young age, Cameron Boyce dreamed of sharing his extraordinary artistic talents with the world.\n\n\"As a young man, he was fuelled by a strong desire to make a difference in people's lives through his humanitarian work.\n\n\"He was an incredibly talented performer, a remarkably caring and thoughtful person and, above all else, he was a loving and dedicated son, brother, grandson and friend.\n\n\"We offer our deepest condolences to his family, cast mates and colleagues and join his many millions of fans in grieving his untimely passing. He will be dearly missed.\"\n\nCameron Boyce had shared a black and white photo of himself on Instagram the day before he died.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None The power of Disney's nostalgia during a pandemic", "Cheryl has spoken about her struggle with anxiety and how she feels about people who post unpleasant messages about her online.\n\n\"They're not OK,\" she tells Katie Thistleton and Cel Spellman on Radio 1's Life Hacks this week.\n\n\"You can't believe people think those things about you, you can't believe people feel those things about you,\" she says.\n\nCheryl, now 36, says she took criticism hardest in her teens and early 20s.\n\nBut now she believes negative comments are more \"a reflection than it is a truth\" and that they say more about the person writing it than her.\n\n\"If someone has the time and the mental capacity to want to go on an article and write a sentence about somebody, you've got to be quite an angry sad person,\" she says.\n\n\"These people don't know you. They have no idea about you as a person or what's really going on.\"\n\nCheryl says the criticism was harder to deal with when she was younger\n\nAnd it's not just the comments people post online that causes concern for the singer - she's also worried about how people put on a \"facade\" of how their life really is on social media.\n\nShe says this is a problem because it's something she used to do herself.\n\n\"I would walk out to a wall of paparazzi and put on a smile but inside I was dying,\" she says.\n\n\"I think what happens then is everyone is looking around like, 'why does everyone seem so good and having a good time in a happy place and I feel rubbish?' And that's not helpful.\n\n\"So if people would just be a bit more open and honest with how they're feeling, I think we could all help each other.\"\n\nDuring the interview, Cheryl also revealed how she had a year of therapy due to her struggle with anxiety after giving birth to her son in 2017.\n\n\"I struggled for so many years with anxiety and in my own head,\" she says.\n\n\"I didn't want that to be happening when I was trying to focus on raising a child.\n\n\"It felt like my responsibilities shifted and my priorities changed and I needed to be settled in my own head to be able to give him the best that I could possibly give him.\"\n\nListen to the full interview on Life Hacks on Sunday, 7 July 2019, on BBC Radio 1.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A flooding emergency in the Washington DC area left commuters in hazardous conditions. Torrential downpours led to road closures and left drivers stranded as well as dangerous flooding on the underground rail-lines.", "Passengers were stranded at Gatwick and others due to land were redirected\n\nPolice at Gatwick Airport were not prepared for an attack by more than one drone, a senior officer has said.\n\nFlights were suspended for 30 hours after the drone sightings in December, causing chaos for 140,000 passengers.\n\nSussex Police Supt Justin Burtenshaw said its \"drone plan\" had been based \"around a single drone incursion and not a multiple one\".\n\nHe said the airport industry was left \"playing catch up\", but Gatwick's defences were \"now fit for purpose\".\n\n\"We have now got the mitigation technology in place, I wish we had that in December,\" he added.\n\nAnti-drone equipment was deployed by the RAF at Gatwick Airport\n\nSupt Burtenshaw was speaking to Philip Ingram, a former British Army intelligence officer, at the Interpol World conference in Singapore on 3 July.\n\nHe said: \"We had a number of witnesses who saw two drones at the same time, so we're happy that on at least a couple of those occasions there were two drones flying.\"\n\nNo-one has been charged over the disruption, described as a \"sustained\" drone attack.\n\nSupt Burtenshaw said this was a \"reflection of how complex it is\" and was \"certainly not a failing in my officers\".\n\nThe officer also said that \"jamming technology\" - intended to remotely bring down a drone - was \"just not tested\".\n\n\"All this stuff is built for theatre of war. We are introducing something that is great in a desert into an urban environment and saying we are not quite sure what it's going to do,\" he said.\n\n\"I still don't know what effect a jamming technology is going to have on a hospital that is four kilometres away, so we have to be really careful.\"\n\nSupt Burtenshaw said the technology, which was installed in January at a cost of £5m, would only be used if there were \"no aircraft in the sky\".\n\nHe added: \"[It's] not something we would use very quickly.\"\n\nFootage of Supt Burtenshaw being interviewed by Mr Ingram had been uploaded on YouTube, but was removed after a journalist contacted Sussex Police.\n\nThe force said the interview had been carried out \"on the understanding that it would be shared only among those attending the private conference\".\n\nIt added: \"Once the organisers realised their error in broadcasting the interview on YouTube, they removed it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's data privacy regulator has said it plans to fine the US hotel group Marriott International £99.2m.\n\nThe penalty relates to a data breach that resulted in about 339 million guests having had their personal details exposed.\n\nThe incident is thought to date back to 2014 but was only discovered in 2018.\n\nIt comes a day after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it planned to fine British Airways £183m over a separate breach.\n\nThe size of both penalties reflects the fact that the watchdog has greater powers as a result of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force last year.\n\nThe Marriott data breach included 30 million guest records belonging to Europeans. It occurred within Starwood - a rival hotel group that Marriott acquired three years ago. The compromised guest reservation system has since been phased out.\n\nMarriott International's president, Arne Sorenson, said: \"We are disappointed with this notice of intent from the ICO, which we will contest. Marriott has been co-operating with the ICO throughout its investigation into the incident, which involved a criminal attack against the Starwood guest reservation database.\n\n\"We deeply regret this incident happened. We take the privacy and security of guest information very seriously and continue to work hard to meet the standard of excellence that our guests expect from Marriott.\"\n\nThe ICO said that Marriott had failed to properly review Starwood's data practices and should have done more to secure its systems.\n\n\"The GDPR makes it clear that organisations must be accountable for the personal data they hold,\" said Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham.\n\n\"This can include carrying out proper due diligence when making a corporate acquisition, and putting in place proper accountability measures to assess not only what personal data has been acquired, but also how it is protected.\"\n\nSecurity company CyberInt's lead researcher Jason Hill said: \"The draconian fines.. are a wake-up call to all organisations, big and small.\"\n\n\"Although this may come as a blow to a company such as BA or Marriott, they are robust enough to weather the storm. A smaller organisation suffering a serious breach could find itself overwhelmed by any penalty which, when combined with the loss of consumer confidence and the associated reputational damage -with devastating consequences for its business.\"", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals with an accomplished display against two-time champion Petra Kvitova.\n\nThe 28-year-old came from a set down to beat the Czech sixth seed 4-6 6-2 6-4.\n\nKonta is one win away from emulating her 2017 feat of reaching the last four and two away from becoming the first British women's singles finalist since Virginia Wade won the title in 1977.\n\nShe will take on Czech world number 54 Barbora Strycova on Tuesday.\n\nWith defeats on Monday for world number one Ashleigh Barty, third seed Karolina Pliskova, and now Kvitova, it leaves seventh seed Simona Halep, eighth seed Elina Svitolina and 11th seed Serena Williams as the highest ranked players left in the women's draw.\n\n\"It was small margins in the end,\" said Konta, who is enjoying deep runs at back-to-back Grand Slams for the first time following last month's French Open semi-final.\n\n\"I'm tremendously grateful to be here and I'm just happy to still be in this event and to be competing against the best players in the world.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta finds another gear after going behind\n\nKonta had come into the match having dropped serve just once in 33 games at the championships and it was unfortunate for her that she picked just the wrong moment for a rare break.\n\nHaving matched Kvitova's power game by game in the opening set, she sent a forehand long to give the Czech set point and then went wide to allow her to convert it.\n\nThe lapse seemed to fire up Konta, who wasted no time in breaking to love in the opening game of the second and then backed it up with a hard-fought hold in a 12-minute game where she was taken to deuce seven times and fended off two break points.\n\nThat was the turning point from which Konta found a new gear, establishing a double break and putting the Czech's serve under consistent pressure - all the more impressive given that this was against a player who had yet to drop a set in the tournament.\n\nKonta had some treatment on her foot, having it sprayed and taped, before serving for the set and claiming it with an ace.\n\nShe continued to dominate the 2011 and 2014 champion in the third with Kvitova - who had been sidelined with an arm injury in the run-up to Wimbledon - unable to serve her way out of trouble.\n\nKonta went a double break up in the third before wobbling with the finishing line in sight when she was serving for the match at 5-2, when she was broken having squandered two match points with first a wide forehand and then a long one.\n\nBut when she got her second chance two games later, she made no mistake and wrapped up victory when Kvitova's forehand whizzed way past the baseline.\n\nAnother Grand Slam, another quarter-final - Konta back on track\n\nKonta was a semi-finalist here two years ago during a run of form that catapulted her to number four in the world rankings.\n\nShe is enjoying a similar upturn this season, having risen from 47th in the world in April to 18th now after her Roland Garros success and two WTA finals on clay in May.\n\nShe has carried the momentum through on to grass, where once again her serve is her key weapon. She has now been broken just three times in 47 games at these championships.\n\nHer form this year has been in marked contrast to last year where she went out in the second round of Wimbledon after a first-round exit at the French Open.\n\nThe upturn has coincided with the hiring of a new coach towards the end of last year - Dimitri Zavialoff, who used to work with three-time Grand Slam singles champion Stan Wawrinka.\n\nUnder the softly spoken Frenchman, Konta's own mood has become calmer and against Kvitova there never seemed to be any doubt in her mind that she could win this match.\n\nShe has also made something of a habit of turning three-set matches into victories, including two in the Fed Cup play-off victory over Kazakhstan in April that seemed to set the tone for her season.\n\nLike in the previous round against Sloane Stephens, where she trailed after the first set, she again showed great mental strength to deliver in front of a delighted Centre Court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Texas billionaire and political outsider Ross Perot said he had lived the American Dream\n\nTexan billionaire Ross Perot, who in the 1990s twice ran for US president against candidates from the two main parties, has died at the age of 89.\n\nDescribed as idiosyncratic and feisty, he pioneered the computer data industry by founding his own company in 1962.\n\nBut he was best known for running in the 1992 campaign, advocating balanced budgets and calling for an end to the outsourcing of jobs abroad.\n\nPerot took almost a fifth of the popular vote in the three-way race.\n\nThat made him one of the most successful independent candidates in US history, and was believed to have helped Democrat Bill Clinton defeat incumbent George HW Bush.\n\nPerot ran for president again in 1996, after forming the Reform Party.\n\nHe was diagnosed with leukaemia earlier this year.\n\nH Ross Perot was an American original. A self-made billionaire with a penchant for plain-speaking in his clipped north Texas twang, he built a reputation as a savvy technology entrepreneur and spent a small fortune helping US veterans and attempting to free American hostages abroad.\n\nHe was also a political harbinger.\n\nHis 1992 independent presidential bid - the most successful third-party candidacy in eight decades - exposed fault lines in the US political system that would someday result in electoral earthquakes. He capitalised on the thirst of American voters for an outsider who could disrupt two-party government and built a dedicated following with his populist, small-government, anti-trade, anti-globalist rhetoric.\n\nHis unconventional candidacy, announced on a US talk show, straddled the line between entertainment and politics and contributed to the defeat of incumbent Republican President George HW Bush.\n\nAlthough his second presidential bid in 1996 faltered and the Reform Party he founded crumbled once he scaled back his involvement, the ideological themes he built it on would later be adopted by Donald Trump to bring the establishment of the Republican Party as it existed for decades crashing down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Perot family said in a statement on Tuesday: \"Ross Perot, the ground-breaking businessman and loving husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away early Tuesday at his home in Dallas, surrounded by his devoted family.\"\n\nReacting to the news, Vice-President Mike Pence said Perot had been \"a great American, a true patriot and a steadfast supporter of our military\".\n\nBill Clinton said: \"Although we were opponents in 1992 and 1996, I respected Ross for his support for our veterans, the business he built, and the passion he brought to his politics.\"\n\nBorn in 1930, during the Great Depression, Perot grew up in poverty. He began his technology career working in sales for IBM, before founding Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, at the age of 32.\n\nThe company - which was later sold to Hewlett-Packard - made him rich. In the 1980s he set up Perot Systems which was eventually acquired by Dell for $3.9bn.\n\nPerot (centre) gained prominence by running against heavyweights Bill Clinton and George HW Bush\n\nAs an employer, Perot was known for his quirks - particularly his strict dress code. Workers had to wear white shirts and ties, and beards were banned.\n\nWhen two of his employees were jailed in Iran in 1979 over a contract dispute - just before the Islamic Revolution - he financed a private commando rescue in a raid that inspired a book and a film.\n\nHe championed patriotic causes, and in the late 1970s and 1980s claimed that hundreds of missing US soldiers had been left behind and imprisoned after the Vietnam War.\n\nThe 1992 campaign - during which Perot spent $63m (£50m) of his own money - made him a household name. At one point in June that year, he had a lead over both his mainstream rivals. Perot finished a strong third in the November election.\n\nHis second campaign in 1996 was less successful. He did not take part in presidential debates and got just 8% of the vote.", "ASAP Rocky has been detained in Sweden for an extra two weeks on suspicion of assault, Sweden's Prosecution Authority has told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nThe news follows a fight on the street in Stockholm last Sunday.\n\nThe rapper was due to be headlining Wireless festival in London this Sunday, 7 July, but will remain in custody in Stockholm while an investigation takes place.\n\nA festival representative says his \"lawyer's are appealing the decision\".\n\nThe Wireless spokesperson tells Newsbeat: \"We are in touch with his team and as soon as we have any news we will let you know.\"\n\nASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, was arrested earlier this week following his appearance at Smash festival in Stockholm.\n\nA video published online appears to show him punching another man in the street.\n\nASAP Rocky could be held by Swedish authorities for even longer\n\nSwedish authorities had until Saturday to decide whether to formally take action and, following a detention hearing in Stockholm, Sweden's Prosecution Authority decided he will remain in custody.\n\nIf the investigation isn't concluded in two weeks' time, they can apply to keep ASAP Rocky for another two weeks.\n\nHis charge has been reduced from aggravated assault to assault.\n\nAnother person arrested with ASAP Rocky on suspicion of aggravated assault has also been detained, while one more is still waiting for their hearing. The third, his bodyguard, who was arrested on suspicion of assault, was released earlier this week.\n\nIn videos posted to ASAP Rocky's Instagram, he and the people he's with repeatedly tell a pair of men to stop following them.\n\nASAP Rocky (left) and Skepta performing Praise Da Lord at Parklife in Manchester last summer\n\nOne of the men accuses the 30-year-old's team of breaking his headphones.\n\nIn the caption for the first video ASAP Rocky writes: \"We don't know these guys and we didn't want trouble. They followed us for four blocks.\"\n\nIn the second, he accuses the man of hitting his security guard \"in the face with headphones\".\n\nAs well as Wireless on Sunday, ASAP Rocky was due to perform at Longitude in Ireland on Friday.\n\nHe's already missed out on Open'er Festival in Poland, where he was scheduled to headline on Thursday, with Stormzy stepping in to replace him.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "That's the end of our live coverage from this evening's TV head-to-head.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt clashed on a number of key issues and, when asked, each appeared to struggle to praise their rival.\n\nAmong some of those key disputes were:\n• Mr Hunt pressed his rival on whether he would quit if he failed to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October.\n• In response, Mr Johnson said it was clear his rival was \"not absolutely committed\" to the deadline himself, calling him \"defeatist\".\n• The pair also disagreed over whether they might be prepared to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal exit - so-called prorogation.\n• While Mr Hunt categorically ruled this out, Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n• Mr Hunt said he would, if he became PM, not be forced into recalling the Sir Kim Darroch early.\n• Mr Johnson declined to comment on the row, only asking Mr Hunt to rule out \"extending his term out of sympathy\".\n\nA reminder that Tory members have begun voting, with the winner and next PM to be revealed on 23 July.\n\nIt will be the first time a sitting prime minister has been chosen by party members.", "The 3,000-year-old, brown quartzite head of Tutankhamun was part of a statue of the God Amun\n\nEgypt says it will instruct a law firm in the UK to file a civil suit over the sale last week of a Tutankhamun bust.\n\nThe sculpture of the pharaoh was bought for £4.7m ($6m) at Christie's auction house in London, despite Egypt warning it was probably stolen in the 1970s.\n\nAntiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany told the BBC that he would try to repatriate the artefact.\n\nChristie's said all necessary checks were made over the bust's provenance, and that its sale was legal and valid.\n\nIt stated that Germany's Prince Wilhelm von Thurn und Taxis reputedly had it in his collection by the 1960s, and that it was acquired by an Austrian dealer in 1973-4.\n\nThe 3,000-year-old, brown quartzite bust was part of a statue of the God Amun, the most important deity of the New Kingdom, according to Christie's.\n\nThe auction house said the facial features were the same as those of the young pharaoh, who ruled between 1333 and 1323BC.\n\nSimilar representations of Amun, also with Tutankhamun's facial features, were carved for the Temple of Karnak in the city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), it added.\n\nBefore Thursday's auction, at which 32 other Egyptian artefacts were also sold, Christie's said the bust had been \"well published and exhibited in the last 30 years\", and that it had established the recent ownership.\n\nBut the Egyptian embassy in London complained to the UK Foreign Office that the sale was \"inconsistent with relevant international treaties and conventions\".\n\nEgypt's former antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, said the bust appeared to have been \"stolen\" in the 1970s from the Temple of Karnak. \"The owners have given false information,\" he told AFP news agency. \"They have not shown any legal papers to prove its ownership.\"\n\nOn Monday night, the Egyptian National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation (NCAR) expressed its \"deep discontent of the unprofessional way in which the Egyptian artefacts were sold without the provision of the ownership documents and proof that that the artefacts left Egypt in a legitimate manner\".\n\n\"The NCAR also expressed deep bewilderment that the British authorities failed to provide the support expected from it in this regard,\" a statement said.\n\nEgypt's government had called for the auction to be cancelled\n\nThe committee announced that it had decided to instruct a British law firm to file a civil lawsuit over the sale of bust, and that it would also ask Interpol to issue a circular to \"track down the illegal sale of Egyptian artefacts worldwide\".\n\n\"They left us with no other option but to go to court to restore our smuggled antiquities,\" Mr Enany told the BBC.\n\n\"We will leave no stone unturned until we repatriate the Tutankhamun bust and the other 32 pieces sold by Christie's. This is human heritage that should be on public display in its country of origin.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a number of Egyptian businessmen and civil society groups have pledged to fund the lawsuit.\n\nThe UK has also been asked to prevent the export of Egyptian artefacts before Egyptian authorities have checked ownership documents, Egyptian sources say.\n\nChristie's reiterated on Tuesday that it had \"clearly carried out extensive due diligence\" on the Tutankhamun bust.\n\n\"We recognise historic objects can give rise to complex discussions about the past; our role today is to continue to provide a transparent, legitimate marketplace upholding the highest standards for the transfer of objects from one generation of collectors to the next,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Christie's would not and do not sell any work where there isn't clear title of ownership and a thorough understanding of modern provenance.\"", "Drug-related deaths in Scotland are already at a record high\n\nAs many as 1,200 people may have died from drug abuse in Scotland in 2018, with MPs told this should be a \"wake-up call\" over government policy.\n\nNew figures are to be published in the coming days, with drug-related deaths in Scotland already at a record high.\n\nScottish Public Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick told MPs that 2018's figure could hit 1,200, describing the problem of drug misuse as an \"emergency\".\n\nHe has set up a taskforce to examine the law and advise ministers on policy.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick also called for more powers to be devolved to Holyrood to deal with the issue, with drugs legislation including the Misuse of Drugs Act currently reserved to Westminster.\n\nThere were 934 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2017, up 8% on the previous year and more than double the UK average.\n\nThis was already the highest level since current records began in 1996 and more than double the figure for 2007, but Mr Fitzpatrick told Westminster's Scottish Affairs Committee that worse was to come.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We know that last year over 900 people died of drug overdoses, and this year we are expecting that to be in excess of a thousand. I've heard some figures suggesting that it may be as high as 1,200 when figures are released in the coming days.\n\n\"I hope that is a wake-up call. My ask is that we should work together on this to save lives.\"\n\nJoe Fitzpatrick said the UK and Scottish governments should work together to \"save lives\"\n\nProf Catriona Matheson has been appointed to chair the new drugs taskforce, announced by ministers in March.\n\nHer team will look at potential solutions including the establishment of medically-supervised drug consumption rooms - a move designed to stop drug users injecting in the street or other unsafe locations, but which has been blocked by the UK government.\n\nGlasgow City Council is keen to pilot such a scheme, but the Home Office has refused to support it due to concerns over law enforcement, ethical quandaries and the risk that drug users could travel long distances to use the facilities.\n\nThe taskforce is also to look at the idea of decriminalising drugs altogether, with Mr Fitzpatrick confirming that \"all those sorts of options\" would be considered.\n\nHowever he warned of \"challenges\" around this idea, saying that \"it means different things to different people\", and said the taskforce would \"look at the best evidence from around the world\".\n\nThe minister said his preference was for Holyrood to be given to powers to act, but said he would work constructively with UK counterparts if this was not possible.\n\nHe said: \"I think devolving powers to the Scottish Parliament would be the best way for us to have a more joined up approach in terms of the interface between the health and social care system and the justice systems, but if that's a step too far for the UK government I'm absolutely happy to sit down with them to work out how we can take a public health approach to save lives in Scotland.\"", "With ballots beginning to land on doormats, Conservative Party members will soon choose not only their new leader but the country's next prime minister.\n\nWhen it comes to things such as their age, wealth and where they live, the 160,000 or so paid-up members may not be particularly representative of the rest of the country.\n\nBut what exactly is on their minds? And how do their views compare with those of the population as a whole?\n\nMost people appear to agree that Brexit is crucial.\n\nWhen we asked about it in a survey at the very end of last year, some 60% of all UK voters ranked it the most important issue and 74% of them placed it in the top three.\n\nStill, that's nothing compared with Conservative Party members surveyed, of whom, 75% ranked it first and 88% in the top three.\n\nBut just because voters and Tory members agreed Brexit was important, it does not mean they saw eye-to-eye on the issue.\n\nThis was seen when we asked people how they would vote in a referendum that gave them the choice between remaining in the EU and leaving without a deal.\n\nA stunning 76% of rank and file Conservatives plumped for no deal - an option picked by only 35% of voters as a whole.\n\nThat was partly because only 18% of the Tory party members believed that no deal would cause serious disruption to, say, supplies of foods and medicines, compared with 35% of the voters surveyed who reckoned it would (and a further 21% who weren't too sure).\n\nIf, on the other hand, the UK held another referendum and ended up staying in the EU, most of the Tory members would feel \"betrayed\" (58%), \"angry\" (15%) or \"disappointed\" (6%).\n\nThe figures for voters as a whole were 26% \"betrayed\", 7% \"angry\" and 8% \"disappointed\".\n\nBefore the 2016 Brexit referendum, the economy was often ranked as the most important issue.\n\nBut, right now, unemployment, interest rates and inflation (ie price rises) are all pretty low - which could mean people are currently relatively relaxed.\n\nThat said, neither Jeremy Hunt nor Boris Johnson - the two leadership contenders - can afford to forget about the economy: 36% of voters and 45% of Tory members surveyed placed it in their top three issues.\n\nOnce again, though, there were some significant differences between between the Conservative grassroots attitudes and those of the voting population as a whole.\n\nFor instance, most of the voters (51%) thought government should redistribute income from the rich to the poor, with only one in five (19%) disagreeing.\n\nThe Tory members, however, thought the opposite - a mere 15% favoured redistribution, while 63% opposed the idea.\n\nHowever, that is not to say Conservative Party members care only about tax cuts for the rich.\n\nTrue, a recent survey of the membership suggests most (58%) warmed to Boris Johnson's suggestion the threshold for paying higher-rate tax should be raised to £80,000 a year.\n\nHowever, the same survey also suggests 63% think abolishing the top rate (paid by those earning over £150,000 a year) is the wrong priority.\n\nAnd, perhaps even more importantly, 60% of Tory members think any extra money should be spent on improving public services rather than tax cuts.\n\nTory members and UK voters as a whole both believe other issues, such as immigration and crime, should be priorities for the country, surveys suggest.\n\nBoth groups also broadly agree about the way immigration and crime should be dealt with.\n\nImmigration was placed in the top three by 31% of Conservative Party members surveyed and by 27% of the voters overall.\n\nWe believe, from polling, the public has long wanted to see a reduction in numbers coming in.\n\nA recent survey of Tory members indicated there was only one group of migrants most (51%) of them wanted to see more of - skilled, well-educated people looking for highly paid jobs.\n\nLow-paid, low-skilled workers were deemed particularly unwelcome, as were Muslim migrants.\n\nJust a few weeks before she is due to stand down as prime minister, Theresa May met Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the G20 Summit in Japan\n\nOn crime, just over a quarter (29%) of the members and just under quarter (22%) of the voters named it as one of the three most important issues facing the country.\n\nAgain, both groups had similar views on the matter: 76% of the Tory members said people who broke the law should be given stiffer sentences - something 67% of the voters also agreed with.\n\nThere are, however, other policy areas where the Conservative members and the voting population as a whole held very different views.\n\nDefence, for instance, was placed in the top three most important issues by 29% of the Tory members but only 12% of the voters.\n\nBy way of contrast, benefits and universal credit was placed in the top three by 23% of the voters but only 11% of the Tory members.\n\nSimilarly, education and the environment were low down the list of voter priorities, mentioned as top-three issues by just 15% and 18% respectively.\n\nBut the voters were still twice as likely as the Conservative members to rank them as such.\n\nDame Cheryl Gillan announced that Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt had made it through to the final stage of the leadership contest\n\nThe biggest gap, however, between the general public and the Tory grassroots may be on health.\n\nFor the voters as a whole, it was clearly the second most important issue after Brexit, with 42% of them ranking it in their top-three. Only 19% of Conservative Party members said the same.\n\nIn short, the issues that need to be addressed in order to win over the Conservative grassroots are not necessarily those that will resonate with voters as a whole.\n\nSince Boris Johnson and Hunt are vying to become not just Tory leader but the UK's prime minister, they might want to take note.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT Margarita Simonyan at an award ceremony in May\n\nRussia's RT and Sputnik news agencies have been banned from attending a conference on media freedom in London for playing an \"active role in spreading disinformation\".\n\nAround 60 ministers and 1,000 reporters and members of civil society are due to attend the event this week.\n\nBut the UK Foreign Office refused accreditation to both RT and Sputnik.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Office, which organised the conference, said: \"We have not accredited RT or Sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation. While it's not possible to accommodate all requests for accreditation, journalists from across the world's media are attending the conference, including from Russia.\"\n\nThe Russian Embassy said it had complained to the Foreign Office over the decision, accusing the UK of a \"months-long smear campaign\" against RT.\n\nRT said in a statement: \"It takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate for freedom of press while banning inconvenient voices and slandering alternative media.\"\n\nSputnik said: \"Our goals are clearly indicated in our charter and spreading disinformation is not one of them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's so different about Russia Today?\n\nRT, which is backed by the Russian state and was formerly known as Russia Today, has in recent years increased its coverage of UK and US news, attempting to position itself as an alternative to mainstream media outlets in both countries.\n\nIn December, the channel was found by UK broadcast regulator Ofcom to have committed seven breaches of the UK's broadcasting code during its coverage of the Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.\n\nOfcom said RT failed to give due weight to a range of voices and called the breaches \"a serious failure of compliance\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said the international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney would attend this week's event as Britain's special envoy on media freedom.\n\nThe conference will also be attended by government ministers, members of the diplomatic community and academics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnite leader Len McCluskey has insisted \"there is no panic\" over Labour's Brexit policy and the party should trust leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHe told the BBC it should not rush to back remaining in the EU and should wait for the party's consultation.\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell told Sky he was \"a little\" frustrated over the delay in deciding whether to oppose Brexit at the next election.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said some people were in a \"rush\" to change Labour's position of \"respecting the 2016 referendum and trying to negotiate a deal which would unite the nation\".\n\nHe blamed \"huge mistakes\" by Prime Minister Theresa May, a government \"incapable\" of delivering Brexit and a \"well-funded Remain lobby\" for turning the Brexit debate \"toxic\".\n\nBut he denied that it was time for Labour to support remaining in the European Union.\n\n\"There is no panic, there is no panic to do anything. Let Jeremy Corbyn consult,\" he said.\n\n\"My message to Labour MPs and members is he's done OK so far, let's trust him to consult and see what emerges.\"\n\nMr McCluskey said he wanted to see a general election with a new Labour government negotiating a fresh Brexit deal, which would then be put to a referendum.\n\nAsked what he would choose in a referendum between a no-deal Brexit or remain, he said he would back remaining in the EU.\n\n\"We are absolutely fundamentally opposed to no deal,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell told Sky News' Ridge on Sunday that he had been arguing \"we need to move now\" in changing the party position to explicitly campaign for staying in the EU in a future referendum.\n\nHe said he was \"a little bit\" frustrated, but added: \"Jeremy is the type of leader I completely support and think we need now, he's a consensus builder.\"\n\nAsked about a report in the Times that two civil servants had said Mr Corbyn was \"too frail\" to become prime minister, Mr McCluskey said it was \"disgraceful\" and untrue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I am a fit, very healthy, very active person\"\n\nThe union leader said: \"It was fake news, it was lies, it was distortions. Jeremy Corbyn is as fit as a fiddle, he's one of the strongest individuals I've ever met, people 20 years younger can't keep up. There's nothing wrong with Jeremy.\"\n\nHe said he had faith in the civil service's impartiality, but if there was \"any element of truth\" that civil servants had made the comments, there should be an investigation.\n\nJon Trickett, Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, has written to the head of the civil service, Mark Sedwill, calling for an independent investigation into what he called the apparent breach of civil service neutrality.\n\nHe said: \"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this has been a totally unwarranted and indeed unconstitutional political intervention with disturbing implications for our democratic system.\"\n\nDo you have any questions about Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Lord Turnberg, Lord Triesman and Lord Darzi have resigned the Labour whip\n\nThree peers have left the Labour group in the Lords, accusing the party of anti-Semitism, Newsnight has learned.\n\nLord Triesman, general secretary between 2001 and 2004, accused Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism and said the party was no longer \"a safe environment\" for Jewish people.\n\nLord Darzi, meanwhile, will sit as an independent and Lord Turnberg said he feared \"for the future\" of the party.\n\nLabour said it \"completely rejects these false and offensive claims\".\n\n\"The Labour Party at all levels is implacably opposed to anti-Semitism and is determined to root out this social cancer from our movement and society,\" a party spokeswoman said.\n\nFormer Health Minister Lord Darzi said that as an Armenian descendant of a \"survivor of the Armenian genocide\", he had \"zero tolerance to anti-Semitism,\" adding that his decision to resign the whip \"has not been lightly taken\".\n\nFormer president of the Royal College of Physicians Lord Turnberg told BBC Newsnight that his differences \"lie with the party leadership and machine and not with my very supportive colleagues in the Lords who share my values\".\n\n\"It is not just the policies on foreign affairs... and Brexit vacillation and bypassing parliamentary opinion but the overt anti-Semitism that permeates the party machine that is no longer possible for me to tolerate,\" he said.\n\nLabour said it was taking \"decisive action against anti-Semitism\" and had doubled the number of staff dedicated to dealing with complaints and cases.\n\n\"Our records show that anti-Semitism cases that have gone through the stages of our disciplinary procedures since September 2015 account for about 0.06% of the party's membership,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This represents a tiny minority - but one anti-Semite is one too many and we will continue to act against this repugnant form of racism.\"\n\nBut, in his resignation letter to Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Smith, Lord Triesman said Mr Corbyn \"and his circle are anti-Semitic, having never once made the right judgement call about an issue reflecting deep prejudice\".\n\n\"My sad conclusion is that the Labour party is very plainly institutionally anti-Semitic,\" he wrote.\n\nAnti-Semites were \"shielded\", while \"serious party members are thrown out unceremoniously\", he said. \"The experience of life in the party has become sickening.\"\n\nThe remarks represent the strongest personal attack on the Labour leader from within the party since Margaret Hodge reportedly called Mr Corbyn an anti-Semitic racist last year.\n\nLord Triesman told Newsnight the party had been \"a central plank of my political life for over 50 years\".\n\nBut it had now \"slipped into the familiar gutter of so many of the hard left\".\n\n\"It is a painful decision,\" the former trade union leader told Newsnight.\n\n\"I remain completely aligned to the values I've had over all these years but I can no longer take direction from a leadership that is institutionally anti-Semitic.\"\n\nLord Triesman wrote: \"I always said it was worth hanging on to fight so long as there was a prospect of winning.\n\n\"I now don't believe with this leadership there is.\"\n\nHe said hoping \"something will turn up to change it all\" was a \"unicorn delusion\".\n\nThe resignations came as Labour's disputes panel met to discuss the suspension of MP Chris Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson was suspended earlier this year after saying Labour had \"given too much ground\" over anti-Semitism.\n\nIn February, nine MPs quit Labour, some citing the leadership's handling of anti-Semitism as their reason for leaving.\n\nLuciana Berger said she had come to the \"sickening conclusion\" the party had become institutionally anti-Semitic and she was \"embarrassed and ashamed\" to stay.\n\nJoan Ryan claimed Labour's leadership had allowed \"Jews to be abused with impunity\".\n\nAnd Ian Austin said Jeremy Corbyn was \"incapable\" of dealing with anti-Semitism.\n\nIn his letter, Lord Triesman also cited Labour's policy position on Brexit, which he said had \"encouraged xenophobia\", and on defence and Nato, which he called \"worse than ambiguous\".\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n• None Labour must 'act more quickly' on anti-Semitism", "The head teacher at Chelsea's school said her death will affect the whole community\n\nA 16-year-old girl who is suspected to have taken ecstasy has died after falling ill at a Glasgow flat.\n\nEmergency services were called to the property on Fernbank Street, Springburn, at about 02:30 on Sunday.\n\nChelsea Bruce was taken to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary where she died a short time later. A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man who also felt unwell were taken to the GRI.\n\nPolice are investigating whether use of MDMA was involved.\n\nA spokeswoman for the force said they were not treating the death as suspicious, but inquiries were continuing.\n\nShe added: \"A report on the circumstances surrounding her death will be reported to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nLinda Hamilton, head teacher at Springburn Academy where Chelsea was a pupil, said: \"This is devastating news and will affect our whole school community.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Chelsea's family and friends at this very sad and difficult time.\"", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said leaked memos about US President Donald Trump and his administration reflected the \"personal view\" of the UK's ambassador and not that of the government.\n\nMr Hunt, who is running for prime minister, said it was the ambassador's job to give \"frank opinions\" but that they did not reflect the government's position.\n\nThe leaked emails from Sir Kim Darroch described Mr Trump's White House as \"inept\" and \"uniquely dysfunctional\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt traded jibes in a feisty debate on ITV\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have clashed on Brexit and UK relations with Donald Trump in a lively and occasionally bad-tempered TV debate.\n\nMr Hunt accused his rival of not being willing to \"put his neck on the line\" by saying he would quit as PM if he did not hit the 31 October deadline.\n\nMr Johnson said he admired his rival's ability \"to change his mind\" so often - a dig at the fact Mr Hunt voted Remain.\n\nMr Johnson declined to condemn Mr Trump for his response to the emails row.\n\nHe refused to confirm whether he would keep the UK's top diplomat in the US, Sir Kim Darroch, in his post until his scheduled retirement in December, after Mr Trump said he was no longer prepared to deal with him.\n\nThe US president has lambasted Sir Kim, and criticised Theresa May, after the diplomat described the White House as \"inept and dysfunctional\" in leaked cables.\n\nWhile stressing the value of the \"special relationship\" with the US, Mr Johnson insisted that only he, as prime minister, would take \"important and politically sensitive\" decisions such as who should represent the UK in the US.\n\nDuring the first head-to-head debate of the leadership campaign, the two clashed over their different Brexit strategies, political styles and why they were best equipped to be prime minister.\n\nThe exchanges were pointed and personal in nature at times, with former Mayor of London Mr Johnson dismissing his opponent's \"managerial\" style of politics and accusing him of flip-flopping on certain issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt clashed over future of UK's top diplomat in the US\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt said the UK needed a leader not a \"newspaper columnist\" - a reference to his rival's work for the Daily Telegraph.\n\nHe joked that he admired Mr Johnson's \"ability to answer the question\", adding: \"He puts a smile on your face and you forget what the question was, a great quality for a politician but not necessarily a prime minister.\"\n\nAfter an opening speech from each contender, the foreign secretary immediately went on the attack over Brexit, pressing his rival on whether he would quit Downing Street if he failed to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October.\n\nHe said by failing to answer the question, Mr Johnson - who previously said the deadline was a \"do or die\" issue for him - showed he was motivated by personal ambition not leadership.\n\n\"It is not do or die,\" Mr Hunt said. \"It is Boris in Number 10 that matters.\"\n\nAccusing his rival of not being straight with the electorate, he said: \"Being prime minister is about telling people what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear.\"\n\nMr Johnson, in turn, said it was clear his rival was \"not absolutely committed\" to the deadline himself, branding him \"defeatist\".\n\nHe urged Mr Hunt to guarantee that Brexit would happen by Christmas, adding that the EU would not take a \"papier mache deadline\" seriously.\n\n\"If we are going to have a 31 October deadline, we must stick to it,\" he said. \"The EU will understand we are ready and will give us the deal we need.\n\n\"I don't want to hold out to the EU the prospect that they might encourage my resignation by refusing to agree a deal.\n\n\"I think it is extraordinary we should be telling the British electorate we are willing to kick the can down the road.\n\n\"I would like to know how many more days my opponent would be willing to delay.\"\n\nBoth men have said they would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal, but Mr Johnson has been far more relaxed about the impact that could have.\n\nMr Hunt suggested his rival was \"minimising the risk of a no-deal Brexit\" and \"peddling optimism\", but Mr Johnson said the UK had had a \"bellyful of defeatism\" and the UK could look forward to a bright future outside the EU.\n\nThe pair also disagreed over whether they might be prepared to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal exit - so-called prorogation.\n\nWhile Mr Hunt categorically ruled this out, Mr Johnson said he would \"not take anything off the table\".\n\nBoth teams will leave Salford content with their candidates' performance.\n\nThe gaffe prone former foreign secretary avoided slipping on any banana skins, and managing not to commit on some of the more controversial issues before him.\n\nAnd the current foreign secretary managed to land his blows on his opponent.\n\nThere was perhaps though no jaw dropper, no moment that turned this race upside down.\n\nMr Johnson arrived the favourite and leaves in the same position. Mr Hunt turned up keen to show that he is ready to use sharp elbows to scrap and to make himself heard with attacks on his rival that are a contrast to his normal careful style.\n\nTheir respective status as the front runner and challenger may not have changed.\n\nYet while Jeremy Hunt may not, from this performance alone, manage to stop Boris Johnson's journey to No 10, he has at least shown that if he gets there, he is likely to face a very tricky time.\n\nOn the escalating diplomatic row with the US, Mr Hunt said the president's criticism of Sir Kim Darroch had been ill-judged and he would, if he became PM, not be forced into recalling the diplomat early.\n\nHe also took issue with Mr Trump for saying the prime minister had failed to listen to his advice and been made to look \"foolish\" over Brexit.\n\n\"His comments about Theresa May were unacceptable and I don't think he should have made them,\" he said, remarks which prompted audience applause.\n\nMr Johnson said the US president had been \"dragged into a British political debate\" not of his making, but did suggest his outburst on Twitter - in which he called Sir Kim a \"pompous fool\" - had \"not necessarily been the right thing to do\".\n\nWhile civil servants must be able to give confidential advice, he declined to comment on Sir Kim's future, only asking Mr Hunt to rule out \"extending his term out of sympathy\".\n\nBoth men have been criticised for making uncosted spending promises and offers of tax cuts during the campaign.\n\nMr Hunt sought to make capital out of Mr Johnson's pledge to give a tax cut to higher earners by raising the threshold at which people pay 40% tax from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\n\"It was a mistake, tax cuts for the rich,\" he said. \"I have spent my life trying to persuade people that we are not the party of the rich.\"\n\nMr Johnson defended what he said was a \"package\" of measures to reduce the tax burden for both low and middle earners and which he said would boost the economy.\n\nThe show, entitled Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate, was hosted by journalist Julie Etchingham in front of a studio audience of 200 people at MediaCityUK in Salford.\n\nIt took place as 160,000 or so party members get the chance to vote by post on who should succeed Theresa May.\n\nThe winner and next PM will be revealed on 23 July - it will be the first time a sitting prime minister has been chosen by party members.", "The government has begun an inquiry into a leak of emails from the UK ambassador in Washington which deemed the Trump administration \"inept\".\n\nIn the messages, Sir Kim Darroch said the White House was \"uniquely dysfunctional\" and \"divided\" under Donald Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the memos reflected Sir Kim's \"personal view\", not that of the UK government.\n\nPresident Trump said Sir Kim had \"not served the UK well\".\n\nAsked about the leak, he told reporters in New Jersey: \"We're not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.\n\n\"So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won't bother.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the leak to the Mail on Sunday was \"mischievous\", but did not deny the accuracy of the memos. A spokesperson confirmed a formal leak investigation would be launched.\n\nIn the emails, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nHe questioned whether this White House \"will ever look competent\" but also warned the US president should not be written off.\n\nThe UK ambassador in Washington says Trump needs \"simple, even blunt\" arguments\n\nMr Hunt - who is fighting to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister - said while it was the UK ambassador's job to give \"frank opinions\", the memos expressed \"a personal view\".\n\n\"It is not the view of the British government, it's not my view,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to think that under President Trump the US administration is not just highly effective but the best friend of Britain on the international stage.\"\n\nEarlier, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said whoever was responsible for the leak must be prosecuted.\n\n\"Diplomats must be able to communicate securely with their governments,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.\n\nHowever, he defended Sir Kim, saying the job of the UK's ambassador is \"to represent the interests and wishes of the British people\" and not \"the sensibilities of the United States\".\n\nAlthough Sir Kim said Mr Trump was \"dazzled\" by his state visit to the UK in June, the ambassador warned that his administration will remain self-interested, adding: \"This is still the land of America First.\"\n\nDifferences between the US and the UK on climate change, media freedoms and the death penalty might come to the fore as the countries seek to improve trading relations after Brexit, the memos said.\n\nTo get through to the president, \"you need to make your points simple, even blunt\", he said.\n\nThe leader of the Brexit party, Nigel Farage, has criticised Sir Kim for his comments, branding the ambassador \"totally unsuitable for the job\" and saying the \"sooner he is gone the better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Justice Secretary David Gauke said it was very important that ambassadors gave \"honest and unvarnished advice to their country\".\n\nHe said: \"It is disgraceful that it's been leaked, but we should expect our ambassadors to tell the truth, as they see it.\"\n\nIn a message sent last month, Sir Kim branded US policy on Iran as \"incoherent, chaotic\".\n\nMr Trump's publicly stated reason for calling off an airstrike against Tehran with 10 minutes to go - that it would cause 150 casualties - \"doesn't stand up\", Sir Kim said.\n\nInstead, he suggested the president was \"never fully on board\" and did not want to reverse his campaign promise not to involve the US in foreign conflicts.\n\nSir Kim said it was \"unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon\" because \"this is a divided administration\".\n\nThe leaked files date from 2017 to the present day, covering the ambassador's early impressions that media reports of \"vicious infighting and chaos\" in the White House were \"mostly true\".\n\nThey also give an assessment of allegations about collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia, saying \"the worst cannot be ruled out\". The investigation by Robert Mueller has since found those claims were not proven.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the views of diplomats were \"not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid\".\n\nHe said ministers and civil servants would handle this advice \"in the right way\" and ambassadors should be able to offer it confidentially.\n\nThe UK embassy in Washington has \"strong relations\" with the White House and these would continue, despite \"mischievous behaviour\" such as this leak, the spokesman said.", "The safety of the public is being put at risk by thousands of prisoners being released without proper assessments, the government has been told.\n\nPeter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, also found suicides had risen by 15% in a year in England and Wales.\n\nIn his 2018-19 annual report, Mr Clarke described the rising number of prisoner suicides and self-harm as a \"scandal\".\n\nHe also found the response to the \"deluge of drugs\" in prisons had been \"too slow\" and \"unsophisticated\".\n\nIn his report, Mr Clarke said thousands of prisoners who were potentially a \"high risk of harm\" to the public were being released \"without proper assessment\".\n\nAn inmate's assessment should be regularly updated, he said, but sometimes there was no document at all or the paperwork was out of date.\n\nHe added that the response to the problem, which had been raised repeatedly, had been \"poor\".\n\nThere were 83 suicides in male prisons in 2018-19, an increase from 72 the previous year, the report said.\n\nMr Clarke said levels of self-harm were \"disturbingly high\", rising in two thirds of the adult male prisons inspected.\n\nHe suggested that it was time for an independent inquiry to tackle the \"scandal\" of people dying in state care in \"preventable circumstances\".\n\nMr Clarke said he would \"never forget\" the squalid conditions he encountered on a visit to Birmingham prison.\n\nHe recalled a blood-stained shower, which was littered with rat droppings.\n\nBirmingham had the worst examples of living conditions, his report said, with cells \"dirty, cramped and overcrowded\".\n\nVulnerable prisoners were found living in squalid cells which were not fit for habitation.\n\n\"Rubbish was left lying around in bags and there were problems with fleas, cockroaches and rodents,\" the report said.\n\nOne prisoner lived in a \"filthy flooded cell\" and the blood of another - who had self-harmed two days earlier - had not been cleaned from the floor.\n\nThe report warned the \"appalling impact\" of illicit drugs in prisons had been underestimated.\n\nMr Clarke said there was a \"reluctance\" to invest in available technology to detect drugs which was a \"great shame\" given their \"destructive impact\".\n\nMr Clarke praised the \"bravery\" of prison staff, saying their work was \"difficult, often dangerous, largely unseen by the public and, as a result, little understood\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it had improved its \"risk assessment and sentencing planning processes\" and high-risk prisoners were subject to \"various strict risk assessments\".\n\nIt also said it had improved the provision of mental health support and trained staff on how to care for inmates at risk of self-harm.\n\nDeborah Coles, director of charity Inquest, said \"self-harm, violence and deaths\" were endemic in the prison system and recommendations were \"systemically ignored\".\n\nShe called for urgent action to reduce the use of prison, redirect resources into community alternatives and \"hold those involved legally accountable for deaths across all state institutions\".", "Lil Nas X has hinted that he is part of the LGBT community with a string of tweets related to his sexuality.\n\n\"Some of y'all already know, some of y'all don't care,\" the Old Town Road singer tweeted.\n\n\"But before this month ends I want y'all to listen closely to c7osure.\"\n\nC7osure (You Like) is a song from his EP 7 that talks about needing to be \"free\" and includes the lyrics \"This is what I gotta do, can't be regretting when I'm old\".\n\nElsewhere the song continues: \"I know, I know, I know it don't feel like it's time / But I look back at this moment, I'll see that I'm fine / I know, I know, I know it don't feel like it's time / I set boundaries for myself, it's time to cross the line.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by nope This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tweet was posted on 30 June - the last day of this year's Pride Month.\n\nThe singer then posted a second tweet which focused on the artwork for the EP, zooming in on part of the artwork that is a rainbow - the symbol of gay pride.\n\nSome music publications have stated that the 20-year-old's tweets confirm he is gay.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by nope This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLil Nas X also responded to tweets suggesting he had been in relationships with men.\n\nFollowers, including YouTuber James Charles, posted messages of support and pride under his tweets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by James Charles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis weekend, Lil Nas X joined Miley Cyrus on stage at Glastonbury to perform Old Town Road at the UK's biggest music festival.\n\nHe revealed afterwards that the appearance was his first time in another country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by nope This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOld Town Road reached number one in the UK and has spent 12 weeks at the top of the US Billboard 100 this year.\n\nThe song broke weekly streaming records in America when it was re-released as a duet with Billy Ray Cyrus and streamed 143 million times in a single week - beating Drake's previous record of 116.2 million weekly streams for his single In My Feelings in 2018.\n\nLil Nas X's record label says he's got nothing more to add at the moment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boat's skipper said it had hit a submerged tree, damaging the back of the vessel\n\nTwenty-three people have been rescued from a sinking boat which hit a submerged tree off the Welsh coast.\n\nThe coastguard said it received a mayday message from a small pleasure boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire at about 19:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe vessel was taking on water \"rapidly\" while on a trip off North Bishop island, near Ramsey Island.\n\nTwo other passenger boats, two lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter were involved in the rescue.\n\nThe 21 passengers and two crew are safe and were taken back to St Justinian's, near St Davids, the coastguard said.\n\nSkipper Joanne Ayris, of Thousand Island Expeditions, told BBC Radio Wales's Breakfast programme: \"We were about an hour into the trip when we hit a submerged tree, which managed to find its way into the sand there, which damaged the back of the boat, that quite quickly allowed us to take on quite a bit of water.\n\nThe Gower Ranger was successfully brought back to shore\n\nThe boat was escorted back to shore by the RNLI\n\nTree branch which caused the damage to the Gower Ranger\n\n\"We were lucky everybody stayed calm and [we] got everyone into lifejackets and there were other boats nearby so we were able to calmly transfer passengers across.\n\n\"That's when I made the mayday call and the lifeboats came and helped us out.\"\n\nShe said the vessel's bilge pumps were not coping with the amount of water and three or four people were manually bailing quite a lot of water to keep the level in the boat even.\n\n\"Once the lifeboats arrived, they used their generator to have a more powerful pumping out system.\n\n\"Everybody who came to help and our passengers were incredible, so big thanks to everybody who came out,\" she added.\n\nThe Bishops and Clerks are a series of small islands about three miles (5km) off St Davids Head.\n\nCoastguards had requested St Davids and Fishguard RNLI lifeboats to launch and bring pumps.\n\nA coastguard rescue helicopter from Newquay in Cornwall was also scrambled.\n\nThe two lifeboats provided safety cover while the passengers and crew were evacuated on to one of the other passenger vessels.\n\nRNLI coxswain Dai John, who attended the rescue, said they arrived about 20 minutes after they were called.\n\n\"The other passenger boat had taken all the passengers off it, but the crew were still trying to save the vessel at the time.\n\n\"So we put a couple of our crew and a salvage pump on board to drain as much of the water as we could.\"\n\nBoat owner Cindy Pearce said she had been able to drive the boat to harbour for repairs.", "Renewables may be booming but the Committee on Climate Change says the government isn't moving fast enough\n\nThe UK has been dealt a \"brutal reality check\" on its climate change ambitions, environmentalists have said.\n\nThe government's official climate change advisers warn ministers are failing to cut emissions fast enough, and adapt to rising temperatures.\n\nCommittee on Climate Change chair John Gummer likened them to the hapless characters in 1970s comedy Dad's Army.\n\nThe government said it would soon set out plans to tackle emissions from aviation, heat, energy and transport.\n\nThe prime minister recently announced that the UK would lead the world by cutting almost all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - so-called net zero.\n\nTheresa May also aspired to the UK hosting a hugely important global climate summit next year.\n\nBut the CCC said that the UK was already stumbling over measures needed to achieve the previous target of an 80% emissions cut.\n\nIts report says new policies must be found to help people lead good lives without fuelling global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nPolicies are needed to ensure that people living in care homes, hospitals and flats can stay cool in increasingly hot summers.\n\nAnd ministers must show how funds will be found to protect critical infrastructure - like ports - from rising sea levels.\n\nThe committee said unless it delivered on these issues, the government would not have the credibility to host a global climate change summit of world leaders, likely to be held in the UK next year.\n\nDoug Parr from Greenpeace UK said: \"This is a truly brutal reality check on the government's current progress in tackling the climate emergency.\n\n\"It paints the government as a sleeper who's woken up, seen the house is on fire, raised the alarm and gone straight back to sleep\".\n\nThe committee's deputy chairwoman Baroness Brown told BBC News: \"There's an increasing sense of frustration that the government knows what it has to do - but it's just not doing it.\"\n\nThe committee said the government's 2040 goal to eliminate emissions from cars and vans was too late.\n\nNew ways must be found to nudge some drivers into walking, cycling and taking public transport, it believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: Why are governments taking so long to take action?\n\nThere's palpable annoyance from the committee that their recommendations are often ignored.\n\nIn the list of actions needed to meet emission targets, such as improving insulation of buildings and increasing the market share of electric vehicles, the committee found only seven out of 24 goals were on track.\n\nOutside the power and industry sectors, only two indicators were on track.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Deben, the former agriculture minister John Gummer, said: \"The whole thing is really run by the government like a Dad's Army. We can't go on with this ramshackle system.\"\n\nAt current rates of global emissions cuts, the world may be heading for a temperature rise of more than 3C by the end of this century - but the report says England appears unprepared for even a 2C rise in global temperature.\n\nIt warns that the UK is failing to insulate itself from the knock-on effects of climate change overseas, such as colonisations by new species, changes in the suitability of land for agriculture or forestry, and risks to health from changes in air quality driven by rising temperatures.\n\nThe report says: \"Last June, we advised that 25 headline policy actions were needed for the year ahead. Twelve months later, only one has been delivered by the government in full.\"\n\nIt complains that in some ways the UK is going backwards.\n\nGreen space in parks and gardens cools cities and helps reduce flood risks. But as more homes are crammed into cities, green spaces have shrunk from 63% of urban area in 2001 to 55% in 2018.\n\nHeat magnifies the production of pollutants, so more people are expected to suffer breathing problems.\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of hard surfaces in towns has risen by 22% since 2001, even though they make floods worse.\n\nThe report says the government's planning should consider the risks that the world may warm by as much as 4C by 2100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nIt warns that the new net zero target requires an annual rate of emissions reduction that is 50% higher than under the UK's previous target.\n\nIt is 30% higher than what's been achieved on average since 1990 - a period when the UK has benefited from a relatively simple switch from coal to gas for electricity.\n\nThe report says: \"The need for action has rarely been clearer. Our message to government is simple: 'Now, do it.'\"\n\nAs new homes have been built green spaces have shrunk in urban areas over the past 20 years\n\nA government spokesman said the UK had cut emissions faster than any other G7 country and set a strong example for other countries to follow.\n\n\"We know there is more to do - and legislating for net zero will help to drive further action, as well as further measures to protect the environment from extreme weather, including flood protection, tree planting and peat-land management,\" the spokesman added.\n\nShadow business and energy secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the government efforts were lagging far behind what is required.\n\nShe said the report was a \"remarkable, damning assessment\".\n\nFriends of the Earth's Mike Childs said: \"Theresa May keeps talking about the need for climate action, while giving the green light to fracking and more roads and runways.\n\n\"Reining in the rogue Department for Transport is crucial. Billions of pounds are being squandered on gas-guzzling developments, while trams, trains, buses and cycling are starved of investment.\"\n\nClimate change policy is devolved. Scotland faces slightly tougher targets for emissions cuts than England, and Wales faces a slightly more lax target. Northern Ireland polices are not yet determined.", "It's fair to say Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having an excellent year professionally.\n\nShe's helping to write the next Bond movie, has seen Killing Eve become a huge international success, and had a triumphant final series of Fleabag.\n\nIt was almost universally praised by critics and audiences.\n\nThe only hint of negativity was that it was all... how best to say it? A bit, well... posh.\n\nThe Guardian's reviewer certainly felt the air of wealth and privilege made the show \"a little less lovable\".\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge admits that she was \"perfectly set up to have success in the world\".\n\nShe was a guest on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, revealing she has never pretended she's \"not from a privileged position\".\n\n\"I really know that I am. I mean, my God.\"\n\nShe went to private schools, lived in a lovely bit of London and had a supportive family and agrees it's \"absolutely, probably true that loads of people don't have the the same opportunities\" as her.\n\n\"If that is where it comes from, then I am really sympathetic to that feeling.\"\n\nBut she is less impressed when people criticise her actual work because she's had a lucky start in life.\n\n\"To criticise a story on the basis of where the author had come from, or how privileged the author is, undermines the story.\n\n\"It's not like my privilege created Fleabag. I created Fleabag, but from a point of place in my life where I was able to sit and write.\"\n\nShe thinks it is largely down to getting the right support.\n\nShe explains: \"I like to think that whatever life I'd lived, wherever I'd been born or brought up, I would still have written if I had been given the encouragement.\n\n\"That's the thing that I care about, encouraging people to do it.\"\n\nIsn't your dad's garden like this?\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge also disagrees that the story is \"just for posh girls\".\n\nShe says she was very aware that it was told \"through the prism of a very middle class family\" but says she was \"using them to tell a story that was emotional.\"\n\n\"People were sending me photos of tweets, with one guy saying 'I'm a disabled 42-year-old man living in Hull and I am Fleabag'.\n\nShe didn't have quite so much to say about her latest job - as part of the writing team for the new Bond film.\n\nThere were no plot hints but she's previously said she's trying to make the Bond girls \"feel like real people\".\n\nIn fact, the only thing she did reveal was that she had a \"total freak-out\" about an \"amazing\" 007 water bottle given out to cast and crew.\n\nNot the juiciest Bond gossip but good to know that Q Branch is on the case with cutting out disposable plastic.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attenborough: 'We cannot be radical enough'\n\nThe naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says that climate change will make parts of Africa uninhabitable.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee, Sir David said we can't be radical enough when tackling the problem.\n\nTough, unpopular actions from the government would be needed, he said.\n\nThese included putting up the price of airline tickets.\n\nPainting a vivid picture for MPs of coral reefs turned \"stark white\" by warming waters, Sir David warned that the world faced a \"serious collapse\" caused by climate change over the next 20-30 years.\n\nThis could make parts of Africa uninhabitable, he said, causing mass migration.\n\n\"Large parts of Africa will become even less inhabitable than they are now,\" he told the committee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attenborough: 'To chuck plastic into the ocean is an insult'\n\nHe criticised those governments where voices sceptical about climate science were still clearly heard. And he hoped the electorate in the US and Australia particularly would remember this come election time.\n\nSir David told MPs that everyone would have to play their part in the battle against climate change, and this would involve some tough decisions. He criticised airfares as too cheap, and said that these should rise to discourage flying.\n\nThe public mood was changing, he said. The young, he said, gave him hope that the world would change before irreversible climate change destroyed our world.\n\nDespite the stark nature of his message, Sir David's passion and status seemed to charm the MPs on the committee. The chair described it as the \"most inspiring session\" that they've held.", "Denmark says it plans to regulate popular influencers after an Instagram star posted a suicide note online.\n\nThe influencer, Fie Laursen, posted the note on Instagram, where she has more than 336,000 followers.\n\nIt remained online for two days before her family managed to take it down. The family confirmed in an Instagram post that she was recovering in hospital.\n\nThe minister of children and education said influencers must, as other media, have an \"editorial responsibility\".\n\nMs Laursen's Instagram letter, which drew more than 30,000 likes and 8,000 comments, sparked a debate in Denmark on how to monitor online content from influencers.\n\nMinister of Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil told the BBC that the government wanted influencers to have an \"editorial responsibility\" in line with the standards of the \"old press\".\n\nShe said: \"When you reach a certain number of people who are followers of your page then you will have the same responsibility as if you were an editorial person on a newspaper or on old media.\n\nPernille Rosenkrantz-Theil is calling for influencers to be responsible for their online posts\n\n\"So, for instance... the Danish ethical standards for the press is that you do not write about suicide or suicide attempts if it doesn't concern the general public. We want these same standards applied to social media.\"\n\nIf an influencer is found in breach of the rules, their post would be removed. Influencers with a certain number of followers will also be made to have a number of administrators.\n\nMs Rosenkrantz-Theil said: \"In the case with the woman we are debating this on, her parents wanted to delete the posts and weren't able to because nobody else apart from their daughter had access to these accounts. We want you to have responsibility and have a board around you that can take down posts that are inappropriate.\n\n\"We have a society where the mass media of today has changed and the standard of mass media communication has to change and has to apply to the new mass media. It's different media but the same ethics.\"\n\nSarah Louise Christiansen, a popular blogger in Denmark with more than 128,000 followers on Instagram, told the BBC that influencers should be looked at \"in a new way.\"\n\nShe said: \"The whole influencer and blogger thing is still quite new. It's still not accepted as real work and real business and I think because of this there is also a lack of attention in the area. There's a lack of responsibility both for the bloggers but also for all the followers.\n\n\"I have been doing this for 10 years and I wouldn't like to have restrictions on expressing myself but I want to have restrictions so that we can protect the influencers themselves because some of them are very, very young and sometimes they post things that are very bad for the viewers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on bullying, self-harm and time limits on the app\n\nMs Christiansen says that you cannot compare blogging to newspapers so you \"have to make a whole new setup\" and analyse the ways to protect both bloggers and followers.\n\nShe said that media regulations \"don't work\" for influencers and there need to be consequences for actions online.\n\n\"This calls for action. Maybe this can be the first step in realising that online behaviour should be recognised.\"", "The organisers of a so-called \"straight pride\" parade in Boston have claimed to be victims of terrorism after receiving envelopes full of glitter.\n\nThree members of Super Happy Fun America called the authorities over envelopes filled with a \"granular substance\".\n\nThe letters prompted a response from the FBI, three fire departments and the bomb squad.\n\nThe FBI is investigating but says there is no threat to public safety.\n\nSuper Happy Fun America's president, John Hugo, told NBC that what happened was \"an act of domestic terrorism\".\n\nSamson Racioppi, another member, said he was \"immediately alarmed\" after shaking the letter and hearing a rattling inside.\n\nRacioppi said he told the other members of the group and discovered that John Hugo and Mark Sahady, the vice president, had received similar letters.\n\nThe FBI is investigating the incident\n\nBomb disposal experts were sent to the Massachusetts towns of Woburn, Salisbury and Malden.\n\nAccording to Lt. Robert Roy of the Salisbury Police Department, the substance in the envelopes was glitter.\n\nBut John Hugo says he wants to \"see this person prosecuted .. even if it's just baby powder\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Associated Press This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Associated Press\n\nSo-called glitter bombing - covering someone in glitter- has historically been used as a means of protest against those who oppose LGBT rights.\n\nPoliticians from the Republican Party such as former Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have been glitter bombed in the past for their anti-LGBT views.\n\nSuper Happy Fun America call themselves \"an advocacy group for straight rights,\" though members of the group have been found to have links to far-right and white nationalist groups.\n\nThe city of Boston approved a permit for the controversial Straight Pride event to be held on August 31, but the event still needs permission from the state police and licensing board.\n\nThe organisers say they are \"inclusive of all, including LGBTQ people\" and the event is just \"about free speech\".\n\n\"It's perfectly natural and normal to celebrate heterosexuality, and the parade is not being held at any expense to the LGBTQ movement,\" said Racioppi.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Daddy Yankee and Rosalía are the most streamed male and female artists of the year to date\n\nThere is no better measure of the world's listening tastes than YouTube.\n\nThe site reaches more than 1.9 billion people every month, more than any other music steaming service, and most of those users are listening to Latin Pop.\n\nSpanish-language songs make up half of YouTube's Top 10 for the year so far, led by Daddy Yankee's Con Calma, with 1.15 billion views.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAriana Grande's 7 Rings is the only entry sung entirely in English, with K-pop and Bollywood completing the chart.\n\nCatalonian singer Rosalía, who came fifth in the BBC's Sound of 2019 list, had the highest-viewed video by a female artist, with Con Altura - a reggaeton track that samples dialogue from a Dominican TV show.\n\nThe song topped YouTube's music chart for 12 weeks after its release in March, at one point presiding over a top 10 that was 80% Spanish.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by RosaliaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is the new order of things in the increasingly diverse, genre-melding, multilingual world of pop,\" wrote New York Times' pop correspondent Joe Coscarelli in an article dissecting Rosalía's breakout single.\n\n\"Language is no longer a barrier, world rhythms mix and cohere, cross-cultural collaboration is common and hip-hop influence seeps in from all sides.\"\n\nSouth Korea is also an increasingly dominant voice in global pop, with girl group Blackpink racking up 468m views for the arresting, colourful video for Kill This Love [the title is the only English line in the song].\n\nTheir boyband counterpart, BTS, have the eighth most-watched video of the year for their track Boy With Luv.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHindi singer Dhvani Bhanushali has also scored a major hit with the sweetly-sung Vaaste Song - which was the first Indian track to rack up 50 million views in seven days.\n\nThe 21-year-old singer is signed to T-Series, India's biggest record label, which also runs the world's second-largest YouTube channel.\n\n\"We definitely see that musicians from places outside the US are really writing the handbook on YouTube,\" the site's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, told the BBC. \"I like to say they have a PhD in YouTube.\n\n\"These artists not only have the sound that appeals to music lovers around the world, but they know how to make the platform work for them and maximize global reach. That's the beauty of YouTube - genres crossing borders and artists building fanbases, no matter where they are.\"\n\nSpotify and YouTube are democratising music, added Sebastian Krys - a Grammy award-winner who has worked with Shakira, Luis Fonsi and Gloria Estefan.\n\n\"Before, music was curated by the record industry gatekeepers, who were generally middle class, middle-aged white men. And now it's curated by the masses,\" the Argentine producer told the BBC last year.\n\n\"There is more interest now in what other people and cultures are doing.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 4 by SamSmithWorldVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe highest-charting British artist on YouTube's chart is Sam Smith, whose duet with Normani, Dancing With A Stranger, is the eleventh most-watched music video of the year so far.\n\nFreshly-minted pop star Billie Eilish also made the top 20, with 351m views for her single Bad Guy, putting her in 12th place.\n\nSongs released before 2019 continue to record big numbers on YouTube, too, with Luis Fonsi's Despacito adding 456m views since January, pushing its all-time total to 6.3bn.\n\nThe 2017 song is now the most-watched video on the site by a margin of more than 2bn.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour MP Emily Thornberry was taken to hospital after coming off her bicycle in an accident outside Parliament.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary was involved in a collision with a vehicle in Parliament Square, Westminster, outside the House of Commons on Friday.\n\nThe Islington South and Finsbury MP was taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Thornberry said she had now been discharged and was \"hugely grateful\" for the support of the paramedics and A&E staff.\n\n\"She will be back to work and back on her bike as soon as possible,\" the spokesperson added.", "CalMac ferries faces rising costs for complications and delays on two new ships, according to the owner of the shipyard where they are being built.\n\nFerguson Marine owner Jim McColl said they were prototypes and more work should have been done on their design before tendering the contract.\n\nHe said talks with Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd, which buys and leases the CalMac ships, had been \"frustrating\".\n\nThe £97m order is as much as a year behind schedule.\n\nThe Scottish government, which wholly owns Cmal and CalMac, has described the situation as \"disappointing\".\n\nThe Scottish government has given a £30m loan facility to Ferguson Marine, saying it was to help diversify the yard.\n\nMr McColl told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme the borrowing facility, which has not yet been drawn down, was to help with the rising costs to Ferguson's of handling the Cal-Mac order.\n\nHe said he was pressing for Cmalto accept it will have to pay more for them, due to rising costs and delays.\n\nThe first ferry, Glen Sannox, was launched last November, but is far from complete. It is fuelled by both liquified natural gas and marine oil.\n\nThe ships are needed urgently by Cal-Mac, to meet growing car, van and haulage demand on Hebridean routes, and because the ageing Hebridean fleet is becoming more prone to breakdowns.\n\nMr McColl said: \"We have incurred significantly higher costs in the work we've had to do on these ferries, and we've been engaging with CMAL to discuss these costs.\n\n\"Maybe the best way to put it is that we've been frustrated in these discussions. We've been discussing it for over a year, and we have been funding that, so it's been using a lot of our capital.\n\nThe billionaire businessman added: \"Our view is that these have been genuine changes that have had to be made to the work we've been doing, and they're changes that ought to be incurred by the buyer.\"\n\nMr McColl explained that the ferries were \"prototypes\", requiring Lloyds, the marine insurer and the Coastguard and Maritime Agency to go through new certification for the design being used - adding considerably to the time being taken.\n\n\"They normally work to standard designs or designs that they've got, and they will approve or certify the ferry at every stage,\" he said, adding \"MCA are responsible for the safety and security of the people. So it's all got to be double-checked and rubber-stamped.\n\n\"Dual-fuelled LNG ferries have not been built in the UK. This is a first off for Lloyds and for MCA, so everything we're going through, we have to establish what is the acceptable process for this, and they have to certify it, but we're writing the process for certifying it as we go, and that's delayed things.\n\n\"I believe that perhaps more design development work could have been done prior to the invitation to tender going out, rather than dealing with multiple things that are arising as we got into the build process. But we're working diligently through that.\"\n\nMr McColl also said Ferguson Marine had been extensively refurbished to get it ready it for new Royal Navy and commercial contracts.\n\nThe yard is bidding for contracts to build fishing trawlers and support vessels for offshore energy.\n\nFerguson is also building linkspans - for vehicles to transfer from vessels to quaysides - for Western Ferries operating at Gourock and Dunoon.\n\nAnd there is work fabricating equipment for offshore wind arrays.\n\nMr McColl said three shipbuilding bids should soon reach conclusions, with hopes of winning work from them.\n\nYou can hear the full interview with Jim McColl on Good Morning Scotland, just after 0730.", "A university student's body was found trapped in thick slurry at a building site two days after he vanished on a night out, an inquest heard.\n\nMarcin Porczyk, 18, was \"camouflaged\" in the mix of building materials before he was eventually found by workers near the marina in Swansea in January 2017.\n\nThe business student was almost three times the legal drink-drive limit, Swansea Coroner's Court was told.\n\nHe said Mr Porczyk \"effectively drowned\" after inhaling slurry.\n\nMr Porczyk, whose family moved to Swansea from Poland when he was seven, was captured on CCTV wandering around the Kier Construction site. His body was later found in a 12-inch deep concrete washout area.\n\nHis Swansea University friend Harry Hutchinson said the pair had drunk double vodkas, rum and five Jagerbombs each on the night Mr Porczyk went missing.\n\nHe described him as \"coherent but drunk\" before he suddenly ran off after leaving a bar.\n\nMr Hutchinson said: \"We came down the stairs then he tripped over onto the pavement. He sprang up and ran off.\n\n\"I thought he had run off home. I went back inside.\n\n\"Then I went back to the flat. He wasn't there.\"\n\nFriends raised the alarm when Mr Porczyk failed to return to his student accommodation in the Strand area or respond to messages.\n\nBuilding site workers discovered his body two days later, on 24 January.\n\nDr Nadine Burke, a consultant pathologist, said Mr Porczyk's body was covered in \"muddy, wet slurry\" having fallen down face first before managing to turn onto his back.\n\nShe added the level of alcohol in his system would have led to disorientation and poor co-ordination, and accentuated the effects of hypothermia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nThe sister of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has said her family's grief is like a living nightmare.\n\nMs McKee was shot dead by a New IRA gunman while observing a riot in Londonderry on 18 April.\n\nNichola Corner told BBC Radio Foyle there were no words to describe what it had been like for the family since her death.\n\nThey felt no closer to knowing who killed the 29-year-old north Belfast woman, she said.\n\n\"It's like living in a nightmare that you just can't wake up from,\" Mrs Corner said.\n\n\"Horrific, to say the least.\"\n\nOn the night of the murder, Mrs Corner said, the family initially believed Ms McKee's injuries were not life-threatening.\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition in Derry when the violence started on 18 April\n\n\"I got a phone call to say that Lyra had been injured, hit in the head, and police had taken her to hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"I actually thought she'd maybe been hit by a bottle, a brick or some kind of object of that nature.\"\n\nAfter some time spent waiting for more detailed information, Mrs Corner decided to call Lyra's phone, expecting her sister to answer.\n\n\"I said: 'Are you alright wee love? Have you been seen by the doctor yet?'\n\n\"[I was] expecting it to be her, but obviously it wasn't her.\n\nNichola Corner (centre) said she would meet the unidentified gunman at \"any police station on the island of Ireland\"\n\n\"That's when I was told that she was very seriously injured and the emergency personnel were working on her at the hospital and I couldn't understand why.\"\n\nIn a further phone call, Mrs Corner was told her sister had been shot.\n\n\"You can imagine the devastation of hearing that news, that she had been shot in the head,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband had to pull over because I was screaming and couldn't breathe.\"\n\nWhile she was telling her mother and other family members about the shooting, she received another call from a PSNI constable, who told her police would collect the family to bring them to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.\n\nThe officer told her Lyra had died.\n\n\"I was actually still in my street. Mummy was still in the car. My whole soul just left.\"\n\nLyra McKee gave a TED talk in 2017 about the Orlando gay nightclub shootings the previous year\n\nWhen she eventually saw Lyra, Mrs Corner said \"it didn't register\" that she was dead.\n\n\"She looked just like she was sleeping.\"\n\nThree months on, Mrs Corner said there is \"still part of you that's not quite believing it to be true, because it is so unbelievable\".\n\nMrs Corner has previously offered to meet her sister's killer and support him in \"accepting responsibility for your actions\".\n\nShe again appealed for anyone with information on the killing in Derry's Creggan estate to come forward.\n\nMrs Corner said her family found the media coverage around her late sister's death at times difficult to deal with.\n\n\"My mummy does feel that people have been treating her daughter as public property and she wants to ask people to stop doing that, she wants to reclaim her daughter,\" she said.\n\nTwo men have been charged with rioting in the city on the night that Ms McKee was murdered.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested in May by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "Brandon Rice died in Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nA teenager who died after falling ill in a house is believed to have taken ecstasy.\n\nBrandon Rice, 17, was taken to hospital after the alarm was raised in Pitreavie Court, Hamilton, in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nPolice said the death was being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination would be carried out.\n\nHis death comes just days after it emerged Scotland has the highest reported drugs death rate in the EU.\n\nOne line of the police inquiry is that Brandon had taken an ecstasy-type substance, BBC Scotland understands. The results of a toxicology report are awaited.\n\nTwo girls, aged 16 and 17, and 16-year-old boy were also taken to Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, as a precaution.\n\nBrandon was a pupil at Hamilton Grammar School and played for Hamilton Rugby Club.\n\nHead teacher Graeme Sives, said: \"Everyone at the school had a great affinity with Brandon - he was friendly, endearing and charismatic.\n\n\"He was as popular with staff as he was with his fellow students and had just been elected as a prefect for next session.\n\n\"Brandon was a talented sportsman, particularly in rugby and also last month gained a silver medal in track and field at the county sports.\"\n\nMr Sives said the teenager's death will have a profound impact on pupils and staff.\n\nHe added: \"He was a student mentor for the Sportworx training programme having excelled on the course the previous year and had career options in that area as well as ambitions to join the Fire Service.\n\n\"Brandon was a fine young man and is a great loss to our school community.\n\n\"He had contributed so strongly and had so much to offer and his passing will be keenly felt by all of us.\"\n\nEarlier this month a 16-year-old girl suspected to have taken ecstasy fell ill at a flat in the Springburn area of Glasgow.\n\nChelsea Bruce was taken to the city's Glasgow Royal Infirmary but died a short time later.\n\nOn Tuesday official statistics showed the number of drug-related deaths in Scotland soared to 1,187 last year.\n\nThe figure is 27% higher than the previous year, and the highest since records began in 1996.\n\nThey also revealed there were a record 35 ecstasy deaths in 2018, compared to 27 in the previous 12 months.\n\nThere were 64 deaths in the 15-24 category, a 78% increase on the 36 in 2017.\n\nThe statistics published by National Records of Scotland show that nearly three quarters - 72% - of those who died last year were male.\n\nThe vast majority of drug-related deaths - 1,021 - involved heroin, but a large percentage - 792 - had also taken pills such as diazepam and etizolam.\n\nThe 35-44 age group was associated with the most deaths at 442, followed by those aged 45-54 (345).", "Last updated on .From the section African\n\nAlgeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time as a freak early goal secured a 1-0 win against Senegal in the final in Cairo.\n\nBaghdad Bounedjah's shot took a huge deflection off Salif Sane and looped over goalkeeper Alfred Gomes.\n\nSenegal, who have never won the competition, were awarded a penalty for handball in the second half but it was overturned after a VAR review.\n\nAlgeria closed out the rest of the game to win their first title since 1990.\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember the tournament?\n\nSenegal's players collapsed on the pitch in tears at the final whistle.\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane, who said before the game he would swap his Champions League winners medal for Africa Cup of Nations success, looked disconsolate as Algeria players celebrated around him.\n\n\"Without the players I am nothing,\" said Algeria boss Djamel Belmadi. \"They are the main ones. I suppose the staff played its part in guiding the players but they applied the instructions incredibly well.\"\n\nSenegal, making only their second appearance in the final since 2002, dominated for large periods but struggled to make the most of their possession.\n\nM'Baye Niang was at the centre of two of their best chances as he flashed a fierce drive over the bar just before the break, and rounded keeper Rais M'bolhi early in the second half only to shoot wide from a tight angle.\n\nM'Bolhi also did well to palm over a stinging effort from Youssouf Sabaly.\n\nThe decisive moment for Senegal was the reversal of the decision to award a penalty on the hour mark.\n\nIsmaila Sarr's cross was blasted straight at Adlene Guedioura's arm, referee Neant Alioum pointed to the spot, but, just as the Senegal players started celebrating the decision, he quickly indicated that a VAR review was under way.\n\nAfter watching the replays on the pitch-side monitor, which clearly showed Guedioura's arm being by his side, Alioum reversed the decision.\n\nAlthough the decision was correct, the result was harsh on Senegal, with Algeria managing only one shot on goal.\n\nThe game was billed by many as a battle between Liverpool's Mane and Manchester City's Riyad Mahrez, but both were on the periphery of this encounter.\n\nMahrez's lack of contribution was largely down to Algeria's defensive approach after taking the lead, but Mane will perhaps be disappointed with his input.\n\nHe was clearly the player Algeria fans feared most - every touch of the ball was met with boos - but he showed only glimpses of his pace and danger on the ball, possibly showing the signs of fatigue following a long season for club and country.\n\nIt is 363 days since Mane began pre-season with Liverpool - and he will only have a couple of weeks rest before the new campaign gets under way on 9 August.\n\nAlgeria were very lucky to get their first goal from a deflected shot by Bounedjah. But they made the most of their luck.\n\nTheir defence has been formidable all tournament and as much as Senegal tried to create chances, it was just so difficult for them.\n\nThe Teranga Lions raised their level after half-time and had a great chance that was missed by Niang, one of two players Algeria were giving very close attention - the other, of course, being Mane.\n\nOne goal was enough for Algeria to win a well deserved tournament even though they weren't their best in the final. Senegal were so close this time but they needed luck and more clinical finishing - and they found neither.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salif Sané (Senegal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Adlène Guédioura (Algeria) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Sadio Mané (Senegal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Krépin Diatta (Senegal) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "London's Crossrail project will probably go even further over budget, according to a report by MPs.\n\nCommuters have been \"let down\" by a programme that is well behind schedule, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nMPs said they were \"sceptical\" about the Department for Transport's \"ability to oversee major rail projects\".\n\nIn response, the Department for Transport said it had acted \"swiftly and effectively\" when problems at Crossrail became clear.\n\nConstruction on the Crossrail route began in 2009. It is Europe's biggest infrastructure project.\n\nIt has been officially named the Elizabeth Line in honour of the Queen. When completed, it will serve 41 stations, connecting Reading, to the west of London, with Shenfield, to the east.\n\nThe line will make use of some existing track, but involves 26 miles of new tunnels connecting Paddington and Liverpool Street stations to improve rail capacity crossing the capital.\n\nThe project was allocated £14.8bn in 2010, but this has since swollen to £17.6bn.\n\nWhile it was originally expected to start running services throughout the line in December, Crossrail now expects it to open as late as March 2021.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee also criticised the bonuses paid to bosses, even as the project faltered.\n\nThe chief executive at the time, Andrew Wolstenholme, was paid a bonus of £481,000 for the year to 2016 and £160,000 for the year to 2017.\n\nThe Department for Transport allowed itself few powers to curb bosses' pay following their failings, it said.\n\n\"While the department is now working to learn and apply the lessons from what went wrong with Crossrail, it should acknowledge that this is far from an unfamiliar tale,\" the committee said.\n\n\"We have witnessed cost increases and delays on major rail projects several times over the past few years and the department still does not appear to have got a grip on the problem.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said: \"The department consistently challenged the leadership of Crossrail Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of TfL [Transport for London] - on the delivery of the project.\n\n\"When problems became clear, the department acted swiftly and effectively, changing the leadership of the board and strengthening governance structures.\n\n\"The new Crossrail Ltd management team has now produced a new plan to open the railway, and the department and TfL will continue to scrutinise progress to ensure this happens as soon as possible.\"\n• None 60 milesDistance of the line from Reading to Heathrow\n\nCrossrail split the work between 36 contractors, creating a large burden of organisational work, the report said.\n\nA spokesperson for Crossrail said: \"The Elizabeth Line is one of the most complex infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the UK and we recognise many of the challenges raised in the Public Accounts Committee report.\n\n\"The new leadership team's plan to complete the Elizabeth Line continues to be kept under careful review. Progress against our plan will become clearer in 2020, once we start to fully test the operational railway and integrate the train and signalling software.\n\n\"We are fully focused on completing the Elizabeth Line and ensuring a safe and reliable passenger service as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe Elizabeth Line had been due to open in December 2018\n\nAn estimated 200 million passengers will use the new underground line annually, increasing central London rail capacity by 10% - the largest increase since World War Two.\n\nCrossrail says the new line will connect Paddington to Canary Wharf in 17 minutes.\n\nIn May, Crossrail was criticised by the National Audit Office for running late and over budget, suggesting that bosses had clung to an unrealistic opening date.", "Boeing is taking a $4.9bn hit to cover costs related to the global grounding of its 737 Max aircraft.\n\nThe charge is set to wipe out profits when the world's biggest planemaker posts quarterly results next week.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing also said its \"best estimate at this time\" is that the aircraft will return to service in the last three months of this year.\n\nA 737 Max crash in Indonesia in October, and another in Ethiopia in March, killed 346 people in total.\n\nBoeing is facing one of the worst crises in its history after regulators banned its best-selling aircraft from flying after the disasters.\n\nCrash investigators have concentrated their efforts on the aircraft's control system and Boeing has been working with regulators to roll out a software upgrade.\n\nThe manufacturer, facing intense scrutiny over the regulatory clearance for the aircraft to fly, has cut the monthly production rate from 52 to 42 as airlines hold off purchases.\n\nMost of the $4.9bn charge will be used to compensate Boeing's customers for schedule disruptions and delays in aircraft deliveries.\n\nOn Friday, Boeing's share price jumped 4% at the start of trading, a sign that investors seem comfortable with the charge. Analysts knew that Boeing faced a heavy financial cost following the disasters and had been awaiting clarity.\n\nIn April, Boeing halted share buybacks, and said that the grounding of the 737 Max fleet had cost it an additional charge of at least $1bn so far.\n\n$5bn, and very probably counting.\n\nThe money set aside by Boeing is meant to cover compensation for customers who either haven't received their aircraft, or can't use the ones they already have.\n\nAirlines who are waiting for overdue deliveries are having to make alternative arrangements, by cancelling services, leasing aircraft from specialist companies, or by keeping older, less fuel-efficient models in service for longer. All three options come at a cost.\n\nAnd for those who already had Max aircraft in service, there will be financing costs that still have to be paid, even when the planes themselves are not earning their keep. Not to mention the money that needs to be spent on maintaining them while they are on the ground.\n\nAll of this, ultimately, is likely to come back to Boeing. The $5bn figure assumes that the process of approving the Max to go back into service will begin in the autumn. But we have already seen that regulators seem determined to take a very tough line when it comes to ensuring the safety of the aircraft. The schedule could well slip again, and costs rise further.\n\nLet's not forget either that lawsuits filed by relatives of accident victims are mounting up, and this charge does not take them into consideration at all. So the final bill for Boeing may well be a lot higher.\n\nBoeing chairman and chief executive Dennis Muilenburg, said: \"This is a defining moment for Boeing. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the flight crews and passengers who fly on our airplanes.\n\n\"The Max grounding presents significant headwinds and the financial impact recognised this quarter reflects the current challenges and helps to address future financial risks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge's family died in the crash in Ethiopia in March, and he gave moving testimony in the US Congress\n\nBoeing said it continues to work with aviation authorities to get the 737 Max back into the air, which it hopes will be in the fourth quarter of 2019.\n\nBut the statement added: \"This assumption reflects the company's best estimate at this time, but actual timing of return to service could differ from this estimate.\"\n\nBoeing also warned that if this timetable slips, and its anticipated resumption of deliveries to customers is delayed, that this \"could result in additional financial impact\".\n\nHowever, in a speech on Thursday, the US transportation secretary appeared less certain that the aircraft would be cleared to fly again this year.\n\nElaine L Chao said the Federal Aviation Administration, \"is following a thorough process, rather than a prescribed timeline... the FAA will lift the aircraft's prohibition order when it is deemed safe to do so.\" She was not referring directly to Boeing's statement.\n\nOn Thursday, Southwest Airlines, the biggest user of the 737 Max, joined its US rivals in cancelling more flights until early November.\n\nThe move also prompted the low-cost carrier to freeze new pilot hiring.", "Zosha Di Castri's latest work looks at humankind's evolving relationship with the moon\n\nThe BBC Proms blasts off on Friday with a musical exploration of the moon.\n\nThe season opens with Zosha Di Castri's latest work Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory, which marks the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.\n\nThe piece examines how humanity has \"looked to the moon over different time periods and different cultures,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIt's not only the composer's Proms debut, but the first time her music has ever been played in the UK.\n\n\"It's a crazy way to begin but I'm very honoured,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe 1969 moon landings are a running theme in this year's Proms season, with highlights including a Sci-Fi prom featuring scores from films such as Gravity and Alien: Covenant.\n\nElsewhere, Public Service Broadcasting will debut an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 album The Race for Space, which features archive film recordings and vintage electronic instruments.\n\nDi Castri's work was inspired by three pieces of writing - Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi's haunting Alla Luna, in which a man sees his grief reflected in the moon's face; Sappho's The Moon, in which the ancient Greek poet writes about the silvery brightness of the night sky; and a new text by novelist Xiaolu Guo, which reflects both ancient Chinese legends and the recent Chang'e-4 exploration of the far side of the moon.\n\nTheir words are fragmented throughout the piece, while the title, Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory, is lifted from Leopardi's verse.\n\n\"I was thinking about how much energy and man-power and resources had gone into exploration of the moon,\" says Di Castri, \"and then it seemed like, once we had achieved that, people kind of forgot about it. There was a noticeable lag in enthusiasm until perhaps just recently.\"\n\nNeil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) were the first people to set foot on the moon, on 20 July 1969\n\nResearching the piece left a big impression on the composer, who'd never before considered the monumental human effort behind the moon landings.\n\n\"To be honest, it was something that I took as fact - that we've been to the moon,\" she laughs. \"In the same way that, as a child, you learn that the earth is round and not flat, and you just accept that's the way it is.\n\n\"I always knew that people had been on the moon - but this brought back the sense of awe.\"\n\nListen to Zosha's playlist on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube.\n\nThe classical pieces commonly associated with space travel, like Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, or Holst's Mars, are typically full of rattling percussion and piercing stabs of brass.\n\nDi Castri says her work has \"moments of bombast\", especially as she depicts the feverish hype of the US-Russia space race. But once Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out of the lunar module, the atmosphere changes.\n\n\"I like to think of that moment, of walking on the moon and being so far from Earth and experiencing this landscape for the first time as being much more subtle and ethereal,\" she says.\n\n\"I was trying to get into the awe and wonder of what that felt like, so the choir's doing a lot of whispering, atmospheric sounds. The sopranos have a solo and the orchestra and rest of the chorus provides a textured soundscape. Time feels stretched out.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old is one of more than 20 composers commissioned to create new work for the 2019 Proms season, with premieres coming from the likes of Hans Zimmer, Jonathan Dove and Huw Watkins, who is also writing an ode to the moon.\n\nSo would Di Castri be prepared to strap herself into a rocket and swing on a star in real life?\n\n\"Oh my goodness, yes,\" she says. \"But I'd probably be terrified.\"\n\nThe First Night of the Proms takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 19 July. It will be broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3. On television, the first half will be shown live on BBC Two, with the second half on BBC Four.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scarlett was on a six-month \"trip of a lifetime\" with her family when she died\n\nA man has been jailed for 10 years for killing and sexually assaulting the British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa in 2008.\n\nSamson D'Souza was found guilty of \"culpable homicide not amounting to murder\" by an Indian court on Wednesday.\n\nThe court upheld the acquittal of another man, Placido Carvalho.\n\nThe 15-year-old's mother said the 10-year sentence was \"a year less than it's taken us to get this far\".\n\nFiona MacKeown told the BBC she was happy D'Souza had been sentenced to \"rigorous imprisonment\" - meaning he has to work behind bars.\n\n\"I just hope he stays inside for that long,\" she added.\n\nBoth men were previously acquitted by a lower court in 2016 after a prolonged trial, but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appealed against the verdict.\n\nSamson D'Souza (left) was convicted while Placido Carvalho was acquitted\n\nEarlier this week, D'Souza was found guilty of assault, destruction of evidence and providing narcotics to Scarlett, among other charges.\n\nScarlett's bruised and partially clothed body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa just after dawn on 18 February 2008.\n\nThe 15-year-old from Bideford in Devon was on a six-month \"trip of a lifetime\" to India with her family when she died.\n\nThe family had spent two months at the Goan resort before travelling down the coast to neighbouring Karnataka - but Scarlett was allowed to return to attend a Valentine's Day beach party.\n\nShe was left in the care of 25-year-old tour guide Julio Lobo, Ms MacKeown told media outlets.\n\nScarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa\n\nPolice in Goa initially concluded her death was accidental but, after a campaign by her family, a second post-mortem examination in March 2008 revealed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted before drowning in seawater.\n\nThe 2016 acquittal of the two men prompted angry statements from Ms MacKeown.\n\nThe verdict also drew widespread criticism in Goa, leading to the CBI filing a petition for a retrial.", "Watch as Zimbabwe netballers celebrate their top-eight finish at the World Cup by dancing their way on to BBC Two's TV coverage while Hazel Irvine is still presenting.\n\nFollow live coverage of the Netball World Cup this weekend on BBC Two, the BBC Sport website & BBC iPlayer.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "He said he had to check on his 65-year-old mother despite fracturing his hip earlier in the day. When officials told him he couldn't take the stairs to see her, he found another way.", "Iris's mother she said was in an \"ocean of grief\" after her death\n\nThe teenage daughter of financier Ben Goldsmith died when an \"all-terrain type\" vehicle she was driving overturned, an inquest heard.\n\nIris Goldsmith, 15, died on her family's farm near the village of North Brewham, Somerset, on 8 July.\n\nPolice are not treating her death as suspicious, the inquest in Taunton was told.\n\nHer family have released pictures of their \"angel\" following her funeral on Wednesday.\n\nSenior coroner Tony Williams adjourned the inquest, saying he had only limited information about the accident.\n\n\"I understand she was the driver of a left-hand drive all-terrain type vehicle when it turned over for reasons that are yet to be established, and as a result it is believed she suffered fatal injures,\" he said.\n\nIris was identified by her father Ben, the inquest heard\n\nPathologist Dr Edwin Cooper of Yeovil District Hospital confirmed the cause of death was \"not currently ascertained\" and a post-mortem report had yet to be compiled, he added.\n\nA private funeral for Iris was held at St Mary's Church in Barnes, south-west London, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe family has released pictures from the private funeral held on Wednesday\n\nIn a eulogy, Iris' mother, Kate Rothschild, said: \"I can't possibly begin to explain the ocean of grief we find ourselves in or the feeling of being shattered into a thousand un-findable pieces.\n\n\"She was simply spectacular, her light was brighter than any I've ever known.\n\n\"Iris was life-giving and free and fun and wild, but she also worked harder than any girl I've ever known and she cared, she cared so much about living her best life.\n\n\"She had so many plans and dreams and ambitions and she was willing to put everything she had into reaching them.\"\n\nIris was the first child of Mr Goldsmith and his ex-wife Ms Rothschild.\n\nMr Goldsmith is the younger brother of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and Jemima Khan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Organisers described the \"horrific\" crash as a \"nightmare\".\n\nSeventeen people have been injured after two cars crashed at a \"car cruise\" gathering and ploughed into spectators.\n\nThe vehicles collided on Monkswood Way, Stevenage, at about 21:45 BST on Thursday leaving two seriously injured and 15 more hurt.\n\nOne of the event's organisers described the \"horrific\" crash as a \"nightmare\".\n\nHertfordshire Assistant Chief Constable Nathan Briant said the two drivers had been identified and interviewed.\n\nHe said officers were \"continuing to work with partners to fully understand the events\" and the drivers had been \"interviewed as part of the ongoing investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Whilst the events do occur regularly the meeting yesterday evening appeared far larger in nature than previous events, and it is now understood that an organiser had publicised the meeting on social media as a charity event,\" he said.\n\n\"Last night we identified more than 130 witnesses and an investigative team has been formed to ensure each of these is contacted to obtain their statements.\n\n\"We are also aware of a large number of people leaving the area prior to our arrival, among these are likely also to be further witnesses to the collision.\"\n\nPolice, fire and ambulance services all attended the crash\n\nPolice have asked witnesses to send footage of the crash to detectives.\n\nVideo footage shows one car passing another before the two collide and one strikes people standing at the roadside while the other hits spectators in the central reservation.\n\nOne witness said on Twitter: \"I've just witnessed that horrendous crash in Stevenage, no more than 50ft away from me. I'm still trying to process it all.\"\n\nOrganiser Rix Sidhu said it was the first time the Cruise-Herts group had suffered any serious incident in its 17-year history\n\nCruise-Herts planned the event on Thursday where people were due to gather to look at modified cars.\n\nOrganiser Rix Sidhu said he had been organising similar meets for 17 years and the latest was held to raise money for charity.\n\nHe estimated one of the cars that crashed was travelling at 60 or 70mph and then went into the crowd \"at speed\".\n\nMr Sidhu said: \"We held the meet in a car park with a speed bump at the entrance. But unfortunately some people went a bit rogue.\n\nSkidmarks can be seen at a car park near the crash site\n\n\"We try and stop that, we urge people...not to go out on the roads, not to risk injury or anything.\n\n\"But unfortunately, in this age of social media and Snapchat, people want to get footage and post things to their friends, which seems to drive some people to the main road.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook he said they would not be organising any more such events.\n\nHe also said the police were aware that the group met every Thursday evening, having attended in the past, and said the two drivers involved in the crash were \"not regulars\".\n\nLast night there were hundreds of people here, but this morning the only sign anything happened is an abundance of skidmarks in the adjacent car park - and police markings on the road at the scene of the accident.\n\nThere are yellow spray-painted markings that seem to indicate where the two cars involved were travelling, the point at which they met - and where they came to rest.\n\nSome of those markings are on the pavement.\n\nI can also see that first aid was given here.\n\nThere are are a few bits of medical paraphernalia left among the rubbish, which is now the only other evidence of how many people were gathered here last night.\n\nThroughout the morning young people have been turning up to collect their vehicles but they have been too upset to talk about what happened.\n\nFellow organiser Dean Summerbee, 34, said people attending had been warned not to race or do wheel spins and burnouts.\n\nHe said: \"It was horrific seeing it last night. It still plays over in my head in slow motion. I literally had to pull my mate out of the way.\n\n\"My thoughts go out to everyone who has been hurt. It's not something I'd like to relive again.\n\n\"I feel sorry for anyone who witnessed it. It was a nightmare last night.\"\n\nThe section of A-road passes a retail park near Stevenage Football Club.\n\nTom Adams, who lives in Welwyn Garden City and arrived shortly after the crash, said he knew the organisers \"dotted all the Is and crossed all the Ts\" and it was \"not just a gathering of hooligans\" but the event had been let down by a \"bunch of boy racers\".\n\nHe added: \"There is a select group of people that have no consideration for other people and unfortunately that has come back to bite us.\"\n\nCiaran O'Connor, 33, was travelling home when he witnessed the crash which he described as \"horrific\".\n\nHertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service crews cut free one person trapped in a vehicle and provided \"trauma care\" to a number of injured people.\n\nStevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor said such events were unauthorised and hard to regulate.\n\nShe said: \"We will do whatever we can to make sure we don't get dreadful incidents like this. [But] it's not an easy thing to regulate.\"\n\nCrowds can be seen watching the cars just before the crash\n\nPolice have placed an appeal poster at the scene, where debris can still be seen on the verge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The delayed ferries are at the centre of a row between Ferguson Marine and the Scottish government's ferry company\n\nThe shipbuilder with the contract to build two delayed CalMac new ferries has said it will lose £39.5m on the deal.\n\nThe latest accounts for Ferguson Marine show the Inverclyde yard made a loss of £60.1m in 2016.\n\nFerguson Marine claims \"interference and disruption\" from the Scottish government's ferry company is to blame for the losses.\n\nThe firm also wants to renegotiate the terms of its £45m government loan.\n\nOwner Jim McColl - who rescued the yard from administration in 2014 - put £8.5m into Ferguson Marine from one of his other companies, according to the accounts.\n\nThe two dual-fuel ships - which can be powered by liquefied natural gas as well as diesel - will operate on CalMac's Clyde and Hebridean routes.\n\nThey have been ordered by Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), which buys and leases the CalMac ships on behalf of the Scottish government.\n\nIn its accounts, which were filed over a year late, Ferguson Marine stated: \"The directors believe that post contract award, variations, interference, and disruption caused by the customer have resulted in additional unforeseen costs.\"\n\nBut CMAL rejects this and has previously insisted Ferguson Marine has to stick to the terms of its £97m fixed-price contract.\n\nThe row is set to go to the courts.\n\nThe Ferguson Marine accounts state the contract row and losses \"may cast doubt on the ability to continue as a going concern\" for the yard, but the report also adds the firm- which employs 300 people - is confident that its diversification efforts will pay off.\n\nFerguson Marine has been given access to a total of £45m in Scottish government loans.\n\nThe firm is trying to renegotiate the terms of these loans and the Scottish government has also said it will enter into discussions over extending how much time the Port Glasgow yard has to repay one of the loans.\n\nFerguson Marine's accounts for 2017 were due to be filed in September.\n\nA spokesman for Ferguson Marine said: \"In our latest published accounts, we have provided for identified cost overruns, in line with accepted accounting standards.\n\n\"These cost overruns are a direct result of the unforeseen complexities of building the two prototype, first in class, dual fuel LNG vessels for our client, CMAL. We fully expect to recover the costs identified and are subsequently in discussions with professional claims experts, with the aim of submitting a formal claim to CMAL within the next few weeks.\n\n\"We firmly believe that following a period of remarkable transformation, which has seen significant investment into the yard's facilities and workforce, Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited is now well placed to embark on an exciting phase of sustained growth.\n\n\"Our diversification strategy has unquestionably led to recent project wins, including securing a contract to build a world-first self-propelled air cushioned barge, but has also created a huge pipeline of exciting opportunities in an array of different sectors which we intend to fully capitalise on.\"", "Shaun Greenhalgh sold a fake statue made in his garden shed for £440,000\n\nA fraudster who conned the art world has told museum staff that he regrets duping experts with a fake statue.\n\nBolton Museum paid £440,000 for the Amarna Princess figure, believing it had acquired a 3,300-year-old artefact.\n\nBut the statue of the granddaughter of King Tutankhamun was actually created by prolific forger Shaun Greenhalgh in his garden shed.\n\nGreenhalgh said he felt \"bad\" but stopped short of apologising when he visited the museum for a documentary.\n\nOver a 17-year period, Greenhalgh and his elderly parents sold hundreds of fakes they passed off as the genuine article, earning at least £850,000.\n\nThe scam unravelled when mistakes in Egyptian script were spotted on stonework by experts at the British Museum and Greenhalgh, then 47, was jailed in 2007 at Bolton Crown Court.\n\nExperts were duped into believing the Amarna Princess was a 3,300-year-old artefact\n\nHis visit to Bolton Museum with a team of documentary makers last week was the second time he has returned but the first time he had met staff.\n\nGreenhalgh said he \"felt really bad\" about duping the museum, which he said had inspired his love of art when he visited as a child.\n\nGreenhalgh returned to meet museum staff for the first time for a documentary\n\n\"Everyone's been very nice,\" he said.\n\n\"I was half expecting a dagger in my back.\"\n\nThe visit will feature in a documentary called Made in Bolton, which is being produced by Sunday Times arts editor Waldemar Januszczak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Amarna Princess was authenticated by auctioneer Christie's and the British Museum before being bought by Bolton Museum, operated by the town's council, in 2003.\n\nThe Greenhalgh family fooled experts from all the great auction houses by claiming they had found or inherited pieces by artists including LS Lowry, Samuel Peploe, Thomas Moran and Barbara Hepworth.\n\nGeorge and Olive Greenhalgh were given suspended sentences.\n\nGreenhalgh said he was inspired to take up art by childhood visits to the museum\n\nBolton Museum first put the fake statue on display in 2011 and it has since become a permanent exhibit.\n\nThe council's deputy leader Martyn Cox said: \"We are glad that Mr Greenhalgh is now putting his extraordinary talents to good honest use.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA strong earthquake has shaken the Greek capital of Athens, knocking out phone networks and power in parts of the city.\n\nThe 5.1 magnitude earthquake had an epicentre about 22km (14 miles) north-west of Athens.\n\nAthenians ran out into the streets as the city shook for 15 seconds.\n\nThere were no reports of serious injuries, but several aftershocks have been felt and two buildings have collapsed.\n\nThe strongest aftershock had a magnitude of 4.3, almost an hour after the initial quake hit at 14:13 (11:13 GMT). Seismologists warn there could be more.\n\nThe earthquake was felt particularly strongly in the centre of Athens, where people stood in the streets after evacuating from tall buildings.\n\nPlaster fell off the walls of the chief prosecutor's office in Athens and cracks appeared in the 170-year-old parliament building.\n\nThere were reports that the fire service, which has received 76 calls according to local media, rescued over a dozen people trapped in elevators following the power outage.\n\nA pregnant tourist visiting the Archaeological Museum was hospitalised after she was accidentally struck by another tourist's elbow as they rushed for the exit.\n\nReports suggest at least three people were hurt by falling plaster.\n\nAn old residence and an empty building have collapsed, Greek media said. Other buildings were also damaged and pieces of marble have fallen from the Agia Irini church into the road.\n\nCrowds gathered in open areas in Athens after the earthquake struck\n\n\"It was a very intense quake. We were terrified,\" a resident called Katerina told AFP. Another woman told local media that it was \"more like an explosion\".\n\n\"We were all very afraid,\" she said.\n\nEfthymios Lekkas, head of the earthquake protection agency, told people to remain calm.\n\n\"There is no reason for concern. The capital's buildings are built to withstand a much stronger earthquake,\" he said.\n\nThe quake was also felt in the southern region of Peloponnese.\n\nSeismologists say the earthquake was around 13km (8 miles) from the surface.\n\nThe earthquake is the first to hit the Greek capital since September 1999 and experts say it was very close to the same epicentre, at Mt Parnitha. That magnitude six quake left 143 people dead and tens of thousands of buildings damaged.\n\nThe crucifix was shaken from the bell tower of the Church of the Pantanassa\n\nThe city lies on several fault lines which cause some earthquakes, although they rarely cause casualties or damage, said Professor Iain Stewart, a geologist at the University of Plymouth.\n\nBefore the earthquake in 1999, the city was considered at low risk – but \"if a place has an earthquake it increases the hazard\" in future, he said.\n\nAn earthquake of magnitude 5.1 like the one on Friday does not cause significant risk of damage, he said, although he expected it to be more noticeable near the epicentre.\n\nOne at magnitude 6.3 or above would cause buildings to collapse, Prof Stewart said.\n\nAthens is built on solid ground, so there is less potential for damage to the Ancient Greek monuments in the city, which date back thousands of years.\n\nHowever, Prof Stewart notes that Ancient Greek settlements were possibly deliberately built on top of seismic fault lines, perhaps to provide access to natural springs. Earthquakes may also have been of cultural significance in Greek antiquity.\n\nThe risk of earthquakes increases the further you go towards the extremities of Greece, Prof Stewart said: particularly on the islands of Crete, Kefalonia and Rhodes.\n\nIn 2017, two people were killed by a 6.7 magnitude quake which hit the island of Kos, a popular tourist destination.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At least two people were killed in the tourist destination of Kos", "Sajid Javid: \"I know what it's like to be told to go back to where I came from...\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has condemned \"naked populism\" in the US and described chants made at a Donald Trump rally as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMr Trump disavowed chants of \"send her back\" aimed at Democratic congresswoman and US citizen Ilhan Omar.\n\nMr Javid said he was \"deeply concerned\" about polarisation in parts of the US.\n\nIn a speech, he also warned of racism propelling extremist politicians to power around the world.\n\nSpeaking about the chants, Mr Javid said: \"This is going on in the US today. Imagine if people were saying to me \"send him back\".\n\n\"I know how I'd feel but I'd like to think most of society would think that's just completely unacceptable in a modern liberal democracy, to have that kind of situation and not be appalled by it.\"\n\nPublic figures must also \"moderate their language\" as part of a greater effort to tackle extremism, he said, adding that everyone had a \"part to play\" in stopping the spread of poisonous ideologies.\n\nHis words follow the publication of a poll suggesting 52% of respondents had witnessed extremism.\n\nHe said: \"I know what it's like to be told to go back to where I came from, and I don't think they mean Rochdale.\"\n\nThe home secretary's comments come after US President Donald Trump was accused of racism and xenophobia for telling four Democratic Party congresswomen to \"go back\" to the countries they \"originally came from\".\n\nMr Javid noted extremists use immigration \"as a proxy for race\" and exaggerate migrant figures to stoke fear.\n\n\"Anyone can challenge the myths,\" he added. \"So tell your friends, shout it loud and proud: people from minority backgrounds did not steal our jobs, they're not terrorists, that there is no global 'Zionist conspiracy'.\"\n\n\"We must confront the myths about immigration that extremists use to drive divisions,\" Mr Javid, the son of immigrants from Pakistan, told civil society groups, charities and academics in a speech entitled Confronting Extremism Together.\n\nHe called for further integration within society, more help for people to learn English, greater support for communities and a celebration of national identity.\n\nMr Javid said the extremism problem has spread from radicalisation by organisations like the Islamic State group to the far left and right of politics.\n\n\"Public discourse is hardening and becoming less constructive,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play - broadcasters who must not give a platform to extremists; police who must swoop on the worst offenders; public figures who must moderate their language.\"\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who has herself been a target of online abuse, said too many political leaders are using the \"very extreme end of language\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's World At One: \"Whether that's the president of the United States or politicians in our own country, there needs to be a reckoning about the kind of language that we are using and what effect that is having on the ground.\"\n\nMr Javid's speech follows the publication of a poll by the Commission for Countering Extremism - an independent body set up after the Manchester Arena terror attack.\n\nOf almost 3,000 respondents to the survey, more than half said they had witnessed extremism. Of these, 45% said they had seen it online while 39% said they had seen it in their local area.\n\nLead commissioner Sara Khan, who introduced Mr Javid's speech, said the findings \"underline the breadth and severity of the concerns we have in 2019\".\n\nSara Khan told the Today programme extremism exists in different forms\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said a \"range of drivers\" contribute to extremism and extremist ideology.\n\nShe said the forms of extremism varied from far-right extremism to less talked about types such as animal rights activism.\n\n\"Extremism harms everybody in our country. It requires a whole society response,\" she added.\n\nThe survey forms part of a review of the threat and response to extremism in England and Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"She said 'yes'!\". Bill Lindsay offered to take photos for this young couple from Texas on St Andrews West beach. Bill says: \"After six or so photos he asked if I would take one more. He then got down on one one knee and proposed.\" This is 30 seconds later.", "The raids were carried out in 2017\n\nTwo people have been found guilty of animal welfare offences after a raid at what is believed to have been Scotland's largest puppy farm.\n\nScottish SPCA officers and police had swooped on the farm near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, in November 2017.\n\nA total of more than 100 dogs, puppies, rabbits and ferrets, were seized.\n\nFrank James, 54, and Michelle Wood, 30, were on trial charged with causing unnecessary suffering by failing to provide adequate care and treatment.\n\nJames, from Banff, and Wood, from Macduff, were found guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.\n\nFrank James will be sentenced next month\n\nSentence was deferred until next month for reports.\n\nAn undercover investigator for the Scottish SPCA said: \"We believe this was the largest scale puppy farming operation in Scotland.\n\n\"The conditions these dogs were being kept in were absolutely disgraceful.\n\n\"It fell far below the minimum standard in terms of animal welfare and, given the environment and sheer volume of puppies, it was immediately evident these were not being kept as pets and the premises was effectively a battery farm for pups.\n\n\"Our investigation revealed dogs on site were being intensively bred with little to no regard for their welfare.\"\n\nAlmost 90 dogs and puppies were among the animals seized in the operation.\n\nAll of the surviving animals were successfully rehomed.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA had carried out the operation with Police Scotland using warrants obtained under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2006 (Scotland).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train on on 3 July\n\nTwo rail workers who were killed near Port Talbot had been using a petrol-engined tool and were not aware of the approaching train, early investigations have found.\n\nThe Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) said Michael Lewis and Gareth Delbridge were doing scheduled maintenance on the Margam Moors lines which were open to traffic on 3 July.\n\nThe driver sounded his horn and applied the emergency brake.\n\nA third worker was almost struck.\n\nThe RAIB said Mr Lewis, 58, of North Cornelly, and Mr Delbridge, 64, of Kenfig Hill, were working with four others on a set of points, using a petrol-engined tool and at least one of the workers was wearing ear defenders.\n\nCCTV images suggest they did not become aware of the train until it was very close to them, travelling at about 50mph (80km/h).\n\nWorkers on the adjacent line became aware of the train and tried to warn their colleagues as it passed them.\n\nThe RAIB's investigation will identify the sequence of events that led to the accident and consider:\n\nCoroner Colin Phillips has previously adjourned the men's inquests at Swansea Coroner's Court for a review in six months.", "Lucy McHugh was found stabbed to death in woodland at Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre\n\nA lodger who raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl to stop her exposing him as an abuser has been jailed for life.\n\nHe was found guilty of murder and three charges of raping Lucy after a trial at Winchester Crown Court and was ordered to spend at least 33 years in jail.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice May said Lucy had \"unknown promise, cruelly obliterated\" and described Nicholson as \"depraved\".\n\nThe judge told Nicholson: \"This was a pitiless attack on a child following months of sexual exploitation.\n\n\"The prosecution has described it as an execution and I am satisfied this is correct.\n\n\"The combination of [Nicholson's] cold narcissism and hot anger dictated that she had to be put out of the way and he saw to it that this was done.\"\n\nThe trial heard Nicholson first raped Lucy, then aged 12, in May 2017 while living at her home, and on two further occasions over the following week.\n\nMrs Justice May said Lucy had been \"vulnerable, easy prey to someone satisfying his own appetites\".\n\nShe said Nicholson \"encouraged and cynically exploited\" Lucy's \"crush\" on him after he had moved into the family house, and called him \"utterly selfish and depraved\".\n\nNicholson refused to give police his Facebook password after he had deleted messages from Lucy\n\nNicholson had later decided Lucy had \"become a serious object to his comfortable life and there was a real threat of her outing him as a paedophile\".\n\nThe judge said teachers had \"done the right thing\" in raising concerns to social services but no action was taken.\n\nShe added: \"The [social services] team had investigated and had found nothing to concern them. The obvious question is, 'how could social services have arrived at that conclusion, not once but twice?'\".\n\nSouthampton City Council declined to comment due to an ongoing serious case review into the reports made to its social services department. The review is expected to be completed by the end of the year.\n\nNicholson was also found guilty of sexual activity with another girl, aged 14, in 2012.\n\nVictim impact statements from Lucy's mother and father were submitted to the court.\n\nThe court heard Nicholson had previously been detained in 2009 for taking staff and residents of a Southampton children's home hostage, when he was aged 14.\n\nProsecutor William Mousley QC told the court that while he was a resident of the home - under the influence of amphetamines - Nicholson threatened staff with a knife.\n\nHe then locked them and other children in a room, before stealing £1,000 in cash and making off in a staff member's car.\n\nHe was also later convicted of affray and damaging property after he barricaded himself in a room and threatened staff at a young offenders centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Nicholson recorded the video after being released from prison in 2012\n\nNicholson recorded a music video in 2012 as part of a music rehabilitation project after being released from prison that year, in which he rapped about turning his life around, having previously not cared about who he hurt.\n\nDefence barrister James Newton-Price QC said Nicholson had a \"difficult\" upbringing, having been placed in a children's home from the age of 13.\n\nJurors heard Nicholson moved into the family home after being invited by long-time friend Richard Elmes, the partner of Lucy's mother Stacey White.\n\nThe trial heard Lucy would later describe Nicholson to friends as her \"boyfriend\".\n\nNicholson told police Lucy sent him a message the night before her murder, saying she was pregnant.\n\nAfter luring her to woodland nearby, he stabbed her 27 times, including 11 in the neck, in what prosecutors described as an \"'execution-style\" murder. It was later found Lucy was not pregnant.\n\nNicholson was linked to the murder via DNA evidence found on clothing discarded in woodland about a mile from the murder scene.\n\nHe was also convicted of sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl in 2012, who he had taken to the same woodland where Lucy was found dead years later.\n\nNicholson was cleared of one count of sexual activity with a child which related to Lucy after she had turned 13.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Noel Stanton, founder of the sect, preached about sins of the flesh\n\nHundreds of former members of the Jesus Army are seeking damages for alleged abuse inside the religious sect.\n\nEx-members have told the BBC how children suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse on a \"prolific scale\", with most claims relating to incidents in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nThe Baptist sect is to close but is the subject of a renewed police inquiry.\n\nThe Jesus Army has apologised to anyone \"who experienced harm in the past\" and urged victims to contact police.\n\nTen people from the Jesus Fellowship Church - later known as the Jesus Army - have been convicted for various sex offences.\n\nLaunched in the manse of a small chapel in Northamptonshire in 1969, the Jesus Army grew quickly in wealth and number.\n\nAt its peak the JFC had more than 2,000 members, hundreds of whom lived together in close-knit communal houses throughout central England.\n\nIt offered homeless or vulnerable people and god-fearing families the promise of \"new creation\" through a devout, all-encompassing way of life.\n\nResidents submitted to an intense regime of work and worship. All of their income was given to a common purse and everything was shared - from underwear to parenting.\n\nChildren could be disciplined by any adult, while youngsters and newcomers were assigned to a male \"shepherd\" to oversee their spiritual development.\n\nThe Jesus Army's brightly coloured buses took members to find new recruits\n\nBy the age of 12 or 13, children were often separated from their parents.\n\nEx-members say it was typical for adults to enter their bedrooms while they undressed, or watch them take a bath.\n\nThe BBC has heard that children as young as three who misbehaved could be stripped from the waist, told to bend over and hold their ankles, and beaten with a rod.\n\nCommunity members lived under the unchallenged authority of the movement's creator, Noel Stanton.\n\nHe was a firebrand who preached daily about sins of the flesh, and cursed wayward members as \"backsliders\" who were going to hell.\n\nMr Stanton founded the JFC on a huge enterprise of shops, businesses and two large farms, generating millions of pounds in annual turnover.\n\nAfter his death in 2009, the church handed allegations of sexual offences against Stanton and others to Northamptonshire Police.\n\nThe BBC can now reveal that 43 people who were active in the church have been linked to reports of historic sexual and physical abuse.\n\nIt is understood further claims have come to light such as rapes, bullying, brainwashing, forced labour, financial bondage and \"barbaric beatings\" of young boys by groups of men.\n\nDetectives have launched a new \"comprehensive\" inquiry into historic abuse by the church and evidence of a cover-up by five former leaders.\n\nHowever, a survivors' group has raised concerns about the level of compensation being proposed by the church. It is now preparing group legal action involving hundreds of claimants.\n\nA spokesman for the JFC insisted a formal redress scheme was being developed \"to provide money and counselling\" to \"those who had suffered poor treatment in the past\".\n\nIt said the scheme had been set up with external stakeholders to ensure everyone was dealt with in a \"transparent and even-handed way\"\n\nNew Creation Hall in Northamptonshire was the birthplace of the JFC\n\n\"I don't remember ever feeling safe as a child, I think people thought God would protect their children,\" says Rose, which is not her real name.\n\nShe is one of a number of alleged victims who have told the BBC about their experiences inside the Jesus Army.\n\nRose was a baby when her family moved to a commune in the 1980s.\n\nShe says the intense regime made it a frightening place to grow up, with \"loud and scary exorcisms\" taking place at every meeting.\n\n\"I remember very strongly as a child a man manifesting next to me, shouting, screaming, retching and being sick on the floor,\" she says.\n\nFervent sessions of worship were held in the evenings with songs, prayer and speaking in tongues, while most weekends were spent on recruitment drives in towns and cities. Followers donned military-style uniforms and drove rainbow-coloured buses.\n\nRose explained that one of the main teachings was \"there is nothing good in you as a person\".\n\n\"Everything in you was the result of sin, and I developed a complete self-loathing because of that message,\" she says.\n\nRose said children were regularly \"disciplined\" by adults, including homeless people and drug addicts picked up off the streets.\n\n\"There was something about public discipline... being whacked in front of a whole congregation of people, that was very humiliating.\"\n\nRose says that when she was 12 years old an older man in her commune began to groom and molest her \"every weekend\".\n\nShe says he used to touch her leg under the dinner table or fondle her breasts while handing her money to get an ice cream.\n\nThe Jesus Centre, former home of the group, in Northampton\n\n\"At the time, I didn't know what was going on,\" she says. \"I hadn't thought or talked about my body and he used that to molest me and continued to do it every weekend.\"\n\nShe knew the situation was \"weird and uncomfortable\" but felt \"he must have had a reason for doing it\".\n\nWhen she was 15 years old, she says another prominent figure in the church led her behind a building and forced her to perform a sex act on him.\n\n\"I knew something had happened that was wrong and felt a lot of shame,\" Rose says, but added that \"women were there to serve. We were always subordinate.\"\n\nIt was typical for women to be seen as temptresses who corrupted male members, former members said.\n\nSo when her abuser told the church what had happened, Rose says she was blamed for it.\n\nShe is now hoping to receive compensation from the church's redress scheme, and is considering going to the police about her alleged abusers.\n\nBen says he was sexually assaulted at the age of six\n\nBen, whose name we have changed, was born into the community in the 1980s.\n\nWhen he was six years old he says he found himself alone in the grounds of his commune with a male worshipper who undressed and sexually assaulted him.\n\n\"My dad's mum used to say how happy and smiley I was, but [after he was abused] I don't remember anyone ever saying that again,\" he says.\n\n\"The memories afterwards are all isolation. I withdrew into myself as a child and I had no friends in particular.\"\n\nBen became distanced from his family and left the church when he was 17 years old.\n\nRecently he discovered his siblings had suffered similar experiences, including one of his brothers who he says was raped during much of his teenage life.\n\n\"I believe that at least five of us have been abused in one way or another,\" he says.\n\n\"I have anger for the church. I have anger because of what they did to my family. Whether they chose to ignore it, or give it to God, they're still culpable for letting it happen.\"\n\n\"There are still some beautiful people in the church with the best intentions,\" Ben adds. \"But everything's been overshadowed by what happened in the houses.\"\n\nBen has been speaking to police about pursuing a criminal investigation against his abuser, but says so far there has been little progress.\n\nPhilippa Muller, far right, during her time in the Jesus Army\n\nPhilippa Muller's family moved from Surrey to the birthplace of the JFC community, New Creation Hall, in Northamptonshire, when she was seven years old.\n\nHer father worked in the local tax office and handed over every penny of his earnings to the church's communal purse.\n\nPhilippa's mother, like most of the other women, was a \"servant\" and spent her time cooking and cleaning to ensure the men of the house could do their \"godly work\".\n\nPhilippa began living with the Jesus Army when she was seven\n\nWomen were encouraged to claim benefits and give them to the church.\n\n\"I grew up with a very negative imprint as to what it was to be a woman,\" Philippa says.\n\nYoung people were urged to recant their sins - real or imagined. They were taught about demonic manifestations and were present during exorcisms.\n\nPhilippa became increasingly isolated. \"You couldn't just go to have a coffee with someone, or go to the cinema. That was all forbidden.\n\n\"We weren't allowed to socialise. We didn't have TVs. Things were censored... bits from the papers were cut out.\"\n\nOne of Philippa's close friends fled the church after she was assaulted by a male elder.\n\nPhilippa became a key witness in the court case - in which the elder was convicted - but says she was \"persecuted\" by the church community which treated her as a traitor and liar.\n\nShe left the church shortly afterwards.\n\nNow on the brink of closure, the Jesus Army is understood to have accrued assets worth £50m. But it leaves a harrowing legacy - and an unsettled future for Philippa and its many other victims.", "It was the Irish flag with a difference that hit the headlines around the world during Euro 2012.\n\nSeven years after it was debuted by Republic of Ireland fans, one of its creators, Richie Tuohy, has tied the knot with German woman Orlagh Eichhol.\n\nAnd the German chancellor even put in an appearance on their wedding day by way of a signed photograph and message to the happy couple during the father of the bride's speech.\n\nIn the letter Mrs Merkel said: \"Marriage, like life itself, is not a comfortable and peaceful state.\n\n\"But a great adventure with many surprises and trials to pass.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr Tuohy, 31, said: \"I had this experience in 2012 with my friends and it's great to have it now with my beautiful wife.\"\n\nThe pair met in Dublin in 2012, a few months after the football tournament.\n\nThe flag was auctioned for charity in 2012, but Mr Tuohy was able to borrow if for the day when his father, Tony, insisted the couple brought it to their wedding reception, for a photograph.\n\nThe signed photograph and letter of advice to the newlyweds was engineered by his father-in-law, Jorg, who is from Germany.\n\nOrlagh, who is a teacher, was born in Germany but moved to Doon, in County Limerick, when she was five.\n\nMr Eichhol read out Mrs Merkel's words of wisdom during his father-of-the-bride speech.\n\nHe had contacted Mrs Merkel six months before the wedding in Cappawhite, County Tipperary, and invited her to the couple's big day, but she couldn't make it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Oscar Knox Fund 💙💛\n\nDuring Euro 2012, which took place in Poland and Ukraine, a little boy from Mallusk, in County Antrim, held up his own version of the flag, which said: \"My ma thinks I'll be in bed early.\"\n\nOscar Knox was in hospital at the time, battling neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer.\n\nAn avid football fan, he had been allowed to stay up late to watch a Republic of Ireland match.\n\nMr Tuohy and his friends behind the original flag - Gerry Nolan, Richie Leahy, Eoin Cantwell and Eoin O'Brien - were so touched by the picture of Oscar that they visited him, and donated their flag to be auctioned off for charity.\n\n\"We watched some YouTube videos this morning of news reports in 2012 and Oscar was in the middle of it,\" Mr Tuohy told BBC News NI.\n\n\"He was such a great and funny boy. We got on great when we visited him and were so sad when he passed away.\n\n\"We are always proud that we did a bit for charity when we were in the news and we will always remember Oscar fondly.\n\n\"We split the money raised with Crumlin Children's Hospital too, and, in another coincidence, Orlagh also worked there for a year, teaching in the school for long term patients. They sent her messages today after seeing us in the papers.\n\n\"It's great to have lovely messages like that coming in.\"", "It is \"not fair and not right\" that some parents have to return to work before their newborn leaves hospital, Theresa May has said as she launched a consultation on parental leave.\n\nUnder government plans, new parents in Britain would get one week of state-funded leave and pay for every week their baby is in hospital.\n\nThe intention is for parents to have more time at home with their newborns.\n\nEvery year around 100,000 babies go into neonatal care after their birth.\n\nThe consultation will also seek views on how parental leave can be changed to \"better reflect our modern society\".\n\nMrs May - who is due to step down as prime minister next week - said she wanted to provide further support for parents dealing with \"the unimaginable stress\" of their babies being taken into neonatal care.\n\n\"Parents have more than enough on their plates without worrying about their parental leave running out and having to return to work before their precious newborn comes home,\" she said.\n\n\"That's not fair and it's not right. So we're also proposing a new neonatal leave and pay entitlement to make this time a bit easier for parents whose babies need to spend a prolonged period in neonatal care.\"\n\nTheresa May discussed her proposals with parents in south London\n\nConcerning parental leave, Mrs May said parenting had changed over the past 40 years \"but too often, it is still mothers, not fathers, who shoulder the burden of childcare\".\n\n\"It is clear that we need to do more and that's why today we have launched a consultation calling for views on how we can improve the current system.\"\n\nAlthough the UK's maternity leave provision is above average among leading economies, its paternity leave is six weeks shorter than the average.\n\nThe government argues changing paternity leave could promote better gender equality in work and at home.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt said: \"Fathers should not have to rely on annual and unpaid leave if they want to be involved in the first months of their child's life.\"\n\nThe consultation will also look at requiring firms to publish their leave pay and flexible working policies.", "-8 -7 -6 -5 B Koepka (US), J Spieth (US), A Puttnam (US), D Frittelli (SA)\n\nRory McIlroy agonisingly missed the cut at his home Open as Ireland's Shane Lowry produced a four-under-par 67 to take a share of the lead.\n\nMcIlroy's 79 on Thursday left him eight shots shy of the cut at one over, and he almost achieved his feat but failed to pick up a birdie at the last.\n\nLowry, 32, is on eight under alongside USA's JB Holmes, with England's Tommy Fleetwood and Lee Westwood a shot back.\n\nAnother Englishman, Justin Rose, is on six under after a 67 at Royal Portrush.\n\nWorld number one Brooks Koepka and 2017 Open champion Jordan Spieth are a shot further back on five under, but former winners Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Darren Clarke all missed the cut.\n\nIt is the first time both Woods and Mickelson have gone out of the same major after the first two rounds.\n\nThe crowd following McIlroy around the County Antrim course began to grow in size as he sank birdie after birdie on the inward nine.\n\nBy the 18th the cheer that greeted the 2014 champion was as if he was going for his second title rather than a mission to make the cut.\n\nHowever, his hopes faded with his approach to the green as the wind took the ball down the bank. The following chip landed wide and ended the 30-year-old's hopes of winning a major on home soil.\n\n\"Part of me is very disappointed not to be here for the weekend. I'm emotional but happy with how I played,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"The support I got out there was incredible and you could see on the back nine, I went with it today and that's what I was planning to do all week.\n\n\"Yesterday gave me a mountain to climb but I dug in and showed good resilience.\n\n\"It's going to hurt for a bit. I've been looking forward to this week for a long time.\n\n\"I didn't play my part but everyone in Northern Ireland came out to watch me and played theirs.\"\n• None Relive live coverage of the Open's second day\n\n'My goodness, have we got a long way to go'\n\nIt has been quite an eventful 12 months for Lowry who has risen to from world number 90 to 33 following victory in Abu Dhabi in January and an eighth place at the US PGA.\n\nHis best performance at a major to date was tied second at the 2016 US Open. However, he is now targeting his first major.\n\n\"I'm obviously going to be thinking about it tonight,\" he said when asked about the prospect of winning the Claret Jug.\n\n\"There's no point in shying away from it. I'm in a great position but, my goodness, have we got a long way to go.\n\n\"As a golfer you have such a long career. I've been 10 years now and it's just a rollercoaster. I think the reason I'm so good mentally now is I know - I think - how to take the downs.\"\n\nClarke, who got the 148th Open under way, will also miss the weekend after he finished on three over. However, Graeme McDowell, born a short distance from the course, managed to sneak through on one over as did last year's champion Francesco Molinari, who carded a 69.\n• None The Cut podcast: It's all about the cut\n\nWoods & Mickelson out but Koepka & Spieth in contention\n\nUnlike McIlroy, three-time winner and current Masters champion Woods never looked like making the cut, and finished on six over.\n\nIt is only the third time in 21 attempts the 15-time major winner has not made the weekend at The Open, and only the 10th time in majors he has missed the cut. Seven of those have come in the past 13 tournaments.\n\nFellow American and 2013 champion Mickelson ended his campaign with a 74 for eight over.\n\nFormer champions Paul Lawrie and Padraig Harrington also missed the cut, as did European Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter. Another former winner, David Duval, ended his sorry campaign on 27 over after he followed Thursday's 91 with a 78.\n\nThe biggest challenge to a European win might come from world number one Koepka and Spieth, who are both on five under.\n\nAmerican Koepka, seeking his fifth major in two years, followed Thursday's 68 with a 69, and compatriot Spieth produced an eagle on the par-five seventh on his way to a 67.\n\nAustralia's Cameron Smith and Justin Harding are among those in contention, on six under.\n\nLowry, along with Westwood, Fleetwood and Rose are Europe's best hopes of stopping a possible American clean-sweep of this year's majors.\n\nFleetwood, last year's US Open runner-up, has gradually improved his final placing at his home major over the past few years.\n\nHe missed the cut in his first three attempts before a tied 27th in 2017 and tied 12th in 2018.\n\nOn Friday, the 28-year-old continued his impressive start to this year's campaign with six birdies en route to a 67.\n\n\"I felt like I was a lot more stress-free,\" said Fleetwood, whose last win was in Abu Dhabi in January 2018.\n\n\"I made two or three good par-saves, but I enjoy the challenge.\"\n\nWestwood, 46, has also yet to win major although he has finished among the top-three places on six occasions, including a second-placed finish at The Open in 2010.\n\nThis year the Worksop player has been aided in his mission by girlfriend Helen Storey, who been working as his caddie at a major tournament for the first time.\n\n\"She's delighted to be caddying at a major because she doesn't have to rake the bunkers and get sand on her trainers,\" said Westwood, who sunk four birdies in an unblemished round of 67.\n\n\"Obviously I get on well with Helen. She doesn't know too much about golf but she knows a lot about the way my mind works, so she keeps me in a good frame of mind, and keeps me focused on the right things at the right times.\"\n\nLast year, Rose finished tied second but only after just making the cut. The 2013 US Open has given himself a better platform from which to challenge for his second major.\n\n\"That weekend would be worth everything if you could put it all together when it counts,\" said Rose, who also recorded a 67.\n\n\"Obviously last year it almost counted. It was great. But it was important for me to have that weekend because it made me believe I could win this tournament.\n\n\"I'm comfortable with how much I expect of myself and that makes it easier tomorrow and the next day.\"\n\n\"We have to give Rory McIlroy credit for what he did in equalling the best round of the day. He made a great effort but all the damage was done on Thursday. The crowd expect so much of him and at least he delivered in his second round.\n\n\"We all want to see the greatest players here at the weekend but there's a new breed of player coming through and you have to play your best at majors. It's disappointing McIlroy and Woods are not here but there's a great leaderboard and so many great players. Just because you have played well in the past doesn't give you the right to be here.\n\n\"Shane Lowry's first 10 holes were amazing but the excitement got a little bit to him in the end and he needs to try to relax and lay out a plan. He then has to stick to it because the last few holes here are very difficult.\n\n\"Lee Westwood is running out of chances to win the Open and would be a very popular winner. He's one of the best players in the world not to have won a major. He has all the qualities - he's so good tee to green but sometimes his putting lets him down. He's putting well this week and there's no reason why he can't be standing there with the trophy on Sunday if he can keep that form going.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has admitted killing an Edinburgh shopkeeper by frightening him to death during a drunken rampage.\n\nDavid De Montfalcon died from a heart attack after Alan Rooney entered his shop in Edinburgh's Tollcross in August last year.\n\nThe victim had a history of heart problems and a court heard stress caused by the incident led to his death.\n\nRooney, 35, admitted culpable homicide and will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDavid De Montfalcon collapsed in his Edinburgh shop after the incident last August\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard Mr De Montfalcon, 64, ran a shop called the Edinburgh Emporium and sold quirky items, art, musical instruments and other collectables.\n\nOn 25 August last year Rooney entered the shop carrying a can of lager or cider and started shouting and swearing.\n\nHe proceeded to smash glass cabinets and damage guitars.\n\nCustomers and American tourists joined Mr de Montfalcon in trying to calm him down and, after five minutes, he left the scene.\n\nMr De Montfalcon appeared shocked and scared by Mr Rooney's behaviour and collapsed after police arrived at the shop.\n\nHe was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but later died.\n\nPathologists reported that Mr De Montfalcon's heart had been enlarged but he would probably still be alive had the incident not taken place.\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice QC told the court: \"The Crown accepts that the death was not the intended consequence of the accused's actions but it is clear that the extreme nature of the accused's conduct caused significant stress to Mr De Montfalcon and that led to his death.\n\n\"Had this incident not occurred, there is no indication that Mr De Montfalcon would have died that day.\"\n\nThe judge, Lord Turnbull, told unemployed Rooney: \"You have pled guilty to an offence involving abusive threatening and reckless conduct of a most disgraceful and frightening kind.\"\n\nA guitar was among the damaged items\n\nThe court heard the shopkeeper's wife had submitted a victim impact statement.\n\nLord Turnbull added: \"That statement makes it clear that your conduct has resulted in the devastation of the life of Mr De Montfalcon's family.\n\n\"Their whole life has been altered irretrievably as a consequence of your conduct and the premature death of a much loved father and husband.\n\n\"No sentence which the court can impose will undo the consequences of your behaviour nor can it alleviate the grief and upset suffered by Mr De Montfalcon's wife and family.\"\n\nThe judge said he had to impose a sentence which would reflect \"society's disgust and unwillingness to tolerate frightening and aggressive conduct.\"", "The airport was bought under previous Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones\n\nMillions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being wasted on loss-making Cardiff Airport, a Tory AM has said.\n\nDarren Millar said the airport \"almost looks like a vanity project\" and must start generating cash, or be sold.\n\nThe Welsh Government bought the airport in 2013 for £52m, after a steady drop in passenger numbers.\n\nIt said it took over when \"widespread improvements\" were needed, and Cardiff was now among the fastest growing airports in Europe.\n\nIn addition to the purchase cost, ministers have provided tens of millions of pounds more in loans, now being repaid, grants and further share purchases.\n\nPre-tax losses in the 12 months up to the end of March 2018 were £6.6m, up on the previous two years.\n\nAfter five years of Welsh Government ownership, Clwyd West AM Mr Millar believes the taxpayer is getting a raw deal.\n\n\"It looks like we've had an airport that has been over-priced and is clearly under-performing,\" he said.\n\n\"Tens of millions of pounds worth of taxpayers' money have been wasted by the Welsh Labour government, and on purchasing an airport which almost looks like a vanity project.\"\n\nBut passenger numbers are now rising substantially, albeit from a low base and still below where they have been.\n\nDarren Millar questions the cash spent on an airport \"when schools and hospitals are on their knees\"\n\nThe airport says securing new operators such as Qatar Airways are key to building new business.\n\nIt also says a key performance measure looking at earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) has gone into the black for the first time in eight years.\n\nA significant moment, but some investors remain cautious about placing too much emphasis just on that measure.\n\nJustin Urquhart Stewart, co-founder of Seven Investment Management, said airports were often seen as a \"status symbol\" for cities and countries.\n\n\"Be very careful what you are getting. An airport is a shopping mall with a tarmac attached to it for planes to land on,\" he said.\n\n\"So if you're just depending on planes you are going to need a lot of them going through, and currently in Cardiff not a lot are going through.\"\n\nSimon Calder: \"Cardiff is having a tough old time\"\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder said Cardiff Airport was \"not doing brilliantly\".\n\n\"It's just in the top 20 of UK airports but Southend is challenging fiercely at 21st place,\" he said.\n\n\"Compared with Birmingham, which is about eight times larger, and Bristol, which is six times larger, Cardiff is having a tough old time.\n\n\"Those two airports are taking a lot of the traffic that might otherwise go to Cardiff.\"\n\nBrian Morgan, professor of entrepreneurship at Cardiff Metropolitan University, said passenger numbers at Cardiff Airport were still \"nowhere near\" what they were 15 years ago.\n\nHe said the Welsh Government's decision to scrap plans for an M4 relief road was \"disastrous\" for the airport.\n\n\"The airport needs to expand its catchment area eastwards... but there's a lack of a joined up transport strategy,\" he said.\n\n\"The Welsh Government owns the airport yet have taken a decision to cut off its main route for customers.\"\n\nWhile most politicians agree they want Cardiff Airport to thrive, the big question is whether public ownership is the right way to make it happen and, if it is, how long should taxpayers have to wait to get their cash back.\n\nCardiff Airport chief executive Deb Bowen Rees said: \"Financial performance has continued to improve with a positive EBITDA being achieved for the first time in eight years, alongside an increase in passenger numbers of 9% during that time.\n\n\"Cardiff Airport has been through a period of recovery over the last five years and has invested in developing our facilities and in relationships with airline partners with the key objective of creating a sustainable airport business.\"\n\nShe added: \"In terms of future ownership, we are focused on driving the sustainability of the business to deliver economic value to Wales.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Economy Minister Ken Skates said Mr Millar's comments showed \"a startling lack of business awareness and pride in Wales\".\n\n\"We now have an attractive national airport that is amongst the fastest growing in Europe, with passenger numbers having grown considerably and consistently since we took control in 2013.\n\n\"This is a period which has coincided with the airport playing an instrumental role in Wales' successful delivery of major global events such as the Nato summit and Champions League final and attracting businesses such as Aston Martin to Wales,\" they said.", "Senior Tories seeking to block a no-deal Brexit are examining a radical plan involving the Queen, Newsnight has learned.\n\nHighly placed figures in the rebel group are so concerned that the next prime minister could ignore the will of parliament that they have discussed a scheme to ask the Queen to intervene.\n\nIn a sign of the febrile atmosphere at Westminster, these Conservatives are thinking of holding a vote on a parliamentary device known as a humble address to the Queen.\n\nIf passed, the address would say that if the new prime minister ignored a vote rejecting no deal the Queen would be asked to exercise her right as head of state to travel to the next EU summit. Under their plan she would then request an extension to the Article 50 process.\n\nUnder EU rules, member states are usually represented at meetings of the European Council by a head of state or a head of government. The Queen is the UK's head of state, though it is understood that no European monarch has ever formally represented their country at an EU summit.\n\nA request to the Queen to attend a European summit would be regarded as the most extraordinary political step in her 67-year reign.\n\nIt would probably be regarded as a breach of the unwritten rules surrounding Britain's constitutional monarchy, which say the Queen should be kept out of the political arena.\n\nBut the Tory rebels have discussed examining such a radical step because they have two fears about a Boris Johnson premiership:\n\nOne Tory at the heart of planning to block no deal told Newsnight: \"The problem is, what if Boris is so aggressive to the EU that Macron leads a charge to say just let the UK go? So even if Parliament votes to block no deal it could still happen.\n\n\"One option is a humble address to Her Majesty. You would ask humbly that Her Majesty requests an extension to Article 50. If that went through that would be seen as an instruction to her first minister. But what if the new prime minister refused to enact the humble address?\n\n\"Under EU law only two representatives of a member state can attend and negotiate on behalf of a member state at the European Council: head of government or head of state. So we could simply request that the Queen goes and submits the request for the extension.\"\n\nThe senior Tory told Newsnight that the idea of a humble address to the Queen is being examined seriously.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine the Queen intervening in politics so directly, even if the scheme was attempted.\n\nSo perhaps the eye-catching plan fits into the category of a device to put pressure on the next prime minister, rather than a mechanism to put the Queen on a Eurostar to Brussels.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "If you do the school run regularly, you'll know it can be a bit of a battle.\n\nOne dad from Shropshire has decided to tackle it head on - collecting his sons in a 1973 Scorpion tank.\n\nBen Kaye bought the vehicle for £8,000 and has spent 14 years lovingly restoring it.\n\nHe and the boys' grandfather surprised children at Weston Lullingfields Primary School.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: \"It starts to look like censorship\"\n\nYouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos.\n\nOn Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat Earth conspiracy theory spread.\n\nBut the company's new managing director for the UK, Ben McOwen Wilson, said YouTube \"does the opposite of taking you down the rabbit hole\".\n\nHe told the BBC that YouTube worked to dispel misinformation and conspiracies.\n\nBut warned that some types of government regulation could start to look like censorship.\n\nYouTube, as well as other internet giants such as Facebook and Twitter, have some big decisions to make. All must decide where they draw the line between freedom of expression, hateful content and misinformation.\n\nAnd the government is watching. It has published a White Paper laying out its plans to regulate online platforms.\n\nIn his first interview since starting his new role, Mr McOwen Wilson spoke about the company's algorithms, its approach to hate speech and what it expects from the UK government's \"online harms\" legislation.\n\nYouTube uses algorithms to recommend more videos for you to watch. These video suggestions appear in the app, down the side of the website and also show up when you get to the end of a video.\n\nBut YouTube has never explained exactly how its algorithms work. Critics say the platform offers up increasingly sensationalist and conspiratorial videos.\n\n\"It's what's great about YouTube. It is what brings you from one small area and actually expands your horizon and does the opposite of taking you down the rabbit hole,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Very often it doesn't take you to content that's exactly like the one you've watched before.\"\n\nEven so, Mr McOwen Wilson says YouTube has started adding a sort of \"warning\" label to certain conspiracy topics.\n\n\"If it's misinformation, we provide correct information around that. We work with Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia to provide knowledge panels that come up on the side of the screen. So if you're watching a flat Earth video... we will present to you a link to the facts about that.\"\n\nFacebook used to do something similar with fake news. It would label false stories as \"disputed\" with a red warning label, and offered up other sources of information. But the social network later said this had often entrenched people's pre-existing views and made the problem worse.\n\n\"We haven't found that,\" says Mr McOwen Wilson. He says the platform reduces the spread of content designed to mislead people, and raises up \"authoritative voices\".\n\nHe names BBC News, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Sun as examples of authoritative sources.\n\nSome conspiracy theories - such as Holocaust denial - have been banned on the platform completely.\n\nIn June, a row erupted between two YouTube video-makers.\n\nVox reporter Carlos Maza posted a video showing all the times that comedian Steven Crowder had mocked him for being gay, or used insulting language attacking his sexual orientation and ethnicity. Mr Crowder said the videos were \"friendly ribbing\".\n\nAfter a series of muddled statements on Twitter, YouTube eventually confirmed that Mr Crowder had not broken its hate speech rules.\n\n\"Was the language used hate speech? Was there incitement against Carlos Maza from the other creator? In that instance, we found that there was not,\" says Mr McOwen Wilson.\n\n\"I think that remains the right policy decision to have made.\"\n\nThat decision disappointed Mr Maza's supporters - and many of YouTube's own staff. More than 100 signed a petition asking for Google to be kicked out of the San Francisco Pride parade.\n\nThe language may not have been \"hate speech\", but critics argue that mocking somebody for being gay crosses a line into bullying.\n\n\"It doesn't currently breach our harassment policies,\" says Mr McOwen Wilson.\n\nBut he adds: \"We are inarguably pro-LGBT. I wouldn't want anyone to judge us only on that. I don't think it invalidates everything else that we've done.\"\n\nHe points out that YouTube has provided a platform for people to express their sexuality in a largely \"supportive environment\".\n\n\"I don't think any of that should be invalidated because of where we have drawn this line on the Maza-Crowder issue.\"\n\nYouTube tells its video-makers that one key to success on the platform is \"watch time\": making sure viewers stick around for longer.\n\nFacebook, on the other hand, has been talking more about \"time well spent\" on the platform. It says it is more important that people have a good time on Facebook.\n\nHow do the two approaches compare?\n\n\"One of the biggest and most positive steps that was taken on the platform, that drove down a huge amount of trashy content, was the shift from 'views' to watch time\", says Mr McOwen Wilson.\n\n\"The best way for an audience to tell us whether they like what they're being served isn't whether they click on it in the first place, but whether they spent any of their time with it.\"\n\nBut does the system encourage video-makers to make longer videos, and draw out simple how-to clips into a 20-minute extravaganza?\n\nMr McOwen Wilson says the videos which are most viewed are those that people watch in their entirety.\n\nAnd he adds: \"Clearly a longer one that is viewed the whole way through by the majority of its audience is more likely to come up.\"\n\nThe UK government is currently weighing up how online platforms such as YouTube could be regulated. In April, Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said the \"era of self-regulation for online companies is over\".\n\n\"The moment you put somebody in charge... there is somebody who is filtering what content goes out,\" warns Mr McOwen Wilson.\n\n\"If they're government-appointed, that begins to look very much like censorship, and we don't launch in markets where that is a risk.\n\n\"I don't think it would be the right answer to have anybody at YouTube - or indeed anywhere else - editorialising all of the content that comes up on to our platform.\"\n\nCulture secretary Jeremy Wright says the era of self-regulation is over\n\nAnd either way, it would be impossible. About 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.\n\nThe summer holidays have started - or are about to start - across the UK for thousands of children.\n\n\"By the time most of them go back to school, there will be more content uploaded to YouTube than has ever been created in the history of television or film globally,\" says Mr McOwen Wilson.\n\nHe suggests a regulator could determine areas where online platforms should have policies, but the platforms themselves should create the policies.\n\n\"The world will be watching where the UK lands on this,\" he says.\n\n\"There are regimes out there who will mirror - in their own ways - the position that they view the UK has taken.\n\n\"There is a risk - and actually a huge opportunity - for the UK to show leadership on what balanced regulation could look like in an open environment.\"", "Public sector net borrowing rose sharply in June because of higher debt interest payments and rising spending on services, figures show.\n\nIt totalled £7.2bn, according to the Office for National Statistics, up from £3.3bn in June 2018.\n\nIt was the highest June borrowing figure since 2015, the ONS said.\n\nAnalysts said the figures would add to the uncertainty surrounding the UK economy in the run-up to Brexit and the imminent change of prime minister.\n\n\"The outlook for fiscal policy was already uncertain because of the extension of Brexit until 31 October, in addition to the imminent change of Conservative leader and prime minister,\" said the EY Item Club.\n\n\"Much will depend on whether the economy can shrug off its current weakness, as well as on Brexit developments. It will also be influenced by any changes to fiscal policy by the new prime minister and chancellor .\"\n\nLast month, the government took in £800m more in tax and National Insurance contributions than a year previously, but debt repayments rose by £2.1bn.\n\nThe ONS said there was \"a notable increase\" in expenditure on goods and services of £1.2bn, while the UK's contribution to the EU increased by £400m compared with June 2018.\n\nIn the three months to June, borrowing was 33% higher than the same period in 2018 at £17.9bn.\n\nPublic sector net debt rose to £1.81 trillion, or 83.1% of gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nThe latest figures, which show public spending running ahead of forecasts, come as concerns grow over the state of the UK economy in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nThe most recent GDP figures showed the economy grew by 0.3% in May after shrinking 0.4% in April.\n\nBut economists say that June's growth figures will have to be strong to avoid contraction in the second quarter.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said borrowing would probably just stay within the rules set out by the current Chancellor, Philip Hammond.\n\n\"His successor, however, looks highly likely to tear up the existing rules, setting the stage for a giveaway Budget in the autumn and for fiscal policy to materially boost GDP growth next year,\" he added.\n\n\"The Conservatives are desperate to improve their poll rating and public support for austerity has crumbled, so a fiscal boost is coming.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the Office for Budget Responsibility said borrowing could rise by £30bn a year in 2020-21 if the UK leaves the EU without a transition deal on 31 October.\n\nThe OBR was created in 2010 to give independent analysis of the UK's public finances.\n\nIn its first assessment of the economic impact of a no-deal scenario, the OBR used IMF analysis that shows the UK economy could contract by 2% in 2020 before recovering in 2021.", "Donald Trump has told US media \"I like\" Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and that they're \"friends of mine\".\n\n\"Nigel's had a big victory, he picked up 32% of the vote, starting from nothing,\" he said.", "A teenager has died and three others were taken to hospital after an incident at a house in South Lanarkshire.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy became unwell at the property in Pitreavie Court, Hamilton in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nParamedics treated him at the scene but he died later at Hairmyres Hospital.\n\nPolice said his death was being treated as unexplained and a post mortem examination would be carried out.\n\nTwo girls aged 16 and 17 and 16-year-old boy were also taken to hospital as a precaution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said Boris Johnson would do \"a great job\" as UK prime minister and they would have \"a very good relationship\".\n\n\"He's a different kind of a guy but they say I'm a different kind of a guy too,\" Mr Trump told reporters.\n\nOutgoing prime minister Theresa May \"has done a very bad job with Brexit\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson is the frontrunner in the contest to become the next Tory leader and UK prime minister.\n\nHe and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt are the final two candidates, with the winner announced on 23 July and taking office the next day.\n\nPresident Trump said he had spoken to Mr Johnson on Thursday, adding: \"We get along well.\"\n\n\"I like Boris Johnson, I always have,\" he told reporters in the Oval Office in Washington DC.\n\nCommenting on the UK's Brexit negotiations, he said: \"It's a disaster and it shouldn't be that way.\"\n\n\"I think Boris will straighten it out,\" he added.\n\nThe US president has previously said Mr Johnson would be an \"excellent\" choice as Conservative leader.\n\nHe has also been critical of Mrs May's Brexit policy in the past, saying he was surprised by how \"badly\" the negotiations had gone.\n\nSome 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting in a postal ballot to elect the next leader. Ballots must be returned by 17:00 BST on Monday.", "The world premiere for the fifth series of Peaky Blinders has been held in Birmingham ahead of its return to BBC One later this year.\n\nThe latest instalment is set against the turmoil of the 1929 financial crash, with stars Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson returning.\n\nFans can catch up with every series so far on the BBC iPlayer.", "Whether it's almond, soy or coconut it seems more people are ditching cow's milk for the plant-based stuff.\n\nAlmost a quarter of British people are now drinking non-dairy milks, according to market research firm Mintel, who spoke to 2,000 people.\n\nThe biggest users of non-dairy milk are 16-24 year olds - 33% are drinking them. 23% of Brits used plant-based milk alternatives in the three months to February 2019, up from just 19% in 2018.\n\nBut plant-based milks make up just 4% of the milk market, with 96% of milk sales in 2018 being for cow's milk.\n\n\"Concerns around health, ethics and the environment\" are driving sales of plant-based milks, says Emma Clifford, who looks after food and drink research at Mintel.\n\nHealth was the reason why 37% of 16-24 year olds said they'd reduced how much cow's milk they've been drinking in the last 12 months.\n\nThe impact on the environment was also a concern among that group - with 36% saying dairy farming isn't good for the environment.\n\nFewer 16-24 year olds are buying cow's milk - down from 79% in 2018 to 73% in 2019, according to the research.\n\n\"With volume sales of cow's milk already on a downward trend, the fact that more young consumers are turning away from these products does not bode well for this segment's prospects in the long-term,\" Emma Clifford says.\n\nShe also thinks young people should know the \"benefits\" of using cow's milk, and dairy more widely, in terms of health.\n\n\"I went vegan initially for health purposes,\" says Sam Friskey, who co-founded plant-based protein shake brand Fit Deli.\n\nHe thinks the burnout and fatigue he used to suffer at work was largely because of his diet.\n\n\"Having made the shift I then began to understand about animal welfare and the planet.\"\n\nSam says there's \"such an array\" of alternative milks on offer that after trying them, \"you realise you don't have to compromise taste, texture or nutritional values\".\n\nAnd he thinks plant-based milks can act as a \"gateway\" to full veganism - cutting out all animal products from your diet.\n\nLess than three quarters of 16-24s now use standard cow's milk, but it only makes up 4% of the market\n\nDespite the growth in the amount of people drinking plant-based milks, use in cooking and hot drinks remains limited.\n\nOnly 25% use alternative milks in cooking, compared to 42% of cow's milk drinkers.\n\nWhen it comes to hot drinks there is a bigger difference - 42% of plant-based milk drinkers use them in hot drinks, compared to 82% who use cow's milk.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "December, 1987: A tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war\n\nTankers blazing in the Gulf. American warships answering distress calls. Warlike rhetoric sparking fears of a wider conflict.\n\nWe've been here before: 28 years ago, America and Iran came to blows in the same waters. Ships were attacked, crew members killed and injured.\n\nBefore it was over, an Iranian airliner had been shot out of the sky, by mistake.\n\nThe \"tanker war\" was a moment of high international tension at the end of revolutionary Iran's eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nThe two sides had been attacking each other's oil facilities since the mid-1980s.\n\nSoon neutral ships were being hit too, as the warring nations tried to exert economic pressure on the other side. Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi oil were especially vulnerable.\n\nThe US, under Ronald Reagan, was reluctant to get involved. But the situation in the Gulf was becoming increasingly dangerous – a fact underlined when an American warship, the USS Stark, was hit by Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet – though Iraqi officials later claimed this was accidental.\n\nBy July 1987, re-registered Kuwaiti tankers, flying the US flag, were being escorted through the Gulf by American warships. In time, it became the biggest naval convoy operation since World War II.\n\nOctober 1987: An escort from the USS Guadalcanal watches a tanker in the Persian Gulf\n\nThen, as now, America and Iran were at loggerheads.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had been calling America \"The Great Satan\" since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.\n\nWashington was still smarting from the humiliation of seeing 52 of its diplomats held hostage in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 – 1981.\n\nSo even though Iran and Iraq were both responsible for the crisis, the tanker war was quickly part of the simmering, long-running feud between Iran and America.\n\nIt's a feud that has never gone away and which has flared once more in the wake of Donald Trump's decision to apply \"maximum pressure\" after walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOnce again, the waters either side of the Strait of Hormuz have become the arena in which this almost pathological contest plays out.\n\nWhat, if anything, has changed?\n\n\"Both sides have expanded their capabilities,\" says Dr Martin Navias, author of a book on the tanker war.\n\nIran, he says, is more capable than ever of using mines, submarines and fast boats to attack and damage commercial and military shipping.\n\nAnd it's not just a battle at sea: Iran's ability to shoot down a sophisticated American surveillance drone points to another battle, high overhead.\n\nThe US military identified the drone as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nCould the US and Iran start to exchange serious blows?\n\nIf attacks on tankers escalate, we could see another US-led reflagging and escort operation.\n\nOn 24 July 1987, a re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker hit an Iranian mine on the very first convoy mission. The US deployed more forces and more ships. The two sides were now on a collision course.\n\nIn September, American helicopters attacked an Iranian ship after watching it lay mines at night.\n\nIn the months that followed, more tankers, and a US frigate, were hit. American forces responded with ever greater firepower, destroying Revolutionary Guard bases and attacking Iranian warships.\n\nEventually it ended – but not before an American missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook an Iranian Airbus A300 for an attacking jet and shot it down, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290\n\nThe official report into the incident said that \"stress, task fixation (and) an unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role\".\n\nThe US navy invested heavily in technology and training to avoid such catastrophic mistakes in the future.\n\nBut Nick Childs, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says today's environment, with rivals also exchanging angry salvoes on social media, makes for a febrile atmosphere.\n\n\"The information space has changed,\" he says. \"People get jittery. The danger is that each side is misreading the other.\"\n\nDonald Trump and Hassan Rouhani both say they don't want a war. Hardliners, on both sides, are a little more ambiguous.\n\nDr Navias says we're not yet heading for another tanker war.\n\n\"We're not seeing an anti-shipping campaign, but a signalling campaign,\" he says. \"The Iranians are signalling to the Americans that they could escalate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nFor all the drama of those months in 1987 and 1988, very few tankers were actually sunk and shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz was never seriously disrupted.\n\nNow, 30 years on, the US is far less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Iran has far more to lose, in terms of imports and exports, from a closure of the Strait.\n\nFor now, another tanker war seems unlikely. But the fact that neither side really wants an all-out confrontation doesn't mean it won't happen.\n\nDr Navias says the dangers are real.\n\n\"This kind of environment is pregnant with possibilities.\"", "The chairman of the High Speed 2 rail project has reportedly warned that its cost could rise by £30bn.\n\nHS2 chairman Allan Cook has written to the Department for Transport to say the high-speed line cannot be delivered within its £56bn budget, according to the Financial Times.\n\nThe DfT said a review of HS2's costs is continuing.\n\nThe line will connect London, the Midlands and northern England using trains capable of travelling at 250mph.\n\n\"The chairman of HS2 Ltd is conducting detailed work into of the costs and schedule of the project to ensure it delivers benefits to passengers, the economy and represents value for money for the taxpayer,\" the DfT said in a statement.\n\n\"This work is ongoing. We expect Allan Cook to provide his final assessment in due course.\"\n\nThe first segment of the project between London and Birmingham is due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase to Leeds and Manchester expected to be completed by 2032-33.\n\nAn HS2 spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on leaks or speculation.\n\n\"We have previously noted that our chair, as you would expect, continues to scrutinise the programme, and regularly reports back to the Department [for Transport].\n\n\"We are determined to deliver a railway that rebalances the economy, creates jobs, boosts economic growth and is value for money for taxpayers.\"\n\nMr Cook was appointed to head HS2 in December 2018 after his predecessor, Sir Terry Morgan, resigned as chairman because of delays at the Crossrail project in London which he was also leading.\n\nThere has been no denial that this letter was sent by the chairman of HS2 to the top civil servant at the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd none of my contacts have rubbished the \"potential £30bn overspend\" idea outright.\n\nSources at HS2 and at the DfT insist Allan Cook's review is ongoing and that he has not settled on a final figure.\n\nThat may be true, but there has been a subtle shift of tone in recent months from both HS2 and the government; a creeping acceptance that the project, in its current form, is increasingly unlikely to come in within its £56bn budget.\n\nAnd there has already been plenty of evidence suggesting that the project's original estimates of how much it would cost to purchase land and property along the route were significantly below the true values.\n\nThis leak, which feels at the very least like a case of 'no smoke without fire', comes at a very sensitive time.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling, who has repeatedly insisted that the project HAS to be delivered within budget, is possibly leaving his post in a matter of days.\n\nBoris Johnson - considered the front-runner to be the UK's next prime minister - is by no means a die-hard fan of the scheme.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson has already nominated a former HS2 executive, Douglas Oakervee, to carry out a separate review of the project if he gets the keys to No 10 next week.\n\n£56bn was already a hefty sum. As a former senior official at the Treasury puts it: \"In terms of value for money it [HS2] scores lower than lots of other projects.\"\n\nAnd the government \"is taking quite a big risk\" by putting so much money into high-speed rail, the source told me.\n\nThat risk looks set to rise.", "Countries across Europe were among those to experience record temperatures in June\n\nThe world experienced its hottest June on record last month, with an average temperature worldwide of 61.6F (16.4C), according to new data.\n\nThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the average global temperature was 1.7F warmer than the 20th Century average.\n\nThe heat was most notable in parts of Europe, Russia, Canada and South America, it said.\n\nThe NOAA report was released as the US prepares for a \"dangerous heatwave\".\n\nThe National Weather Service has warned that tens of millions of people will be affected by excessive heat in the coming days, with temperatures expected to reach up to 110F (43.3C).\n\n\"Friday is going to be bad. Saturday is going to be really, really bad,\" New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a video posted on Twitter on Thursday. \"Take it seriously.\"\n\nIn its latest monthly global climate report, the NOAA said the heat in June had brought Antarctic sea ice coverage to a record low.\n\nNine of the 10 hottest Junes on its 1880-2019 record have occurred in the past nine years, it said. Last month beat June 2016 to be named the hottest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC colleagues from hot countries give their tips for staying cool\n\nNasa and other groups also reached the same conclusion last month.\n\nScientists have warned that record-setting temperatures will continue as a result of climate change.\n\n\"Earth is running a fever that won't break thanks to climate change,\" climatologist Kathie Dello told the Associated Press news agency. \"This won't be the last record warm summer month that we will see.\"", "Schools and colleges in England need a \"multi-billion cash injection\" and a long-term approach to funding, say MPs on the Education Select Committee.\n\nIts report on school funding confirms the concerns of head teachers and teachers' unions who have protested about worsening budget shortages.\n\nThe committee found that schools and colleges \"desperately need\" extra cash.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman accepted that schools were facing \"budgeting challenges\".\n\nASCL head teachers' union leader Geoff Barton, said the report was a \"damning indictment of the government's dreadful record\" on school funding.\n\nRobert Halfon, who chairs the committee, said the report showed the need for a \"comprehensive, bottom-up national assessment\" of what it really cost to have an \"education system fit for the 21st Century\".\n\nThe cross-party report says that schools have faced increased financial pressures from rising numbers of pupils and growing demands, such as supporting more pupils with mental health problems.\n\nMPs say funding \"has not kept pace\" and the government needs to put in more cash.\n\n\"The government needs to cover the 8% funding gap currently faced by schools,\" says Mr Halfon, with the report saying this would require a \"£3.8bn uplift\".\n\nFurther education colleges have faced particular problems, says the report, with per student funding falling by 16% in real terms over the past decade for the post-16 age group.\n\nThe MPs say funding for this age group, in sixth forms and colleges, needs a £1bn boost, and the pupil premium, which gives extra support for disadvantaged youngsters, should be extended to 16- to 19-year-olds.\n\nThe committee's report also calls for extra support for pupils with special needs and disabilities, to tackle a \"projected £1.2bn deficit\".\n\nThere have been long-running protests by school leaders over funding shortages - including a protest march by head teachers through Westminster and letters sent to millions of parents.\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who organised the WorthLess? school funding protest, said \"a cross-party group of MPs have validated what we have been saying all along - namely that our schools and colleges have been crippled by cuts and rising costs\".\n\nTory leadership contender Boris Johnson has promised increased investment in schools - and there have also been claims that the Prime Minister, Theresa May, wants to announce a funding boost for schools before stepping down.\n\nFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening attacked the \"horse-trading\" over school funding, saying it should not be decided by short-term political pressures.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said spending cuts had \"left schools begging parents for donations just to keep the lights on five days a week and pay for basic supplies like pens and paper\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: \"While it is accurate to say that school funding is at its highest level, we do recognise that there are budgeting challenges.\n\n\"We are glad to see that school and further education funding is being highlighted as an important issue ahead of the next spending review, where the education secretary will back the sector to have the resources they need.\"", "Drivers caught not wearing a seat belt will face points on their driving licence under plans to increase penalties for motoring offences.\n\nCurrently, motorists in England, Scotland and Wales who do not buckle up are given a £100 fine.\n\nThe Department for Transport has not said how many points may be given.\n\nMore than a quarter (27%) of the 787 car occupants who died in crashes on Britain's roads in 2017 were not wearing a seat belt, figures show.\n\nDrivers can lose their licence if they build up 12 or more points within three years.\n\nThe law is different in Northern Ireland, where failure to wear a seat belt can lead to a £500 fine and three penalty points.\n\nThe new punishment for not wearing a seat belt is one of 74 measures included in the government's Road Safety Action Plan.\n\nUnder the plan, which is published on Friday, new drivers could be banned from travelling at night.\n\nThe government is also considering fitting alcohol sensors to cars driven by people convicted of drinking and driving which will immobilise the vehicle if they are over the legal limit.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the Road Safety Action Plan was a \"key milestone\" that sets out how Britain would try to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on its roads.\n\nThe RAC Foundation said it was \"barely conceivable\" that tens of thousands of drivers and passengers make the decision each day not to belt up.\n\nIt said: \"The direct effect of non-compliance might be felt by the vehicle occupant themselves in the event of a crash, but ultimately the emergency services are left to deal with the roadside consequences and the taxpayer foots the bills.\"", "The founder of the youth-focused pro-Brexit campaign group BeLeave has won his appeal against a £20,000 fine imposed by the elections regulator.\n\nDarren Grimes was punished by the Electoral Commission last year, after being accused of breaching spending rules during the 2016 EU Referendum.\n\nMr Grimes said he was \"relieved\" as the case had \"taken a huge toll\".\n\nHe had maintained that he was \"completely innocent\" of making false declarations.\n\nThe Electoral Commission had taken action in relation to a £675,315 donation from Vote Leave, but Mr Grimes accused it of \"bias\" against Leave supporters.\n\nBut the watchdog insisted its investigation had been \"thorough and fair\" and that it had carried out inquiries into campaigners on both sides of the referendum battle.\n\nLast year, the Electoral Commission found that BeLeave had \"spent more than £675,000 with (Canadian data firm) Aggregate IQ under a common plan with Vote Leave\", which should have been declared by the latter but was not.\n\nThis spending took Vote Leave over its £7m legal spending limit by almost £500,000.\n\nBut Mr Grimes, aged 25 and from County Durham, appealed against the fine after raising the money for legal costs online, citing \"errors of fact, the law and unreasonableness\".\n\nThe court heard that the commission had misinterpreted the law and set a key legal test \"too high\" on whether BeLeave had been correctly registered on official forms.\n\nMr Grimes had said he had intended to register the organisation and not himself as an individual on the forms and his lawyers said the complex and difficult-to-understand forms were completed to the best of his ability.\n\nJudge Marc Dight said that even if BeLeave did not have a formal constitution by January 2016, it was clear it was made up of like-minded people who had an agreement to campaign on Brexit in a certain way.\n\nHe said Mr Grimes had tried to meet his obligations to the commission in filling out the forms, and that his actions were not dishonest or lacking transparency.\n\nResponding to the success of his appeal, at the Mayor's and City of London Court, Mr Grimes tweeted that he was \"delighted and relieved\", adding that the case had \"taken a huge toll on myself and my family\".\n\nIn his statement, he said: \"It's vital that more young people are encouraged to get involved in politics and make their voices heard.\n\n\"I just hope that the punitive actions of the Electoral Commission don't put my generation off engaging in our democracy.\"\n\nHe also criticised the watchdog's handling of the case.\n\n\"The Electoral Commission's case was based on an incorrectly ticked box on an application form - something that it had been aware of for over two years and had not been raised in two previous investigations,\" his statement said.\n\n\"Yet the commission still saw fit to issue an excessive fine and to spend almost half a million in taxpayer cash pursuing me through the courts.\n\n\"This raises serious questions about its conduct both during and after the referendum.\"\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it was \"disappointed\".\n\n\"We will now review the full detail of the judgment before deciding on next steps, including any appeal,\" it said.", "Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are reportedly in line to get a pay rise.\n\nMost members of the armed forces will get a 2.9% rise, teachers and school staff 2.75%, police officers, dentists and consultants 2.5%, senior civil servants 2%, the Times said.\n\nIt is thought the rise will come from existing budgets.\n\nThe Treasury is expected to confirm the increases on Monday, in one of Theresa May's final acts as prime minister.\n\nSenior members of the armed forces will receive a 2% rise.\n\nThe government will be responding to the independent pay review bodies, which recommend pay for many public sector workers.\n\nThe review bodies cover armed forces across the UK; police in England and Wales; school teachers in England, and senior civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nDoctors and dentists in England are also included, but GPs are subject to a separate pay deal.\n\nThe NHS pay review body also recommends pay for doctors and dentists in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland - but the devolved administrations will respond to this.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and after that rises were capped at 1% - below the rate of inflation.\n\nTheresa May continued the cap until last year when she announced austerity was coming to an end.\n\nThe rises do not apply to other public sector staff, such as more junior civil servants and nurses, the Times added. Their pay is dealt with separately.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said the proposals were similar to pay rises implemented last year.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that many of the pay increases were \"only just\" above inflation - which is currently at 2% - and were still slower than average pay rises in the private sector.\n\nBoth public and private sector workers have seen their average pay rising more slowly than prices since 2010.\n\nMr Johnson said it would be \"difficult\" to make the argument that funding would come from existing budgets - and therefore it would mean cuts elsewhere.\n\nHe said budgets for next year had not yet been set and he \"would be surprised\" if they do not increase.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said if the money were to come from existing budgets, cuts would have to be made elsewhere to fund the above inflation aspect of the pay increases.\n\n\"That is a big challenge for Theresa May's successor,\" he said. \"Will they say the age of austerity is finished and fully fund them? Or will they say cuts will be have to be made virtually as soon as they take office?\"\n\nAnne, who teaches at a sixth form college, said the news of a pay rise was welcome but was not enough to make up for the impact of nine years of pay being capped.\n\n\"I'm fortunate because I'm not the main breadwinner, but in an area like Surrey, where I live, the cost of housing can be a real struggle for some teachers,\" she said.\n\nIf pay rises had to be funded out of existing budgets Anne said this would be \"catastrophic\" and make the job of teachers even harder at a time of stretched resources and growing class sizes.\n\n\"I am unconvinced that this move will make teaching a more attractive employment prospect,\" she added.\n\n\"There's still a real issue with recruitment. I work in a fairly big department but six of us are over 50, so who is going to replace us?\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the government's public sector pay offer was \"insulting\".\n\n\"After years of holding back the pay of our dedicated public sector workers, it is shameful for the government to pay for ending the public sector pay cap with more cuts,\" he added.\n\nGail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of the union Unite, said the pay rise would not \"ease the wage pain of hard-up workers\".\n\nShe added public workers \"will not be fooled\" by Mrs May's attempt to \"curry favour with an austerity-hit workforce\".\n\nInstead, she called for \"a properly funded pay rise which tackled the pay misery of the last nine years\".\n\nRehana Azam, of the GMB union, described the pay rise as \"smoke and mirrors\".\n\n\"All of England's five million public sector workers deserve a proper pay rise after almost a decade of real-terms pay cuts - not just a select few,\" she said.\n\nJoint general secretary of the National Education Union Kevin Courtney said the 2.75% pay increase for teachers was not enough and would see their pay fall further behind pay increases in the wider economy at a time of \"a worsening recruitment and retention crisis\".\n\n\"If the pay rise isn't funded in full this will mean more cuts to our children's education,\" he added.", "A pro-Brexit activist has admitted to public order offences after calling MP Anna Soubry a Nazi outside Parliament.\n\nJames Goddard, 30, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to causing alarm and distress using threatening or abusive language.\n\nHe also admitted one racially aggravated public order offence against a police officer.\n\nGoddard filmed himself shouting abuse at Ms Soubry, who supports another Brexit referendum.\n\nHe claimed the Remain-supporting MP was a \"traitor\" over her stance on the country's vote to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nHis fellow defendant at Westminster Magistrates Court, Brian Phillips, 55, from Kent, also pleaded guilty to causing alarm and distress using threatening or abusive language.\n\nBoth men were released on bail ahead of sentencing on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe court heard Ms Soubry was left \"very shaken\" after her TV interview was interrupted by shouts from protesters on 7 January this year.\n\nVideo footage played in court showed the MP then being surrounded by Goddard, Phillips and others as she made her way into the Palace of Westminster.\n\nAnother video, from December 2018, showed Goddard wearing a hi-vis vest asking Ms Soubry why she called for a second vote on Brexit, and describing her as both a traitor and a Nazi.\n\nMs Soubry, who resigned from the Conservative Party in February and is now leader of the Independent Group for Change, said: \"They have admitted these crimes and accepted that their behaviour on two occasions outside Parliament was wrong and unjustified.\n\n\"Everyone is entitled to go about their lawful business. In a democracy people have a right to peaceful lawful protest.\n\n\"No-one has the right to the intimidation and abuse I suffered at the end of December and early January.\"\n\nGoddard initially faced three charges, including harassment, but new charges were put to the defendants after several hours of legal argument with prosecutors.", "MV Glen Sannox was expected to be ready last summer\n\nNew light has been shed in the mid-winter gloom on one of the disputes between government and business that look likely to be a feature of 2019.\n\nThe big dispute, of course, is over Brexit. It may have eased up for festive holidays, but be sure that the corporate warning klaxons are going to sound loudly as MPs return to Westminster.\n\nThe year ends with a dispute over the insolvent Kaiam electronics plant in Livingston. The departed boss has told MSPs that he had warned Scottish Enterprise well in advance.\n\nHe says the Scottish government agency did not do enough to avoid redundancies on Christmas Eve. That's while acknowledging that a cashflow bailout might not have been the wisest use of public funds.\n\nJust ahead of then, the Lanarkshire company which lost contracts to incinerate NHS body parts and other waste has ceased trading and sacked workers, in very unusual circumstances.\n\nAnd there's the Aberdeen bypass. I've heard from one major contractor that Transport Scotland could struggle to get firms to tender for future contracts, after the way this one has gone.\n\nIn Whitehall, the Carillion collapse was an uncomfortable part of 2018. Another such large contractor Interserve is now the focus of concern, while Keir Group worryingly failed to persuade its investors to back it in a cash call.\n\nThe year has ended with the absurdity of a freight company being contracted by the UK government to break through any cross-Channel Brexit logjams, despite having no ships.\n\nThe default media narratives are either of profiteering business fat cats or of incompetent government ministers/officials. It's possible to have both, or neither. So I won't take sides in relating the facts of the looming legal battle over two Cal Mac ferries being built in Port Glasgow.\n\nThe Scottish government has loaned £30m to the shipyard\n\nThe Ferguson shipyard, where they are under construction, is a fine sight, even through the December dark in Port Glasgow. Decrepit sheds have been fully replaced, and plush new offices have replaced industrial brickwork.\n\nThe signage points to a proud present and a confident future as much as a long past. Hull number 802 looms over the front gate.\n\nThis is destined to be a ferry crossing the Minch between Skye, Harris and North Uist, updating an ageing Cal Mac fleet and expanding its stretched capacity.\n\nThe other ship, Hull 801, the Glen Sannox, is alongside the quay, still far from shipshape for its Arran to Ayrshire crossing, and its delivery delayed.\n\nThis contract is not a happy ship. Despite the appearance of a confident future with the red oxide paint on the hull, there's a lot of red ink in the offices.\n\nThe decisions are now being made in East Kilbride, where the registered office is with Jim McColl's Clyde Blowers. He took the firm out of administration in 2014, in the closing days of the independence referendum, and was hailed as a hero by the SNP government.\n\nFour and a half years later, he has reported a £60m loss.\n\nSome companies can sustain a loss of £60m, particularly as they go through transition. But the figure is particularly alarming for a company which had revenue of only 30% of that loss, or £18m.\n\nJim McColl said the buyer should meet the cost of any changes to the ferry contract\n\nThe accounts for 2016, published just before Christmas (the 2017 accounts were already overdue) explain \"the Kaiser rule\" of 1:3:8 - working on a ship takes eight times longer when it's in the water than it does where the keel is first laid in the engineering shed. It takes three times longer to do the same amount of work on the slipway.\n\nFerguson Marine set out its problems in a lot of detail with the 2016 accounts, almost as if it wants to get its message across very clearly.\n\nOne problem is that this is being built with what it calls a \"prototype\" dual-fuel (diesel and liquified natural gas) engine. The company is proud of being an innovator with hybrid electric-diesel ferries and plans to expand into hydrogen fuel. But innovation comes with risks, and marine certification can be a slow process on a ship where new ideas are being tried out.\n\nFerguson says that its client, Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) is responsible for variation, interference and disruption of the project after the contract had been awarded.\n\nFrom July 2017 to July 2018, Jim McColl was trying to get the Scottish government-owned company to agree that it should bear more of the risk of this. It responded with evidence that the contract was clear about the risks being taken on.\n\nIn a series of increasingly tetchy emails, partly exposed through a Freedom of Information request, those negotiations broke down and the dispute is in the hands of Ferguson's lawyers, soon to lodge their case in the Court of Session.\n\nThe new ferries have been commissioned to serve Hebridean routes\n\nYet while Ferguson wants the taxpayer to bear more of the burden of the cost over-run, it's already depending on the taxpayer for working capital.\n\nThe accounts make clear that its finances are in some peril. It can only be considered \"a going concern\" if a number of factors align favourably.\n\nThose Cal Mac orders ought to be flowing already, given the problems of old boats and too little capacity. Being in a legal dispute over these two ships probably isn't going to make relations with CMAL any easier for talks on new contracts.\n\nAnd there's a perverse catch to that taxpayer funding. If Ferguson is successful in legal action against CMAL (which would then require funding from the Scottish government), it seems the contracts for these big loans require that they should be repaid. Some extra millions of ferry funding in: up to £60m in loans out.\n\nA further red light on this. The auditors, at Ernst & Young, are not confident they've got the whole story.\n\nTheir notes with the 2016 account raise a question mark over the decision of directors to write down the value of the assets to zero.\n\nThe auditors cannot see the basis for this assumption, when: \"We have not obtained all the information and explanations that we considered necessary for the purpose of our audit, and we were unable to determine whether adequate accounting records had been kept.\"\n\nThat Freedom of Information release provides insight into the looming legal battle, when Jim McColl's lawyers lodge a claim that the £97m contract price should be raised, with CMAL (the taxpayer) paying a share of the £44m loss on the contract projected by FMEL (£40m of that booked in the 2016 accounts).\n\nThe Scottish government response carries the usual redactions at points when things look like they were about to get interesting.\n\nJim McColl was keen to press his case back in July 2017: \"We are attempting to work through the cost impact areas with CMAL. However, we appear to be coming at this from different mind-sets\".\n\nLast March, in a letter to then transport minister Humza Yousaf, Mr McColl wrote \"We have been trying to engage with CMAL over the past year to discuss the significant cost increases resulting from the unforeseen complexities which have arisen.\"\n\nTwo weeks later, the Clyde Blowers boss was seeking to assert there were \"external circumstances which they [the contracting authorities] could not foresee when they awarded the contract. We believe there have been...\"\n\nOn 1 May this year, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay was reassuring CMAL that, yes, ministers were frustrated at the delays, but they believed CMAL was acting diligently and professionally. It's almost as if someone had suggested otherwise, amid the bits we are not allowed to read.\n\nMr McColl later set out in more detail, \"unforeseen complexities and circumstances which have had a significant impact on the costs of completing the contracts... which would justify a price increase\".\n\nAnd then we get to the most interesting bit - a robust response, from Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd to Ferguson Marine Engineering: \"The contract into which you willingly entered was for a 'design and build'.\n\n\"During the tender process, FMEL put together a bid that was extremely detailed and held out to be competent to deliver, which we accepted leading to the contract signing,\" wrote CMAL.\n\n\"These two vessels are neither innovative or highly complex as you continually report. There are many dual fuel and LNG vessels currently in operation and many more currently under construction as succinctly pointed out by [redacted]...\"\n\nThat's where the public information ends and the legal battle begins.\n\nIt could get messy. To recap, Ferguson needs the taxpayer money to meet part of the contract overrun. It also needs big taxpayer loans to remain solvent beyond the end of January. It then needs further Cal Mac contracts.\n\nBut if it's in such a messy dispute with Ferguson, and possibly for some time, CMAL is not well placed to sign new contracts. Nor is the Scottish government.\n\nBut the Scottish government is under pressure to build more Cal Mac vessels. Ferguson Marine looks like the only Scottish shipbuilder capable of constructing them.\n\nThe Scottish government would lose very significant loan funds if FMEL goes bust. And the FMEL directors' assertion (not backed up by auditors) that the assets are worthless will help focus the government's mind on that potential loss.\n\nMinisters would also lose politically if an acknowledged strategic industrial asset is allowed to fail.\n\nAnd as Jim McColl is the main figure on the other side of this dispute, he's not someone who can be easily portrayed as a fly-by-night profiteer. He's got some significant business heft.\n\nSo what to do? Well, for me, it's an easy win among new year predictions. I'd say that this is one to watch.", "Some tweets called for the release of drill rap artist Digga D\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's website has been hit by hackers who posted a series of bizarre messages.\n\nA series of tweets were sent from the force's verified account, which has more than a million followers, including one about rapper Digga D.\n\nA stream of unusual emails were also sent from the force's press bureau at about 23:30 BST on Friday.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed its website had \"been subject to unauthorised access\".\n\nFollowing the incident, US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, in a tweet quoting right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins.\n\nMs Hopkins said \"they have lost control of London streets\" and \"apparently they lost control of their twitter account too\", while Mr Trump added: \"With the incompetent Mayor of London, you will never have safe streets!\".\n\nThe Mayor's office has declined to comment on Mr Trump's tweet.\n\nThe force said it used an online provider called MyNewsDesk to issue news releases and said \"unauthorised messages\" appeared on its website, Twitter account and in emails sent to subscribers.\n\nThe Met's account has more than a million followers\n\nThe tweets, which have been deleted, contained offensive language and mentioned the names of several people.\n\nThe posts also linked to press releases about the rapper and an apparent missing child.\n\nBBC home affairs producer Daniel De Simone tweeted that the hack was a \"serious issue\" and added: \"The press and public relies on comms from the Met during emergencies such as terror attacks.\"\n\nA Met spokesman said the force was working to establish exactly what happened.\n\n\"We have begun making changes to our access arrangements to MyNewsDesk,\" he added.\n\n\"At this stage, we are confident the only security issue relates to access to our MyNewsDesk account.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers have pledged to put an end to the use of so-called \"poor doors\" in housing developments in England.\n\nThe separate entrances for social housing tenants living in new builds \"stigmatise\" and divide them from private residents, the government said.\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire said he had been \"appalled\" by the examples of segregation he had seen.\n\nUnder the new measures, planning guidance is to be toughened in a bid to create more inclusive developments.\n\nDevelopers are often required to build social or affordable housing units in private developments as a condition of being granted planning permission.\n\nBut in some cases, social housing tenants have been excluded from using some facilities, and made to use different entrances from those which give access to privately owned homes.\n\nIn March, one development in south London was reported by the Guardian to have blocked children living in social housing from using a communal playground.\n\nThe BBC also visited a London apartment block in 2015 where there were separate entrances for private and social housing tenants.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan promised during his election campaign in 2015 to ban the practice, describing it as an \"appalling form of social segregation\".\n\n\"Poor doors segregate people who are living side by side, they drive a wedge between our communities,\" he said at the time.\n\nAs part of new measures, the government said a new design manual will set expectations for the inclusivity of future developments and help ensure planning decisions promote social interaction in communities.\n\nThe measures come as a survey commissioned by the government to mark 100 years of social housing found older people were less likely to feel comfortable about living close to council and housing association properties.\n\nAccording to the survey, 38% of over-65s reported feeling comfortable, compared with 53% of 18 to 25-year-olds.", "More than a year after its slipway launch, work continues on Glen Sannox\n\nThe Scottish government is drawing up plans to nationalise Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde.\n\nThat option is the increasingly likely outcome of a dispute over the building of two west coast ferries for CalMac.\n\nThe BBC has learned of \"fraught\" negotiations over a bill that is now understood to be nearly double the original £97m contract price.\n\nTycoon Jim McColl, who rescued the yard from collapse five years ago, stands to lose tens of millions of pounds.\n\nThat is far removed from the heroic status he was given by SNP ministers when he stepped in to save the totemic shipyard in Port Glasgow - the only commercial yard left on the lower Clyde.\n\nThat was only days before the referendum on Scottish independence, and was partly brokered by Alex Salmond as first minister.\n\nDerek Mackay, the finance and economy secretary, is now handling the talks with Clyde Blowers, Mr McColl's holding company.\n\nThat takes the dispute out the hands of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) - the government-owned firm that placed the orders and owns CalMac's fleet.\n\nThe official comment from the Scottish government was: \"The Scottish government, Ferguson's and CMAL are focussed on the completion of the current ferry contracts and securing a vibrant future for the yard. We continue to work together to achieve that.\"\n\nPrivately, the government is determined to ensure the yard remains open. Its current workforce is about 350.\n\nWhen Ferguson shipyard went bust in the summer of 2014, a white knight stepped forward in the shape of self-made billionaire Jim McColl.\n\nMassive investment swiftly followed; old buildings were demolished to make way for state-of-the-art fabrication facilities and the skilled workforce rose five-fold in one of Scotland's most deprived areas.\n\nThe following year the yard received a major boost when it won a £97m contract to build two dual-fuel ferries for CalMac.\n\nBut neither ferry has yet to be delivered, Ferguson is losing millions on the deal - and one of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the 2014 referendum is now locked in a bitter dispute with the Scottish government.\n\nBut ministers are not giving ground on the fixed price contract agreed between Ferguson Marine and CMAL.\n\nIt is claimed that doing so would bring legal action by other bidders that failed to win the contract.\n\nThe dispute on the contract was reviewed by a senior lawyer, whose report is being kept confidential.\n\nIt is understood to be more favourable to CMAL than to Ferguson's position, but the review's scope and caveats leave the contractual dispute open to protracted legal action.\n\nThe Scottish government's position is that Ferguson and Clyde Blowers should pay the additional costs, of about £90m. It is claimed that ministers then want the yard to continue as a successful business.\n\nIf not, then a sale of the assets could be agreed, with the price set independently.\n\nThe other option is insolvency. From there, issuers of £25m in bonds would have a first claim on the company's assets, but the Scottish government also has security over assets.\n\nThat is because the Scottish government has loaned Ferguson £45m over the past five years, in a series of decisions which have provoked controversy at Holyrood.\n\nSources at Ferguson believe the Scottish government wants to nationalise the yard, in a political project linked to public ownership of rail and other transport operators.\n\nThe yard would then become solely focused on a programme of replacement ships for CalMac, which are well behind schedule.\n\nThe shipyard, beside Newark Castle, has had major investment under Jim McColl's ownership\n\nThe winner of the franchise for the passenger service linking Orkney and Shetland to the Scottish mainland is due to be announced in the next few weeks, pitting state-owned Cal-Mac against Serco, the incumbent operator.\n\nHowever, further nationalisation would also put the SNP government under pressure over the cost of sustaining loss-making enterprises, already including Prestwick Airport and BiFab, which has mothballed fabrication yards in Fife and another in Lewis.\n\nA spokesman for Ferguson Marine Engineering said: \"We continue to engage with both the Scottish government and CMAL, and remain fully committed to securing the long-term future of the yard.\"", "Teachers are expected to be among those getting a pay rise after five years of a cap on increases\n\nA million public sector workers are to receive their biggest pay rise in nearly 10 years, the government says.\n\nIt includes 2.9% extra this year for the armed forces, 2.75% for prison officers and up to 3.5% for teachers.\n\nPolice will see a 2% rise, the same increase seen by GPs and dentists.\n\nThe move confirms the scrapping of the 1% pay cap last year and follows campaigns by unions for higher wage rises.\n\nThe government said the increases were affordable within its spending plans. Individual departments are having to fund the pay rises, rather than the money coming from the Treasury.\n\nThe pay rises for doctors and dentists only apply to England, while the pay rises for prison officers, teachers, and police officers apply to England and Wales.\n\nThe armed forces pay offer is for the whole of the UK.\n\nIn June the bulk of NHS staff in Scotland were offered a 9% pay rise spread across three years.\n\nA 3% pay offer to teachers in Scotland was rejected by the unions earlier in the year.\n\nComparing public and private sector pay is tricky because public sector workers are on average better qualified and many lower-paid jobs such as cleaning and security have been outsourced from the public sector to the private.\n\nIf you look at what has happened to growth in pay since 2010, private sector pay has been growing faster, due to the effect of two years of public sector pay freezes starting in 2011, followed by 1% caps.\n\nBut both public and private sector workers have seen their average pay rising more slowly than prices.\n\nThe comparison between public and private sector pay also ignores pension provision, which tends to be better in the public sector, and bonus payments, which are more common in the private sector but excluded from these average earnings figures.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"By increasing the pay levels, albeit by less than the rate of inflation, that can only be paid for by cuts within the public services.\n\n\"And so, if it's local authorities or anybody else, they're going to have to pay for it by either removing their balances, which they shouldn't be doing, or by cutting services further.\"\n\nThe cost of scrapping the 1% cap is estimated at £4bn.\n\nThe move has been seen as a bid to boost staff recruitment and retention as well as improve morale in the public sector.\n\nUnions have been arguing for pay rises closer to 5% to make up for the austerity measures introduced by David Cameron's government eight years ago.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said the announcement was \"fantastic news just before the summer for a million workers right across the public sector\".\n\nShe said: \"We hugely value the work that people do, whether it's teachers, soldiers or police officers.\"\n\nBut Prospect union deputy general secretary Garry Graham said: \"Today's pay deals for the armed forces, prison workers and teachers are welcome but confirm what we have long suspected, this government have put civil servants firmly at the back of the queue on public sector pay.\n\n\"Instead of playing cynical divide-and-rule games with overworked and underpaid public sector workers, the government should be committing to above-inflation pay rises for all public servants, with no group left behind.\"", "Karina Canellakis took up the baton after being encouraged by Sir Simon Rattle\n\nKarina Canellakis has made history, as the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms.\n\nThe US musician led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers in a stirring and dramatic programme culminating in Leoš Janáček's utterly unique Glagolitic Mass.\n\nThe landmark performance came just two years after Cannellakis's conducting debut at the Proms.\n\n\"I'm honoured - and I'm very sweaty,\" she said after leaving stage.\n\nThe 38-year-old New Yorker started her career as a violinist after graduating from the Julliard School.\n\nThe seeds of her conducting career were sown at the BBC Proms in 2008, as she performed Mahler's emotional 6th Symphony as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.\n\n\"I was playing second violin, and I played my heart out,\" she told BBC Radio 3, \"and I remember just looking up and thinking I had never seen the ceiling so far away.\"\n\nBut it was British conductor Sir Simon Rattle who finally convinced her to swap the violin for the baton.\n\n\"He told me: 'You may not see many people that look like you up there, but I really think you could do this,'\" she told the bachtrack website earlier this year.\n\n\"That was the thing that changed my pattern of thinking and gave me a little bit of a push towards... making music without the instrument in my hand, which in the beginning was quite terrifying.\"\n\nOn Friday night's evidence, she has ably grown into the role.\n\nHer opening night kicked off with a complex, layered new work by Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri.\n\nLong Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory was commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and explored everything from the dark, brooding exploration of space to man's first weightless steps on the lunar surface.\n\nKarina Canellakis embraces composer Zosha Di Castri after premiering her new work\n\nDi Castri managed to convey the eerie loneliness of that first moonwalk in a section where the orchestra rubbed together paper bags, blew compressed air into milk bottles, and scraped tuning keys across harp strings, while a lone oboe represented the awestruck wonder of astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.\n\nThe chorus, meanwhile, sang an evocative text by Chinese-British author Xiaolu Guo: \"We stepped out and bounced, skipped, swang wide, set the flag on the silent lunar surface.\"\n\nResearching the piece left a major impression on the composer, who had never before considered the monumental human effort behind the Moon landings.\n\n\"To be honest, it was something that I took as fact - that we've been to the Moon,\" she said. \"This brought back the sense of awe.\"\n\nThe first half concluded with a lovingly-shaped rendition of Dvořák's The Golden Spinning Wheel, receiving its first-ever performance at the Proms.\n\nZocha Di Castri's piece is the first of many Proms to mark the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings\n\nPart two was devoted to Janáček's elemental Glagolitic Mass - one of the greatest 20th Century choral works.\n\nA setting of a ninth-century liturgical text, it is essentially the atheist composer's hymn to nature.\n\n\"Always the scent of the moist forest - that was the incense,\" said the Czech musician. \"I felt a cathedral grow before me in the vast expanse of the hills and the vault of the sky\".\n\n\"It is as much pagan ritual as it is a mass,\" acknowledged Canellakis ahead of the concert, \"and it switches drastically from one section to another.\"\n\nUnder her watch, the BBC Symphony Orchestra expertly navigated the shifting celestial and confrontational tones, while organist Peter Holder deservedly received an ovation after untangling the labyrinthine solo.\n\nMezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnston described the Glagolitic Mass as having a \"filmic quality\"\n\nSoloists including tenor Ladislav Elgr and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston were crisp and clear - despite being unclear on how the text should sound.\n\n\"Glagolitic was the precedent to the Cyrillic alphabet [and] the result is we don't really know how it's meant to be pronounced,\" she explained to BBC Radio 3.\n\n\"It's our best guess, along with academics who've given us some guidance.\"\n\nThe piece also highlighted a theme of the 2019 Proms season, which is marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Wood. The Proms founder-conductor presided over the premiere of the Glagolitic Mass at the Queen's Hall in 1930.\n\nThe modern-day Proms, of course, are based in the Royal Albert Hall - where more than 1,000 of Friday's concert-goers were \"Prommers\", who had queued all day in the rain to snap up \"on the day\" tickets for just £6.\n\nFor Canellakis, it is those concert-goers who give the festival its unique flavour.\n\n\"I love the enthusiasm of the audience here,\" she said. \"It's not an eight-year-old whose grandma drags him to the opera and he falls asleep in the back row.\n\n\"These people have waited for hours to get tickets and many of them are standing through the whole performance - and you feel that, as a performer.\"\n\nThe conductor, who has played the Proms every year since taking up the baton, is guaranteed to be back - and could conceivably follow in the footsteps of Marin Alsop, who in 2013 became the first woman to helm the festival's iconic closing night.\n\nThe 2019 season continues until 14 September, with highlights including a sci-fi Prom, the premiere of a new work by Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood, and performances from cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and \"the Queen of African music\" Angelique Kidjo.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Watch Foundation monitors dolphins coming to the north-east of England coast\n\nPolice are investigating after reports of the mammals being tormented in the River Tyne between North and South Shields.\n\nAndrea Blunt was filming the dolphins and could see the riders coming, but \"couldn't do anything about it\".\n\n\"They went straight over the top of where the last dolphin had breached the water, which was quite distressing to see,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't know what the jet skiers could see but, to us, they were very visible.\"\n\nWater scooters were filmed riding over the point where a dolphin had just dipped under the water\n\nMartin Kitching, the regional co-ordinator for the Sea Watch Foundation, which tracks dolphins, said he was \"disturbed, concerned, angry that anybody would actually be that reckless when they know there are dolphins in the river\".\n\nNorthumbria Police has warned river users to be \"vigilant and respectful\" around marine life.\n\n\"It is illegal to harass, feed, chase and touch marine mammals in the wild,\" acting marine Sgt Paul Spedding said.\n\n\"Anyone found to be in breach of any laws will be prosecuted.\"\n\nAndrea Blunt, who filmed what happened, said she felt \"helpless\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alek Sigley in transit in Beijing after his release from North Korea this week\n\nNorth Korea says an Australian student who had been detained for several days before being released had been \"spying\" for news outlets.\n\nAlek Sigley, 29, was reported missing in late June, but was freed on Thursday after Swedish officials in Pyongyang met the North Korean government.\n\nNK News, one of the websites to publish his writing, has rejected Pyongyang's claims that he spied for them.\n\nIt said his columns only \"presented an apolitical view of life in Pyongyang\".\n\nMr Sigley, a fluent Korean speaker, had been living in Pyongyang while studying a Master's at Kim Il-sung university and running a tourism business.\n\nMr Sigley has not commented on why he detained. Following his release, he flew to Japan, where his wife lives.\n\nOn Saturday, North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA said that Mr Sigley had \"on numerous occasions transferred information, including photographs and analysis, that he gathered while travelling to every corner of Pyongyang using his status as an international student\".\n\nHe had done this \"upon request by anti-DPRK [North Korea] news outlets such as NK news\", KCNA added.\n\nThe government decided to deport him on humanitarian grounds after he \"honestly admitted that he had been spying... and repeatedly asked for our forgiveness for infringing on our sovereignty\", it said.\n\nNorth Korea often accuses foreigners detained in its country of espionage or \"hostile acts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The North Korean spy who wants to go home\n\nIn a statement, NK News, a website specialising in North Korean news and analysis, said it appreciated \"the DPRK's decision to promptly release Sigley on humanitarian grounds\".\n\nIt said it had published six articles from Mr Sigley which showed \"vignettes of ordinary daily life in the capital\".\n\n\"The six articles Alek published represent the full extent of his work with us and the idea that those columns, published transparently under his name between January and April 2019, are 'anti-state' in nature is a misrepresentation which we reject.\"\n\nMr Sidley had published an essay titled: \"From Perth to Pyongyang: my life as an Aussie student at Kim Il Sung University\", as well as articles about North Korean fashion, apps, and restaurants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the damage to Florida plaza\n\nA large explosion has ripped through a shopping and dining plaza in the US city of Plantation, Florida.\n\nLocal police say that about 22 people have been injured and are being treated at hospitals in the city, but none are in a critical condition.\n\n\"At this time we don't have any fatalities,\" Sergeant Jessica Ryan told reporters shortly after the blast.\n\nVideos on social media show people evacuating a nearby gym amid scattered debris and dozens of damaged vehicles.\n\nPolice have asked people to avoid the area while they continue to investigate. Search dogs are also at the scene.\n\nJoel Gordon, battalion chief for Plantation Fire, said they had not yet confirmed the cause and source of the explosion but ruptured gas lines were found in the rubble.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe explosion was reported at about 11:30 local time (15:30 GMT) on Saturday, officials say.\n\nLocal residents have told local news channel WPLG they felt and heard the blast several miles away from the scene.\n\nPlantation is in Broward County, just outside of Fort Lauderdale.\n\nThe plaza where the explosion happened contains a number of restaurants and businesses.", "Fifty years on from the Stonewall uprising in New York, London Pride 2019 was just as colourful as ever.\n\nOrganisers say up to 1.5 million people took to the streets for the parade, which started at Portland Place.\n\nThe parade went across Oxford Circus and down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square.\n\nOne man from Uganda spoke about how getting to this day \"meant the world\".", "A senior police officer who led the investigation into the biggest modern day slavery network in the UK has appealed to the public to help \"spot the signs\" of someone being held as a slave.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nick Dale spent four years leading the inquiry into the gang who tricked vulnerable people from Poland into travelling to the UK with the promise of work and a better life.\n\nPolice believe more than 400 victims were made to work for little or no pay and held in squalid conditions.\n\nEight traffickers, who police say are members and associates of two Polish crime families, have been jailed during two trials which can only now be reported after a judge lifted an order banning reporting.", "The sculptor called on BP to put half its profits towards renewable energy research\n\nSculptor Sir Antony Gormley has joined calls for London's National Portrait Gallery to end its sponsorship with BP.\n\nBP has sponsored the gallery's annual Portrait Award for 30 years, but the oil company has faced growing criticism over its environmental stance.\n\nSir Antony said BP was \"using culture to make us all feel this is a company that cares about the future of mankind, but it very clearly doesn't\".\n\nThe gallery said BP's support for the award means public admission is free.\n\nIt added that government funding only made up a third of its income, so it has to work with corporate partners.\n\nSir Antony is one of almost 80 artists - including five winners of the Turner Prize - to write the letter demanding an end to BP's sponsorship.\n\nIn the letter to Nicholas Cullinan, director of the gallery, the artists state that BP's ongoing sponsorship \"is lending credence to the company's misleading assurance that it's doing all it can, and so we, as artists, feel we must speak up\".\n\n\"We believe that, today, the loss of BP as a source of funding is a cost worth bearing, until the company changes course and enables future generations to make art in a world that resembles our own,\" the letter continues.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Antony said: \"Art is about giving a platform for sustainable futures... [it is] very clear that this is not a part of BPs remit\".\n\nSir Antony is best known for his Angel of the North sculpture in Gateshead\n\n\"We are in a crisis,\" he said, adding he would like to see the energy giant put half its profits towards renewable energy research,\n\n\"We are all immersed in a fossil fuel culture, we are all culpable. But there are a few organisations and governments that can do something about it.\"\n\nThe letter calls on the gallery not to renew its contract with BP when it expires in 2022 and, in the immediate future, to remove the BP representative from the award's judging panel.\n\nPeter Mather, head of BP in Europe, told the Today programme last week that the company was trying to help both the art world and the environment.\n\nHe said BP's 70,000 employees did not get up each day \"with the intention of destroying the planet\".\n\nHe added that BP was \"extremely proud\" of what it did in the arts, as well as what it contributed to the UK economy.\n\n\"We are focusing very much on reducing our own emissions. We are also improving - i.e. lowering - the carbon footprint of the produce that we supply.\"\n\nIt comes after artist and judge of this year's Portrait Award by BP Gary Hume said it was time to look elsewhere for sponsorship.\n\nHe said: \"BP could continue to support the National Portrait Gallery without putting their name anywhere, it could be an anonymous gift.\n\n\"Without the institutions such as BP making a concerted effort... we haven't got a chance.\"", "The App delivers the BBC's global, national and regional news coverage - on-demand - via an internet connection.\n\nThe design enables quick and simple discovery of video and text content - aligned with BBC News's coverage on web and mobile devices.\n\nNavigation around the app is done using the arrow keys and the enter and back keys on your remote control.\n\nVideo content on demand on your connected TV\n\nThe app is available on connected TVs from Sony, Samsung, LG and more. It is also available on major television platforms including YouView, and Virgin TiVo - along with a range of streaming devices, including Amazon Fire TV and Now TV. The app can be found either in the device/platform's app store, or via the Red Button on connected televisions.\n\nThe BBC works with platforms and device manufacturers continually to ensure availability on as many devices and platforms as possible. Existing users of the BBC News app will be upgraded to the new version automatically.", "Helen McCourt vanished on her way home from work in 1988\n\nA woman whose daughter's killer has never revealed what happened to her body has welcomed plans to change the law regarding parole.\n\nHelen McCourt was abducted and murdered in 1988 by Ian Simms. Marie McCourt has always opposed his release from prison.\n\nHelen's Law would place \"greater consideration on failure to disclose the location of a victim's remains\", said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).\n\nMrs McCourt, of St Helens, said it felt \"like a big weight has been lifted\".\n\nShe has been pushing for a change in the law to deny killers parole if they will not reveal where victims' remains are.\n\nShe said being denied a funeral for her daughter caused \"unimaginable suffering\" but if the law is changed \"at least Helen's death will help other families\".\n\nHer 22-year-old daughter vanished just yards from her home in February 1988.\n\nMarie McCourt has said being denied a funeral for her daughter had caused \"unimaginable suffering\"\n\nPub landlord Simms has never revealed the location of her remains, maintaining he is innocent despite DNA evidence.\n\nHe was convicted of murder after blood and an earring, identical to one Helen had, were found in the boot of his car.\n\nHe was jailed for life in 1989 and told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nIn March, Mrs McCourt spoke of her anger that Simms had been allowed out of prison on temporary release.\n\nMrs McCourt and her MP Conor McGinn, who represents St Helens North, met with Justice Secretary David Gauke to \"explore options\" on Wednesday.\n\nA MoJ spokesperson said: \"Not knowing the whereabouts of a loved one causes tremendous additional pain, and we have immense sympathy with Helen McCourt's family.\n\n\"The justice secretary recently held a positive meeting with Marie McCourt and her MP, and we look forward to working with them on this important issue.\"\n\nMr McGinn said: \"If the law is implemented before Ian Simms is released, it could apply to him.\n\n\"We want Helen's law for all victims and families and I will vociferously oppose the release of Ian Simms.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The sculpture was carved out of a tree trunk with a chainsaw\n\nA tongue-in-cheek statue of US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared on the outskirts of her Slovenian hometown.\n\nUS artist Brad Downey hired a local chainsaw artisan, Ales Zupevc, to carve the likeness out of a tree trunk outside the town of Sevnica.\n\nThe result was a wooden rendering of Mrs Trump dressed in a blue coat with a club-like hand gesturing to the sky.\n\nSome residents described it as \"a disgrace\", a \"Smurfette\", saying \"it doesn't look anything like Melania\".\n\nDowney told Reuters news agency he wanted to \"have a dialogue\" with the US political situation.\n\nThe artist has an exhibition in Slovenia's capital Ljubljana until late August. The gallery reportedly suggested the statue \"might only be a slapstick prank\" in a leaflet.\n\nSevnica has become a tourist magnet ever since Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, and Ms Trump - a famous former resident - became the first lady.\n\nAs visitors search for an insight into Mrs Trump's early years, residents have brought out ranges of Melania-branded merchandise including slippers, cake, and Trump-like burgers with fly-away cheese \"hair\".\n\nWhile for some, the new sculpture is a step too far, Katarina, 66, told AFP news agency it was a \"good idea\" to have the artwork, adding: \"Melania is a Slovenian hero, she's made it to the top in the US.\"", "Port, now 44, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nNone of the officers investigated for potential misconduct in the initial response to serial killer Stephen Port in east London will be disciplined, the police watchdog has said.\n\nBut the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said its inquiry had identified \"systemic failings\" within the Metropolitan Police.\n\nNine officers will be required to improve their standards, it added.\n\nThe families of Port's victims have given an undertaking not to comment.\n\nA spokeswoman said this was a condition demanded by the IOPC when they handed the families the final report - which is not due to be published until after the inquests for Port's four young victims.\n\nA friend of one of the men, who repeatedly raised concerns with the police, said he was angry about the IOPC announcement.\n\nThere is currently no start date for the inquests - despite being ordered in November 2017.\n\nPort, 44, from Barking, was sentenced to a full life term in 2016 after being convicted of murdering four young men at his flat.\n\nOfficers investigating the deaths ignored or dismissed evidence linking them to Port.\n\nThe watchdog told the BBC: \"While we agreed none of the officers involved in these investigations may have breached professional standards justifying disciplinary proceedings, we will be making a number of recommendations to the Metropolitan Police to address some of the systemic failings our investigation identified.\n\n\"We have advised the families of Stephen Port's victims and the officers involved that the performance of nine officers fell below the standard required.\n\n\"They will now be required to improve their performance.\"\n\nA preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey heard the inquests would focus on the \"adequacy of the police investigation\".\n\nThe announcement means none of the 17 Met officers investigated have been referred for misconduct proceedings by the IOPC.\n\nThe Met made a referral to the watchdog in October 2015 after identifying concerns regarding the initial investigations into the men's deaths.\n\nTen officers were served with misconduct notices and a further seven with gross misconduct notices.\n\nMisconduct is when an officer fails to follow expected standards of professional behaviour. Gross misconduct is when a breach is so serious it could justify dismissal.\n\nThe IOPC inquiry related to the investigative work undertaken, how evidence was examined, and how similarities between the cases were considered.\n\nThe 17, ranging in rank from constable to inspector, were largely local officers from Barking and Dagenham. None worked on the later successful murder inquiry.\n\nLast year the BBC revealed that all but one of them gave 'no comment' interviews to the IOPC.\n\nHe met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat where they were drugged and raped.\n\nThe men were given fatal overdoses of date-rape drug GHB.\n\nEvidence heard at trial, and uncovered by a BBC investigation, showed there were a series of chances to catch Port sooner.\n\nAnthony Walgate (L) and Gabriel Kovari (R) were Port's first victims\n\nThe first victim, Anthony Walgate, was found outside Port's flat and the other three either in or next to a nearby churchyard.\n\nPort was jailed for his initial lies about the first death, but police accepted his subsequent excuses and did not treat the case as homicide.\n\nPolice did not examine a computer seized from Port, which would have revealed his interest in drugging and raping young men.\n\nWhile on bail, before being charged, Port killed twice more.\n\nPort falsely linked his second and third victims together to cover up his crimes.\n\nA fake suicide note found in Daniel Whitworth's hand, which had been written by Port, said he accidentally killed Gabriel Kovari and was taking his own life in response.\n\nIn fact, the two victims did not know one another.\n\nDaniel Whitworth (L) and Jack Taylor (R) were also killed by Port\n\nPolice accepted the note at face value and treated the deaths as non-suspicious, despite concerns raised by people close to both men.\n\nThe note was in Port's handwriting and bore traces of his DNA, as did items found with the bodies of Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth.\n\nDetectives did not trace the man referred to in the note as the \"guy I was with last night\", which would have led them to the killer.\n\nPort murdered Jack Taylor after serving a short prison sentence, but police did not treat the death as suspicious for several weeks, despite the urging of the Taylor family, who investigated the case themselves and realised the other deaths were linked.\n\nMr Kovari's former flatmate John Pape had earlier come to same conclusion about his friend, which he pointed out to the Met in a series of emails and during an inquest.\n\nPort used a fake Facebook profile to spread lies about the deaths, including in direct correspondence with Mr Kovari's ex-boyfriend, but police did not investigate the account despite it being sent to them.\n\nThe case was solved after being passed from local teams in Barking and Dagenham to specialist homicide detectives.\n\nSenior Met figures apologised to the families after the trial.\n\nWhen a judge, Lord Justice Holroydehe, quashed the original inquests findings for two of the victims, he said it seemed \"surprising that the initial police investigation revealed so little of the full picture and appears to have led quite quickly to a conclusion that there was no evidence of any crime having been committed by any person still living\".\n\nMr Pape said the IOPC announcement made his \"blood boil\".\n\nHe told the BBC it \"contrasted with the basic facts of that disturbingly incompetent initial investigation\", adding: \"Given the open goal they were given, it makes me wonder what the point of the IOPC is.\"\n\nMr Pape said he was \"not clamouring for individual officers to be harshly punished\" but was concerned about the consequences for the LGBTQ community and their families, of \"institutionalised incompetence and prejudice within an unaccountable police force\".\n\nHe added: \"The police mishandling of the Port murders echo their previous failings in other serial killings of young gay men.\n\n\"I want to know the Met recognise their failures and will finally learn from them.\"\n\nScotland Yard did not respond to a request for comment about the IOPC statement.", "The man was unable to move after suffering a fall in his basement\n\nA man who spent six days trapped in his basement without food or water has been rescued after his concerned colleagues came to his aid.\n\nThe man, aged in his 50s, was unable to move after falling in his home in Windsor Road, Liverpool.\n\nHis colleagues at HM Revenue & Customs visited his house twice and alerted police on Thursday when they heard someone shouting inside.\n\nPolice found him and he was taken to hospital for observations.\n\nIt is understood the man is now recovering from a fractured shoulder.\n\nA spokesman for HMRC said if someone who lives on their own fails to turn up to work then it is policy to send someone round to check.\n\n\"We're very happy that our colleague has been found and wish him a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlie Adlard was named the UK's comics laureate in 2016\n\nThe comics artist behind The Walking Dead series is to be celebrated in an exhibition opening in his home town.\n\nCharlie Adlard, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, has drawn the Walking Dead comics since 2004 and has also worked on The X-Files and Mars Attacks.\n\nHe was named the UK's comics laureate in 2016 and Drawn of the Dead will be his first exhibition in Shrewsbury.\n\nMr Adlard's \"dystopian vision\" will be displayed at the town's museum and art gallery until November.\n\nThe Walking Dead, which Adlard has drawn since 2004, has since become a major TV drama\n\nThe comics will be displayed alongside Mr Adlard's original sketches\n\nMr Adlard has appeared in the TV version of the comics twice\n\nThe Walking Dead series was turned into a popular TV show which has just run into its 10th season.\n\nMr Adlard told the BBC he had appeared in the TV series twice as a zombie extra.\n\n\"You couldn't see me, but I just really wanted the experience,\" he said.\n\nThe exhibition will showcase more than 80 artworks\n\nAlthough his work has been on show around the world, this will be Mr Adlard's first exhibition closer to home\n\nThe exhibition is going to be an \"immersive\" experience, Mr Adlard said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Please use your device horizontally in order to use this experience!", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland had to settle for fourth place at the Women's World Cup after a frustrating loss to Sweden in an eventful third-place play-off.\n\nA sloppy start in Nice ultimately saw the Lionesses miss out on bronze, four years after winning a medal at the competition for the first time.\n\nKosovare Asllani and Sofia Jakobsson's goals saw Sweden take full advantage of a disjointed first-half England display, before Fran Kirby's well-taken strike put Phil Neville's side back in the game.\n\nThe Lionesses then saw an Ellen White equaliser ruled out for handball after a pitchside video review by the referee, before having the better of the second half, but they could not prevent Sweden securing a top-three finish for a fourth time.\n\nThe 2003 runners-up, who were beaten by the Netherlands on Wednesday, were grateful to defender Nilla Fischer in the latter stages for her superb headed block on the line to keep out Lucy Bronze's goalbound effort.\n\nFor England, who lost to the holders the United States in a gripping semi-final on Tuesday, a fourth-place finish represents their second-best Women's World Cup, after they were third in Canada four years ago.\n• None Tournament ratings - which players impressed and who under-performed?\n• None How the players rated in England's defeat by Sweden\n\nWhite misses out on Golden Boot after further VAR misery\n\nOnly two senior England teams have done better than finish fourth at a global tournament - the men of 1966 and the women of 2015 - with Neville's side matching the men's World Cup achievements of 1990 and 2018.\n\nTheir play improved once Chelsea's Kirby - who produced her best performance of these finals - had cut inside and halved the deficit with a good finish off the inside of the post.\n\nWith the Lionesses in the ascendancy, England's leading scorer White thought she had equalised soon afterwards. But her neat finish was ruled out after the video assistant referee officials spotted that her arm had made contact with the ball as she controlled it before using her strength to swivel and slot in low past Hedvig Lindahl.\n\nHad she scored without the handball offence, the 30-year-old would have moved to the top of the goal standings in the race for the Golden Boot, before Sunday's final between the USA and the Netherlands.\n\nIt was the second straight game in which White saw a would-be equaliser for 2-2 ruled out after a VAR review, having been found to be fractionally offside after placing home against the USA on Tuesday.\n\nThe Manchester City striker had chances for further goals on Saturday, but her one-on-one effort was saved by former Chelsea goalkeeper Lindahl moments before half-time, and she saw another shot blocked wide in the 81st minute.\n\nAnother 'nearly' tournament for England\n\nEngland had been hoping to win a bronze medal for a second consecutive Women's World Cup, but started poorly in defence.\n\nFormer Manchester City midfielder Asllani capitalised when Alex Greenwood's soft clearance from Fridolina Rolfo's cross fell straight to her; Carly Telford got a hand to her shot but could not keep it out.\n\nEngland were then fortunate not to concede again when Jakobsson got in behind Greenwood and struck the post, but the Montpellier forward netted soon afterwards with a curling effort after finding space on the left.\n\nAfter that Swedish spell, the remaining three-quarters of the match saw the Lionesses look far more like the side that had impressed with back-to-back 3-0 victories to reach the last four.\n\nThis England team have won the support of millions back home - with 11.7m watching the BBC for the dramatic loss to the USA - but when they look back on this summer, they may feel disappointed.\n\nEngland have won five of their seven games during the month-long tournament in France, enjoying victories over Scotland, Argentina, Japan, Cameroon and Norway, before two 2-1 losses in the testing final week of the competition.\n\nThere were many, many positives though - including the fact that their results secured Great Britain a qualification spot for next summer's Olympics.\n\nThere is reason for the Lionesses to be optimistic for their next major tournament - the 2021 European Championship, which will be held in England.\n\nThose competitions will be played without England legend Karen Carney, who announced on Friday that she would be retiring from football after this tournament.\n\nThe 31-year-old was brought on as a substitute with 15 minutes remaining in Nice and showed plenty of classy touches that were typical of her impressive career, which including a European title with Arsenal's quadruple-winning side of 2007.\n\n'Part of me is glad we didn't win' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville, speaking to BBC One: \"I think maybe there was carry-over from the semi-final - the emotion. The two goals sparked us into life and I don't think I have seen us play better than we did after those first 20 minutes. We gave it our best shot, we fell short and we just have to make sure next time we are better.\n\n\"Well done to Sweden but it is a nonsense game. We were probably showing in those first 20 minutes the disappointment we felt from the USA game. We came here to win it, not finish fourth.\n\n\"The players came here and delivered everything I wanted - the style of play. This is sport. We have to come back in four years' time and be better. There are many champions who have had to suffer before coming back. We go home, we dissect and we breathe and then we get back on that horse again.\"\n\nEngland midfielder Karen Carney speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was tough. We've given everything and part of me is glad we haven't won it.\n\n\"If we want to go and win the Olympics and the Euros, we have to have a fire in the belly. We have to dig deeper.\n\n\"We should not be afraid to say that we want to win the gold medal. No disrespect to Sweden or this game, but I'm kind of glad we didn't win.\"\n\nNo VAR delight for White - the stats\n• None England have lost back-to-back games at the Women's World Cup for the first time.\n• None Sweden have won all three of their bronze-medal matches at the Women's World Cup, also beating Germany in 1991 and France in 2011.\n• None England were 0-2 behind after just 22 minutes against Sweden, the earliest they've ever been two goals down in a Women's World Cup match.\n• None Kosovare Asllani's opener was her third goal at the 2019 Women's World Cup - the most by a Sweden player at a single edition of the tournament since 2011 (Lisa Dahlkvist, three).\n• None Karen Carney's substitute appearance was her 144th and final game for England - only Fara Williams (170) has played more for the Lionesses.\n• None There have been five goals awarded and subsequently overturned by VAR at the 2019 Women's World Cup. Two of them were scored by England's Ellen White in their last two matches.\n• None Jade Moore (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (England) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rachel Daly with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Julia Zigiotti Olme (Sweden) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Karen Carney (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucy Bronze (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Sofia Jakobsson (Sweden) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stina Blackstenius.\n• None Rachel Daly (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Jade Moore (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Jodie Taylor. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Boris Johnson visited Barry ahead of the hustings in Cardiff\n\nThere should be a \"strong Conservative influence\" over how cash replacing EU aid is spent, Boris Johnson has told a Tory leadership hustings in Cardiff.\n\nThe contest's frontrunner said he would match the cash Wales gets from EU funds - but suggested ministers in London should have a say in how it was used.\n\nEU economic aid is currently administered by the Welsh Government in Cardiff.\n\nUnder EU structural funds Wales would have received more than £5bn by 2020.\n\nMr Johnson's rival, Jeremy Hunt, told the event at the All Nations Centre he would ensure that \"Wales will not lose out\" on the replacement to the funds.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Johnson said the Welsh Government's decision to cancel the M4 Relief Road needed to be \"reversed\".\n\nThe leadership candidates took it in turns to take questions from party members at the event, held on Saturday night.\n\nThe UK government has promised a Shared Prosperity Fund as a replacement for EU structural funds, but has been criticised for delays in revealing how the scheme would work.\n\nTory AM Nick Ramsay has said the replacement of EU cash should not lead to a rowing back of devolution, echoing concerns raised by Welsh Labour ministers.\n\nJeremy Hunt said he would make sure \"Wales does not lose out\" on the replacement to EU funds\n\nMr Johnson said he would match Welsh EU cash. \"There will be the full allocation of funds for Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there may be some question about how exactly that money is dispensed, or by whom,\" he added.\n\n\"I would want to make sure that there was a strong Conservative influence on the expenditure of that £350m [per year], or whatever the sum is, to ensure that it delivered taxpayer value.\"\n\nMr Hunt, asked what he would do, said: \"Of course we're going to make sure that all parts of the United Kingdom benefit from those additional funds.\n\n\"It may be that one pot of money is less but another pot of money will be better.\n\n\"We will make sure, and I will make sure as prime minister, that Wales does not lose out.\"\n\nBoris Johnson showed us what supporters and detractors see in him.\n\nFrom the reception he got, it's obvious he connects with party members and can make Brexit supporters feel good about themselves.\n\nBut there was a slip-up where he called Chris Davies, battling to regain his seat as a Tory MP in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, Paul.\n\nThat's why Jeremy Hunt's supporters say, of the two candidates, their man is the one who sweats the details.\n\nWales will have received more than £5bn in structural funds by 2020, under EU spending plans\n\nJeremy Hunt told the hustings that he will \"completely\" trust the result of the leadership election, after it emerged some members have received more than one ballot.\n\n\"I completely trust our Conservative Party members,\" he said.\n\nIn his opening speech, Mr Johnson attacked the cancellation of the M4 Relief Road project.\n\n\"We need to reverse the chaotic decision of the Welsh Labour Government,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Welsh Government had \"squandered £114m on a study\" - referring to the amount spent on the project up to the point it was cancelled.\n\nWhen asked later what he would do about the scheme, he said he would urge Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford to \"reconsider\".\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"disappointing\" that rail electrification, which is stopping at Cardiff, was not going all the way to Swansea.\n\nHe said he was \"pro-infrastructure projects here in Wales\".\n\n\"I think that we need to be thinking, not just about the next five years, but about the next 25 years when we do these projects,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary said he was \"against constantly chopping and changing what the constitutional settlement is\" on devolution.\n\nHe said \"constitutional stability\" was needed in the UK.", "Pride always brings up mixed emotions for me. Ten years ago, as a young teen still in the closet, I remember being desperate to hide my sexuality at any cost. I got good at swerving questions about who I fancied and even told my mates how uncomfortable I was with flamboyant, celebrity gays like Graham Norton and Alan Carr, in a naïve attempt to deflect attention from myself. “I don’t have a problem with gay people but why do they have to shove it down our throats?” I'd say, my words making me flinch inwardly.\n\nSo the thought of actually attending a Pride parade, let alone being open about my sexuality and getting a boyfriend was, well, terrifying. Since then, though, I’ve come out to friends and family, I’ve been in same-sex relationships and I’ve taken part in annual Pride events. Pride has become a global movement over the last 49 years, ever since the first parade in New York City to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots. And events take place all across the UK, from London Pride - when more than one million people descended on the capital earlier this month - to Black Pride - an outing in Hackney celebrating LGBT people of African, Asian, Arab and Caribbean heritage. Over the summer, meanwhile, Pride-goers in Brighton will be able to dance to Kylie, while the Spice Girls' Mel C will take the stage in Bristol - and attendees of Belfast Pride will be bringing a particularly political message, as the only part of the United Kingdom that hasn't yet legalised same-sex marriage.\n\nBut while plenty of people head to Pride events to celebrate, recent news events - including the shocking attacks on a lesbian couple on a London bus and on two gay men in Liverpool, the protests in Birmingham against LGBT education and the reports of rising hate crime against transgender people in England and Wales – show why Pride is still so important for the community as it tries to protect itself and shift public attitudes.\n\nThis gloomy cloud - along with the creeping feeling that the “merch-ification” of Pride is getting out of hand - isn’t where we hoped we’d be in 2019. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots - the ceremonial beginning of the LGBT rights movement - and the 10-year anniversary of Grindr, one of several dating apps which, many experts say, has sparked a revolution in the way the LGBT community connects.\n\nSo have things actually changed for LGBT people over the last 10 years? Is it easier now to be out and proud - and to fall in love - or has the supposed social change just been superficial?\n\nTechnology has driven significant change in the LGBT community.\n\n“Online dating and hook-up apps have been an absolute win for the LGBT community,” relationship expert Dr Darcy Sterling tells BBC Three. “We no longer have to rely on ‘gaydar’ to identify gay people in a straight world. We can experiment sexually before we come out, which means that more people are able to explore their sexuality, whereas before our only option was to go to a gay bar.”\n\nApps like Grindr - often used for hook-ups - and relative newcomer Chappy, aimed at gay men looking for longer-term relationships - have been around since I started dating and, in many ways, it’s hard to imagine life without them.\n\nIn 2019, there is a wide range of apps for the LGBT community, while Tinder has just launched an \"orientation\" feature which allows users to select up to three sexual orientation labels they identify with. Along with Instagram - the perfect place for posting thirst traps and flirting via DM - these platforms are often the easiest way to meet potential partners.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nAlthough recent statistics on the UK LGBT dating scene are limited, research suggests that same-sex couples in the US overwhelmingly meet online, even more so than their straight peers. One recent US study suggests that nearly two-thirds of LGBT couples meet online.\n\n“I’ve found that apps are a great way to meet new and like-minded people outside my own network of friends,” says 25-year-old Oli, a sexual technology researcher. “The small dating pool in queer circles tends to mean that everyone's hooked up with everyone's ex.”\n\nBut while dating apps have made it easier to meet people, now it seems the novelty might be wearing off. “We’re absolutely starting to see dating app fatigue,” says Dr Sterling. “People will always overindulge in things that feel good - particularly when we can’t see the negative consequences.”\n\nFox, a trans activist in their 20s, has friends who’ve found love on dating apps but thinks they’re not right for everyone. “I gave Tinder a go but it didn’t work for me,” Fox says. “In the end, I got bored of swiping left - I’d rather meet my next partner in real life.”\n\nAnother important shift has been the demise of gay bars and LGBT spaces. In just over a decade, from 2006 to 2017, the number of bars, clubs and pubs for LGBT people in London dropped from 125 to 53, a net loss of 58% of venues - compared to a drop of 44% in UK nightclubs in a similar period and a 25% drop in British pubs from 2001 to 2016.\n\nSome have pointed the finger at apps, with people increasingly arranging meet-ups online, rather than looking for a partner while out and about. I’ve certainly spent plenty of late nights dancing (badly) at some of London’s gayest venues but the truth is, there are more people to connect with online than IRL.\n\nGentrification and rising rents have also been blamed for the shuttering of gay spaces, from The Black Cap in Camden - fondly remembered as the \"Palladium of Drag\" - to Soho’s lesbian Candy Bar. And now, there are concerns for the future of Birmingham’s Gay Village.\n\nThere also appears to be a growing interest in daytime, booze-free meet-ups.\n\n“LGBT people have often been through a difficult journey. Forging connections around shared interests rather than just relying on apps can help with self-acceptance,” says Matthew Todd, author of Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement. “I co-run a gay and bisexual men’s discussion group. We provide a space for people to interact away from apps and bars, sometimes for the first time.”\n\nRoughly 20 years ago, the world slowly started learning about a new trend in gay sex: chemsex. The phenomenon, which sees men who have sex with men taking drugs to enhance their sexual performance and pleasure, really took off with the advent of gay dating apps, according to drug charity Addaction.\n\nIn fact, a 2014 survey of more than 1,000 gay men in three south London boroughs, found one in five respondents had engaged in chemsex in the past five years, and one in 10 had done so in the past four weeks. And earlier this year, a Global Drug Survey report of 22,000 people worldwide, found people in the UK were more likely to combine drugs with sex than those in the US, Canada, Australia or Europe - and that gay men were 1.6 times as likely as heterosexual men to have used drugs to specifically enhance sexual pleasure in the past year.\n\nAnd while some have wondered whether there’s been an element of moral panic in reporting on chemsex, it’s hard to deny that a problem persists. Log in to Grindr and if you know what you're looking for, you'll find profiles sprinkled with this drug-based, in-app language, such as the capital letter T (meth’s street name Tina).\n\nGrindr has taken steps to address the buying, selling and promoting of drugs on its platform and encourages users to report suspicious activities. “While we are constantly improving upon this process, it is important to remember that Grindr is an open platform,” a spokesperson told NBC News last August.\n\n“Most gay and bisexual men don’t take drugs but it’s impossible to deny that there’s a serious drug problem in our community,” says Matthew.\n\nLike almost everyone who’s ever used a dating app, I’ve certainly felt pressure to lose weight, to be more muscular and to find my most flattering thirst trap angles. There’s nothing like scrolling through profile after profile of ripped, perfectly toned bodies to send you racing to the gym in a sweaty, self-conscious panic.\n\nFor LGBT people, the pressure to conform to body image standards can be particularly intense, with one survey of 5,000 readers of a gay magazine suggesting that 84% of respondents felt under intense pressure to have a good body. And we know that eating disorders disproportionately affect some segments of the community.\n\n“Hook-up apps have certainly made the problem of objectification worse,” says Matthew. “In the past, we didn’t have so many images to judge ourselves or others by. Now it can feel like there’s a never-ending search for the perfect body.”\n\nRacism within the LGBT community is another issue that is starting to be talked about more openly. Recent research by the charity Stonewall highlighted the scale of the problem, with half of the BAME LGBT people surveyed saying they’ve faced discrimination or poor treatment from the wider community. The situation is even worse for black LGBT people, with 61% saying they’d experienced discrimination from others.\n\nIn particular, some Grindr users have been accused of racist behaviour on the platform and last year the company launched a campaign, Kindr, encouraging its users to be nicer to each other.\n\nYusuf, 29, knows too well how pervasive racism can be in the LGBT dating scene.\n\n“Being South Asian, I’ve had my fair share of incidents on dating apps, mainly racist slurs from white gay men whose messages I hadn’t answered.\n\n“Other times I’d get the opposite reaction - white guys would message me solely because they had a fetish for brown guys. I met up with one guy and within the first five minutes he told me that he was a self-confessed 'curry muncher'. The date didn’t last very long after that.”\n\nSo what, if anything, can be done?\n\n“Racism in the queer community didn't come about because of apps - it's always been there,” says Yusuf. “ I think it's unfair to pass the blame on to dating apps and expect them to come up with a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, we should be asking white gay men why they think it's still ok to call a queer person of colour a racial slur? Until we know that, I don't think much is going to change.”\n\nThe situation for trans people is very different than 10 years ago, too. But despite increased visibility and media representation, prejudice and hostility are still rife.\n\nThese tensions translate to the dating sphere with trans people reportedly finding themselves either facing abuse or fetishisation. Transgender model and activist Kenny, 25, says that this forms the backdrop to his dating life. “It can be hard to find people who are genuinely interested in me, rather than just me being trans,” he says. “I’ve also had men who are struggling with their sexuality tell me they’re ‘willing to date me because I’m somewhere in the middle', because I present to the world as male. It’s so offensive.”\n\nThere are also reports of trans users suddenly finding themselves blocked on online platforms. Kenny says he knows a lot of trans people this has happened to and that they suspect that transphobic users are behind it. “When I started using apps, I put that I was trans prominently in my bio because I thought it would be easier than my account getting blocked or deactivated every other day,” he says.\n\nHannah, who works as a computer programmer, says she was permanently banned from a dating app in July 2018 “due to a violation of community guidelines” and although she isn’t completely sure it was because she is transgender, she thinks it might have played a role - especially after chatting with friends who have been through a similar experience.\n\n“I am a regular person seeking to meet other people, for regular relationships, and the fact that I am not straight or cisgender should have nothing to do with that,” Hannah wrote in her complaint to the app, seen by BBC Three.\n\nIn response to similar claims made in an article for Vice about trans people banned from Tinder, a spokesperson said: “We stand behind our pledge to make sure no one is ever removed from Tinder simply because of their gender. Tinder has made a firm commitment to inclusivity, and in November 2016, we rolled out our More Genders update in an effort to further demonstrate to our users that everyone is welcome on the app.\"\n\nLGBT Brits - apart from those in Northern Ireland - also have another path to navigate when they hit someone up for a date these days: the prospect that it could end with you both walking down the aisle. The legalisation of same-sex marriage in England, Wales and Scotland in 2014 - along with roughly 20 other countries between 2009 and 2019 - has seen tens of thousands of same-sex couples getting hitched.\n\nSo does this focus on #weddinggoals represent a break with the priorities of the past for the LGBT community and an embrace of tradition?\n\nDr Sterling, who married her wife in the US in 2009, recognises that same-sex marriage could be viewed as injecting an element of conservatism into queer culture.\n\n“I know some activists don’t love the direction that gay marriage resulted in,” she says. “They envisioned the gay movement as a sexual liberation that would change the way we define family and love. They see marriage as a social construct that’s opposed to its protest spirit.”\n\nBut for Dr Sterling the decision was simple. “I didn’t marry my wife out of a wish to adhere to heterosexual norms or make a public commitment to monogamy. I married her because I love her,” she says.\n\nFinding love isn’t easy for anyone but the pressures LGBT people face can make it even more of a minefield. Personally, I’ve been shouted at for holding hands and kissing in public - a horrible thing to go through but nothing compared to the abuse and violence others face on a regular basis. That - coupled with the years of painful repression that comes from spending your formative years hiding your true self - means it can be tough to form and navigate relationships.\n\nFrom tech to same-sex marriage, things are obviously very different compared with 10 years ago but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re always easier. LGBT relationships will, no doubt, continue to be messy and complicated but let’s hope that in another 10 years we’ll at least be able to live and love as ourselves - fully and without fear.", "The display marks events such as the large festival taking place in London\n\nLego builders say they have created the \"smallest Pride parade\" as events take place around the world.\n\nThe model in Birmingham uses more than 1.5 million Lego pieces to depict crowds in the city cheering on floats with themes including the Wizard of Oz.\n\nMichelle Thompson who made the display at the Legoland Discovery Centre said she hoped to create the real event's \"enthusiastic spirit of togetherness\".\n\nThose taking part will celebrate 50 years since the Stonewall uprising in New York, which changed the face of the gay rights movement.\n\nMs Thompson said: \"I have really enjoyed working on this model, as I think it brings to life exactly what Pride is about - people from across the world coming together to celebrate love, friendship and happiness.\"\n\nThe display, which includes 78 figures, is at Arena Birmingham.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 1.5 million people have been on the streets of London for the Pride parade, organisers said.\n\nStarting at Portland Place, the parade went across Oxford Circus and down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis year's event celebrated 50 years since the first Stonewall uprising in New York.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he hoped it would be the biggest Pride event to have been held in London.\n\nMore than 30,000 people from 600 groups, organisations and businesses were taking part in the event, which this year has a theme of Pride Jubilee.\n\nThe Red Arrows carried out a flypast at 13:25 BST.\n\nSinger Sam Smith was seen having fun at the parade\n\nOrganisers said they expected 1.5 million people to attend this year's event and although it is hard to say whether that estimate is accurate, all the streets are rammed full of partygoers.\n\nAlthough the focal point of Pride in London is the main parade that runs from Oxford Street straight down to Whitehall, the celebrations have spread out right across central London, creating a real festival vibe.\n\nOn the streets of Soho, there is standing room only as friends congregate and chat while the sound systems blare music out.\n\nJust down the road in Trafalgar Square, revellers wearing an array of colourful outfits are taking turns to parade down a mini catwalk - a pink carpet thrown down on the road.\n\nAt a nearby traffic light, a drag artist wearing an outfit fit for a Disney princess graciously posed for endless photos with tourists, while other revellers were decked out in their finest and most colourful outfits.\n\nThe parade was due to finish at 17:00, however from the look and sound of things it will be a long time before the celebration dies down.\n\nDon Pepper, who was at London's first pride event said it was very different then.\n\n\"There was no dressing up, there was no drag - it was just everyone dressed normally,\" he said, adding that there were probably about 1,000 people marching then.\n\n\"There was abuse from cars whereas now people cheer you on, but then they would tell you to disappear.\n\n\"There wasn't any entertainment afterwards, we just sat down and had a picnic and that was it.\"\n\nUpdate 2nd October 2019: This article has been amended to make clear that estimated attendance figures came from organisers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iran insists that it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal\n\nIt has taken just a little over a year since the Trump administration abandoned the international nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, for Tehran itself to challenge the agreement.\n\nIts decision to intentionally breach the 300kg ceiling for the stock of low-enriched uranium that it can hold is but the first step of several that it is threatening.\n\nHowever, Tehran insists it is not seeking to overturn the nuclear deal itself. It just wants to be treated fairly under its terms.\n\nIran's case is that it has, all along, abided by the terms of the agreement. And Iran's \"good behaviour\" has been independently verified by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nBut now Iran is saying enough is enough. It has stuck to its side of the bargain but the Americans have not only walked away from the deal, they have re-imposed sanctions and are trying to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to trade with Tehran.\n\nThis policy of \"maximum pressure\" is acknowledged by the Trump administration. Its goal, its spokesmen insist, is to force Iran to the table to negotiate what in US terms would be a \"better\" deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump's critics argue that what his administration wants is more capitulation rather than negotiation. There is a strong whiff of regime change about some of Mr Trump's key advisers.\n\nIran - if you accept that it was behind recent attacks in the Gulf as the Americans insist - has already sought to push back against US pressure. It has many ways of doing so.\n\nAnd the fear is that the potential breakdown of the nuclear deal will not only encourage Iran to resume worrying nuclear activities, but it may also risk some kind of conflict in the Gulf, intentional or otherwise.\n\nSo the stakes surrounding the nuclear deal are huge. And this is going to condition many countries' responses to what is happening. There are already differences between Washington and its key European allies - Britain, France and Germany - who remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal and want to see it continue.\n\nCertainly they worry about many of Iran's regional activities and they share the Trump administration's concerns about Iran's active missile programmes.\n\nBut they believe that the JCPOA, whatever faults it may have had, contained one essential benefit.\n\nIt took the nuclear issue out of the game at least for the immediate future. It \"kicked the can down the road\". It did not resolve the disputes over Iran's past activities or place permanent restrictions on what it could do in this field. But it averted a crisis.\n\nRemember, before the deal was agreed in 2015, there were real fears of a possible US or Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure.\n\nBritain, France and Germany remain strong supporters of the nuclear deal\n\nIran is making a point. It says that breaching the low-enriched uranium threshold is not in contravention of the JCPOA deal.\n\nIndeed its text, at Iran's insistence, does contain wording to the effect that if others breach the deal's terms then Iran will feel able to do the same. That of course may not be how the other signatories see things. They may argue you are either in the agreement or - like the United States - you choose to leave it.\n\nIran's pressure tactic is intended to push the Europeans in particular to do more to relieve the US economic pressure that is building up. The EU has developed a special payments system - dubbed in Euro-speak INSTEX - to try to help facilitate trade in humanitarian supplies, which in any case are not covered by the sanctions. Deals here have been made more difficult because of many banks' reluctance to risk US action.\n\nBut INSTEX will not help with the key sectors of Iran's economy that are suffering the greatest pain, like the oil industry. Most independent experts say that INSTEX has been slow to get going and is unlikely to make a significant difference. It is largely about the Europeans sending diplomatic signals to Tehran.\n\nBut this may no longer be enough. At the end of the day it is, after all, individual companies that must decide to trade with Iran, not governments And if they have business in the US they are going to be wary of trading with Tehran.\n\nRussia and China are also deeply uneasy about the US position and would prefer the nuclear deal to remain in place. So the US does not have many friends here beyond Saudi Arabia and Israel, which have their own issues with Tehran.\n\nPresident Hassan Rouhani stressed that Iran was not pulling out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe next high stakes moment may come in just under a week when Iran is threatening to take further actions to breach the terms of the agreement. It has suggested that one of these might be to increase the level of enrichment from the current 3.67% to around 20%.\n\nThis will be a much bigger drama. Uranium enrichment is all about stripping away atoms of one type of uranium to boost the concentration of another type, or isotope, which can power a nuclear chain reaction.\n\nIf you take this enrichment to a 20% level you are in fact about 90% of the way to having material suitable for a bomb. There are many other things Iran could do to up the stakes but taking enrichment levels to 20% would send alarm bells around the world and would make it very difficult for the Europeans to keep supporting the nuclear deal.\n\nThe JCPOA has long been described as being on life-support. So a serious shock to the system could sweep it away with uncertain consequences. That spark could come from the Iranians effectively overturning it themselves or it could come from the Middle East, where Iran or its proxy forces and the US military operate, sometimes in close proximity.\n\nThe Syrian front too is a factor. Israel is engaged there in an air campaign against the Iranian military build-up in the country.\n\nThere have been some unusually intense Israeli air attacks recently near Homs and Damascus. Anything that goes wrong, any increase in tension could feed back into the nuclear debate and vice-versa.\n\nIran clearly believes the pressure can be relieved in some way. But it may be mistaken. President Trump is doing everything he can to ensure the JCPOA's demise.\n\nThe Iran nuclear deal is facing its most fundamental challenge yet and what Iran does over the next week or so could well seal its fate.\n• None What would a US-Iran conflict look like?", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. Our website, like our TV and radio services, strives for journalism that is accurate, impartial, independent and fair.\n\nOur editorial values say: \"The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences.\n\n\"Our commitment to impartiality is at the heart of that relationship of trust. In all our output we will treat every subject with an impartiality that reflects the full range of views. 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Video, 00:00:53Liz Truss: I'm not desperate to get back into No 10", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAmerican 15-year-old Coco Gauff saved two match points in another astonishing display to extend her dream Wimbledon run into the last 16.\n\nA packed Centre Court, enchanted by the teen who knocked out five-time champion Venus Williams, saw her beat Slovenian Polona Hercog 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 7-5.\n\nAfter double-faulting to hand Hercog the first set, Gauff was staring at defeat at 5-2 in the second.\n\nBut she pulled back to force a tie-break and snatched another famous win.\n\n\"I always knew I could come back whatever the score was,\" Gauff, who will face Romanian former world number one Simona Halep next, told BBC television.\n\n\"The crowd was amazing. Even when I was down match point they were still cheering me on.\"\n• None How day five at Wimbledon unfolded\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nFrom the moment she arrived in London, Gauff has been doing things her way - and in style.\n\nFirst, she was the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon in the Open era, then she became the youngest player to reach the last 32 since 1991.\n\nAfter stunning one of her idols Williams 6-4 6-4 in the first round, and then proving it was no fluke with another straight-set win over former Wimbledon semi-finalist Magdalena Rybarikova, Gauff became the story of the championships.\n\nSuch was the interest in her that this third-round match - which on paper was a qualifier against an unseeded player - ended up on Centre Court, one of the sport's biggest stages.\n\nAnd it more than justified the decision.\n\nTrailing by a double break in the second set, Gauff was heading for the exit door. Facing two match points, she had one foot out of it.\n\nBut if there was any doubt over the mental strength of this youngster, she answered it - saving one match point with a bold, line-kissing winner, before Hercog double-faulted on the other.\n\nShe must have sensed it was going to be her day when a lucky net cord in the tie-break edged her ahead - and she held her nerve in a who-will-blink-first rally on set point, then unleashed the forehand winner that drew her level.\n\nGauff beat her chest in celebration, her mum dared to look up, and the Centre Court crowd rose to their feet with a roar.\n\nA nervy third set followed, with Gauff eventually carving out a match point after two hours 45 minutes, completing the remarkable turnaround when Hercog hit long.\n\nShe dropped her racquet and jumped up and down with her arms in the air, then put her hands behind her head in disbelief. Her mum danced with joy and the 14,000-strong crowd leapt to their feet in stunned admiration.\n\nHer exploits this week led to 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer introducing himself to her and Rafael Nadal watching her train, while her mobile phone was - in her words - \"banging\".\n\nIt will not stop now either.\n\nOnly eligible to play 10 tournaments at professional level between her 15th and 16th birthdays, Gauff seems to have chosen wisely.\n\nEven if she loses to 2018 French Open champion Halep in the next round on Monday, the teenager will take home prize money of £176,000.\n\nHer career earnings until now were £60,000.\n\n\"I can't buy a car because I can't drive,\" she said. \"Maybe I'm going to buy some hoodies.\"\n\nHer Wimbledon run so far will lift Gauff into the world's top 200, up from 313 at the start of the tournament.\n\nIf she can negotiate her way past potential opponents, such as third seed Karolina Pliskova, 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams or world number one Ashleigh Barty, she would rise even higher.\n\nAnd, whisper it quietly at this stage, no 15-year-old has ever won a Grand Slam singles title. On this showing, it is not something that would faze this one.\n\nIt was so dramatic. What an occasion.\n\nTo get to the second week in your first major is absolutely incredible. The concentration and focus from both ladies was incredible.\n\nIt was almost sweeter the way she was able to come back from two match points. To come back form such a huge deficit, to be able to change her game, and to keep her wits about her.\n\nEveryone will remember it.", "\n• Keeping the rise in global average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius will avoid the worst impacts of climate change, scientists say. That’s compared with ‘pre-industrial’ times. The world has already warmed about 1C since then.\n• The original target for limiting the rise in global average temperature. Recent research points to 1.5 degrees being a far safer limit.\n• The current likely rise in average global temperature by the year 2100 if countries keep their promises to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, which are driving climate change.\n• A prediction of the likely rise in average temperature by 2100 if no further action is taken. This would see major sea-level rise, with many coastal areas becoming uninhabitable, as well as regular severe heatwaves and massive disruption to agriculture.\n• An action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example building houses on stilts to protect from flooding, constructing barriers to hold back rising sea levels or growing crops which can survive high temperatures and drought.\n• Stands for 'Anthropogenic Global Warming', which means the rise in temperatures caused by human activity like the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. This produces carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and cause the planet to become warmer. This is in addition to changes in the climate which happen because of natural processes.\n• The Arctic Ocean freezes in winter and much of it then thaws in summer, and the area thawing has increased by 40% over the past few decades. The Arctic region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.\n• Attribution is the process by which scientists try to explain whether climate change has made a particular weather event - like a heatwave - more likely.\n• The average temperature of the world is calculated with the help of temperature readings taken from weather stations, satellites and ships and buoys at sea. Currently it stands at 14.9C.\n• Stands for 'Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage'. It's the name for a system in which crops are grown (which draws in carbon dioxide from the air) and when they are burned to make electricity, carbon emissions are captured and then stored. Scientists see this is a key way to keep the lights on while not adding to global warming, but the technology is in its infancy.\n• A fuel derived from renewable, biological sources, including crops such as maize, palm oil and sugar cane, and some forms of agricultural waste.\n• Biomass is plant or animal material used to produce energy or as raw materials for other products. The simplest example is cow dung; another is compressed wood pellets, which are now used in some power stations.\n• Carbon is a chemical element which is sometimes described as a building block for all life on Earth because it is found in most plant and animal life. It is also found in fuels like petrol, coal and natural gas, and when burned, is emitted as a gas called carbon dioxide.\n• The trapping and removal of carbon dioxide gas from the air. The gas can then be reused, or injected into deep underground reservoirs. Carbon capture is sometimes referred to as geological sequestration. The technology is currently in its infancy.\n• Carbon dioxide is a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It occurs naturally and is also a by-product of human activities such as burning fossil fuels. It is the principal greenhouse gas produced by human activity.\n• The amount of carbon emitted by an individual or organisation in a given period of time, or the amount of carbon emitted during the manufacture of a product.\n• A process where there is no net release of carbon dioxide (CO2). For example, growing biomass takes CO2 out of the atmosphere, while burning it releases the gas again. The process would be carbon neutral if the amount taken out and the amount released were identical. A company or country can also achieve carbon neutrality by means of carbon offsetting. The phrase 'net zero' has the same meaning.\n• Carbon offsetting is most commonly used in relation to air travel. It allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flight. The money is then invested in environmental projects - like planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce the carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount. Some activists have criticised carbon offsetting as an excuse to continue polluting, arguing that it does little to change behaviour.\n• Anything which absorbs more carbon dioxide than it emits. In nature, the main carbon sinks are rainforests, oceans and soil.\n• Stands for ‘Carbon Capture and Utilisation’. This consists of using technology to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into products like biofuels and plastics.\n• A pattern of change affecting global or regional climate, as measured by average temperature and rainfall, and how often extreme weather events like heatwaves or heavy rains happen. This variation may be caused by both natural processes and by humans. Global warming is an informal term used to describe climate change caused by humans.\n• Climate models are computer simulations of how the atmosphere, oceans, land, plants and ice behave under various levels of greenhouse gases. This helps scientists come up with projections for what Earth will be like as global warming continues. The models do not produce exact predictions, but instead suggest ranges of possible outcomes.\n• Climate negotiations take place every year as the United Nations brings governments together to discuss action to stop climate change. The goal is usually a collective agreement to reduce carbon emissions by certain dates. The latest of these is the Paris Agreement of 2015 which set the targets of limiting warming to 2C or 1.5C if possible. Negotiations are always difficult because many countries are heavily dependent on fossil fuels and worry about the effects of any change on their economies.\n• Means carbon dioxide, a naturally occurring gas which is also a major product of human activity such as burning fossil fuels. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more heat is retained, causing the planet to warm up.\n• Stands for 'Conference of the Parties'. It is the name for the annual UN negotiations on climate change under what is called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (see UNFCCC). The aim is to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate.\n• A UN climate summit was held in Copenhagen in 2009 which descended into acrimony and ended with countries only agreeing a non-binding accord that climate change was \"one of the greatest challenges of the present day\". The event is widely regarded as one of the least productive since climate negotiations began.\n• Coral bleaching refers the change in colour of coral reefs when the ocean temperature rises above a certain level, forcing the corals to eject the algae they normally co-exist with - this turns them white. Coral can recover if the water cools, but lasting damage can be done if it remains too hot.\n• The clearing of forests to make way for farming such as soy crops to feed livestock or palm oil for consumer products. This releases significant levels of carbon dioxide as trees are burned.\n• Climate deniers believe that climate change is only taking place because of natural processes and that human activity has no role. They dispute the work of many thousands of experts around the world, whose research has been peer-reviewed and published and is based on research stretching back more than a century.\n• Emissions are any release of gases such as carbon dioxide which cause global warming, a major cause of climate change. They can be small scale in the form of exhaust from a car or methane from a cow, or larger-scale such as those from coal-burning power stations and heavy industries.\n• Extreme weather is any type of unusual, severe or unseasonal weather. Examples could be major heat waves, with temperature records broken, extended droughts as well as cold spells and heavier than usual rainfall. Scientists predict that extreme weather will become more common as the world becomes warmer.\n• In a feedback loop, rising temperatures change the environment in ways that affect the rate of warming. Feedback loops can add to the rate of warming or reduce it. As the Arctic sea-ice melts, the surface changes from being a bright reflective white to a darker blue or green, which allows more of the Sun’s rays to be absorbed. So less ice means more warming and more melting.\n• Fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas were formed when tiny plants and animals flourished in the ancient past, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, before dying and being crushed over millions of years. When burned, they release carbon dioxide.\n• Geo-engineering is any technology which could be used to halt or even reverse climate change. Examples range from extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground, to more far-fetched ideas such as deploying vast mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays. Some scientists say geo-engineering may prove essential because not enough is being done to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Others warn that the technologies are unproven and could have unforeseen consequences.\n• Usually a reference to temperature averaged across the entire planet.\n• The steady rise in global average temperature in recent decades, which experts say is mostly caused by human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. The long-term trend continues upwards with 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 being the warmest years on record.\n• Green energy, sometimes called renewable energy, is generated from natural, replenishable sources. Examples are wind and solar power as well as biomass, made from compressed wood pellets.\n• Natural and human-produced gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the surface. The Kyoto Protocol restricts emissions of six greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, perfluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and sulphur hexafluoride.\n• The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current which originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows up the east coast of the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists believe Europe would be significantly cooler without it. There is a fear that the stream could be disrupted if rising temperatures melt more polar ice, bringing an influx of freshwater.\n• A hydrocarbon is a substance consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. The major fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - are hydrocarbons and as such, are the main source of emissions linked to climate change.\n• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific body established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization. Its role is to examine and assess the latest scientific research into climate change. Its report in 2018 warned that the rise in global temperatures should be limited to 1.5C to avoid dangerous impacts.\n• A jetstream is a narrow band of fast-flowing air at high altitude which acts as major influence on the weather. Jetstreams could be disrupted by warming in polar regions, and this may make extreme weather like Europe’s hot summer of 2018 more common.\n• A set of rules agreed at Kyoto in Japan in 1997, in which 84 developed countries agreed to reduce their combined emissions by 5.2% of their level in 1990.\n• A term used to describe people who believe that climate change is real, and being driven by human activity, but that its effects will not be as bad as predicted by scientists.\n• Methane is a gas which traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide. It is produced by human activity from agriculture – cows emit large amounts – as well as waste dumps and leaks from coal mining. Methane is also emitted naturally from wetlands, termites and wildfires. One big concern is that carbon held in frozen ground in arctic regions will be released as methane as temperatures rise and the ground thaws. This could cause extra, unpredictable global warming.\n• Action that will reduce human-driven climate change. This includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by switching to renewable power, or capturing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by planting forests.\n• A term used to describe any process where there is no net release of carbon dioxide (CO2). For example, growing biomass takes CO2 out of the atmosphere, while burning it releases the gas again. The process would be net zero if the amount taken out and the amount released were identical. A company or country can also achieve net zero by means of carbon offsetting. Net zero processes or manufactured items are sometimes also describbed as being 'carbon neutral'.\n• The ocean absorbs approximately a quarter of human produced carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, which helps to reduce the effect of climate change. However, when the CO2 dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is formed. Carbon emissions from industry in the last 200 years have already begun to alter the chemistry of the world’s oceans. If this trend continues, marine creatures will find it harder to build their shells and skeletal structures, and coral reefs will be killed off. This would have serious consequences for people who rely on them as fishing grounds.\n• The ozone layer is part of Earth's high atmosphere which contains a large concentration of gas molecules comprising three oxygen atoms called ozone. Ozone helps filter out harmful ultraviolet light from the Sun, which can increase the risk of skin cancer. In the 1980s and 1990s, industrial gases called chlorofluorocarbons (or CFCs) were banned because they damaged the ozone layer. These gases are also potent greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming.\n• An abbreviation for 'parts per million', used to describe the concentration of a gas such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested in 2007 that the world should aim to stabilise greenhouse gas levels at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent in order to avert dangerous climate change. Some scientists, and many of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, argue that the safe upper limit is 350ppm. Modern levels of CO2 broke through 400ppm (at the Mauna Loa Laboratory in Hawaii) in 2013, and continue to climb at about 2-3ppm per year.\n• Scientists use a baseline with which to compare the modern rise in temperatures on Earth. The baseline often quoted is 1850-1900, and global temperatures have risen by about 1C since then. The reality, of course, is that industry actually got going much earlier, but there is nonetheless a perceptible uptick in the levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 1850-1900 and the period is deemed therefore to be a useful marker.\n• Normally refers to energy sources such as biomass (such as wood and biogas), the flow of water, geothermal (heat from within the earth), wind, and solar.\n• Describes how the climate change may suddenly change after passing a 'tipping point', making it even harder to stop or reverse. In 2018, the IPCC said that global emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030, and to net zero by 2050 to have 50% chance of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C this century.\n• Sea-ice is found in polar regions. It grows in extent and thickness in autumn and winter, and melts in spring and summer. The amount of sea-ice in the Arctic is seen as a key indicator of climate trends because the region is warming faster than most other locations on Earth. The smallest ever extent (in the satellite era) of Arctic sea-ice was recorded in September 2012. The 3.41 million square kilometers was 44% below the 1981-2010 average.\n• Rising sea levels are predicted to be one of the most drastic impacts of climate change. In this context, there are two main causes for sea-level rise: (1) the expansion of seawater as the oceans warm; and (2) the run-off into the ocean of water from melting ice sheet and glaciers. Current sea levels are about 20cm higher on average than they were in 1900. Year on year, sea levels are presently going up by just over 3mm.\n• Sustainability means consuming the planet's resources at a rate at which they can be replenished. It's sometimes known as 'sustainable development'. Types of renewable energy such as solar or wind power are described as sustainable, while using wood from managed forests where trees are replanted according to how many are cut down is another example.\n• Describes how the climate may suddenly change after passing a ‘tipping point’, making it even harder to stop or reverse. Scientists say it is urgent that policy-makers halve global carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 or risk triggering changes that could be irreversible.\n• Stands for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is an international treaty, signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which stated that countries should work to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to avoid dangerous climate change.", "The Caernarfon Show has been taking place since the late 19th Century\n\nConcerns about equine flu has led organisers to cancel an annual agricultural show.\n\nThe Caernarfon Show was due to take place this weekend at Wern Ddu Fields, but a number of exhibitors pulled out due fears for horses' health.\n\nEarlier in the week five animals from Bwlchgwyn in Wrexham tested positive for the highly contagious disease.\n\nChairman of the show Peter Rutherford said it was \"an incredibly difficult thing to do\".\n\n\"This show's a very old show, we've been running since about 1882\".\n\nPeter Rutherford said it would have been \"irresponsible\" to go ahead with the show\n\n\"You feel that weight of responsibility, we felt it could easily spread and we have competitors coming in from other parts of the UK.\n\n\"It was not an easy decision to make given all the preparation gone on over the last year or so.\"\n\nThe event involves horse shows and displays, sheep competitions, dog displays and trade stands.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, Mr Rutherford, who has been involved with the show for 20 years, said: \"It [equine flu] can spread very quickly between animals and horses, there was the outbreak with the racehorses.\n\n\"There are various strains, you can't inoculate against them all... in very young and very old horses, it can prove fatal.\n\n\"It would have been very irresponsible for us to consider running it given the circumstances.\"\n\nHe said it was \"quite soul-destroying\", given the weather was meant to be \"perfect\".\n\nFive horses have recently tested positive for the flu\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crusaders on the verge of 'special' history", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who are the people who will choose the next prime minister?\n\nConservative Party members have begun voting for their new leader as Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt continue to make their pitches for the top job.\n\nThe party's 160,000 or so members have started receiving their ballot papers to choose the next prime minister.\n\nAt a hustings in County Durham, Mr Johnson announced that as prime minister he would launch a review into setting up free ports across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Hunt has won the backing of former prime minister Sir John Major.\n\nSir John, who opposes Brexit, said he could not vote for someone who had \"misled the country\" and the UK needed a \"serious leader for serious times\".\n\nThe winner of the contest is to be announced on 23 July and will take over from Theresa May a day later.\n\nThe two candidates have been facing questions from members in Darlington before travelling to an evening event in Perth, Scotland.\n\nAs they did so, Conservative members - including many MPs - posted messages on social media of their ballot papers.\n\nSupporters of Mr Johnson, the former Mayor of London and foreign secretary, urged people to return their papers as soon as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nadine Dorries This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by James Cleverly MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe first, and as yet, only confirmed head-to-head TV debate between the two men, will take place on Tuesday 9 July.\n\nSetting out his plans to bring more jobs and investment to the North East, Mr Johnson signalled his backing for free ports - small free-trade zones, sometimes called special economic zones, in which the normal tax and tariff rules of the country in which they are based do not apply.\n\nBoris Johnson was in Darlington for his latest hustings\n\nThe ex-foreign secretary said they would be \"an excellent way to boost businesses and trade in regions that Westminster has neglected to pay attention to for far too long\".\n\nMr Johnson dismissed claims that Downing Street sought to withhold sensitive information from him. He told activists he was \"extremely dubious about the provenance of the story\", claiming it was \"not true\".\n\nWhen asked to give a time in his political life when he had set aside self-interest for the benefit of the country, he replied it was \"obviously possible to make more money by not being a full-time politician\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain's next prime minister: what young Tories made of Hunt and Johnson\n\nHe also said becoming prime minister would mean he might be unable to complete a book he has been writing.\n\n\"I will be depriving myself of the joy of completing that work on Shakespeare as fast as I would like,\" he said.\n\nAt the same event, Mr Hunt was asked for the last time he had let someone down.\n\n\"I fear I'm letting down Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe every single day she remains in jail,\" he replied.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe British-Iranian woman was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nMr Hunt, who also promised to undertake a review of spirits duty to help the \"Scotch whisky boom\", has won the endorsement of one of the Conservatives' two living ex-prime ministers.\n\nSir John Major told the BBC's Hardtalk show \"we need a serious leader for serious times\".\n\n\"I cannot vote for someone who is part of the Brexit campaign that misled the country so I will offer my vote for Jeremy Hunt,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he trusted Mr Johnson he said, \"I don't know him very well but I do find that many of the things that have been said by Boris Johnson and by many others to be in conflict with reality as I understand it.\".", "Two men - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - are competing to take over from Theresa May as the next leader of the Conservative Party and the UK's next prime minister. They've been out and about trying to win the votes of party members who will decide on the winner. With less than three weeks to go until the result, what's been happening over the past seven days of campaigning?\n\nOver the course of a week, the candidates clocked up hundreds of miles to address party members at six hustings from Exeter to Carlisle.\n\nOn Tuesday, the would-be leaders spoke to party members in Belfast who were keen to grill them on their plans for the Irish border.\n\nThere are only about 500 members of the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland, but they have a disproportionate significance when it comes to Brexit.\n\nThat's because after Brexit, the 310-mile border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will become the only land border between the UK and the European Union.\n\nTo try to put a fiendishly complicated issue in the simplest terms possible...\n\nEU rules say there must be checks at its borders with non-EU countries.\n\nBut, with the shadow of decades of violent conflict around the Irish border at the forefront of their minds, all sides agree that no visible border can be reinstated.\n\nConservative MPs have repeatedly rejected the Irish backstop - the insurance policy which would keep the UK aligned to the EU's rules and halt the need for a border if no other solution is found.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says both candidates have been taking what could be described as a \"cross-your-fingers\" approach to this puzzle.\n\nMr Hunt told party members in Belfast the backstop would have to \"change or it has to go\", if he becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson said he would solve the border issue, \"where it belongs\", ie after the UK has left the EU when the two negotiate a future trade deal.\n\nMaking good on either of those promises will be a challenge.\n\nThe EU has said it is not willing to agree a deal without a backstop and so far, there has been no sign it will agree to a time limit - the main change hoped for by many Tory MPs.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boris Johnson moved away from Brexit to more domestic concerns.\n\nNewspaper headlines called them \"sin taxes\" and suggested Boris Johnson wanted to get rid of them. It was quickly assumed that this included taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, but in reality it seemed Mr Johnson was mostly talking about taxes on sugary food and drinks.\n\nA levy on certain sugary drinks is already in force and ministers have been working away at extending this to milkshakes.\n\nMr Johnson said he would suspend the progress of any further taxes until the evidence had been looked at again because he claims such taxes target the less well-off.\n\nBut Jeremy Hunt - who used to be health secretary - described his plans as \"confused\".\n\nThe sugar tax on certain drinks has proved successful insofar as it has driven many manufacturers to change their recipes. The government claims 45,000,000kg of sugar has been taken out.\n\nThose that haven't reduced their products' sugar content, like Coca-Cola, are paying more tax which is being funnelled into school sport and breakfast clubs.\n\nA sum of £26bn - that's the pot of money the candidates have said they'll use to fund their plans to shake up the tax system, at the cost of at least £10bn.\n\nThe government sets itself rules for how much it can borrow and it currently has £26bn of \"fiscal headroom\" before it hits that ceiling - more money to play with than originally expected.\n\nThis extra money has been set aside by the chancellor for no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nBoth candidates say they will use this money in part to fund tax cuts instead.\n\nMr Johnson said he would raise the threshold for the higher rate of income tax to £80,000 at a cost of about £10bn.\n\nThe independent think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the move would affect less than a tenth of the population, with well-off pensioners standing to benefit the most.\n\nEver keen to stress his entrepreneurial background, Mr Hunt focused his tax promises on businesses. He pledged to lower the rates companies have to pay on their profits, taking about £14bn off their bills, which would then have to be made up somewhere else.\n\nCutting corporation tax can sometimes lead to more tax take in the long run though.\n\nThe £26bn can only be spent once so it can't fund pledges to increase spending or cut taxes each year.\n\nThe pair have also made several announcements about increasing spending on public services.\n\nIn total, the IFS says Mr Hunt's tax and spending plans would cost between £37-£65bn including extra money for fishing, farming and defence.\n\nA similar calculation isn't available for Mr Johnson but he's promised to give the public sector a pay rise, hire 20,000 extra police officers and increase funding for schools.\n\nOn Monday, Chancellor Phillip Hammond warned the candidates to \"be honest\" as the policies \"greatly exceed\" the money available to them.\n\nRead more: Do Tory leadership tax plans add up?\n\nJeremy Hunt visited Chawton House, in Hampshire, which once belonged to Jane Austen's brother, to address Conservative members.\n\nLeading a country means grappling with risk and Mr Hunt showed himself willing to engage with this as he took up a slightly precarious perch on a chair to answer questions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson spent time at the Thames Valley Police training centre and tried his hand with a battering ram.\n\nCampaigns are all about photo opportunities, but Mr Hunt had earlier enjoyed an unintentional moment in the spotlight.\n\nThe helicopter to pick him up from the hustings in Carlisle interrupted Boris Johnson as he answered a question about tackling climate change.\n\nMr Johnson joked it was a \"national scandal\" that the pair hadn't shared a ride, having initially thought the chopper was his and pledging to \"plant a shrubbery\" to offset it.\n\nAnd Mr Hunt wasn't alone in finding that the cameras can pick up more than planned.\n\nOn Sunday, Sky journalist Sophy Ridge asked Mr Johnson about his socks after he appeared to wear the same pair several days in a row.\n\nThey featured an image of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal who was \"ruthless in dealing with enemies\" and described himself as \"king of the world\", according to the British Museum.\n\nHis team told newspapers that Mr Johnson owned several pairs of the socks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe singer and composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s.\n\nReports say Gilberto died at home in Rio de Janeiro after a period of illness. His son confirmed the news of his death in a Saturday Facebook post.\n\n\"His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity,\" Marcelo Gilberto said.\n\nBorn in the north-east state of Bahia in 1931, Gilberto began singing aged 18.\n\nHis release of the record Chega de Saudade in the late 1950s was considered a game-changer for Brazilian music.\n\nGilberto's style - mixing traditional and modern musical influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, music and many other artists after him.\n\nIn 1964, he famously collaborated with America saxophone player Stan Getz. Their album sold millions of copies and won international praise, including a US Grammy for Album of the year.\n\nJoão Gilberto introduced bossa nova to the world in 1958: he created a new beat, with his unique guitar style, mixing traditional samba music with modern jazz influences.\n\nHis music depicted a period of huge optimism in Brazil: an urban, industrialised country that was building a new capital and dreaming of better times.\n\nHis versions of songs like Quiet Nights and The Girl from Ipanema became standards in world music.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Piper Perabo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the past decade, João Gilberto lived alone in Rio, struggling with mental health and financial issues.\n\nBernardo Araujo, a music journalist for Brazilian newspaper Globo, told AFP news agency last year his influence was \"incalculable\".\n\n\"He was the principal voice of the best known Brazilian style in the world and a revolutionary without even really meaning to be,\" Araujo said.\n\nThe influential musician had not been seen in public for several years.\n\nThe cause of his death has not yet been officially announced.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nJohanna Konta is the only Briton left in the Wimbledon singles after staging a determined comeback against American Sloane Stephens to reach the last 16.\n\nThe 2017 semi-finalist had trailed by a set and was under pressure on her serve before regrouping to win 3-6 6-4 6-1.\n\nCompatriot Dan Evans had many chances against Portugal's Joao Sousa but lost 4-6 6-4 7-5 4-6 6-4 in an epic battle.\n\nFellow Briton Harriet Dart was earlier overwhelmed 6-1 6-1 by Australian world number one Ashleigh Barty.\n\nKonta will face Czech 2011 and 2014 champion Petra Kvitova for a place in the quarter-finals on Monday.\n\n\"I just kept plugging away more than anything,\" Konta told BBC television.\n\n\"I was fully prepared to not be coming back in that second set because she really was playing well. I was really pleased I could keep battling, I was pleased I could mix things up and I did a good job in getting her out of that zone.\"\n\nKonta had dominated Stephens in a 6-1 6-4 victory in the French Open quarter-finals last month, playing some of the best tennis of her career.\n\nBut the 28-year-old struggled to find her rhythm and became frustrated with herself at times against the 26-year-old American on Court One.\n\nAfter losing the first set when she netted a backhand, Konta found herself under increasing pressure on her serve in the second.\n\nShe showed glimpses of the mental negativity that has hampered her in the past, shooting glances at her coach Dimitri Zavialoff and berating herself for her wayward shots.\n\nBut she then translated that into fighting spirit in the fifth game of the second set when she was taken to deuce six times and saved three break points before eventually holding.\n\nThat proved to be the start of a comeback as she went on to break the American in the 10th game to take the set and force a decider.\n\nFrom then on she did not look back - the overcooked forehands found the lines and the head-shaking at changeovers became fist pumps as she won five games in a row from late in the second set to surge ahead in the third.\n\nAnd her victory was complete when Stephens hit long with just over two hours on the clock.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that I've been able to make it to the second week in two successive Grand Slams. I've never been able to do that before,\" Konta said.\n\nEvans had prepared for his third-round match by having a one-hour hitting session with 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer on Friday and he started well with a break in the opening game.\n\nHe continued to put Sousa's serve under pressure, carving out but failing to convert four other break points, and dominated to take the first set.\n\nHe went a break up early in the next two sets but both times allowed the Portuguese to get back into the sets with some excellent net play. Evans double-faulted to gift the second set to Sousa and then hit wide to hand over the third.\n\nEvans again broke early in the fourth and let the advantage slip but this time he clawed his way back from brink when Sousa was one game from victory, delivering a cross-court forehand winner that sent the Court One crowd to their feet.\n\nWith the light fading, the new roof was closed on the court for the fifth set, and Evans once again went a break up but let that slip in the next game.\n\nHe went match point down on his own service game and with the clock ticking just past four hours, he netted to send Sousa into a last-16 encounter with 18-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal.\n\n\"It is a hard one to take,\" Evans, 29, said. \"It's just disappointing to lose such a tight one.\"\n\nHe was keen to keep perspective, having enjoyed a successful grass-court season with two titles, and when asked how long it would take for him to get over the defeat he replied bluntly: \"About 45 minutes.\n\n\"It is not the end of the world. It just hurts but what can I do? Feeling sorry for myself isn't going to help.\"\n\nDart exits with her head held high after a tournament that marked her first back-to-back wins at tour level.\n\nThe world number 182 had said beforehand that the match against French Open champion Barty would provide her with a good measure of where her tennis was at.\n\nHaving lost 6-0 6-0 to Maria Sharapova in her last match against a high-profile player on a Grand Slam main show court at January's Australian Open, she can be comforted by the fact she got herself on the scoreboard in the 53-minute defeat by Barty.\n\nThe Australian - who has been beaten by only one player outside the world's top 10 this year - dropped just three points on serve in the first set, moving a double break up before the world number 182 was finally able to hold.\n\nDart went a double break down at the start of the second set before showing signs of her form of previous rounds, reaching four break points before allowing Barty to hold.\n\n\"It's a good learning curve for me,\" she said. \"She played great. She didn't let me in the match at all.\n\n\"It's a tough lesson to learn. It's been a great tournament for me. I should take a lot of positives from it.\"\n\nBarty, who is the first Australian to reach the women's singles fourth round at Wimbledon since 2010, said the young Briton had a bright future.\n\n\"Harriet is going to have a fantastic career. I know she will play out on Centre Court again soon,\" said the Australian, who will play American Alison Riske in the fourth round.", "The fire authority says the Liverpool Echo Arena fire will have an impact on the service for 'years to come'\n\nCuts to the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service have \"compromised\" the way it responds to emergencies, a new report has said.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Authority said it \"reluctantly accepted\" that, to make savings, it had to cut immediate overnight fire cover at six stations.\n\nIts Service Delivery Plan for 2018-2019 also stated the authority faces \"significant\" grant cuts up to 2019/20.\n\nThe Home Office said the authority had enough resources.\n\nThe report said stations in the Crosby and Eccleston areas will be fully staffed during a 12-hour day shift but at night crews will be at home, available to return to work within 30 minutes.\n\nIt added the response to an emergency will be provided \"within our standard of 10 minutes from stations that are fully staffed at night.\"\n\nAlso affected are St Helens, Newton-le-Willows, Wallasey and Liverpool City fire stations.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union says Merseyside Fire Service did 'not have the resources' to deal with the Liverpool Echo Arena Fire\n\nThe authority said cutting night cover was \"a better option than closing fire stations\".\n\nBut it added: \"There is no doubt that the scale of the cuts we have been required to make is now beginning to compromise the way we respond to emergency incidents.\"\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the cuts were a \"step too far\".\n\nIt said it was deeply concerned about Eccleston where only one fire appliance coves the areas of Eccleston, St Helens and Newton le Willows from 22:00 to 08:30.\n\nThe union said it did not believe the service had the resources to cope with a Grenfell-type incident adding the effects \"could be catastrophic\".\n\nThe FBU said the fire which gutted the Liverpool Echo Arena car park on New Year's Eve confirmed its concerns, adding the service did not have the necessary resources to deal with an incident which was a \"much smaller scale than Grenfell Tower.\"\n\nThe fire authority said the Grenfell disaster resulted in \"significant attention being placed on legislative fire safety\" while the outcomes of the Echo Arena fire \"will impact\" on the service in years to come.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service will receive a core spending power of £60.1 million in 2018-19 - an increase of 0.9% compared with 2017/18.\n\n\"In March 2017, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service held £31.9 million of non-ringfenced reserves, which is equivalent to 62% of their net expenditure.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir John Sawers ran the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, from 2009-2014\n\nThe UK is going through a \"political nervous breakdown\", a former intelligence chief has told the BBC.\n\nSir John Sawers said the UK could have a prime minister who does \"not have the standing that we have become used to in our top leadership\" - a criticism of the two Tory leadership contenders.\n\nThe former MI6 boss was also critical of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBoris Johnson ally Iain Duncan Smith countered Sir John's remarks, saying \"democracy may well frighten him\".\n\nSir John's intervention comes as Jeremy Hunt and Mr Johnson battle it out to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nIt also follows an article in the Times newspaper, quoting unnamed senior civil servants, which suggested Mr Corbyn was \"too frail\" to become prime minister, \"physically or mentally\".\n\nSir John said \"we will have to wait and see\" whether the next Conservative Party leader can develop the skills needed to be prime minister\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, he said: \"We are going through a political nervous breakdown here in the UK.\n\n\"We have potential prime ministers being elected by the Conservative Party now, [and] in the shape of the leader of the opposition, who do not have the standing that we have become used to in our top leadership.\n\n\"Whether people can develop that when they become prime minister, we will have to wait and see, in terms of the candidates for the Conservative leadership.\"\n\nSir John's comments come after reports Downing Street tried to withhold sensitive intelligence from Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary.\n\nIt is understood there were concerns about Mr Johnson's ability to keep information confidential.\n\nThe Tory leadership frontrunner said the reports were \"not true\".\n\nIn the surprisingly frank exchange, Sir John said there were concerns in Whitehall about the direction the country is heading.\n\n\"I think there is a lot of anxiety as we leave the European Union, we take a huge risk to our international standing, to the strength of the British economy.\"\n\nHe said former prime minister David Cameron had been \"unwise\" to call the EU referendum in 2016, adding that it had left the country \"badly divided\" and the UK's standing in the world \"severely diminished\".\n\nSir John Sawers' views on Brexit are well-known. He's warned in the past that leaving the EU would make the UK less safe.\n\nHis intervention will have little impact on the outcome of the Conservative leadership race. Most Tory members are pro-Brexit and many will likely dismiss his opinions as more 'project fear'.\n\nBoth leadership contenders say they'd be prepared to take the UK out of the EU, deal or no deal, on Halloween.\n\nHowever if the views of the former head of MI6 are reflected in the upper echelons of the current civil service, it suggests the new prime minister won't just face resistance in Parliament, but in Whitehall too.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for an inquiry into alleged comments made by senior civil servants, claiming he was \"too frail\" to become prime minister\n\nAs well as the two would-be Tory leaders, Sir John questioned whether Jeremy Corbyn is of sufficient standing to become PM.\n\nThe Labour leader's had his own recent run-in with the civil service, after officials reportedly questioned his health and fitness to lead the country.\n\nNo matter who's in power, it seems relations between politicians and civil servants are becoming increasingly strained.\n\n\"It is not surprising that the people who have devoted themselves to serving the interests of this country are concerned about the direction in which the country is going.\"\n\nBefore the 2016 referendum Sir John said leaving the EU would make the UK \"less safe\" because it would be shut out of decisions on the \"crucial\" issue of data sharing.\n\n\"Actually I think he might be going through a political nervous breakdown,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"The reality is that the expression of democracy may well frighten him slightly.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's office said it would not be commenting on Sir John's remarks.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of inventing a VIP paedophile ring has said he lied about possessing indecent images of children.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is on trial over claims he was a victim of an alleged paedophile network made up of high-profile figures from politics, the military and intelligence agencies.\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, claims the group sexually abused and murdered three boys in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech's allegations led to a £2m Scotland Yard inquiry that ended without any arrests or charges.\n\nAmong the people he accused were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath and former home secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nWhen Northumbria Police raided Mr Beech's home, they found images of serious child sexual abuse on his computers, and that he had videoed a child urinating.\n\nHe was charged with five counts of making indecent images of children and one of voyeurism, and was due to appear in court last July.\n\nDuring his trial at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday, Mr Beech was asked why he initially denied the separate charges involving child abuse images, only to admit the offences when he was about to face an earlier trial.\n\nHe replied: \"Because I was totally ashamed of what I had done. I couldn't admit it to myself. I was in denial.\"\n\nThe court heard that while he was under investigation he went to Sweden, where he used different names.\n\nHe said he wanted to \"get away from Beech, especially after the press intrusion\", and one of the names he opted for was a family name.\n\nHowever, he could not explain why he also used another name, saying, \"I don't know what possessed me\".\n\nHe described his decision not to return to the UK to face a court hearing as \"a stupid mistake.\"\n\nHe was extradited from Sweden to Britain after he was found following a search by law enforcement agencies.\n\nHe also told the court he met Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson in 2014 or 2015, after the MP asked to see him following his allegations.\n\nDuring the trial, he refused to fully identify another alleged victim - a childhood friend he called John - who he said could corroborate his claims.\n\nHe told the court he would not reveal his surname because he did not have his permission to do so.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police attempted to contact John - who Mr Beech previously gave the pseudonym Fred - with Mr Beech agreeing to act as a go-between.\n\nOne of the charges Mr Beech faces relates to setting up a fake email account to pass on false information to the police allegedly from John.\n\nMr Beech said John considered coming forward but was concerned about how it would affect him, so never spoke to detectives. He said he has had no contact with John since September 2015.\n\nThe prosecution has claimed Mr Beech - identified in earlier media reports as \"Nick\" - is a fantasist.", "Monkstown is one of the most deprived areas in County Antrim.\n\nThe number of people with a degree or higher qualification is 8.4% lower than the Northern Ireland average.\n\nBut a local boxing club is helping young people fight back against the statistics.\n\nMonkstown Boxing Club received almost £600,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund for their #INYOURCORNER project.\n\nThe five-year project is designed to improve the health, well-being and increase the employability of young people in the area.\n\nREAD MORE: Find out how to get into boxing with the BBC Get Inspired guide.", "Stevie Wonder, pictured at a show earlier this year, reassured fans he was \"all good\"\n\nStevie Wonder will have a kidney transplant later this year, he has announced.\n\nThe singer told the crowd about his medical condition as he finished his set at British Summer Time Hyde Park.\n\nHe said he had found a donor and would perform three more shows before the operation in September, saying: \"I'm all good, I'm all good.\"\n\nFans greeted the news with a loud, supportive cheer, applauding the 69-year-old singer as he left the stage.\n\nHe had just finished playing the song Superstition when he told the crowd he wanted to prevent \"rumours\" spreading about his health.\n\n\"I'm all good, I'm all good, all good, I have a donor and it's all good,\" he said.\n\n\"I want you to know, I came here to give you my love and thank you for your love. I love you and God bless you.\"\n\nThe NHS says the most common reason for needing a transplant is kidney failure or end-stage chronic kidney disease.\n\nIt is possible to donate a kidney while still alive as people only need one kidney to survive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aleem Maqbool This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWonder's support act at Saturday's gig was his friend Lionel Richie.\n\nIn 2017 Wonder paid tribute to the former Commodores front man by covering Easy at his Kennedy Centre Honours ceremony.\n\nRichie later remarked: \"I got into the business because I wanted to be like Stevie Wonder, so for all of a sudden for Stevie to be singing my song, it was surreal.\"", "Kevin Spacey faces six allegations of sexual assault in the UK\n\nActor Kevin Spacey has been questioned in the US by the Metropolitan Police over sex assault allegations in the UK, according to Variety magazine.\n\nVariety said Scotland Yard detectives travelled to the US in May to interview the Oscar-winner under caution.\n\nHe faces six allegations of sexual assault in the UK between 1996 and 2013. Police said he was voluntarily interviewed - he was not arrested.\n\nSpacey faces a number of sexual assault allegations, which he denies.\n\nWhile the Metropolitan Police did not name Spacey, a spokeswoman said: \"In May 2019, a man was voluntarily interviewed under caution in America, by officers from the Met's Complex Case Team.\n\n\"He was not arrested. Inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nSpacey, 59, was artistic director at London's The Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015.\n\nThe latest development emerged a day after a man who claimed Spacey groped him in the US in 2016 dropped his civil case.\n\nThe unnamed man had been seeking unspecified damages over Spacey's alleged \"explicit sexual behaviour\" at a Nantucket bar.\n\nSpacey still faces a criminal charge in the US and pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery in January.\n\nOverall, Spacey has faced allegations of sexual assault from more than 30 men.\n\nThe first allegation came from the actor Anthony Rapp in November 2017.\n\nMr Rapp claimed Spacey had made sexual advances to him in 1986 when he was 14 years old and Spacey was 26.\n\nMr Spacey claimed to have no memory of the events, but publicly apologised. He has since issued an \"absolute\" denial of the other allegations that later emerged.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nAndy Murray and Serena Williams began their blockbuster partnership with a confident win in the Wimbledon mixed doubles on a buzzing Centre Court.\n\nBritain's Murray and American Williams eased to a 6-4 6-1 win over unseeded Andreas Mies and Alexa Guarachi.\n\nThe high-profile pair had too much quality for their battling opponents and will meet 14th seeds Fabrice Martin and Raquel Atawo in the second round.\n\nBut several hours later, there were contrasting emotions for the Scot - the three-time Grand Slam singles champion - as he and 23-time major winner Williams breezed past their German-Chilean opponents in one hour and 16 minutes.\n\n\"After losing earlier in the men's doubles, all the energy is the focused now on the mix,\" Murray, 32, said. \"We played well, returned well and served well - it is a great start.\"\n\nWilliams, 37, added: \"I think it worked out well, We had never played together, so it is always a learning curve. We wanted to start fast and we take it very seriously.\"\n\nThe tantalising partnership between two of the sport's most recognisable stars has been one of the main talking points at Wimbledon since it was first mooted last week and then finally confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nAnticipation was bubbling around the grounds all day - particularly on Centre Court, where many ticket holders felt confident they were going to see Murray and Williams in tandem.\n\nThat was despite the match not being assigned to a court, and not to be played before 17:30 BST, as Wimbledon organisers waited until the picture became clearer on the main show courts before deciding where to put one of the most anticipated mixed doubles matches in years.\n\nQuick victories for Ashleigh Barty, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on Centre left the path clear and when their impending arrival was announced, shortly after the Swiss beat France's Lucas Pouille in straight sets, the 15,000-seater arena broke out into manic cheers.\n\nMore followed when they strode out into a court together where they have enjoyed some of the finest moments of their career and the party atmosphere continued throughout a win wrapped up in fading light about 20:30 BST.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nCan Ser-Andy go all the way?\n\nFor two-time Wimbledon singles champion Murray, the high-profile partnership represents another chance to win a title at SW19, this time less than six months after having hip surgery.\n\nAs well as being two of the leading singles players of their generation, both have rich doubles pedigree and gelled together seamlessly as they thrashed unseeded pair Mies and Guarachi.\n\nWilliams won the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1998, and has claimed six women's titles partnering older sister Venus, while Murray has also enjoyed success in the format, notably alongside his brother Jamie as they helped Britain win the 2015 Davis Cup.\n\nDespite only hitting together for the first time 24 hours earlier, the ease with which they quickly gained an understanding was an ominous sign for the rest of the field.\n\nTypically strong serving from Williams complemented Murray's returning game, while both players pounced around the net and produced some sharp volleying skills.\n\nWhile there were plenty of fun moments - notably when Williams broke into laughter as she scrambled on the floor trying to get up at the net - there was a steeliness which was to be expected by two of the game's most dogged players.\n\nA break in the opening game of the match was enough to take the first set, meaning 10 other missed chances were inconsequential, before they took four of their seven opportunities in a clinical second set.\n\n\"We're obviously here to do well, but have fun at the same time,\" Williams added.\n\nLaughing about her slip, she added: \"I was going to get back up. I saw a ball coming towards me, so I just kind of went back down. Then I couldn't get back up after that.\n\n\"So I decided to just stay down and let Andy do all the running.\"\n\nChanda Rubin, American former world number six, on BBC TV:\n\nAndy and Serena had a nice presence out there. You could see as the match went on they worked better and better together.\n\nThey started figuring each other out more, the shots each other liked to hit, complementing each other.\n\nIn the end they played some high quality tennis, served well, returns were firing and some nice moves at the net.\n\nMurray and Herbert fail to build on promising start\n\nMurray, 32, made a triumphant return when he and Herbert earned a men's doubles comeback win over Romania's Marius Copil and France's Ugo Humbert, recovering from a slow start to enthral a boisterous Court One on Thursday by winning in four sets.\n\nBut this time the mood on a packed court two, one of the smaller show courts at the All England Club, faltered as Murray and Herbert's second-round match swung in the opposite direction against Croatian sixth seeds Nikola Mektic and Franko Skugor.\n\nThe partnership failed to ignite in the same way that Murray's triumphant pairing with Spain's Feliciano Lopez did at Queen's, with an almost innate understanding between doubles specialists Mektic and Skugor proving too much as they won 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-2 6-3.\n\nInitially it looked as if it could be another positive outcome for Murray and Herbert, who edged an even first set after a crisp cross-court backhand winner from Murray swung the tie-break in their favour.\n\nBut 28-year-old Herbert, who has won all four Grand Slam doubles titles after success with his previous partner Nicolas Mahut, continued to struggle with his returning game in the second set and then crucially saw his serve taken for their opponents to level.\n\nFrom that point Mektic and Skugor took control as Murray and Herbert's service game waned, the Croatians breaking three more times in the next two sets to reach the third round.", "Gordon Brown will call on Labour to automatically expel members for anti-Semitism if evidence is \"irrefutable\".\n\nIn a speech in London, Labour's former prime minister will also call for an independent appeals process to keep it separate from \"Labour's hierarchy\".\n\nHe will suggest appointing a minister to tackle the issue.\n\nMr Brown will say: \"To fail to act against the abuses we have witnessed runs counter to the very principles of the Labour Party we joined.\"\n\nHis call comes after more accusations of anti-Semitism against senior members of Labour.\n\nPoliticsHome reported that Jules Rutherford, who is due to start as Labour's head of membership on Monday, shared a video on Twitter claiming anti-Semitism allegations within the the party were \"smears against the party leader\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nA Labour spokesperson told the news website: \"We do not comment on staffing matters.\"\n\nMr Brown will make his remarks while delivering the Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Hampstead on Sunday, calling for the changes to be made at Labour's party conference in September.\n\nHe will say the party cannot be \"less demanding and less immediate\" in its actions, especially when it already automatically expels people for other reasons - such as admitting to voting for other parties.\n\nHe is expected to say: \"To the Jewish community, we promised 'never again'. We promised that the crimes of hatred, discrimination and persecution would never recur. We promised we would offer support and protection.\n\n\"But at a time when attacks on Jewish schools have risen 100%, attacks on or near Jewish synagogues 400% and attacks are carried out on social media thousands of times over, we have not lived up to that promise.\"\n\nMr Brown said the party owed the Jewish community \"an unqualified apology\", but it would only be \"a starting point in rebuilding trust\", calling for a broad strategy, including better education in schools and stronger laws against racism in all its forms.\n\n\"We cannot go on ignoring the consequences of the upsurge in hate and hate speech, all too often in the form of sinister, anonymous and untraceable internet trolling,\" he will add.\n\n\"Opposing anti-Semitism and every manifestation of racism goes to the heart of who we are and what we stand for as Labour. It's about the moral soul of a party, whose most basic goal is a commitment to equality for all - not just for some who suffer oppression - but everyone.\"\n\nThe internal Labour row over anti-Semitism has being going on for nearly three years.\n\nHere is a guide to what has been going on.", "Not all foods are equal - some of Wales' best known food and drink are protected by the EU\n\nWelsh food producers have \"major concerns\" their brands will not be safeguarded under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSome of Wales' best known food and drinks - including Welsh lamb, laverbread and Caerphilly cheese - are protected by the EU's Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status.\n\nHowever, the UK government has warned there are no guarantees that will continue after leaving the EU.\n\nOne Welsh levy body said 20 years of work \"could be lost\" without a deal.\n\nWhen it comes to food produce, it is all about making a name and whether it's Champagne, Parma ham or Cornish pasties, those names are protected.\n\nGaining PGI status is highly sought after and can take years to attain. It took close to 11 years for the Melton Mowbray pork pie to be officially recognised.\n\nThe scheme gives legal protection against imitation, enhanced profile and the chance to get a premium price.\n\nThe PGI scheme enables farmers to gain a premium price for specialist produce\n\nIt also aims to offer consumers confidence in what they are buying.\n\nSo there is growing concern at what will happen after Brexit - particularly if there is no-deal.\n\nHalen Mon Anglesey Sea Salt said winning EU protection had been \"very influential\" in its exports.\n\n\"It's recognised as a symbol of quality in the EU, especially by our markets in Italy and Spain, but also in places like Japan and the USA,\" said co-founder Alison Lea-Wilson.\n\n\"We are concerned about what will happen after Brexit because no one seems to know what will or might happen.\n\n\"We know our brand has been imitated before and, as a small business, would find it very hard to defend an action, particularly overseas.\"\n\nA report commissioned by the Welsh Government in 2015 found that Welsh lamb exports had increased \"significantly\" after gaining PGI status.\n\nEU protected Welsh produce varies from wine and cider to meat and fruit\n\nAccording to research for the EU, those designated products were sold at a price 2.23 times higher than products without such trademarks.\n\nIt also said that the total sales of PGIs in 2010 was €54.3bn (£48.7bn).\n\n\"Having that status is central to everything we have been doing for Welsh lamb and beef for the last 20 years,\" said Owen Roberts of Hybu Cig Cymru - Meat Promotion Wales (HCC).\n\n\"It provides gravitas and means products are recognised around the world as being up there with Champagne and Parma ham.\n\n\"We've based our entire marketing strategy on having that designation, to show quality and traceability, and there's a danger of all that investment being undermined.\"\n\nPuffin Produce Ltd said gaining protected status for Pembrokeshire Earlies had provided \"significant economic and social\" benefits across the county.\n\nThe UK government said it anticipated that the EU PGI schemes would continue to protect all current UK PGIs after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nHowever, it has warned companies to prepare to re-apply in the case of a no-deal and it could also affect new products applying.\n\nThe UK government is also proposing a separate UK scheme following departure from EU that will \"broadly mirror\" the current system.\n\nThere has already been disagreement over the logo to be used, the worth of a new unrecognised scheme and the expense of potentially having to produce separate packaging for the UK and EU markets.\n\nThe Denbigh plum - Wales' only native plum fruit - was the latest Welsh product to gain protected status\n\nWelsh producers have said they do not want to be \"subsumed\" by a UK brand.\n\n\"Our research shows consumers respond far more positively to a Welsh flag than a British flag,\" said Dr Roberts.\n\n\"Having a UK logo defeats the object of recognising something distinctly Welsh, or Scottish or specific to a region in England.\"\n\nThere has also yet to be any guarantee given that current EU funding for PGI products would be replaced under a UK scheme.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with producers to move into a new scheme once the terms of Brexit hadbeen agreed.\n\nA spokesman said: \"There is already a precedent in place where countries outside of the EU can access the protected status scheme, such as Colombian coffee, which is protected in the EU market.\n\n\"If the UK left without a deal there is no reason why existing Welsh products should not retain their current GI status and any potential new products could seek protection as a third country after we leave.\"\n\nThe UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it recognised the \"crucial role that GIs play in protecting the provenance and heritage of some of our best-loved food and drink products, from Anglesey sea salt to traditional Welsh Caerphilly\".\n\n\"The UK is ready to launch its own GI schemes at the point at which EU rules cease to apply in the UK.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump claims army 'took over airports' in 1775\n\nUS President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going \"kaput\" for a glaring anachronism in his Independence Day speech.\n\nHe told crowds on 4 July the Continental Army \"took over the airports\" during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.\n\nObservers quickly pointed out there was no air travel in 18th Century America.\n\nExplaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.\n\nDuring his \"Salute to America\" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: \"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.\"\n\nCritics pointed out the rebels could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.\n\nIn the same sentence, Mr Trump also appeared to date a battle at Fort McHenry to the American Revolution, when it unfolded decades later during the War of 1812.\n\nTwitter users had some fun with the garble, using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.\n\nOutside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: \"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.\n\n\"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening.\"\n\nThe president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Salute to America event featured military flyovers and fireworks\n\nBefore winning the White House, Mr Trump used to criticise ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.\n\nThe president's Independence Day celebration saw military tanks transported into the nation's capital and a flyover by the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team.\n\nHis critics had pilloried the event as inappropriately partisan and a misuse of public funds.\n\nBut Mr Trump surprised some by steering clear of overt partisanship in his speech, instead celebrating patriotic themes and US history including civil rights.\n\nBefore a cheering crowd on the steps of the monument to Civil War era-president Abraham Lincoln, he said the story of America was \"the greatest political journey in human history\".\n\nHe was the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on the Fourth of July.\n• None Trump hails US military in 4th of July address", "Six of the men police are seeking information about\n\nPolice investigating disorder at an FA Cup match between Millwall and Everton have released images of 16 men they want to speak to.\n\nThe Met said there was \"widespread\" disorder before, during and after the fourth-round clash on 26 January, and 15 arrests had already been made.\n\nOne man suffered a \"life-changing\" injury after being slashed across the face during the violence.\n\nPolice have appealed for help to find the men, thought to be Everton fans.\n\nDet Sgt Matt Simpson labelled the disorder \"some of the worst football violence we have witnessed for a very long time\", which caused \"chaos on the streets\".\n\n\"We are now working closely with Merseyside Police to identify the individuals in these images, who we believe to be Everton fans,\" he said.\n\n\"The public have undoubtedly helped us bring many wanted offenders to justice in the past, and we hope they can continue to assist us in this investigation by identifying those pictured.\"\n\nTen people have also been interviewed under caution and all of those who were arrested have been released under investigation.\n\nThere was a strong police presence at the game, which Millwall won 3-2\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If you are an à la mode celebrity working in the creative industries it is entirely possible you will receive a tantalising note from the Manchester International Festival (MIF) asking, \"is there something unique you'd like to do that we can help make happen?\"\n\nIt is a licence-to-roam invitation that proved irresistible in previous editions to Marina Abramović (The Life and Death of Marina Abramović ), Damon Albarn (Monkey: Journey to the West), and Björk (Biophilia). Their shows were typical of the biennial festival, tending towards the experimental and experiential.\n\nBjörk performing at the Manchester International Festival in 2015\n\nThis year the actor Idris Elba took the bait.\n\nHe'd been thinking of turning his 2014 album mi Mandela into a theatrical piece; the MIF 2019 solicitation was the tipping point: a play called Tree is the outcome (acted by others, not Elba).\n\nIt tells the story of Kaelo, a mixed-raced London lad (Alfred Enoch) who goes to South Africa to scatter his mother's ashes. He stays with his tough-as-teak Afrikaner granny (Sinéad Cusack) who faces losing her farm through new land reform laws. He is clueless; she knows more than she's letting on.\n\nAnd so we have a young man seen as a black Englishman and an old white African woman at the heart of a play that engages with the complex subjects of race, belonging, family and change with conspicuous intelligence and originality.\n\nSinéad Cusack stars as wealthy and resentful South African, Elzebe, with Alfred Enoch, who plays her grandson Kaelo\n\nTree is precisely the sort of show for which MIF was created. It is a play given the freedom to be different; to challenge convention.\n\nThe informal vibe in Manchester's Upper Campfield Market Hall where it is presented before a run at the Young Vic in London at the end of the month, felt more like a gig rather than a traditional hush-hush, straight-laced, po-faced proscenium arch affair.\n\nYou are invited to dance on stage before and after the show, while during it the actors walk through the audience who are standing throughout (you can sit, but all you'll see is the back of people's legs).\n\nIdris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah say they wanted to create a piece of physical theatre that included the audience in the storytelling\n\nThere is one major problem, though.\n\nThe writing is not very good. At best it is prosaic, at worse, plain bad.\n\nThere is not a memorable phrase in the piece, the jokes are corny, and too many of the script lines leave a very able acting ensemble looking wooden and awkward.\n\nTellingly perhaps, there isn't a writer listed in the credits. Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah are named as the show's creators - a claim contested by Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley who say many of the ideas in it are theirs (ironically, disputes over ownership of property rights are a central narrative element of the play).\n\nIdris Elba says the songs in his album mi Mandela represent a personal journey inspired by his role as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom\n\nIdris Elba with director Kwame Kwei-Armah, who was inspired by mi Mandela to \"create a story about the ambition to heal\"\n\nMaybe transforming an album into a dramatic event with atmosphere and movement was the creative focus. It does that well.\n\nBut the story is told with words and they do not appear to have been given the same level of love and attention. The net effect is the intricate, nuanced plot that structures the piece is reduced to an occasionally bland 95-minute fable told by characters about whom we are not always made to care enough.\n\nA play without a playwright is like a garden without flowers: a pleasant enough escape, but bereft of beauty and character.\n\nIn most cases, that would be that.\n\nBut this is MIF, and MIF is different.\n\nIt is not a festival seeking perfection, its aim is to encourage risk-taking; to push those with whom it collaborates to go beyond their comfort zone and attempt something fresh.\n\nIt is a festival for the creatively courageous.\n\nTree is a fine example of that spirit of adventure.\n\nA tense moment between Elzebe (Sinéad Cusack) and Ofentse (Joan Iyiola), who plays Kaelo's half-sister\n\nIt is not perfect, few shows at MIF are when they premiere - most have a rawness to them.\n\nBut it is well worth seeing. Particularly if you like your theatre loud, fearless, and funky and don't mind a few rough edges.", "The victim was found with gunshot wounds in Harrow Road, Wembley\n\nA man in his 30s has been shot dead in north-west London.\n\nThe victim was found with gunshot wounds in Harrow Road, Wembley, at about 20:00 BST on Friday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nScotland Yard said the man's next of kin had been informed, and a post-mortem examination would be carried out. No-one has been arrested and a crime scene remains in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caoimhin Cassidy Crossan's body was found inside a burning car in Londonderry last month\n\nThe family of an 18-year-old whose body was found inside a burning car have said they are angry that his \"so-called friends\" have not come forward with information about his death.\n\nCaoimhin Cassidy Crossan died in Londonderry on 1 June after the vehicle crashed into a lamp post.\n\nHis great-uncle, Charles Tierney, said those who attended the funeral have not helped with the police investigation.\n\n\"They haven't come forward, they aren't friends,\" Mr Tierney said.\n\n\"If they had a conscience, they will come forward.\n\n\"We don't want young people to go to prison. We just want to know what happened.\"\n\nA post mortem examination revealed Mr Cassidy had not been seriously injured in the crash and died after the car caught fire on Fairview Road.\n\nThe police said the car, a Mazda 6, was stolen from a house in Oakfield Crescent earlier in the day.\n\nMr Tierney said people who have been posting on social media the names of people who they believe were involved are \"disrupting the investigation\".\n\n\"If people think they know who is involved, just come forward.\"\n\nThe teenager's body was found inside this car in the Galliagh area of Derry\n\nDet Insp Michael Winters said police believed Mr Cassidy was not travelling alone in the vehicle.\n\n\"We've received a report of two males running away from where the vehicle came to a final halt,\" he said.\n\n\"We've also been made aware of sightings of a male, possibly injured, walking on the Buncrana Road, past the Skeoge Link Road, towards the border a short time later.\n\n\"If you can cast your mind back and remember anything about Caoimhin's movements, or the red Mazda 6 car, please get in touch.\"", "Parm Sandhu has begun legal action against the Met\n\nOne of Britain's most senior female Asian police officers has accused the Metropolitan Police of discrimination.\n\nParm Sandhu has begun legal action claiming she was denied promotion and work opportunities on the basis of her race and gender, BBC News has learned.\n\nThe temporary chief superintendent was investigated over allegations she breached police honours rules, but was cleared of gross misconduct last month.\n\nThe Met said it was \"inappropriate\" to comment on the discrimination claim.\n\nThe first hearing in her case is due to take place at an employment tribunal next week.\n\nMs Sandhu, who is of Indian heritage, is one of a very small number of female Asian police officers at senior levels across England and Wales.\n\nLast year, there were six Asian chief superintendents and three officers at a higher rank; most of them were male.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who joined the Met in 1989, claims she would have progressed faster and further had she not been discriminated against over many years.\n\nMs Sandhu is being backed by the Metropolitan Black Police Association, which says it is concerned about the lack of senior female ethnic minority officers.\n\nMick Creedon, the former chief constable of Derbyshire Police, who acted as her mentor and submitted a statement to the misconduct inquiry, has also offered support.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed an employment tribunal case had been brought by a senior officer and involved allegations of \"racial and gender discrimination\".\n\nThe force said: \"At this early stage, we are unable to comment further around defending the claim.\"\n\nFriends of Ms Sandhu said she began the legal action \"reluctantly\" after the force started an investigation into allegations she had encouraged colleagues to support her nomination for a Queen's Police Medal (QPM).\n\nThe QPM, which was introduced in 1954, is awarded twice a year in the Queen's Birthday and New Year Lists and is given to serving police officers in the UK in recognition of distinguished service or outstanding courage in the line of duty.\n\nOfficers are not expected to nominate themselves and are not meant to contribute to or know about the process.\n\nIn June 2018, Ms Sandhu was officially informed that she was under investigation for alleged \"gross misconduct\" which, if proven, could have led to her dismissal. She was placed on restrictive duties.\n\nBut last month the inquiry concluded she had \"no case to answer\" and would face no further action.\n\nRestrictions on her duties at work have been lifted.\n\nThe Police Superintendents Association, which supported Ms Sandhu during the investigation, said it was \"deeply disappointed\" it had gone on for 12 months.\n\nTwo other officers - a detective superintendent and an inspector - who were investigated for misconduct were also cleared.\n\nScotland Yard said: \"The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) began an investigation into the conduct of three officers following an allegation they breached guidelines relating to the UK honours nomination process.\n\n\"The investigation concluded in June 2019 and found there was no case to answer for gross misconduct or misconduct in relation to any of the officers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC newsreader Kate Williams has revealed she has a rare form of cancer.\n\nWilliams, who works for BBC Radio 5 Live, said she was diagnosed with cystic peritoneal mesothelioma in 2017.\n\nFollowing surgery later that year, she said her first annual scan showed no evidence of disease, although there was a chance of reoccurrence.\n\nShe told 5 Live's You, Me and The Big C podcast she was only aware of three others in the UK who have the cancer, which affects the abdominal cavity.\n\nThe abdominal cavity is the large space in the body bound by the abdominal walls, diaphragm and pelvis.\n\nWilliams, who is married with two children, said: \"If you look at the medical literature, they often quote 153 cases in the world.\n\n\"And in the UK I know of three other people, mainly through a Facebook group that I joined.\n\n\"If you look at mesothelioma it's not a nice one to look at. It's very aggressive, malignant, quite often caused by asbestos.\"\n\nHaving a rare disease was \"really lonely\", she said.\n\n\"It's also quite traumatic because every time [I see a new doctor] I have to explain it,\" she added.\n\nDescribing her course of surgery, she said: \"It's called MOAS - mother of all surgeries.\n\n\"They took out the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, greater omentum, lesser omentum, pelvic peritoneum, another bit of my peritoneum.\"\n\nShe added: \"I keep saying I'm lucky or it wasn't too bad - my surgery was only about six hours.\n\n\"People say 'oh six hours' but some patients who have this, it's 12 to 14 hours.\"\n\nWilliams said she still had problems with her bowels and stomach as well as weak bones following the surgery and will continue to have annual scans for the foreseeable future - although her first scan in November showed no evidence of disease.\n\n\"They never say you are all clear. Because there's so few of us that have it, the stats are you can have up to 70% reoccurrence,\" she said.\n\nMany people offered their support on social media, including former 5 Live presenter Shelagh Fogarty, who tweeted Williams to say she was sending her \"tons of love\" after what she had been through.\n\nYou, Me and The Big C - a podcast about living with cancer - was originally co-hosted by BBC presenter Rachael Bland, who died last year from cancer.\n\nShe presented the podcast with Lauren Mahon and Deborah James, who have also had cancer. They vowed to continue making the podcast after her death.\n\nListen to the full interview with Kate Williams on BBC Sounds here.", "The multi-millionaire was accused of assaulting and harassing two women employees\n\nA senior British establishment figure was given anonymity after accusations of sexual harassment and assault in an employment case, it has been reported.\n\nThe Times reported that one woman said she was groped at his country house and another that she was sexually assaulted in his private office.\n\nThe women signed \"gagging orders\" in return for large payouts.\n\nIt means the man, who denies the claims, cannot be named and his identity was concealed in court papers.\n\nThe Times said it had been fighting for a year to be allowed to name the multi-millionaire businessman, who is described by the paper as having extensive connections in British politics and society.\n\nIt says it has published the story - with the businessman's name replaced by black bars in the print edition - to highlight the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to silence alleged victims of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe government has previously said it will bring in legal measures to ensure that NDAs do not prevent people from reporting crimes, harassment or discrimination.\n\nAnd MPs on the Commons' Women and Equalities Committee have called for a ban on the use of NDAs, saying they are used to \"cover up unlawful and criminal behaviour\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said while many organisations used NDAs legitimately, \"the misuse of these agreements to intimidate and silence victims\" was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the best way to tighten the laws around NDAs, ensuring workers are clear on their rights and making it clear in law that victims cannot be prevented from speaking to the police or reporting a crime regardless of any NDA,\" he said.", "Helen McCourt disappeared near her home in Billinge on 9 February 1988\n\nMPs have voted in favour of a new \"Helen's Law\" to deny killers parole if they will not reveal where victims' remains are.\n\nThey gave early support for a bill after a debate and there will be now be second reading before it is made law.\n\nIan Simms was convicted of the murder of Helen McCourt, 22, in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988, but has never said where her body is.\n\nHer mother Marie McCourt said she had lived a 30-year \"nightmare\".\n\nThe \"Helen's Law\" bill has received the backing of 340,000 people.\n\nMrs McCourt said: \"To take a life is bad enough, but to then hide the body and refuse to disclose where it can be found is an act of pure evil.\"\n\nMarie McCourt has campaigned for killers not to be released unless they reveal where bodies are hidden", "This page explains how the BBC can keep you in touch with the latest news. We offer emails and breaking news alerts via the BBC News website, the BBC News app and Twitter.\n\nSign up here to receive a range of BBC News editorial newsletters delivered straight to your inbox throughout the week. These are email updates on the latest news, insights and topics across BBC News.\n\nWhenever you come to the BBC News website on a tablet or computer, you'll get notified of the latest breaking news in the 'breaking news banner' which automatically appears at the bottom of your browser window.\n\nThe banner will disappear when you click on it, dismiss it or visit another page.\n\nPush notifications are available to users of smartphones and tablets who download the BBC News app, allowing you to receive breaking news alerts. When a push notification is received it will pop up on your screen similar to a text message, regardless of whether or not the app is open at the time. Depending on your settings the alert may also be accompanied by a sound. 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To subscribe login or register with Twitter and then follow @BBCBreaking.", "There was a high police presence at the game, which Millwall won 3-2, following the violence\n\nA man was slashed across the face during a mass brawl before Millwall and Everton's FA Cup fourth round clash.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it believed the violence involved groups of rival fans.\n\nTrouble flared at 16:42 GMT on Saturday in the Hawkstone Road area of Southwark, near Millwall's home ground, The Den.\n\nThe Met said a \"large group of males\" was fighting and a man in his 20s suffered a slash wound to the face.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man was slashed across the face and bricks were thrown\n\nHe was taken to a south London hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.\n\nVideos of the brawl have been watched more than a million times online.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDet Insp Darren Young, of the South Central Command Unit, said: \"The behaviour of those involved in this incident is nothing short of disgraceful and those involved can be certain we will be working to identify them.\n\n\"We are aware of the video circulating online, which has quite rightly elicited shock and disgust.\"\n\nThe FA said it was not investigating the violence because it happened outside the football ground.\n\nHowever, it said it was investigating reports of \"a discriminatory song\" being sung by Millwall fans at the match.\n\nMillwall FC said they were \"extremely disappointed\" by a video which allegedly showed some fans singing racist chants.\n\nThe club said they would \"work with all relevant authorities during investigations into the matter and look to identify individuals involved\".\n\n\"Anyone identified and guilty of such abuse will be banned from The Den for life,\" the club said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Noel Conway was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014\n\nA terminally ill man has lost a legal battle at the UK's highest court over his right to die.\n\nNoel Conway, 68, suffers from motor neurone disease and only has movement in his right hand, head and neck.\n\nThe former lecturer from Shrewsbury lost a challenge at the Court of Appeal in June after his case was rejected by the High Court.\n\nSupreme Court judges rejected his bid to appeal against the ruling, as his chance of success was \"not sufficient\".\n\nIt means Mr Conway's case cannot proceed any further.\n\nIn a joint statement the judges, Lady Hale, Lord Reed and Lord Kerr, said they had reached their decision \"not without some reluctance\".\n\nMr Conway, who was too ill to attend the hearing in London, said it is \"barbaric\" that he must choose between \"unacceptable options\" to end his life.\n\nMr Conway said his only option is to remove his ventilator, which he relies on 23-hours a day\n\nHe said the ruling was \"extremely disappointing\", adding it is \"downright cruel\" to be refused a right to die.\n\n\"The only option I currently have is to remove my ventilator and effectively suffocate to death under sedation,\" he said. \"To me this is not acceptable.\"\n\nInstead, he wants medical assistance to die when he has less than six months to live, while he still has the mental capacity to make a \"voluntary, clear, settled and informed\" choice.\n\nNoel Conway wants control of his death, and for a doctor to prescribe him a lethal dose of drugs to take once he is deemed to have less than six months to live.\n\nBut section 2 of the 1961 Suicide Act makes this illegal and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.\n\nMr Conway argued the current law is an unjustifiable interference with the right to respect for private life under the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThe three Supreme Court judges said it was open to them to declare the current law was incompatible with the convention, and leave it to Parliament to decide what to do about it.\n\nBut the judges will have taken into consideration the overwhelming vote by MPs three years ago, to reject proposals to allow assisted dying.\n\nUltimately, while judges are there to interpret the law, it is only Parliament which can make them.\n\n\"No-one doubts that the issue is of transcendent public importance,\" the judges said.\n\n\"It touches us all... we all have to contemplate our own death.\"\n\nHowever, the court ruled Mr Conway's chances of a successful appeal were not sufficient \"to justify our giving him permission to pursue it, with all that that would entail for him, for his family, for those on all sides of this multi-faceted debate, for the general public and for this court\".\n\nDignity in Dying, which supports Mr Conway, said it will now \"turn our attention back to parliament\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At 19:57 on , SFRS Fire Control received a call reporting a fire classified as Persons Reported Fire in Myddle, Shrewsbury.\n\n4 fire appliances were mobilised from Baschurch, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Wem. Operations and Fire Investigation officers were in attendance.\n\nCrews used the following equipment to tackle the fire:\n\nAlso at the scene of the incident were: the Land Ambulance Service and the Police.\n\nFire in kitchen of domestic property. One female casualty rescued by fire service from first floor bedroom using a 9metre ladder.\n\nThe stop message was received at\n\nIssued by Fire Control at Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Telephone 01743 260290. Please check out our Twitter and Facebook accounts for other announcements.", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Two photographs from the day, taken by fashion photographer Chris Allerton, were released on Saturday\n\nThe son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has been christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a private ceremony.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was baptised in front of close family and friends in the private chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended but were not thought to have their children with them.\n\nThe Queen did not attend due to a prior engagement.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were reported to have arrived at the ceremony by helicopter and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, also attended.\n\nA full list of the 25 guests has not been made public, but Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale - the sisters of Prince Harry's mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales - were pictured in an official photograph taken at the christening.\n\nA Royal Communications spokesperson said: \"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to share the happiness of this day, and would like to thank everyone around the world for their ongoing support.\n\n\"They feel so fortunate to have enjoyed this special moment with family and Archie's godparents.\"\n\nThe royal couple opted to exclude the press and the public from the day and chose not to reveal the names of Archie's godparents.\n\nInstead of having press photographers, fashion photographer Chris Allerton - who took their wedding photos - captured the special moment, with two pictures released to the public and posted on the couple's Instagram account.\n\nMr Allerton said he was \"honoured\" to take the official photographs and \"be part of such a joyous occasion\".\n\nMeghan's mother, Doria Ragland, and Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, the sisters of Diana, Princess of Wales, were among the guests (back row, left to right)\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan did follow some royal traditions, however.\n\nArchie wore a handmade replica of the royal christening robe which was made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.\n\nDevoted royal fans gathered outside Windsor Castle despite the christening being a private service\n\nOne royal superfan dressed their dog in a christening gown to celebrate the occasion\n\nThe robe, which has been worn by royal infants on the occasion of their christening for the last 11 years, was made by Angela Kelly, dressmaker to the Queen.\n\nThe ornate Lily Font, commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the baptism of their first child Victoria, Princess Royal, in 1841, was also used - as was water from the River Jordan.\n\nMembers of the St George's Chapel Choir performed at the ceremony.\n\nThose hoping for more than a glimpse of the royal christening today will have been disappointed.\n\nThere was no television coverage, nor have press photographers been invited.\n\nNormally a list of godparents would be released, but this time, says the palace, in keeping with the wishes of those chosen by Harry and Meghan, their names will be kept private.\n\nIt all points to a very different royal event, part of the continuing desire by the Duke and Duchess to raise their son Archie out of the spotlight.\n\nComing so swiftly after the revelation that almost £2.5m of taxpayers' money was spent renovating a property for Harry and Meghan - it has led to questions about visibility.\n\nThe previous understandings about public access to royal events appear to have been abandoned by a couple determined to do things their own way.", "The university wants to transform its main campus on Mold Road\n\nA university has urged Wrexham council to support a £60m college revamp after key parts of the plan were rejected.\n\nGlyndwr University won backing for seven out of nine planning applications related to its Campus 2025 project but lost bids for housing on surplus land.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Maria Hinfelaar said it was \"incredibly disappointing\", claiming the sale of land for housing was needed to help fund the project.\n\nCouncil chief Ian Bancroft said each proposal was assessed on its merits.\n\nThe university wanted to sell grazing land in New Broughton and Rhosnesni, complete with planning approval for 200 homes.\n\nBut Wrexham's planning committee rejected the housing proposals on Monday after highways officers warned of a \"significant\" increase in traffic and residents objected to the loss of open space.\n\nHighways officers said building houses on surplus land would add to traffic queues\n\nThe seven projects that were given the go-ahead would enable the university to demolish and revamp learning facilities at the Plas Coch campus on Mold Road, as well an arts college on Regent Street.\n\nMore than 700 rooms for students and key workers would also be created, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nHowever, Prof Hinfelaar warned if the plans could not be funded, talented young people would be lost to north Wales.\n\n\"If our facilities are not good enough, then these students have plenty of alternative choices at universities the length and breadth of the UK,\" she said.\n\nThe vice-chancellor added that the university was \"well placed\" to lodge an appeal against the refusal of the housing plans, and urged the council to think again.\n\n\"Put simply, it is unsatisfactory to grant approval of proposals that cost significant money and then turn down proposals which help to fund them - especially if these fit in well with wider plans for the area,\" she wrote.\n\n\"This should have been a win-win, but that opportunity has been wasted - for now.\"\n\nMr Bancroft said: \"Whilst we fully appreciate the disappointment that Glyndwr University must be feeling over the refusal of their planning applications we have to be clear that each application was considered separately and determined on its own planning merits.\n\n\"We are very supportive of the Campus 2025 ambitions of Glyndwr University but we cannot let that support affect or influence the independent planning process that applicants have to go through.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Conservative members have been issued with more than one ballot paper to vote for the next party leader and prime minister, the BBC has learned.\n\nOne party insider estimated that more than a thousand voters could be affected.\n\nMembers are warned that voting twice will mean they are expelled, the Conservatives said.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has unveiled his crime policy, while Jeremy Hunt said cuts on policing had gone too far.\n\nBallot papers have been dispatched to around 160,000 Conservative Party members around the country to choose between Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt as the next leader - and the next prime minister.\n\nThe vote closes on 22 July, with the result announced the following day.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Today Programme has learned that some members have received two ballot papers, in some cases because members live and work in different constituencies and may have joined local Conservative Associations in both areas.\n\nPeople who have changed their name, after marriage for example, may also have been affected.\n\nThe BBC has seen duplicate ballot papers which have been issued to the same person at the same address.\n\nThe Conservative Party and the independent body hired to scrutinise the running of the leadership election were both unable to say how many ballot papers had been sent in error.\n\n\"The ballot holds clear instructions that members voting more than once will be expelled,\" the party said.\n\nSir Patrick McLoughlin, who is chairing Mr Hunt's leadership campaign, admitted that he receives two ballot papers as he is on two separate registers.\n\n\"It doesn't mean I vote twice, I don't,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nAsked whether the duplicate ballots need to be more heavily policed, he said: \"It's right there on the ballot paper saying you must only vote on one occasion and I expect people to do that.\"\n\nMr Johnson's campaign chairman Iain Duncan Smith said he believed the Conservative Party chairman had \"already been asked to look carefully at how they sift\" ballots.\n\nSpeaking at a hustings in Cardiff on Saturday evening, Mr Hunt urged party members who have received more than one ballot paper to only vote once.\n\n\"I know that they won't vote twice, however tempting it might be to back Hunt twice, I'm asking them not to because we want this to be an absolutely fair election.\n\n\"Of course I'm going to trust the result,\" he added.\n\nIn most elections, voting more than once would be illegal, but the leadership contest is only governed by the Conservative Party's internal rules. The Electoral Commission, the independent body which oversees UK elections to ensure their integrity, has no role in the leadership contest.\n\nAs they seek to win support from the party's members nationwide, both candidates addressed the Young Conservatives Conference in Nottingham earlier on Saturday.\n\nIt came after Mr Johnson set out his plan to reduce crime in the Daily Mail, saying he would permanently restore stop and search powers nationwide.\n\nStop and search powers were restricted by Theresa May when she was home secretary in 2014. The powers have already been restored in seven areas with high knife crime on a trial basis.\n\nMr Johnson promised a \"relentless focus\" on knife crime and criticised the 2014 measures brought in by Mrs May.\n\nBoris Johnson tells the conference in Nottingham he wants to champion the environment\n\nMr Johnson also plans to end the early release of violent offenders and address the causes of crime with a review of youth centre provision.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, Mr Duncan Smith - an ally of Mr Johnson - said police needed to be given \"the capabilities to do their job\", as well as there being an increase in police numbers.\n\nWhen asked how Mr Johnson intended on funding 20,000 extra police officers, he said: \"We've had to put the economy right from the terrible Labour crash that took place in 2007, but we are very much now back on track.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow policing minister Louise Haigh dismissed Mr Johnson's policies as \"meaningless\" branding them \"cheap headline-grabbing measures\".\n\nAt the Nottingham hustings, Mr Johnson said the Tories should be presenting itself as a party that is \"committed to social justice\".\n\nHe said that would also mean \"championing the environment\", with measures to promote cleaner air, protect wildlife and reduce the amount of plastic being used.\n\n\"Our modern Conservative agenda is not only right for the economy, it's deeply progressive,\" he said.\n\nJeremy Hunt says he thinks he can match Mr Johnson's pledge on police recruitment\n\nMr Hunt told the conference that government cuts had gone too far on social care and policing.\n\n\"I have been clear that we do have some headroom in our national finances that would allow us to find extra funding for those public services,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he \"thought he could\" match Mr Johnson's plan to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers.\n\nMr Johnson remains the frontrunner in the contest, with a recent YouGov poll of Tory members suggesting almost three-quarters of Conservatives back him.\n\nBut Sir Patrick said a \"broad brush of people right across the whole party\" have come out to support Mr Hunt.\n\nHe added that the foreign secretary was not wedded to leaving the EU by the \"magical deadline\" of 31 October, which he says is a \"do or die\" issue for frontrunner Mr Johnson.\n\nHe said Mr Hunt's \"10 point plan very clearly\" set out his plan for leaving the EU.\n\nSir Patrick said: \"By the end of September he would decide, along with the Cabinet... whether we move forward with no deal or whether there was a chance of getting a deal\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nCoco Gauff is hopeful she might get an invitation to a Beyonce concert as the 15-year-old's remarkable story at Wimbledon continued with a third-round victory over Polona Hercog.\n\nThe American, who received a wildcard for qualifying, has become the star attraction of these championships following her stunning opening round win over five-time champion Venus Williams, then a second-round win over Magdalena Rybarikova.\n\nSlovenian world number 60 Hercog gave the teenager her stiffest test, as Gauff lost her first set and faced two match points.\n• None How day five at Wimbledon unfolded\n\nHowever, she survived and eventually secured a 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 7-5, a minimum pay day of £176,000 and a fourth-round match against former number one Simona Halep.\n\nIn the post-match news conference, Gauff was as excited about meeting one of her music idols as the progress she had made.\n\nShe said: \"Ms Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mum, posted me on Instagram and I was screaming! I hope Beyonce saw that, I hope she told Beyonce about me because I would love to go to her concert.\"\n\nAnd regarding the prize money, she added: \"I can't buy a car because I can't drive. I hate spending money.\n\nI didn't tell Mum, but she's going to go viral. She's going to be a meme and I'm going to retweet it\n\n\"I love wearing hoodies, my mum actually banned me from buying them for two months as I kept getting them delivered to the house.\"\n\nHer parents, father Corey and mother Candi, were present to watch their daughter wow the Wimbledon crowd once again .\n\nGauff explained the influence both have had on her career.\n\n\"My mum changed my mindset on how I look at things and my dad is the reason I dream so big,\" she continued. \"It's a good mix. They definitely work together well to tell me the right things.\n\n\"My mum doesn't like to play the coach role as my dad is my coach, so she plays the mother role.\"\n\n\"I look at my dad mostly. I didn't tell mum, but she's going to go viral. She's going to be a meme and I'm going to retweet it.\"\n\nGauff's epic contest forced the postponement of the mixed doubles match involving Andy Murray and Serena Williams.\n\n\"I don't think I've seen anyone arrive in a greater flash at their first major,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have a feeling Coco Gauff will transcend the game. She wants it, she lives it already. She was born to do this.\"\n\nMartina Hingis was 16 when she won the 1997 Wimbledon singles title after winning the Australian Open earlier that year. She won the mixed doubles (which Gauff has entered with Britain's Jay Clarke) aged 15. Boris Becker won Wimbledon at the age of 17 in 1985, beating Kevin Curran to become the youngest ever Grand Slam champion at the time. Maria Sharapova won the 2004 edition of Wimbledon aged 17, beating the legend that is Serena Williams. Nick Kyrgios became the first Wimbledon debutant to reach the quarter-finals in 10 years when he upset Rafael Nadal in the fourth round in 2014.\n\nNavratilova, who won her first Wimbledon title aged 21, does think Gauff's next match against former world number one Halep will be a \"a mountain too tall to climb\".\n\n\"Against Halep it will be tricky - the pressure is all on her as a big favourite, but the crowd will be going nuts for Gauff which will be hard for the Romanian to handle.\"\n\nJohn McEnroe, the three-time men's singles winner, also believes Halep will edge it but added that the world number seven's game might suit her compatriot.\n\n\"Halep has not had a great year and looks tight on this surface,\" he told BBC's Today at Wimbledon. \"I would obviously pick the Romanian to win but I'm not going to bet a whole lot on that one.\n\n\"I think Halep will be easier because she hits a solid ball. This was an awkward opponent today.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's better that Coco Gauff doesn't win it this year, for her sake, long-term. We want her to be out there for 15-20 years.\"\n\nAs for Gauff, she said she was taking it \"one tournament at a time\".\n\n\"I watch Halep a lot - I've never hit with her so I don't know how the ball will feel when I play but I'm familiar with how she plays from watching her,\" said the student, who is being nurtured by Serena Williams' coach Patrick Mouratoglou.\n\n\"I don't believe in fate or destiny because I think you can change your own world. Fate can't always be a good thing, so I try not to think of it being my destiny. If I do, my head is going to get big. I just take it one tournament at a time.\"\n\nGauff at 15 years and 122 days became the youngest player to qualify for the main Wimbledon draw since the Open era began in 1968.\n\nShe started playing tennis at the age of seven and comes from a sporting family having initially been coached by her father Corey, who played basketball at Georgia State University. Her mother Candi was a gymnast before moving into track and field.\n\nTheir daughter began to deliver in major arenas two years ago when she became the youngest US Open girls singles finalist, aged just 13. And last year she won the French Open equivalent only two months after her 14th birthday.\n\nWimbledon qualifying was a target for Gauff this year, but her ranking of 301 was not high enough to earn a shot. However, while she was shopping online, she found out she had received a wildcard.\n\nDavid Symonds: Never have I been so excited to see an American win something!\n\nDi Johnson: What a match, Coco definitely a name to watch.\n\nChe Seabourne: Well this is turning into quite the story for Coco Gauff! A word too for Polona Hercog - who conducted herself with a lot of composure in the face of a partisan crowd. Hugely entertaining match!\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Helen McCourt disappeared near her home in Billinge on 9 February 1988\n\nThe law should be changed so convicted killers who do not reveal where their victims' bodies are cannot be set free, the mother of a murdered woman says.\n\nMarie McCourt's daughter Helen, 22, vanished near her home in Billinge, near St Helens, in 1988.\n\nIan Simms was convicted of her murder, but has never said where her body is.\n\nMrs McCourt has launched a petition to bring in a law in her daughter's name to ensure killers are not released without disclosing the information.\n\nShe said being denied a funeral for her daughter had caused \"unimaginable suffering\".\n\nShe added: \"For almost three decades Simms has refused to reveal the whereabouts of Helen's body - denying us the chance to grant her the dignity of a funeral and resting place.\"\n\nMarie McCourt said being denied a funeral for her daughter had caused \"unimaginable suffering\"\n\nMrs McCourt is asking Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May directly to \"acknowledge the pain and distress caused to the families of missing murder victims\", by ensuring killers who withhold information about the whereabouts of their victims are never set free.\n\nTwo other mothers whose children were killed and whose bodies have not been found are also supporting Mrs McCourt's campaign.\n\nJean Taylor's daughter daughter Chantel was killed in 2004 in Birkenhead, Merseyside; while Joan Morson's son Paul, from St Helens, Merseyside, was killed in 2011.\n\nPub landlord Simms was convicted of murder after blood and an earring identical to one Helen had were found in the boot of his car.\n\nThe jury agreed she had been attacked at his pub, The George and Dragon, in Billinge.\n\nHe is serving a life sentence and has a parole hearing in January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian Paisley failed to declare two luxury holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government\n\nMPs have voted to suspend DUP MP Ian Paisley for 30 sitting days.\n\nIt follows his failure to declare two family holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government. He will be absent from Parliament for some key Brexit votes.\n\nHe has also been suspended by the DUP \"pending further investigation into his conduct\".\n\nSpeaker of the House John Bercow called it \"a regrettable state of affairs\".\n\nMr Bercow will now formally inform the chief electoral officer of the decision and she has ten working days to set up a petition which, if signed by 10% of North Antrim constituents, will lead to a by-election and Mr Paisley having to stand down.\n\nSir Kevin Barron, chair of the Standards Committee, said they had concluded Mr Paisley was guilty of \"serious misconduct and his actions were of a nature to bring the House of Commons into disrepute\".\n\nHe also said the inquiry into Mr Paisley could have been concluded earlier: \"The process could have been considerably shorter if Mr Paisley had been more cooperative initially.\"\n\nSir Kevin said Mr Paisley did show a \"greater sense of urgency\" in the later stages of the investigation.\n\nThis is one of the longest bans ever to be handed down at Westminster.\n\nSuspended by fellow MPs, and now the party his late father once ruled without dissent, these are difficult days for Ian Paisley Jnr.\n\nIt's not the first time he's fallen foul of the DUP leadership but this is by far the most serious.\n\nHe's made it clear he intends to fight any subsequent by-election. But what will the DUP leadership do?\n\nSome would undoubtedly like to say farewell to him for good.\n\nBut... first of all he's a Paisley.\n\nSecondly, he's popular with the unionists of North Antrim who may not forgive the party if it cast him permanently aside.\n\nThe DUP had to do something and they've done it.\n\nBut the smart money says that after a period of suspension, Ian Paisley will still be the DUP candidate should North Antrim go to the polls before the end of the year.\n\nMr Paisley has insisted he will fight any by-election to save his Westminster seat if he is forced to stand down.\n\nIn June 2017, an agreement was reached that the 10 DUP MPs would back the Tories in key Commons votes.\n\nWriting in the Ballymena Guardian on Tuesday, the North Antrim MP said he was prepared for whatever punishment came his way.\n\nHe called those pushing for such an election \"opportunists\", but made it clear that he would not run away from any challenge.\n\nThe Officers of the Democratic Unionist Party have considered the report of the House of Commons Committee on Standards on Ian Paisley MP.\n\nThe Party takes this report and the matters contained within it very seriously.\n\nThe Party Officers have decided to suspend Mr Ian Paisley MP from membership of the Party pending further investigation into his conduct.\n\nThe Party does not intend to make any further comment on these matters during the course of the above outlined process.\n\nMr Paisley failed to declare two luxury family holidays in 2013 paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nHe later lobbied the then prime minister on the country's behalf.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan Show on Wednesday, the political editor of the News Letter, Sam McBride, described the scale of the punishment as \"new territory\" for the House of Commons.\n\n\"This is not some minor breach of parliamentary protocol - this is something that parliament frowns upon in such a way that under this new law, they now give voters in his constituency the chance to remove him from his seat so it's very different to what has gone before.\"\n\nAlthough the DUP said party officers took the decision to suspend Mr Paisley, Mr McBride said he believed the leader of the party, Arlene Foster, would have approved it.\n\n\"The leader is ultimately the person who carries the can for this,\" he said.\n\n\"If you're the leader of a party, you call the shots. It's pretty difficult to believe Arlene Foster was not in support of this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForest fires raging across Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle have prompted authorities to ask for international assistance.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, 44 fires were burning from Lapland in the far north to the southern island of Gotland.\n\nHot weather and persistent drought are the main causes, and the national weather service has issued fire warnings for almost the entire country.\n\nItaly and Norway have both dispatched firefighting aircraft to help.\n\nSweden said Italy had sent 13 people in two Canadair CL-415 \"waterbombers\", each of which can carry 6,000 litres of water at a time.\n\nNorway's national broadcaster NRK, meanwhile, reported that 10 helicopters had been despatched to aid its neighbour - six on Tuesday and another four on Wednesday - despite the risk of similar fire outbreaks in Norway itself.\n\nThe wildfires have raged in parts for days and without a break in the hot dry weather they have shown little sign of stopping.\n\nMany people have been evacuated from their homes in Sweden, while others have been told to shut off all ventilation to keep smoke outside.\n\nFire chief Britta Ramberg told Swedish media the fire in Jämtland was \"the largest and spreading the fastest\". Official advisories said that this blaze grew from 1,600 hectares to 3,000 on Tuesday alone, and that firefighters had been unable to contain it.\n\nMany firefighters were being recalled from holiday to join the operation.\n\nAbove Karbole, where fires have burned since the weekend, smoke blotted out the sun\n\nNine important public warnings have also been issued - a record number - as temperatures have hovered near or exceeded 30C for an extended period.\n\n\"The last time we saw wildfires of this calibre was 12 years ago,\" a rescue officer in the popular winter tourist town of Jokkmokk told AFP.\n\nSos Alarm, the emergency number operator in Sweden, said its services were stretched because of the fires.\n\nIt said it was also getting higher numbers of calls from people enjoying the long sunny spell who had run into trouble while swimming, boating or biking.\n\nStockholm Fire Department shared this picture, showing the location of each of the fires across the country as of 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Wednesday:\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.", "Israel says it fired Patriot missiles at the plane\n\nIsrael says it has shot down a Syrian warplane which entered its airspace - a rare incident between the two foes.\n\nTwo surface-to-air missiles were fired at the Sukhoi fighter jet, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted.\n\nAccording to Israeli reports, it happened over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The pilot's fate is not clear.\n\nSyrian news agency Sana said Israel had targeted the jet over Syrian airspace, but did not say whether it was hit.\n\nSana quoted an unnamed military source as saying the plane was conducting raids against \"armed terrorist groups\" near the southern Yarmouk Valley.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said that Syria had committed a \"blatant violation\" of a 1974 ceasefire agreement, which defines the lines of separation between the two sides' forces on the Golan Heights.\n\n\"We will not accept any intrusion... into our territory, either from the ground or from the air,\" Mr Netanyahu said, adding: \"Our forces acted appropriately.\"\n\nIsrael said the jet was a Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet - a version of which is pictured here\n\nIsrael's Haaretz news website said residents in northern Israel saw interceptor missiles fired and heard explosions.\n\nFlames and smoke were also later seen rising from the area of the fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, AFP news agency reports.\n\nToday's trails of smoke above the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are another sign of how Syria's war has agitated the dynamics between old foes in the region.\n\nIsrael and Syria fought their last war 45 years ago and later agreed to separate their forces either side of a 50-mile-long buffer zone - a boundary that had remained Israel's quietest since.\n\nBut with President Assad's men closing in on jihadist groups on the Syrian side of the zone - and pictured reportedly hundreds of metres from an Israeli observation post - Israel has been ratcheting up its rhetoric.\n\nIt is concerned most about the threat it sees from Syria's allies Iran and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, saying it will not tolerate any breach of the buffer zone deal.\n\nBut Syria will see the Sukhoi's downing as proof of its belief that Israel has been prepared to help rebel groups to stop the government's advances.\n\nIn a statement after the incident, the IDF said it was on \"high alert\" following \"an increase in the internal fighting in Syria\" and greater activity by Syria's air force in the region.\n\nIt said the fighter jet had infiltrated about 2km (1.25 miles) into Israeli airspace before it was intercepted by Patriot missiles.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman said the plane had crashed \"most likely in the southern part of the Syrian Golan Heights\". About a third of the Golan Heights is still nominally controlled by Syria.\n\nIsrael considers the occupied Golan Heights, and the airspace above it, as Israeli sovereign territory, though this is not recognised internationally. It has occupied the area since the 1967 Middle East war.\n\nIt is reportedly the first time Israel has shot down a manned Syrian aircraft since 2014. Israel is not directly involved in the Syrian war but has attacked drones which have entered its airspace, and carried out dozens of air strikes on Syrian and Iranian military assets in Syria in recent years.\n\nTuesday's incident comes just a day after Israel deployed its David's Sling missile defence system - designed for use against medium-range missiles - for the first time.\n\nThe system was activated \"in response to the threat\" from two Syrian surface-to-surface missiles approaching Israeli territory, an army statement said.\n\nCorrection 26 July 2018: The headline of this article has been amended to more clearly reflect the IDF's statement regarding the incident.", "Do you think of motorway service stations as refreshing pit-stops? Or just, well, the pits?\n\nWhatever you think, a new survey of England's best and worst service stations will fuel your opinions.\n\nFor the second year running, travel watchdog Transport Focus has asked customers for their views.\n\nTop of the list is Norton Canes on the M6 toll road, with a 100% satisfaction rating. Bottom is Thurrock on the M25, with just 68% satisfied.\n\nIn compiling the list, Transport Focus questioned 9,600 customers on key factors including staffing, food and toilet facilities.\n\nOverall, 92% of motorway service station customers polled were happy with their visit, although only 66% thought that the food and drink available was good value.\n\nTransport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said: \"As the summer holiday getaway gets into full swing it's good to see motorway services customers feel they get a good experience.\n\n\"Motorway services play an important role in providing the break motorists need. Drivers tell us they feel less stressed and more awake.\n\n\"Motorway service operators need to focus on ensuring customers see their experience as value for the money they've paid - that there is a good range of food on offer and that buildings are maintained to a high standard.\"\n\nAnd relax... a traveller stopping at top-rated service station Norton Canes relaxes with help from a martial arts expert\n\nHeston East is much improved since last year\n\nJudging by the improved performance of last year's worst-rated stations, naming and shaming has had an effect.\n\nThe lowest-ranked site in 2017, Heston East, has gone up from a 62% satisfaction rating to 88%.\n\nAnd the second-worst service station last year, Stafford Southbound with a 70% rating, has changed so much that it is now the second-best, with a 99% approval rating.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMost members of the Thai youth football team rescued from a flooded cave have had their heads shaved as part of a Buddhist ceremony to ordain them as novices.\n\nTheir coach is also receiving monk's orders. One of the boys is not joining the ceremony as he is a Christian.\n\nThe group will spend nine days living in a monastery, a tradition for males in Thailand who experience adversity.\n\nThey were trapped for more than two weeks before a dramatic rescue.\n\nThe boys were all released from hospital last week and are said to be in good health after their ordeal in the snaking caverns of the Tham Luang caves of northern Thailand.\n\nThis step is intended to be a \"spiritual cleansing\" for the group, and to fulfil a promise by the families to remember one of the divers who died in the rescue operation.\n\n\"They should spend time in a monastery. It's for their protection,\" Seewad Sompiangjai, grandfather of Night, one of the rescued boys told the BBC earlier. \"It's like they died but now have been reborn.\"\n\nThe boys will spend nine days in different monasteries as novice monks\n\nThey will stay in different monasteries until 4 August meditating, praying and cleaning their temple. The length of time they will spend doing this - nine days - is a nod to a Thai lucky number.\n\nCorrespondents say it's seen as normal by Thais for boys and men to spend time as monks as a rite of passage.\n\nSome were blessed by Buddhist monks\n\nOne of the boys, Adul Sam-on, will not be joining the rest of the \"Wild Boars\" football team as he is a Christian. Their coach Ekkapol \"Ake\" Chantawong, 25, will join them for the same period of time but as a fully fledged monk rather than a novice.\n\nThe coach had spent time in a monastery as a novice before this. Although he has attracted some criticism for taking the boys into the cave, he is also credited with helping them through the ordeal by reportedly teaching them meditation techniques to help them stay calm and use as little air as possible.\n\nThe extraordinary story of the group's rescue has been followed by millions worldwide since 23 June, when they walked into the Tham Luang cave after football practice - only to be trapped by sudden monsoon floods.\n\nThe 12 boys and their football coach had spent nine days in the cave with little food or light when British divers helping search for them first reached them on 2 July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thai cave rescue: Saying sorry to cave spirit Nang Norn\n\nBut with more rain expected, a risky rescue was attempted. Expert divers guided the boys and their coach through darkness and submerged passageways towards the exit.\n\nEach boy was accompanied by a diver who also carried his air supply. The boys were heavily sedated ahead of the rescue to prevent them panicking.\n\nThe boys and their coach were rescued in three stages over three days.\n\nAll 13 were transferred to a hospital in Chiang Rai where they received medical and psychological assistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boys give peace signs as they recover in hospital\n\nHundreds of volunteers, rescue divers and military personnel were involved in the rescue effort.\n\nOne ex-Thai navy seal diver, Saman Gunan, died during the operation while installing oxygen tanks in the cave.\n\nThe cave system has now been closed off, but officials have said it could be reopened in future as a tourist attraction.", "As Italy has turned away NGO ships rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, the Western Mediterranean route to Spain is now the most popular with migrants trying to reach Europe.\n\nMore people have arrived so far this year than in the whole of 2017.\n\nSetting off from the shores of Morocco, many take enormous risks trying to cross to Europe on flimsy toy boats.", "More than 950,000 antidepressants have been prescribed to children since April 2015\n\nThe number of antidepressants prescribed to children in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland has risen over the past three years, figures obtained by BBC's File on 4 reveal.\n\nIn England, there was a 15% rise. Scotland saw a 10% increase. And in Northern Ireland the number rose by 6%.\n\nIn total, there were 950,000 prescriptions issued between April 2015 and March 2018.\n\nExperts have linked the rise to waits for specialist mental health services.\n\nAntidepressants should prescribed to children only under close supervision.\n\nNHS England, NHS Scotland and the Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland all say they are committed to improving child mental health services.\n\nNHS Wales was unable to provide prescription figures because it does not hold the data requested.\n\nThe figures were obtained by Freedom of Information requests and relate to a group of powerful antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).\n\nThe total number of prescriptions rose from 290,393 in 2015-16 to 330,616 in 2017-18.\n\nThe steepest increase was seen in the youngest patients, those aged 12 and under, where the number of prescriptions rose on average by 24%, from 14,500 to almost 18,000.\n\nMental health charity Young Minds links increases in antidepressant prescriptions to the length of Camhs waiting times\n\nDr Bernadka Dubicka, who chairs the child and adolescent faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: \"Currently only one in four children and young people are treated for their mental health problems.\n\n\"The fact that prescriptions for antidepressants are rising could reflect a slow but steady move towards treating everyone who is unwell.\n\n\"But the importance of giving children access to psychological therapies cannot be overstated.\n\n\"What we don't know from today's data is why these antidepressants are being prescribed, and how.\n\n\"It is vital that they are being used judiciously, monitored carefully, and the risks and benefits of taking them are assessed in each individual case.\"\n\nThe mental health charity Young Minds says waiting times for specialist child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) have been increasing too, making it difficult for families to get support.\n\nMarc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said: \"The government recently suggested that the average waiting time for general access to Camhs is around 12 weeks, which is a long time to be in distress.\n\n\"And that is why front-line professionals are turning to prescription pads, because they're thinking, 'I'm seeing someone in front of me in crisis with a level of distress I don't want to leave them with - how do I offer them some kind of alleviation from that?'\"\n\nIn rare cases, antidepressants can trigger thoughts of suicide and self-harm in children.\n\nAnd the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has clear guidelines:\n\nHowever, File on 4 has heard concerns these guidelines are not always followed.\n\nReece Burrowes, 17, killed himself soon after being prescribed the antidepressant Sertraline\n\nReece Burrowes, 17, was found dead in a park in south-east London on 6 December 2015, days after being prescribed an antidepressant called Sertraline by his GPs.\n\nAlthough the inquest into Reece's death recorded a verdict of death by suicide and no blame was assigned to Reece's doctors or Sertraline, File on 4 has been told several of the NICE prescribing guidelines were not followed by doctors.\n\nReece's stepfather, Simon Banks, said: \"There are NICE guidelines, which you know in theory they should follow, but I know one of the concerns is that their thinking, 'If I do refer them to Camhs, there's potentially a waiting list.'\n\n\"From what we've gone through, our view would be don't give the medication, and wait.\n\n\"But I can imagine it's a very difficult call for the doctor to make.\"\n\nDr Shruti Garg, a Camhs consultant at the Manchester Foundation NHS Trust, said problems with young people transitioning out of Camhs services could also be leading to increases in prescription rates.\n\n\"Camhs services across most parts of the country cover only up to the age of 16 - adult mental health services start at 18, so there is a gap for the provision of services across these services.\"\n\nThe Department of Health in England told the BBC it had pledged £1.7bn to transform Camhs.\n\nThis, it said, would help to provide greater access to a wider range of therapies, although there would still be patients who would benefit from antidepressants.\n\nIn Scotland, Minister for Mental Health Clare Haughey said young people's mental health was a priority and £5m has been invested to create a taskforce to improve Camhs services.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland said the vast majority of referrals accepted into Camhs were seen within nine weeks and it was currently planning to spend an extra £1m on Camhs projects.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issues, you can access resources online via BBC Action Line.\n\nFile on 4: Counting the Cost: Anti-depressant Use in Children is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 BST on 24 July.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nThe Tour de France had to be stopped temporarily during stage 16 when the peloton was sprayed during a protest by French farmers, with several riders needing medical treatment.\n\nHay bales were thrown across the road 29km into the 218km stage from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon.\n\nTV pictures showed a policeman using a spray on protesters which then blew into the peloton, with riders pulling over to douse their eyes with water.\n\nThere was a delay of about 15 minutes.\n\nThere was a short neutralised section before racing began again properly at the 33km mark.\n\nBriton Geraint Thomas, who is in the leader's yellow jersey, four-time winner and team-mate Chris Froome, and world champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia were among those affected.\n\nSeveral riders went to the doctor's car at the back of the peloton for treatment.\n\nA social media post by the Quick-Step Cycling team read: \"Looks like the tear gas used by the police on the farmers ended up getting to the eyes of some riders.\"\n\nFrance's Julian Alaphilippe won the stage after Britain's Adam Yates crashed on the final descent while leading.\n\nTeam Sky's Thomas retained the yellow jersey and remains one minute 39 seconds ahead of Froome in the general classification.", "Teachers are expected to be among those getting a pay rise after five years of a cap on increases\n\nA million public sector workers are to receive their biggest pay rise in nearly 10 years, the government says.\n\nIt includes 2.9% extra this year for the armed forces, 2.75% for prison officers and up to 3.5% for teachers.\n\nPolice will see a 2% rise, the same increase seen by GPs and dentists.\n\nThe move confirms the scrapping of the 1% pay cap last year and follows campaigns by unions for higher wage rises.\n\nThe government said the increases were affordable within its spending plans. Individual departments are having to fund the pay rises, rather than the money coming from the Treasury.\n\nThe pay rises for doctors and dentists only apply to England, while the pay rises for prison officers, teachers, and police officers apply to England and Wales.\n\nThe armed forces pay offer is for the whole of the UK.\n\nIn June the bulk of NHS staff in Scotland were offered a 9% pay rise spread across three years.\n\nA 3% pay offer to teachers in Scotland was rejected by the unions earlier in the year.\n\nComparing public and private sector pay is tricky because public sector workers are on average better qualified and many lower-paid jobs such as cleaning and security have been outsourced from the public sector to the private.\n\nIf you look at what has happened to growth in pay since 2010, private sector pay has been growing faster, due to the effect of two years of public sector pay freezes starting in 2011, followed by 1% caps.\n\nBut both public and private sector workers have seen their average pay rising more slowly than prices.\n\nThe comparison between public and private sector pay also ignores pension provision, which tends to be better in the public sector, and bonus payments, which are more common in the private sector but excluded from these average earnings figures.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"By increasing the pay levels, albeit by less than the rate of inflation, that can only be paid for by cuts within the public services.\n\n\"And so, if it's local authorities or anybody else, they're going to have to pay for it by either removing their balances, which they shouldn't be doing, or by cutting services further.\"\n\nThe cost of scrapping the 1% cap is estimated at £4bn.\n\nThe move has been seen as a bid to boost staff recruitment and retention as well as improve morale in the public sector.\n\nUnions have been arguing for pay rises closer to 5% to make up for the austerity measures introduced by David Cameron's government eight years ago.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said the announcement was \"fantastic news just before the summer for a million workers right across the public sector\".\n\nShe said: \"We hugely value the work that people do, whether it's teachers, soldiers or police officers.\"\n\nBut Prospect union deputy general secretary Garry Graham said: \"Today's pay deals for the armed forces, prison workers and teachers are welcome but confirm what we have long suspected, this government have put civil servants firmly at the back of the queue on public sector pay.\n\n\"Instead of playing cynical divide-and-rule games with overworked and underpaid public sector workers, the government should be committing to above-inflation pay rises for all public servants, with no group left behind.\"", "Millions of \"just about managing\" families are no better off today than those in 2003, new research from the Resolution Foundation indicates.\n\nThe remarkable income stagnation for so many reveals that the economy has been failing to generate income for people over many years despite record levels of people in work.\n\nIn 2003, households on the lower half of incomes typically earnt £14,900.\n\nIn 2016/17 that figure had fallen to £14,800, the research shows.\n\nBoth figures are adjusted for inflation and housing costs.\n\nThere are over eight million low and middle income households, just under half of which have children.\n\nAnd it is not just poorer households which have been facing a pay squeeze.\n\nOn average, incomes for all households in 2017/18 increased by just 0.9%, the lowest rise for four years and less than half the average between 1994 and 2007, just before the financial crisis.\n\nFor the poorest third of households, incomes actually fell by up to £150 in the last year.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation report said that surveys revealed that over 40% of low to middle income families feel they would be unable to save £10 a month and over 35% would be unable to afford a holiday for one week with their children.\n\n\"We appear to have a picture of generalised stagnation for many, with lower income households actually going backwards,\" the Resolution Foundation's Living Standards Audit says.\n\n\"The apparent falling away of the bottom from the middle in 2017/18 represents a disturbing new development.\n\n\"This pattern has clear implications for poverty - captured by the number of people living in households with incomes below 60% of the median [the middle figure of a set of income figures ranked from high to low].\n\n\"There are good odds that 2017/18 delivered a notable increase [in poverty].\n\n\"Relative child poverty may have risen to its highest rate in at least 15 years, despite high levels of employment.\"\n\n\"Child poverty\" is calculated by the number of under-16s living in a household that earns less than 60% of the average income.\n\nThe big questions are why the income stagnation has happened and what can be done about it.\n\nOn the \"why\", research by the Foundation - which was set up to look at the problem of low incomes - reveals that the economy has struggled to create wealth for people in work.\n\nAlthough employment rates are high, which is good for those in work, many of the jobs are lower paid.\n\nThat's because people who are moving from unemployment into employment, such as single parents, tend to take jobs towards the lower end of income levels.\n\nOnce in jobs there is also a lack of \"progression\" into higher paid jobs.\n\nProductivity levels for the whole economy - the ability to create more value for every hour somebody works - have also been poor since the financial crisis.\n\nRather than investing in new innovations - such as computer technology or robots which could increase the amount people produce - firms have been holding onto cash to get them through the tougher economic conditions.\n\nWhat are called \"non-wage costs\" have also increased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The former prime minister says there's a 'real risk' of a rise in child poverty in the UK.\n\nBusinesses now have to pay more into employees' pensions and, for larger firms, have to pay costs such as the apprenticeship levy to encourage better standards of training.\n\nManagers have also been criticised for being too conservative about taking on new ways of working.\n\nBenefit cuts since 2010 also affect lower income households far more than those on higher incomes.\n\nPut those factors alongside the poor economic growth the UK has been experiencing, along with many other developed Western economies, since 2008 and the reasons behind the living standards problem become clearer.\n\nImproving productivity is key to helping people out of poverty\n\nWhen it comes to solutions, the key is productivity.\n\nEconomists argue that once in work, people should be encouraged to apply for promotions, increasing their skill levels and their pay.\n\nFirms should be encouraged to invest in innovations to make their firms more efficient and better able to create wealth for every hour worked.\n\nBetter economic growth, which leads to higher incomes, is reliant on a number of factors - certainty about the future (in relatively low supply at present because of the Brexit process); global growth (Britain is an exporting nation so the better growth is elsewhere, the better for the UK); and investment in better and higher-value skilled jobs (which means focusing on education and skills and making managers better at exploiting opportunities that are available).\n\nWithout a firm focus on such issues, the Resolution Foundation report reveals that, over the next decade, it is likely that \"just about managing\" families are likely to remain just that.", "Olympic rower Helen Glover announced she was pregnant with twins in March\n\nDouble Olympic champion Helen Glover has announced she has given birth to a boy.\n\nGlover and her husband, TV wildlife expert Steve Backshall, revealed the news in a series of posts on their social media accounts.\n\nThe gold medallist, from Cornwall, said she was \"excited to welcome Baby Boy Backshall\" to the world.\n\nThe Team GB rower had been expecting twins but lost one of the babies in April.\n\nSteve Backshall said on Instagram and Twitter: \"The biggest adventure begins.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter sharing their news, the couple received hundreds of messages from well-wishers.\n\nAdventurer Ben Fogle was quick to respond to the Olympian's tweet, offering \"huge congratulations\".\n\nOlympic cyclist and double gold medal winner Joanna Rowsell-Shand also wished the couple well, while England international rugby player Ben Morgan responded to Steve Backshall's tweet, saying: \"Congratulations to you both, the fun begins!\"\n\nHelen Glover and Steve Backshall met at a Sport Relief event in 2014 and married in 2016\n\nGlover and her rowing partner, Heather Stanning, won Britain's first gold medal of the 2012 Olympics in London.\n\nShe took part in a victory parade in Penzance after the win and a Royal Mail postbox was painted gold in the town in honour of her winning performance.\n\nThe pair took gold again in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, becoming the first British female rowers to defend their Olympic title.", "A jab that protects against a virus that causes cervical cancer will be given to boys aged 12 to 13 in England.\n\nThe policy decision brings England into line with Scotland and Wales.\n\nHPV vaccine is already routinely offered to girls of the same age at secondary school and is free up until they turn 18.\n\nExperts and campaigners have been calling for equal access to the jab, which can also guard against oral, throat and anal cancers.\n\nHPV is the name given to a large group of viruses, which can be caught through any kind of sexual contact with another person who already has it.\n\nDoctors say most HPV infections go away by themselves, but sometimes infections can lead to a variety of serious problems.\n\nFor boys, this includes cancer of the anus, penis, mouth and throat.\n\nThe vaccine has been offered to girls since 2008 as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme, with boys being said to benefit through herd protection.\n\nBut there is still a risk of infection in those who go on to have sex with other men or with women who have not been vaccinated.\n\nThousands of boys in England are expected to be vaccinated under the programme each year, which is likely to start from 2019-20.\n\nGirls aged 12 to 13 in Northern Ireland are also eligible for the vaccine, but no decision has been taken on whether to make it available to boys living there.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisations at Public Health England, said: \"This extended programme offers us the opportunity to make HPV related diseases a thing of the past and build on the success of the girls' programme, which has already reduced the prevalence of HPV 16 and 18, the main cancer-causing types, by over 80%.\n\n\"We can now be even more confident that we will reduce cervical and other cancers in both men and women in the future.\"\n\nShirley Cramer CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Society for Public Health, said: \"It is imperative that the gender-neutral programme is implemented by September 2019 to ensure as many people as possible reap the benefits.\"", "Survivors say they ran into the sea to escape the devastating Greece wildfires, which have killed at least 74 people.\n\nMany are still thought to be missing after the Attica region around Athens was engulfed in flames.\n\nThe country's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has declared a three-day period of national mourning.", "Fatima Khan posted a video on social media of Khalid Safi as he lay dying\n\nA \"Snapchat queen\" who posted a video of her boyfriend dying in a pool of blood has been found guilty of orchestrating his killing.\n\nFatima Khan, 21, plotted with a love rival to kill Khalid Safi, 18, who she had been seeing for two years.\n\nMr Safi was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by Raza Khan in North Acton, London, in December 2016, jurors heard.\n\nKhan filmed Mr Safi as he lay dying in the street and posted it on Snapchat alongside an offensive message.\n\nThe self-confessed Snapchat addict denied murdering Mr Safi, saying she was \"ashamed\" of the video.\n\nBut a jury at the Old Bailey found her guilty of manslaughter by a majority of 10-1 on Tuesday.\n\nKhalid Safi was stabbed to death in December 2016\n\nThe trial at the Old Bailey heard that Khan arranged for Mr Khan, a rival for her affections, to kill Mr Safi.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC said Khan became upset when, five days before his death, Mr Safi gave her a watch as a gift.\n\nKhan from Ilford, east London, threw the gift at him out of an upstairs window because her family did not know about the relationship, Ms Bex said.\n\nThe lawyer told jurors that Mr Khan was \"a rival for her affections\" and Khan was \"essential to the success of the plan\" to get rid of Mr Safi.\n\nOn the day of the killing, Mr Safi and Khan had gone to a Costa Coffee near to her work at Vigilant Security in North Acton.\n\nMr Khan then arrived in a minicab and walked up to the couple, holding a large knife, Ms Bex said.\n\nRaza Khan is wanted for the murder of Khalid Safi\n\n\"Raza Khan spoke briefly to either the defendant or Khalid Safi and then turned to face him, at which point the prosecution suggest the knife would have been in plain view.\n\n\"Mr Safi produced a screwdriver and they began to fight. The fight lasted 15 seconds at most and it is caught on CCTV.\n\n\"Mr Safi died at the scene having received a number of wounds to his chest, one penetrating his heart.\"\n\nKhan was injured in the fight but left the scene and his whereabouts remain unknown, the court heard.\n\nDefending, Kerim Fuad QC said Khan was ashamed at posting the \"callous and crass\" video on Snapchat.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 30 July.", "Children have flocked to Montreal's water fountains to fight the heat\n\nParts of the world are sweltering in record temperatures - and it's not a problem confined only to summer in the northern hemisphere.\n\nRecords are being broken across the globe - so where have things been particularly bad? And why is this happening?\n\nCities across the region suffered a deadly heat wave in the first week of July, with at least 70 deaths attributed to the record hot spell in Quebec province alone.\n\nIn Canada's capital Ottawa, in Ontario, the humidity index - the method used there to measure the combined humidity level and temperature - hit 47C (116.6F) on 2 July.\n\nMost of the 70 deaths in neighbouring Quebec took place in the city of Montreal. Most victims were aged 65 or over and already had pre-existing medical conditions. The lack of air conditioning in their buildings was a significant contributing factor, doctors said.\n\nOver to BBC Weather's Ben Rich: \"The jet stream has shifted further north than usual, allowing a plume of very warm air to waft northwards across the USA and into large parts of Canada. There was also less rainfall than normal during May and June - and dry ground heats up more quickly, so temperatures have been able to rise well above average.\"\n\nHopefully this bather in Georgia's capital Tbilisi remembered the Factor 50 sun cream\n\nThe whole Caucasus region, a mountainous area on the border of Europe and Asia, has suffered particularly high temperatures this month.\n\nThe capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, hit an all-time high of 40.5C (104.9F) on 4 July, but the heat has put a significant strain on (often ageing) power grids in other countries nearby.\n\nNearby, there have been major power cuts in Iran because demand outstripped the electrical system's capabilities as people try to stay cool. The government there has urged people to conserve energy wherever possible.\n\nThere were major breakdowns in the water supply in Armenia's capital Yerevan as the heat crossed 40C, and, unfortunately, a festival in which people drench each other with water was about to start.\n\nBen Rich: \"Over the past few months low pressure has often been sitting across the south east of Europe. In the northern hemisphere, winds move anticlockwise around a low pressure area, and these winds have drawn very warm air from Africa and the Middle East northwards into Armenia - hence temperatures have been much higher than normal.\"\n\nParts of California have been suffering wildfires brought about by the record heat\n\nRecord after record fell in southern parts of California last week:\n\nThere's been a significant knock-on effect of the record heat in parts of the state - and as in Iran, it led to unprecedented demand on the power grid. As a result, more than 34,000 homes were left without power.\n\n'Red flag' warnings, indicating the risk of serious wildfires, remain in place for large parts of the state.\n\nLast Friday, Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old postal worker, was found dead in her truck in a suburb of Los Angeles where the temperature reached 47.2C (117F). Media reports said the truck did not have air conditioning and Mrs Frank had suffered heat stroke at work once before.\n\nIn essence, it's the same problem that has affected eastern Canada. So are all the high temperatures down to climate change? It's hard to pin it on that and only that, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says.\n\n\"Episodes of extreme heat and precipitation are increasing as a result of climate change,\" it says. \"Although it is not possible to attribute the individual extreme events of June and July to climate change, they are compatible with the general long-term trend due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases.\"\n\nBear in mind that it is the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere - but despite this, it is scorching in some places.\n\nLast week, the temperature in Sydney topped 24.7C (76.5F) over two days in July for the first time since records began. That's roughly eight celsius higher than the average temperature for this time of year.\n\nThis comes after most parts of the city recorded their hottest-ever autumn.\n\nBen Rich: \"Temperatures rose during early July as an area of high pressure settled to the east of Australia, bringing warm northwesterly winds from the Equator down across the eastern side of Australia. The recent La Nina event may be another factor - sea temperatures in the western Pacific have been a little above average, helping to lift the temperatures over land too.\"\n\nThere are plenty of caveats here, but Africa's hottest recorded temperature may have been registered last week.\n\nSome background: as it stands, the official hottest temperature recorded on the continent was 55C (131F) in Kebili, Tunisia, in 1931.\n\nHowever, meteorologists are unsure how credible that reading is (doubts linger about the way the information was gathered).\n\nNow, there are grounds to believe Africa's hottest reliable record temperature was registered in Ouargla, northern Algeria, on 5 July: 51.3C (124.3F).\n\nSome more caveats: this has not been officially recognised as a record by the WMO, which takes some time to scrutinise the data. However, the WMO does say the record is \"likely\" to have been broken. There's also some suspicion that the proximity of the weather station to the heat of a runway may have skewed the reading.\n\n\"In common with many parts of the world, Algeria has seen a significant rise in heat waves over the past 30 years that experts say is down to rising global temperatures.\n\n\"According to one study, the frequency of heat waves lasting three days or longer has more than doubled between 1988 and 2015.\n\n\"In fact, researchers believe Algeria will be a global hotspot for climate change. A 2014 study from the World Bank suggested that the strongest warming in North Africa would take place in inland Algeria. If the world fails to rein in carbon emissions, and the planet warms by an average of 4C, Algeria could see a sweltering 8C rise by the end of this century.\n\n\"The extreme temperatures of recent weeks may be a foretaste of the norm in decades to come.\"", "A trial where pregnant women were given an anti-impotence drug has been urgently stopped after 11 newborn babies died.\n\nWomen taking part in the Dutch study had been given the tablets to improve growth of their unborn children because they had poorly-developed placentas.\n\nIt appears the drug, which promotes blood flow, may have caused lethal damage to the babies' lungs.\n\nExperts say a full investigation is needed to understand what happened.\n\nThere is no suggestion that there was any wrong-doing.\n\nEarlier trials in the UK and Australia and New Zealand did not find any evidence of potential harm from the intervention. But they also found no benefit.\n\nAt that time, in 2010, researchers said the treatment should be used only in trials.\n\nFoetal growth restriction caused by an underdeveloped placenta is a serious condition that currently has no treatment.\n\nIt can mean babies are born prematurely, with a very low birth weight and poor chances of survival.\n\nA medication that could improve weight or prolong the time to delivery could have significant advantages for these very sick babies.\n\nThe latest Dutch study, which was due to run until 2020, was being carried out across 11 hospitals in the Netherlands, including the Amsterdam University Medical Centre.\n\nIn total, 93 women were given sildenafil (the non-brand name for Viagra) while the remaining 90 were given a dummy drug or placebo.\n\nTwenty babies developed lung problems after birth - three in the placebo group and the rest in the treatment group.\n\nEleven in the sildenafil group died from lung complications.\n\nThe drug used was not made by Pfizer, which manufactures Viagra, and the safety of the use of sildenafil for erectile dysfunction is not being questioned.\n\nProf Zarcko Alfirevic, from the University of Liverpool, who led part of the UK research into sildenafil in pregnancy that found no benefit in terms of improving baby growth, said: \"This finding in the Dutch study is unexpected.\n\n\"We need to be careful at this point to find out more.\n\n\"It needs a thorough investigation because the complications were not seen in the two other, similar trials that have already been done in the UK and Australia and New Zealand.\"", "A simple eye test carried out by opticians could help predict who is at risk of developing dementia, a study suggests.\n\nThe test is usually done to spot early signs of eye disease, by looking at tissue at the back of the eye - the retina.\n\nNow scientists have found people with thinner retinas are more likely to have problems with memory and reasoning.\n\nResearchers believe the test could be used to screen for early dementia.\n\nThe study of 32,000 people measured parts of the retina, and in particular the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL), using optical coherence tomography (OCT).\n\nStudy participants, who were between the ages of 40 and 69, were also assessed on their memory, reaction time and reasoning.\n\nScientists found those with the thinnest RNFLs were more likely to fail one or more of the tests.\n\nThey were also twice as likely to score worse in follow-up assessments over the next three years, the study published in JAMA Neurology found.\n\nMemory loss, difficulty with carrying out familiar tasks and other types of cognitive decline can be early symptoms of dementia.\n\nProf Paul Foster, from the University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, co-lead author of the paper, said OCT tests could help identify people at high risk of developing the disease.\n\nProf Foster added: \"It is likely that treatments will be more effective in slowing or stopping dementia at earlier stages of the disease.\n\n\"Also, by targeting people in the earlier stages, it should be possible to design better clinical trials for treatments that make a real difference and improve people's lives.\"\n\nAn association between deterioration in the retina and optic nerves, and people who have established dementia had already been known.\n\nBut researchers said their study suggested such changes could be spotted with OCT tests even in the early stages of cognitive decline.\n\nExperts say deterioration in the retina may mirror changes going on in the blood vessels in the brain, which could play a role in the development of the disease.\n\nHowever, other scientists have questioned the link between RNFL thickness and dementia, arguing that it does not reliably predict cognitive ability.\n\nResearchers said an advantage of OCT tests is that they offer a relatively inexpensive and non-invasive way to screen for dementia.\n\nBut they said the tests should probably not be done in isolation to screen for dementia, as there would be people with thinner retinas who did not go on to experience cognitive decline.\n\nDr Laura Phipps, from Alzheimer's Research UK, said exploring how the eye can be used as a window into early brain changes was a growing area of research.\n\nShe said it would be interesting to see whether further studies showed that a greater likelihood of cognitive decline in those with thinner retinas also translated into an increased risk of dementia.\n\n\"With future treatments for Alzheimer's and other dementias likely to be most effective when given early in the disease process, research into sensitive and non-invasive early markers of disease is vital.\n\n\"The brain is well protected by the skull and current approaches for detecting brain changes - such as brain scans - can be expensive to use routinely.\n\n\"While a diagnosis of dementia will always rely on results from a number of different tests, further studies should look at how sensitive OCT could be at identifying those most at risk of cognitive decline in the general population.\"\n\nThe charity added that it was co-funding a study which analysed eye scans to look for features that could indicate the presence of dementia.", "A graphic novel has made it onto the Man Booker longlist for the first time.\n\nSabrina by Nick Drnaso tells the story of a girl who goes missing, leaving behind a videotape with clues about her disappearance.\n\nChicago-born Drnaso, who is 29, won an LA Times book prize with his first collection Beverly.\n\n\"Given the changing shape of fiction, it was only a matter of time before a graphic novel was included,\" the judges said.\n\nThis year's Man Booker Prize longlist consists of six writers from the UK, three from the US, two from Ireland and two from Canada.\n\nThe eligibility rules were changed in 2013 to allow international authors to be nominated, as long as their book was written in English and published in the UK.\n\nThe longlist for the £50,000 prize will be whittled down to six in September before the final winner is announced on Tuesday 16 October.\n\nMichael Ondaatje latest novel Warlight is about two orphans in post-war Britain\n\nThe list also includes Michael Ondaatje's latest novel, Warlight.\n\nOndaatje's epic romance The English Patient shared the 1992 Booker prize with Barry Unsworth's 18th Century slave tale Sacred Hunger.\n\nTwo weeks ago, The English Patient won the Golden Man Booker Prize at a festival to mark the literary award's 50th anniversary.\n\nAll 51 previous winners were considered by a panel of judges, who whittled them down to one from each decade.\n\nThe Man Booker Prize has been running since 1969 and is one of the most prestigious awards in literature.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition to stop the release of new Netflix show, Insatiable.\n\nThe teen drama has been accused of \"fat-shaming\" since its trailer came out on 12 July.\n\nThe show stars Debby Ryan as an overweight teenager who takes revenge on bullies after losing weight.\n\nThe actress wears a fat suit in scenes before her character Patty loses a significant amount of weight during the school holidays.\n\nPatty is punched in the face and has her jaw wired shut because of her injuries. It \"lost me more than just my summer vacation,\" the character says in the trailer.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"For so long, the narrative has told women and young impressionable girls that in order to be popular, have friends, to be desirable for the male gaze, and to some extent be a worthy human that we must be thin,\" writes Florence, who started the petition.\n\n\"We still have time to stop this series from being released, and causing a devastation of self-doubt in the minds of young girls who will think that to be happy and be worthy, they need to lose weight.\n\n\"This series will cause eating disorders, and perpetuate the further objectification of women's bodies.\"\n\nPatty is seen as unhappy and bullied before losing weight and taking revenge on classmates in the Netflix trailer\n\nThe petition is calling on Netflix to scrap Insatiable instead of releasing the show on 10 August as planned.\n\nDebby, who plays the lead character, has defended Insatiable on social media, saying she \"cares deeply\" about how women's bodies are \"shamed and policed in society\".\n\n\"Over the last few days I've seen how many voices are protective and fiercely outspoken about the themes that come to play in this story,\" Debby wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"I was drawn to this show's willingness to go to real places about how difficult and scary it can be to move through a world in a body, whether you're being praised or criticised for its size, and what it feels like to pray to be ignored because it's easier than being seen.\n\n\"I hope fans will wait and watch the show before passing judgement.\"\n\nDebby says that Patty's weight is not used \"as a punchline\" and the character's \"physical transformation\" doesn't make her happy\n\nNetflix describes the show as a \"dark, twisted revenge comedy\" and sees Patty rise from being a victim of bullying to being coached to become \"the top pageant queen in the country.\"\n\nInsatiable has faced criticism on social media since the trailer's premiere, with actress and body positivity campaigner Jameela Jamil among those who have hit out at the show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues mentioned in this article, you might want to read these BBC Advice pages for some help.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Supermarket sales have grown at their fastest rate this year with demand stimulated by the World Cup and the warm weather, research suggests.\n\nMarket research firm Kantar Worldpanel said food and drink sales in the 12 weeks to 15 July rose by 3.6% from a year earlier.\n\nIn the week England played Colombia and Sweden, alcohol sales hit a record for a week outside of Christmas and Easter.\n\nTesco still has the biggest share of the grocery market at 27.6%.\n\nThat, however, was down slightly from last year.\n\nAldi, Lidl and the Co-op all saw their market share grow. Aldi now has a record market share of 7.5%, up from 7% last year, while Lidl has a share of 5.4%, up from 5.1%.\n\nKantar said the Co-op was helped by more people shopping locally.\n\nThe rest of the big High Street chains saw their market share remain the same or fall back slightly.\n\nAsda, Iceland and Morrisons held sales while Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose both saw their market share fall back.\n\nHome delivery food service Ocado saw its market share grow to 1.2%\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said: \"Over the past month, football-frenzied customers visited supermarkets an extra 13 million times as they hurried to stock up on World Cup-viewing essentials, with alcohol in particular the stand-out winner.\n\n\"Christmas and Easter aside, the week that the England football team played both Colombia and Sweden saw more spent on alcohol than ever before - a colossal £287m.\"\n\nThe long hot summer has also lead to a sharp rise in barbeque dining, over the past month, sales of firelighters and fresh burgers jumped by 47% and 30%.\n\nKeith Richardson, from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said the data showed where the UK was spending its money.\n\n\"With the heatwave and sporting events in Russia and Wimbledon keeping shoppers away from the High Street, it was the grocers who benefited as shoppers who were spending a little less elsewhere could afford to splash out on strawberries, burgers and beers.\n\n\"With the trend towards staycations and a weaker pound still attracting foreign visitors, supermarkets will be confident of keeping this good run going over the summer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Gavin Lee reports from the seaside village of Mati where burnt wreckage lines the road\n\nIn the coastal resort of Mati, the welcome sign that had advertised what was once one of Greece's picture-postcard tourist villages was hanging down by the side of the road, charred and unreadable.\n\nMati has been strangely split by the inexplicable path the wildfires made as they raged through the town. There are hotels, homes and apartments scorched and destroyed on one side of the road, but on the other, many buildings are completely untouched.\n\nThe luckier residents peer out through unscathed windows, having narrowly escaped the fate of their neighbours.\n\nPeople have been walking around wearing medical facemasks, to protect from the stench and the smoke, as they work out what to do. Some have returned to their homes to check for pets and belongings, despite the government's safety advice to keep away in case their building collapses.\n\nIt's a small village. The main village hub, the Cavos bar, has been destroyed. Most people I speak to know someone who has died or been badly injured.\n\nKaterina Pantelidis (R) said her home was almost completely destroyed \"in seconds\"\n\nKaterina Pantelidis was watching the local news on Monday evening and says the report about wildfires spreading suggested that the wind direction meant Mati would avoid the flames. But, she says, minutes later she smelt burning and looked outside to see the pine trees on fire, and heard her windows smash.\n\nShe picked up her two cats, and attempted to pick up her dog, but had to leave him when he ran into a smoke-filled part of the house. She ran with her parents to the beach, along with hundreds of others escaping the flames and smoke. Her house was destroyed.\n\nMany swam into the sea, but Katerina remained on shore with her cats and elderly parents, breathing through their clothes and waiting five hours for the coastguard. Incredibly, the dog survived - Katerina later found him hiding in a back room underneath a broken window.\n\nAt the nearby Ramada hotel, staff had to evacuate hundreds of tourists, and although the building escaped the inferno, people are being advised not to stay here. Suitcases line the reception and forecourt as holidaymakers work out where to go, while staff and locals face the fact that their main source of income, tourism, will now be affected.\n\nTonight there's still no electricity, many roads are closed off and it is pitch black on the streets apart from the flashing lights of police cars and fire engines as they continue to survey the damage and try to prevent any secondary fires breaking out.\n\nDozens of Greek families who have been left homeless are gathering at the Marathon Beach Hotel, the makeshift relief centre, with volunteers bringing fresh food, water, clothes and comfort to those who have just lost everything.", "A four-year-old boy and a 91-year-old man with dementia have struck up an unlikely friendship.\n\nNatalie Holmes first took her son Daniel to Acorn House care home, in Nottingham - where Stuart Gulliver, 91, lives - when he was 18 months old.\n\nShe wanted him to get used to elderly people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Red Arrows engineer recorded video on Sunday as the team returned to RAF Scampton\n\nThe home of the Red Arrows air display team is to be sold off, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.\n\nRAF Scampton, which was also home to 617 Squadron as they prepared for the Dambusters mission in World War Two, has housed the Red Arrows since 2000.\n\nSix hundred people currently work at the site near Lincoln.\n\nThe MoD, which wants to save £3bn by 2040, is also closing RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire where 300 people work.\n\nThe government said RAF Scampton will close in 2022 with the Red Arrows relocating to a site \"more fit for purpose\".\n\nPlans were also confirmed to transfer basic and fast jet training from RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to RAF Valley on Anglesey in 2019 and cease using Linton in 2020.\n\nRAF Scampton is also where the Dambusters raids were launched\n\nAir Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, Chief of the Air Staff from 1992 to 1997, said: \"Scampton is a very good base. It has an extremely long runway and is situated in a part of the country which is ideal in many ways.\n\n\"I just hope that all of these consequences of closing Scampton are fully understood and appreciated. I'd like to know where they are going to put the Red Arrows.\n\n\"The Red Arrows have been at Scampton for some time. I remember so well in the past we moved the Red Arrows around from pillar to post and it was not a good time.\"\n\nRAF Scampton has escaped previous cuts at the MoD\n\nThe decision behind the closure of RAF Scampton is mostly about saving money. A cash strapped MoD is aiming to sell off about one-third of its estate to make nearly £3bn of savings by 2040.\n\nThe Lincolnshire air base has just about managed to escape previous rounds of cuts, in part because of its history as home to the Dambusters and, more recently, the Red Arrows.\n\nThis will not be a popular decision, but defence sources say the base is looking tired and in need of investment. The RAF has assessed money would be better placed on improving its existing core sites.\n\nTalks are already under way to find the Red Arrows a new home, including discussions with the Civil Aviation Authority to ensure the world renowned display team have the airspace they need to practise their aerobatic displays.\n\nIt's still not clear who'll be buying RAF Scampton, but the MoD says it will look at ways of keeping its history alive. That might include a small museum at the site.\n\nIn May 1943, Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron left RAF Scampton to carry out air raids on the dams of the Ruhr valley.\n\nThe 102-year-old base has been at the heart of RAF operations ever since, but after surviving countless rounds of defence cuts it is now being sold.\n\nBy 2022 the Red Arrows will move to another base.\n\nSir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, said he was \"saddened\" that the base, which is in his constituency, was to be sold \"as part of cost-saving measures\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"Not the best way to mark the #RAF100: closing the home of the RAF Red Arrows and Dambuster squadron.\"\n\nLincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones said losing the base \"was as serious a blow as Lincoln losing the cathedral\" would be.\n\nThe base has been the home of the Red Arrows since 2000\n\nLeader of West Lindsey District Council Jeff Summers said: \"The RAF has a rich heritage in Lincolnshire and this news will be upsetting for many people.\n\n\"Together with Lincolnshire County Council we look forward to developing a plan for the site to explore the positives to ensure the heritage of RAF Scampton is reflected in future developments that meet the needs of the local economy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shagufta Khan was the director of Best Meet and Greet Ltd\n\nA woman has admitted misleading Gatwick holidaymakers who paid for their cars to be stored securely, when instead they were left in fields and public car parks.\n\nShagufta Khan, 42, was the director of Best Meet and Greet Ltd, which West Sussex County Council's Trading Standards team investigated after complaints.\n\nAt Hove Crown Court Mrs Khan admitted engaging in unfair and misleading commercial practice.\n\nShe will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nCars were kept in fields, not in a secure place as advertised\n\nThe court heard the company's website contained cheap short-term offers which pushed customers to book quickly, and it had false testimonies from \"satisfied\" customers.\n\nMrs Khan, of Stace Way, Crawley, also \"misled customers on the characteristics of their car parking\", by claiming vehicles would be securely guarded at all times, when actually they were stored in public car parks and muddy fields.\n\nThe court heard it was \"not likely\" Mrs Khan was the person with ultimate control over the company, and there was a strong chance other people were involved.\n\nCars were brought back filthy after being kept with Best Meet and Greet Ltd\n\nBest Meet and Greet is one of various firms which has been investigated by Trading Standards for similar reasons, including Gatwick First Parking and London Parking Gatwick.\n\nKaren Aldous used the service, and when she returned from her holiday Best Meet and Greet were unable to find the vehicle. After four-and-a-half hours it was returned, but it was dented and covered in mud.\n\nShe said: \"The repairs have been estimated at around £700, and I think Best Meet and Greet should cover the cost of those repairs.\"\n\nThe company website claimed the facility was manned and guarded 24/7\n\nAfter the conviction Richard Sargeant, Trading Standards team manager, said: \"We think this is very serious; customers are being defrauded.\n\n\"This company was making statements on their website and they were false. Consumers paid good money for their cars to be securely parked, but they weren't - they were parked unprofessionally in a field.\"\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said: \"Gatwick Airport strongly recommends passengers use official on-airport parking, or companies registered with Gatwick's approved off-airport parking operators scheme.\n\n\"While we sympathise with all affected passengers, it is important to stress that Gatwick has no relationship with the parking operator involved in this trial.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack happened at a branch of Home Bargains in Worcester\n\nA fifth man has been arrested over a suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy in Worcester.\n\nThe 41-year-old man from Wolverhampton was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm, West Mercia Police said.\n\nPolice said the boy was in a pushchair when he was deliberately attacked at Home Bargains in Worcester at 14:15 BST on Saturday.\n\nFour other men arrested on the same charge remain in custody, police said.\n\nThey are a 39-year-old man from Wolverhampton and three men, aged 22, 25 and 26, from London.\n\nDet Insp Jim Bayliss said: \"Our officers are continuing to work extremely hard on this investigation.\n\n\"At this time we believe this to be an isolated incident and there is not a wider risk to the public.\"\n• None Three arrests over acid attack on boy, 3\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescuers are racing to find survivors after a dam in Laos collapsed late on Monday, flooding several villages and killing at least 20 people.\n\nAt least 100 people are still missing, and thousands have lost their homes.\n\nThe authorities in Attapeu province have been using helicopters and boats to try to evacuate stranded villagers.\n\nThe dam that collapsed is part of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project, which involves Laotian, Thai and South Korean firms.\n\nLocal authorities have appealed to government bodies and other communities to provide emergency aid such as clothing, food, drinking water and medicine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Villagers seek refuge on roofs of submerged homes in Laos\n\nFootage of the disaster has shown survivors huddled on roof tops of their submerged homes, or wading through water, holding children and their belongings.\n\nOne woman, seen in a video posted by ABC Laos news on Facebook, cried and prayed as she was evacuated on a boat, telling rescuers her mother was still stranded on a tree.\n\nThe dam that collapsed is an auxiliary dam called \"Saddle Dam D\". It is part of a network of two main dams and five subsidiary dams in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project.\n\nThe dam was 90% complete and had been set to start operating commercially next year.\n\nSK Engineering & Construction, a South Korean company with a stake in the project, said fractures were first discovered on the dam on Sunday, before it collapsed:\n\nRatchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, the main Thai stakeholder, said in a statement that the dam \"was fractured\" after \"continuous rainstorm[s]\" caused a \"high volume of water to flow into the project's reservoir\".\n\nAs a result, water \"leaked to the downstream area and down to Xe-Pian River\" about 5km (three miles) away, it added.\n\nLaos has in recent years invested heavily in hydroelectric power - which makes up about 30% of its exports.\n\nThe government plans to double current energy production by 2020 to become the \"battery of South East Asia\".\n\nBut groups warn of the project's impact on the environment and the nations the river supports.", "A record number of primary school children are leaving school severely obese, according to new figures from Public Health England.\n\nData for 2016/17 shows one in 25 10 to 11 year olds were severely obese.\n\nThat's more than 22,000 children, and the highest level since records began.\n\nLevels of childhood obesity have remained fairly stable in recent years, but the new analysis shows that severe obesity has been on an upward trend over the last decade.\n\nThe data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for children for the year 2016/17 has detailed the trends in severe obesity for the first time.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the trends were \"extremely worrying and have been decades in the making - reversing them will not happen overnight.\"\n\nShe said \"bold measures are needed to tackle this threat to our children's health\".\n\nThe Department of Health recently announced the second phase of its childhood obesity plan to help halve childhood obesity by 2030.\n\nAs part of that, sweets and high-fat snacks will be banned from supermarket checkouts, and there will be tighter restrictions on junk food ads on TV.\n\nCaroline Cerny, of the Obesity Health Alliance, said the government's obesity plans need to be \"fully and swiftly implemented\".\n\n\"It's very concerning that the number of children with a weight that is classified as severely obese is now at an all-time high. Children with obesity are five times more likely to have obesity as adults, putting them at risk of diseases including Type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart and liver disease, as well as associated mental health conditions.\"\n\nDr Max Davie, Officer for Health Promotion for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), said although the new data was \"shocking\" it was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"The Government's childhood obesity plan is encouraging but if the policies within it are not quickly enacted, more children are going to face a life that's limited in quality and expectancy\" he said.\n\n\"Obesity is entirely preventable, so this new data should be the springboard the government needs in order to put these policies in place and begin turning around lives.\"", "The fires that tore through central Portugal last June destroyed lives and left homes in ruins\n\n\"It's been like this every day and it's always about the same thing. The fire.\"\n\nThe phone rings incessantly at Sílvia Bento's desk in the Pedrógão Grande Mayor's office.\n\nIt was on 17 June last year that a wildfire raged through this part of central Portugal, devastating an area four times the size of Lisbon, destroying hundreds of homes and killing 66 people.\n\nMany victims were trapped in their homes or in their cars as they tried to escape. It was the deadliest fire in Portuguese history.\n\n\"It's like it was yesterday,\" says Sílvia Bento.\n\nA year on, the ferocity and the scope of this tragedy are marked by thousands of acres of black and brown mountains and valleys stretching as far as the horizon.\n\nCharred road signs in Pedrógão Grande betray the traumatic events of a year ago\n\nThe constant buzz of chainsaws suggests work on reviving the area has begun. But a lack of funding, a lack of people and the sheer shock of the disaster mean it will take some time for this part of central Portugal to recover.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Even after what happened, the locals look around and everything reminds them of what happened. Even if they want to avoid that reality, they can't,\" says Ana Santos, an expert in grief therapy at the PIN psychology centre.\n\nShe says there are several cases of mourning and severe trauma in the area surrounding the councils of Pedrógão Grande, Castanheira de Pêra and Figueiró dos Vinhos.\n\nAna Margarida Teixeira, a local psychologist working on the ground since day one, says cases of post-traumatic stress disorder are rare but that almost every week new patients sign in at the public health clinic where she works.\n\n\"The population has been very resilient. They're looking at what happened as an opportunity for growth and there is less stigma regarding asking for help than I thought,\" she says.\n\nSince the fire the government has required 10m either side of a road to be clear of vegetation, but young eucalyptus trees are quickly filling that space\n\nAmong the survivors who has sought help is Lídia Antunes, whose family survived the disaster, but only just.\n\nOn the day of the fire, they fled their house in three different cars. They soon lost track of each other and became cut off on flame-ridden forest roads.\n\n\"I was convinced I was going to die. I was speeding through flames and it was so hot, I though if I tried to U-turn the car would melt,\" she says. \"At some point I got lost and got hit by another car but I just kept speeding. I knew that as soon as the car stopped I would die.\"\n\nShe drove on and ended up saving a couple pleading for help.\n\nLídia Antunes and her family survived but she has asked for help in the aftermath of the disaster\n\n\"I told them to get in quickly, but the back doors of the car had melted, so the two of them had to get in through the passenger's window.\n\n\"An elderly man who was with them couldn't get in and decided to stay behind. To this day I have no idea if he survived,\" she says.\n\nLídia is on medication and still has sleepless nights.\n\n\"Every day I think why did I leave? But then I think I wouldn't have saved those two people if I'd stayed at home,\" she says. \"That makes it a bit easier.\"\n\n47 people were killed on this stretch of road alone, between Castanheira de Pêra and Figueiró dos Vinhos\n\nCastanheira de Pêra, is a town of 3,000 people where everyone has been touched by the fire. And everyone has a story.\n\nMayor Alda Correia still finds it hard to talk about. \"We can repair the physical losses,\" she says, holding back tears. \"But the emotional part, the blackened souls, those I can't mend.\"\n\nAlda Correia is mayor of a town where everyone was touched by the tragedy last June\n\nSo far 157 of the 261 destroyed houses here have been rebuilt, according to the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure.\n\nMs Correia says much has been done so far, but the administration is struggling with lack of funding and depopulation.\n\nFor the Tomás family, who have operated the biggest wood company in the area for the past 40 years, the fire has proved a threat to their livelihood.\n\nTheir lumber plant was destroyed at a cost of more than £4m in damages. The company managed to rebuild and keep all 50 employees' jobs, but it's now struggling with the falling wood prices and lack of raw material.\n\nSandra Tomás fears for the future of her family's business\n\nSandra Tomás, the company's manager, believes they will be forced to move to Spain to look for raw material in two years' time. \"Pines take 40 years to fully grow, what are we and our employees supposed to do until then? Wait?\"\n\n\"Look at all this wood. it's worthless,\" says her husband Nuno, who runs the lumber business.\n\nAround him lie countless piles of pine and eucalyptus logs.\n\n\"There's so much of it that the market is saturated\". The constant echo of chainsaws is a measure of the race against the clock to save the tarnished wood before it rots.\n\nAlda Correia's biggest priority now is to bring in investment so that people stay in Castanheira de Pêra.\n\nShe wants to put the region on the map \"as a getaway from the tourist frenzy sweeping the country\", to boost the local economy and restore its image of natural beauty.\n\nMany houses in Castanheira de Pêra remain derelict a year after the fire\n\nFor grief therapist Ana Santos, the idea of an image tarnished by fire is not uncommon. \"Finding a new goal is important to restore their identity and meaning to their lives,\" she says.\n\nYoung, silver-green eucalyptus trees are beginning to grow in this charred landscape.\n\nNewly built houses painted in white, yellow and pink are bringing colour back to the town.\n\nA tank in which a whole family took refuge during the fire is again feeding the local cattle.\n\nAnd the N-236 road where dozens of people died has a new layer of asphalt and signs where people can leave flowers.\n\n\"Life is getting back to normal,\" says Silvia Bento at the mayor's office. \"People don't talk about it every day any more.\n\n\"But it's in our minds every day. Definitely, we will never forget\".", "Forest fires raging across Greece have killed at least 20 and injured more than 100, forcing the authorities to ask for international assistance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab says there is some 'shifting of Whitehall deckchairs'\n\nTheresa May is taking personal control of Brexit talks with the EU, with Dominic Raab deputising for her.\n\nMr Raab was drafted in as Brexit Secretary to replace David Davis, who quit in protest at the prime minister's proposals for post-Brexit trade.\n\nA special unit in Mrs May's office has played an increasing role in Brexit talks during recent months.\n\nTuesday's announcement, in a written statement by Mrs May, formalises that shift in responsibility.\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman said: \"Dominic Raab has been sidelined by the prime minister before he has even had the chance to get his feet under the table.\"\n\nMr Raab, who was a leading figure in the Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum, insisted he had not been sidelined, telling MPs it had always been the case that Mrs May was in overall charge of the talks and the announcement amounted to some \"shifting of the Whitehall deckchairs\".\n\nHe said the prime minister had suggested the changes to him on the day he was offered David Davis's job and he had agreed to them.\n\nHe acknowledged there had previously been \"tensions\" between his department and the Cabinet Office and the changes would ensure there was \"one chain of command\" to \"get the best possible deal\".\n\nStewart Jackson, who was chief of staff for David Davis before he resigned two weeks ago, has previously accused Number 10 of running a \"shadow, parallel operation\" and keeping officials and ministers from the Brexit department \"in the dark\" about Brexit proposals.\n\nThe Europe Unit led by senior civil servant Olly Robbins in the Cabinet Office, which reports directly to the prime minister, will have \"overall responsibility for the preparation and conduct of the negotiations\", Mrs May said in her written statement.\n\n\"DExEU (the Department for Exiting the EU) will continue to lead on all of the government's preparations for Brexit: domestic preparations in both a deal and a no-deal scenario, all of the necessary legislation, and preparations for the negotiations to implement the detail of the Future Framework.\n\n\"I will lead the negotiations with the European Union, with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union deputising on my behalf.\"\n\nMrs May said that DExEU would recruit some new staff to work on preparations for Brexit, while a number of Cabinet Office officials would move over to the department.\n\nThere will be no net reduction to staff numbers in Mr Raab's department, she said.\n\nMr Raab told MPs on the Brexit committee, he would be going back out to Brussels shortly to continue talks with EU negotiator Michel Barnier, alongside Mr Robbins.\n\nConservative MP Craig Mackinlay suggested a \"coup\" had taken place to take control of the Brexit process away from David Davis.\n\nMr Robbins said: \"I honestly don't recognise the picture you are painting.\"\n\nTheresa May with EU negotiating chief Michel Barnier (right) in December\n\nIt comes as the government published a White Paper saying how the UK's EU withdrawal agreement will be put into law.\n\nMr Raab said the proposed Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill would deliver a \"smooth and orderly\" Brexit.\n\nHe said it would kick in only once MPs had given their backing to any deal struck with Brussels in the autumn. If there is no deal it will not be enacted.\n\nThe legislation would amend some parts of the EU Withdrawal Bill, passed last month after a series of knife-edge votes, to ensure the UK statute book continues to function during the 21 month transition period.\n\nIt would not end the supremacy of EU law altogether on 29 March next year, as promised in the EU Withdrawal Bill, with the continued jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice until December 2020, among other things.\n\nLabour's Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said it was now clear that the EU Withdrawal Act \"will need major surgery,\" adding that the 29 March Brexit day was a \"gimmick\" which had come \"unstuck\".\n\n\"I can't remember legislation which has needed such great revision and amendment before the relevant parts have even come into force,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe new bill would create a financial authority to manage \"divorce\" payments, which will total between £35bn and £39bn, to the EU - and aim to protect citizens' rights.\n\nMr Raab told MPs: \"It provides the clarity and certainty to EU citizens living here and UK nationals abroad that their rights will be properly protected.\n\n\"It will enact a time-limited implementation period, giving businesses greater certainty, giving the public finality with respect to our relationship with the EU and it provides for the appropriate means for paying the financial settlement.\n\n\"Above all, with 80% of the withdrawal agreement settled with our EU friends, the white paper is another key milestone on the UK's path to leaving the EU.\"\n\nHe said the publication of the white paper will allow \"maximum scrutiny\" of the government's plans by Parliament.\n\n\"It also sends a clear signal to the European Union that the United Kingdom is a reliable, dependable negotiating partner, delivering on the commitments it has made across the negotiation table,\" he told MPs.\n\nIn a separate development, the UK government guaranteed funding for EU programmes run by UK charities, businesses and universities up to the end of 2020, even if the UK left without a deal.", "Overcrowding on commuter trains to and from London declined slightly last year - but increased on routes into other major cities in England and Wales.\n\nThe Department for Transport said nearly a quarter of all passengers had to stand on trains into the capital.\n\nMeanwhile, significant numbers were also unable to find a seat on services into Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.\n\nThe fall in overcrowding on services into and out of London reflected a decline in overall passenger numbers.\n\nThe decline in passengers was particularly noticeable in the South East, but outside London there was an increase in numbers.\n\nHowever, the capital still had the highest proportion of overcrowded services, followed by Cambridge and Manchester.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the network was overcrowded, but that the government was investing more money than at any time since the steam age in expanding capacity.\n\nMore than one million passengers arrived into London on a typical day.\n\nSome 55% of those passengers arrived in the morning peak period, which is defined as services arriving at a city centre in a three-hour period from 7am to 10am.\n\nKing's Cross had the highest overcrowding rates in the morning (9%) and afternoon peaks (5.6%) of all the central London stations during 2017.\n\nIn the 2017 morning peak, 23% of passengers were standing on trains arriving into London, and for those arriving into Blackfriars station this was 36%.\n\n\"In London, the most populous region also with the highest population density, more rail journeys were made in 2016-17 than all other regions of Great Britain combined,\" said the Department for Transport.\n\n\"Between 2006-07 and 2016-17, the West Midlands, North West and West Yorkshire saw the fastest growth in rail usage.\n\n\"These regional differences tend to reflect the levels of urbanisation within them. Areas with higher urban population densities are less reliant on car usage and more reliant on public transport, walking and cycling.\"\n\nIt said that the number of passenger journeys made by rail in Scotland had also increased considerably over the past decade, with ScotRail seeing a 31% increase,\n\nRail traffic in Scotland is concentrated around Glasgow and Edinburgh, and all of the country's 10 busiest trains are services to or from these cities.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nFrenchman Julian Alaphilippe won an eventful stage 16 of the Tour de France after Britain's Adam Yates crashed late on while leading.\n\nYates crested the final climb alone but fell on the descent 7km before the finish in Bagneres-de-Luchon.\n\nAlaphilippe was applying the pressure behind and swung past to claim his second victory of this year's Tour.\n\nGeraint Thomas kept the yellow jersey and leads fellow Briton and team-mate Chris Froome by one minute 39 seconds.\n\nThe race was delayed 29km into the 218km stage from Carcassonne after a protest by French farmers.\n\nHay bales were thrown across the road before police appeared to use a spray on protesters, which then blew into the peloton.\n\nSome riders, including Team Sky's Thomas and Froome, stopped and doused their eyes with water.\n\nThe race was delayed for 15 minutes while riders received medical attention, before a large group broke clear after the resumption, from which Alaphilippe attacked throughout, also extending his lead in the polka dot jersey mountains classification.\n• None BeSpoke at the Tour: Pepper spray, policeman and the Pyrenees\n• None 'A 65km stage is unheard of' - Cavendish's guide to stage 17\n\nEven before Yates' crash, Quick-Step Floors rider Alaphilippe looked on course to catch the 25-year-old, whose front wheel slipped from under him as he hit a wet patch in the road. Yates finished third, with Gorka Izagirre second.\n\n\"I've taken more risks on more technical descents before and never had any problems, but you never know what is coming round these corners,\" Mitchelton-Scott rider Yates told ITV 4.\n\n\"I've no bad injuries, just bad morale - it's pretty devastating to come that close to winning a stage of the Tour and not win.\"\n\nYates rode a faultless race until his crash, powerfully bridging across to leading duo Robert Gesink and Domenico Pozzovivo on the final climb, the Col du Portillon, before kicking clear as soon as Alaphilippe also made the catch.\n\nKeeping his pedal stroke smooth and only getting out of the saddle on the steepest sections, Yates built up a 22-second lead by the summit, with only Alaphilippe able to respond.\n\nThat set up a dramatic downhill chase in the final 10km, during which Alaphilippe used his tremendous descending skills to cut the gap by eight seconds in 3km by the time Yates fell.\n\nAlthough Yates was back riding quickly, he knew his chance was gone, shaking his head as he was caught by Bahrain-Merida's Izagirre, who sprinted to second, with Yates holding off the other pursuers.\n\n\"We didn't think it was in the bag,\" said Mitchelton-Scott sporting director Matt White. \"Alaphilippe is one of the world's fastest descenders and it put Adam under a lot of pressure to take some risks.\n\n\"We were right behind Alaphilippe in the team car and some of the positions he got in down that descent, I've never seen before in my life.\"\n\nAs with his stage 10 win, victory here was reward for Alaphilippe's attacking instincts, the 26-year-old ensuring he contested every climb to pick up 30 points and extend his lead over Warren Barguil in the king of the mountains competition to 49 points.\n\nAlaphilippe's team-mate Philippe Gilbert is out of the Tour after a heavy fall on the descent of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet, where Italian Fabio Casartelli crashed and died during the 1995 Tour.\n\nBelgian Gilbert locked up on a left-hand bend and flipped over a low stone wall into a ravine, but climbed out to complete the stage. However, a scan later revealed the 36-year-old had sustained a fractured kneecap in the crash.\n• None Thomas or Froome - will Team Sky have to choose?\n\nAfter a 47-man group containing no threats to the main contenders finally established themselves up the road, this was a largely sedate day in terms of the general classification.\n\nAstana and Katusha-Alpecin tried to set something up for their respective leaders, Jakob Fuglsang and Ilnur Zakarin, while Movistar's Mikel Landa, sixth overall, attacked over the final climb and on to the descent.\n\nEach dig was easily reeled in by Team Sky, who calmly led the peloton home 8:52 down on Alaphilippe, but their rivals should have more scope to attack on Wednesday's tough 65km stage.\n\n\"We were expecting fireworks and a lot of attacks but luckily they didn't materialise - they did a bit on the last climb and descent but the boys shut it down,\" said Thomas.\n\n\"We're definitely expecting attacks on stage 17 - maybe from the gun. It's a really demanding day and the last climb is maybe the hardest of the Tour so it will take a gutsy ride to go from the start, but we're expecting the worst.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Peter Sagan secured an unassailable lead in the green jersey points classification as neither he nor second-placed Alexander Kristoff picked up any points.\n\nThe world champion is 282 points ahead with a maximum of 240 remaining in the final five stages and only needs to complete the race to win a record-equalling sixth green jersey.\n\nWednesday's stage 17 is one of the shortest mass start routes in Tour de France history at 65km, but features three punishing climbs.\n\nThe riders will be placed in grids at the start, according to their rankings on the general classification.\n\nIn his stage-by-stage guide for BBC Sport, Mark Cavendish said: \"This stage is something that is unheard of - I don't think the gridding of the riders will have any affect on the race but we start with the Peyresourde and it's a gruelling climb.\n\n\"It will be full gas from start to finish, no matter who you are.\"", "British national Hasnat Karim has been acquitted of involvement in the 2016 cafe siege\n\nA British man detained in Bangladesh following a deadly cafe siege two years ago is to be released from custody.\n\nHasnat Karim was celebrating his daughter's 13th birthday at the Holey Artisan cafe in Dhaka in July 2016 when it was targeted by Islamist militants.\n\nPolice said an investigation had cleared him of any involvement in the attack.\n\nTwenty-two people, mostly foreigners, were killed during the 12-hour siege, Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack.\n\nEight other suspects have been charged.\n\nMr Karim, who is in his late 40s and has dual British-Bangladeshi citizenship, was taken hostage when gunmen stormed the cafe.\n\nWitnesses at the time said he became a police suspect because he agreed to become a human shield during the siege.\n\nThe head of the police's counterterrorism and transnational crime unit, Monirul Islam, said Mr Karim faced no charges in connection with the attack.\n\n\"None of those arrested alive named Hasnat Karim. His involvement was not found during any stage of the investigation. That's why we have not included his name in the charge sheet,\" Mr Islam was quoted as saying by news site bdnews24.com.\n\nMr Karim's wife told BBC Bengali on Tuesday that he had yet to be released.\n\nThe attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, although Bangladesh disputed this and said a local militant group was responsible.\n\nFive militants inside the cafe were killed by police. Eight others have now been charged over their involvement, six of whom are in custody, according to Mr Islam.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArron Banks paid thousands of pounds into a government minister's private bank account while seeking a licence to prospect for diamonds in the Kingdom of Lesotho, it has emerged.\n\nThe tycoon acknowledges he gave money to the politician but says it was to help fund his political campaigning.\n\nAn anti-corruption investigator is now probing the alleged link in light of evidence gathered by the BBC.\n\nPaul O'Sullivan, who has the authority to file a criminal case with the prosecutor, said there was a \"serious lack of transparency\".\n\nThe evidence discovered by the BBC focuses on the relationship Mr Banks had with the leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP), Thesele Maseribane.\n\nMr Maseribane - who is also a government minister - admitted that Mr Banks, the Bristol-based businessman, transferred £65,000 into his personal bank account in South Africa.\n\nHe defended the transaction, saying: \"Lesotho is overcome with corruption. I'm not saying my party is, but what I'm saying is we should try and practise a very fair policy.\"\n\nNot only did Mr Banks transfer money to the party leader in 2013, he also covered the costs of campaign rallies, spending £350,000.\n\nAt around the same time, Mr Banks was seeking a prospecting licence for his mining site along the Senqu River in the south of Lesotho.\n\nHe also financially supported Mr Maseribane whilst he was in exile following a military coup in 2014, paying for his accommodation and food.\n\nWhen the BBC visited the Senqu River site, its manager Dirk Veldtman said it was now closing because of a lack of diamonds. In fact, only six diamonds were found in three years, at an estimated value of £28,000.\n\nHe said it was very difficult to secure mining permits and that it helped to \"grease palms\" of various government officials.\n\nEmail excerpts seen by the BBC show that several weeks after £16,000 was transferred into Mr Maseribane's account, Mr Banks' application for a prospecting licence was approved in 2014.\n\nThe BBC showed these interviews to Mr O'Sullivan, a high-profile anti-corruption investigator based in South Africa.\n\nHe said: \"If you are paying the rent, buying food, and financially supporting politicians who could influence and further your own business interests, then there are clear signs of corruption at play.\n\n\"Putting money into the private bank account of a government minister also raises questions. There is a serious lack of transparency.\n\n\"I will be filing a docket, a criminal complaint here in South Africa and I will be sending a file to the Serious Fraud Office in the UK.\"\n\nMr Banks admitted financing Mr Maseribane, but denied that this amounted to corruption.\n\nHe said it was necessary to \"grease palms\" in Lesotho to get things done through government, but denied ever having done that.\n\nHe said his company had made four applications for mining licences, all of which are outstanding. However, he did not deny that Mr Maseribane had spoken to the mining minister on his behalf and that a prospecting licence had been granted in 2014.", "JT was repeatedly assaulted by her stepfather between the ages of four and 17\n\nA woman sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of four has won a landmark case against the \"same roof\" rule, which denied her the right to compensation.\n\nUnder the rule, victims who lived in the same home as their attacker before 1979 were not entitled to damages.\n\nCourt of Appeal decided the rule was incompatible with human rights laws.\n\nThe woman, known as JT, said she had \"finally... achieved something good\" out of \"an awful situation\".\n\nThe solicitors representing JT said \"40 years of injustice\" had been overcome by the Court of Appeal's ruling.\n\nJT's case was brought in England and Wales but there are separate challenges to the rule in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nJT's stepfather abused her between the ages of four and 17 and was later convicted of eight offences including rape and sexual assault in 2012.\n\nHowever when JT applied for damages through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) she was refused because of the \"same roof\" rule.\n\nThe rule was intended to ensure that perpetrators would not benefit from the compensation paid to the victims they lived with.\n\nThis was changed in 1979 so that child victims of domestic crimes could claim compensation, however the change was not applied retrospectively.\n\nFurther changes were made in 2012 but the same-roof rule was maintained amid fears that abolishing it would lead to a rise in the number of claims.\n\nLord Justice Leggatt, who heard the appeal with Sir Terence Etherton and Lady Justice Sharp, said the scheme was \"all the more unfair\" because JT, who was a child when the abuse took place, had no control over where and with whom she lived.\n\nResponding to the judgement, JT said: \"After so many knock backs in my life I was expecting the worst.\"\n\n\"I am delighted at the decision, not just for myself but hopefully this will help others like me.\n\n\"I do not live at the minute - I just exist - I am hoping that I can finally get some sort of life.\"\n\nHer solicitor said the judgement was \"the culmination of five years struggle [by JT] when it would have been easier to give up.\"\n\nThe ruling was also welcomed by children's charity Barnardo's, human rights campaigning group Liberty and the charity Victim Support.\n\nIn a joint statement the organisations said that since 2015, the compensation scheme had refused 180 applications.\n\n\"Today's ruling paves the way for them to receive the justice they deserve, so they can move on with their lives,\" the statement said.\n\nIn April, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse recommended scrapping the rule.\n\nLawyers representing CICA said the government decision not to extend the scheme to pre-1979 victims was \"justified\".", "Wildfires in Greece's Attica region have killed dozens of people.\n\nMany of the victims were trapped in the village of Mati, 40km (25 miles) north-east of Athens, and died either in their homes or their cars. This village in the Rafina region is popular with tourists.\n\nSmoke rises over a motorway in Neo Voutsa, a suburb of Athens\n\nThe sky turned orange as smoke spread over the beach town of Kineta in west Attica\n\nA firefighting helicopter flies over the town of Rafina on Attica's eastern coast, where fires are a recurring problem in the summer\n\nGreece's prime minister has declared a state of emergency in Attica.\n\nThe government has asked other EU countries for helicopters and additional firefighters\n\nThe fire was particularly deadly in Mati, where 26 bodies were found just 15m (50ft) from the sea\n\nEmergency workers used boats and helicopters to evacuate residents and tourists stranded along the coast\n\nPeople ran into the water to escape the blaze\n\nWith temperatures set to soar again, Greece is in a race against time to get the fires under control\n\nA spokesperson for the International Federation of the Red Cross told the BBC some people had lost everything", "A water spray kept police officers and pedestrians cool in Kyiv, Ukraine\n\nExperts are warning that a summer heatwave across Europe could lead to a surge in coronavirus infections.\n\nIn England, a hot spell has seen beaches on the south coast inundated with visitors. Some say they are desperate to see the sea after months of lockdown and restrictions on travelling abroad.\n\nBut even if you can enjoy the weather and manage social distancing, you could be vulnerable to heat exhaustion.\n\nYou should cool off immediately if you have the following symptoms: headaches, feeling dizzy, loss of appetite, nausea, excessive sweating, cramps, fast breathing and intense thirst.\n\nIf your body's temperature hits 40C (104F), heat-stroke can set in, which requires urgent medical help. Danger signs include sweat stopping - the person may feel hot, but dry - and breathing difficulties.\n\nHeat-stroke can lead to loss of consciousness and serious complications, including permanent damage to vital organs or even death.\n\nHeat-stroke can set in when the body's temperature rises above 40C\n\nThose most vulnerable include the elderly, people with conditions such as diabetes, young children and people working or exercising outdoors.\n\nBecause our bodies sweat more in hot weather, it is really important to replenish lost water levels. Our physical thirst is not a very reliable indicator of how dehydrated we are (urine colour is better), so you should try to drink plenty before you feel parched.\n\nTry not to drink too much caffeine or alcohol, as they are diuretics that can increase dehydration.\n\nFoods with high water content such as strawberries, cucumber, lettuce, celery and melon can also help you stay hydrated.\n\nAn ice lolly or ice cream may feel like brief relief, but isn't the best for cooling down\n\nTry to avoid large, heavy meals laden with carbohydrates and protein because they take more digesting, which in turn produces more body heat.\n\nAlthough it may not be what you fancy on sweaty days, scientific research suggests spicy and hot foods can actually help cool you down.\n\nIf you're experiencing high temperatures you are not used to, try to keep your activity levels low for the first few days and let your body acclimatise.\n\nIf you need to travel around, try to do it when the weather is at its coolest: early or late in the day.\n\nIf you chose to exercise in heatwaves, listen to your body - it will be under greater strain than in usual conditions so your usual limits may be different.\n\nIf you do intensive exercise, drink lots of water. Isotonic sports drinks can also help ensure you are rehydrating properly.\n\nIn general, stay in the shade or in air-conditioned places as much as possible, especially at the hottest part of the day.\n\nCold showers and blotting with damp, cold materials can also work wonders.\n\nDressing for the weather may sound obvious, but clothes can make a real difference to how our bodies handle heat. Avoid the temptation to strip off, because you may be at greater risk of sunburn, which can affect your body's ability to cool itself.\n\nWear light colours (dark colours absorb more of the light, converting it into heat) and loose garments that can allow air to get in. Hats with ventilation will help and fabric choice is key - materials like cotton and linen are more breathable, absorbing sweat and encouraging ventilation.\n\nAt night, fabric is critical again. Lightweight materials for bedding and nightwear can help you keep cool - as can sleeping naked and avoiding sharing space with partners.\n\nPutting your sheets in the freezer for a bit before you go to bed can help you stay chilled through hot nights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC colleagues from hot countries give their tips for staying cool\n\nIf you're eco-conscious then you'll want to stay away from air conditioning - which, thanks to the immense amounts of electricity needed to power them, have been linked to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nBut in a heatwave, this is easier said than done.\n\nHowever, there are some small, environmentally friendly things you can do to keep yourself cool.\n\nTry keeping your face creams and gels in the fridge, so when you apply them to your face they'll feel nice and cool.\n\nAnd while you may want to let the sunlight stream in, leaving your curtains drawn through the day will help to minimise heat in bedrooms - especially if they're light-coloured blackout curtains. Unplugging any unnecessary electrical items will help too.\n\nKeeping a damp towel and water spray bottle handy can also help - and for an even cooler fix, fill up a hot water bottle with ice.\n\nFans are also a good, if obvious, alternative to air conditioning - and placing a bowl of ice at an angle in front of your fan can help cool the air even more.\n\nWeather conditions can play a large role in the ability of wildfires to spread.\n\nIn hot weather, dry vegetation ignite and burn faster, causing fires to grow rapidly.\n\nPeople should be extra careful discarding items such as matches and cigarettes, and local guidance on plant maintenance and burning waste should be followed.\n\nHot weather can lead to wildfires in countries such as Spain\n\nIf you see a fire that is unattended or appears out of control, you should contact emergency services immediately.\n\nNational Geographic recommends learning your evacuation route in advance if you live in a risk area. Clearing a trench around your property and keeping emergency supplies handy is also a good idea.\n\nIf evacuating, close all windows shut off gas supplies and remove combustibles. Filling vessels like bathtubs and bins with water can also deter fire spread.\n\nIf you are caught near a fire, stay calm and seek out somewhere like a river to protect yourself.\n\nIf this isn't possible, find a spot without vegetation and lie face-down, if possible covered in something damp.\n\nA wet cloth over your mouth will help prevent smoke inhalation while breathing.", "The choir was formed in 1994 by Karen Gibson\n\nThe gospel choir who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have signed a major record deal with Sony Music UK.\n\nThe Kingdom Choir performed Stand By Me in front of an estimated global TV audience of 1.9 billion people at the royal wedding on 19 May.\n\nPrior to that, their biggest show had attracted about 200 people.\n\nTheir performance later topped the US gospel chart, while the YouTube video has been watched three million times.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe London-based choir, which features 30 singers, was formed in 1994 by award-winning conductor Karen Gibson, who had previously sung backing vocals for The Beautiful South.\n\nIn 2000, they won BBC Radio 2's Minstrels in the Gallery, a competitive festival of religious music. Two years later, they were nominated for best UK Choir at the Oasis Awards.\n\nThey have since performed alongside Sir Elton John, Luther Vandross, the Spice Girls and Michael Ball.\n\nThe choir have also announced a headline show at London's Union Chapel on 28 November\n\nThe group will go into the studio later this month to begin work on their debut album, which is set for release on 2 November and will include their arrangement of the Ben E King classic.\n\nIn a statement announcing the release, Gibson said: \"The Kingdom Choir are absolutely delighted with the journey of the past few months.\n\n\"It's been a rollercoaster, but we wouldn't have it any other way - first, the honour of being able to sing at the royal wedding, and then the thrill of being signed to Sony.\"\n\nSony Music boss Nicola Tuer said she had \"jumped at the chance\" to sign the group.\n\n\"The choir believe in love, music and power and we are excited to capture this on record for their fans across the globe.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests so far and each one has taken it closer to what decades of international talks have tried to prevent - a nuclear weapon in the hands of one of the world's most unpredictable states.\n\nYears of posturing - and attempts at negotiation by foreign powers - culminated in October 2006 with an announcement by Pyongyang that it had carried out its first nuclear explosion.\n\nLike all tests that would follow, it took place underground, in tunnels dug into a remote mountainous site called Punggye-ri, in the north-east.\n\nAll of the tests have been conducted underground at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east\n\nThe device is assumed to have used plutonium, sourced from the North's nuclear facility at Yongbyon.\n\nInternational observers estimated the blast had an energy discharge of about a kilotonne, less than a tenth of the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.\n\nMany believed this indicated a nuclear \"fizzle\" rather than a fully effective blast.\n\nBut the North said it had joined the nuclear club, and that its bomb would contribute to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe second test was bigger, with an estimated yield of between two and eight kilotonnes.\n\nNorth Korea said it had achieved a \"higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology\".\n\nThe second test, here applauded by Party officials, was seen as an attempt by the North to prove it could still conduct a test despite political uncertainty\n\nThe nuclear tests are initially detected by the seismic waves they generate\n\nWhile the international consensus was that a nuclear test had happened, no radiation was detected. The ability to contain a nuclear test would in itself be a big advance for the North.\n\nIt also followed hard on the heels of a rocket launch which put a satellite in space, but which was seen as a cover for a missile test.\n\nBoth were seen as an attempt by ailing leader Kim Jong-il to prove the North's nuclear capacity before he died.\n\nIn the early hours of 12 February 2013, unusual seismic activity was again detected around Punggye-ri.\n\nThe North said it had tested \"a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously\".\n\nSatellite images in days before the blast had indicated a test was about to take place\n\nThe reference to \"miniaturised\" stoked fears that Pyongyang was closer to producing a device small enough to fit on a long-range missile.\n\nSpeculation was rife that the test involved a uranium device, though this has never been confirmed beyond doubt.\n\nA successful uranium test would mark a significant leap forward in North Korea's nuclear programme. The North's plutonium stocks are finite, but if it could enrich uranium it could build up a nuclear stockpile.\n\nPlutonium enrichment also has to happen in large, easy-to-spot facilities, whereas uranium enrichment can more easily be carried out in secrecy.\n\nThe first indication was again a report of an \"artificial quake\" in North Korea, registering about magnitude 5.1, close to Punggye-ri.\n\nNorth Korea later announced it had conducted its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb.\n\nH-bombs, also known as thermonuclear warheads, are massively more powerful than atomic bombs, using fusion - the merging of atoms - rather than fission to unleash enormous amounts of energy.\n\nThough again it has never been confirmed, that claim alarmed the international community.\n\nObservations from afar suggested the blast detected was not large enough to have been a full thermonuclear device, but may have involved some nuclear fusion.\n\nAgain, North Korea said the device had been miniaturised.\n\nA few months later, on 9 March, Kim Jong-un announced that North Korea scientists had been able to do what had long been feared, and make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a warhead.\n\nIt came after days of threats to carry out \"indiscriminate\" attacks on the US and South Korea. But analysts at the time said it was impossible to confirm.\n\nNorth Korea announced its fifth nuclear test in 2016 in September.\n\nEstimates of the explosive yield have varied. South Korea's military said it was about 10 kilotonnes but other experts say initial indications suggest 20 kilotons or more.\n\nThe bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.\n\nNearly a year later, on 8 August 2017, information leaked to the Washington Post indicated US intelligence officials believe North Korea's claim that it has the technology to fit its missiles with nuclear warheads.\n\nThe new assessment comes only weeks after North Korea tested what intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), it says were capable of reaching the US mainland.\n\nNorth Korea claimed it has successfully tested what the world has worried about - a miniaturised hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to a long-range missile.\n\nHours before state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a hydrogen bomb\n\nSeismic readings of 6.3 indicated the test was bigger than any other that has been conducted.\n\nSome early estimates said that the test came in at about 100-150 kilotonnes, potentially 10 times larger than last time.\n\nNorth Korean state media called it a \"perfect success\" and a \"very meaningful step in completing the national nuclear weapons programme\".", "Advocate General for Scotland Lord Keen is leading for the UK government side in the case\n\nHolyrood's Brexit bill is \"fundamentally inconsistent\" with UK law and should not be allowed to stand, judges at the Supreme Court have heard.\n\nThe court is hearing arguments about whether the Brexit legislation passed by MSPs should be allowed to stand.\n\nUK law officer Lord Keen said the Scottish legislation would \"undermine\" Westminster's EU Withdrawal Bill.\n\nBut Scotland's Lord Advocate insists that the bill is within Holyrood's remit and should become law.\n\nThe hearing will continue on Wednesday, and a judgement is not expected until later in the year.\n\nThe Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies will also be represented in the two-day hearing, having made submissions backing the Scottish government's stance.\n\nThe UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - known as the \"continuity bill\" - was passed under emergency procedures with only the Conservatives and a single Lib Dem MSP voting against it.\n\nIt was drafted as an alternative to Westminster's EU Withdrawal Bill, which MSPs refused to give their consent to following a row over how powers currently exercised from Brussels will be used after Brexit.\n\nBut before it could become law, it was referred to the Supreme Court by UK law officers to settle whether it lies within Holyrood's competence.\n\nPresiding Officer Ken Macintosh penned an official memo saying the bill was \"not within the legislative competence of the parliament\", as it would see MSPs \"make provision now for the exercise of powers which is it is possible they will acquire in future\".\n\nThis was denied by Lord Advocate James Wolffe, the Scottish government's top legal adviser, who insisted the legislation was \"carefully framed\" not to cut across EU laws - and said it was designed on the Withdrawal Bill in that regard.\n\nThe UK government's senior law officers said they wanted the Supreme Court to look at the bill to ensure there was \"legal certainty\" about whether it is valid.\n\nSeven Supreme Court justices will hear two days of arguments about the Brexit bill\n\nArguments are being heard at the Supreme Court by Lady Hale, Lord Reed, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwarth, Lord Hodge, Lord Kerr and Lord Lloyd-Jones.\n\nLord Keen, the Advocate General for Scotland, opened the first day of the hearing arguing that the Scottish bill is \"fundamentally inconsistent\" with the Withdrawal Bill passed by MPs.\n\nThe Holyrood bill includes several provisions not mirrored in the Westminster one, such as retaining the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights and giving ministers the power to suggest EU laws to \"keep pace\" with even after Brexit.\n\nLord Keen said it was \"perfectly clear\" that the Scottish bill was \"directly inconsistent with the UK Act at the most basic of levels\", saying \"the two simply cannot stand together\".\n\nHe told the court that this would create \"dual and inconsistent regimes\" within the UK, which would \"directly frustrate the purpose\" of the Withdrawal Bill, which was to create a \"single cohesive body\" of EU laws retained after Brexit.\n\nHe also argued that the continuity bill could have a bearing on international relations, a field reserved to the UK parliament. He said that \"withdrawal from the EU is a matter for the UK parliament, and the devolved administrations do not have a parallel legislative competence\" in this area.\n\nHis written argument stated: \"The effect of what the Scottish bill does is to make provision for the future relationship with the EU and EU law when that relationship is under negotiation. That could serve to undermine the credibility of the UK's negotiating and implementation strategy in the eyes of the EU.\"\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe will continue his submissions to the court on Wednesday\n\nThe Lord Advocate also began his submissions on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that Holyrood was not specifically barred from legislating on Brexit.\n\nHe said the Advocate General had drawn too broad a definition of international relations, adding: \"I say the bill, given it has effect only in the domestic legal order, cannot affect the UK's negotiations with the EU.\"\n\nHe noted that the Withdrawal Bill had not been passed into law at the time the continuity bill was passed, saying that the existence of a UK bill was \"irrelevant to the questions of legislative competence\".\n\nMr Wolffe's written submission also accuses UK law officers of an \"erroneous analysis of the legal consequences of withdrawal from the EU\".\n\nAnd he noted that Westminster has the power to \"amend or indeed repeal the Scottish bill\", but has not moved to do so. He said that \"any uncertainty, confusion or ambiguity arising from the presence on the statute book of these two bills will be consequence of that legislative choice\".\n\nThe bulk of Mr Wolffe's arguments will be heard on Wednesday.\n\nAfter that, judges will also hear from the counsel general for Wales and the Northern Irish attorney general, who have made submissions as interested parties.\n\nBoth have backed the Scottish government's view that Holyrood should be allowed to legislate on Brexit.\n\nThe Welsh government originally had a Brexit bill of its own, which also faced a court challenge, but the legislation was withdrawn after ministers came to an agreement with UK counterparts over the Withdrawal Bill.\n\nThe three options open to the judges are to give the bill the green light, to reject it entirely, or to allow some sections to stand while rejecting others.\n\nShould any part of the bill be struck down, it would go back to Holyrood for MSPs to consider making changes.\n\nThe ruling could have big implications for Scotland's relationship with the EU and with the UK\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments have been unable to agree on how powers currently exercised from Brussels are to be used after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nBoth sides agree that certain powers should be used to set up UK-wide frameworks of common rules and regulations, in fields like food standards and labelling. But ministers cannot agree on who should have the final say over how this should be done.\n\nScottish ministers say giving Westminster the final say is a \"power grab\" from Holyrood, while Whitehall ministers say they cannot give MSPs a \"veto\" over UK-wide plans.\n\nWith the dispute deadlocked, MSPs refused to give their consent to the EU Withdrawal Bill, giving fresh importance to the issue of the continuity bill and whether it will be allowed to stand.\n\nThe Scottish government has also indicated that it will not put any of the UK government's further Brexit legislation forward for consent votes at Holyrood until the row has been resolved.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nukes, Trump Towers and human rights - what might peace look like between the US and North Korea?\n\nNorth Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.\n\nSatellite images of the Sohae station seen by US-based monitoring group 38 North suggest Pyongyang is complying with a promise made to the US in June.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un had vowed to destroy an engine test site, but did not specify which one.\n\nPyongyang has maintained that Sohae is a satellite launch site.\n\nBut US officials suspect that it has been used to test ballistic missiles.\n\nThe satellite imagery appears to show the dismantling of facilities at North Korea's Sohae site\n\nDuring a landmark meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore last month, the two leaders signed a deal to work towards the \"complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula\".\n\nBut the deal was criticised for a lack of details on when or how Pyongyang would renounce its nuclear weapons.\n\nThe apparent dismantling of the Sohae test site comes amid rising questions over North Korea's willingness to stick to the pledges made at the 12 June summit.\n\nEarlier on Monday, President Trump said that he was \"very happy\" with the progress in relations with North Korea, saying that Pyongyang had not launched any missiles or carried out any nuclear tests during the last nine months.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt follows comments from the US president last week that there was \"no time limit\" for North Korea to denuclearise and no need to rush the process.\n\nThose reports indicate that North Korea's only official nuclear enrichment site at Yongbyon is being upgraded, and that the country was stepping up enrichment at other secret sites.\n\nThe reports cannot be independently verified, but have been deemed accurate by respected North Korea watchers.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a total of six nuclear tests, the most recent of which took place in September last year.\n\nThe North has in the past two years quickly advanced its nuclear programme, and claims that it has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile that is able to reach as far as the continental US.", "The 25-year-old has sung about her struggle with addiction in the past\n\nPop singer Demi Lovato is being treated in a Los Angeles hospital after a suspected drug overdose.\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department responded on Tuesday to a medical emergency in the Hollywood Hills, where the Sorry Not Sorry singer lives.\n\nThe 25-year-old was reportedly found unconscious and treated at the scene with naloxone, an anti-opioid medicine.\n\nShe is awake and breathing at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a family spokesman has said.\n\n\"Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support,\" the spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"Some of the information being reported is incorrect and they respectfully ask for privacy.\"\n\nLovato has struggled with substance abuse for years, and was feared to have relapsed in recent weeks.\n\nLast month she cancelled her show at London's O2 arena, announcing the news on Twitter hours before the concert was due to begin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a single released last month, Sober, she sings: \"Mommy, I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore. And daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor.\"\n\nThe song ends with the lines: \"I'm sorry that I'm here again, I promise I'll get help/It wasn't my intention, I'm sorry to myself.\"\n\nThe track release followed Lovato marking six years of sobriety in March this year.\n\nShe was due to complete the North American leg of her Tell Me You Love Me world tour with a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Thursday, but reports say that date has now been cancelled.\n\nHer fans say the singer's battles with bipolar disorder, bulimia and addiction - often documented in her music - have helped them with their own struggles.\n\nAs reports of her condition spread, there was an outpouring of support on social media from other celebrities and musicians. Within hours of the report, tens of thousands of people had tweeted the hashtag #PrayforDemi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ariana Grande This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brad Paisley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is unclear what drugs Lovato overdosed on. Early reports said it was heroin but this was later contradicted.\n\nFriends who found Lovato reportedly used Narcan - a brand name for naloxone - on her at the scene to help her breathe. Naloxone is an antidote to opioids including painkillers.\n\nThe US is in the grip of an opioid crisis. According to health officials, 115 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day and more than 250,000 Americans have died of them over the past decade.\n\nRaised in Dallas, Texas, Lovato first entered the spotlight on the children's TV series Barney & Friends.\n\nShe appeared alongside the Jonas Brothers in the 2008 Disney Channel movie Camp Rock.\n\nLovato released her first studio album, Don't Forget, in 2008.\n\nIn a YouTube documentary, Simply Complicated, released last October, Lovato revealed her drug use began when she first tried cocaine at the age of 17.\n\nDemi Lovato first entered the spotlight as a child on a children's TV programme\n\n\"I felt out of control the first time I did it,\" she said. \"My dad was an addict and an alcoholic.\n\n\"Guess I always searched for what he found in drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him and he chose that over a family.\"\n\nLovato went to rehab for the first time in 2010.\n\n\"I wasn't ready to get sober,\" she said in the documentary.\n\n\"I was sneaking it on planes, sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night\".", "The man who found the bottle of the nerve agent Novichok which killed his partner said it was in a glass bottle within an \"expensive-looking\" box.\n\nCharlie Rowley, who was also poisoned, said he gave his partner Dawn Sturgess the box - which he believed to be perfume - as a present.\n\nSpeaking to ITV News, he said Ms Sturgess grew ill within 15 minutes of spraying the substance on her hands.\n\nMs Sturgess, 44, died a week later on 8 July in Salisbury Hospital.\n\nMr Rowley was discharged from the same hospital on Friday, 20 July, three weeks after being exposed to the nerve agent.\n\nThe 45-year-old believes he had the glass bottle at his home for a couple of days before giving it to his partner.\n\nHe described the bottle as having a plastic dispenser which was held in a cardboard box with a plastic moulding.\n\nHe said it looked expensive and that Ms Sturgess recognised the brand on the box.\n\nIn an interview with ITV News, he said: \"I do have a memory of her spraying it on her wrists and rubbing them together.\n\n\"I guess that's how she applied it and became ill. I guess how I got in contact with it is when I put the spray part to the bottle... I ended tipping some on my hands, but I washed it off under the tap.\n\nPolice outside the home of Charlie Rowley in Amesbury, Wiltshire\n\n\"It had an oily substance and I smelled it and it didn't smell of perfume. It felt oily. I washed it off and I didn't think anything of it. It all happened so quick.\"\n\n\"Within 15 minutes Dawn said she had a headache.\n\n\"She asked me if I had any headache tablets. In that time she said she felt peculiar and needed to lie down in the bath.\n\n\"I went into the bathroom and found her in the bath, fully clothed, in a very ill state.\"\n\nHe said he felt to blame for what happened but also attacked the \"irresponsible people\" who left the poison behind for others to pick up.\n\n\"It was just so unfortunate. I'm very angry at the whole incident,\" added Mr Rowley who was himself hospitalised after coming into contact with the substance.\n\nRemembering his partner he said she was a \"lovely lady\" and a \"wonderful woman\" who had been planning to move to Amesbury from her sheltered accommodation in Salisbury.\n\nSergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are still recovering from exposure to Novichok\n\nThe poisoning of Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess came four months after the case of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.\n\nThe pair were found unconscious on a park bench having come into contact with Novichok.\n\nPolice are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Mr Skripal and his daughter.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Paul Mills of Wiltshire Police said on Tuesday that they may \"never be able to tell\" whether there is \"anything else out there\".\n\nHe said that police were using \"intelligence-led\" methods to uncover the places visited by people who have come into contact with Novichok, and then conducting \"meticulous\" searches.\n\nPublic Health England has advised people living in the Salisbury and Amesbury area not to pick up items such as syringes, needles, cosmetics or objects made of plastic, metal, or glass.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The trade war between the US and China is escalating\n\nThe Trump administration has unveiled a $12bn (£9.1bn) plan aimed at helping US farmers hurt by the intensifying trade war.\n\nThe aid is intended to protect the industry as countries raise taxes on US products such as soybeans in response to the president's new tariffs.\n\nThe US plans to provide subsidies to farmers and buy unsold crops, among other measures.\n\nMr Trump has said his tariffs - which he described on Tuesday in a tweet as \"the greatest\" - are intended to pressure countries to change their policies toward US exports.\n\nIn a speech on Tuesday, he said farmers would be the \"biggest beneficiary\" of the disputes after countries strike new trade deals.\n\nBut the agriculture industry, which draws about 20% of its income from exports, said the president's approach is hurting demand for its goods and causing long term damage to relationships with buyers.\n\nPrices for soybeans have already fallen by more than 15% since April, when China - a major buyer of the crop - announced its plans to retaliate.\n\n\"Farmers need stable markets to plan for the future,\" said Brian Kuehl, executive director of the industry group Farmers for Free Trade, which represents pork producers, corn growers and others.\n\n\"As such, we urge the administration to take immediate action to stop the trade war and get back to opening new markets.\"\n\nMost of the $12bn in aid will go direct to farmers\n\nMarch: US announces tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium. The US imported roughly $46bn of the two metals in 2017.\n\nApril: China retaliates for metals tariffs by raising duties on $3bn-worth of US products.\n\nJune: Exemptions to US metals tariffs for EU, Canada and Mexico expire. The three countries retaliate with tariffs on a total of almost $20bn in US products.\n\nJuly: US and China impose tit-for-tat tariffs of $34bn on the other country's products. A second round of $16bn-worth of tariffs on goods is delayed.\n\nComing up: The US is also considering additional tariffs of more than $200bn on Chinese products, as well as duties on foreign cars and car parts, which represent more than $300bn in annual trade. Canada, Mexico and the EU have said they are prepared to respond.\n\nThe US Agriculture Department said it expects losses of about $11bn as a result of the trade disputes.\n\nMuch of the $12bn in emergency relief, which does not need congressional approval, will go towards direct payments to farmers of commodities such as soybeans, sorghum, and wheat, officials said.\n\nThe US also plans to buy crops such as fruits and nuts, distributing them to food banks and other government nutrition programmes.\n\nSome of the money will also go to boosting export efforts.\n\nThe first assistance is expected to be distributed by the beginning of September.\n\nThe programme, which will be deployed using powers created during the Great Depression, is not intended to extend beyond this year, officials said.\n\n\"This is a short-term solution that will give President Trump and his administration time to work on long-term trade deals that benefit agriculture and all sectors of the economy,\" US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.\n\nSome Republicans and even Democrats backed the aid package.\n\nBut industry groups that represent agriculture, as well as politicians from agricultural states, criticised the relief as a short-term solution to a self-inflicted problem.\n\n\"Time and time again I've heard from farmers that they want trade, not aid,\" said Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin.\n\n\"Instead of throwing money at a problem we've helped create, the better option is to take action to make it easier for our farmers - and manufacturers - to sell their goods at fair prices to consumers around the world.\"\n\nSenator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, tweeted on Tuesday: \"If tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers. The answer is remove the tariffs.\"\n\nSenator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, said in a statement: \"This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and White House's 'plan' is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches.\"", "Scientists have captured the first ever image of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as \"spooky action at a distance\".\n\nThe photo shows a strong form of quantum entanglement, where two particles interact and share their physical states for an instant.\n\nIt occurs no matter how great the distance between the particles is.\n\nThe connection is known as Bell entanglement and underpins the field of quantum mechanics.\n\nPaul-Antoine Moreau, of the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy, said the image was \"an elegant demonstration of a fundamental property of nature\".\n\nHe added: \"It's an exciting result which could be used to advance the emerging field of quantum computing and lead to new types of imaging.\"\n\nThe entanglement seemed incompatible with elements of Einstein's special theory of relativity\n\nEinstein described quantum mechanics as \"spooky\" because of the instantaneousness of the apparent remote interaction between two entangled particles.\n\nThe interaction also seemed incompatible with elements of his special theory of relativity.\n\nScientist John Bell later formalised the concept by describing in detail a strong form of entanglement exhibiting the feature.\n\nBell entanglement is now harnessed in practical applications such as quantum computing and cryptography.\n\nHowever, it has never before been captured in a single image.\n\nThe team of physicists from the University of Glasgow devised a system that fired a stream of entangled photons from a quantum source of light at \"non-conventional\" objects.\n\nThis was displayed on liquid-crystal materials which change the phase of the photons as they pass through.", "A man who stabbed a passenger to death in a row on a train has been found guilty of murder and jailed for life.\n\nLee Pomeroy was travelling with his 14-year-old son when he was \"savagely\" stabbed 18 times by Darren Pencille on the Guildford to London service.\n\nMr Pomeroy died with his son next to him at Horsley station on 4 January, the day before his 52nd birthday.\n\nOld Bailey jurors rejected Pencille's claim he acted in self defence and he was ordered to serve at least 28 years.\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said anyone who watched the \"breathtakingly shocking\" CCTV footage shown during the trial would struggle to see how Pencille could claim to have been acting in self-defence.\n\n\"I am satisfied you were the aggressor throughout,\" she told him.\n\nThe judge told Pencille \"you picked on the wrong man - he stood up for himself\", but she also said Mr Pomeroy had not known about Pencille's paranoid schizophrenia.\n\nSentencing, she said: \"Truly this was a senseless loss of life.\"\n\nLee Pomeroy was killed the day before his 52nd birthday\n\nPencille killed the father-of-one when a \"chance encounter\" escalated into a frenzied and fatal attack, the court heard.\n\nHe first stabbed the IT consultant in the neck, then inflicted 17 more injuries in the 20 seconds that followed.\n\nPencille's girlfriend Chelsea Mitchell, of Farnham, Surrey, was found guilty by a majority of 11-1 of assisting him.\n\nShe was sentenced to 28 months in prison.\n\nCharles Falk, representing Mitchell, said in mitigation she had showed a \"misguided sense of loyalty driven by her dependence.\"\n\nThe judge said to her: \"I am sure you were acting under misguided loyalty\", but then added it was not any sort of excuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJurors had heard how Mitchell picked Pencille up after the killing.\n\nShe took him to her Farnham flat, where they lived together. There he shaved off his beard and had a shower before she drove him to a Surrey beauty spot and then on to visit his flat in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.\n\nThey returned to her flat later that night and were both arrested there in the early hours after a manhunt by police.\n\nChelsea Mitchell lived with Pencille at her flat in Farnham\n\nThe court heard a victim impact statement from Mr Pomeroy's widow, Svetlana, who described his murder as a \"senseless loss of life\" which had been made worse because it happened in front of their son.\n\nShe said: \"I miss my husband every day and to compound the situation [his son] was with his father when he died.\n\n\"I have lost my friend, my soul mate and my guide. Lee loved life and it's been cruelly cut short.\n\n\"On Friday January 4 my life and that of my son changed forever. My husband of 18 years died in a sudden, violent and distressing way.\"\n\nShe said her husband was a vibrant, highly intelligent perfectionist, a loving father and her \"guiding light\".\n\nWith regards to their son, who cannot be named for legal reasons, Mrs Pomeroy wrote: \"He's frightened to be alone at night. He is terrified of loss and of losing me. He's returned to school but seems to have lost perspective.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moments leading up to Surrey train stabbing\n\nMr Pomeroy and his son got into the same carriage as Pencille at London Road, Guildford, and made their way down the aisle before the row started.\n\nJurors heard they may have been blocking Pencille's way, prompting him to make the remark: \"Ignorance is bliss.\"\n\nThe row escalated into swearing as Mr Pomeroy demanded an apology, but then Pencille produced a knife and stabbed him in the neck, cutting through the jugular vein.\n\nThe court heard Pencille, who declined to give evidence during his trial, had 14 previous convictions for 19 different offences over a 19-year period, including possession of offensive weapons, violence and dishonesty.\n\nIn 2010, he had stabbed a flatmate in the neck over a minor disagreement.\n\nMitchell had seven previous convictions for 10 different offences, including assault, threatening behaviour, drunk and disorderly behaviour and battery.\n\nAfter Pencille and Mitchell were convicted, Jason Corden-Bowen from the Crown Prosecution Service said Pencille murdered Mr Pomeroy by \"savagely inflicting 18 wounds\".\n\nHe said: \"Although he claimed innocence, Pencille did not give evidence in court. His claims to be acting in self-defence were proved to be false.\"\n\nMr Cordon-Bowen said: \"This was a brutal and senseless killing of an innocent father who has been taken away from his family.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Sam Blackburn, from British Transport Police described the killer as \"devious and dangerous\".\n\nHe said: \"Quite clearly with his previous convictions, where he also stabbed another man in the neck, and his propensity for carrying knives, he showed his dangerous, aggressive nature and that he wasn't afraid to use that knife on that train.\"\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Mr Blackburn said a brief argument resulted in a moment of \"shocking violence\" that ended with the death of an adored father, husband, brother and son.\n\nHe said: \"No argument, however heated, should result in the violence seen that day and no family members should ever bear witnesses to the violent death of a loved one.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thursday marks the 160th anniversary of when Big Ben began striking the hour, on 11 July 1859.\n\nThe Houses of Parliament and Big Ben seen from Parliament Square, around 1897\n\nThe Great Bell forms part of the Great Clock in the Elizabeth Tower - commonly known as Big Ben.\n\nThe building is the focal point of the Palace of Westminster, a Unesco World Heritage site and the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.\n\nBig Ben has been being undergoing restoration work since 2017, due for completion in 2021.\n\nThe conservation work has seen the bell remain in place, while the Great Clock has been dismantled, involving 11 tonnes of mechanism material.\n\n\"The Great Clock and its bell have become much loved representatives of our democracy - and the conservation works currently taking place will ensure that it continues to be so for generations to come,\" said Steve Jaggs, keeper of the Great Clock.\n\nOld fashioned pennies on the pendulum help to keep the Great Clock accurate.\n\nThe clock faces are being restored, with the cast iron frames being cleaned and repainted.\n\nThe 324 pieces of glass in each clock face are being swapped for mouth-blown and hand-cut replacements that are opal in colour, matching the originals.\n\nThe design for the clock was decided in a competition, in 1846, won by barrister Edmund Beckett Denison.\n\nClockmaker Edward John Dent died before the work was finished. His stepson finished the clock in 1854 and it was installed in the tower in 1859.\n\nThe bell is thought to be named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the chief commissioner of works in the mid-19th Century.\n\nStone masons have been repairing 700 pieces of stonework, including gargoyle-like grotesques, angels, symbolic creatures and lettering.\n\nCadeby stone from near Doncaster, Yorkshire, similar to the original, has been used for repairs.\n\nThe cast-iron roof of the tower, made up of 3,433 pieces, has been removed, repaired and replaced.\n\nGilding has been applied by hand to a number of decorative elements, such as the carved writing around the clock dials.\n\nA time capsule was discovered hidden in the roof, placed there in the 1950s during repair work for bomb damage.\n\n\"Discovering the time capsule was a great moment in the project,\" said principal architect Adam Watrobski.\n\n\"It gave us a real sense of history and provided a tangible connection to those that have worked to preserve this beautiful landmark before us.\"\n\nThe current project team have now placed their own time capsule at the top of the tower, containing:", "Ben Goldsmith said \"I love her so much and I'm so proud of her\"\n\nThe father of a teenage girl killed in an accident on the family's farm has pleaded to have his \"beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl back\".\n\nIris Goldsmith, 15, reportedly became trapped when her vehicle - said to be similar to a quad bike - overturned at North Brewham, Somerset, on Monday.\n\nHer father Ben Goldsmith tweeted: \"Dear God, please can I have my beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl back\".\n\nHe added: \"And if not, please take extra special care of her.\"\n\nMr Goldsmith said what had happened to his daughter \"hurts me so much I can't describe\".\n\nIris' father Ben, the younger brother of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, was previously married to her mother Kate Rothschild.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWycombe Abbey school, where Iris was a pupil, said she would be \"hugely missed by all of us\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said her death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre has been lit\n\nA controversial bonfire that was built in a leisure centre car park in east Belfast was lit as part of the Eleventh Night celebrations.\n\nIt was one of hundreds set on fire across Northern Ireland on Thursday on the eve of the Twelfth of July marches.\n\nEarlier in the day Belfast City Council gave up on its efforts to remove the bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre.\n\nIt came after a contractor that was due to remove the bonfire pulled out after graffiti threats appeared nearby.\n\nThe council wants police to investigate how details of removal contractors were leaked and appeared in the graffiti threats.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Gavin Robinson, the MP for East Belfast, said he believed the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was involved in the bonfire dispute.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the council warned that anyone in the leisure centre grounds would be regarded as trespassers.\n\nGraffiti threats to contractors asked to remove the bonfire appeared in east Belfast\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it would investigate the council's complaint about aggravated trespassing.\n\nIt also said officers would meet council representatives to discuss a complaint about the leak of contractors' details.\n\nPolice carried out searches in Avoniel on Thursday after suggestions that a suspicious object had been left in the area but nothing was found.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Talkback programme, Mr Robinson condemned the events surrounding the closure of the leisure centre on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DUP MP Gavin Robinson says he believes UVF members are involved in the bonfire dispute\n\nThe council closed it after its entrance was barricaded by men who were behaving in a \"threatening\" way to staff.\n\n\"That's not, in my view, an appropriate expression of culture,\" said Mr Robinson.\n\nAttention is now switching from the bonfire to the investigation into how the names of the contractors were leaked.\n\nAlthough it will focus on Belfast City Hall, the question being asked by some in political circles is whether anyone in the PSNI could have leaked the names?\n\nThere is nothing to suggest they did, but given the theoretical possibility, is it appropriate that the PSNI should conduct the investigation?\n\nHe said that if people recognised bonfires were part of Northern Ireland's \"cultural tapestry\" then agreement was needed about where they took place and how they could be managed safely.\n\n\"Those are the sort of issues that, rather than leave them to the last minute, need to be grappled at an earlier stage by the council,\" he added.\n\nPolice warned on Wednesday there was a risk of \"serious violence\" due to UVF involvement and it \"could not rule out a risk from firearms\" if council workers tried to dismantle the Avoniel bonfire.\n\nDUP councillor George Dorrian said the decision not to remove the bonfire was sensible given that no contractors were available to remove it.\n\nBonfires - like this one in Larne - are lit across Northern Ireland on the Eleventh Night\n\nProtesters said they tried to compromise with authorities but were determined that the event would go ahead on Thursday night.\n\nWelcoming the council's decision, Robert Girvan, from a group calling itself the East Belfast Cultural Collective, which represents a number of bonfire builders, denied any paramilitary involvement.\n\n\"Unless the UVF is 70-year-old grannies and 12-year-old children, there's no UVF involvement here,\" Mr Girvan said.\n\nHe criticised the council's allegation of trespassing, saying that Sinn Féin and Alliance Party councillors were \"denying children the use of a play park\".\n\nTensions had been building ahead of bonfires being lit across Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth of July.\n\nIt is the main date in the Protestant Orange Order marching season, commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.\n\nThe gates at Avoniel Leisure Centre were open on Wednesday after a barricade was removed\n\nMost fires are lit without major incident but some prove contentious, with the authorities having taken action in recent years on bonfires deemed unsafe and posing a threat to nearby properties.\n\nBelfast City Council's emergency meeting on Thursday was its fourth on the bonfire issue in four days.\n\nThe bonfire at Avoniel Leisure Centre had been contentious because tyres had been placed on it to be burnt and it was built on council property without permission.\n\nBonfire builders voluntarily removed tyres after contractors acting for the council removed 1,800 tyres from another bonfire nearby.\n\nHundreds of people gathered at the Avoniel bonfire on Tuesday to protest against the council's decision to remove it.\n\nA large crowd of people watched as the Drumilly Green bonfire was lit on Wednesday night\n\nIt is estimated there were between 80 and 100 bonfires in Belfast this year, with 35 signed up to an official scheme funded by the council.\n\nIn County Armagh, a large crowd watched as another controversial bonfire was lit on Wednesday night.\n\nThe bonfire at Drumilly Green in Portadown was built close to flats, causing a housing association to advise dozens of residents to leave their homes.\n\nHundreds of windows were boarded up to protect them from the heat of the blaze and fire service sprayed two of the nearby blocks of flats with foam to keep them cool.\n\nIt is thought the Drumsilly Green bonfire is traditionally lit on 10 July to allow people to attend other bonfires on the Eleventh Night.", "Chelsea Mitchell and Darren Pencille were found guilty at the Old Bailey\n\nDarren Pencille has been jailed for life for murdering a man he stabbed repeatedly during a confrontation on a London-bound train, while his girlfriend Chelsea Mitchell was also jailed for assisting an offender.\n\nThe prosecution at his trial painted a picture of a man with a history of mental health issues but also of violence - Pencille had been convicted of an earlier knife attack that bore striking similarities to the killing of Lee Pomeroy.\n\nThe 36-year-old defendant relied upon his girlfriend in court as much as he did on the day he stabbed Mr Pomeroy 18 times and left him to die.\n\nPencille chose not to take the stand and speak in his defence, leaving it to Mitchell to give an account of their lives and their actions that day and to describe their co-dependent relationship.\n\nThe court heard how Pencille could not deal with crowded places - shops, supermarkets, railway stations, trains and hospitals.\n\nLee Pomeroy and his killer taunted one another in the moments before the knife attack, the Old Bailey heard\n\nWhenever panic struck during a rail journey, \"nine times out of 10\" he would call Mitchell, who has borderline learning disabilities and whose IQ is ranked in the lowest 1% of the population.\n\nMitchell, 28, would talk to Pencille - who she called Jimmy - to calm him down and collect him if he had been unable to stay on a train. She would either take him to her flat in Farnham, Surrey, where they lived together, or to a quieter railway station or on to his destination.\n\nShe would do his shopping, sending him WhatsApp images of the items she had bought to make sure they were the right ones.\n\nNeither of them had dealt with the loss of their stillborn son, Romeo, who died the previous summer, the Old Bailey heard during the trial.\n\nMitchell, who met Pencille on a dating website, told jurors their feelings were still raw and the pair had been struggling - the court heard the defendant carried a 20-week ultrasound scan of Romeo in his wallet.\n\nShe said Pencille had supported her when depression after the stillbirth left her unable to get out of bed and she still had to care for her young daughter, who called Pencille \"Daddy\".\n\nMitchell lived with Pencille at her flat in Farnham\n\nWhen she was questioned in court about why, on the day of the killing, it apparently took her more than nine hours to work out what her boyfriend had done, Mitchell said: \"I'm a bit slow.\"\n\n\"If someone tells a joke, I don't pick up on it until five minutes later,\" she explained.\n\nIn the hours after the killing, as Mr Pomeroy's teenage son and other traumatised passengers were supported by the police, on-the-run Pencille had called Mitchell to collect him and take him to their Farnham home, about 15 miles from the scene of the stabbing.\n\nHe discarded clothing and took a shower.\n\nHorsley station was cordoned off as 999 teams responded and a manhunt began\n\nWhile police combed the area around Clandon for the killer, Pencille suggested to Mitchell they visit Frensham Ponds to let off lanterns in memory of Romeo.\n\nThe beauty spot was where they would go to find peace and quiet and \"gather their thoughts\", the young mother told the court.\n\n\"It was quite emotional over Christmas,\" she said. \"We didn't have our son.\"\n\nAfter their trip to the ponds the pair headed to the Sussex coastal town of Bognor where Pencille had a flat. Mitchell gave her daughter dinner and watched EastEnders.\n\nLater that night they returned to her flat in Farnham, where the pair would be arrested early the next day.\n\nBy this point, police knew their prime suspect had used a knife in anger before. In 2010, Pencille admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to an attack on his 24-year-old housemate - although Mitchell said her boyfriend had never revealed his violent past to her.\n\nPencille had gone into his victim's bedroom to borrow cigarette papers but became loud and aggressive and, after a disagreement, followed his housemate out of the room.\n\nSeconds later, after hearing shouting, a witness followed them and saw the man bleeding heavily from his neck - his life-threatening injuries included two stab wounds to the neck and one to the shoulder.\n\nDuring his murder trial, the jury heard that Pencille claimed to be \"hearing voices\" during his confrontation with Mr Pomeroy.\n\nIt transpired that in the months before the killing, he had not been taking his medication.\n\nVarious drugs had been prescribed to treat his anxiety, depression and psychotic conditions including schizophrenia. These included diazepam, mirtazapine and olanzapine, but none of those substances was found in his urine sample after the killing, a forensic scientist said.\n\nDarren Pencille had not been taking his medication in the months before the fatal attack\n\nJurors heard that Mr Pomeroy followed Pencille through the train's carriages as the pair taunted one another, leaving the killer with nowhere to go and no way to get off the moving train.\n\nMr Pomeroy's son described how his father would never start a fight, but also would never \"not reply\".\n\nHowever, his father's killer had boarded the train carrying a knife and, in the attack that followed, Pencille stabbed Mr Pomeroy 18 times in 25 seconds. He severed the 51-year-old's jugular vein and carotid artery, leaving him rapidly bleeding to death.\n\nPencille's unrelenting assault left Mr Pomeroy with a wound to his neck, eight to his torso and others to his arm, his hands and his thigh. He bled so profusely the blood covered his clothing, the area of the train where the attack happened - and Pencille's own clothes.\n\nMr Pomeroy's family told the BBC in March how the murder had left them not only heartbroken but also terrified.\n\nHis sister Kim Pomeroy said: \"If this can happen to a 51-year-old man going about his business on a train in the middle of the day, this terrifies me, because if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody.\"\n\nShe said the family had lost a loving father, husband, son and brother, a generous man who cared about people.\n\n\"We are absolutely heartbroken. Our family has been destroyed,\" she said.\n\nLee Pomeroy was killed the day before his 52nd birthday\n\nMitchell told the court it was many hours after the attack that she realised what her boyfriend had done, only discovering a man had been stabbed and a killer was on the run after she had put her daughter to bed.\n\nThe 28-year-old said it was at this point that she looked at the day's news coverage on her phone.\n\nDuring the trial, Mitchell was reprimanded for sending a Father's Day card and letter to Pencille in Belmarsh Prison - her bail conditions had barred any contact.\n\nIn the letter, Mitchell urged Pencille to \"stay strong\" and \"keep fighting\".\n\nShe wrote: \"I miss you so much, everything is falling apart. Loosing [sic] everyone I love and all I want us [sic] my family back... Finding everything so hard. All I want is you by my side.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, has accused deputy leader Tom Watson of being \"irresponsible\" for criticising Labour's handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nMr Watson criticised Labour and Ms Formby, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, following a BBC Panorama investigation.\n\nMs Formby said he risked \"exacerbating\" fears in the Jewish community.\n\nShe acknowledged anti-Semitism was a \"real problem\" in the party but said steps had been taken to tackle it.\n\nThe Panorama investigation, broadcast on Wednesday, featured claims from ex-party officials that senior Labour figures had interfered in the disciplinary process of dealing with accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nThis included allegations that officials brought in by Ms Formby \"overruled\" some of their disciplinary decisions and \"downgraded\" punishments to a \"slap on the wrist\".\n\nThe disputes team is supposed to operate independently from the party's political structures, including the leader's office.\n\nIn the wake of the programme, Mr Watson demanded that the party publish its submission to a formal inquiry into the issue.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Formby, he said the response to the UK's equality watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) had been \"withheld\" from the party's executive.\n\nTom Watson said \"only sunlight\" could \"disinfect\" Labour of anti-Semitism\n\nIn reply, Ms Formby said Mr Watson was abusing his \"considerable platform\" to \"denigrate\" the progress that had been made in combating anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Furthermore, traducing my reputation and publicly attacking me when you know I am undergoing chemotherapy and am unable to respond in the media, is another example of the inappropriate way in which you choose to discuss this issue,\" she wrote.\n\nMs Formby said she was \"very concerned\" by the distress suffered by some former staff members shown in the Panorama documentary, but added that \"we were not made aware of these issues at the time\".\n\nShe said she had twice offered Mr Watson the chance to view the document sent to the anti-Semitism inquiry and that he had not raised any concerns when she briefed the shadow cabinet about Labour's response on Tuesday.\n\nShe also denied accusations that she had deleted emails relating to cases of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"By choosing to ignore the steps taken by this party, and commenting so uncritically about the Panorama programme, you are complicit in creating a perception that anti-Semitism is more prevalent in the Labour Party than wider society,\" Ms Formby added.\n\n\"This is deeply irresponsible for the deputy leader of a party which seeks to be in government, and risks exacerbating the fear that Jewish communities will feel.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Watson had accused some in the Labour Party of attempting to discredit the former staff members who took part in the Panorama documentary.\n\nHe called for greater transparency on the issue, adding: \"Only sunlight can disinfect Labour of anti-Semitism now.\"\n\nIn response, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, another close ally of the Labour leader, tweeted that Mr Watson was \"very wrong\" to imply that Ms Formby was \"dealing with the matter with anything less than her usual professionalism\".\n\nAnd other shadow cabinet members also rallied to Ms Formby's defence in the face of what they said were \"unfair attacks\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EHRC launched a formal investigation in May into whether Labour had \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said on Thursday that more than 30 whistleblowers, including current Labour staff, would submit evidence to the inquiry.\n\nThe party has been engulfed in a long-running dispute over the issue, which has led nine MPs and three peers to leave the party.\n\nThe leadership has been accused of failing to get to grips with the problem, with allegations of hundreds of complaints against members remaining unresolved.\n\nLabour said it \"completely\" rejected any claims it was anti-Semitic.\n\nIt also accused the Panorama programme of being a \"seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning\".", "Cyclists have reported branches being arranged across tracks at head height\n\n\"Incredibly dangerous\" booby traps have been found on popular cycle paths in the Peak District.\n\nItems found in recent weeks include large rocks moved out of position, pins dropped on the road and branches arranged at head height across paths.\n\nChris Maloney, who runs a local cycling information blog, said while cyclists appeared to be the target, the obstacles could harm anyone.\n\nPolice said they had been made aware and appealed for information.\n\nThe traps have been spotted on trails and roads in Bradwell, Bamford and Aston, near the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border. There are no reports of anyone being injured.\n\nBlogger Chris Maloney, a member of mountain biking advocacy group Peak District MTB, said: \"The worrying thing is we don't know who it is who's doing this kind of stuff.\n\n\"It's somebody with a vendetta, someone who has something against we assume mountain bikers or riders - but the things they're putting out do not discriminate.\n\n\"It's an incredibly dangerous and reckless thing to do.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police said no official complaints had been made but said there have been previous incidents where tacks were placed on roads in and around some villages.\n\n\"Anyone acting in this manner is putting people at serious risk of injury and, potentially, even death. It is not just cyclists that could be affected - horses and their riders, walkers and other trail users could all be hurt,\" the force said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it was also aware of reports of alleged trail sabotaging.\n\nTraps have also been found at mountain biking trails elsewhere in the UK, including a plank of wood with 200 nails embedded in it, found in a forest path in Wales.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Leslie is accused of committing the assault in Westminster in December 2008\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter John Leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nThe 54-year-old is accused of committing the assault in Westminster in December 2008, when the woman was 30.\n\nScotland Yard said Mr Leslie, from Edinburgh, was charged with sexual touching of a woman on 5 June.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 25 July.\n\nMr Leslie began his TV career in 1989 when he became a presenter on BBC's Blue Peter.\n\nHe appeared on the children's TV show for five years with co-hosts including Caron Keating, Tim Vincent, Anthea Turner, and Diane-Louise Jordan.\n\nHe then went on to present ITV's This Morning and was also a regular host of the Wheel of Fortune game show.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Allergy patients are being warned of a potential fault with Emerade adrenaline pens.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said some have blocked needles, so cannot deliver adrenaline.\n\nAround two in every 1,000 pens are thought to be affected.\n\nPatients are advised to follow the existing advice to carry two pens at all times. Charities said it was a \"very difficult\" time for patients.\n\nThe fault was first found in routine testing by the pens' makers, Bausch & Lomb, in June 2018, but it was believed to be extremely rare, affecting 1.5 per 10,000 pens.\n\nFurther testing led the company to now estimate that the fault affects 2.3 pens per 1,000.\n\nBut the MHRA says that if patients follow the advice to carry two pens at all times, the risk of not being able to deliver a dose of adrenaline falls to virtually nothing - 0.23% to 0.000529%.\n\nAll strengths of solution for Emerade pens could be affected; 150mcg, 300mcg and 500mcg solutions.\n\nNo batches are being recalled.\n\nThere are three brands of adrenaline pens available in the UK - Emerade, EpiPen and Jext - which can all be used to inject adrenaline to treat someone who is having a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.\n\nReactions can be triggered by certain foods, such as nuts, fish, milk and eggs, medicines and insect stings.\n\nThe MHRA added: \"Healthcare professionals should contact all patients, and their carers, who have been supplied with an Emerade device to inform them of the potential defect and reinforce the advice to always carry two in-date adrenaline auto-injectors with them at all times.\"\n\nIt said Bausch & Lomb had implemented \"corrective actions\", and pens manufactured under the new procedures would come into the market this month.\n\nLynne Regent, of the Anaphylaxis Campaign charity, said they were \"not aware until Thursday that there was a risk of the Emerade auto-injector failing to deliver a dose of adrenaline from the syringe due to blockage of the needle\".\n\nShe said it was \"a very difficult time for patients\" who carry them.\n\nAnd she added: \"We would like to take this opportunity to remind all individuals who are prescribed an adrenaline auto-injector to always carry two devices at all times, to use your auto-injector at the first signs of anaphylaxis and to call 999, ask for an ambulance and say anaphylaxis (pronounced as 'anna-fill-axis').\"\n\nPatients carrying any adrenaline pen should also follow the existing advice, the MHRA said:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Holidaymakers jetting off on summer breaks could be hit by strike action planned at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nMore than 4,000 workers at the airport - including customer service, engineering and security staff - have voted to strike over pay.\n\nStaff will walk out on 26 July, 27 July, 5 August, 6 August, 23 August and 24 August, which the Unite union said could create \"summer travel chaos\".\n\nHeathrow says it has contingency plans to remain open and operate safely.\n\nUnite said members had voted in eight ballots to support action after an 18-month pay rise offer averaging 2.7% was rejected.\n\nWayne King, the union's Unite regional co-ordinating officer, said: \"There is deepening anger over pay among workers who are essential to the smooth running of Heathrow Airport\".\n\nUnite said the dispute was also in part because of different pay rates for the same job, as well as discontent with the pay package of airport boss John Holland-Kaye.\n\nAccording to the company's annual report, last year the Heathrow boss banked a 103.2% pay increase, from £2.1m in 2017 to £4.2m in 2018, thanks largely to a long-term bonus scheme.\n\nThe union said the airport's current pay offer amounted to £3.75 a day extra for its lowest-paid workers.\n\nHeathrow urged the union to return to the bargaining table to resolve the pay dispute.\n\n\"We have proposed a progressive pay package giving at least a 4.6% pay rise to over 70% of our frontline colleagues. The total package offered is above RPI [Retail Prices Index] and is specifically designed to boost the wages of lower paid colleagues\".\n\nAs the dispute rumbles on, the airport said its contingency plans would ensure flights could still take off and land during one of the busiest period of the year.\n\n\"We will be working alongside our airline partners to minimise disruption caused to passengers as they look towards their well-deserved summer holidays,\" it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nRoger Federer moved to within one win of a record-equalling ninth Wimbledon singles title as he beat long-time rival Rafael Nadal to set up a final against another old foe Novak Djokovic.\n\nSwiss second seed Federer won 7-6 (7-3) 1-6 6-3 6-4 against the Spanish third seed before an enthralled Centre Court.\n\nFederer took his fifth match point for a shot at a 21st Grand Slam, while denying Nadal the chance of a 19th.\n\nFederer, 37, will meet Serbia's top seed Djokovic at 14:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFederer's eight Wimbledon titles are more than any other man in history and if he beats Djokovic he will match Martina Navratilova's success in women's singles.\n\n\"I'm exhausted. It was tough - at the end Rafa played some unbelievable shots to stay in the match,\" Federer told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I had spells where I was serving very well and probably the biggest points in the match went my way.\n\n\"That first set was huge, to get the lead and try to protect it. It was a joy to play.\"\n\nDefending champion Djokovic, 32, goes for his 16th Grand Slam triumph after beating Spain's 23rd seed Roberto Bautista Agut in four sets earlier on Friday.\n\nDjokovic's win ensured it would be a Wimbledon final between two of the 'Big Three' in the men's game for the first time since the Serb beat Federer in the 2015 showpiece at the All England Club.\n• None 'It was a masterclass' - Federer wows Wimbledon... again\n• None Stars are aligned right now - Federer\n\nAnticipation was high for the meeting between two of the men widely considered among the greatest - if not the greatest - to have played the game, particularly because it was their first Wimbledon showdown since an epic 2008 final.\n\nThe names of Federer and Nadal, along with #Fedal40, dominating social media sites signified how the match had captured the attention of fans across the world, while a Royal box featuring stellar names such as Sir David Attenborough, David Beckham and Hugh Grant brought an added sprinkling of stardust.\n\nThat 2008 match, played over almost seven hours because of rain delays and ending in virtual darkness in front of a mesmerised Centre Court, is regarded as one of the sport's all-time great matches and it would have taken something extraordinary for the pair to recreate another occasion of such reverence.\n\nNevertheless, the pair - with a combined age of 70 - did produce a match which will live long in the memory.\n\nLengthy baseline rallies featuring flawless groundstrokes, supreme athleticism belying their advancing years and scintillating winners - particularly from Federer's backhand - left the 15,000 crowd captivated.\n\nFederer was locked into the match from the moment he delivered an ace with the first ball and, apart from that dip in the second set, neutralised Nadal's weapons in a stellar performance.\n\nAfter missing four match points, a dramatic ending saw Federer clinch victory in three hours and three minutes when Nadal whacked a backhand long.\n\nFederer's emotion was clear as a manic celebration - at least by his composed standards - greeted the match-winning point, raising both hands to the sky before wildly punching the air.\n\nFederer, who had more support on Centre Court than his great rival in their 40th meeting, edged ahead when he rattled off the final five points in the first-set tie-break but lost his way in the second as his level dipped.\n\nNadal levelled the match in little over half an hour, but Federer refocused and rediscovered his rhythm to break early in each of the third and fourth sets - and then, eventually, wrap up the match.\n\n19:29 BST: Federer tees up his first match point on Nadal's serve, returning a first serve with a deep forehand winner. He reaches another first serve down the middle from Nadal but guides it long.\n\n19:30: An ace down the middle means advantage Nadal, but a backhand winner down the line from Federer and a forehand into the net by Nadal brings up a second match point.\n\n19:31: Another first serve landed by Nadal, this time out wide, is batted long by Federer and the Spaniard goes on to hold the service game.\n\n19:38: Now serving for the match, Federer sees off a break point when a forehand into the net after a long rally leaves Nadal crouching on court with his head in his hands.\n\n19:39: Federer comes forward to earn his third match point with a volley at the net, Nadal edging a long rally with a forehand winner to save it.\n\n19:40: With Federer's wife Mirka watching through her fingers, an ace down the middle brings a fourth match point... saved by Nadal with a flicked cross-court backhand winner.\n\n19:42: Federer puts away a clean forehand winner for his fifth match point and seals the match when Nadal goes long after a brief baseline exchange.\n\n'Surprising how aggressive and consistent Federer was' - analysis\n\nTim Henman, former British number one and two-time Wimbledon semi-finalist:\n\nHistorically we've seen Nadal dominate when he extends the rallies. At 37, Federer - you felt - might get tired but it was just phenomenal.\n\nNadal was always playing catch up. Federer on his serve was always up 15-love you felt, Nadal was never really up love-15 and able to get the crowd on side.\n\nIt was surprising how aggressive and how consistent Federer was.\n\nOn the back of that performance, it's going to be very interesting to start thinking about the dynamics of the final.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Police said no arrests had been made following the crash on Friday morning\n\nA woman riding an electric scooter has been killed in a crash with a lorry in south London.\n\nThe 35-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene at the Queen Circus roundabout, Battersea following the crash at about 08:30 BST.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said her next of kin had yet to be informed and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn July last year a cyclist was killed at the roundabout after being hit by a bin lorry.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We sent an advanced paramedic, two ambulance crews, an incident response officer and two medics in cars to the scene, with the first of our medics arriving in under four minutes.\n\n\"Sadly, despite the extensive efforts of medics, a woman died at the scene.\"\n\nElectric scooters are illegal to ride on public roads\n\nTransport for London and Wandsworth Council redesigned the roundabout in 2015, which trialled the use of raised kerbs and separate traffic lights to keep cyclists and vehicles segregated at junctions.\n\nConcerns had been raised that the new layout was too complicated.\n\nWhile the cause of the crash is unknown, e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads, including in cycle lanes or on the pavement.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"We extend our deepest sympathies to all those involved in this tragic incident, and fully support the police as they carry out their investigations.\n\n\"Safety is at the heart of all our road laws and it is important that retailers continue to remind people at the point of sale that it is illegal to ride e-scooters on public roads.\"\n\nAn electric scooter, or e-scooter, is similar to a traditional children's scooter but has a motor attached.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The oil tanker is suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria\n\nAn Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released.\n\nBritish Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nA court in Gibraltar has ruled the ship can be detained for a further 14 days.\n\nIran later summoned the British ambassador in Tehran to complain about what it said was a \"form of piracy\".\n\nMohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies \"without hesitation\".\n\nMr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: \"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a team of about 30 marines, from 42 Commando, were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help detain Grace 1 and its cargo.\n\nGibraltar said there was reason to believe the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil to the Baniyas Refinery in the Syrian Mediterranean port town of Tartous.\n\nThe territory was initially able to detain the ship for 72-hours, but Gibraltar's Supreme Court granted a 14-day extension on Friday.\n\nIran's Foreign Ministry condemned the initial seizure of the vessel as illegal and accused the UK of acting at the behest of the United States.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office dismissed claims of piracy as \"nonsense\".\n\nSpain's Acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said, on Thursday, Spain - which disputes British ownership of Gibraltar - was studying the circumstances of the action, but said it followed \"a demand from the US to the UK\".\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said, while Britain has been keen to suggest it was an operation led by the Gibraltar government, it appears the intelligence came from the US.\n\nIran's threat to retaliate against the impounding of its super-tanker is an indication of how hurt Tehran is by the UK's action.\n\nIn the eight years of war in Syria this appears to be the first time Iran's supply of oil to its ally has been interrupted, even though EU sanctions have existed for almost the whole duration.\n\nThe episode also reflects worsening relations between Iran and the UK over a range of issues - particularly the continued imprisonment of British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe tanker and its cargo are probably worth more than $200m (£160m).\n\nIran is looking for ways to respond to what it sees as illegal and an act of piracy. It has the capability to take over a British ship in the Gulf and would see such a move as proportionate.\n\nOn Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker said the seizure of tanker was proof the UK \"lacks honour\" and takes orders from the US.\n\nMostafa Kavakebian, who leads the Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, tweeted that the seizure was \"a form of piracy and illegal hostility towards Iran\".\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have been exacerbated by the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nWhite House national security advisor John Bolton said the seizure was \"excellent news\". He added that the US and its allies would continue to prevent regimes in Tehran and Damascus from \"profiting off this illicit trade\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the swift action would deny valuable resources to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's \"murderous regime\".\n\nThe Baniyas Refinery, where the Iranian tanker was believed to be taking the oil, is a subsidiary of the General Corporation for Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products - a section of the Syrian ministry of petroleum.\n\nThe EU says the facility therefore provides financial support to the Syrian government, which is subject to sanctions because of its repression of civilians since the start of the uprising against President Assad in 2011.\n\nThe refinery has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014.\n\nThis latest row comes at a time of escalating tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration - which has pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme - has reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nIts European allies, including the UK, have not followed suit.\n\nNonetheless, there have been growing tensions between the UK and Iran too, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe UK has also been pressing Iran to release British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(File photo) They were arrested in the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province\n\nFour Britons have been arrested in China's Jiangsu province over drug-related offences.\n\nThey are among 16 foreigners - seven teachers and nine students - who were detained last week after testing positive for drug use.\n\nAt least some of those being held are from an international language school, Education First.\n\nPolice did not specify the type of drugs involved and it is not clear where the other foreigners are from.\n\nThere are extremely severe penalties for drug offences in China.\n\n\"We are in contact with the Chinese authorities following the arrest of four British people in Jiangsu province, and are providing consular assistance,\" said the British embassy in Beijing.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Xuzhou Public Security Bureau, located in Jiangsu province, posted a statement on Chinese social media site Weibo saying police had successfully cracked a drug-related case.\n\nIt said 19 people had been arrested, including 16 foreigners.\n\nAccording to police, 18 people had been placed under administrative detention, which carries a maximum detention period of 15 days. One person was placed in criminal detention - a procedure that usually leads to a formal arrest and an indictment.\n\nPolice did not name the school involved, but state news agency Xinhua later reported that some of the teachers were from the Switzerland-based Education First (EF) Centre.\n\nThe EF centre told Xinhua it had a \"zero tolerance\" policy towards drugs, adding that it was deeply regretful that some of its teachers were involved.\n\nIt said the drug-related incident had taken place during \"non-work\" hours.\n\nEF first entered China in 1998 and has around 2,000 English teachers now based in the country.", "Theresa May has announced plans for a new body to monitor government efforts to tackle \"deep-seated societal injustice\".\n\nThe outgoing prime minister said an Office for Tackling Injustices (OfTI) would use data to \"provide the catalyst\" for better policies.\n\nThe pledge to combat \"burning injustices\" was one she made during her first speech as PM in 2016.\n\nBut Labour said Mrs May had failed to tackle injustices while in office.\n\nThe new body would collect evidence on disparities in areas including socio-economic background, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation.\n\nDowning Street said it would gather information where there was currently a lack of reliable data, but it would not make policy recommendations.\n\nMrs May said: \"I am proud of what we have achieved to make the UK a more just society.\n\n\"But there is more to be done now and in the years to come, if we are truly to say that this is a country which works for everyone.\"\n\nShe added that policies such as mandatory reporting on the gender pay gap had shown how data could be used to tackle existing cases of injustice.\n\nNumber 10 said the new body would follow the approach taken by the Race Disparity Audit, which analyses how a person's ethnicity impacts how they experience public services.\n\nWhen it first published data in October 2017, it showed disparities in educational attainment, health, employment and treatment by police and courts between ethnicities.\n\nIn response, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"On her first day in office, the prime minister promised to tackle burning injustices, but instead gave us the Windrush scandal.\n\n\"Three failed years later, in her last days, she's decided to set up an office.\n\n\"The only way to tackle burning injustices is the election of a Labour government that will transform our country so it works for the many not, the few.\"\n\nRace equality think tank the Runnymede Trust said it welcomed more data collection and the aim of ensuring future governments focus on tackling injustice.\n\nBut it added: \"Data by itself doesn't create change, which needs more concrete actions and policies to tackle decades of racial inequalities.\"\n\nMrs May's announcement comes as 160,000 eligible party members continue to vote for either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt in the Tory leadership contest, with Mrs May's successor due to be named on 23 July.\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Mail, Mrs May warned that \"too many people in politics\" think being prime minister is all about wielding power.\n\n\"All too often those who see it as a position of power see it as about themselves and not about the people they are serving. There is a real difference,\" she said.\n\nThe two leadership contenders will face one-on-one interviews with Andrew Neil later, which will be broadcast on BBC One at 19:00 BST.\n• None Firms may have to reveal ethnicity pay gap", "Protesters blocked some of the busiest roads in central London in April - including Oxford Circus\n\nAlmost 30 climate change protesters have appeared in court charged with a public order offence, after April's Extinction Rebellion action in London.\n\nThe activists, ranging in age from 20 to 76 years old, are accused of failing to comply with an order to stick to an allocated area near Marble Arch.\n\nThere were eight guilty pleas - resulting in conditional discharges - and 21 not guilty pleas.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were arrested over the course of April's protests.\n\nDemonstrators brought parts of central London to a standstill, causing roadblocks on Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, while others glued themselves to trains and buildings.\n\nThe group's tactics included asking volunteers to deliberately get arrested to cause maximum disruption.\n\nIn May, the Metropolitan Police said they would push for all the 1,151 people arrested - which included Olympic gold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott - to face charges.\n\nSo far 232 files of evidence have been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, with 180 people charged, one cautioned for outraging public decency and 32 released with no further action.\n\nHundreds of others remain under consideration for charges.\n\nFriday's hearings took place in two court rooms simultaneously at City of London Magistrates' Court.\n\nA number of trials were scheduled for September and October.\n\nTwo court rooms are being set aside for a day each week at Westminster Magistrates' Court for 19 weeks to deal with the protesters.\n\nExtinction Rebellion activists gathered outside the court ahead of the hearings\n\nThe youngest defendant, Peter Tyler, 20, of Muasdale, in Argyll and Bute, pleaded guilty to a public order offence relating to Waterloo Bridge on 17 April.\n\nThe oldest defendant - Caroline Hunt, 76, from Bristol - admitted an offence relating to Waterloo Bridge on 21 April.\n\nSimon Kitt 25, of Newton Abbot pleaded guilty to the same offence relating to Waterloo Bridge on 21 April.\n\nSpeaking after his hearing, he referred to the activists who gathered outside the court, saying: \"It's beautiful to see everyone here showing such support for the cause.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nyla Khan knew from a young age that she was \"promised\" to her cousin\n\nNyla Khan says she was taken from Scotland at the age of 17 and forced to marry her cousin in Pakistan.\n\n\"I knew from a very young age that I was promised to my cousin and I always felt very uncomfortable about that,\" she tells BBC Scotland's The Nine. She says she thought it was \"morally wrong\".\n\nNyla, who is now 30, had a \"really strict upbringing\" in a Mirpuri Muslim family.\n\n\"My parents were very paranoid about me becoming Western,\" she says. \"They think they are protecting you.\"\n\nNyla says she wanted to \"have a voice\", express herself, dress differently and get \"more from life\" but extended family members complained she was \"out of control\".\n\n\"It was seen as being too Western,\" she says.\n\nNyla said it felt like her soul had left her body when she was forced to marry her cousin\n\nAt the age of 17, she was taken to Pakistan and woke up to find her whole family in her room.\n\n\"They started saying 'you have sinned', 'you need to marry your cousin now',\" she says.\n\n\"They said 'you've brought shame on the family and the only way you can fix this is if you get married'.\"\n\nIt is like your soul leaves your body because you become so numb because you have absolutely no power of control over what is happening\n\nNyla refused but she says they begged her \"non-stop\" and eventually she felt forced to give in.\n\nShe says: \"I just wanted them to shut up. I just wanted them to be quiet.\n\n\"From there on it is like your soul leaves your body because you become so numb because you have absolutely no power of control over what is happening.\"\n\nAfter five weeks in Pakistan, the family came back to Scotland, without her new husband, who was going to travel on later. A couple of months after that Nyla ran away to stay with a friend.\n\n\"I packed my bags and I ran,\" she says.\n\n\"I did it for a year. I got a lot of abuse from family members, from extended family members, friends and community members,\" Nyla says.\n\n\"I would walk down the road and they would call you 'slut' or something.\"\n\nNyla says she was told she would never see her brother and sister again.\n\nShe says: \"It is like everyone that was your world says 'we don't want anything to do with you'.\"\n\nAfter a year she went back home \"completely broken\" and in tears.\n\nNyla says the community could not believe that her parents took her back after what she had done.\n\n\"It was hard but we worked through it. We put love before religion,\" she says.\n\nNyla got a divorce and went on to study social work at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.\n\n\"I have been an independent Muslim woman ever since,\" says Nyla, who now lives in Edinburgh.\n\nForced marriage is a criminal offence. It occurs when one or both spouses do not consent to the marriage and violence, threats or coercion is involved. Coercion can include emotional force, physical force or the threat of it, and financial pressure.\n\nThe latest figures from the UK government's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) show they gave advice or support to a possible forced marriage in 1,764 cases last year - a 47% rise.\n\nThe number in Scotland rose from 18 in 2017 to 30 last year.\n\nThe FMU said the increase in cases could be down to greater awareness of forced marriage being a crime and an improved data recording process.\n\nThe unit dealt with cases relating to many countries but Pakistan accounted for 44% of cases in 2018.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said it had published statutory guidance on forced marriage and was looking at \"refreshing\" this in conjunction with members of the Forced Marriage Network - a group drawn from a broad selection of public sector and third sector bodies, and community based organisations.\n\nNyla says: \"I don't think we have found the proper solution yet. Education is the key, obviously, awareness is the key but I think parents need to understand how much pain your daughter goes through when you are forcing her into a marriage.\n\n\"I think people need to understand the impact it has emotionally, physically, spiritually on a woman when they are forced into a marriage.\"", "Facebook has more than two billion active users worldwide\n\nSocial media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic of Ireland since the European Union's new data protection regulation came into force a year ago.\n\nMost of the major US tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Dropbox, are registered for processing personal data in Ireland.\n\nIreland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 statutory investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nTwitter and LinkedIn are also under investigation, and last week the commission launched a probe in to Google over the way it uses personal data to provide targeted advertising.\n\nThis follows on from Google's €50m ($56m; £44m) fine imposed by French data regulator CNIL for \"lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation\".\n\nGoogle is appealing against the decision.\n\nSo the responsibility for policing their compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which started in May 2018 - falls on the country's Data Protection Commission (DPC).\n\nNine of the DPC's investigations were launched after complaints from individuals or businesses, while 10 have been instigated by the DPC itself.\n\nThe most common concerns are about the legal basis for processing personal data, lack of transparency about how a company collects personal data, and people's right to access their data.\n\n\"There has been a huge increase in awareness among individuals about their data rights since GDPR came in,\" says Graham Doyle, the DPC's head of communications.\n\nThis has led to a steep rise in complaints, with the number increasing from 2,500 in 2017 to more than 6,500 now, says Mr Doyle.\n\nAn office of 27 staff has had to be beefed up to more than 130. Mr Doyle expects the number to rise eventually to more than 200 over the next year or so.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson said: \"We spent more than 18 months working to ensure we comply with the GDPR.\n\n\"We made our policies clearer, our privacy settings easier to find and introduced better tools for people to access, download, and delete their information. We are in close contact with the Irish Data Protection Office to ensure we are answering any questions they may have.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018 and gives EU citizens more rights over how their personal data is collected, used and stored.\n\nWe have the right to demand a copy of our personal data from companies, and they have to comply within a month.\n\nThat data must be easy to understand and should also be presented in a machine-readable format, so that a customer could transfer all their data to a competitor.\n\nWe can ask for any incorrect data to be corrected or for the whole lot to be deleted if we want.\n\nAnd companies have a responsibility to keep our data safe. If any is stolen or unwittingly shared with unauthorised organisations - and this could pose a risk to people's rights and freedoms - companies have to inform the national data regulator within 72 hours.\n\n\"Big tech is well and truly in the spotlight at the moment following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and other well-publicised data breaches,\" says Anthony Lee, data privacy expert and partner at law firm DMH Stallard.\n\n\"A lot of these big tech companies are consumer facing so handle a lot of personal data, but come from the US which doesn't have as strong privacy laws as Europe,\" he adds.\n\n\"If they weren't well attuned to the requirements that GDPR imposes, they certainly are now.\"\n\nAccording to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), fines levied for GDPR breaches now top €56m. Fines can be as high as €20m or 4% of annual turnover.\n\n\"In the first year, we've seen tens of thousands of complaints and data breaches,\" says Omer Tene, the IAPP's vice president and chief knowledge officer.\n\n\"But we've yet to see much evidence that the GDPR has led to an improvement in organisations' data practices.\"\n\nIAPP estimates that organisations have appointed more than 500,000 data protection officers with specific responsibility for handling GDPR-related issues.\n\nAnn Bevitt thinks the real effects of GDPR have yet to be felt by businesses\n\nBut it thinks many companies still need to do much more to bring themselves fully into compliance.\n\nAnd Ann Bevitt, partner at law firm Cooley, believes that while some companies have instigated a \"wholesale change in their culture around privacy and data protection\", many others have simply engaged in \"a box-ticking exercise with little to no embedded change in practice\".\n\nA year after GDPR came in to force, she warns that \"to some extent, the impact has yet to be felt, in that we haven't yet seen significant enforcement activity, both in terms of volume and amount\".\n\nThis is likely to change over the next year as the number of completed investigations - and potential fines - rises.\n\nThere is a time lag because investigations can take many months. All parties need to be consulted before the data protection authority can reach a conclusion. Then the decision has to be circulated to all the other EU data protection authorities for approval.\n\nAnd the company under investigation has the right to appeal against the final decision.\n\nIreland's Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, is expected to circulate her decisions on some cases by July or August, with final rulings made by the end of the year, Mr Doyle predicts.\n\nBig tech firms may be feeling the heat for some time to come.", "Christine Mackie (left) has written the play, and daughter Lois will star\n\nChristine Mackie, best known for playing Coronation Street's genial GP Dr Gaddas, has written her first play at the age of 62, inspired by the suicide of her father, and starring her daughter.\n\nChristine was 11 when her dad, a Second World War veteran, took his own life. He had bottled up the ordeal of war and the depression that followed.\n\nThat was 1968, and his death was a trauma that the young Christine couldn't process at the time. She too bottled her feelings up.\n\n\"Nobody talked about anything,\" says the actress, who is also known as Downton Abbey's Mrs Bryant. \"We just got on and went back to school, went back to work, got on with things. I didn't cry because if I cried it upset mum. If she cried, it upset me. So we didn't cry. I didn't really want to deal with anything until I was about 14, and I went a bit loopy.\"\n\nFor the next three decades, she largely kept her memories and feelings about her father shut away. It wasn't until she was in her 40s that she finally worked through her grief.\n\nBy that time, she had two young daughters. She sought professional help - not initially for herself, but to take advice about how to talk to her girls, worried that they might somehow feel suicide was something that could follow the family.\n\nHer GP referred her to a grief counsellor. \"And it was absolutely transformative for me,\" she says. \"She gave me back my dad. Because in a way, since his death, it was almost like he hadn't been there. Because we didn't talk about him.\"\n\nNow, she has written a one-woman play inspired by the grief caused by the loss of her father and the transformational effects of therapy. It's not a direct retelling of her story - it's set in the present-day and the central character is younger than Christine herself was when she sought help. The character is played by Christine's daughter Lois.\n\n\"We've been approaching it in quite a detached way, in the sense that we're trying not to remember that it's this huge personal thing,\" Lois says. \"That it isn't my grandfather, that it is a character and a job that I'm doing. Keeping it like that has helped a lot.\"\n\nChristine Mackie's father Harry took his life at the age of 45\n\nChristine's father - Lois's grandfather - escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Italy and was hidden by a local family who, she says, would disguise him as an old lady when the army came to the village. \"He was a long time coming home, and when he got back, everybody had got used to him being dead,\" Christine says. \"His fiancé had married somebody else and didn't expect him to come home.\"\n\nIn the play, titled Best Girl, the father figure is a Gulf War veteran. Lois's character is called Annie, who has relationship problems that stem from the damage caused when he took his life. It becomes hard to trust anyone after a tragedy like that befalls you at a young age, Christine says.\n\n\"Even though you are functioning, it's very hard to make relationships. It's very hard to believe that anybody is going to stick around for you. 'Why would you stick around for me when you just met me, when my dad didn't stick around for me?' So that's a time bomb you're dealing with, even if you're still managing to go to the shops and go to school and work and all the rest of it.\"\n\nThankful for her therapy, she describes the play as \"a love letter to the NHS\", and the fictional Annie is allowed to get professional help earlier than Christine was able to in real life. \"I think it is wonderful that Annie makes this discovery and has the chance to be liberated while she's still so young,\" Christine says.\n\nChristine Mackie (right) played Penelope Wallace in the BBC's Doctors in 2016\n\nAs Dr Gaddas, Christine's consultations have included treating Coronation Street's Steve Macdonald for depression. It's fitting that the actress's debut script is an homage to the medical profession. \"She would be very thrilled. She's also quite often in scenes wanting people to talk. This is my fifth year being Dr Gaddas, which is a tremendous joy to me. I love going there.\"\n\nShe films on the cobbles about once a month, popping up whenever one of the Weatherfield residents needs to see their friendly local doctor. She has a trick to making Dr Gaddas slot in seamlessly - imagining that she is actually the star of her own parallel soap opera.\n\n\"Whenever I go in, I know very well my place. The scene is not about Gaddas, it's about somebody else. So in my little head, I have my own soap opera where I'm really busy and I just want to get this scene over so that I can just get on and do something.\n\n\"So that's my energy when I go in, 'Oh, that's very interesting, but you know, there are things I've got to do'. Then something will happen and I'll go, 'OK, tell me more about it'. I like that. It makes me laugh.\"\n\nBest Girl will be performed at the Greater Manchester Fringe before a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Christine and Lois are giving a portion of the ticket sales to two mental health charities - FirstLight Trust and Young Minds.\n\nYoung Minds provides and campaigns for mental health support for children and young people. The charity's campaigns director Tom Madders said: \"Losing a parent to suicide can be extremely difficult to make sense of for any child or young person.\n\n\"There is no right or wrong way to grieve - what's normal for one person may not be for someone else - but talking to someone you trust, like a friend, a family member, GP or counsellor, can make a real difference. Grief doesn't have a timeline, so be patient with yourself. Remember you don't have to deal with this alone.\"\n\nMeanwhile, FirstLight Trust helps war veterans. Christine Mackie recently visited one of its cafes, where former servicemen and women can go to talk. \"I was looking at these guys chatting and thought, who did my dad chat to?\" she says.\n\n\"Who did my dad talk to, really? Nobody.\"\n\nBest Girl is at Hope Aria House in Manchester from 18-20 July and at the Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh from 31 July-26 August.\n\nIf you would like support, you can phone The Samaritans on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. Calm can be contacted on 0800 58 58 58 (17:00-midnight). Details of other organisations that can help are on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Best Girl at the Greater Manchester Fringe\n• None Best Girl at the Edinburgh Fringe The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larrison Campbell (R) said she asked to shadow the Republican candidate Robert Foster on a campaign trip\n\nA Republican candidate for Mississippi governor has refused to be interviewed by a female reporter unless she brings a male colleague with her.\n\nLarrison Campbell, 40, said she had asked to shadow Robert Foster on a 15-hour \"ride-a-long\" on his campaign, but was denied because of her sex.\n\nMr Foster said he was acting out of precaution and he did not want to raise any suspicions about his marriage.\n\n\"This is my truck, and in my truck we go by my rules,\" he said on CNN.\n\nDuring the CNN interview with Ms Campbell and Mr Foster on Thursday, the 36-year-old gubernatorial candidate cited his religion and faith, arguing he had made a vow to his wife to not be alone with someone of the opposite sex.\n\nHe cited the late Christian evangelist Billy Graham, who had said he would not spend time alone with any woman who was not his wife, as well as Vice-President Mike Pence, who has said he will not eat alone with a woman other than his wife.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I don't trust the perception that the world puts on people when they see things and they don't ask a question, they don't look to find out the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"Perception is a reality in this world, and I don't want to give anybody the opinion that I'm doing something that I should not be doing.\"\n\nMr Foster said following the #MeToo movement, \"men are under attack all the time\".\n\n\"I'm not going to allow myself to be put in a situation with any female where they can make an accusation against me\" without someone else in attendance, he said.\n\nWhen asked if he would allow the 15-hour interview with a man, Mr Foster said he would, adding: \"I stand my ground.\"\n\nMs Campbell, who has interviewed Mr Foster numerous times, called the decision sexist.\n\nShe argued that if she were expected to go by his rules in his truck, he should provide the male chaperone.\n\nMike Pence said in 2002 he \"never eats alone with a woman other than his wife\" Karen\n\nMr Foster said his campaign staff was too small at the time to provide assistance.\n\n\"What you're saying here is that a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second,\" Campbell told Mr Foster on Thursday.\n\nShe asked Mr Foster how he could tell voters he would be a good governor if he could not be alone in a room with a woman, citing numerous female staff members in the current governor's office.\n\nMr Foster said he could achieve that by leaving the door open or having people in the room next door, but that the 15-hour vehicle ride was a different situation.\n\nThe debate over Mr Foster and Campbell has drawn renewed attention to the sentiment that men are uncomfortable being with women alone.\n\nTwo years ago Mr Pence made headlines after comments he made in 2002 that he \"never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side\" resurfaced.\n\nSome argue the practice is a matter of professionalism in the workplace while critics decry it as sexist and unfair to women in professional settings.", "A railway company is to offer free train tickets to all students going to a university's open day.\n\nWest Midlands Railway will provide free travel to the University of Worcester this autumn.\n\nIt follows warnings that disadvantaged families were not able to go to open days because of travel costs.\n\nAnne-Marie Canning, director of social mobility at King's College London, said rail fares had become a major barrier to widening access to university.\n\nJon Harris, of West Midlands Railway, said this pilot scheme was part of a commitment to making rail travel \"accessible for all\".\n\nStudents can register with the university for a voucher for a free ticket for the next open day in September, which can be used on West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services.\n\nOpen days, where applicants can ask tutors about courses and look at accommodation, have been attracting tens of thousands of families in recent weeks.\n\nBut the BBC has highlighted concerns that the cost of getting to open days had become a significant limit on applying to university.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ross Renton 🎓 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen long-distance rail tickets can cost £100 or £200, and students might want to see several potential universities, it can become unaffordable.\n\nMs Canning says her work with families in disadvantaged areas, looking at barriers to university, had found the cost of train tickets to open days had been raised by parents as one of the biggest worries.\n\nThe social mobility charity, the Villiers Park Educational Trust, had also warned that poorer youngsters were limiting their applications to the universities which they could afford to reach on open days.\n\nThere is no obligation to attend an open day, but they have become big recruitment events, where students get a chance to see where they would live and study and to view the facilities on offer.\n\nThe cost of train travel can make it difficult to get to open days, say social mobility charities\n\nThe charity found that young people saw going to university as a major financial commitment - and many would not consider applying to a place they had not visited.\n\n\"We know how important open days are for prospective students. It is a chance to ask questions, speak to lecturers and to get a feel for whether it is the place for them,\" said the University of Worcester's pro vice-chancellor, Ross Renton.\n\nHe said that everyone had a \"fundamental right to education\" and the offer from the rail company would \"help make travel costs less prohibitive for people\" wanting to visit the university.\n\nThe rail company's offer of tickets to open days follows another scheme providing free travel for those going to job interviews or to training courses for job seekers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Salmond denied all of the charges against him following his court appearance on 24 January\n\nThe trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond on multiple charges of attempted rape and sexual assault will not begin until late January at the earliest, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nMr Salmond was charged with a total of 14 offences on 24 January this year.\n\nThey include two charges of attempted rape, nine of sexual assault, two of indecent assault and a breach of the peace.\n\nHe strongly denies all of the allegations against him.\n\nBBC Scotland understands that the indictment in the case is not expected to be served until October, with an initial hearing in the case currently pencilled in for 18 November.\n\nThe trial would then be scheduled to start before a jury at the High Court towards the end of January.\n\nMr Salmond was Scotland's first minister between 2007 and 2014, when he stood down following the independence referendum.\n\nPolice launched an investigation following a Scottish government inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment against him.\n\nMr Salmond launched a judicial review against the government over how it had handled its inquiry, saying he had been treated unfairly - with the government later conceding its procedures had been flawed.\n\nMr Salmond was twice leader of the SNP, but quit the party in 2018 after taking legal action against the government", "Thomas Orchard was found unconscious in a cell and later died in hospital\n\nFour police officers involved in the detention and restraint of a mentally ill man who later died will not face gross misconduct proceedings.\n\nThomas Orchard, 32, died seven days after having an emergency response belt placed across his face in October 2012.\n\nA disciplinary panel has concluded the four Devon and Cornwall officers could not get a fair hearing and dismissed the misconduct charges.\n\nParents Ken and Alison Orchard said they had been \"failed beyond belief\".\n\nThey said they \"never really had any faith in this tribunal\", chaired by Assistant Chief Constable Ben Snuggs, of Hampshire Police.\n\n\"As a family we used to believe in the system; we believed that if something bad happened, justice would be served.\"\n\nA panel found that the delays in the case had been \"excessive and unjustified\" for both the family and the officers concerned.\n\nAndrew Berry, chair of Devon and Cornwall Police Federation said the federation has called for an investigation looking into \"what went wrong with disclosure\" and \"how the disciplinary case could drag on for seven years\".\"\n\nIn May 2019 Devon and Cornwall Police was sentenced and fined £234,500 for health and safety breaches in relation to the belt used.\n\nJudge Julian Lambert ruled he could not be sure the belt placed around Mr Orchard's face contributed to his death in April 2019.\n\nOn 3 October 2012 Mr Orchard who suffered with paranoid schizophrenia was arrested for shouting at members of the public and transported to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital after being resuscitated.\n\nThe ERB was placed across his face for five minutes and two seconds to prevent spitting or biting.\n\nHe was declared dead seven days later on 12 October.\n\nTwo civilian staff are still facing disciplinary proceedings.\n\nThe emergency response belt was placed across Thomas Orchard's face after his arrest in 2012", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie, 11, said boxing \"helps me get my anger out and it helps me control it\"\n\nThese teenagers all have ADHD and have been excluded from mainstream school. Here they tell how the sport of boxing is helping them channel their excess energy and improve their life skills.\n\nIn an amateur boxing gym in Barry, 14-year-old Levi is tugging on his boxing gloves, ready to join his friends in training.\n\nSome are already practising in the ring, aiming jabs and uppercuts.\n\nOthers are punching the bags or skipping as music plays in the background and the smell of sweat and chalk permeates the air.\n\nHe always has been. In fact, he has been excluded from school twice for disobedient behaviour.\n\nBefore he was diagnosed with ADHD, Levi believed he was just a naughty kid\n\nBut now he's using the discipline of boxing to channel his fighting spirit in a more positive way.\n\nEvery Thursday, he partakes in a two-hour non-contact boxing session at Colcot Amateur Boxing Club, designed to help pupils who have been excluded from mainstream school.\n\n\"I used to lose my temper easily,\" Levi explains. \"I started a lot of fights and used to mess up the classrooms.\n\n\"I used to be really disrespectful to the teachers and felt so down all the time, thinking I was just a naughty kid.\"\n\nOnce excluded, however, and sent to a pupil referral unit in the Vale of Glamorgan, Levi got diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - a condition which causes inattentiveness, impulsiveness and an inability to stick to tasks.\n\nIt is also closely linked with underachievement at school, poor social interaction and problems with discipline.\n\n\"The diagnosis and medication helped,\" he explains. \"But it's the boxing that really helps as I'm always so full of energy and struggle to concentrate.\n\n\"I get excited and want to train my best.\n\n\"Anthony Joshua is my role model and I want to follow in his steps.\n\n\"But my main aim now is just to get my head down and get my GCSEs.\"\n\nAalijah, 14, says the boxing helps her to calm down and concentrate\n\nIt is a similar story for Aalijah, 14.\n\nShe too has ADHD and her inability to concentrate meant she fell behind academically from a young age, causing her behaviour to spiral.\n\nFrustrated with school and feeling like she constantly had to \"catch up\", she was eventually excluded for intimidating her teachers.\n\n\"I don't like school,\" she explains. \"It puts me under pressure and frustrates me.\n\n\"If I try to concentrate on something, my mind is just blank… and with the ADHD, I can't control what I do. It's like my body is locked back and in its own trance.\"\n\nBut if Aalijah struggled with school, in boxing she has found something she loves.\n\n\"The boxing really helps,\" she explains. \"It lowers my energy and calms me down, helping me to concentrate.\n\n\"After it, I feel a lot calmer and more sensible.\"\n\nCoach Nathan Powell is aiming to improve the students' confidence and resilience\n\nAalijah and Levi are just two of the teenagers helped by the weekly boxing sessions.\n\nRun by Empire Fighting Chance, a Bristol-based charity that launched in south Wales in 2016, the classes are designed to teach confidence and resilience, improving the life chances of those involved.\n\nIt is now expanding across the whole of Wales, with sessions due to begin in Rhyl, north Wales, and other locations by the end of the year.\n\nExplaining the benefits, coach Nathan Powell, says: \"Many of the kids we see have anxiety and confidence issues and struggle to work with others.\n\n\"At the start of the sessions, team activities always end in arguments and confrontation.\n\n\"But with work and drills, their confidence grows and they become a member of a team. These kids are also used to failing, so we break things down into mini goals, like building up the number of skips they can do.\n\n\"This helps them reach a target and achieve something. It's very important and makes them feel good about themselves.\"\n\nJamie says boxing helps control his anger - a big part of his ADHD\n\nA third pupil, Jamie, 11, got excluded from primary school when he was just nine despite teachers knowing about his diagnosis. \"Anger is a big part of my ADHD,\" he says. \"If I get annoyed it takes me a long time to calm down.\n\n\"But the boxing helps me get my anger out and it helps me control it.\"\n\nAs for Jamie Parry, head of business development for Empire Fighting Chance, he believes that mainstream education might not be for everyone.\n\n\"Many children need a different way of learning,\" he says.\n\n\"We try to boost aspiration by providing good role models in the form of our coaches, and we drop in personal development tips about nutrition and sleep.\n\n\"The pupils often see teachers as a negative sign of authority so we try to build trust with them.\"\n\nAccording to statistics from the UK ADHD Partnership, children with ADHD have more than 100 times greater risk of being permanently excluded from school than other children.\n\nRoughly 40% of children with ADHD have had fixed-term exclusions from school and 11% have been permanently excluded.\n\nSusan Young, president of the UK ADHD Partnership, said: \"Sporting activities, such as boxing, are so good for children with ADHD.\n\n\"They learn how to interact with people, adapt to an environment and judge situations - skills that will help in real life.\n\n\"Boxing, especially, teaches impulse control and channels emotions in a constructive way.\n\n\"People with ADHD have so many positives. They are often fun, creative and engaging. They might simply need help to channel their energy and sport is great way to do this.\"", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nSerena Williams made light work of Barbora Strycova to reach the Wimbledon final and stand one win away from a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title.\n\nThe American was just too powerful for the Czech in a 6-1 6-2 win that set up a final against Romania's Simona Halep.\n\nWilliams, 37, said she tried to \"tap into that younger Serena\" in a dominant display that will make her the oldest Grand Slam women's singles finalist.\n\nShe took just 59 minutes to win and continue her bid for an eighth title.\n\n\"It feels good to be back in the final,\" said Williams, who was runner-up to Angelique Kerber last year and will be appearing in the grass-court showpiece for an 11th time on Saturday.\n• None Halep feels 'mentally stronger' to take on Williams\n\nWilliams proves too much for veteran debutant Strycova\n\nWilliams is aiming to draw level with Australian Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles and also win her first major title since becoming a mum in September 2017.\n\nIn 33-year-old Grand Slam semi-final debutant Strycova, she was facing a player she had met three times before without dropping a set.\n\nAnd she was not going to spoil that record here, establishing breaks in the fourth and sixth games before taking the set with her 44th ace of the championships.\n\nWhile Williams is a firm favourite on Centre Court, the crowd wanted to see more of a match and cheered every half chance, net cord or winner that went Strycova's way.\n\nBut despite the support, the world number 54 seemed lost in the occasion and unable to turn to the serve-and-volley game that had served her so well in the dismantling of British number one Johanna Konta in the quarter-finals.\n\nShe raised her arms ironically in celebration at winning a rare long rally for 0-15 when Williams was serving for the match but soon found herself shaking hands at the net after the American delivered a forehand winner on her first match point.\n\nWilliams said she had thought back earlier that morning to her first Wimbledon triumph in 2002, when she beat her sister Venus in the final, and that it had inspired her.\n\n\"I was trying to tap into those emotions. I was really calm,\" she said. \"[I was] just trying to tap into that younger Serena, trying to tap into how to win basically.\"\n\nWilliams, whose season had been disrupted by injury and illness, teamed up with British former world number one Andy Murray in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon this week.\n\nAnd, as well as providing a crowd-pleasing partnership until their last-16 exit, it turns out it has also helped her singles game.\n\n\"I promise you, when I hit a volley I was like, 'would I have made that if I didn't play doubles?' I don't think so,\" she said.\n\n\"I kept telling you guys I thought the doubles would help me. I really think it did. I don't attack the net that much. I tried to and I want to.\"\n\nWilliams is now into a Grand Slam final for the 13th consecutive year - and that includes being on maternity leave during that time.\n\nShe pulled out of three consecutive tournaments this season because of injury or illness and this is the first major final she will contest this year, having lost in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in January and the third round at the French Open.\n\n\"It's good, especially after my year,\" she said.\n\n\"I just needed some matches. I know I'm improving and I just needed to feel good and then I can do what I do best which is play tennis.\"\n\nAt 37 years and 291 days, she will on Saturday overtake Martina Navratilova (37 years 258 days) as the oldest Grand Slam women's finalist in the Open era and remains as motivated as ever.\n\n\"I love what I do, I wake up every morning and I get to be fit and play sport and play in front of crowds like here at Wimbledon - not everyone can do that,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm still pretty good at what I do and it's always an amazing experience.\"\n\nWilliams won the most recent of her Grand Slam titles at the 2017 Australian Open when she was eight weeks pregnant.\n\nShe returned to the Tour in March 2018, saying she had \"almost died\" giving birth to her daughter, and has reached three Grand Slam finals since.\n\nHaving lost in last year's Wimbledon and US Open finals, she will now hope it will be third time lucky on Saturday (14:00 BST).\n\nNine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova on BBC TV: \"The crowd didn't necessarily want Serena to lose. They just wanted to see more of her. Strycova wasn't able to handle the power. How quickly was Serena getting on those balls though? She did her homework and it paid off. She was firing on all cylinders.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Tracy Austin on BBC TV: \"Strycova never felt like she had any time to react. Look at the way Serena was able to manipulate that ball and get it up and down. There was so much consistency. She is locked in.\n\n\"Serena's serve is hard and it's powerful. How can you defend when it's that powerful and near the sidelines? I think the mixed doubles [with Britain's Andy Murray] really helped as well. It brought her intensity up. She had three matches with Andy and we know how intense he is.\"", "Lesley-Ann Dodds, 21, denies aiding and abetting and perverting the course of justice\n\nAn engaged couple has appeared in court charged in connection with the murder of County Down man Pat McCormick.\n\nThe body of the 55-year-old father of four from Saintfield was found at a lake in nearby Ballygowan on Tuesday.\n\nDavid Gill, of Ballyglighorn Road in Comber, County Down, appeared at Newtownards Magistrates' Court on Friday, handcuffed and flanked by police.\n\nThe 26 year old denied a charge of murder and did not apply for bail.\n\nHis fiancée Lesley-Ann Dodds, 21, from Mountcollyer Avenue in Belfast, also appeared, charged with aiding and abetting and perverting the course of justice.\n\nShe denied involvement in the murder.\n\nA detective inspector told the court she could connect both defendants to the charges.\n\nFather-of-four Pat McCormick had been missing since 30 May\n\nMr McCormick was last seen alive in Comber on Thursday 30 May and police had carried out extensive searches for his body for several weeks.\n\nThe court heard there had been text message exchanges and phone calls between the trio before Mr McCormick met the couple at a flat on Castle Street in Comber on the night of 30 May.\n\nIt also heard Mr McCormick was anxious about the meeting as he feared he was being \"set up\".\n\nThe officer said CCTV footage showed Mr Gill leaving the property but Mr McCormick was never seen alive again.\n\nPolice were searching a lake at a former quarry when they found the body\n\nObjecting to Ms Dodds' bail application, police said she had been searching for cheap holidays the day after the murder and there were concerns she may interfere with witnesses.\n\nWhen asked by the defence, the officer accepted Ms Dodds had no physical involvement in Mr McCormick's murder or the disposal of his body.\n\nThe judge rejected bail due to the concerns raised by police.\n\nBoth of the accused are due to appear in court again in August.", "December, 1987: A tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war\n\nTankers blazing in the Gulf. American warships answering distress calls. Warlike rhetoric sparking fears of a wider conflict.\n\nWe've been here before: 28 years ago, America and Iran came to blows in the same waters. Ships were attacked, crew members killed and injured.\n\nBefore it was over, an Iranian airliner had been shot out of the sky, by mistake.\n\nThe \"tanker war\" was a moment of high international tension at the end of revolutionary Iran's eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nThe two sides had been attacking each other's oil facilities since the mid-1980s.\n\nSoon neutral ships were being hit too, as the warring nations tried to exert economic pressure on the other side. Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi oil were especially vulnerable.\n\nThe US, under Ronald Reagan, was reluctant to get involved. But the situation in the Gulf was becoming increasingly dangerous – a fact underlined when an American warship, the USS Stark, was hit by Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet – though Iraqi officials later claimed this was accidental.\n\nBy July 1987, re-registered Kuwaiti tankers, flying the US flag, were being escorted through the Gulf by American warships. In time, it became the biggest naval convoy operation since World War II.\n\nOctober 1987: An escort from the USS Guadalcanal watches a tanker in the Persian Gulf\n\nThen, as now, America and Iran were at loggerheads.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had been calling America \"The Great Satan\" since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.\n\nWashington was still smarting from the humiliation of seeing 52 of its diplomats held hostage in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 – 1981.\n\nSo even though Iran and Iraq were both responsible for the crisis, the tanker war was quickly part of the simmering, long-running feud between Iran and America.\n\nIt's a feud that has never gone away and which has flared once more in the wake of Donald Trump's decision to apply \"maximum pressure\" after walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOnce again, the waters either side of the Strait of Hormuz have become the arena in which this almost pathological contest plays out.\n\nWhat, if anything, has changed?\n\n\"Both sides have expanded their capabilities,\" says Dr Martin Navias, author of a book on the tanker war.\n\nIran, he says, is more capable than ever of using mines, submarines and fast boats to attack and damage commercial and military shipping.\n\nAnd it's not just a battle at sea: Iran's ability to shoot down a sophisticated American surveillance drone points to another battle, high overhead.\n\nThe US military identified the drone as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nCould the US and Iran start to exchange serious blows?\n\nIf attacks on tankers escalate, we could see another US-led reflagging and escort operation.\n\nOn 24 July 1987, a re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker hit an Iranian mine on the very first convoy mission. The US deployed more forces and more ships. The two sides were now on a collision course.\n\nIn September, American helicopters attacked an Iranian ship after watching it lay mines at night.\n\nIn the months that followed, more tankers, and a US frigate, were hit. American forces responded with ever greater firepower, destroying Revolutionary Guard bases and attacking Iranian warships.\n\nEventually it ended – but not before an American missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook an Iranian Airbus A300 for an attacking jet and shot it down, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290\n\nThe official report into the incident said that \"stress, task fixation (and) an unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role\".\n\nThe US navy invested heavily in technology and training to avoid such catastrophic mistakes in the future.\n\nBut Nick Childs, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says today's environment, with rivals also exchanging angry salvoes on social media, makes for a febrile atmosphere.\n\n\"The information space has changed,\" he says. \"People get jittery. The danger is that each side is misreading the other.\"\n\nDonald Trump and Hassan Rouhani both say they don't want a war. Hardliners, on both sides, are a little more ambiguous.\n\nDr Navias says we're not yet heading for another tanker war.\n\n\"We're not seeing an anti-shipping campaign, but a signalling campaign,\" he says. \"The Iranians are signalling to the Americans that they could escalate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nFor all the drama of those months in 1987 and 1988, very few tankers were actually sunk and shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz was never seriously disrupted.\n\nNow, 30 years on, the US is far less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Iran has far more to lose, in terms of imports and exports, from a closure of the Strait.\n\nFor now, another tanker war seems unlikely. But the fact that neither side really wants an all-out confrontation doesn't mean it won't happen.\n\nDr Navias says the dangers are real.\n\n\"This kind of environment is pregnant with possibilities.\"", "Rival demonstrations have been held over the consumption of dog meat, a traditional part of South Korean cuisine, outside parliament in the capital, Seoul.\n\nA vocal group of dog farmers ate the meat and handed out leaflets touting its benefits.\n\nMetres away, US actor Kim Basinger was among animal rights protesters who carried models of emaciated dead dog and chanted slogans.", "Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib were giving evidence to the House Oversight Committee following their visit to detention facilities on the southern border.\n\nJust a few hours later, Vice President Mike Pence was touring a facility and reviewed the conditions there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shot by a passenger shows the aftermath of the turbulence\n\nAt least 37 people were injured on board an Air Canada flight after the plane hit severe turbulence and had to make an emergency landing.\n\nThe plane, carrying 284 passengers and crew, was travelling from Vancouver to Sydney but was diverted to Hawaii.\n\nThirty people were taken to hospital in Honolulu on Thursday. Nine had severe injuries, officials said.\n\nAir Canada said the Boeing 777-200 jet \"encountered sudden clear air turbulence... two hours past Hawaii\".\n\nPassengers reported the cabin being bloodied and dented from passengers hitting the ceiling of the aircraft.\n\n\"We all hit the roof and everything fell down,\" Jess Smith told local TV station KHON. \"People went flying.\"\n\nAlex Macdonald, from Brisbane, told Canadian broadcaster CBC News that those on board were \"extremely shocked\".\n\n\"I saw the people ahead of me hitting the overhead baggage compartments and then just slamming back into their seats,\" she said.\n\nEmergency workers assist passengers on Air Canada flight AC33 after it was diverted to Hawaii\n\nSeveral passengers were photographed wearing neck braces at the airport\n\nPhotographs taken inside the aircraft show that oxygen masks were released and service trolleys thrown over during the incident. An Instagram post from one passenger showed he and others wearing neck braces in the airport.\n\nAn Australian country band, Hurricane Fall, were also on the flight at the time. The band said in a Facebook post that their vocalist had sustained injuries to his arm and elbow but had been released from hospital.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Hurricane Fall This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe plane landed in Hawaii at 06:46 local time (16:46 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC at 23:00 local time (09:00 GMT Friday) Air Canada confirmed that all of those injured had been assessed, treated and released by local hospitals.\n\nThe airline said all passengers from the flight had been accommodated in local hotels, with the flight planned to resume later on Friday.\n\nCAT - clear air turbulence - occurs in otherwise calm, clear blue skies, without any visual indication such as clouds.\n\nIt occurs when masses of air moving at different speeds meet but can't be identified by the naked eye or conventional radar.\n\nPilots use reports from other aircraft, passed on via air traffic control, to keep track of patches of CAT.\n\nAirlines usually recommend passengers always keep their seatbelts on while seated in case of unexpected turbulence.", "Jeremy Hunt says he would boost defence spending by £15bn over the next five years if he becomes prime minister.\n\nThe Tory leadership candidate's promise would mean spending on defence would rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2023/24, from its current 2%.\n\nHe said the move would help combat \"new threats to western values\" and show the UK is \"ready to defend its interests\".\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who backs Mr Hunt, said the government must give the armed forces \"what they need.\"\n\n\"Jeremy's clear commitment to do that is one reason why he has my support,\" she added.\n\nSources close to Mr Hunt suggested the policy would be funded through economic growth and fiscal \"headroom\" set aside by Chancellor Phillip Hammond.\n\n\"I was the person who secured a historic funding boost for the NHS and as prime minister I'll do the same for defence,\" the former health secretary said.\n\n\"My plan for defence will give our brave troops the backing they need and show the world that when it comes to the new threats to Western values, Britain is back and Britain's voice will be strong,\" he added.\n\nMr Hunt's move comes after repeated complaints from US President Donald Trump over the defence spending of Nato allies.\n\nThe UK is one of the few European members to reach the current target of 2% of GDP.\n\nThe foreign secretary has previously said it is not \"not sustainable\" to expect the US to spend 4% of its GDP on defence, while other Nato allies spent between 1% and 2% and has called for the UK to consider \"decisively\" increasing military spending after Brexit.\n\nHis pledge comes after warnings of a funding black hole of at least £7bn in plans to equip the UK's armed forces.\n\nThere has not been a full-scale Strategic Defence and Security Review, looking at future defence challenges and capabilities, since 2015 and one is expected in 2020.", "Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death at her house in Raymead Avenue, Croydon\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of the murders of a pregnant woman and her baby son who died days after being delivered.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months pregnant, was stabbed to death in her home in Croydon on 29 June.\n\nHer son Riley was delivered by paramedics but died on 3 July.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a 25-year-old man had been arrested and was being held at a central London police station.\n\nHe is the third man to be arrested on suspicion of the murders.\n\nA 37-year-old was released with no further action while a 29-year-old was bailed until a date in August.\n\nMs Fauvrelle's baby was named Riley after he was delivered by paramedics\n\nPolice were called by the London Ambulance Service at 03:30 BST to Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath, where Ms Fauvrelle was in cardiac arrest.\n\nDespite the efforts of paramedics, she died at the scene.\n\nMs Fauvrelle's family - including her mother, two brothers, sister and sister's baby son - were all at the home at the time of the attack and were woken by her screams. However, none of them saw her attacker.\n\nHer son was delivered at the scene but died in hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Nobody should ever have to suffer what I did simply for wearing a T-shirt with a flag of a country on it,\" Mr Ahmad said\n\nFifa \"failed to protect\" the human rights of a fan who was allegedly tortured for wearing a Qatar flag t-shirt after a football match in Abu Dhabi, his lawyers have claimed.\n\nAli Issa Ahmad, 26, from Wolverhampton, said he was left with scars after being detained and beaten by UAE police.\n\nHe said he was followed by officers and arrested after the Qatar vs Iraq match in January.\n\nFifa said it had received a complaint from Mr Ahmad's lawyers.\n\nA UAE official accused him of lying and \"attention seeking\".\n\nMr Ahmad, who left UAE custody in February, said he was followed by a group of men after the match who claimed to be police officers.\n\nThey ripped his shirt from him and followed him to his hotel, he said.\n\nWhen Mr Ahmad decided to leave the hotel, he said he was followed again and was attacked in his rental car. When he made it to a petrol station to call for an ambulance, uniformed police officers arrived and subsequently detained and interrogated him, he said.\n\n\"I have scars all over my body now,\" he said.\n\n\"I was beaten up and lost a tooth, I was cut, electrocuted and when I was in a cell I was stabbed.\n\n\"I was forced to sign a statement just to get water.\n\n\"I have so many nightmares now.\n\n\"Not only did they physically torture me but they also called me terrible things, especially because I am black.\n\n\"I never wanted to go public with what happened to me because it is so difficult to keep re-living it, but the UAE keep denying that they did anything to me,\" Mr Ahmad said.\n\nMr Ahmad's lawyers say Fifa failed in its obligations to protect fans' human rights and prevent racial discrimination.\n\nComplaints have also been directed to UAE authorities via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the UN Human Rights Council, they added.\n\nAli Issa Ahmad says he was beaten while in custody and now has scars from the injuries he received\n\nRodney Dixon QC, head of Mr Ahmad's legal team, said: \"It is a disgrace that Ali was tortured so cruelly and gratuitously while attending an international football tournament in the UAE.\n\n\"No football fan should have to endure this kind of inhuman and racist treatment... Fifa must take action to hold those responsible to account.\"\n\nA Fifa spokesman said: \"FIFA has received a correspondence from Mr Ahmad's lawyers and will provide a response.\n\n\"FIFA welcomes any step by the relevant public authorities to establish the facts of the case and calls for adequate remedy to be provided for any wrongdoing that may be identified.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said it was asking UAE authorities to investigate.\n\n\"We take all allegations or concerns of torture and mistreatment very seriously,\" he added.\n\nDisputing Mr Ahmad's version of events, a UAE official claimed he had gone to a police station and was taken to hospital by officers after claiming to have been beaten by UAE national football fans.\n\nA doctor concluded his injuries \"appeared to be self-inflicted\", the official claimed.\n\nHe added Mr Ahmad had been charged with wasting police time and giving false statements, which he later admitted.\n\n\"He was categorically not arrested for wearing a Qatar football shirt. This is instead an instance of a person seeking media attention and wasting police time,\" the official added.\n\nThe World Cup is due to be held in Qatar in 2022.\n\nMr Ahmad's lawyers say Fifa failed in its obligations to protect fans' human rights and prevent racial discrimination", "How much does it cost to run an electric car? How can I get a charging point when I don't have a driveway? Are they really better for the environment?\n\nThese are just some of the many questions you have been sending us about electric cars, and with more and more manufacturers investing in and developing these vehicles, more questions are being raised.\n\nThis week the government announced it is pumping nearly £40m into improving the infrastructure for electric vehicles.\n\nBusiness correspondent Theo Leggett and transport correspondent Tom Burridge have been answering some of the questions sent to us by BBC News online readers.\n\nPhil: How much does it cost to put an electric charging point in your home?\n\nTom: The first thing to note is that the government provides a grant of £500. A basic charging unit can cost around the £700 mark so in that case you would have to pay the remaining £200.\n\nHowever the price of installation can vary depending on how far the charging point is from the mains supply.\n\nFaster charging units can cost around £1,500 (minus the £500 grant).\n\nIf you don't buy a charging unit you can still charge your car from your mains supply using a simple bit of kit provided by the car manufacturer, but it will charge more slowly.\n\nSarah: What happens to electric car batteries at the end of their life? Are they sent to landfill to pollute in a different way?\n\nTom: Under European Union law it is illegal for vehicle batteries to be incinerated or sent to landfill. However, the UK currently has no specialist facilities which can commercially separate the metals in the battery for reuse.\n\nThe numbers of used lithium-ion electric car batteries produced in Britain are still relatively low. Any old batteries can be exported to a European country which does have specialist recycling facilities.\n\nThe batteries are then incinerated at high temperatures and roughly 50% of each battery, including critical elements such as the cobalt and nickel, can be recovered.\n\nThe other option is to reuse the batteries. After about 8 to 10 years a lithium-ion electric car battery's performance will drop significantly.\n\nThe battery is then not good enough to be used to power an electric vehicle. However they can be used to store electricity. For example, old electric car batteries are part of a back-up power system at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam.\n\nIn the UK, one waste management firm that I contacted, Cawleys, operates a service to safely collect, dismantle EV battery packs and work out which ones are good enough to be reused and which should be sent abroad for recycling.\n\nExperts at the Faraday Institution's ReLiB project are leading UK research to develop more sophisticated techniques to recycle electric vehicle batteries. But in short, recycling electric vehicle batteries in Britain is a work in progress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn: I live in a mid-terrace house and am restricted to a public car park at the end of the street - how would I be able to charge an electric car?\n\nTom: With some difficulty is, for now at least, the short answer.\n\nA colleague who lives in London did charge his car from his terraced house and covered the cable, which ran across the pavement, with basic safety kit to stop passing pedestrians from tripping up. He okayed everything with his council but ultimately his neighbours weren't happy and he decided to give his electric car up.\n\nCharging points installed inside lamp posts are being rolled-out on some streets in Coventry, Buckinghamshire and parts of London. And the government has just awarded £40m to various companies to develop new technologies such as wireless charging panels and pop-up chargers built into the pavement.\n\nIf you have a public car park near your house then that is another reason for you to lobby your local council to install some charging points.\n\nMore charging infrastructure, especially for areas with no off-street parking is coming but it will take time and how fast it arrives on your street is, to some extent, a post-code lottery.\n\nEmily: Can we produce enough electricity to support everyone having an electric car?\n\nTheo: There are currently 31.5 million cars on the road in Britain, according to the DVLA - and 31 million of them are still petrol or diesel powered. If we are to replace all of them with electric models, of course we will need plenty of power.\n\nBut it isn't just a question of how much electricity will be required. When it will be needed is just as important. If 31 million people come home and charge their cars at the same time, the load on the network will be enormous, but if that demand can be spread through the day, then the strain will be much less.\n\nGeorge Beard from the non-profit Transport Research Laboratory suggests \"customers could be incentivised to charge their vehicle at non-peak times or even hand control of the charging to their energy supplier.\"\n\nTwo technologies are likely to come to the fore here. Smart charging will enable cars to draw electricity from the grid at times of day when supplies are plentiful or when overall demand is relatively low.\n\nVehicle-to-Grid should allow electric cars to act as power banks, not only taking power from the grid, but returning some of that electricity at peak times, to alleviate strain on the system - while making sure that the car is fully charged when it is actually needed.\n\nThe National Grid publishes annual \"future energy scenarios\", in which it attempts to crunch the numbers and work out how much power we will actually need. Its latest assessment says that by 2050 overall electricity demand from transport will rise by between 22% and 30% a year - but PEAK demand could increase by as little as 6% or as much as 22%.\n\nThat does mean we will need to generate more power. National Grid expects a significant increase in solar and wind generation across its scenarios - but it also assumes new nuclear plants will be built to replace our current ageing reactors.\n\nIt believes a minimum of 7GW of new nuclear capacity will be built - or more than double the expected output of the Hinkley Point C station that is currently under construction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How is Formula E helping us make the shift towards electric cars?\n\nLucille: Can petrol cars be converted to use electricity?\n\nTheo: In theory, there's no reason why you couldn't take the engine out of your car, fit an electric motor and a bunch of batteries, and drive it away. There are even instructions on how to do it available on the internet. But while that might be an entertaining challenge for the home mechanic, it's unlikely to be the best option for your average driver.\n\nPart of the challenge in building an electric car is maximising the energy available from the battery pack, to give the best compromise between range and performance, as well as maximising battery life.\n\nThe new models being built by both mainstream manufacturers like VW and Daimler, and by technology sector interlopers such as Tesla, rely on sophisticated software to do all of this. Your home conversion is unlikely to have the same technological wizardry on board.\n\nAnother issue is weight. Electric cars need lots of batteries, and batteries are heavy. Carmakers have put a lot of effort into making sure that this weight doesn't affect the handling of the car too much. Again, it's hard to do properly at home.\n\nOf course, some manufacturers have themselves converted existing designs to electric power. But that involves compromises - and most of the new models coming onto the market over the next few years will be bespoke electric designs.\n\nMark: When can we expect the range of an electric car to be over 300 miles (483km)?\n\nTheo: In theory, you can already, though it might cost you a fair bit. Tesla claims its Model S Long Range will do 375 miles on a charge, when measured using the new WLTP standard which manufacturers must now use under EU law. In the real world it may be rather less than that, but still in the 300 mile ballpark.\n\nThe problem is, it costs more than £80,000.\n\nIf you want something more affordable, the Nissan Leaf costs about £31,000 - but the standard model has a theoretical range of just 168 miles. The E+ version can do up to 239 miles, but costs about £8,000 more. So you get what you pay for.\n\nBut it's worth remembering that carmakers are falling over themselves to develop new electric cars at the moment - and as the technology becomes more widespread, it will also become cheaper. It wouldn't be surprising if a 300 mile range becomes the norm pretty quickly.\n\nIan: How can electric cars be environmentally friendly when the electricity that powers them comes from power stations that burn fossil fuels?\n\nRoger Harrabin, the BBC's environment analyst, responded to this question:\n\nWhile electric vehicles don't produce \"tailpipe\" emissions like traditional cars, the electricity to power the vehicles has to come from somewhere. This means that there are \"upstream\" emissions.\n\nHowever, the European Federation for Transport and Environment analysed data from a number of studies and found that \"a battery electric car over its lifetime produces 50% less CO2 emissions than an average EU car today\".\n\nIt is also worth bearing in mind that in the first five months of 2019, Britain generated more power from zero-carbon sources than fossil fuels.\n\nHowever, the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions points out that drivers still tend to be choosing hybrid vehicles - rather than pure electric cars - and that will lock in fossil fuel usage into the future.\n\nGet involved in the conversation about electric cars and commuting on our Facebook group 'Your Daily Journey'.", "HMS Duncan is going to become the second UK warship in the Gulf\n\nThe UK has brought forward plans to send a second warship to the Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran.\n\nHMS Duncan is currently in the Mediterranean and is expected to join HMS Montrose in the region next week.\n\nIt comes after the UK government said Iranian boats tried to impede a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran has reiterated calls for the UK to release an Iranian-owned oil tanker that was detained by Royal Marines in Gibraltar last week.\n\nAn Iranian official, speaking to state news agency IRNA, warned the UK not to get involved in \"this dangerous game\".\n\nThe relationship between the UK and Iran has become increasingly strained in recent weeks.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK raised the threat to British shipping in Iranian waters in the Gulf to the highest level - where the risk of attack is critical.\n\nThe following day, boats believed to belong to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) approached the British Heritage tanker and tried to bring it to a halt as it was moving out of the Gulf into the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nHMS Montrose, a British frigate shadowing the BP-owned tanker, was forced to move between the three boats and the ship, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.\n\nHMS Duncan was spotted by a BBC producer in Istanbul on Friday afternoon\n\nHMS Duncan, a type 45 Destroyer, will operate alongside HMS Montrose in the Gulf for a short period, before HMS Montrose goes back to Bahrain for routine maintenance.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"As part of our long-standing presence in the Gulf, HMS Duncan is deploying to the region to ensure we maintain a continuous maritime security presence while HMS Montrose comes off task for pre-planned maintenance and crew changeover.\n\n\"This will ensure that the UK, alongside international partners, can continue to support freedom of navigation for vessels transiting through this vital shipping lane.\"\n\nForeign Secretary and Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt - who earlier said events in the Gulf showed the Royal Navy needs more warships - told the BBC the UK wanted to \"de-escalate the situation\" but had \"a responsibility to protect British shipping\".\n\nBritish ministers and officials have been stressing they do not want tensions with Iran to \"escalate\".\n\nThe risk of sending a second warship to the region is that it'll send the wrong signal. How will Iran view it other than an escalation?\n\nThe reality though is there were already plans to send Duncan to join the frigate HMS Montrose already based in the region.\n\nMontrose has been working hard and is due to undergo routine maintenance. Her crew who have been working at a heightened tempo in recent weeks will also need a break.\n\nBoth warships will be operating together in the region for a short period. But in the current climate ministers clearly felt it was too risky to allow a gap in providing a military escort to British merchant shipping in the region.\n\nLast week, Royal Marines helped the authorities in Gibraltar - a British overseas territory - seize the Iranian-owned tanker Grace 1 amid suspicions it was carrying oil to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nIran suggested the UK seized the tanker \"at the behest of\" the US government. It also denied the tanker was bound for Syria and threatened to seize a British oil tanker in retaliation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nTensions escalated between the UK and Iran after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in June.\n\nThe ongoing imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is also a long-standing bone of contention between the two countries.\n\nThe UK continues to press Iran to release the British-Iranian mother who was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted for spying, which she denies.\n\nRelations between Iran and the US are also under duress, after the Trump administration pulled out of an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme and reinforced punishing sanctions against Iran.\n\nThe US blames Iran for attacks on six oil tankers in May and June.\n\nIt has said it wants to create a multi-national military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen.\n\nThe US said it was talking to a number of countries with the \"political will\" to support the plans, which would include providing boats to escort commercial ships through the area.\n\nProviding armed naval escorts for commercial shipping is expensive, time-consuming and requires a fair degree of logistical planning and coordination between different countries.\n\nIt's been done before in the Gulf, in the late 1980s, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war.\n\nMore recently, several navies have provided escorts for shipping passing between Yemen and Somalia, protecting them from attacks by Somali pirates.\n\nBut, ultimately, these military escorts can only be a temporary remedy for a much deeper problem that needs resolving.\n\nIf tightening sanctions on Iran prevent that country from exporting most of its oil then the temptation by its senior commanders to lash out in response will only grow stronger.", "A US Coast Guard crew dramatically boarded a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel suspected to be smuggling drugs.\n\nThe raid was part of a series of drug seizure operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean which has captured 39,000lb (18,000kg) of cocaine in total.", "'We have similarities that we forget about' , published at 00:26 13 April 2021 'We have similarities that we forget about'", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe BBC has secured exclusive rights to the 2021 Uefa Women's European Championship in England.\n\nThere will be extensive coverage of every game of the tournament across television, radio and online.\n\nThe BBC showed this summer's Women's World Cup, with a record-breaking 28.1 million people watching the tournament on television.\n\nEngland's semi-final loss to the USA attracted the highest live TV audience of 2019 so far with 11.7 million.\n\nDirector of BBC Sport Barbara Slater said: \"After the success of the World Cup on the BBC and the record-breaking viewing figures for women's football, we're delighted to be the broadcaster of the Uefa Women's Euro 2021 Championship.\n\n\"At the start of this summer we wanted to shift the dial on women's football and I feel the phenomenal coverage from France has done just that. The BBC's sport portfolio continues to go from strength to strength and we're thrilled to add the 2021 Euros to that.\"\n\nThe final of Euro 2021 will be held at Wembley, while eight other venues were included in England's bid.\n\nThe BBC's coverage of women's football this season includes a match from each round of the Women's Super League streamed live, the Women's Football Show, live Women's FA Cup football, including the semi-finals and final, and major international fixtures.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC radio, online and the BBC Sport app with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nRoger Federer and Rafael Nadal renew their exalted rivalry on Friday when they meet at Wimbledon for the first time since the epic 2008 final.\n\nSwiss Federer, 37, and Spaniard Nadal, 33, play their tantalising semi-final second on Centre Court.\n\nThey meet after top seed and reigning champion Novak Djokovic plays Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut at 13:00 BST.\n\nFederer is aiming for his 21st Grand Slam title, while Nadal (18) and Djokovic (15) look to close the gap.\n\nFriday's highly-anticipated semi-final will be the:\n• None 40th meeting between the pair in their illustrious careers\n• None 14th meeting at a Grand Slam, having only played in semi-finals and finals\n• None fourth meeting at Wimbledon, with Federer leading 2-1 in the head to head\n\n\"Often we see matches being overhyped but you can't overhype this one - and rightly so,\" three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is the biggest match of the year because you're talking about two greats of the game.\"\n\n'Unique' and 'exciting' - Federer and Nadal on their rivalry\n\nFederer: \"Rafa has improved so much over the years on this surface. He's also playing very differently.\n\n\"I remember back in the day how he used to serve, and now how much bigger he's serving, how much faster he finishes points.\n\n\"We have a lot of information on Rafa, as does he on us. So you can dive into the tactics like mad, or you say 'it's grass-court tennis so I'm going to come out and play my tennis'.\n\n\"I'm excited to play him again.\"\n\nNadal: \"Playing against Roger is always a unique situation. I'm excited to be back on Centre Court against him after 11 years. It means a lot for me and probably for him, too.\n\n\"The opportunities to play against each other are becoming less, but we still here.\n\n\"I'm not expecting to learn new things about him. I just expect to play against probably the best player in history on this surface.\n\n\"I know he's playing well. He feels comfortable here. I'm playing well, too.\n\n\"I am playing with a very high intensity, playing aggressive, serving well and returning very well.\n\n\"I know that I have to play my best.\"\n\n'The one match that every tennis player alive will watch'\n\nPlayed over almost seven hours because of rain delays and ending in virtual darkness in front of a mesmerised Centre Court, Federer and Nadal's last meeting at Wimbledon is widely regarded as the pinnacle of the sport.\n\nFederer had spent 231 consecutive weeks as world number one and won his past 65 grass-court matches, yet Nadal toppled him to win his first Wimbledon title.\n\n\"I thought it was the best Wimbledon final of all time,\" Becker said.\n\n\"So we're very lucky to have this opportunity again on Friday.\n\n\"It's the one match that every tennis player alive will tune in for.\"\n\nRoger's mobility is incredible - I don't know how he does it\n\nFederer and Nadal have both looked on top of their grass-court games in serene paths through to the semi-finals.\n\nFederer, who has spent an average of one hour and 52 minutes on court, has only dropped sets against quarter-final opponent Kei Nishikori and, more surprisingly, South African debutant Lloyd Harris in the opening round.\n\nIn between, the Swiss has swatted away young Briton Jay Clarke, French 27th seed Lucas Pouille and Italian 17th seed Matteo Berrettini with minimum fuss.\n\n\"I think it was a wise decision for him to play the clay [court season] because physically he is in good shape and it has put him in a position to win the Championship,\" Becker, who also coached Djokovic to Wimbledon glory in 2014 and 2015, said.\n\n\"What has impressed me most about Roger's game is his mobility, he is still able to get to every ball on the court.\n\n\"Technically he has always been the finest, but his physical level is still incredible and it is unbelievable at his age. I don't know how he does it.\"\n\nNadal's passage has been even smoother, having lost just one set in a second-round battle against controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios, on his way to a second successive SW19 semi-final.\n\nAs Federer points out, Nadal's remodelled serve has paid dividends for the Majorcan, who has won 83% of first serve points at the All England Club.\n\n\"I think it is the best grass-court tournament Rafa has played, even though he has won two titles here,\" Becker added.\n\n\"The way he plays has improved a lot, particularly the serve. He's gone through his matches easily against difficult players like Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Sam Querrey, and that's because of his level.\n\n\"If Rafa wins the French Open it is a good year, if he wins another Slam as well it is a great year.\"\n\nRace to be the Goat continues\n\nThe battle to be the man with more Grand Slam titles than any other provides an added element of intrigue to the match between Federer and Nadal.\n\nA third Wimbledon triumph for the Spaniard, who won the 2008 and 2010 titles, would move him just one behind the Swiss, having never been so close to his tally.\n\nFederer, who is aiming for a record-extending ninth men's singles title at Wimbledon, was nine majors clear of Nadal at the end of 2007 - when he was 26 and had already won 12 of his 20 majors.\n\nNadal closed that gap to just two with his 12th French Open title last month, while 32-year-old Djokovic is hot on their heels despite only winning his first major in 2008 and only adding a second three years later.\n\n11 - Successive Grand Slam titles won between them, stretching from the 2005 French Open to the 2007 US Open\n\n12 - Finals reached by Nadal at Roland Garros - a record which Federer is trying to match at Wimbledon\n\n65 - Consecutive grass-court wins for Federer before Nadal ended that run in the 2008 Wimbledon final\n\n70 - The combined age of 37-year-old Federer, who turns 38 next month, and 33-year-old Nadal\n\n100 - Matches won by Federer at Wimbledon, the first man to reach a century at a single Grand Slam\n\n211 - Consecutive weeks sharing the top two spots in the world rankings between July 2005 to August 2009\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has refused to guarantee that the UK will leave the EU before Christmas, but said he \"expects\" it to happen by then.\n\nHe would not say when Brexit would take place if he became PM, telling the BBC: \"I'm being honest with people\".\n\nRival Boris Johnson said the UK would leave by 31 October \"come what may\".\n\nHe also defended his remarks on the UK ambassador in Washington, who quit this week over leaked criticisms of Donald Trump.\n\nMr Johnson added he did not accept that his failure to support Sir Kim Darroch during a debate on ITV earlier this week had prompted him to resign.\n\nHowever, he said a \"misrepresented\" account of his remarks later relayed to Sir Kim had been \"a factor\" in his decision to step down.\n\nHe added: \"I stood up completely for the principle that civil servants should be allowed to say what they want to their political masters.\"\n\nUp to 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting for their next party leader - and UK prime minister - to replace Theresa May.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has interviewed both contenders for a programme broadcast on BBC One.\n\nMr Johnson, a former foreign secretary and mayor of London, is seen as the frontrunner in the contest.\n\nMr Hunt warned party members not to \"vote with their hearts instead of their heads\".\n\nHe added that the \"quickest way\" to leave the EU was \"to send to Brussels a prime minister who can negotiate a deal that will get through Parliament - and I'm that person\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt, who set up his own business before entering politics, was challenged on whether he had the skills to negotiate effectively with the EU.\n\nHe replied that being an entrepreneur had given him the \"basics\", adding: \"In government those same skills I used to negotiate very complex things - like the licence fee deal with the BBC, the NHS pay awards, the protracted dispute to try and get a peace process going in Yemen - that business of negotiation is something I have been doing all my life.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the main change he wanted to see to the UK's current withdrawal deal was to the Irish border backstop plan - an insurance policy which aims to guarantee there will not be a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nHe added that changes to this part of the Brexit withdrawal deal - which has been rejected three times by MPs - would \"broadly\" make it acceptable to the Commons.\n\nWhen pushed on what else he would alter, Mr Hunt said that \"there may be other elements\", but did not provide further details.\n\nOn Parliament's attempts to block a no-deal Brexit, he warned that the UK needed to be \"careful\" about the 31 October deadline, and said: \"I think I'm the best person to get a deal… but I can't control what Parliament does.\"\n\nAsked whether Brexit would have happened by Christmas, Mr Hunt said: \"I expect so.\"\n\nHe was then challenged on whether the UK would still be a member of the EU going into 2020, replying: \"I don't believe so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Johnson said he believed the UK would leave the EU on 31 October, and that if this did not happen it would lead to \"a huge erosion of trust in politics\".\n\n\"I think it is very odd that those who say they would delay even further can't set another date - I mean, how much further are we going to wait?\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's very, very important that we get ready to leave on 31 October, come what may, and we will.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he did not want to prorogue - suspend - Parliament to push a no-deal Brexit through, but he would not rule it out.\n\nThe UK's ambassador in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, resigned on Wednesday after a row over leaked emails critical of President Donald Trump's administration.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised in the aftermath for failing to fully support Sir Kim in the ITV leadership debate the evening before. This followed angry criticism of Sir Kim by Mr Trump.\n\nMr Johnson said he had spoken to Sir Kim on Thursday to express his sadness over his resignation and the ambassador told him he had not watched the TV debate.\n\nBut Mr Hunt said: \"I think we have to back our diplomats all over the world.\n\n\"Sir Kim was doing his job. He was giving his own personal but totally honest view about the country he was serving in.\"\n\nOn economic policy, Mr Hunt admitted that some of his spending pledges would take longer to deliver if the UK left the EU without a deal.\n\nBut he insisted that even in a no-deal scenario, he would push ahead with his plan to cut corporation tax - adding it would help firms cope with the resulting \"shock\" to the economy.\n\nWhen asked whether he would continue with the current government's self-imposed limits on borrowing, Mr Johnson pledged to \"continue to bear down on our national debt\".\n\n\"We will be setting out in a Budget and a spending review exactly what we will be doing on the fiscal rules and everything else,\" he added.\n\nThe result of the Conservative leadership contest will be announced on 23 July, with the winning candidate taking over from Mrs May on 24 July.", "This is Theresa May's final interview with the BBC before she leaves Downing Street for the last time next week.\n\nThe prime minister tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg of her pride and disappointment.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland surged into their first World Cup final for 27 years with a sensational eight-wicket demolition of Australia at Edgbaston.\n\nThe hosts will have the chance to lift the trophy for the first time when they meet New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday.\n\nA first win in a World Cup knockout match since 1992 was secured over the defending champions on a day that will live long in the memory, justifiably alongside anything from the 2005 Ashes or the 2010-11 tour of Australia.\n\nIt was built on a riotous opening seven overs, when Australia were reduced to 14-3 by the new-ball brilliance of Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer.\n\nSteve Smith, so often England's nemesis, held Australia together with 85, helping them to a total of 223 that at least gave them something to bowl at.\n\nBut home nerves over the menacing presence of Mitchell Starc were allayed by a prolific opening partnership between Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow, who added 124 for the first wicket.\n\nRoy crashed 85 before Joe Root and Eoin Morgan took England to their target with 17.5 overs to spare.\n\nThe ease of England's progression to the final was such a contrast to the group-stage defeat by Australia that left them on the brink of elimination.\n\nSince then they have beaten India, New Zealand and turned in this, their best performance of the tournament to date.\n\nThey will start the final, which will be shown as free-to-air on Channel 4, as firm favourites to be crowned world champions.\n• None 'Souped-up, fire-breathing, chest-beating England can go all the way'\n\nUntil Saturday's final round of group games, England were set to play India in this match.\n\nAlthough they would never admit it, the opportunity to play their oldest enemies at a ground where Australia have no win of any kind since 2001 and England had won their previous 10 matches was absolutely perfect.\n\nThe toss seemed like a huge boost for Aaron Finch's men - batting first has been a big advantage in the tournament - but that was to discount the carnage that would follow.\n\nEdgbaston exploded with noise as Finch, David Warner and Peter Handscomb were removed, cheers that were matched in volume by the boos for Warner and Smith.\n\nAlthough Smith ensured what the crowd knew could have been a tricky chase - they cheered as Roy defended Starc's first over - Roy injected belief with an outrageous flick for six off the left-armer.\n\nAs it became clearer that England were strolling, the party moved through the gears.\n\nStarc was serenaded with the song that tortured Mitchell Johnson, and the Hollies Stand howled as Smith was launched for three consecutive sixes by Roy.\n\nBy the end, as the rain fell, the whole of Edgbaston was telling the world that cricket is coming home.\n• None Relive the best clips and reaction to England's victory\n\nMagnificent England peaking at the right time\n\nThis was a complete display by England, who were magnificent with the ball, sharp in the field and dominant with the bat.\n\nWoakes (3-20) and Archer (2-32) nipped the new ball around on a full length. Archer trapped Finch lbw with his first ball, Woakes got one to climb that Warner fended to first slip, then bowled Handscomb through the gate.\n\nArcher also left Alex Carey needing stitches from a blow to the chin, but the left-hander recovered to make 46 in a stand of 103 with Smith.\n\nAt 117-3, the game was delicately poised, before Carey needlessly holed out off Adil Rashid, who removed Marcus Stoinis in the same over and later had Pat Cummins caught at slip in a lovely spell of 3-54.\n\nSmith remained through it all, only to be run out by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's direct hit that somehow went between the batsman's legs - an action symptomatic of a day when everything went right for England.\n\nAfter the dangerous Starc's early overs were negotiated, Roy cut loose with fearsome power - the third of his sixes off Smith was a monstrous hit into the top tier of the stand.\n\nAlthough Bairstow was trapped leg before by Starc for 34 and an angry Roy was wrongly adjudged to have hooked Pat Cummins behind, Root and Morgan were untroubled in an unbroken stand of 79.\n\nAfter the match, Roy was fined 30% of his match fee and given two demerit points for showing dissent at his dismissal.\n\nGiven their team for this tournament only really came together at the last minute, it is to Australia's credit that they made the semi-finals with such ease.\n\nBut here they were ambushed by England and now must regroup before the Ashes begin on this ground on 1 August.\n\nAs his team-mates crumbled around him, Smith stood tall, blocking out the abuse to accumulate with his trademark fidgety efficiency.\n\nIndeed, had Carey hung around, England's task could have been difficult but, after he departed, wickets fell with regularity.\n\nWhen Smith was beaten by Buttler's throw to become the eighth man out, he shook his head all the way to the pavilion, unable to conceal his disappointment.\n\nTo stand any chance, Australia needed early wickets and when they failed to materialise, they were powerless to prevent Roy's awesome hitting.\n\n'I'm speechless, it was an incredible performance'\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"This final is a huge opportunity for us.\n\n\"Looking back to where we were in 2015 compared to now it's such a dramatic improvement and everyone in the dressing room deserves a huge amount of credit.\n\n\"Making the most of it would be brilliant but getting to the final alone is awesome.\"\n\nMan of the match Chris Woakes, who took 3-20 in eight overs: \"I'm pretty speechless. It was an incredible performance from the whole team.\n\n\"It started with the bowling performance and then the way they knocked that off was outstanding.\n\n\"There were some nerves around this morning but that's natural going into a semi-final.\n\n\"The way we produced the goods just showed how good we are and where we are at as a team.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook on Test Match Special: \"I can't believe I have just watched that.\n\n\"You always think there will be a twist in the tail but there was no twist. England were so good.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"England are so big and strong, they might do this to New Zealand on Sunday.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We were totally outplayed today. The way they set the tone with the ball in those first 10 overs was a huge part in the game.\n\n\"You always want to win the trophy but there have been a lot of positives\n\n\"A lot of hard work has gone in from a lot of people. I'm proud of how the group has progressed but this still hurts.\"", "This week's review is different. It is, as they say in the land of promotions, a two-for-one.\n\nWe are looking at Olafur Eliasson's new exhibition at Tate Modern from two perspectives: mine, and further down this page, Laura Hackett's (winner of the Radio 4 Today programme's student critic of the year award). We see things a bit differently…\n\nThere are few crystal balls as opaque as the one into which museum folk stare to see how many punters might turn up to a forthcoming exhibition. Words like \"blockbuster\" or \"niche\"' get bandied about by curators, marketeers, and Dave from finance (whose opinion is never sought and ignored when proffered).\n\nIn my time working at the Tate I sat in countless such meetings. Sometimes we got it about right. Sometimes we erred (too high for Dalí & Film, which was a turkey; too low for Edward Hopper).\n\nBut there was one occasion in 2003 when we truly excelled ourselves.\n\nOur guesstimate for an installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall by an unknown Nordic artist was so spectacularly wrong that we were left with no other choice but to blame Dave.\n\nWe thought around 100,000 people would come to see Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project during its six-month run. Of course, we hoped for a few more because it had been very expensive creating the giant sun effect in such a big space (lots of mirrors on the ceiling).\n\nBut we had to be realistic.\n\nThe Weather Project, 2003, saw representations of the sun and sky dominate the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern\n\nIn the end over two million visitors came to see and experience what would become the most famous piece of immersive art in the world.\n\nIt was epic in every sense: an instant masterpiece that was the making of both Tate Modern and Olafur Eliasson.\n\nSixteen years later he returns to Tate Modern with a career retrospective that doesn't include a re-installation of his giant, misty \"Sun\", to the huge and obvious disappointment of a couple of London cabbies to whom I was talking.\n\nHowever, it does have some other notable pieces of his signature immersive art.\n\nThe best of which by some distance is the aptly named Your Blind Passenger (2010), which is the Danish term for a stowaway. It consists of a long walkway of bright, white fog that makes seeing much beyond your outstretched arm impossible. If you're a skier or a hiker, you'd call it a white-out: if you live in Beijing now or were in London in the '50s it is reminiscent of dense smog: a peasouper.\n\nYour Blind Passenger, 2010, takes you through a corridor of dense fog, which the artist says helps \"you realise that you are not completely blind, you have a lot of other senses which start to kick in\"\n\nExcept, the environment Eliasson has created is sweeter (literally, the mist is sugar-based) and gentler.\n\nYou will be disorientated and restricted but the discombobulated feeling is more of purity and wonderment than fear or repulsion. Keep walking and the optical effects start happening.\n\nIf you see someone else the impact is severely diminished.\n\nIt is typical of Eliasson's thoughtful, quietly provocative art, which when at its best stimulates your senses and your mind.\n\nThat's the case with Your Uncertain Shadow (2010), another stand-out work in an otherwise slightly disappointing show.\n\nIt is exploring his primary artistic concerns of light and colour, environment and perception. You walk into a white-walled gallery that doesn't look much until you stand in front of five floor-mounted coloured spotlights and look on the back wall. There you will see, and be enchanted by, your silhouette writ large in five overlapping pastel shades.\n\nYour Uncertain Shadow (colour), 2010, challenges the way we see our environment\n\nWill Gompertz getting into Eliasson's art\n\nEliasson is at his best when there's an element of playfulness in his work, which is evident again in Beauty (1993), a black-box room with misty water falling from the ceiling through beams of light.\n\nHe is less convincing when being overly earnest, as with the scaffold waterfall situated outside the building.\n\nBeauty, 1993, evokes the meteorological phenomenon of a rainbow inside the show\n\nOn the terrace outside Tate Modern you see Waterfall, 2019, a new installation measuring over 11 metres in height\n\nThere's no doubt he is a very good artist with important things to say.\n\nBut this show somehow fails to capture his spirit. It feels disjointed and thin, which is incredible given how prolific Eliasson has been over the years.\n\nMaybe Dave has decided to flex his muscles and imposed some budget restrictions?\n\nEliasson's exhibition doesn't have an obvious entrance. There are doors, yes, but the viewer's experience begins long before that. Outside, you can't avoid his waterfall. With its scaffolding laid bare, the huge sculpture is a testament to the human power to get inside nature and remake it in our own image, but also nature's power to get inside us. Stand beside it and close your eyes, and the busy urban landscape is replaced by an elemental non-human scene.\n\nThe waterfall stands beside a Tate cafe, and if you're peckish you can enjoy a set menu created in conjunction with the chefs at Studio Olafur Eliasson - vegetarian offerings designed to be shared and eaten slowly. The philosophy behind this exhibition has entered you before you have really entered it.\n\nIf you take the lift, you might wonder whether the museum's lights are faulty, but you are in a rebirth of Eliasson's 1997 Room for one Colour - mono-frequency lamps reduce everything to yellow and black, and the uncanny atmosphere continues in the blindingly bright foyer.\n\nIn Room for one Colour, 1997, the space is bathed in light from mono-frequency lamps\n\nEliasson's art is not contained to the exhibition space; it spills outside, refusing the idea of a frame.\n\nInside the exhibition proper, some of the Scandinavian artist's best known pieces from the past 20 years find new meaning.\n\nThe giant moss wall, which will dry out, be watered, and re-grow over the course of the exhibition, has a new sense of urgency in the context of climate crisis. Its overwhelming size is concurrent with its vulnerability, and a sense of misplaced-ness in this pristine environment.\n\nBut often it's the viewer who feels out of place. Water trickles outside the windows, to simulate rain, serving as a reminder of the falsity of our constructed indoor worlds. Buildings are recalibrated as not only forces of protection, but also imprisonment, separating us from the natural world.\n\nOne room is empty, with bright white walls, until you walk in and your silhouette appears in five colours. This piece is titled Your Uncertain Shadow - you might create the art, but your silhouette is split up. You lose structural integrity. Another features a rotating irregular blotch of light which manages to be at once cosmic and embryonic, unbearably close and unimaginably distant.\n\nIf the posters are anything to go by, Your Uncertain Shadow is the leading image of the exhibition, but for me the stand-out piece was Beauty, a darkened room with a spotlight shining through falling mist. As you tip-toe around (this is a space which implicitly demands silence), you might catch a glimpse of a rainbow, and watch the mist change pattern and direction.\n\nEliasson says Beauty demonstrates our capacity to see different things but still be together. It does this, but even more powerfully, it manages to create a space which is both inside and outside, not simply in-between. It forms the climax of an exhibition whose resounding message is the mutual implication of mankind and our environment, an implication which Eliasson believes should be celebrated, but also recognised as a responsibility to protect the world we live in.", "There was a massacre of protesters on the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum on 3 June 2019. This is the story of that massacre, told through the phone cameras of those who kept filming, even as they came under live fire.\n\nBBC Africa Eye has analysed more than 300 videos shot in Khartoum that day. Using them, we bring you a shocking, street-level view of the violence - as well as testimony from men who say they took part in the attack and that it was planned from the top.", "Babies with tongue-ties rarely need surgery to help them feed, a US study suggests.\n\nIt found two-thirds of babies referred for the procedure did not need it and were able to feed with other support.\n\nTongue-tie occurs when the strip of skin connecting the tongue and the floor of the mouth is shorter than usual. It can affect feeding, though not always.\n\nUK experts said the procedure could be avoided \"with the right support\".\n\nBetween 4% and 11% of babies are born with a tongue-tie, or ankyloglossia.\n\nIt can mean babies aren't able to open their mouths widely enough to breastfeed.\n\nA simple procedure called a frenulectomy, where the tongue-tie is snipped, can be offered.\n\nIn very young babies, it can even be done under local anaesthetic.\n\nThe US study suggests the number of frenulectomies is increasing, from 1,200 in 1997 to 12,400 in 2012.\n\nFigures from NHS Digital show at least 4,320 were carried out in England in 2015-16 - and that figure is likely to be an underestimate since it is such a quick procedure it might not always be recorded.\n\nThe US study, published in JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, looked at 115 babies, who on average were about a month old.\n\nAll had been referred for the surgical procedure - but 63% were able to successfully breastfeed with help from specialists, including speech and language therapists.\n\nDr Christopher Hartnick, from Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital, who led the research, said: \"We have seen the number of tongue-tie and upper lip tether release surgeries increase dramatically without any real strong data to show these are effective for breastfeeding.\"\n\nNCT breastfeeding counsellor Jane Moffett said: \"Many women experience challenges when feeding their babies during the first days and weeks.\n\n\"In some cases, this may be due to tongue-tie.\n\n\"There is limited evidence to indicate which babies need a tongue-tie division and which do not.\n\n\"Services also vary considerably across the UK, with some areas having no NHS provision and concerns about over-diagnosis in others.\n\n\"If you think your baby has tongue-tie, or are worried that he or she isn't feeding properly, get in touch with a breastfeeding counsellor, midwife or health visitor.\n\n\"Getting support early can make all the difference.\"\n\nProf Mary Fewtrell, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: \"For some, tongue-tie can be the cause of poor breastfeeding and maternal nipple pain and the procedure can correct the restriction to tongue movement and allow more effective breastfeeding for baby, and comfort for mum.\n\n\"However, parents need good breastfeeding support and advice before considering surgery because, as this study shows, it can sometimes be avoided with the right support.\n\n\"Whilst this new study sheds some light on this issue, as yet, we do not have enough data from good quality trials to know what is best for breastfeeding outcomes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In an exclusive broadcast interview in Downing Street, the prime minister has told the BBC that she will leave the job with a \"mixture of pride and disappointment\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Theresa May said that she didn’t \"recognise\" herself in the criticisms made of her during her time in the job. But she admitted that she had \"underestimated\" divisions in Parliament.", "Yousef Makki, 17, was stabbed in the heart\n\nA boy has been cleared of murdering a 17-year-old he stabbed in the heart with a flick knife.\n\nManchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was attacked in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 March.\n\nA 17-year-old, who was referred to as Boy A, was accused of killing Yousef in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer.\n\nThe boy denied murder, claiming he acted in self-defence, and was also found not guilty of manslaughter.\n\nThe jury reached its decision after a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Yousef's father Ghaleb Makki exploded in anger and the judge, Mr Justice Bryan, cleared the courtroom.\n\nBBC Radio Manchester reporter Richard Stead, who was in court, said there was \"shock and disbelief\" from the public gallery when the verdicts were announced.\n\nHe said Mr Makki banged on a Perspex divider and began to shout and swear at jurors.\n\nHe was heard to shout \"Where's the justice for my son? Where's the justice?\" before collapsing on the floor in tears.\n\nYousef, from a single-parent Anglo-Lebanese family from Burnage, south Manchester, had won a scholarship to the prestigious £12,000-a-year school.\n\nHe was stabbed in the village, which is popular with footballers and celebrities.\n\nA second teenager, also 17 and referred to as Boy B, was found not guilty of both perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to rob. Both boys were also cleared of conspiracy to commit robbery in the lead-up to Yousef's death.\n\nThe teenager was stabbed in the village of Hale Barns\n\nThe teenagers had previously admitted possessing a knife and Boy A pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice by lying to police. Both defendants are due to be sentenced for those charges on 25 July.\n\nThe jury heard the stabbing was an \"accident waiting to happen\" as all three boys indulged in \"idiotic fantasies\" playing as middle-class gangsters.\n\nDespite the privileged backgrounds of both defendants, they led \"double lives\", the court was told.\n\nCalling each other \"Bro\" and \"Fam\" and the police \"feds\", the defendants and Yousef smoked cannabis and listened to rap and drill music, the trial heard.\n\nThey would post videos on social media, making threats and posing with \"shanks\" or knives.\n\nHours before the fatal stabbing, Boy B arranged a £45 cannabis deal and the teenagers planned to rob the drug dealer - a \"soft target\", the trial heard.\n\nBut the robbery went wrong and Yousef and Boy B fled, leaving Boy A to take a beating.\n\nBoy A then later pushed Yousef who punched him in the face, the trial heard.\n\nHe told the jury Yousef pulled out a knife and he responded by also taking out a knife and his victim was accidentally stabbed.\n\nAs Yousef lay dying, the defendants hid the knives in bushes and down a drain, dialled 999 and tried to staunch Yousef's chest wound.\n\nA passing heart surgeon performed emergency surgery in the back of an ambulance but the teenager suffered catastrophic blood loss.\n\nThe defendants told police they had found Yousef stabbed and suggested others were responsible.\n\nA statement released by the family of Boy A said there were \"no winners in this case\".\n\n\"Yousef's death was a tragedy and our son will have to live with the responsibility of his role for the rest of his life.\n\n\"But the Makki family's loss and hurt are infinitely greater. Nothing we can say can make up for that or change it.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Colin Larkin from Greater Manchester Police said the force was \"disappointed\" at the verdict but respected the decision of the jury.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police has launched a criminal investigation into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the UK ambassador in the US, which were critical of the Trump administration.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a \"clear public interest\" in bringing those responsible to justice.\n\nSir Kim Darroch stepped down as ambassador on Wednesday, saying it was \"impossible\" for him to continue.\n\nPresident Trump had earlier said the US would no longer deal with Sir Kim.\n\nThe US president branded him \"a very stupid guy\" after confidential emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration \"clumsy and inept\".\n\nAnnouncing the criminal investigation, Mr Basu said he was satisfied the alleged leak had damaged UK international relations.\n\nHe urged whoever was responsible to turn themselves in and \"face the consequences\".\n\n\"I would say to the person or people who did this, the impact of what you have done is obvious,\" he said.\n\n\"However, you are now also responsible for diverting busy detectives from undertaking their core mission.\"\n\nAnyone with information about the alleged leak or those responsible should contact the police, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe advised individuals and the media not to publish leaked government documents, warning this could be a criminal matter, and to instead hand them over to the police or return them to their rightful owner.\n\nThe investigation was launched by the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command, which takes national responsibility for investigating allegations of criminal breaches of the Official Secrets Act, Mr Basu said.\n\nThe government had already opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos.\n\nBBC correspondent Dan Johnson said the involvement of counter-terrorism officers gave \"an indication of just how complicated this investigation could be - and how long it may take\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to Sir Kim Darroch's service\n\nSir Kim's resignation prompted widespread support for him - as well as criticism of Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nAccording to some Whitehall sources, Sir Kim decided to resign after Mr Johnson failed to fully support him during a TV debate on Tuesday night.\n\nMr Johnson said he had spoken to Sir Kim on Thursday to express his sadness over his resignation and the ambassador told him he had not watched the TV debate.\n\nBut on Friday, Mr Johnson told the BBC a \"misrepresented\" account of his remarks later relayed to Sir Kim had been \"a factor\" in his decision to step down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: 'I wish the British ambassador well'\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Sir Kim's departure was \"a matter of deep regret\" and public servants should be able to give \"full and frank advice\".\n\nShadow foreign minister Liz McInnes said Sir Kim Darroch was \"just doing his job\" and the criminal investigation was \"welcome\".\n\nOn Friday, President Trump said he wished the former ambassador well and that he had been told Sir Kim had actually said \"some very good things\" about him.\n\nIn the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: \"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.\"\n\nThe emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of \"infighting and chaos\" in the White House were mostly true.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Grainger's partner Gail Hadfield-Grainger said his death \"could and should have been prevented\"\n\nA police force was to blame for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, a public inquiry has concluded.\n\nAnthony Grainger, 36, was in a stolen car when he was shot in the chest in Cheshire in March 2012.\n\nA judge said the shooting was legally justified, but criticised senior officers at Greater Manchester Police (GMP) for a \"catastrophic series of failings and errors\".\n\nThe force said it believed Mr Grainger was planning an armed robbery.\n\nBut Judge Thomas Teague QC said an operation targeting Mr Grainger had been organised and planned \"incompetently\".\n\nSenior officers \"failed to authorise, plan or conduct the firearms operation in such a way as to minimise recourse to the use of lethal force\", the judge said.\n\nMr Grainger's partner Gail Hadfield-Grainger said \"it has taken seven years but some justice has been done for Anthony\" and the inquiry had shown his death \"could and should have been prevented\".\n\nShe said the report highlighted \"a litany of catastrophic failures\".\n\nMr Grainger's mother Marina Schofield said his \"devastated\" family had \"gone through hell to find out the true facts of what happened that night\".\n\nShe also called for \"lessons to be learned\", adding: \"We only hope that this outcome serves as a lesson for GMP so that others do not have to go through what we have suffered.\"\n\nMr Grainger was shot dead in Cheshire in 2012\n\nMr Grainger, from Bolton, was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth on 3 March.\n\nThe inquiry was told no firearms were found either on Mr Grainger or in the car.\n\nThe officer who shot him told the inquiry at Liverpool Crown Court in 2017 he fired as he thought Mr Grainger had reached down to pick up a firearm.\n\nThe judge said the officer, referred to in court as Q9, had not acted unlawfully because he \"honestly but mistakenly believed Mr Grainger was reaching for a gun\".\n\nHe jumped to that wrong conclusion because of the \"misleading way his superiors had briefed him beforehand\", according to Judge Teague.\n\nGMP Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said he would like to \"personally apologise\" to Mr Grainger's family for the \"significant organisational failings of GMP that have led the inquiry to conclude that GMP are to blame for the death of Anthony Grainger\".\n\nHe said the \"intention of GMP through the Operation Shire investigation was to protect the public from harm and our failings have led to Anthony Grainger's death and caused unimaginable harm to his family\".\n\nMr Hopkins said steps had already been taken to improve the safety of firearms operations since the death, but said the force would now study the report and discuss what action should be taken with the police watchdog.\n\nMr Grainger was shot dead in a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth\n\nThe inquiry was told Mr Grainger and one of his passengers, David Totton, had been the subject of a GMP operation - Operation Shire - for some weeks, which was investigating their suspected involvement in commercial robberies.\n\nBut Judge Teague said there was no intelligence to suggest the men were armed or had access to firearms on 3 March.\n\nThe judge said if firearms commanders had planned, briefed and conducted the deployment competently, Q9 \"would have been less likely to misinterpret Mr Grainger's actions and might not have shot him\".", "Boris Johnson says veterans should be protected from \"unfair prosecutions\"\n\nPotential prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged to end \"unfair\" prosecutions of Army veterans who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Tory leadership contender has joined rival Jeremy Hunt in backing a public campaign supporting soldiers who served during the Troubles.\n\nMany Conservative MPs have called for such a move in recent months.\n\nThe government is working on legislation to deal with the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nMr Johnson also reportedly promised on Thursday to appoint a veterans minister if he is chosen to lead the Conservative Party.\n\n\"We need to end unfair trials of people who served their Queen and country when no new evidence has been produced and when the accusations have already been exhaustively questioned in court,\" he told the Sun newspaper.\n\n\"We must protect people against unfair prosecutions. And I will.\n\n\"I totally support the principle of cross-government work to secure world-class care and support for veterans.\"\n\nSinn Féin legacy spokesperson Linda Dillon said Mr Boris Johnson was \"backing a campaign which is about giving these soldiers immunity from prosecution.\n\n\"His comments are a reckless and a highly offensive attack on the rights of victims of the conflict in their search for truth and justice and flies in the face of the views expressed in a public consultation on dealing with the legacy of the past.\"\n\nSix former soldiers are facing prosecution in connection with Troubles-era killings\n\nA number of Northern Ireland veterans are facing charges, including Soldier F, who has been charged in relation to the killings of two protesters on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nFormer Northern Ireland Police Chief Constable Sir George Hamilton has previously said official figures show that investigations are not unfairly focused on the armed forces and police.\n\nThe idea of a statute of limitations for former soldiers is backed by many Conservative backbenchers, including some who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it was withdrawn from a legacy consultation document published in May 2018, even though Prime Minister Theresa May had claimed the system for investigating the past was \"patently unfair\".\n\nLast week, the Northern Ireland Office published responses to its consultation, which showed a \"clear majority\" of respondents felt an amnesty for Troubles-related matters would be inappropriate.\n\nNo specific question was asked on the proposal for a so-called statute of limitations for military veterans.\n\nIt would prevent veterans from being prosecuted.\n\nSimon Hoare was elected as the chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in June\n\nHowever, the recently elected chairman of Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said he did not think it was right to put timeframes on bringing forward legislation.\n\nSimon Hoare told BBC News NI he had been asked to back the campaign but chose not to because of his committee role.\n\nThe Conservative MP for North Dorset said any solution that did not work for everyone would \"not last very long\".\n\n\"It's more important to get it right,\" he told the Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nMr Hoare said he did not support Mr Johnson's Tory leadership campaign as he found the former foreign secretary to be \"not be across the detail\" on many matters.\n\nMr Johnson is battling it out with the current foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to become the next prime minister.\n\nThey are trying to convince around 160,000 Conservative Party members to support them in the ballot for the top job, with the winner set to be announced on 23 July.\n\nHere's a quick guide to their positions on Brexit, immigration, tax, spending, health and social care and education.", "Farhad Salah and Andy Sami Star had been \"attack-planning\", the court heard\n\nA man has been found guilty of trying to make a bomb to be used in a driverless car.\n\nFarhad Salah was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of preparing to commit acts of terrorism.\n\nHe \"posed a very real risk to the safety of our communities\", counter-terrorism police said.\n\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on his co-defendant, chip-shop owner Andy Star, who was charged with the same offence.\n\nJurors heard how Salah, 24, an Iraqi Kurd, posted on social media about using a driverless car in an attack.\n\nProsecutors told the trial how Salah and Mr Star, 32, were in the early stages of testing small improvised explosive devices when they were arrested in raids on their homes in a Sheffield community centre and a Chesterfield fish and chip shop in December 2017\n\nMr Star has always insisted gunpowder and other items found in his flat above the chip shop were all connected to his long-standing interest in fireworks.\n\nPolice carried out lengthy searches in Chesterfield and Sheffield in December 2017\n\nThe jury was discharged after 15 hours of deliberations.\n\nIt was the second jury to try the pair, said Judge Paul Watson QC.\n\nHe said that another jury failed to reach verdicts on either defendant after a trial last year.\n\nThe judge told Mr Star a decision had been made that he should not face a second retrial and a not guilty verdict was recorded in his case.\n\nHe said Mr Star could go free but that he would continue to be detained on immigration matters.\n\nWhen the judge recorded Star's formal acquittal, a woman shouted \"Terrorist!\" loudly from the jury box.\n\nSalah was found guilty on a majority of 10 to two after the jury deliberated for almost three days.\n\nThe judge said he would be sentenced on 24 July.\n\nCounter-terror police said he was not close to achieving his aim of putting a device in a vehicle but officers believe he was a \"very real risk to the safety of the public in the UK\".\n\nThe raids in Sheffield and Chesterfield happened following the Manchester Arena explosion and the attacks on Westminster and London Bridge, at a time when there were fears another atrocity was being planned for the Christmas period.\n\nGunpowder, homemade fuses and explosive chemicals were found at Mr Star's Mermaid Fish Bar, in Chesterfield, and similar items at the Fatima Community Centre, in Sheffield, were Salah lived.\n\nPolice said they have never been able to identify Salah's intended target.\n\nOpening the case, prosecutor Anne Whyte QC told the jury: \"The intention was to manufacture a device which would be placed in a vehicle but controlled remotely so that no-one had to martyr themselves in the process.\"\n\nShe said that, a week before he was arrested, Salah messaged a contact on Facebook saying: \"My only attempt is to find a way to carry out martyrdom operation with cars without driver...\"\n\nThe court heard how both defendants were Iraqi nationals.\n\nSalah arrived at Heathrow Airport in December 2014 and applied for asylum. This application had not been determined by the time he was arrested.\n\nMr Star was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, later telling officials he had arrived in the UK by lorry.\n\nHe was given \"leave to remain\" in 2010 and eventually given refugee status, with \"indefinite leave to remain\" in February 2016.\n\nIn a statement released after he was cleared of preparing to commit acts of terrorism, he said: \"I pleaded not guilty on the first day at court, I gave evidence during two trials, I gave a full account in court as to exactly what had happened.\n\n\"I denied being an Isis supporter, I denied being a terrorist, I explained that my family had fought Isis and we continue to do so to this day.\"\n\nMiss Whyte told the jury that Salah was a supporter of so-called Islamic State, despite his being an Iraqi Kurd, a nationality usually associated with the fight against the terror group.\n\nDet Ch Supt Martin Snowden, head of counter-terrorism policing North East, said: \"Salah clearly had an extremist mind set and communication from him indicates that he saw his situation as critical.\n\n\"He claimed he was a terrorist who would be judged by God.\n\n\"While our investigation did not establish the target of a potential attack, Salah posed a very real risk to the safety of our communities.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA father has been found guilty of manslaughter after shaking his 15-week-old son to death.\n\nCody Rhys Williams-Jones died in December 2016 - it was later revealed he had suffered 13 broken ribs and a fractured shoulder.\n\nMatthew Jones, 26, of Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent, claimed the injuries were caused when he accidentally dropped him.\n\nNewport Crown Court heard Cody suffered injuries similar to \"being thrown many feet from a vehicle\".\n\nA pathologist told jurors he had so many haemorrhages in his eyes, it was impossible to count them.\n\nJones told the jury his son fell on to a mattress and bounced 2ft (0.6m) in the air.\n\nMatthew Jones said he accidentally dropped Cody, but medical evidence contradicted his claims\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Paul Lewis QC said: \"The medical evidence is such that an accidental fall can be excluded.\n\n\"Cody's injuries were as a result of deliberate violence probably in the form of both shaking and impact.\"\n\nBethan Morgan was a departmental nurse in charge of A&E at Abergavenny's Nevill Hall Hospital when Cody arrived on the evening of 6 December and was initially told he had suffered a head injury.\n\nShe described Cody's mother Paula Williams, who was not present when he was injured, as \"shocked, very stunned\" and said Jones was crying and \"still very upset\".\n\nShe added: \"Dad [Jones] said he had been holding the baby and stumbled with the baby.\"\n\nSurgeon Daniel Morrison told jurors Cody's injuries were \"the consequence of an impact and/or shaking-type of head injury\".\n\nCody Rhys Williams-Jones died of his injuries when he was 15 weeks old\n\nDr Katharine Halliday, a consultant paediatric radiologist, said the baby's fractured shoulder was usually seen in the context of child abuse.\n\nJones - who was cleared of murder - said he was always \"very gentle\" with Cody and loved spending \"father and son time\" with him.\n\nHe sobbed in the dock when the verdict was read out and will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Crossley of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Cody had everything to live for and that chance was taken away by his own father.\n\n\"It is difficult to imagine the heartbreak the family has gone through and our thoughts are firmly with them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All 189 people on board the Lion Air flight were killed in October last year\n\nRelatives of people killed in the Boeing 737 Max crash in Indonesia last year have been cheated out of compensation, their lawyers say.\n\nLawyers told the BBC that many families were persuaded to sign forms preventing them from taking legal action.\n\nBBC Panorama has discovered that other relatives signed similar agreements after two other crashes, stopping them from suing Boeing in the US courts.\n\nBoeing has declined to comment on the agreements.\n\nAll 189 passengers and crew died when the Boeing 737 Max crashed into the sea just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on 29 October 2018.\n\nWithin weeks, relatives were offered compensation by insurance lawyers.\n\nMerdian Agustin says she was pressured to sign documents\n\nTo access the money, families had to sign agreements that would prevent them from taking legal action against Boeing or the airline, Lion Air.\n\nMerdian Agustin's husband, Eka, was killed in the crash. She says the insurance lawyers tried to pressure her into signing away her rights.\n\n\"They give me some document to sign. The document said you can have the money but you can't sue Lion Air. You can't sue Boeing.\n\n\"They said you should sign this. You should move forward. In one hour or two hours you will get the money and you will continue life, but I don't want it. It's not about the money. It's about my husband's life\", she said.\n\nMs Agustin did not sign, but it is believed around 50 families did. They will get compensation of just under £74,000 ($92,000) each.\n\nThe payouts are controversial because under Indonesian law the families are automatically entitled to £71,000 compensation.\n\nSanjiv Singh, an American lawyer representing some of the families, told the BBC relatives had been pressured into signing away their legal rights.\n\n\"The families who signed the release and discharge [documents] have been cheated out of compensation, they've been preyed upon by insurance companies and by the counsel for those insurance companies, and ultimately, to the benefit of Boeing\" he said.\n\nHe added that families were potentially entitled to millions of dollars in compensation.\n\nThis is not the first time that Boeing has benefited from controversial release and discharge documents.\n\nIn 2005, a Boeing 737 crashed into a residential area in Indonesia, killing 149 people. Families signed agreements which prevented them from suing Boeing in the US courts. Similar agreements were signed after a 737 crash that killed 102 passengers and crew in 2007.\n\nOne unnamed insurance lawyer was involved on all three occasions.\n\nMr Singh says this raises serious questions about whether Boeing was involved in the more recent Lion Air agreements.\n\n\"I think that makes it implausible that Boeing, at the very least, didn't know that the releases were being collected. I think it raises a very significant question as to whether they co-ordinated it.\"\n\nPanorama asked Boeing if it knew about the agreements or had any communication with the insurance lawyers who helped organise them.\n\nBoeing did not answer any of the questions posed by the Panorama programme, instead releasing a statement which said: \"Boeing truly regrets the loss of life and will continue to work with communities, customers and the aviation industry to help with the healing process.\n\n\"The insurers for Boeing are in discussions with other insurers around the world, as is typical and customary in circumstances such as these.\"\n\nThe lead insurer for both Lion Air and Boeing is the British insurance firm Global Aerospace.\n\nSanjiv Singh, a lawyer for the families, says they are entitled to large sums of money\n\nGlobal Aerospace disputed the allegations but declined to comment on the specifics because of client confidentiality.\n\nIt said: \"It is common for aviation insurers to have insured more than one party that is involved in some way in an accident.\n\n\"Global Aerospace, in accordance with industry best practice, strictly divides responsibility for the handling of different clients to ensure that they are each represented separately and that no inappropriate sharing of information takes place in the handling of any claims that may occur.\"\n\nThe company said it was standard practice when settling claims to release the airline and plane manufacturers from future claims.\n\nOn 3 July, Boeing announced it would provide $100m to help communities and families affected by the two recent 737 Max accidents. The second was in Ethiopia in April, when 157 people died.\n\nLawyers for the families say they have not been given details about how that money would be used.", "A woman in the US state of Texas has been arrested after her mother's remains were found in the two-bedroom home she shared with her daughter.\n\nPolice believe the grandmother, 71, suffered a fall in 2016.\n\nThey allege her daughter, 47, failed to provide adequate help at the time for her mother, who died \"within a few days\" of the non-life-threatening fall.\n\nThe skeletal remains were found on a bedroom floor. The mother and daughter slept in the other bedroom.\n\nThe granddaughter was under the age of 15 at the time she was living with her grandmother's corpse. As a result, her mother has been charged with \"injury to a child\" under the age of 15.\n\nThe daughter has been placed in the care of relatives and is receiving assistance from child protection.\n\nHer mother could face up to 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000 (£8,000).\n\nPolice say the grandmother was a respected member of the local community, working as a secretary and teaching assistant at a local school for 35 years.\n\nWhen she retired, she worked collecting tickets at sporting events in Seguin.", "Undocumented migrants are surrounded by police during the protest\n\nHundreds of undocumented migrants have stormed the Panthéon in Paris and demanded the right to remain in France.\n\nThe protesters, who were mainly from West Africa, surged into the building at around midday (11:00 GMT) on Friday.\n\nTourists were evacuated from the mausoleum, where many of France's most famous figures are buried.\n\nThe group called themselves the \"black vests\" - a reference to the yellow vest protest movement that spread through much of France earlier this year.\n\nThey waved papers in the air, chanted, and demanded to hold talks with Prime Minister Édouard Philippe over their immigration status.\n\nThe demonstrators held waved papers and chanted as they demanded the right to stay in the country\n\nThe Pantheon monument is a grand neoclassical building in the centre of Paris\n\nIn a statement, the protest group described themselves as \"the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic\".\n\n\"We don't want to negotiate with the interior minister and his officials any more, we want to talk to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe now!\" it said.\n\nBetween 200 and 300 migrants took part in the protest, a police spokesman told Reuters news agency. There were 37 arrests made.\n\nBut other estimates - from activist groups and witnesses - said as many as 700 people were involved in the demonstration.\n\nHundreds of mainly West African migrants took part in the protest\n\nSome of the demonstrators suffered minor injuries\n\nThe protesters remained in the Panthéon, a grand neoclassical building in the centre of the city, for several hours before they were evacuated by police.\n\nWriters Émile Zola, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, and scientist Marie Curie, are among those buried in the building.\n\n\"All of the people who gained entry to the Panthéon have been evacuated,\" Prime Minister Philippe said on Twitter. \"France is a country based on the rule of law which means... respect for public monuments and for the memory they represent,\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, dozens of riot police were pictured barricading the site to prevent people from entering while the protest was taking place.\n• None Who are the 'gilets jaunes'?", "Musician Nathaniel Ernest has had tinnitus for the past eight years\n\nYoung music lovers are being warned about the dangers of loud noise at concerts and festivals which could cause permanent hearing damage.\n\nAbout one in 10 people in the UK have tinnitus and Cardiff-based audiologist Sonja Jones said it was important to wear hearing protection at loud events.\n\nShe said ear plugs - offered by many venues - were seen as \"uncool\" by some.\n\nMusician Nathaniel Ernest, 26, from Cardiff, struggled to sleep after getting tinnitus when he was 18.\n\nHe and a friend went to a gig in 2011 - neither wore ear plugs and both came out with ringing in their ears.\n\nMr Ernest said he had ringing in his ears after gigs and nights out before, but it always went away.\n\nNathaniel makes his band mates in Breichiau Hir wear ear plugs when rehearsing and performing\n\nHe said: \"Both our ears were pretty busted afterwards. The next couple of days mine didn't go away, his did.\n\n\"After about a year I thought this is permanent now. This is going to suck forever.\n\nSleeping became a real problem and he was reluctant to go anywhere where there is loud noise. Even a trip to the pub was difficult as he struggled to hear people talking.\n\nMr Ernest said he eventually got used to the high pitched ringing in his ears over time.\n\nAudiologist Sonja Jones said ear protection costs less than a trip to the cinema\n\nIn a bid to combat this problem, a number of venues in Wales, including the Motorpoint Arena and Tramshed in Cardiff and Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Conwy county, offer hearing protection on request.\n\nMs Jones said: \"Wearing ear plugs will protect your hearing and may prevent any further damage. You can actually hear the music better than you did before with filtered noise plugs.\n\n\"Filtered noise plugs allow you to hear the band, just a bit quieter.\"\n\nEar plugs such as these have removable filters which reduce the sound level without changing the quality", "Home Secretary Sajid Javid has given his backing to the police in their trials of facial recognition cameras.\n\nThe surveillance software, which is designed to help spot suspects in public spaces, has been trialled by several forces, including the Met.\n\nCivil liberties campaigners have criticised the technology, which is the subject of a legal challenge.\n\nBut Mr Javid said it was important that police made use of the latest tools to help them solve crimes.\n\nPolice facial recognition cameras have been trialled at events such as football matches, festivals and parades.\n\nHigh-definition cameras detect faces and compare them with existing police photographs, such as mugshots from previous arrests.\n\nBut the technology has been criticised for being too inaccurate, particularly when identifying black and ethnic minority people.\n\nCivil rights campaigners have also criticised the fact there is no specific regulation governing how police use the software or manage the data gathered.\n\nSpeaking at the launch of new computer technology aimed at helping police fight against online child abuse, Mr Javid said it was right for forces to \"be on top of the latest technology\".\n\n\"I back the police in looking at technology and trialling it and... different types of facial recognition technology is being trialled especially by the Met at the moment and I think it's right they look at that,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one man was fined £90 after objecting to being filmed by police\n\nThe Information Commissioner has previously raised concerns about the technology, saying forces had to demonstrate that it was effective and less intrusive alternatives were not available.\n\nMr Javid suggested longer term use of the cameras would require legislation.\n\n\"If they want to take it further it's also right that they come to government, we look at it carefully and we set out through Parliament how that can work,\" he said.\n\nMr Javid's comments were made as police were given a new set of technological tools to help fight against online child abuse.\n\nAccording to the Home Office, the three new tools will help speed up investigations and limit the number of indecent images of children officers have to view.\n\nThe technology, which cost £1.76m, aims to improve the capability of the Child Abuse Image Database, which holds millions of images.\n\nIt can take 24 hours for police to search through a computer hard drive to see if it contains indecent images.\n\nUsing new technology, which is being rolled out to police across the UK, the analysis will take 30 minutes.\n\nA system is also being made available to reduce the time investigators have to spend assessing the severity of abuse footage.\n\nMr Javid described the techniques as \"game changing\", saying they would help bring perpetrators to justice and protect victims.", "Paramedics fought to save the man's life at the scene in Brighton Road\n\nA teenager has died after three people were attacked with a knife in the same area in south London.\n\nParamedics were unable to save the victim, thought to be in his late teens, after being called to Brighton Road, Croydon, on Thursday.\n\nAnother teenager, also stabbed, was found nearby and a third teenager was later found with a slash wound close to Purley Railway Station.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and taken to hospital.\n\nThe Met has now launched 11 homicide investigations in the last fortnight.\n\nA number of crime scenes in Brighton Road have been cordoned off\n\nEmergency crews were called at about 21:15 BST, with police and London's Air Ambulance also attending.\n\n\"Despite their efforts, a male, believed to be in his late-teens, died at the scene at 21:50,\" a Met spokesman said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nA number of crime scenes in Brighton Road have been cordoned off, and a section 60 order has been put in place, giving police special search powers.\n\nThe second stab victim is also being treated in hospital, where his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nPolice said two other men, whose ages have not been released, were arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and are being held in custody.\n\nNo arrests have been made following a separate stabbing in east London\n\nIn a separate attack on Thursday night, a man aged in his 40s was taken to hospital in a critical condition after he was shot in north-east London.\n\nNo arrests have been made over the attack, which took place at about 23:00 in Malvern Drive, Woodford Green.\n\nEmergency crews were also called to Barking Road in Canning Town, east London at 07:40 on Friday.\n\nA man aged in his 20s was found stabbed multiple times near the junction of Ordnance Road.\n\nHe was taken to hospital. The Met said it was still waiting for confirmation about his condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "R. Kelly is in custody after being arrested in Chicago on sex trafficking charges, according to reports in the US.\n\nThere are said to be 13 charges against the singer, including child abuse images and obstruction of justice, according to the US Attorney's Office in Chicago.\n\nThe 52-year-old was arrested by NYPD and Homeland Security officials.\n\nHe's already pleaded not guilty to more than 20 sexual offences.\n\nFor two decades R. Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, has been accused of different sexual abuse allegations.\n\nThey've been brought back into the spotlight following the documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which detailed stories about him pursuing teenage girls going right back to the start of his career.\n\nThe R&B artist was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in February. He pleaded not guilty and has been released on bail.\n\nThen in May he was charged with 11 more sexual offences, relating to sexual assault and abuse of a minor aged between 13 and 16, which he pleaded not guilty to last month.\n\nIt is not yet known whether the new federal charges are linked to the same cases.\n\nA person can be charged with a federal crime if they've broken laws in more than one state. The charges are generally more severe than state charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. R. Kelly speaks directly to the camera during an interview in March 2019\n\nR. Kelly has stood trial on sexual offences once, being acquitted of child pornography charges by a jury in 2008.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted representatives for R. Kelly, as well as police in New York and the US Attorney's Office in Chicago.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "In Myanmar’s Rakhine state, hundreds of new houses have been handed over to families displaced by the violence of the Rohingya crisis in 2017. But none of the homes were for the Muslim minority group.\n\nAlmost two years on, there’s no sign the 700,000 Rohingyas who fled across the border to Bangladesh will be returning soon. Myanmar continues to deny its troops carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide.\n\nThe BBC's Myanmar correspondent Nick Beake has gained rare access to the affected part of Rakhine.", "The organiser of T in the Park has told Newsbeat the event won't ever be coming back.\n\n\"It was an amazing festival, but it ran its course,\" says Geoff Ellis.\n\nT in the Park, which was Scotland's biggest festival, last took place in 2016 before being put on hold the following year because of difficulties at a new site.\n\n\"Everyone loved T and we all had great fun doing it,\" says Geoff.\n\nTRNSMT is now the main focus for Geoff Ellis\n\nGeoff Ellis was speaking ahead of this year's TRNSMT festival, which is now in its third year and is put on by his company DF Concerts.\n\nIt has long been speculated that TRNSMT was a replacement for T in the Park, but the long-term future of the event has never been confirmed.\n\n\"You can always look fondly on the past,\" explains Geoff Ellis.\n\n\"It was really the third major festival in the UK. We've got some great memories…we'll always have them and so will all the people who grew up with it.\"\n\nLots of Scottish acts including Biffy Clyro worked their way up the T line-up to become festival headliners\n\nThe first three editions of T in the Park were held at Strathclyde Park, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, before it moved to Balado in Perth and Kinross.\n\nIt stayed there until 2015 when the festival moved to Strathallan after \"substantial\" concerns were raised about an oil pipeline which ran under the site.\n\nPromoters said this led to \"continued restrictions\" which had a \"negative impact\" on festival-goers.\n\nThe 2015 event drew the largest number of complaints and negative comments in T in the Park's history, with \"significant traffic congestion\" highlighted.\n\nTwo teenagers died at 2016's festival in separate incidents, while witnesses reported fights and drug taking in the camping area.\n\nTRNSMT is set to host more than 100,000 music fans over the weekend\n\nAfter putting the event to rest, Geoff Ellis says \"it's all about TRNSMT for us now\".\n\n\"Things move on and we keep creating.\n\n\"The festival scene's really, really healthy these days and it's great to still be amongst it.\"\n\nFans have reacted sadly to the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven if they seem a little unsurprised.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Andy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut, they'll always have the good times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The sub was filmed by Norway's Institute of Marine Research\n\nNorway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine.\n\nThe Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.\n\nA sample showed radioactive caesium leaking from a ventilation pipe, but researchers said it was \"not alarming\", as the Arctic water quickly diluted it.\n\nThe Soviet-era sub is also deep down, at 1,680m (5,512ft), and there are few fish in the area, they added.\n\nFor the first time a Norwegian remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) examined and filmed the Komsomolets on 7 July, revealing severe damage.\n\nThe submarine is also known as K-278 in Russia, and it sank carrying two nuclear torpedoes with plutonium warheads.\n\nIts front section has six torpedo tubes, and the sub could also launch Granit cruise missiles.\n\nThis appears to be part of the auxiliary diesel system, revealed by the ROV\n\nThe news comes just over a week after fire swept through a Russian nuclear-powered submersible in the Barents Sea, killing 14 naval officers.\n\nThe survivors managed to get the mini-sub back to its Arctic base.\n\nNorway's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) says the pressurised water reactor powering K-278 in April 1989 shut down quickly when the fire broke out in another compartment.\n\nTwenty-seven sailors survived - they were eventually picked up by two Soviet ships.\n\nThe radiation leak found this week came from a pipe near the reactor. It was 800Bq (becquerels) per litre, while the normal level in the Norwegian Sea is about 0.001Bq.\n\nHowever, some other water samples from the wreck did not show elevated levels.\n\nThe 42 sailors who died in the disaster succumbed to toxic fumes or froze in the icy Arctic waters after the K-278 had surfaced briefly.\n\nThe commander managed to send a distress call about an hour after the fire broke out, but he and four others died when their emergency capsule sank. The submarine was doomed when the fire spread, fuelled by compressed air from a damaged pipe, Russia's RIA news agency reported.\n\nThe ROV is shown here collecting samples from inside the titanium hull\n\nRussia has previously examined the wreck with a manned submersible, and found radiation leaking from the same section.\n\nThe Norwegian radiation specialists and marine researchers were accompanied by experts from Russia's Typhoon Research and Production Association.\n\n\"We took water samples from inside this particular duct because the Russians had documented leaks here both in the 1990s and more recently in 2007,\" said Hilde Elise Heldal, the expedition leader. \"So we weren't surprised to find high levels here.\n\n\"The levels we detected were clearly above what is normal in the oceans, but they weren't alarmingly high,\" she said.\n\nNorway and Russia have been monitoring radiation in the area regularly since the disaster, sometimes on joint expeditions.\n\nThe Komsomolets was launched in 1983, was 117m (385ft) long and could dive to a maximum depth of 1,250m. Its maximum speed was 30 knots (56km/h).", "Donald Trump with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who declined to comment on the remarks\n\nAmid the uproar at Donald Trump's attack on four Democratic congresswomen - an attack which was widely described as racist - there was a notable silence from the president's Republican Party colleagues.\n\nWith a few exceptions, they kept quiet as the world reacted to his suggestion that the four Congresswomen - all women of colour - \"go back\" and \"fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came\".\n\nAll four women are US citizens; three - Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib - were born in the US, and one - Rep Ilhan Omar - came to the country from Somalia as a child refugee.\n\nFor many, the president's remarks went a step beyond anything he had previously said, despite a long history of accusations of racism that predates his political life. The language he used called on a well-established racist trope of telling citizens from minority backgrounds to \"go home\".\n\nBut for a Republican party increasingly aware that its electoral fortunes are tied to the president's national appeal, his remarks did not appear to go beyond the pale - rather the pale had been moved to accommodate them.\n\nThe president's tweets, published on Sunday, read: \"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.\"\n\nLeading Democrats were quick to condemn the remarks as racist. A handful of Republicans issued criticisms - Republican representative Will Hurd of Texas told CNN the comments were \"racist and xenophobic\"; Rep Fred Upton of Michigan said he was \"appalled by the President's tweets\"; Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski tweeted: \"There is no excuse for the president's spiteful comments - they were absolutely unacceptable and this needs to stop.\"\n\nBut the party's senior leadership and the majority of its rank and file stayed quiet or declined to call the remarks racist. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - the most senior Republican after the president and vice president - did not comment. The treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin said: \"I don't find them racist.\" Former Republican presidential candidate and Utah Senator Mitt Romney acknowledged that \"a lot of people have been using the word\", but he demurred.\n\nThe House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said: \"The President is not a racist\". \"It's really kind of a socialist battle versus a thing that we believe within America,\" he said.\n\nIt was an illustration of how far the party had travelled since hitching its wagon to Mr Trump's star. When Mr Trump said in 2016, as a candidate, that a Mexican-American judge would be automatically biased against him because of the judge's heritage, the party's most senior figures were unsparing in their condemnation. Majority Leader McConnell jumped to the judge's defence. \"This is a man who was born in Indiana. All of us came here from somewhere else,\" he said.\n\nRepresentative Ilhan Omar speaks at a press conference with her three Democratic colleagues\n\nAmong the Republicans who did criticise the president's remarks on Monday, there was a noticeable trend: criticism of the Democratic congresswomen too.\n\nSenator Lindsay Graham, a close ally of the Trump administration, suggested indirectly that the president \"aim higher\" but called the Democratic congresswomen a \"bunch of communists\" who \"hate our own country\".\n\nSenator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania acknowledged that the citizenship of the congresswomen was \"as valid\" as his own, but prefaced it by saying he \"couldn't disagree more\" with their views on \"virtually every policy issue\".\n\nRep Elise Stefanik of New York said: \"While I strongly disagree with the tactics, policies, and rhetoric of the far-left socialist 'Squad,' the President's tweets were inappropriate, denigrating, and wrong.\" Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Mr Trump's remarks were \"way over the line\", but called the congresswomen \"far-left\". Mr Romney said the congresswomen's views were \"not consistent with building a strong America\".\n\nThe president called them \"Radical Left Congresswomen\" and said they should apologise to the country and to him.\n\nDonald Trump has a long history of being accused of racism, predating his political life\n\nTaken together, the statements appeared to signal a Republican strategy ahead of next year's election of branding the Democratic Party and its four popular new House representatives as far-left and anti-American. Ms Pressley, Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Tlaib and Ms Omar - known affectionately by fans as \"The Squad\" - are already a lightning rod for conservatives seeking to sow fear over a progressive shift in the Democratic Party.\n\nThere may have been other goals behind Mr Trump's remarks. He is well versed in the politics of distraction, and immigration raids he had promised on the same day were not materialising. And in his tweets he attempted to aggravate an existing dispute between the four Democratic congresswomen and their party leadership; in the end his remarks produced a show of unity between the two factions.\n\nWhatever the aim, the relative silence from his own party's leadership over his remarks may have sent a clear signal to the president - that the party was with him in an electoral strategy that accommodated language widely regarded as racist. The president denies any kind of prejudice and has claimed several times to be \"the least racist person you've ever met\".\n\nThe Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced a resolution in the House to condemn the president's remarks. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would introduce a similar motion in his chamber. \"We'll see how many Republicans sign on,\" he said.\n\nCorrection: A quote from Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado was removed as it did not refer directly to the Congresswomen.", "The migrant was picked up a few miles north of Calais\n\nA migrant has been rescued as he tried to swim across the English Channel to the UK with flippers and a float.\n\nThe man - who was suffering from mild hypothermia - was picked up by the French authorities at 07:30 BST about three miles north of Calais.\n\nMeanwhile, 38 people were caught attempting the crossing in three boats before midday, the Home Office said.\n\nPictures showed a woman and children as Home Office officials processed the migrants in Dover.\n\nAnother photograph appeared to show some of the people wearing orange lifejackets as they were taken to shore in a Border Force rigid-inflatable boat.\n\nThe Home Office said a group of eight men and women were found after a boat washed ashore in Dungeness, Kent. They were medically-assessed and found to be well.\n\nA further two vessels were intercepted off the Sussex coast.\n\nThe two groups - made up of 12 and 18 men, women and children - were taken to Dover and transferred to immigration officials.\n\nDamian Collins, Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, said of the developments: \"People will almost certainly die trying to do this. I don't want to see people dying trying to make this crossing.\n\n\"We have got to do more to spot these people and stop them making these journeys before leaving the French coast.\"\n\nChildren were pictured among the migrants who were taken to Dover\n\nSo far this year more than 600 migrants have attempted the crossing.\n\nFormer coastguard Andy Roberts said of the lone swimmer: \"I've seen every kind of attempted unorthodox crossing of the Dover Strait. This one is absolutely incredible. Anyone who thinks with a rubber ring and some flippers they can swim 21 miles as the crow flies... is really asking for serious trouble.\"\n\nBBC South East reporter Simon Jones said: \"The fact that one migrant was prepared to try to go it alone will no doubt be of grave concern to the authorities.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV images recorded Eric Michels and Gerald Matovu shopping together at Sainsbury's\n\nA serial killer's drug dealer who targeted victims through gay dating apps has been found guilty of murdering a businessman with an overdose of GHB.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted Gerald Matovu, 26, of killing Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his south-west London home on 18 August.\n\nThe court heard the pair met in central London through the Grindr app before taking a cab back to Mr Michel's house.\n\nPort was given a whole-life term for the murders of four young men he poisoned with lethal doses of the substance and raped after meeting them on Grindr.\n\nGerald Matovu was found guilty of a string of offences, including murder, following a trial\n\nMatovu, of Southwark, south London, and his co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 24, of Forest Gate, east London, were convicted of a string of charges including administering a noxious substance, assault by penetration and theft.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the charges related to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nThe court heard Mr Michels, an executive at energy company SSE, met Matovu in the early hours of 17 August.\n\nThe pair went back to the businessman's home in Chessington, where he was given a fatal dose of GHB, a drug used in so-called chemsex but also linked to instances of date-rape.\n\nWhile his victim was incapacitated, Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence and various passwords.\n\nBrandon Dunbar admitted using Mr Michels' card and taking £300 from his account\n\nThat evening Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter sent him a text but received no response, the court heard.\n\nAfter a follow-up message the next day, she received the \"totally uncharacteristic\" response of: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nThat led her to calling her father's phone, but after an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling, she and her mother went to Mr Michels' home and found him motionless in bed.\n\nEric Michels was found dead at his home by his daughter in Chessington in August 2018\n\nAn empty syringe without a needle attached, which contained DNA from both Matovu and Mr Michels and traces of GHB, was found on the floor beside the bed.\n\nMatovu denied administering the drug to his victim, claiming he had taken it of his own will.\n\nAs the guilty verdict was returned on Matovu's murder charge, Mr Michels' family shouted \"yes - rest of your life in prison\".\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nHe had once trained as an actor and still made occasional film appearances, including in the James Bond film Skyfall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eric Michels' sons said their father was \"a person who just loved life\"\n\nDet Insp Mark Richards, said Matovu and Dunbar had \"a well-rehearsed plan to take advantage of men they met through Grindr to steal their property\".\n\n\"This was their overwhelming motive, rather than sexual assault. Matovu described himself in evidence as a hustler, a liar and a thief - apt words\", he said.\n\n\"Their method in the majority of cases was to drug their victim with enough GBL [which is converted into GBH in the body] to render them unconscious so they could then search their homes, selecting items of interest and photographing bank cards and personal documents for subsequent fraudulent use.\n\n\"They did this at their leisure, sometimes spending hours at an address.\n\n\"But Mr Michels was different - Matovu gave him a fatal dose of GBL.\n\n\"Despicably, while Mr Michels lay dead or dying, Matovu raided his address of many of his belongings, leaving his devastated family to find his body the following day.\"\n\nGerald Matovu and Brandon Dunbar were caught on CCTV using Eric Michels' bank details\n\nMatovu was also convicted of six counts of administering a noxious substance, seven thefts, six counts of having articles for fraud, assault by penetration, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possessing the drug GBL.\n\nDunbar was found guilty of three counts of administering a noxious substance, five thefts, six counts of having articles for fraud, two frauds, assault by penetration, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and dishonestly retaining wrongful credit.\n\nThe pair were remanded in custody for sentencing on 5 September.\n• None The link between a Grindr murderer and a serial killer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: \"I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with\"\n\nThe ongoing row between US President Donald Trump and four non-white Democratic congresswomen has continued to escalate following a controversial campaign rally.\n\nDuring a speech in North Carolina, Mr Trump took aim at Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley as well as Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born lawmaker who he focused much of his criticism on.\n\nHis rhetoric prompted a chant of \"send her back\" from his supporters, which Mr Trump on Thursday claimed he disagreed with.\n\nThe rally fallout follows debate over a series of vitriolic tweets and statements by the president that have been widely condemned as racist.\n\nAll the women are US citizens. So what else do we know of the lawmakers known as \"the Squad\"?\n\nAll four were elected to the House of Representatives in last November's mid-term elections, each making history as a result.\n\nKnown to be progressive, they have clashed in recent weeks with the more pragmatic Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi - divisions with racial overtones that Mr Trump has tried to exploit with his tweets.\n\nMs Omar speaks at a news conference in Washington DC in June\n\nFirst-term congresswoman Ilhan Omar won a Minnesota seat in the House of Representatives last November, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the US.\n\nHer family first came to the US as refugees from Somalia, settling in Minneapolis in 1997 after fleeing the country's civil war. She became a citizen in 2000.\n\nThe 37-year-old mother of three is one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to the US Congress.\n\nBefore her election to Congress, she served in Minnesota's state legislature, making her the then highest elected Somali-American public official in the US.\n\nMs Omar's precedent-setting tenure has earned both adoration and criticism.\n\nShortly after her election, she drew praise for fighting to change a 181-year ban on headwear in the House, allowing her to wear a hijab for her oath of office.\n\nBut Ms Omar has also faced repeated accusations of anti-Semitism.\n\nShe was forced to apologise for a series of tweets in February that suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) was buying influence for pro-Israel policies.\n\nLawmakers on both sides of the aisle said the tweets stoked anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money.\n\nMs Omar later released a statement \"unequivocally\" apologising for her tweets.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,\" Ms Omar wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ilhan Omar on her journey to becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the US\n\nShe came under fire from conservatives again in April for comments on 9/11 that Democrats said were taken out of context.\n\nA clip of Ms Omar apparently describing 9/11 as \"some people did something\" began circulating online, and the president tweeted a video showing footage of the terrorist attacks spliced with Ms Omar's speech.\n\nThe quote was from a speech Ms Omar gave to a civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), in March. The comments in Mr Trump's video were taken from a point she made about the treatment of US Muslims in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks:\n\n\"For far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. Cair was founded after 9/11 because they recognised that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, Mr Trump has focused his attacks on Ms Omar saying she \"hates Israel\" and \"hates Jews\", and suggesting she supports the jihadist group al-Qaeda.\n\nUS media reported that Mr Trump's accusations probably reference a 2013 interview where Ms Omar was discussing a college terrorism class.\n\nShe did not praise al-Quaeda in the interview. Ms Omar remarked that a professor said the names of terrorist groups with a different kind of \"intensity\" compared with the tone he used when he said \"America\" or \"England\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez and Ms Tlaib at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to as AOC, made waves in the Democratic Party last June when she defeated political veteran and establishment favourite Joe Crowley in their party's primary in a new York district.\n\nThe 29-year-old went on to beat Republican candidate Anthony Pappas in the November mid-terms, becoming the youngest ever US congresswoman.\n\nThe freshman lawmaker was born in the Bronx, New York to parents of Puerto Rican descent. She has a degree in economics and international relations from Boston University, and worked as a community organiser, educator and bartender before deciding to run for office.\n\nSince her election, the self-described democratic socialist has become a lightning rod for the political right.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has not shied away from the spotlight, frequently taking to social media to hit back at Republicans, members of the media and other critics on a range of issues including immigration, poverty and race.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on detained migrants: 'The women were told to drink out of a toilet bowl'\n\nShe has earned a reputation for her impassioned testimonies at congressional hearings, which are often re-circulated among her nearly five million Twitter followers.\n\nShe has been particularly vocal in her push for environmental policy, serving as one of the sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution, which calls upon the US to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions along with other goals.\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez has also been outspoken in her criticism of the president, saying there is \"no question\" that Mr Trump is racist.\n\nAnd she recently accused Ms Pelosi of \"singling out\" new congresswomen of colour following a number of clashes over their policy stances.\n\nSocial media savvy, Ms Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently coined the term \"the squad\" after suggesting they hashtag a photoshoot image of the four of them #squadgoals.\n\nMs Tlaib and Ms Omar talk before Mr Trump's second State of the Union address\n\nMuch like the other congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib's election this November made history.\n\nThe Michigan Democrat is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ms Tlaib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents. Her grandmother still lives in the West Bank.\n\nShe was sworn into office wearing a traditional Palestinian garment stitched by her mother.\n\nMs Tlaib also joined Ms Omar as one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to serve in Congress.\n\nThe eldest of 14 siblings, Ms Tlaib became the first member of her family to graduate from high school, and then from college and law school.\n\nSince assuming office, Ms Tlaib has been an outspoken critic of the president. She courted controversy when she used explicit language when calling for the president's impeachment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rashida Tlaib This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Tlaib was unapologetic about the furore incited by her remark, tweeting that she would \"always speak truth to power\".\n\nAfter his twitter storm, she said Mr Trump was \"biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime\", and said his attacks were a \"distraction\" from her job of representing people in her congressional district.\n\nCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley, 45, is the first African-American woman to be elected to the US Congress from Massachusetts.\n\nBorn in Cincinnati and raised in Ohio, Ms Pressley is the only child of a single mother.\n\nAfter attending Boston University, she served as a senior aide to Congressman Joseph P Kennedy II, and worked for Senator John Kerry for 13 years.\n\nHer own political career began in 2009 when she waged a successful bid for a seat on Boston City Council, becoming the first woman of colour elected to the council in its 100-year history.\n\nSimilar to Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Ms Pressley's election to the US Congress involved a major political upset: she unseated 10-term Democratic congressman Michael Capuano in their party's primary.\n\nSince assuming office in January, Ms Pressley has been a vocal advocate of abortion rights, pushing to repeal an amendment that prevents Medicaid from covering abortions for low-income Americans.\n\nA survivor of sexual violence, Ms Pressley has also spoken up for better protections for assault victims, writing on her website that \"the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power\".\n\nShe said she could not call Mr Trump the president, only the \"occupant\" of the White House.\n\n\"He does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, the integrity of a true president,\" she told CBS.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I have to pick an item every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10-hour day'\n\nThousands of workers in Amazon sites around the world are staging protests about pay and conditions as the online retailer begins its annual sale.\n\nOn Monday, Amazon starts offering discounts to its Prime service members.\n\nUnions say that 2,000 workers are on strike in Germany, while in the US, workers in a Minnesota centre reportedly plan a six-hour stoppage. In the UK, week-long protests are planned.\n\nWilliam Stolz, a picker at a warehouse in the Shakopee warehouse in Minnesota, told the BBC that workers wanted \"safe, reliable jobs\" from Amazon.\n\nHe says he has to pick an item about every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10 hour day.\n\n\"The speeds that we have to work are very physically and mentally exhausting, in some cases leading to injuries,\" he said.\n\n\"Basically we just want them to treat us with respect as human beings and not treat us like machines,\" he said.\n\nPrime Day begins on Monday, but actually lasts 48 hours. The Seattle-based retailer, founded by Jeff Bezos, says new deals will launch as often as every five minutes \"giving shoppers plenty of reasons to come back again and again\".\n\nOne of the most valuable public companies in the world - making Mr Bezos the world's richest man - Amazon rang up total sales of $235bn (£188bn) of online sales last year.\n\nIn Germany, where Amazon employs 20,000 people, labour union Verdi said more than 2,000 workers at seven sites had gone on strike under the logo \"no more discount on our incomes\".\n\n\"While Amazon fuels bargain hunting on Prime Day with hefty discounts, employees are being deprived of a living wage,\" said Orhan Akman, retail specialist at Verdi.\n\nIn the UK, GMB union officials handed leaflets to workers arriving at the site in Peterborough in the East Midlands, and in the coming days protests are expected at other sites such as Swansea and Rugeley, in the West Midlands.\n\nMick Rix, GMB national officer, said: \"Amazon workers want Jeff Bezos to know they are people not robots. It's prime time for Amazon to get round the table with GMB and discuss ways to make the workplaces safer and to give their workers and independence voice\".\n\nUnions say that 2,000 workers are on strike in Germany\n\nWhile the GMB was not calling on shoppers to boycott Amazon, he said customers could act.\n\n\"We're not calling for economic damage for Amazon,\" he said. \"What we're asking for is for people to be aware. Leave feed back on Amazon\".\n\nIn response, Amazon said it \"provided great employment opportunities with excellent pay\".\n\nIt encouraged people to compare its operations in Shakopee with other employees in the area.\n\nIn the UK, where it employs 29,500 people, a spokesperson said the company offered industry-leading pay starting at £9.50 per hour and was the \"employer of choice for thousands of people across the UK\".\n\nIt said its German operations offered wages \"at the upper end of what is paid in comparable jobs\" and it was \"seeing very limited participation [in strikes] across Germany with zero operational impact and therefore no impact on customer deliveries\".\n\nIn total, Amazon has a global workforce of 630,000, with 300,000 in the US.", "The man tasked with working out how to improve UK railways says a \"Fat Controller\" type figure, independent from government, should be in charge of day-to-day operations.\n\nThe former boss of British Airways, Keith Williams, said government involvement should be limited to overall policy and budget decisions.\n\nBut he said the Department for Transport should not manage the system.\n\nHis review of the rail system will be published this autumn.\n\nThe Fat Controller is a fictional character who manages the railways in Thomas the Tank Engine, the children's television series based on The Railway Series books.\n\nMr Williams said he also believed that, in the future, rail franchises should be underpinned by punctuality and other performance-related targets.\n\nThe government launched the review after passengers in northern and southern England experienced chaos over several weeks last summer following the introduction of a new timetable.\n\nBy December, punctuality across the country had dropped to a 13-year low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Somebody needs to be accountable to the public'\n\nIn a BBC interview Mr Williams insisted the interests of passengers would shape every aspect of his work and that the creation of an individual or organisation with oversight of the entire rail system would be \"key for regaining public trust.\"\n\n\"Someone needs to be accountable to the public,\" he said.\n\nHe is still to decide on what relationship the individual or organisation would have with government but he said Network Rail, the public company managing rail infrastructure, should not take on an overall managerial role.\n\nThe idea has echoes of the Strategic Rail Authority, a body which, from 2001 to 2006, provided \"strategic direction\" for the industry.\n\nMr Williams had already said that the current rail franchising model was finished, but he has now indicated that a franchise should last longer than the current average of seven to eight years.\n\nHe argues that if train companies were in charge of networks for more time they would have more incentive to invest.\n\nAs things stand, under a franchise agreement, a train company will make a series of commitments to the government which have to be delivered.\n\nAccording to Mr Williams, a franchise should no longer be about \"how many ticketing offices there are in a station\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future?\n\nHis team is looking into how franchises could focus instead on performance targets such as punctuality and whether or not services have the correct number of carriages - something which continues to be a problem for passengers in the north of England.\n\nThe rail review also looks set to recommend an overhaul of the complicated rail ticketing system, which has not been reformed since the mid-90s.\n\n\"Pay-as-you-go across regions and cities has been difficult to implement because of the fares system that exists today,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nHe said a national system should be created to allow more third-party companies like thetrainline.com to improve the way people buy tickets.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of rail union RMT, said it had warned that \"Keith Williams had been hand-picked by Chris Grayling and the Tories to try and get them off the hook over the privatised chaos on our railways\".\n\nHe added: \"RMT also warned that Keith Williams would side 100% with his big-business mates and duck the issue of public ownership of the railways - the option supported by over two-thirds of the British people.\n\n\"He has and after months of deliberation has come up with the classic cop-out of another unaccountable quango.\"", "Selwyn Francis died after choking on a piece of meat, an inquest at Ruthin County Hall heard\n\nA man choked to death on a piece of meat about five months after his brother died in exactly the same way.\n\nAn inquest has been opened into the death of Selwyn Francis, 68, who choked on food at a restaurant in Flintshire and died in hospital two days later.\n\nHe died a day after an inquest heard his brother Gwyn Francis had died after choking on a piece of steak at a pub.\n\nTheir brother Kenneth Francis had said he and his two brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly.\n\nAt a hearing in Ruthin on Monday, assistant coroner Elizabeth Dudley-Jones heard Selwyn Francis had choked on food at a restaurant in the Flint area on 2 July.\n\nHe was taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital but died on 4 July.\n\nHis brother Gwyn Francis, 62, of Flint, was taken to hospital on 29 January after choking on his meal at the Mill Tavern in the town, but died on 6 February.\n\nKenneth Francis told the inquest into Gwyn's death that Selwyn had choked on a piece of steak at the same pub 18 months earlier but the obstruction had been cleared by someone performing the Heimlich manoeuvre.\n\n\"I said it should be a warning to us all,\" Kenneth Francis had told the earlier inquest.\n\nMs Dudley-Jones said the provisional cause of Selwyn Francis' death was hypoxic brain injury following a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to a date to be fixed.", "Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh will battle it out off-screen for the best actress award at this year's Emmys.\n\nThe comedy thriller series has nine nominations in total at the ceremony.\n\nThe show's original writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also up for lead actress in a comedy series for Fleabag.\n\nHer show has 11 nominations in total, while Game of Thrones has 32, including acting nods for Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke.\n\nThat's the highest total for any programme in a single year, beating NYPD Blues which received 26 in 1994.\n\nHowever, mixed reviews for the final series of epic fantasy show could damage its chances outside the technical categories.\n\nGame of Thrones goes up against British series Bodyguard and Killing Eve for outstanding drama series, alongside Better Call Saul, Ozark, Pose, Succession and This is Us.\n\nComer, whose portrayal of Killing Eve's psychopathic assassin Villanelle won her a Bafta earlier this year, received her first Emmy nomination on Tuesday.\n\nShe failed to make the cut last year, when her co-star Sandra Oh lost the best actress category to Claire Foy, who played the Queen in Netflix's The Crown.\n\nThis year, both Comer and Oh are nominated alongside Clarke, Viola Davis (How To Get Away With Murder), Laura Linney (Ozark), Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Robin Wright (House Of Cards).\n\nHugh Grant is nominated for best actor in a limited series or movie for A Very English Scandal.\n\nHis competition, aside from Harington, is Mahershala Ali (True Detective), Benicio Del Toro (Escape at Dannemora), Jared Harris (Chernobyl), Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us) and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon).\n\nFleabag, a dark comedy about a Londoner grappling with the death of her best friend and her troublesome family, sees nominations for all five of its female stars - Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman, Sian Clifford, Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw - who picks up a second nomination for her role as MI6 chief Carolyn Martens in Killing Eve.\n\nWaller-Bridge, who created both Killing Eve and Fleabag, faces stiff competition in the best comedy actress category.\n\nJulia Louis-Dreyfus, who already holds the record for the most Emmy awards for a single role, will be hoping to pick up a seventh prize for her portrayal of vainglorious US President Selena Meyer in Veep.\n\nVoters may be persuaded to honour the star for her last outing in the HBO series, which ended earlier this year.\n\nLast year's winner, Rachel Brosnahan, is also a favourite for Amazon Prime's comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, in which she plays an aspiring comedian in 1950s New York.\n\nAlthough the BBC's ratings hit Bodyguard, is nominated for best drama series - there is nothing for the show's star, Richard Madden, who picked up a Golden Globe for his performance earlier this year.\n\nThis year's Emmy ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 22 September.\n\nThe nominations and winners are voted for by the 25,000 Emmy members and recognise the best of television. The awards are the biggest TV awards show in the US.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Germany's Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly elected president of the EU Commission following a secret ballot among MEPs.\n\nThe centre-right defence minister will replace Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 1 November.", "The age limit for playing the National Lottery could be raised to 18, the government has said.\n\nAnnouncing a consultation on the age limits for all National Lottery games, culture minister Mims Davies said they were some of the few ways under-18s were allowed to gamble.\n\nThe consultation will also look at only increasing the age limit for instant-win scratch cards and online games.\n\nMs Davies said her initial view was that this \"could be the best approach\".\n\nBut Labour said the minimum age for all gambling products should be 18.\n\nAnnouncing the review in the House of Commons, Ms Davies said 18 was the age when people gained full citizenship rights and responsibilities.\n\nShe added that the risk of harm associated with playing the National Lottery was the lowest of any form of gambling, \"but we do know the risk is slightly higher for instant win games than it is for draw-based games such as Lotto\".\n\nThe government could also choose to keep the status quo or raise the age limit for all lottery games, which include EuroMillions.\n\nMs Davies also announced changes to society lotteries - non-commercial lotteries run for good causes - including increasing the maximum draw prize from £400,000 to £500,000.\n\nBut Labour's shadow culture secretary, Tom Watson, said there was \"absolutely no need\" for a consultation on the age limit.\n\nHe said: \"It's our strong view, and I'm sure members across the House will agree, that we already have all the evidence we need. To gamble you should be an adult, so the minimum age for all gambling products should be 18 - it's as simple as that.\"\n\nNational Lottery operator Camelot said it has \"no issue\" with the review.", "The leadership candidates' hardening of position on the controversial Irish backstop is \"significant\", ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve says.\n\nThe views of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson expressed at a debate seem to rule out any compromise, the MP added.\n\nThey both declared the backstop \"dead\" and rejected the idea of a time limit, which the BBC's Norman Smith said was a \"huge heave\" towards no deal.\n\nBut Mr Grieve warned that a government seeking no deal would collapse.\n\nThe Remain-supporting MP said he believed more Conservative colleagues, including current front benchers, would join him in attempts to prevent the UK leaving on 31 October without a deal.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she was \"surprised\" by the contenders' comments on the backstop, but believed they would \"find they have to compromise\".\n\nThe cabinet minister, who has been convinced by her preferred candidate Mr Hunt that no-deal should remain on the table, told Politico: \"I think their views will collide with the reality when, whichever one wins, starts negotiating and starts dealing with a Parliament which may be more difficult than they think to engage with.\"\n\nThe backstop, included in the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU, is designed as an insurance policy to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut this deal was rejected three times by MPs in the Commons, with the backstop a key sticking point.\n\nCritics fear it would be used to permanently trap the UK in the EU customs union, preventing the country from striking its own trade deals.\n\nOther MPs have said the backstop would only be acceptable if it had a strict time limit, or if the UK had a unilateral right to end the arrangement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Grieve has vowed to fight against a no-deal Brexit\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said it will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement and insisted the backstop must be part of any deal agreed.\n\nUrsula Von der Leyen - who MEPs have elected to be the next European Commission president - told MEPs on Tuesday: \"The Withdrawal Agreement provides certainty where Brexit created uncertainty, preserving the rights of citizens and in preserving peace and stability on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nTo groans from Brexit Party MEPs in the chamber, she added, \"However, I stand ready for further extension of the withdrawal date should more time be required for a good reason.\"\n\nAt a head-to-head leadership debate run by the Sun on Monday, Mr Johnson said he would not be seeking a time limit to the backstop, insisting: \"It needs to come out.\"\n\nHe said the UK must say \"no to time limits or unilateral escape hatches or all those kind of elaborate devices, glosses, codicils and so on that you could apply to the backstop\".\n\nMr Hunt also said the backstop was \"dead\" and rejected the idea of a time limit.\n\n\"The backstop, as it is, is dead, so I agree with Boris - I don't think tweaking it with a time limit will do the trick, we've got to find a new way,\" he said.\n\n\"But the thing that mustn't die... is a cast-iron commitment to the Republic of Ireland that we will not have border infrastructure.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have given the UK another almighty heave in the direction of no deal. By ruling out any reworking of the backstop, they have closed off what some regarded as the best route to securing a Brexit deal.\n\nEven some leading Brexiteers had mooted the idea of trying to secure an end date for the backstop. A compromise, they argued, which it might have been possible to sell to Parliament. And which the EU - having already said the backstop would be temporary - might have been prepared to concede.\n\nNow, however, Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson have declared the backstop \"dead\". It means that whoever becomes PM will have to try and construct an entirely new Brexit deal in just three months. It also pre-supposes the EU will be willing to negotiate a fresh deal.\n\nOf course, it's possible this is all bluff, designed to force the EU to blink. If they don't, however, then it's hard to see a likely alternative to no deal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, pro-EU Tory MP and People's Vote campaign co-chairman Mr Grieve said: \"I think it is significant because I have in the past heard it suggested… that there might be some possibility of compromise by the backstop being tweaked and on the face of it, it entirely rules it out.\"\n\nHe said blocking no deal \"might be quite difficult\" on a technical level - meaning that bringing down the government could be the only option in a confidence vote.\n\n\"If a government persists in trying to carry out a no-deal Brexit, I think that administration is going to fall,\" he said.\n\n\"By the end of next week there are going to be more Conservatives who have indicated very clearly that no-deal is unacceptable and I notice that many of them will no longer be on the front bench.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's political reporter Jayne McCormack explains why the border is an issue\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Grieve and Labour former foreign secretary Dame Margaret Beckett have launched a report that argues a series of possible Brexit outcomes will probably lead to further political deadlock, including renegotiating the backstop.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe report from the People's Vote campaign says that another referendum is the \"most popular way of resolving the Brexit crisis\" and the \"only legitimate and democratic solution available\".\n\nThe result of the contest to succeed Theresa May as prime minister will be announced on 23 July, with the winner taking office a day later.\n\nSome 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting in a postal ballot to elect the next leader.", "The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources \"digital first\".\n\nPearson said students would only be able to rent physical textbooks from now on, and they would be updated much less frequently.\n\nThe British firm hopes the move will make more students buy its e-textbooks which are updated continually.\n\n\"We are now over the digital tipping point,\" boss John Fallon told the BBC.\n\n\"Over half our annual revenues come from digital sales, so we've decided a little bit like in other industries like newspapers or music or in broadcast that it is time to flick the switch in how we primarily make and create our products.\"\n\nThe firm currently makes 20% of its revenues from US courseware, but has been struggling as students increasingly opt to rent second-hand print textbooks to save money.\n\nTo counter this Mr Fallon said Pearson would stop revising print books every three years, a model that has dominated the industry for 40 years.\n\nMr Fallon at the 'Microsoft in Education Global Forum' in 2014\n\nIt means that next year the firm will only update 100 of its 1,500 titles in print - down from 500 in 2019.\n\n\"There will still be [print] textbooks in use for many years to come but I think they will become a progressively smaller part of the learning experience,\" Mr Fallon said.\n\n\"We learn by engaging and sharing with others, and a digital environment enables you to do that in a much more effective way.\"\n\nDigital textbooks can be updated responsively and also incorporate videos and assessments that provide students with feedback.\n\nHowever, many of Pearson's digital products are sold on a subscription basis, raising fears that authors will lose out in the way musicians have to music streaming services.\n\nMr Fallon denied this, saying the firm's plans would provide authors with \"a more sustainable income over time\".\n\nHe added: \"For the Netflix and Spotify generation, they expect to rent not own.\"\n\nPearson has been going through a painful turnaround after years of falling sales and profits, but appeared to have turned a corner in 2018.\n\nIts underlying sales rose 2% in the first quarter of 2019, although the firm admitted revenue in its US business could fall by as much as 5% this year.\n\nMr Fallon said its plans for textbooks would begin in the US, but in time be extended to other markets including the UK.\n• None How digital publishers are shaking up the book industry", "The 1,000 ft tower was planned for 20 Bury Street, beside the Gherkin tower\n\nLondon's Mayor has advised planners to reject proposals for a new skyscraper.\n\nIn April, the City of London Corporation (CLC) approved the 1,000ft (305m) Tulip tower proposed for Bury Street, beside the Gherkin tower.\n\nBut Sadiq Khan said a number of concerns raised in a London Review Panel report meant it would harm the skyline and had few public benefits.\n\nThose behind the project said they were \"disappointed\" and have a right to appeal the mayor's decision.\n\nMr Khan advised CLC planners to reject permission on the basis of reasons outlined by the panel, which included:\n\nA restaurant and sky bar was proposed as well as a floor for education facilities\n\nThe proposed skyscraper would have been the second tallest in London after the Shard\n\nThe London Review Panel concluded The Tulip \"does not represent world class architecture, it lacks sufficient quality and quantity of public open space, and its social and environmental sustainability do not match the ambition of its height and impact on London's skyline\".\n\nA spokesperson for the mayor said Mr Khan had \"a number of serious concerns with this application and having studied it in detail has refused permission for a scheme that he believes would result in very limited public benefit\".\n\nThe Foster + Partners-designed tower was to be built at 20 Bury Street.\n\nThe CLC Planning and Transportation Committee had supported the plan by 18 votes to seven after conditions were imposed such as restricting ticket sales during peak hours.\n\nGondolas would have allowed visitors to ride along an eight-minute loop outside the tower\n\nResponding to the mayor's recommendation, architects Foster + Partners and developers J Safra said: \"The Tulip Project team are disappointed by the Mayor of London's decision to direct refusal of planning permission.\n\n\"We will now take time to consider potential next steps for The Tulip Project.\"\n\nThe applicants have the right to appeal directly to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government within six months if the CLC goes ahead and refuses planning permission.\n\nThe government department may also step in and direct the CLC to hold off a refusal for a period it specifies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chemicals tested in the liquids were found to contain the same chemicals found in Spice\n\nNine young people have collapsed after unwittingly using a vaping liquid containing the synthetic drug Spice, it has emerged.\n\nHealth agencies have warned people to avoid products sold as \"THC vape juice\", \"THC vape pens\" or \"THC oil\".\n\nGreater Manchester Drug Alerts Panel said it knew of six incidents since February where people had been taken to hospital after inhaling the drug.\n\nThe vaping liquid, marketed as a \"natural cannabis\", has also been sold as \"cannabis oil\" or \"cannabis vape juice\", the panel said.\n\nIt was sold as both a 10ml bottle and a ready-filled cartridge.\n\nTwo incidents in the Oldham area led to five school-age children collapsing and being rushed to hospital.\n\nMichael Linnell, who coordinates Greater Manchester Drug Alerts Panel, said the liquids contained the same chemicals as found in Spice.\n\nThe panel, which brings together police, NHS, local authorities and drug user support agencies, said incidents occurred in Rochdale, Oldham and Bury between February and June.\n\nManchester has faced problems with the widespread use of the drug in recent years, with one MP describing the situation as a \"crisis\" and asking for government help.\n\nAlso known as Mamba, Spice was formerly referred to as a \"legal high\", before it was outlawed in 2016.\n\nManchester has faced problems with Spice, which is said to leave people in a \"zombie-like\" state\n\nNone of the nine people affected suffered long-term health effects.\n\nBut panel member Dr Prun Bijral described the incidents as \"very worrying\".\n\n\"Fortunately it does not seem likely they will suffer any long-term harm, but we don't want to see anyone else affected, particularly as we approach the school summer holidays,\" he said.\n\n\"Young people who buy this product thinking it will have an effect similar to natural cannabis are not only being ripped off, they are also putting themselves and their friends in real danger.\"\n\nMr Linell said: \"The risk of vaping spice is far more dangerous than from a natural cannabis product.\n\n\"It is difficult for even experienced Spice users to judge dosage.\n\n\"Severe poisoning is far more common with synthetic cannabinoids than with cannabis, and in some cases the poisoning may even be fatal.\"\n\nPublic Health England said it is not aware of any similar incidents in other parts of the country.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After US President Donald Trump told four US congresswomen of colour to \"go back\" to the countries \"from which they came\", some Americans have been sharing their own experiences of hearing that kind of language.\n\nOne BBC reader said the incident was reminiscent of an experience on a London bus in 1975 when a white woman accusingly said \"you foreigners, why don't you go back to your country?\"\n\n\"Yes, we were foreign students, we felt petrified, yes, we immediately got off the bus on the next stop,\" said the reader, who did not wish to have their name used.\n\n\"Racism is ugly, ignorance and hurtful, and unfortunately it is everywhere,\" they continued.\n\nIn a three-tweet thread on Sunday, Mr Trump accused the four Democrats of \"viciously\" criticising him and the US.\n\nThree of them on Friday spoke out about conditions in a migrant detention centre they had visited, describing alleged mistreatment happening \"under American flags\".\n\nAlthough the president did not name them, it was clear he was referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who were born in the US, and Ilhan Omar, who came to the US as a refugee aged 12.\n\nHis remarks have sparked condemnation in the US and abroad. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said they were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nLots of other BBC readers have been telling us about their experiences, in the US and elsewhere.\n\nLarry Christopher Bates writes from Bloomington, Indiana, that he has been told to \"go back to Africa\" so many times and at such an early age that he cannot recall the first occasion.\n\nMr Bates, who was born in Indiana, calls it \"one of the first lines of insult from white nationalists\".\n\nIain Tyson says that when he was stopped while driving by a Los Angeles police officer, the officer heard his British accent and - using an expletive - told him to go \"back to where you came from\".\n\nHe said that during his travels in the US, he has frequently been told: \"If you don't like it, why don't you go back to where you came from?\"\n\nJuan Oliveros Müller, who is a Venezuelan living abroad in Estonia for the past seven years, said that when he went to renew his legal residency ID, he was told by an officer to \"go back home since I'm a mañana person' (tomorrow person)\".\n\nMukhtar Barde of Illinois said that when \"white Americans\" tell him to go home, he reminds them that Native Americans were the first people in North America.\n\n\"You would be surprised how many of the same white men then start telling me that they are part Native Americans and belong here.\"\n\nMoroccan Abdel Tazi, who has been living in the UK for the past five years, said that when he took a driving test, the instructor began every sentence with \"in this country...\"\n\n\"At one point, I took a wrong turn and he started shouting at me 'I don't know where you're from, but this is wrong!! Can you not tell your right from your left in your country? You should probably go back'.\n\n\"Without saying anything, I stopped the car, got out and got a taxi home. I was upset for the rest of that day.\"\n\nLittlebird Arzabal says her family are indigenous and have been living in New Mexico since before it became a US state.\n\n\"The white kids would yell at us to go back to Mexico. They had someplace to go back to, we didn't,\" she says.\n\nA reader in Western Australia who did not want her name used said that as an Australian Aboriginal, she has been \"told from a very young age & too many times to count, 'go back to where you came from'.\"\n\n\"This poor effort by perpetrators to condemn me because of the colour of my skin should only be considered laughable, and I will not allow my mind, body, heart or soul to be infiltrated negatively.\"\n\nIf she gives any answer at all, it's sometimes \"ditto with a smile\".\n\nJacqueline, who is mixed race and was born in London in 1954, wrote that she was \"regularly told to go back home throughout my childhood and adolescence\".\n\nShe said that by the 1980s, people had mostly stopped saying it to her, until three months ago in a Manchester shopping centre when a man said \"go home\" as he passed her.\n\n\"It's been at least 35 years since anyone said this to me. I consider this to be one of the effects of the [Brexit] leave vote, which has legitimised overt racism in the UK.\"\n\nKim Read, a dual UK/US citizen, says she is frequently told to leave the country if she \"doesn't like America the way it is\".\n\n\"I vote and pay taxes but cannot have an opinion on healthcare or student debt because of my accent.\"\n\n\"I would wager that a significant portion of minorities have been told to 'go home' or 'go back to their country' at least once in their lives, said a reader who identifies as first-generation American of Korean descent living in New York City.\n\nPeople in New York City - one of the most diverse places in the world, \"viewed me as a non-traditional American or 'technically American' only because I was born in America,\" writes the reader.\n\n\"This always perplexed me since, except for a small percentage of Americans, most ended up here after someone from their family emigrated here and at one point their people were the minorities being told to 'go home'.\"\n\nTweeting from Kansas City, Victor Hwang wrote that he has been told to \"go back to where you came from\" his whole life.\n\nHe said it makes him \"sad\" that \"99% of Americans don't fully appreciate how special this nation is\".\n\n\"I'm the son of immigrants, a woman who escaped communism, a father who pulled himself up from nothing.\n\n\"I get this nation in a way that many people never will. I love America and everything it means for the world. And I belong here.\"\n\nNeera Tanden of the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress said that 2016 was the first time that people on Twitter began telling her \"to go back to India\" and sent her photos of poverty in India.\n\n\"I was born here. But they saw me as less American because I am brown. Now Trump parrots them. That is what we fight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neera Tanden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Michael Cornfield, an associate professor of political management at George Washington University who studies political rhetoric, says \"exclusionary\" words like these date back to before America's founding and have arisen at different points various immigrants groups arrived in waves.\n\nIn the early 20th Century, Italians, Irish, Poles and others were villainised by politicians amid concerns about economic stagnation.\n\nIn the 1910s, President Woodrow Wilson \"was an open segregationist that wanted the races kept separate,\" says Mr Cornfield.\n\nBut in the Vietnam era, as politicians became more vulnerable on a national level to charges of racism, the calls for expulsion were normally based on differences in political opinion, rather than race.\n\n\"America, love it or leave it,\" was a popular bumper sticker, and a phrase spoken by many lawmakers.\n\nThe slogan, he says, \"was a test of loyalty to the flag and to the nation\" but was typically \"not racial.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why we want Americans to talk more openly about race'\n\nHe has consistently rejected the accusation that he is racist and on Monday he accused the four congresswomen themselves of stoking racial division.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater he told reporters that he had no regrets about his comments and many people agreed with him.\n\n\"These are people that hate our country. They hate it, I think, with a passion. If you're not happy here, you can leave,\" he added.\n\n\"So all I'm saying is if they want to leave, they can leave.\"", "London rapper Unknown T, real name Daniel Lena, is due in court on Thursday after being charged with murder.\n\nIt's after 20-year-old Steven Narvaez-Jara was stabbed at a party in Islington, London, in the early hours of New Year's Day 2018.\n\nSteven was London's first stabbing victim last year.\n\nPolice confirmed to Radio 1 Newsbeat the 19-year-old rapper has also been charged with violent disorder.\n\nTwo other men have been charged in relation to the case.\n\nPolice say they were called by the London Ambulance Service in the early hours of Monday, 1 January 2018 to a flat near Old Street Station.\n\nThe dead man - from Belvedere on the border of Kent and London - was found with stab injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAnother 20-year-old man who was found at the scene with stab injuries was taken to hospital and recovered.\n\nAll three men charged will appear at magistrates' court on Thursday.\n\nUnknown T and two others have been charged in relation to the death of a 20-year-old at a party in January 2018\n\nThe drill rapper's best-known track is Homerton B, which came out last year, and he's recently teamed up with AJ Tracey for the single Leave Dat Trap.\n\nDrake brought Unknown T, who's from Homerton in east London, onstage during his opening London show at the O2 on 1 April.\n\nHe's also scheduled to perform at BBC 1Xtra's Ibiza 2019 event in August.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A \"deeply hidden and disturbing side to rural life\" has been laid bare by an 18-month inquiry into domestic abuse in the English countryside.\n\nDomestic abuse victims there suffer for longer, are less likely to report abuse and struggle to get support, it said.\n\nVictims are isolated, unsupported and unprotected in a \"rural hell\" that protects the perpetrators, the National Rural Crime Network report found.\n\nThe government has just set out new plans to tackle the issue.\n\nThe researchers carried out 67 in-depth interviews with people who had experienced domestic abuse, and a set of separate interviews with those working in services supporting victims.\n\nThe inquiry also included a review of academic literature and a survey of a separate group of 881 abuse survivors, recruited for the research with the help of support services.\n\nIt sought to discover how the experience of domestic abuse in rural areas and getting help for it is different from urban areas and why.\n\nNational Rural Crime Network chairwoman Julia Mulligan described domestic abuse as \"the hidden underbelly of rural communities\".\n\n\"We have uncovered a deeply hidden and disturbing side to rural life.\n\n\"Far from the peaceful idyll most people have in their mind when conjuring up the countryside, this report bares the souls and scars of domestic abuse victims, who all too often are lost to support, policing and criminal justice services,\" she said.\n\nRural victims were half as likely to report their abuse to others, and experienced abuse for 25% longer, the report found.\n\nAnd rural isolation is often used as a weapon by abusers, it said.\n\n\"Physical isolation is arguably the best weapon an abuser has and has a profound impact on making the victim feel quite literally captive,\" the report said.\n\nIt cited evidence that abusers move victims to rural settings to further isolate them or systematically use isolation to their advantage if they already live in an isolated place.\n\nThis not only helped abusers control their victims while in the relationship, but made it harder for victims to escape that abuse, it added.\n\nIt also argued that while strong community spirit is one of the joys of rural life, close-knit rural communities facilitate abuse as they can be equally powerful in keeping domestic abuse hidden.\n\nOne abuse victim told the inquiry: \"I found it so hard to find anyone in the village to talk to. They are all perfectly nice people on the surface, but after he shouted at me in the pub that night it was like everyone took a step back from me.\"\n\nThe report also found the policing response is inadequate, with feedback from victims showing the response in rural areas is not as good as that in urban areas.\n\nSome of this is due to a lack of female police officers being available in rural areas, as well as fewer officers with appropriate domestic abuse training.\n\nAnother victim said they had never considered calling the police, adding: \"You don't really have a choice - the police are at least an hour away and if it happens on a Friday or a Saturday night, which it always did, they are busy dealing with other things.\"\n\nIt also found that the reduced availability of public services in rural areas also limited escape routes for victims.\n\nSupport services are scarce - less available, less visible and less effective in supporting victims, even if people do seek help, it said.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was committed to tackling the horrendous crime of domestic abuse.\n\n\"Whether it takes place in our rural communities or cities, we are supporting chief constables and police and crime commissioners so they can deploy resources as they best see fit to tackle crime, including domestic abuse.\n\n\"The new Domestic Abuse Commissioner will play an important role in monitoring the provision of services for victims of domestic abuse, including those in rural communities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Matheson said the evidence was strong for the decriminalisation of drugs\n\nA new drugs tsar has been appointed by the Scottish government to advise on policies to tackle the rising number of drugs deaths.\n\nProf Catriona Matheson's appointment comes ahead of the publication of new figures, which are expected to show drug deaths topped 1,000 last year.\n\nShe will chair a new taskforce, announced by ministers in March, to examine Scotland's drugs laws.\n\nDrug legislation is currently reserved to Westminster.\n\nThe taskforce will examine the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act and consider if elements of it could be devolved to allow medically-supervised drug consumption rooms - so-called \"fix rooms\".\n\nThe rooms would allow addicts to administer their own illegal drugs under medical supervision to curb street injecting.\n\nHowever, the UK Home Office has refused Scottish government moves to relax the current regulations and allow the consumption rooms to be created.\n\nThere were 934 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2017, up 66 (8%) on the previous year, and more than double the UK average.\n\nThe toll was the highest level since current records began in 1996 and more than double the 445 deaths in 2007.\n\nProf Matheson, of the University of Stirling, is a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction and convener of the Drugs Research Network Scotland.\n\nShe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme a \"non-judgemental approach\" was needed to tackle drug misuse and there was strong evidence for decriminalisation.\n\nShe said: \"Although previous drug strategies were well-meaning, sometimes they have been based on a criminal justice-type basis.\n\n\"What is very welcome is that now we have a new strategy based around public health that takes a public health and human rights approach and that is what we need.\"\n\nShe added: \"Decriminalisation, the evidence is strong for that across the world. There is a number of countries that have gone down that route and decriminalisation is really about not putting this group of marginalised drug users into prison and filling our prisons up with people who have problem drug-use because that further marginalises them and makes their recovery all the more difficult.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Festival-goers were forced to evacuate (video provided by Seb Hertz @SHH360)\n\nA music festival in Croatia has been evacuated because of a forest fire.\n\nHundreds of people were forced to leave the Fresh Island music festival on Zrce Beach on Monday night, at the beginning of the three-day hip-hop event.\n\nThe fire forced the closure of the road to the closest town, Novalja, preventing many people from returning to their hotels.\n\n\"Thankfully police are escorting buses through to collect any remaining festival-goers,\" the organisers said.\n\nRappers Stefflon Don and Yxng Bane were among the acts due to perform, with Tyga headlining.\n\nIt is unclear whether the rest of the festival will be cancelled. In a statement, organisers said they were \"doing everything we can to go ahead as planned to continue the parties\".\n\nBritish rapper NOT3S, who was supposed to perform on Monday night, tweeted from backstage:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Not3s This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFootage posted by fans on social media showed flames billowing behind the festival site as they were evacuated.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter on Tuesday morning, festival organisers said: \"The safety of fans is incredibly important to us and we worked with the emergency services to contain the fire over the following hours, transporting festival-goers off site when possible and safe.\"\n\nThey added that emergency services are still trying to contain the fire, \"so we can't say just yet how this will affect today's beach performances\".", "Jacquie (far right) and her sisters Kayleigh and Emma\n\nA woman from Fife has told how her father, mother, two sisters and brother all died because of drugs.\n\nJacquie said losing her parents and siblings \"was like a fire ripping through my family\".\n\nShe was speaking ahead of new figures showing that the number of people who died of drugs in Scotland in 2018 reached more than 1,187, the highest since records began.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"It is scary how quick it can take a grip and devastate a family.\n\n\"I feel my life has been ruined.\n\n\"People could say that has been my fault, I understand that with the drug side. I can't help the fact that I have lost all my family to the drugs. And it is hard.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacquie: \"We are still a family, we are not animals, monsters, or whatever people would call a family of heroin users.\"\n\nJacquie, who began taking heroin at the age of 17 and is now trying to kick the habit, said she could not remember a time when the family wasn't affected by drugs.\n\nShe is the last remaining member of her immediate family - who all lived and died in the Fife town of Glenrothes.\n\nThe first family death came in 2005, when Jacquie's father Thomas died at a property in Glenrothes. He was 40 and his death was attributed to \"adverse effects of heroin\".\n\nTwo years later, in 2007, the first of Jacquie's sisters, Kayleigh, died of a morphine overdose at the age of 21.\n\nTheir mother Margaret, who was hooked on painkillers and had dabbled with heroin, died in 2010, due to \"adverse effects of opiates\". She was 44.\n\nIn May 2018, after a suicide attempt, Jacquie's 37-year-old brother Colin was found dead at a house in Glenrothes as a result of \"multi-drug intoxication\".\n\nAnd then five months later, second sister Emma died aged 29 after taking a cocktail of methadone and diazepam.\n\nJacquie, whom BBC Scotland is not fully naming, continued: \"I would like to think in my head that they would've been able to kick the habit.\n\n\"But in reality, no. My dad was only on it four years and he committed suicide with heroin. My mum was just the same - she started with Tramadol and it led to her taking lines here and there.\"\n\nJacquie's mother Margaret [left], who died in 2010, with Jacquie's sister Kayleigh, who died in 2007\n\nJacquie said her own battle with addiction started in high school where dabbling with alcohol and cannabis escalated to harder drugs.\n\nShe began taking heroin at the age of 17, when she was receiving NHS treatment for alcohol abuse, and her longest period of sobriety was seven years in her mid-20s.\n\n\"I took a mixture of everything really,\" she said.\n\n\"I would take diazepam, any downer really, any sleeping tablets or suppressant.\n\n\"I would have sleeping tablets from the doctor like Zopiclone. It would help with the buzz, to block out everything that was going on in life. With losing all my family, I couldn't cope.\"\n\nJacquie's brother Colin, 37, died in Glenrothes last year as a result of “multi-drug intoxication”.\n\nJacquie told BBC Scotland how she has struggled to cope after losing her brother and sister in quick succession last year.\n\n\"My brother died in May and I'd only just been speaking to him again for five weeks,\" she explained.\n\n\"We'd agreed that me, him and Emma would all go to bereavement counselling to work through everything we'd lost.\n\n\"We would do it, the three of us, so that it would help us bond that brother-and-sister relationship that I desperately wanted and obviously they did as well.\n\n\"I got the phone call from Emma at three in the morning. The police had chapped her up to say that Colin had passed away. She was distraught, devastated, screaming down the phone.\n\n\"I just spent that day with Emma. She was an absolute mess. Then six months down the line, Emma was gone.\n\n\"I've never been right since. I've never been right from any of them but Emma was the worst by far.\"\n\nJacquie's father Thomas who died in 2005, aged 40, due to the \"adverse effects of heroin\"\n\nJacquie said drug abuse and its affect on different generations of families largely remains a taboo subject but she wanted to speak out to show people what it is like to live with the impact of the problem.\n\nShe said: \"Even if I can help one more family, then I have done good.\n\n\"I just want people to see that we are still a family. We are not animals, monsters or whatever people would call a family of heroin users.\"\n\nOn her own addiction problems, the 34-year-old, who has been on methadone for 15 years, said she was \"100% ready to be clean and stay that way\" but acknowledged the path ahead for her was difficult.\n\nJacquie's other sister, Emma, who died from a drugs overdose last year\n\nIf you've been affected by issues explored in this article, BBC Action Line has links to helpful resources including information about drugs , emotional distress and bereavement.", "Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and has imposed ever tightening sanctions on the country in a move designed to force Tehran to curtail their nuclear ambitions.\n\nThe sanctions have led to increased prices and the local currency has fallen significantly. Iranians are being dragged into poverty and the poorest are feeling the effects.\n\nAs tensions rise between Iran, the United States and its allies, the BBC has been given rare access to Iran.\n\nBBC Middle East correspondent Martin Patience, has been in Tehran looking at the impact of sanctions. While in the country, filming access was controlled - as with all foreign media the team was accompanied by a government representative at all times.", "A controversial scene in Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why in which a teenage girl kills herself has been removed, two years after it first appeared.\n\nNetflix said the decision had been made \"on the advice of medical experts\".\n\nThe first series of the show featured a graphic depiction of Hannah (Katherine Langford) taking her own life.\n\nThe version now hosted on the streaming site omits this three-minute scene and goes directly to a later scene in which her body is discovered.\n\nSamaritans said it \"welcomed\" Netflix's decision and that it had been working with the streaming service's UK team \"to provide advice on the safe portrayal of suicide\".\n\n\"While covering difficult topics in drama can help to increase understanding and encourage people to seek help, it's important this is done in a responsible way,\" said Lorna Fraser from the charity's media advisory service.\n\nNetflix said it had been \"mindful about the ongoing debate around the show\", the third season of which premieres later this year.\n\nDr Christine Moutier, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is cited as one of the experts consulted.\n\nWhen 13 Reasons Why launched in 2017, it was praised by some for promoting awareness of such issues as rape, bullying and self-harm.\n\nBut concerns were also raised that it glamorised suicide and went into too much detail about how the Hannah character killed herself.\n\nWriting on Twitter, producer Brian Yorkey said the show had originally portrayed the \"ugly, painful reality of suicide in such graphic detail [to] make sure no one would ever wish to emulate it\".\n\nYet he said concerns voiced by Dr Moutier and others had prompted a rethink.\n\nProducer Brian Yorkey said the show wanted to \"tell the truth\" about suicide\n\n\"No one scene is more important than the life of the show, and its message that we must take better care of each other,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe this edit will help the show do the most good for the most people while mitigating any risk for especially vulnerable young viewers.\"\n\nBased on the 2007 novel by Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why tells of a high school student who finds out why his friend killed herself through a box of cassette tapes she recorded before her death.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC correspondent Daniel Sandford on the unseen footage of the London Bridge attacks\n\nThe three London Bridge attackers, who killed eight people in 2017, were lawfully killed by police, an inquest has found.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing people around Borough Market.\n\nThey were shot dead by firearms officers less than 10 minutes after the attack began.\n\nJurors concluded the attackers \"ignored clear warning shouts\" from the police.\n\nChief coroner Mark Lucraft QC had directed them that the only \"safe\" conclusion was that the three men were lawfully killed.\n\nHe told the court no-one during the inquest had criticised the officers involved and it was agreed using anything other than \"lethal force\" would not have been appropriate.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick welcomed the verdict and paid tribute to the \"tremendous courage and professionalism\" shown by armed officers on the night of the attack.\n\n\"Faced with an appalling and confused scene, they acted calmly, quickly, decisively, and in accordance with their training,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no greater responsibility for an officer than having to make the split-second decision whether or not to use lethal force.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe police commissioner said both armed and unarmed police officers should take \"great pride\" in having saved lives on the night of the attack.\n\n\"These dreadful events showed us the very worst of humanity, but it also showed us the very best as well,\" she said.\n\nDuring the inquest, accounts of \"tremendous bravery and compassion\" by both the public and emergency services stood out \"head and shoulders above all else\", she added.\n\nPreviously unseen footage released on Tuesday showed many people approach the attackers, including two bakers who threw crates and a broom at the knifemen.\n\nCity of London Police Commander Karen Baxter paid tribute to three armed officers from her force.\n\n\"They put themselves in the way of danger to protect and preserve life: a principle at the very core of policing,\" she said.\n\nThe response to the attack showed \"how officers from all forces have the courage and dedication necessary to defeat the hatred and fear that terrorists seek to sow in our community\", she added.\n\nDowning Street also praised the emergency services and members of the public who \"showed unstinting courage in the face of such danger and terror\".\n\nMany more people could have suffered were it not for the \"professionalism, speed and bravery of those who responded and defended themselves and others\", the prime minister's official spokesperson said\n\n\"Our police and security services work tirelessly every day to keep us safe and when they are called upon in the most difficult of moments their skill and fortitude must be commended,\" they added.\n\nDuring the inquest, jurors visited Stoney Street, where Butt, Redouane and Zaghba died, and heard accounts of their final moments.\n\nPC Bartek Tchorzewski, 36, one of the unarmed officers who tracked the attackers through Borough Market, said: \"We were just thinking about stopping them.\"\n\nBefore arriving at the scene of the attack, he said he had tried to anticipate what he may encounter, \"but to be honest nothing can prepare you for that\".\n\nOne armed officer who attended the scene, identified only as BX46, told jurors he shouted words to the effect of \"armed police, stand still, drop the knife\".\n\nHe said he thought he was in immediate danger as Butt came towards him with a knife.\n\n\"I believe his intention was to use the knife and stab me, kill me and get hold of my weapons,\" he said.\n\nHe said he then became aware of a belt around Butt's torso, which appeared to be a suicide vest.\n\n\"Now he was an even bigger threat, even with (a distance of) one or two metres, a detonation would be fatal to colleagues, members of the public, anyone in the location,\" he told the court.\n\n\"So I aimed my rifle towards the male and I was moving back quickly and I pulled the trigger.\"\n\nHis colleague BX44 also shot at Butt, but had to turn his attention to Redouane, who was moving towards another officer.\n\nBX44 said: \"I carried on firing until I had to deal with the third threat of Youssef Zaghba who was on top of me.\"\n\nHe said he was backing away from Zaghba when he fell backwards, and continued to fire from the floor through his legs up to the attackers' chest.\n\n\"I thought he was about to kill me,\" he added.\n\nPC Iian Rae, who went to handcuff Redouane as he moved on the ground, said: \"His arms and legs were moving and I knew he had an IED (improvised explosive device) strapped to him.\n\n\"I did not know they were fake. I had to make a split-second decision - if I don't go and do something there is going to be a lot more lives lost.\n\n\"I had to handcuff him and stop him from detonating that device, if they were real or not.\"\n\nBut firearms officers shouted at him to get away and he ran to safety.\n\nThey then used \"lethal force\" to avert the danger that the terrorists would detonate explosive devices, jurors heard.\n\nAn earlier inquest concluded the victims Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sebastien Belanger, 36, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39, were unlawfully killed.", "Fishermen are continuing to illegally discard dead fish back into the sea, according to a House of Lords inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry looked at the impact of the ban on fishing discards six months after new rules took effect.\n\nThe committee's report said the new regulations have had \"little impact\", but industry leaders said this was the wrong conclusion.\n\nFishing discards were prohibited after a campaign by the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.\n\nThe EU regulations were designed to stop fishermen throwing unwanted fish back into the sea dead, instead obliging skippers to land them.\n\nBut the inquiry report claimed little had changed since the ban came into force, with no indications of boats being forced to stop fishing or undersized fish being landed.\n\nThis suggests illegal discarding is taking place, the report concludes.\n\nLord Teverson, chairman of the House of Lords EU energy and environment sub-committee, said: \"Unless the discard ban is properly implemented and enforced the UK's fishing industry could in the future find itself with nothing left to fish.\"\n\nBertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, said: \"The simple truth about the landings obligation is that it is a set of totally contradictory rules imposed by the EU which utterly fails to align fishing opportunity with the distribution of stocks.\n\n\"This has been pointed out by the industry to the European Commission and the UK and Scottish governments ad nauseam and they understand the predicament of fishermen.\n\n\"It will be up to those governments post-Brexit to devise a system of practicable regulations that achieve the objective of ending discards without tying the industry up in knots and the fishing fleet at the quayside.\"\n\nRiver Cottage chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall began his campaign after making the TV show Hugh's Fish Fight in 2011.\n\nHe said the practice was a \"huge derogation of duty to protect our vulnerable oceans and sustainably manage our fisheries\".", "For the first time, the BBC can show footage of the moment unarmed officers and members of the public came face to face with the three London Bridge attackers.\n\nThe footage was filmed by Paul Clarke, a member of the public who was at the scene of the attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane, and Youssef Zaghba ploughed into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing people at Borough Market. They killed eight people before they were shot dead by firearms officers.\n\nThis video was shown at both the inquest into the victims' deaths, and the inquest into the attackers' deaths which concluded that the three attackers were lawfully killed by the police.", "The next prime minister should lower the salary threshold for foreign workers in the UK from £30,000 to £20,000, a group of business and education bodies has said.\n\nThey say that such a move would help to avoid \"acute\" skills shortages.\n\nCurrently any non-EU citizen working in the UK must earn at least £30,000, but under current proposals this will be extended to EU citizens after Brexit.\n\nThe Home Office said it was still consulting on the plans.\n\nThe extension of the threshold was proposed in last year's Immigration White Paper, which set out the government's vision for a post-Brexit immigration system.\n\nHowever, the coalition - including the British Retail Consortium, business advocacy group London First, Universities UK, and UK Hospitality among others - warned that more than 60% of all jobs in the UK were currently beneath the £30,000 cut-off.\n\n\"It is vital that the government does all it can to keep the country at full strength at a time of great uncertainty. The thousands of businesses we represent are clear that without a bold move now on immigration reform, the skills shortages many companies face risk becoming even more acute,\" said Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive at London First.\n\nThe coalition also called for more generous temporary and post-study work visas, following curbs in recent years to lower immigration.\n\n\"Without the ability to access international talent, many of our world-class sectors are at significant risk,\" they said in a letter to both prime ministerial candidates.\n\n\"As the UK prepares to leave the EU in the near future, it is imperative that the government puts in place measures that will avoid employers facing a cliff-edge in recruitment, and works towards building a successful economy that is open and attractive.\"\n\nA government target of net migration under 100,000 a year has never been met`\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - considered the underdog in the race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party - has said he would review the £30,000 salary threshold, while prioritising skilled workers.\n\nThe frontrunner to take over from Theresa May, Boris Johnson, has called for a new Australian-style points-based system.\n\nThis would consider factors such as whether an immigrant has a firm job offer and their ability to speak English.\n\nBoth men also oppose the government's target of bringing net migration down to under 100,000 people a year, which has never been met.\n\nAccording to the Migration Observatory, a think tank, the government is already issuing waivers to allow essential workers to bypass the £30,000 cut-off.\n\nRecent figures gleaned from freedom of information requests show that, despite Home Office rules, 90% of nurses, half of all medical radiographers, 10% of paramedics and a third of secondary schoolteachers earn below the minimum.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Our new skills-based immigration system is designed to attract the talented workers we need for the economy to continue to prosper, while also delivering on the referendum result following the end of free movement.\n\n\"We know there are a range of views about salary thresholds, and the home secretary has asked independent experts to advise on this issue before the proposals are finalised next year.\n\n\"The new system will reduce the burden on businesses by streamlining and simplifying our sponsorship system and we will create a new temporary work route to allow UK companies access to the employees they need to thrive.\"\n• None Rise in net migration from outside EU", "A legal action taken by MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis is behind the tool\n\nScammers are being targeted by a new tool for UK Facebook users that allows the reporting of fake adverts.\n\nThe feature came about after Martin Lewis, founder of the MoneySavingExpert website, sued over his name and photo being used on fake Facebook adverts.\n\nIn return for dropping the legal action, Facebook agreed to donate £3m to set up an anti-scam programme.\n\nThat money has been handed over to Citizens Advice to build a new service to help victims of online fraudsters.\n\nThe charity has set up a telephone helpline for any type of online scam - not just ones involving fake ads. Face-to-face consultations will even be offered to serious cases - where someone falls into debt or mortgage arrears, for example.\n\nCitizens Advice says it expects to help 20,000 people in the first year of the new service, and warned anyone can be scammed.\n\nThere is no typical profile of victims, the charity said, and scams are becoming more and more sophisticated. Some common red flags include:\n\nInside Facebook, a specially-trained team has been set up to investigate adverts reported through the new tool.\n\nFrom Tuesday, Facebook users in the UK should be able to click the three dots in the top corner of every advert to see more options. On top of the usual ones, there will now be the option to \"send a detailed scam report\" after choosing to \"report ad\" and selecting \"misleading or scam ad\" as the reason.\n\n\"Scam ads are an industry-wide problem caused by criminals and have no place on Facebook,\" said the company's vice-president for Northern Europe, Steve Hatch.\n\nA few years after her husband of 30 years died, Amanda - not her real name - joined an online dating site at the urging of a friend.\n\nAfter a while, she started exchanging emails with someone who seemed interesting. A few weeks later, \"he asked if I could send him some money\", she said.\n\n\"He had not been paid and needed to travel back home from Ireland. I never thought much of it and transferred him the money.\"\n\nThe pair continued to build up \"a nice friendship over the months\" - and he asked for some money on a few other occasions.\n\nBut something did not feel right - and Amanda decided not to message him any more.\n\nA few weeks later she got a new message from the dating site – with the same picture, but a different name and location.\n\n\"That's when I realised that the person I had been speaking to was probably not the one on the picture,\" Amanda said.\n\nOver the course of a few months, she had transferred around £2,500 to whoever was really on the other end of those emails.\n\n\"I think that maybe some of the men join the site knowing that there will be women like me who genuinely want a friendship and use that and take advantage of our loss,\" she said.\n\nThe tool - and the dedicated team to examine the reports - are unique to the UK as a result of the lawsuit taken by Mr Lewis.\n\nThe journalist and TV presenter took the legal action against Facebook after a series of ads ran with his face and name, claiming he backed questionable investment schemes.\n\nHis website recommends what it believes are the best-value financial products for different purposes. Mr Lewis claimed the fake adverts on Facebook damaged his reputation.\n\nHis defamation case, he said, was \"bizarrely the only law I could find to try to make big tech firms understand the damage their negligent behaviour has caused\".\n\nThe faked ads implied Mr Lewis backed some of the schemes being advertised\n\n\"Millions of people know a scam when they see it, and millions of others don't. So now, I'd ask all who recognise them to use the new Facebook reporting tool, to help protect those who don't,\" he said.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been scammed, Citizens Advice recommends you:", "The man was fatally injured at Asda in the Longside Road area of Peterhead\n\nA man has died after an industrial accident at a supermarket in Peterhead.\n\nEmergency services were called to Asda in the Aberdeenshire town's Longside Road area shortly before 12:30.\n\nPolice Scotland later said that a 58-year-old man had died, despite the \"best efforts\" of those at the scene.\n\nDet Insp Sam Buchan said: \"My thoughts are with this man's family at this very sad time. Inquiries are at a very early stage.\"\n\nAsda said in a statement: \"We can confirm that our Peterhead store is currently closed due to a tragic incident on site this afternoon.\n\n\"We are working with the relevant authorities to support their investigation and our deepest condolences are with the family of the man involved.\n\n\"We're working to support our colleagues on site and are grateful to our customers for their understanding.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it was alerted to the accident at 12:26 and two ambulances were dispatched to the scene.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it was aware of the incident and was liaising with Police Scotland.", "Rescuers are searching debris to find those trapped inside the building in Dongri\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and many remain trapped after a four-storey building collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai, officials say.\n\nThe cause of the collapse in the Dongri area of southern Mumbai is not clear.\n\nReports say the building was up to 100 years old. Recent monsoon flooding may also have been a factor.\n\nIt's estimated disasters such as this kill about 2,000 people a year in India. Poor construction standards and dilapidated buildings are often blamed.\n\nRescue teams from the fire department and the national disaster response force are looking for those who remain trapped by the debris.\n\nSome 15 families are believed to have been living in the building, police said. Ten people have been declared dead, including three children. Eight others have been admitted to hospital.\n\nLocal news reports showed images of people forming a human chain to remove debris with their bare hands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We heard a loud noise. Everybody shouted, 'building is falling, building is falling'. I ran. It felt like a big earthquake,\" a witness to the collapse told the NDTV news channel.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his condolences to the families of the dead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by PMO India This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDozens of buildings have collapsed in Mumbai and other parts of India in recent years, often during the monsoon season between June and September.\n\nThe roads leading to Tandel street, where the Kesarbai building stood, are buzzing with sirens from ambulances and fire trucks.\n\nPolice have barricaded much of the way, allowing only rescuers and hospital staff to pass through. It's a crowded neighbourhood that is full of tiny lanes. Tandel street itself is so narrow that only one person can walk through it comfortably at a time.\n\nSo, locals have formed a human chain that stretches through the narrow lane and into the wider main street to pass through any materials necessary for the rescue. Ambulances and fire trucks have been forced to park some distance away as the lane is too narrow for them to enter. The monsoon rains, which have brought Mumbai to a standstill in recent weeks, have fortunately let up.\n\nCries of fear and concerned voices can be heard all around as people await news of their friends or relatives. Local residents are watching the rescue from their balconies; they appear both worried about their neighbours and scared for themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officials estimate around 2,000 people in India die each year when buildings collapse\n\nIn August 2017, three different buildings collapsed in Mumbai.\n\nThe city witnessed one of its worst accidents in 2013 when a building still under construction collapsed in the Thane neighbourhood, killing more than 70 people.", "Ryanair has said it will be forced to cut the number of summer flights it operates next year blaming further expected delays before the Boeing 737 Max is allowed to fly again.\n\nThe airline said it could be as late as December before regulators clear the aircraft to return to the skies after two fatal crashes.\n\nIt was awaiting delivery of 58 planes before next summer but it now expects to receive just over half of those.\n\nIt could also close bases as a result.\n\nThe airline said it was in talks with airports about which of its hubs could suffer cuts.\n\n\"We are starting a series of discussions with our airports to determine which of Ryanair's underperforming or loss making bases should suffer these short term cuts and/or closures from November 2019,\" the airline's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, said in a statement.\n\nRyanair added that it would talk to its staff and unions about the planned closures, which it said were \"directly caused\" by the delays delivering the 737 Max.\n\nThe airline is now expecting to carry 157 million passengers in the year to March 2021, five million fewer than it had been planning for.\n\nThe BBC has seen a letter which Ryanair sent to pilots last week.\n\nIt says the \"economic backdrop for European short haul airlines continues to be very challenging.\"\n\nAs a result of the grounding of the 737 Max the airline says it has a surplus of around 300 pilots which \"may get worse with any knock-on effect of Max delivery delays\".\n\nIt's looking increasingly unlikely that the 737 Max will be flying again before late autumn - and quite possibly not before next year. So should we be surprised?\n\nIn a word, no. The stakes are too high, and this is one decision the regulators simply can't afford to get wrong.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration has already faced heavy criticism for allowing the aircraft into service in its original form, with flight control software that has been implicated in two separate accidents and the loss of 346 lives.\n\nA repeat would be simply unthinkable - and for the sake of its own reputation the FAA not only needs to be thorough but to be seen to be thorough.\n\nSo its analysis appears to have gone well beyond the fresh software developed to solve the original problem - and is now addressing a range of other potential issues.\n\nBoeing does desperately want to get the 737 Max flying again and resume deliveries to customers - it's running out of parking space at its Renton factory for a start. Airlines also need the new plane.\n\nBut the message from the FAA has been consistent: it will lift the ban on flying \"when we deem it is safe to do so\".\n\nAirline analyst Chris Tarry told the BBC that the move to cut routes was \"entirely predictable\" after the 737 Max was grounded.\n\nHe said the plane was \"unlikely, even with a following wind, to return to the skies before the end of the year\".\n\nThere's a finite number of aircraft that Ryanair can use, he said, explaining that the airline would use those planes on the most profitable routes.\n\nAnother airline expert, John Strickland, said the grounding was likely to have an effect on the airline's growth plans. At present Ryanair has around 455 planes but it plans to expand its fleet to roughly 600 by 2025.\n\n\"A lot of it is about limiting growth rather than cutting back,\" he said.\n\n\"In the summer they would have expected to grow strongly, having additional bases and additional routes.\"\n\nNo Max planes have flown since March after issues with its software were linked to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people.\n\nRyanair has a total of 135 of the controversial Boeing models on order, the first five of which are due for delivery this autumn.\n\nIt has become the latest airline to cancel flights as a result of the aircraft's grounding.\n\nOn Sunday, American Airlines said it was extending for a fourth time cancellations of about 115 daily flights. The cancellations will now continue into early November due to the continued grounding of the 737 Max.\n\nHowever, the firm added: \"American Airlines remains confident that impending software updates to the Boeing 737 Max, along with the new training elements Boeing is developing in coordination with our union partners, will lead to recertification of the aircraft this year.\"\n\nBut airlines are still putting in orders for the aircraft. At the Paris airshow last month, International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways, announced plans to buy 200 Max planes at a discount, referring to them as \"B737 aircraft\".\n\nBoeing has yet to convince regulators that updates to its software are enough to ensure the Max's safety.\n\nAnd last month the US Federal Aviation Administration, which must reapprove the jets for flight, uncovered a new flaw that Boeing estimates will take until at least September to fix.", "Labour is pledging to end in-work poverty within its first five years in office if it wins the next election.\n\nIn a speech in London, John McDonnell promised to tackle the issue with a \"structurally different economy\", \"public services free at the point of use\" and a \"strong social safety net\".\n\nThis includes a \"real living wage\" and stopping the Universal Credit roll-out.\n\nBut the Conservatives said the policies would \"harm the people [Labour] claim they want to help the most\".\n\nPoverty among people who are working has risen since the mid-1990s.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the proportion has gone up from 13% in 1994-95 to 18% in 2017, meaning about eight million people living in working households are in relative poverty.\n\nA household is defined as being in relative poverty when its income is less than 60% of the average - less than £17,040 a year, on the most recent figures.\n\nThe IFS research said the rise had been partly driven by higher housing costs and lower earnings growth.\n\nSpeaking at the Resolution Foundation, the shadow chancellor said his goal was to eradicate poverty, since \"nothing less should be the aim of a socialist government\".\n\nWhile the next Labour government would re-distribute income between the richest and poorest, he said this would only \"paper over the cracks\" unless there were major changes in the way the economy worked to address inequalities in opportunities and productivity.\n\nHe listed a number of policies - some which have been announced before - that he says will see a Labour government achieve their goal within a Parliamentary term of five years.\n\n\"Behind the concept of social mobility is the belief that poverty is OK as long as some people are given the opportunity to climb out of it, leaving the others behind,\" he said.\n\n\"I reject that completely, and want to see a society with higher living standards for everyone as well as one in which nobody lacks the means to survive or has to choose between life's essentials.\"\n\nPledging to end the \"modern-day scourge\" of in-work poverty, he added. \"As chancellor in the next Labour government, I want you to judge me by how much we reduce poverty... how much we create a more equal society... by how much people's lives change for the better.\"\n\nWhile immediately ending the most \"damaging\" aspects of Universal Credit, he said Labour would not seek to replicate the system of tax credits, designed to top up the incomes of the lowest-paid, introduced by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor.\n\nInstead, a future government would \"take a step back\" and looking at designing a welfare system that helped people \"find work and progress in work\".\n\nThe main way poverty is assessed is by using a relative measure - \"relative poverty\".\n\nIt's calculated by taking the median income in the country - that's the midpoint where half of the overall population have income more than that amount and half have less. It was £507 a week in 2017-18, or £437 after housing costs.\n\nThen you take 60% of this middle amount and anyone who has less income than this is considered to be living in relative poverty.\n\nIn 1998-99, 34% of children in the UK were living in relative-poverty households. Today, this proportion is 30%, which represents about 4.1 million children.\n\nStatistics on income after housing costs and benefits received are more widely used as this gives a better idea of how much disposable income someone might have.\n\nBut, some say relative poverty is flawed as a measure because the poverty line moves when average income changes. In times of recession, for example, when lots of people's wages decrease, relative poverty rates improve.\n\nCampaigners say the benefit freeze in place for most of the past decade has been the biggest factor in exacerbating poverty levels among working families with children.\n\nRather than rising each year in line with inflation, to reflect the rising cost of living, most working-age benefits and tax credits have been frozen in value each year.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation says this has pushed 200,000 people into poverty since 2016 and a further 200,000 could follow by 2020.\n\nClaire Ainsley, the organisation's executive director, said ending in-work poverty should be the government's \"number one priority after Brexit\".\n\n\"In-work poverty is the problem of our times as millions have been swept into poverty through low wages, low hours and rising costs,\" she said.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"essential\" that the freeze is lifted next year although she had acknowledged it will be up to the next prime minister.\n\nBut Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis dismissed Labour's wider pledge, saying its plans for the economy \"would lead to worse living standards\".\n\nHe added: \"Just this week we have seen wages rise by their fastest in 11 years, giving people more money in their pockets, and record numbers of people getting the security of a wage.\n\n\"Thanks to (the Conservatives') balanced approach, we've also cut taxes for 32 million people, taking millions of the lowest paid out of paying income tax altogether, and taken action to reduce the cost of living.\"", "The Ministry of Justice acted \"unlawfully\" in allowing the Sex Offender Treatment Programme to continue for five years - despite initial research which suggested it wasn't working, a government analyst has said.\n\nKathryn Hopkins said she presented research in 2012 which showed the SOTP made sex offenders more harmful, but the programme wasn't halted until 2017.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News after bringing legal action in an employment tribunal, she estimated around 180 more crimes will be committed by sex offenders who were treated during the five years - compared with those who weren't.\n\nBut the MoJ said Ms Hopkins' research was \"flawed\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Ending the programmes with no proper evidence and no alternative would have meant letting sex offenders out of prison without treatment - a risk that no responsible Government could take. We stopped the programmes as soon as that evidence existed.\"\n\nThe department commissioned Ms Hopkins, who was a senior researcher in its analytics unit, to study the effects of the SOTP, which had been used in various formats since 1991.\n\nThe scheme involved group sessions and cognitive behavioural therapy and was designed to challenge the behaviour of male sex offenders with psychological techniques to change their thinking.\n\nMs Hopkins said her initial results suggested prisoners who took part in the scheme were more likely to reoffend than those who did not.\n\nWhen the SOTP was eventually abandoned in 2017, the MoJ published a research report acknowledging that it was not working.\n\n\"The final report confirmed what the claimant [Ms Hopkins] had been saying all along, i.e. that there was a higher rate of reoffending by prisoners who had undertaken the SOTP,\" Employment Tribunal Judge Tamara Lewis declared.\n\n\"We can understand the claimant's frustration that it took five years to publish a report on such an important matter of public policy,\" she said.\n\nMs Hopkins said the MoJ had \"allowed people to continue attending the course\" while knowing \"it could be harmful\".\n\nShe indicated that victims and convicted perpetrators of sex attacks, who were told to complete SOTP, could sue the government if the crimes would otherwise not have taken place.\n\nThe MoJ explained the five-year gap between the original findings and the final report by saying that it had to check and revise the research that had been conducted.\n\n\"Both internal and external experts who reviewed Ms Hopkins' research judged that it was not of sufficient quality and that the methodology needed to be changed to remove the risk of bias and inaccurate results,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nKathryn Hopkins said the Ministry of Justice waited years before it decided to scrap the treatment.\n\nAfter the study confirmed the findings, the MoJ said it replaced the SOTP with two new programmes, Horizon and Kaizen.\n\nMs Hopkins suggested that, over an eight-year follow-up period, at least 178 more sexual offences would be committed by prisoners who'd been treated between 2012 and 2017 than by those who were not.\n\nThe figure is likely to be an under-estimate, she said, because it did not take account of the increasing number of sex offenders beginning the SOTP in those five years compared with earlier years.\n\nAccording to MoJ statistics, 2,861 prisoners started the scheme.\n\nThe total also did not include sex offences that will not come to the attention of police, breaches of court orders and non-sexual offending.\n\nThe Employment Tribunal panel found that Ms Hopkins, who now works for HMRC, had been unfairly marked down in a performance review in 2014 because she'd raised concerns about the SOTP.\n\nShe was given a 'must improve' rating which Judge Lewis said \"caused her enormous distress\" and prompted her to start a grievance procedure.\n\nThe judge said: \"It appears to us to be disproportionate and therefore very surprising that the claimant was marked 'must improve'.\"\n\nHowever, the claim failed on a technicality because Ms Hopkins had waited too long to bring proceedings.\n\nShe said it was important to bring the case to ensure that other government research isn't \"sidelined\" or \"covered-up\", as she had alleged hers was.\n\nShe said: \"It questions the integrity of those analysts' work if they're not supported to be independent and there's a possibility that government researchers will be perceived as not being independent from now on,\" she said.\n\nThe MoJ said: \"Numerous internal and external experts who reviewed Ms Hopkins' research judged that it was not of sufficient quality and that the methodology needed to be changed.\"\n\nIt added the government stopped the programmes as soon as \"proper evidence\" existed.", "Joanne Edwards captured this image of the Moon over Flintshire\n\nSkywatchers across the UK have witnessed a partial lunar eclipse, 50 years to the day since the US mission to put men on the Moon lifted off.\n\nThe surface of Earth's satellite appeared red or dark grey at the height of the eclipse at about 22:30 BST.\n\nLunar eclipses occur when the Earth crosses between the Sun and Moon - casting a shadow on the lunar surface.\n\nThe Apollo 11 mission carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on 16 July 1969.\n\nFour days later Armstrong became the first man to step on to the Moon's surface.\n\nDuring a partial eclipse, some - but not all - of the Moon passes through the darkest area of shadow behind the Earth, the central region called the umbra.\n\nThe Moon was clearly visible over Blackheath in south east London\n\nThe partial eclipse was seen from Avon beach in Mudeford, Dorset\n\nThe Moon appeared red above London as the Earth came between it and the Sun\n\nMostly clear skies also allowed the partial lunar eclipse to be seen from Stoodley Pike in West Yorkshire\n\nBBC Weather was expecting mostly clear skies, meaning the eclipse could be seen across much of the UK.\n\nThe spectacle could be seen from Tynemouth Priory on the north-east coast of England\n\nThe event was visible across Europe and was also expected to be seen from Africa, much of Asia, the eastern part of South America, and western Australia.\n\nLunar eclipses can only occur on the night of a full moon.\n\nThe next partial lunar eclipse is not expected until 19 November 2021.\n\nThe partial eclipse could be seen across the world including in Brasilia, Brazil\n\nThe Moon appeared red ahead of the partial eclipse in Speyer, Germany\n\nThe last total lunar eclipse - sometimes known as a \"super blood wolf moon\" - was visible in the UK in January.\n\nSkywatchers in the UK will not get the chance to see another until 2029 - weather permitting.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran for alleged spying, is now in a hospital psychiatric ward, her husband says.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said he feared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard could be isolating his wife in a Tehran hospital to press her to sign denouncements.\n\nIt comes after Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, went on hunger strike for 15 days last month in protest at her detention.\n\nShe was jailed in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nIn a press release, the Free Nazanin Campaign said it was not known what treatment she was receiving or how long she was expected to remain in hospital.\n\nHer father said he visited the hospital on Tuesday but was not allowed to see his daughter and that she had not been allowed to contact her family.\n\nThe campaign said before being transferred, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had told relatives: \"I was healthy and happy when I came to Iran to see my parents.\n\n\"Three and a bit years later and I am admitted to a mental health clinic.\n\n\"Look at me now - I ended up in an asylum. It should be an embarrassment.\n\n\"Prison is getting harder and harder for me. I hate being played in the middle of a political game. I just hate it.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe went on hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London\n\nHer transfer follows her hunger strike last month in protest at her \"unfair imprisonment\", during which time Mr Ratcliffe also did not eat and camped on the pavement outside the Iranian Embassy in London.\n\nIn January, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from London, went on a three-day hunger strike in protest against being denied specialist medical care.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he felt \"euphoric\" when he heard his wife had been moved to a hospital, thinking it could be a prelude to getting treatment or even her release.\n\nHowever, after her father was refused access to visit her in hospital or allowed to speak to her on the phone, the family grew increasingly concerned.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mr Ratcliffe said his fears could be misplaced, but added that when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were involved \"bad stuff happens\".\n\nHe said the last time she was alone with the guards, they pressured her to sign various denouncements. He said he had asked embassy officials to visit her as soon as possible.\n\nEarlier he said it was \"unnerving\" not knowing what was happening, adding he would follow up the case with the next prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nEarlier this year, foreign secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Jeremy Hunt granted Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection in a bid to resolve her case.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq, who is Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, thanked the government for granting her constituent protection, but asked whether the government had protested against her treatment, and questioned what further steps were being made to secure her freedom.\n\nShe said: \"The time for sentiment is over. This has gone on for too long and we need to see decisive action, right now, today.\"\n\nMs Siddiq also questioned whether Grace 1, the Iranian supertanker seized by Royal Marines and the authorities in Gibraltar, is linked to the latest developments in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case.\n\nIn response, Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison said: \"I don't believe the two are directly linked.\"\n\nHe said the UK is seeking consular access and wanted to appeal to the \"better nature\" of people in Tehran to \"do what is right for Nazanin\".\n\nIn 2017 Conservative leadership contender, Boris Johnson, apologised after saying that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran \"teaching people journalism\" - despite her family's insistence she was there to visit relatives.\n\nHe also told MPs the government was in \"no doubt that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran on holiday and that was the sole purpose of her visit\".\n\nHe has repeatedly said the responsibility for her continued detention lies with the Revolutionary Guard.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said it was \"extremely concerned about the welfare of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We urge Iran to allow family members to visit and check on her care as a matter of urgency. We will continue to call for her release at the highest levels.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport in April 2016 and has always maintained the visit was to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her relatives.\n\nThe couple's five-year-old daughter, Gabriella, has stayed in Iran with her grandparents since her mother's arrest.\n\nBefore being transferred, she was being detained in Tehran's Evin Prison.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Sorry New Zealand but it's now our time to shine\"\n\nA street in north Wales has been declared the steepest in the world.\n\nResidents in Harlech, Gwynedd, are celebrating after Guinness World Records verified the gradient of Ffordd Pen Llech at 37.45%.\n\nThe title had been held by Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, with a gradient of 35% at its steepest.\n\nCampaigner Gwyn Headley said: \"I feel utter relief - and jubilation. I feel sorry for the New Zealanders - but steeper is steeper.\"\n\nBanners have already gone up in the town celebrating the new official status\n\nNew Zealanders could not resist joking about the defeat.\n\n\"I'm still angry, I'm angry over lots of things in the world this week but this has really just ruined my week - thank you,\" said Hamish McNeilly from the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do you think it looks like a street?\n\n\"I've been covering high jinx and stories to do with Baldwin Street since 2008, there's been lots of interesting things happen on that street, many of which have gained worldwide attention, there's been a dip there, lots of high jinx world records broken and of course the ultimate world record was broken today by a Welsh town.\n\n\"I'm not going to get over this, this follows the cricket for me so we're still very angry. It's a bad week, it really is.\"\n\nHe added that a street in San Francisco was now understood to be looking at taking the title away from Wales.\n\nThe street is near the town's famous castle in Snowdonia\n\nMr Headley and Sarah Badhan know just what an uphill struggle life can be for those living on Ffordd Pen Llech.\n\nWhile most live at the bottom of the hill, the chemist and post office are at the top.\n\nMr Headley's research found the street was the steepest in Great Britain, though a different methodology was used to calculate Baldwin Street in New Zealand.\n\nSo they engaged surveyors and measurements taken in January showed Fordd Pen Llech had a one in 2.67 gradient at its steepest part, compared with the current record holder's one in 2.86.\n\nMs Badhan said: \"We're absolutely elated and exhausted of course after the hard work over the last year... We can't quite believe it.\n\n\"It was quite a lengthy process because there were 10 criteria set by Guinness for us to reach.\"\n\nShe added it was hoped the street would now become a tourist attraction, as well as being a big part of life in the town.\n\n\"I can remember as a little girl walking up this road every Sunday to Sunday school. It's very much part of our culture here.\n\n\"This street would be used particularly by locals living down the bottom of the town because it's the quickest, albeit most difficult, way to reach the top.\n\n\"I think it could be potentially transformative for Harlech because we rely so heavily on tourism here... I think it would be absolutely fantastic for us, for all the businesses and all the people.\"\n\nTourists regularly visit the previous record holder, Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand\n\nMr Headley said: \"Guinness World Records were ultra-specific in the criteria and although we were confident in meeting or exceeding nine of them, I was worried about the tenth.\"\n\nCriteria for the record stated the street must be a public thoroughfare, fully surfaced and have buildings alongside the carriageway.\n\nHowever the Harlech bid was able to justify the absence of blueprints before 1842 because the street was thought to have existed for more than 1,000 years.\n\nCraig Glenday, Guinness World Records Editor in Chief, said the residents' \"will-power\" had paid off.\n\nHe added: \"I hope Harlech enjoys the celebrations and that the new title brings lots of people to the beautiful town, to experience the world's steepest street for themselves.\"\n\nA celebration is being planned for Saturday close to the Harlech street.\n\nBaldwin Street may need to change its sign\n\nMr McNeilly said residents on the New Zealand street had to cope with a lot of tourists, especially from cruise ships at the nearby harbour.\n\n\"The background of Baldwin Street is that a town planner from back in the UK had no idea of the topography of Dunedin being very steep due to previous fault lines thousands of years ago so this street was just planned out.\n\n\"People have always lived on it, they've coped with the climatic variations that we have here, we have snow and ice, people love it because that side of the valley gets the sun, gets the view.\n\n\"It got a bit of worldwide attention when it got the record and every year it's become more and more popular.\n\n\"It's just a constant stream of tourists going there each day and that of course brings problems. I talked to a lady today who often has tourists wandering around her house taking photographs inside, around her garden, people think it's some kind of Disneyland attraction.\"\n\nHe said they would now claim the street was \"the southern hemisphere's steepest street\" or \"the second steepest street\".", "Ahdaf Soueif had been a trustee since 2012\n\nAn Egyptian writer has resigned from the British Museum's board of trustees, claiming it is \"immovable\" on its sponsorship deal with oil company BP.\n\nAhdaf Soueif also cited the museum's positions on worker relations and the repatriation of cultural artefacts as reasons for her departure.\n\nIn a blog post she called on the museum \"to take a clear ethical position... on issues of critical concern\".\n\nTrustee chair Sir Richard Lambert said the board regretted her decision.\n\nHe said Soueif - author of 1999 Booker Prize nominee The Map of Love - had been \"a much valued voice\" since becoming a trustee in 2012.\n\nBP's sponsorship of the British Museum and other cultural institutions, including the Tate and the RSC, has prompted protests from environmental campaigners.\n\nLast month, Sir Mark Rylance resigned from the Royal Shakespeare Company over its ties with the oil giant.\n\nSoueif said the money BP gives to support British Museum exhibitions such as this year's Troy: Myth and Reality could be attained elsewhere.\n\nShe suggested its continued acceptance of such sponsorship was motivated by a desire not to \"alienate a section of the business community\".\n\nShe also claimed this mattered more to the museum \"than the legitimate and pressing concerns of young people across the planet\".\n\nSir Richard said BP's sponsorship had \"made it possible for [the museum] to put on exhibitions and programming that four million people have seen\".\n\nThe museum's deal with BP has been the subject of numerous protests\n\nSoueif went on to berate the institution for \"rarely speaking\" on the vexed issue of repatriation, despite being in \"a unique position to lead a conversation\".\n\nSir Richard disagreed with that assessment, saying the museum was \"playing a very important part in the debate\".\n\nSoueif also criticised the museum for allegedly refusing to engage with outsourced staff whose futures were made uncertain by the 2018 collapse of service provider Carillion.\n\nA museum spokesperson said the collapse had been \"a difficult situation\" and that it had \"made it a priority to re-tender for new service providers\".\n\n\"Given the timescales involved and the limited resources within this small organisation, bringing the services in-house at very short notice was not a viable option.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson (l) and Jeremy Hunt (r) made the comments during a head-to-head debate run by The Sun newspaper\n\nBoth candidates to be the UK's next PM have condemned tweets by Donald Trump which called on four Democratic congresswomen of colour to \"go back\".\n\nDuring a head-to-head debate run by The Sun, Jeremy Hunt called the remarks \"totally offensive\", while Boris Johnson said they were \"unacceptable\".\n\nBut neither would go as far as branding the US president's comments racist.\n\nMr Trump said the women \"originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe\".\n\nHe faced a backlash for the series of tweets on Sunday aimed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley - who were all born in the US - and Ilhan Omar - who went to the US as a child refugee when she was 12.\n\nHis remarks were widely condemned as racist, and as having gone beyond previous statements and actions by the president that drew allegations of racism.\n\nBut Mr Trump doubled down on his comments on Monday, accusing the congresswomen of \"hating our country\".\n\nEarlier, he also launched another Twitter tirade, calling on the women themselves to apologise.\n\nAll the women called the president racist and were backed by members of the Democratic Party.\n\nAsked about the tweets during the debate, Mr Hunt - who is married to a Chinese woman - said he would be \"utterly appalled\" if someone said the same thing to their three children, who were born in the UK.\n\n\"It is totally un-British to do that, so I hope that would never happen,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"If you are the leader of a great, multi-racial, multi-cultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from.\n\n\"That went out decades and decades ago and thank heavens for that.\"\n\nHe also echoed comments made by outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, who earlier called the tweets \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left), Rashida Tlaib (centre) and Ayanna Pressley (right) accused the president of racism\n\nBut asked by The Sun's political editor, Tom Newton-Dunn, if they thought the comments were racist, neither candidate would say.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"Look, I'm foreign secretary, this is a president of a country which happens to be our closest ally, and so it is not going to help the situation to use that kind of language about the president of the United States.\n\n\"I can understand how many people in this country would want politicians like me to use those words and would feel that sentiment, but...I hope I have made absolutely clear how totally offensive it is to me that people are still saying that kind of thing.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I simply can't understand how a leader of that country can come to say it.\"\n\nPressed again, he added: \"You can take from what I said what I think about President Trump's words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe candidates were also questioned about the possibility of a future trade deal with the US.\n\nMr Hunt said whenever he had met with the US president and his administration, they had \"stressed how enthusiastic\" they were to do a deal.\n\nBut he admitted that Mr Trump would be a \"very tough and crude\" negotiator.\n\nMr Johnson agreed, calling the administration \"ruthless\" and saying the country would put \"tough conditions\" on any agreement with the UK.\n\nBut he added that this did not mean it was \"impossible to do a good deal\".", "NCSC staff protect the UK from cyber-attacks from their office in central London\n\nAn attempt to defraud thousands of people using a bogus email from a UK airport was one of a range of cyber-attacks prevented last year.\n\nThe scam used a fake gov.uk address, but the messages were prevented from ever reaching their intended recipients.\n\nThe details were revealed by GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre in an annual report.\n\nIn all, NCSC disclosed it had stopped 140,000 separate phishing attacks.\n\nThis refers to the attempted online theft of bank details and other sensitive information by impersonating a trustworthy person or organisation.\n\nIn addition, the agency said it had taken down 190,000 fraudulent sites.\n\nThis often happened quickly. The centre said that 64% of illegal sites were offline within 24 hours of being discovered and 99.3% eventually went dark.\n\nThis is the second time NCSC has published a progress report for its Active Cyber Defence programme. The effort - which uses a mix of automated processes to defeat internet-based threats to the UK - was launched in late-2016.\n\nOne focus is to take down malware and phishing sites. This is normally done by finding out who hosts the websites involved and then telling them that their clients are running a criminal operation. Most providers take down the pages quickly, although there are some exceptions.\n\nNCSC has not shared the name of the airport the fraudsters attempted to impersonate last August.\n\nBut it did say that the failed scheme involved sending 200,000 emails to members of the public asking them to pay a fee in order to receive a larger refund.\n\nHad the intended victims paid the sum, they would have got nothing in return.\n\nThe security centre also took the criminals' real email address offline to ensure they could not receive any replies.\n\nAnother success was an apparent reduction in the number of attacks in which fraudsters had posed as HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nScammers often pretend to offer individuals tax refunds if victims provide bank accounts and a facilitation payment.\n\nAt the start of January 2016, HMRC was the 16th most popular disguise used in phishing emails.\n\nBy the end of 2019, a series of new measures had reduced its global ranking to 146th.\n\nEfforts were also made to prevent 1.4 million employees in the public sector from visiting malicious sites.\n\nThis involved a service known as PDNS (protective domain name system), which effectively refuses to query the internet's address book when appropriate.\n\nSo, for example, if a user typed in a web address whose domain name had previously been linked to illegal activity - eg dodgysite.com - the service would refuse to provide the related internet protocol address - eg 216.58.111.789 - required to connect to its computer servers.\n\nNCSC said that PDNS had handled a total of 68.7 billion queries in 2018, of which it had blocked 57.4 million.\n\nThe PDNS system prevents connections to computer servers that are known to host ransomware, phishing attacks and malicious sites\n\nThis included frustrating 450,000 queries related to WannaCry - the malware that took down parts of the NHS in 2018.\n\nA further 230,000 queries were obstructed relating to another piece of malware called BadRabbit.\n\nThe system even found evidence of attempts to spread the Conficker worm, which was released as far back as 2008.\n\nNCSC added that BT has been working on its own version of PDNS, and is blocking an average of 110 million malicious connections per month.\n\nOther incidents flagged by the report included:\n\nIn the future, the NCSC said it wanted to do more to map the UK's use of the internet, in a piece of research it calls the Internet Weather Centre.\n\nThe aim is to understand questions like what are the most commonly used cloud services, and then use that knowledge to understand related vulnerabilities.\n\nIt also wants to do more work to allow public sector users to scan and check how their infrastructure is exposed to the net to spot potential risks.", "At the Made in America showcase, the president responded to questions about the meaning behind his weekend tweets, which some critics say were racist toward four Democratic members of Congress.", "Carl Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud\n\nA man accused of inventing a VIP paedophile ring lies as habitually as someone having a cup of tea every morning, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is on trial over claims he was a victim of an alleged paedophile network made up of high-profile figures from politics, the military and intelligence agencies.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC also said Beech was a \"sophisticated paedophile\".\n\nBeech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nDuring a nine-week trial, the jury heard that Beech has admitted downloading indecent images of boys and filming a child using the toilet.\n\nIn his closing remarks at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Badenoch said: \"The defendant Carl Beech is a sophisticated paedophile. I make no apology for saying it, the evidence proves it.\n\n\"At some stage Carl Beech appears to have convinced himself that such behaviour is acceptable for whatever purpose he had.\n\n\"Spying on children, covertly filming (a child), gathering literally hundreds of images of the rape and abuse of children, each of them a criminal offence.\"\n\nBeech's allegations, which included a claim that three young boys were murdered, led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation between 2014-2016 that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nMr Badenoch said Beech, from Gloucester, operated under different names at different times.\n\nHe listed some of them as Lucy Samuels, his pen-name for a book on nursing, \"Nick\" the name used by the police and media, his Twitter personas, and identities he used whilst hiding from the Swedish authorities.\n\n\"He presents himself at any given moment as he chooses to at that point in time,\" Mr Badenoch told the court.\n\n\"False identities, creating fictional people, pretending to be someone else, but all the while knowing very well that he was doing it, because he did so consciously, and being prepared to tell deliberate lies about the same.\n\n\"That sort of conduct in the life of Carl Beech was as habitual and easy as starting the day with a cup of tea might be to some of you.\"\n\nBeech, from Gloucester, accused Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former head of the British Army, of being involved in the paedophile ring.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury saw a video of his police interview in which the peer banged on the desk as he insisted he had no sexual interest in children.\n\nMr Badenoch said: \"Lord Bramall answered all questions fully and truthfully, gave details, spoke about his life, spoke about things intimately personal to him.\n\n\"Compare what he was to say and the manner in which he was to say it, to this defendant, shifting, shuffling and lying, and deceiving and dancing and twisting and twirling and running.\"\n\nLord Bramall was interviewed by police in April 2015 when he was 91\n\nHe said Beech picked out Lord Bramall - and his fellow generals Sir Roland Gibbs and Sir Hugh Beach - among his abusers after choosing his late step-father, who was a Major, as the \"entry point\" to the rich and powerful.\n\nMr Badenoch said that while Major Beech was a violent person, there was no evidence he had sexually abused his stepson.\n\n\"The defendant's word on this topic is hopelessly discredited because he cannot get his story straight,\" he said.", "Irn-Bru maker AG Barr's share price fell sharply on Tuesday after the company issued a profit warning.\n\nThe Cumbernauld-based said it expected sales to drop by 10% and profits by up to 20% as they struggle against a strong year in 2018.\n\nIt cited poor weather and \"challenges\" facing some of its brands, particularly its Rockstar energy and Rubicon juice drinks.\n\nBarr's share price was down by more than 28%, at 623p, by 16:30.\n\nIn a pre-close update, the company said trading so far this year had been below its expectations.\n\nIt added: \"This has been exacerbated by some specific brand challenges, particularly in Rockstar energy and Rubicon juice drinks, as well as disappointing spring and early summer weather, most notably in Scotland and the north of England, and compounded further as we approach the half year when the prior year comparative weather was at its peak.\"\n\nAG Barr's Rubicon division has faced challenges since the introduction of the sugar tax, with several drinks companies having to change their recipes to reduce sugar levels.\n\nThis has led to a backlash among some customers, who have complained about the new tastes.\n\nThe Rockstar energy division has also had to contend with a crackdown and awareness-raising by campaigners about teenagers drinking high-caffeine drinks. Several supermarkets have banned sales of the products to under-18s.\n\nChief executive Roger White said it had been a \"challenging start to the year\" for the company\n\nAG Barr chief executive Roger White said that although the cocktail mixer division Funkin was growing well, it had been a challenging start to the year for the rest of the company.\n\nHe added: \"Weather comparatives and trading, particularly in the impulse on-the-go market, have been even tougher than expected which, along with some brand-specific challenges, have led to a short-term impact on our financial performance.\n\n\"We are focused on returning to growth and will continue to take the actions we believe necessary to succeed in the dynamic environment within which we operate.\"\n\nThese actions include launching three new Rockstar drinks by the end of the summer and \"recipe improvement activity\" for Rubicon juice drinks.\n\nHowever, the company warned \"the benefit of these actions will not be felt until later in the second half of the financial year\".\n\nSales for the 26 weeks to 27 July are now expected to be about £123m - down 10% on last year - and further one-off costs can be expected to be announced later in the year, the company added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour MP Emily Thornberry was taken to hospital after coming off her bicycle in an accident outside Parliament.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary was involved in a collision with a vehicle in Parliament Square, Westminster, outside the House of Commons on Friday.\n\nThe Islington South and Finsbury MP was taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Thornberry said she had now been discharged and was \"hugely grateful\" for the support of the paramedics and A&E staff.\n\n\"She will be back to work and back on her bike as soon as possible,\" the spokesperson added.", "The man was targeted near a supermarket in Shettleston\n\nA pedestrian has been deliberately struck by a car in an apparent murder attempt in Glasgow.\n\nPolice said the 33-year-old was walking with two male friends in Amulree Street, Shettleston, when he was targeted at about 15:00 on Friday.\n\nThe white car, possibly a 4x4, chased them into Pettigrew Street where the man was struck by the vehicle.\n\nHe was not seriously injured but detectives have begun an attempted murder investigation.\n\nDet Colin Thapar, of Shettleston CID, said: \"Although the man, who we believe was the intended target of the attack, was not seriously injured and didn't seek hospital treatment, to deliberately drive a large car at someone in the middle of a busy street in the middle of the afternoon is reckless and dangerous and could have involved at lot more people.\n\n\"However, thankfully no one else was injured and so far we have had a good response from the public who were around, however, we are still keen to get information, especially dash-cam footage, of the incident.\"", "Gloria De Piero said she had received online abuse from people wanting to overturn the result of the EU referendum\n\nLabour's shadow justice minister has quit its front bench and decided not to stand at the next general election.\n\nGloria De Piero, MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, said she was unsure she could \"sustain the energy and commitment of the last nine years\".\n\nShe campaigned for Remain in a strongly pro-Brexit seat but does not support a second referendum.\n\nIn her speech to party members, she also hit out at a \"lack of tolerance\" in the Labour Party.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said her decision was \"disappointing\".\n\nSpeaking to members on Friday, Ms De Piero said: \"I've had time to think about whether I can continue to give you all the energy and personal sacrifices that you need as a Labour champion for this constituency. You deserve the absolute best.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Labour Party is made up of mostly good people who sometimes disagree on how to achieve good. There is nothing wrong with that. It's good and it's healthy and it should be welcomed.\n\n\"The lack of tolerance for different viewpoints in the Labour Party frankly worries me.\n\n\"We have to have respect for each other, even if we disagree, because we are all part of this Party.\"\n\nShe also said she received \"grim\" abuse on social media from people wanting to overturn the referendum result.\n\nEarlier this month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged the next Conservative leader to hold another referendum before taking the UK out of the EU, saying Labour would campaign for Remain.\n\nIn the EU Referendum 69.8% of voters in Ashfield voted Leave, on a turnout of 72.8%.\n\nMs De Piero has represented the traditionally safe Labour seat since 2010 but at the last election won by only a few hundred votes.\n\nShe continued: \"This party is about a set of values not any individual and we would all do well to remember that.\n\n\"And while I'm at it, and it doesn't happen in Ashfield, but when I hear people being called right-wing in the Labour Party I find it utterly offensive.\n\n\"We are all left-wingers in this party - that is why we joined the Labour Party.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said he thought her speech was \"lovely\" but added: \"We worked together as a team, [I'm] disappointed she's standing down, but we're a broad church in the Labour Party and we always will [be].\n\nThe shadow chancellor said he had been to visit Ms De Piero to help fundraise only a few weeks ago\n\n\"If there's any evidence of intolerance, we've said to our MPs and members, let us know and we will take action.\"\n\nMs De Piero finished her speech by saying she \"actually believes\" in Brexit and would continue to campaign for a soft version of it, before inviting members back to her home for drinks and frozen pizza.\n\nCorrection 9th October 2019: This story has been updated to clarify that Ms De Piero said she was stepping down for personal reasons, not directly because of her views on a \"lack of tolerance\" within Labour.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "FGM is banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland but persists in some communities\n\nPrimary schools in England should start teaching pupils about female genital mutilation when a new curriculum is introduced next year, campaigners say.\n\nSecondary school pupils are to be taught about FGM from 2020.\n\nBut experts fear that for some vulnerable girls these lessons will come too late.\n\nMost girls who are subjected to the mutilation undergo the practice - often abroad - before they are 10, according to the National FGM Centre.\n\nThe process, which involves removing a female's external genitalia, was banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2003, and Scotland in 2005, but persists in some communities.\n\nEarlier this year, England saw its first successful prosecution of an FGM case, which involved a three-year-old girl mutilated by her mother.\n\nThe National FGM Centre - a partnership between children's charity Barnardo's and the Local Government Association - wants to see female genital mutilation eradicated by 2030.\n\nIt says teaching the issue across the country, regardless of the demographic of the community, is beneficial as children learn their body belongs to them and no-one is allowed to harm them.\n\nIt has called for primary schools to start teaching pupils about FGM when the new relationships and health education curriculum is introduced next year.\n\nLeethen Bartholomew, head of the National FGM Centre, said: \"While some may have reservations about children being taught about this issue at primary school, the work of the National FGM Centre has shown this can be done in a child-centred, age-appropriate way.\n\n\"By teaching primary school pupils about FGM, we are empowering the next generation to speak up about the issue.\n\n\"But it's not just down to the next generation to break the silence.\n\n\"Everyone, regardless of their community, gender or profession must be part of this conversation, so FGM becomes less of a hidden crime.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the four types of FGM?\n\nThe National FGM Centre has produced guidance for primary school teachers about how to introduce the subject and how to engage with parents and support them in discussion with their children.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said: \"It is important that all children understand that FGM is an abhorrent crime which causes immeasurable harm to its victims and their families.\n\n\"From September 2020, as part of the new relationships and sex education curriculum, all children will be taught that FGM is a criminal offence and about the emotional and physical damage it causes.\n\n\"Whilst it must be taught in secondary school, primary schools can choose to teach it if they think it is appropriate for their cohort of pupils, and provided it's taught in an age-appropriate way.\"", "Angela Merkel visited an exhibit in Berlin in July on anti-Nazi conspirator Claus von Stauffenberg\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Markel has used the 75th anniversary of the most famous plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler to call on citizens to counter rising right-wing extremism.\n\nMs Merkel thanked the German officer, Claus von Stauffenberg, and other plotters who tried in 1944 to kill the Nazi dictator with a briefcase bomb.\n\nStauffenberg and some 200 co-conspirators were caught and executed.\n\n\"This day is a reminder to us, not only of those who acted on July 20, but also of everyone who stood up against Nazi rule,\" she said in her weekly video podcast.\n\n\"We are likewise obliged today to oppose all tendencies that seek to destroy democracy. That includes right-wing extremism.\"\n\nThe right-wing party Alternative for Germany in May became the country's largest opposition party in parliament with an anti-immigrant and nationalist agenda.\n\nIn recent years there has been a rise in far-right attacks, including the murder of a German politician, whose death prosecutors believe was politically motivated and carried out by assassins with neo-Nazi extremist links.\n\nAccording to government figures, there are 24,000 right-wing extremists in Germany. Nearly 13,000 are believed to have a tendency to violence.\n\nCount Claus von Stauffenberg pictured with his children in 1940\n\nThe German colonel was 36 years old when he tried to kill Adolf Hilter during a meeting at the Nazi leader's secret headquarters - called the Wolf's Lair - in a forest in East Prussia.\n\nHitler survived the assassination attempt with minor injuries after someone had moved the bomb, concealed in a briefcase, next to a heavy table leg, deflecting much of the explosion.\n\nStauffenberg and his co-conspirators were branded as cowards and traitors, and executed within hours. Their plot to seize control of the regime and make peace with Western allies to end World War II went relatively unrecognised for decades.\n\nThe plot, known as Operation Valkyrie, came back to prominence with the 2008 film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise as the former count attempting to over-throw Hitler's Nazi regime.", "Last updated on .From the section African\n\nAlgeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time as a freak early goal secured a 1-0 win against Senegal in the final in Cairo.\n\nBaghdad Bounedjah's shot took a huge deflection off Salif Sane and looped over goalkeeper Alfred Gomes.\n\nSenegal, who have never won the competition, were awarded a penalty for handball in the second half but it was overturned after a VAR review.\n\nAlgeria closed out the rest of the game to win their first title since 1990.\n• None Quiz: How well do you remember the tournament?\n\nSenegal's players collapsed on the pitch in tears at the final whistle.\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane, who said before the game he would swap his Champions League winners medal for Africa Cup of Nations success, looked disconsolate as Algeria players celebrated around him.\n\n\"Without the players I am nothing,\" said Algeria boss Djamel Belmadi. \"They are the main ones. I suppose the staff played its part in guiding the players but they applied the instructions incredibly well.\"\n\nSenegal, making only their second appearance in the final since 2002, dominated for large periods but struggled to make the most of their possession.\n\nM'Baye Niang was at the centre of two of their best chances as he flashed a fierce drive over the bar just before the break, and rounded keeper Rais M'bolhi early in the second half only to shoot wide from a tight angle.\n\nM'Bolhi also did well to palm over a stinging effort from Youssouf Sabaly.\n\nThe decisive moment for Senegal was the reversal of the decision to award a penalty on the hour mark.\n\nIsmaila Sarr's cross was blasted straight at Adlene Guedioura's arm, referee Neant Alioum pointed to the spot, but, just as the Senegal players started celebrating the decision, he quickly indicated that a VAR review was under way.\n\nAfter watching the replays on the pitch-side monitor, which clearly showed Guedioura's arm being by his side, Alioum reversed the decision.\n\nAlthough the decision was correct, the result was harsh on Senegal, with Algeria managing only one shot on goal.\n\nThe game was billed by many as a battle between Liverpool's Mane and Manchester City's Riyad Mahrez, but both were on the periphery of this encounter.\n\nMahrez's lack of contribution was largely down to Algeria's defensive approach after taking the lead, but Mane will perhaps be disappointed with his input.\n\nHe was clearly the player Algeria fans feared most - every touch of the ball was met with boos - but he showed only glimpses of his pace and danger on the ball, possibly showing the signs of fatigue following a long season for club and country.\n\nIt is 363 days since Mane began pre-season with Liverpool - and he will only have a couple of weeks rest before the new campaign gets under way on 9 August.\n\nAlgeria were very lucky to get their first goal from a deflected shot by Bounedjah. But they made the most of their luck.\n\nTheir defence has been formidable all tournament and as much as Senegal tried to create chances, it was just so difficult for them.\n\nThe Teranga Lions raised their level after half-time and had a great chance that was missed by Niang, one of two players Algeria were giving very close attention - the other, of course, being Mane.\n\nOne goal was enough for Algeria to win a well deserved tournament even though they weren't their best in the final. Senegal were so close this time but they needed luck and more clinical finishing - and they found neither.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salif Sané (Senegal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Adlène Guédioura (Algeria) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Sadio Mané (Senegal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Krépin Diatta (Senegal) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An emotional Rory McIlroy said missing the cut at his home Open hurt but the \"love\" from the crowd spurred him on to a remarkable round at Royal Portrush.\n\nAfter an eight-over-par opening round, McIlroy faced a huge task to make the weekend for what is Northern Ireland's first staging of The Open in 68 years.\n\nThe Northern Irishman, 30, carded seven birdies in a second-round 65 but missed the cut line by one shot.\n\n\"I wish I could have been a part of it for two more days,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But I'll look back at this week with nothing but fondness and positivity and I can't wait to come back here and play in another Open Championship.\n\n\"I am so proud of Portrush, this country, Northern Ireland, the R&A for bringing it back here, and everyone involved. It means the world to me.\"\n• None I'm not going to be consistent at my age - Woods\n\nWorld number three McIlroy shot a course-record 61 on the Dunluce Links when he was 16 years old but a 64 would have done it for the four-time major winner on Friday.\n\nHe made two birdies on the front nine and, after clawing three strokes back in as many holes after the turn, the support for the home favourite grew louder and the atmosphere more intense with every shot.\n\nA bogey at 13 threatened to derail McIlroy, but he hit straight back with another birdie and that seemed to hype up his fans even more.\n\nMcIlroy pulled another back at the imposing 16th, known as Calamity Corner, and made his way to the 17th tee 'high-fiving' children in the knowledge that one more birdie in the final two holes would do it.\n\n\"It was one of the most fun runs of golf I have ever played,\" he said.\n\n\"Today I really felt the love from the crowd, so many of them out there willing me on and wanting me to be there for the weekend.\"\n\nA birdie eluded McIlroy at 17, but a drive to the middle of the fairway on the final hole had fans sprinting and jostling their way along the ropes to try and find a good view of the 18th green.\n\nMcIlroy's approach drifted left, but the noise cranked up once more and the ferocious roars echoing around the grandstand made it feel like this was the final group on Sunday playing for the Claret Jug rather than a man chasing the cut.\n\nThe 2014 Open champion had left himself too much work. He made it up and down from the fringes in two strokes for par, but that was one too many.\n\nRory McIlroy shot a second-round 65 and missed the cut. Just think about that.\n\nIt just shows us what a class act he is. But the point still remains that yesterday was an absolute golfing disaster.\n\nWe said all along this would be a very special Open for all sorts of reasons. This was one of those moments which tells you why. I'd never seen such scenes for a player trying to make the cut on a Friday evening.\n• None Sign up to get golf news sent to your phone", "Sarah Boyle was misdiagnosed with cancer after noticing problems breastfeeding her son Teddy\n\nA mother underwent a double mastectomy after doctors wrongly diagnosed her with an aggressive form of cancer.\n\nSarah Boyle, 28, was told she had triple negative breast cancer after she had difficulty breastfeeding her baby.\n\nMrs Boyle underwent chemotherapy and later needed reconstructive surgery before the mistake was noticed, leaving her \"traumatised\".\n\nThe hospital that treated her apologised, saying it was \"human error\" that led to her being misdiagnosed.\n\nMrs Boyle said her treatment had made life difficult for her family\n\nMrs Boyle, from Stoke-on-Trent, said life had been \"incredibly difficult\" for her, as well as her husband Stephen, 31, and their two sons since she was told she needed treatment at the end of 2016.\n\n\"Being told I had cancer was awful, but then to go through all of the treatment and surgery to then be told it was unnecessary was traumatising,\" she said.\n\nShe went to Royal Stoke Hospital when she noticed her six-month-old son Teddy becoming \"very distressed\" when she tried to feed him from her right breast.\n\nAfter a biopsy and a scan, she was told she had breast cancer and was sent for treatment.\n\nThe hospital trust said it understood \"how devastating this has been\" for Mrs Boyle\n\n\"Ultimately the misreporting of the biopsy was a human error,\" said a spokesperson for the University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNW), which runs the hospital.\n\nMrs Boyle said her treatment meant she was unable to breastfeed her second son, Louis, who is seven months old, and now she was concerned about future health complications, including \"actually developing cancer\".\n\nThe trust offered an \"unreserved apology\" to Mrs Boyle and said it \"understands how devastating this has been\".\n\nIt said all cancer diagnoses were reviewed by a second pathologist.\n\nMrs Boyle is now pursuing a legal claim against the trust, which has admitted liability.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and app from 15 July; Follow daily live text commentaries online.\n\nEngland missed out on the Netball World Cup final once again as they fell to an agonising 47-45 defeat by New Zealand in Liverpool.\n\nThe Roses were unbeaten in the group stage but fell short in the semi-finals against an inspired Silver Ferns side.\n\nNew Zealand go on to face holders Australia in Sunday's final for a sixth consecutive tournament.\n\nEngland have now lost eight straight World Cup semi-finals and face South Africa in the bronze-medal match.\n\nThey will match their achievements from 2015 if they beat the Proteas, who were narrowly beaten by Australia in the opening semi-final.\n• None As it happened: England fall to semi-final defeat\n\nTracey Neville's Roses famously fought back to snatch a late win in the gold-medal match against the Diamonds at the Commonwealth Games in 2018.\n\nBut this time they were on the receiving end of the disappointment.\n\nNew Zealand showed their intent by surging into a 5-0 lead as England panicked, but the Roses regrouped to take a three-goal lead into half-time.\n\nUntil this match, England had not come from behind in the tournament and as the Silver Ferns pushed back in front, they looked intent on staying there.\n\nEngland threw everything at the Kiwis in the final quarter - but their opposition soaked up the pressure and played down the seconds left on the clock.\n\nWhat went wrong for England?\n\nEngland did not look like the confident team who came through the group stages without losing a quarter.\n\nShooter Jo Harten's form dropped dramatically in the first half, compared to her heroics in the previous game against South Africa, and she only improved when she moved to goal attack.\n\nEngland's engine room and captain Serena Guthrie was also guilty of failing to bring the goods on the day.\n\nHead coach Neville said her side's \"basic errors\" cost them the game.\n\n\"New Zealand came out really strong in that first quarter, \"she said. \"We didn't learn our lessons quickly enough. We seemed to be chasing the game, which is something we haven't done in this tournament.\n\n\"We gave it our all but didn't have the legs. This tournament is quite brutal. We've got another game tomorrow and we go again.\"\n\nGive it a go yourself! Find out how to get into netball with the BBC Get Inspired guide\n\n'We've already won in some respects'\n\nIt was a rocky road to this final for New Zealand. They failed to reach the Commonwealth finals in 2018 for the first time and dropped to fourth in the rankings, one place behind England.\n\nOff the court, key player Laura Langman, who has made more than 100 international appearances, was out of the set-up for 18 months because she chose to play her club netball in Australia.\n\nBut the arrival of coach Noeline Taurua in 2018 led to those club rules being relaxed and now Langman, along with veteran defender Casey Kopua, will get a shot at gold again in what is likely to be their last World Cup.\n\n\"I'm a bit lost for words,\" said Taurua. \"We've got one more game to go to get the gold and that's what we're going for.\n\n\"We've already won in some respects. We were underdogs coming into this game. There's nothing else for us to worry about.\"\n\nNew Zealand came close to beating the Diamonds in the preliminary stages and this victory over the hosts will surely give them the belief they need to beat their long-time rivals.\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Some learner drivers need as many as 21 attempts in a calendar year to pass their practical test, new data shows.\n\nThe Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) released the information after a Freedom of Information request for the 10 most prolific candidates every year between 2009 and 2018.\n\nIn 2016, one driver passed on their 21st try that year, while a learner in 2018 failed 19 times before passing.\n\nIn 2009, 2015 and 2017, a learner failed all 19 tests they took.\n\nRules mean a learner has to wait 10 working days between failing and taking their next test.\n\nCommenting on the FoI data - requested by the Press Association - the DVSA said its priority was to \"help everyone through a lifetime of safe driving\".\n\n\"Candidates should only attempt their test when they've gained a broad range of experience and are ready to drive safely and independently,\" it said.\n\n\"Anyone who fails their driving test has to wait at least 10 working days to take another.\n\n\"This ensures the candidate has time to undergo additional training and improve any faults noted by the examiner before they take their test again.\"\n\nSeparate data from the DVSA showed the car driving test pass rate was 45.8% in the year 2018/19, the lowest figure since 45.3% in 2008/9.\n\nSome 18,922 learners passed the practical test with zero faults in 2018/19, up from 18,410 the previous year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 20,000 protesters have gathered in Moscow demanding free and fair elections in the Russian capital.\n\nProtesters are calling for opposition candidates to be allowed to register for the September polls.\n\nThe authorities have refused to register them despite each candidate gathering the minimum 5,000 signatures needed to be eligible to run.\n\nOpposition leaders including the most prominent, Alexei Navalny, joined supporters at the rally.\n\nActivists opposed to the government of President Vladimir Putin say the authorities have wrongly declared supporters' signatures invalid. Around 30 candidates were barred from running.\n\nThousands attended the rally in Moscow on Saturday\n\nSpeaking at the event Mr Navalny told protesters: \"We will show them this is a dangerous game. We should fight for our candidates.\"\n\nHe vowed that there would be a bigger rally next week unless authorities register a number of candidates for the vote.\n\nOne candidate, Lyubov Sobol, has been on hunger strike for more than a week, demanding that she be allowed to run.\n\nProtesters are demanding that opposition leaders be allowed to run in the September elections\n\nOrganisers said on Facebook that they were protesting for a Russia \"without bandits, fraudsters, swindlers and thieves\".\n\nLocal authorities gave permission for the rally to take place.\n\nLast week, police arrested dozens of protesters at another rally in defence of independent election candidates.\n\nThe protests come amid a drop in approval ratings for Mr Putin and anger over declining living standards and widespread corruption.\n\nOrganisers said they were calling for a Russia without \"fraudsters\"", "Bin collections are one of the outsourced council services Labour has targeted\n\nLabour wants councils in England to carry out services themselves rather than employ private firms, the shadow chancellor has said.\n\nJohn McDonnell said he wants to limit the outsourcing of services such as bin collections by obliging councils to run them when existing private contracts expire.\n\nCleaning and school dinners could also be taken back in-house under the plans.\n\nThe government said decisions should be left with local councils.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry said Labour's proposal was \"an extreme move devoid of evidence yet dripping in dogma\".\n\nIn a speech on Saturday, Mr McDonnell said outsourced contracts were costly and lacked accountability as decisions were often made \"behind closed doors\".\n\nHe added: \"It is the business model of outsourcing which is broken and that is why it needs replacing.\n\n\"Remember we've had the experience of Carillion, for example, collapses and you have something like 200 schools who have been affected, large numbers of councils, things not being built, services not being delivered and people being laid off.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said changing the law to ensure services are brought back in-house would be achievable within the first term of a new parliament.\n\nHe would expect councils to comply with the plan unless there were \"significant\" barriers to doing so.\n\nMr McDonnell added: \"It's the councillors who are demanding this change.\n\n\"If you look at example after example, where the council themselves say 'look, we've had enough of being ripped off by private contractors, we've had enough of poor service'.\n\n\"They have brought things in-house already and they have saved money and had a more efficient service.\"\n\nA spokesman for Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said: \"It should be left for local councils and communities to decide which services to outsource, not Mr McDonnell.\"\n\nMatthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director, said: \"Rejecting the innovation, investment and cost savings suppliers can bring to vital public services and infrastructure is an extreme move devoid of evidence yet dripping in dogma.\n\n\"The vast majority of public-private partnerships are successful, delivering investment and high quality services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and app from 15 July; Follow daily live text commentaries online.\n\nAustralia reached their eighth successive Netball World Cup final after edging a 55-53 win against South Africa in Liverpool.\n\nThe 11-time winners squandered an eight-goal half-time lead as the Proteas stormed back to within one with four minutes remaining.\n\nBut the Diamonds held on to reach Sunday's gold-medal match.\n\nAustralia now play New Zealand in Sunday's final as they bid to win their fourth consecutive title.\n\nThe Kiwis beat England 47-45 in the other semi-final on Saturday.\n\n\"I'm proud of them. They're a bunch of fighters. They played smart when we needed it and that's exactly what we have to do in pressure games,\" said Australia coach Lisa Alexander.\n\nGive it a go yourself! Find out how to get into netball with the BBC Get Inspired guide\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone\n\nHaving sailed through the first five matches of the group stages, Australia only just came through their match against trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand by a single goal to set up a meeting with South Africa.\n\nAs the world's best side, they were firm favourites to progress against a team ranked four places below them on Saturday.\n\nDiamonds coach Alexander made some big calls with her starting line-up, opting for a completely fresh shooting partnership in Caitlin Thwaites and Gretel Tippett, and it paid off in the first half.\n\nThe Australians looked at home on the big stage and their confidence came through in the second quarter. They patiently turned the screw and pushed into a 31-23 lead at half-time, with both shooters finishing on 100% accuracy.\n\nThe Proteas were well beaten by England in their last group match but did not want to settle for second best in this semi-final.\n\nGoal defence Karla Pretorius produced a number of aerial intercepts, as did goal keeper Phumza Maweni, who had by far her best game of the competition - while Lenize Potgieter was able to convert as South Africa pounced on turnovers.\n\nHowever, even against a team playing out of their skin, a fired-up Australia attack can always find a way through.\n\nThey made three substitutions in the final quarter and never panicked - even when their lead was cut to one.\n\nUltimately, South Africa's inexperience of playing in their first semi-final was exposed by Australia, and the occasion was a step too far for Norma Plummer's side, who will now play England in Sunday's bronze-medal match (14:30 BST)\n\n\"I'm absolutely delighted for where we've taken the number one team in the world,\" said 74-year-old Plummer, who went on to confirm she would step down at the end of the tournament.\n\n\"We could still get a medal. Tomorrow is my 50th Test match with South Africa, and then I'm handing over the reins. I've done four years and shown them the way. It's up to them now.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Watch as Zimbabwe netballers celebrate their top-eight finish at the World Cup by dancing their way on to BBC Two's TV coverage while Hazel Irvine is still presenting.\n\nFollow live coverage of the Netball World Cup this weekend on BBC Two, the BBC Sport website & BBC iPlayer.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "He said he had to check on his 65-year-old mother despite fracturing his hip earlier in the day. When officials told him he couldn't take the stairs to see her, he found another way.", "ASAP Rocky will stay in a Swedish jail for at least another week after prosecutors were granted more time to investigate an alleged assault.\n\nThe American rapper has been held since being arrested on suspicion of assault on 3 July.\n\nA prosecutor now has until 25 July to decide whether to charge him, Stockholm District Court decided.\n\nOne of ASAP Rocky's alleged victims is also being investigated for abuse, assault and attempted assault.\n\nHearings to decide whether to keep two other men detained - who were arrested with ASAP - are ongoing.\n\nThe court decided ASAP should stay in custody \"because of the flight risk\", says prosecutor Daniel Suneson.\n\n\"This gives us time to complete the investigation.\"\n\nPresident Trump has said he plans to intervene after speaking to Kanye West about ASAP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nASAP and Kanye first collaborated in 2015 on ASAP's track, Jukebox Joints.\n\nOn 5 July, the rapper was held for an extra two weeks while the investigation carried on.\n\nNow that two weeks is up prosecutors have applied for another extension until 25 July to formally charge him with a crime.\n\n\"We have worked intensively with the investigation and need more time, until Thursday next week in order to complete the preliminary investigation,\" Mr Suneson says.\n\nProsecutors say ASAP - real name Rakim Mayers - was involved in a fight in Stockholm on 30 June, where he'd been playing at a festival.\n\nA video published online appeared to show him punching another man in the street.\n\nBut the rapper also put videos of his own up on social media. He says they're from before the fight and they show the man following him.\n\nASAP's bodyguard, who had also been arrested on suspicion of assault, was released earlier in July.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKim Kardashian West has also revealed she's been involved in trying to help ASAP.\n\nShe tweeted a link to a story on TMZ, which reported that she and husband Kanye West had spoken to President Trump about getting ASAP released.\n\n\"President Trump is very much aware of A$AP Rocky's legal sitch in Sweden - and he's got his team working to get him freed ... thanks in part to Kim K and Kanye West,\" the report says.\n\nKronoberg remand prison, where ASAP Rocky is being held awaiting trial\n\nThe prison holding the rapper denied he was being held in poor conditions after it was claimed Kronoberg prison is like \"walking into a toilet\".\n\nThat was what showbiz website TMZ reported was said by a US Embassy official.\n\nA source reportedly told them he was being made to sleep on a yoga mat with no blanket, drink water that was not clean, and had only been given an apple to eat each day during his first five days at the prison.\n\nBut the prison's governor Fredrik Wallin told Newsbeat in a statement that the prison is in \"good condition\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Police have released images of two people they want to speak to\n\nPolice are looking for two men after suspected CS gas was released during a fight on a London Underground train.\n\nIt happened at 09:13 BST on board a Victoria line Tube train at Oxford Circus in central London.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said a number of people were treated at the scene by paramedics for coughing and shortness of breath.\n\nThe force has appealed for witnesses and released CCTV images of the two men they would like to speak to.\n\nBTP added that other than the symptoms shown by the passengers, there were \"no further concerns for their health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPassenger Michael Roberts was with his girlfriend on their way to Oxford when he said he saw two people \"looking into the next carriage had seen some sort of a commotion\".\n\n\"Then two guys stumbled into our carriage and all the people on our carriage moved naturally away from the door.\n\n\"That's when everybody realised we couldn't breathe properly.\"\n\nOxford Circus is situated on the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street\n\nThe 26-year-old said at first he thought the men were drunk \"because they were trying to frantically get into the carriage\" while the train was moving northbound between Green Park and Oxford Circus.\n\nMr Roberts said he had his T-shirt over his mouth because he could not breathe and his girlfriend was \"spluttering\".\n\nHe said the effects of the gas lasted about an hour and described the ordeal as \"pretty frightening\", adding the train was about half full at the time.\n\nOxford Circus Tube station is situated at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street and serves the Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines.\n\nA Transport for London spokeswoman said the train had been taken out of service and to a depot for quarantine.\n\nCS gas, also known as tear gas, can cause a burning sensation around the eyes and difficulty in breathing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karina Canellakis took up the baton after being encouraged by Sir Simon Rattle\n\nKarina Canellakis has made history, as the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms.\n\nThe US musician led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers in a stirring and dramatic programme culminating in Leoš Janáček's utterly unique Glagolitic Mass.\n\nThe landmark performance came just two years after Cannellakis's conducting debut at the Proms.\n\n\"I'm honoured - and I'm very sweaty,\" she said after leaving stage.\n\nThe 38-year-old New Yorker started her career as a violinist after graduating from the Julliard School.\n\nThe seeds of her conducting career were sown at the BBC Proms in 2008, as she performed Mahler's emotional 6th Symphony as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.\n\n\"I was playing second violin, and I played my heart out,\" she told BBC Radio 3, \"and I remember just looking up and thinking I had never seen the ceiling so far away.\"\n\nBut it was British conductor Sir Simon Rattle who finally convinced her to swap the violin for the baton.\n\n\"He told me: 'You may not see many people that look like you up there, but I really think you could do this,'\" she told the bachtrack website earlier this year.\n\n\"That was the thing that changed my pattern of thinking and gave me a little bit of a push towards... making music without the instrument in my hand, which in the beginning was quite terrifying.\"\n\nOn Friday night's evidence, she has ably grown into the role.\n\nHer opening night kicked off with a complex, layered new work by Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri.\n\nLong Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory was commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and explored everything from the dark, brooding exploration of space to man's first weightless steps on the lunar surface.\n\nKarina Canellakis embraces composer Zosha Di Castri after premiering her new work\n\nDi Castri managed to convey the eerie loneliness of that first moonwalk in a section where the orchestra rubbed together paper bags, blew compressed air into milk bottles, and scraped tuning keys across harp strings, while a lone oboe represented the awestruck wonder of astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.\n\nThe chorus, meanwhile, sang an evocative text by Chinese-British author Xiaolu Guo: \"We stepped out and bounced, skipped, swang wide, set the flag on the silent lunar surface.\"\n\nResearching the piece left a major impression on the composer, who had never before considered the monumental human effort behind the Moon landings.\n\n\"To be honest, it was something that I took as fact - that we've been to the Moon,\" she said. \"This brought back the sense of awe.\"\n\nThe first half concluded with a lovingly-shaped rendition of Dvořák's The Golden Spinning Wheel, receiving its first-ever performance at the Proms.\n\nZocha Di Castri's piece is the first of many Proms to mark the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings\n\nPart two was devoted to Janáček's elemental Glagolitic Mass - one of the greatest 20th Century choral works.\n\nA setting of a ninth-century liturgical text, it is essentially the atheist composer's hymn to nature.\n\n\"Always the scent of the moist forest - that was the incense,\" said the Czech musician. \"I felt a cathedral grow before me in the vast expanse of the hills and the vault of the sky\".\n\n\"It is as much pagan ritual as it is a mass,\" acknowledged Canellakis ahead of the concert, \"and it switches drastically from one section to another.\"\n\nUnder her watch, the BBC Symphony Orchestra expertly navigated the shifting celestial and confrontational tones, while organist Peter Holder deservedly received an ovation after untangling the labyrinthine solo.\n\nMezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnston described the Glagolitic Mass as having a \"filmic quality\"\n\nSoloists including tenor Ladislav Elgr and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston were crisp and clear - despite being unclear on how the text should sound.\n\n\"Glagolitic was the precedent to the Cyrillic alphabet [and] the result is we don't really know how it's meant to be pronounced,\" she explained to BBC Radio 3.\n\n\"It's our best guess, along with academics who've given us some guidance.\"\n\nThe piece also highlighted a theme of the 2019 Proms season, which is marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Wood. The Proms founder-conductor presided over the premiere of the Glagolitic Mass at the Queen's Hall in 1930.\n\nThe modern-day Proms, of course, are based in the Royal Albert Hall - where more than 1,000 of Friday's concert-goers were \"Prommers\", who had queued all day in the rain to snap up \"on the day\" tickets for just £6.\n\nFor Canellakis, it is those concert-goers who give the festival its unique flavour.\n\n\"I love the enthusiasm of the audience here,\" she said. \"It's not an eight-year-old whose grandma drags him to the opera and he falls asleep in the back row.\n\n\"These people have waited for hours to get tickets and many of them are standing through the whole performance - and you feel that, as a performer.\"\n\nThe conductor, who has played the Proms every year since taking up the baton, is guaranteed to be back - and could conceivably follow in the footsteps of Marin Alsop, who in 2013 became the first woman to helm the festival's iconic closing night.\n\nThe 2019 season continues until 14 September, with highlights including a sci-fi Prom, the premiere of a new work by Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood, and performances from cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and \"the Queen of African music\" Angelique Kidjo.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Transport for Wales is investing heavily in new trains to run on tracks in Wales\n\nTo the east and west of Cardiff, there are cities that are about 45 miles away.\n\nSo why does it cost £3,156 a year to travel to Bristol and £1,796 to go in the opposite direction to Swansea?\n\nFollowing the M4 relief road's scrapping, ways are being explored to get cars off the motorway near Newport.\n\nHowever, the end of Severn tolls and higher cost of tickets into England leave little incentive for commuters to get the train.\n\nYou can even get a first class ticket (£2,692 a year) to Swansea cheaper than a standard to Bristol, according to the National Rail Enquiries website.\n\n\"It shows that Wales and England are very much different countries for rail,\" said transport expert Stuart Cole.\n\nHe pointed to many examples - a year's ticket from Aberdare to Cardiff - about an hour - costs £1,176, while travelling a similar distance into London is about £3,000.\n\nProf Cole said devolution of train travel in Wales allowed the Welsh Government to influence fares through its operator Transport for Wales (TfW).\n\nIt has done this partly by having two operators - TfW (formerly Arriva Trains Wales) and Great Western Rail running between Swansea and Cardiff.\n\n\"This has incentivised competitive fares for passengers on this route,\" a Welsh Government spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the route between Cardiff and Bristol has only been served through regular services by the Great Western franchise, which was last subject to competition by the Department for Transport in 2006.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said requests had been made to the UK government for TfW services to run to Bristol, but it \"turned these down\".\n\nHowever, it was announced on Friday that Grand Union Trains will become a second operator on the line from 2021.\n\nThe Welsh Government supported the proposal as rail travel is a key part of its transport strategy.\n\nIt has allocated £50m for a new park and ride rail scheme at Llanwern in eastern Newport, which would be 30 minutes from both into Cardiff and Bristol.\n\nThis would help ease congestion on the M4 - especially during major events such as rugby matches and pop concerts at the Principality Stadium.\n\nWork is also planned to start in 2020 on Cardiff Parkway Station - which the government described as being of \"strategic significance\".\n\nAs well as linking 32,000 St Mellons residents to the South Wales Metro, the aim is to connect commuters to Swansea and Bristol, keeping them off the M4.\n\nKatherine Simpson, a business manager who lives in Cardiff and works in Bristol said: \"The train is not an option really.\"\n\nShe spends about £2,000 a year - £40 a week - on fuel, considerably less than a £3,156 annual or £78.90 weekly train ticket.\n\n\"I work just outside Bristol and there's only train transportation into central Bristol,\" she said.\n\n\"It would mean a train then bus - so the train ticket is just the start of it. The bridge has made a difference as it has made working in Bristol affordable.\"\n\nTolls on both the M4 and M48 bridges over the River Severn were scrapped last year\n\nNicholas Allan, a Bristol-based sound editor, makes the journey in the opposite direction to visit family in Cardiff.\n\n\"I consider myself quite environmentally aware and believe it to be madness we all drive around in individual metal boxes, so I usually take the public transport option,\" he said.\n\n\"But considering the train fare is more than the equivalent fuel cost, it's too often a close-run decision.\"\n\nHe believes train prices and scrapping Severn tolls makes it easy for people to take the \"environmentally damaging option\".\n\nGreat Western Rail said the setting of fares goes back to the days of British Rail, which operated most overground train services until 1997.\n\nFactors that affected prices included distance, speed and frequency of journey, subsidies, location and demand.\n\nTherefore, if fewer people travelled to Swansea at the time, that meant the price was cheaper in order to encourage people to use the trains, along with the other variables listed above.\n\n\"We recognise that these historical differences occasionally create fare anomalies and we continually look for cost-effective ways to remove anomalies where possible,\" a TfW spokesman said.\n\nThese have included public consultations and discussions with wider industry.\n\nThis piece was inspired by a question from reader J Davies: Why is an annual rail season ticket from Cardiff to Bristol £3,156 but to Swansea it's just £1,796? Better rail service would ease M4 congestion.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Wales, or its people and places?\n\nIs there anything you've always wanted to know?\n\nUse this form to send us your questions:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nWe may get in touch if we decide to follow up on your suggestion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVolunteers are trying to record the 250-year history of Jews in south Wales before it is too late, they say.\n\nA century ago, there were 6,000 Jewish people in Wales, with the figure now in the hundreds and many aged 80 or over.\n\nThe Jewish History Association of South Wales (JHASW) has crowdfunded £3,000 towards an archive.\n\n\"Of the 72 people we've interviewed since August 2017, seven of them have already died and the average age of the others is 85,\" said Klavdija Erzen.\n\n\"So it's vital we create a permanent record of their lives in Wales.\"\n\nMs Erzen, who is JHASW's project manager on the scheme, explained \"time is of the essence\".\n\nA mobile exhibition of 72 oral histories and 6,000 images is currently touring Wales.\n\nBut volunteers want to create a more lasting legacy, which could cost £60,000 to place online and at museums.\n\nIt is hoped Heritage Lottery Fund money could help cover this and \"train and coordinate volunteers to comb museums and libraries across Wales\", according to Ms Erzen.\n\nThe interior of Merthyr Tydfil's synagogue which was open from 1877 to 1982\n\nHe explained that finding records and accounts of Jewish people could be difficult because they generally \"aren't filed as such\".\n\nSouth Wales' first Jewish community was established in Swansea in the 18th Century, with a plot of land allocated for a Jewish cemetery in 1768.\n\nThe Industrial Revolution attracted workers from Russia and other areas of eastern Europe.\n\nBy the late 19th Century there were also thriving communities in Merthyr Tydfil, Brynmawr, Aberdare and Pontypridd.\n\nIn the 1940s, so many Jewish workers had flocked to support the war effort that the predominant languages heard on Treforest Industrial Estate, Rhondda Cynon Taff, were Polish, German and Czech.\n\nJewish businesses in Pontypridd became so successful that the town's high street was colloquially known as \"Jewish Street\".\n\nYet by 1999, Merthyr Tydfil's once 400-strong community had disappeared altogether when George Black, known as \"The Last Jew in Merthyr\", died aged 82.\n\nPontypridd's synagogue was open from 1895 to 1978, and is now a block of flats\n\nMs Erzen said the reasons for the decline are complicated.\n\n\"Partly it's a success story,\" she said. \"The first-generation immigrants worked as labourers and hawkers, but they wanted their children to move into the professions, for which they had to move away.\n\n\"Also, in common with many other groups, the decline of heavy industry in south Wales forced Jewish people to look elsewhere for work.\"\n\nThis created a \"snowball effect\", where more and more people moved away, leading to the closure of synagogues and community services.\n\nMs Erzen added: \"Today there are no Jewish schools or kosher facilities like butchers and delicatessens in Wales.\n\n\"Food has to be delivered from London every fortnight.\"\n\nThe Wartski family ran a shop on Bangor high street - the history of Jews in north Wales has been documented with a walking trail by Bangor University\n\nIf the grant is successful, it is hoped Bangor University researchers will help create a walking trail around Cardiff - similar to one in north Wales.\n\nThere are also plans to research names of Holocaust victims listed on a tablet at the Cardiff Reform Synagogue.\n\n\"We have managed to collect memories from non-Jewish people too, telling us what the communities and businesses meant to them,\" Ms Erzen added.\n\n\"It would be easy to dwell on the stories of anti-Semitism, but I think that would overlook the many hundreds of positive experiences, and the immense Jewish contribution to Welsh culture, sport, enterprise and life in general.\"\n\nThe JHASW mobile exhibition is touring Wales until the end of September.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "-8 -7 -6 -5 B Koepka (US), J Spieth (US), A Puttnam (US), D Frittelli (SA)\n\nRory McIlroy agonisingly missed the cut at his home Open as Ireland's Shane Lowry produced a four-under-par 67 to take a share of the lead.\n\nMcIlroy's 79 on Thursday left him eight shots shy of the cut at one over, and he almost achieved his feat but failed to pick up a birdie at the last.\n\nLowry, 32, is on eight under alongside USA's JB Holmes, with England's Tommy Fleetwood and Lee Westwood a shot back.\n\nAnother Englishman, Justin Rose, is on six under after a 67 at Royal Portrush.\n\nWorld number one Brooks Koepka and 2017 Open champion Jordan Spieth are a shot further back on five under, but former winners Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Darren Clarke all missed the cut.\n\nIt is the first time both Woods and Mickelson have gone out of the same major after the first two rounds.\n\nThe crowd following McIlroy around the County Antrim course began to grow in size as he sank birdie after birdie on the inward nine.\n\nBy the 18th the cheer that greeted the 2014 champion was as if he was going for his second title rather than a mission to make the cut.\n\nHowever, his hopes faded with his approach to the green as the wind took the ball down the bank. The following chip landed wide and ended the 30-year-old's hopes of winning a major on home soil.\n\n\"Part of me is very disappointed not to be here for the weekend. I'm emotional but happy with how I played,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"The support I got out there was incredible and you could see on the back nine, I went with it today and that's what I was planning to do all week.\n\n\"Yesterday gave me a mountain to climb but I dug in and showed good resilience.\n\n\"It's going to hurt for a bit. I've been looking forward to this week for a long time.\n\n\"I didn't play my part but everyone in Northern Ireland came out to watch me and played theirs.\"\n• None Relive live coverage of the Open's second day\n\n'My goodness, have we got a long way to go'\n\nIt has been quite an eventful 12 months for Lowry who has risen to from world number 90 to 33 following victory in Abu Dhabi in January and an eighth place at the US PGA.\n\nHis best performance at a major to date was tied second at the 2016 US Open. However, he is now targeting his first major.\n\n\"I'm obviously going to be thinking about it tonight,\" he said when asked about the prospect of winning the Claret Jug.\n\n\"There's no point in shying away from it. I'm in a great position but, my goodness, have we got a long way to go.\n\n\"As a golfer you have such a long career. I've been 10 years now and it's just a rollercoaster. I think the reason I'm so good mentally now is I know - I think - how to take the downs.\"\n\nClarke, who got the 148th Open under way, will also miss the weekend after he finished on three over. However, Graeme McDowell, born a short distance from the course, managed to sneak through on one over as did last year's champion Francesco Molinari, who carded a 69.\n• None The Cut podcast: It's all about the cut\n\nWoods & Mickelson out but Koepka & Spieth in contention\n\nUnlike McIlroy, three-time winner and current Masters champion Woods never looked like making the cut, and finished on six over.\n\nIt is only the third time in 21 attempts the 15-time major winner has not made the weekend at The Open, and only the 10th time in majors he has missed the cut. Seven of those have come in the past 13 tournaments.\n\nFellow American and 2013 champion Mickelson ended his campaign with a 74 for eight over.\n\nFormer champions Paul Lawrie and Padraig Harrington also missed the cut, as did European Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter. Another former winner, David Duval, ended his sorry campaign on 27 over after he followed Thursday's 91 with a 78.\n\nThe biggest challenge to a European win might come from world number one Koepka and Spieth, who are both on five under.\n\nAmerican Koepka, seeking his fifth major in two years, followed Thursday's 68 with a 69, and compatriot Spieth produced an eagle on the par-five seventh on his way to a 67.\n\nAustralia's Cameron Smith and Justin Harding are among those in contention, on six under.\n\nLowry, along with Westwood, Fleetwood and Rose are Europe's best hopes of stopping a possible American clean-sweep of this year's majors.\n\nFleetwood, last year's US Open runner-up, has gradually improved his final placing at his home major over the past few years.\n\nHe missed the cut in his first three attempts before a tied 27th in 2017 and tied 12th in 2018.\n\nOn Friday, the 28-year-old continued his impressive start to this year's campaign with six birdies en route to a 67.\n\n\"I felt like I was a lot more stress-free,\" said Fleetwood, whose last win was in Abu Dhabi in January 2018.\n\n\"I made two or three good par-saves, but I enjoy the challenge.\"\n\nWestwood, 46, has also yet to win major although he has finished among the top-three places on six occasions, including a second-placed finish at The Open in 2010.\n\nThis year the Worksop player has been aided in his mission by girlfriend Helen Storey, who been working as his caddie at a major tournament for the first time.\n\n\"She's delighted to be caddying at a major because she doesn't have to rake the bunkers and get sand on her trainers,\" said Westwood, who sunk four birdies in an unblemished round of 67.\n\n\"Obviously I get on well with Helen. She doesn't know too much about golf but she knows a lot about the way my mind works, so she keeps me in a good frame of mind, and keeps me focused on the right things at the right times.\"\n\nLast year, Rose finished tied second but only after just making the cut. The 2013 US Open has given himself a better platform from which to challenge for his second major.\n\n\"That weekend would be worth everything if you could put it all together when it counts,\" said Rose, who also recorded a 67.\n\n\"Obviously last year it almost counted. It was great. But it was important for me to have that weekend because it made me believe I could win this tournament.\n\n\"I'm comfortable with how much I expect of myself and that makes it easier tomorrow and the next day.\"\n\n\"We have to give Rory McIlroy credit for what he did in equalling the best round of the day. He made a great effort but all the damage was done on Thursday. The crowd expect so much of him and at least he delivered in his second round.\n\n\"We all want to see the greatest players here at the weekend but there's a new breed of player coming through and you have to play your best at majors. It's disappointing McIlroy and Woods are not here but there's a great leaderboard and so many great players. Just because you have played well in the past doesn't give you the right to be here.\n\n\"Shane Lowry's first 10 holes were amazing but the excitement got a little bit to him in the end and he needs to try to relax and lay out a plan. He then has to stick to it because the last few holes here are very difficult.\n\n\"Lee Westwood is running out of chances to win the Open and would be a very popular winner. He's one of the best players in the world not to have won a major. He has all the qualities - he's so good tee to green but sometimes his putting lets him down. He's putting well this week and there's no reason why he can't be standing there with the trophy on Sunday if he can keep that form going.\"", "Netanyahu still faces a tough fight for his political survival\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu has become Israel's longest-serving prime minister, surpassing the record set by the country's founding father.\n\nMr Netanyahu has led for 4,876 days - one more than Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion.\n\nHe secured his fifth term earlier this year but has called fresh elections after failing to form a government.\n\nMr Netanyahu is currently facing a series of possible corruption charges and calls for him to resign.\n\nHe has denied any wrongdoing and alleges that the case is politically motivated.\n\nMr Netanyahu won his first election in 1996, becoming Israel's youngest-ever prime minister at the age of 46. He is also the first leader born after the creation of the state in 1948.\n\nAs head of the right-wing Likud party, Mr Netanyahu has a reputation as a hardliner on the Israel-Palestinian peace process.\n\nAlthough he carried out a partial withdrawal from the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in 1998 - handing most of it over to the Palestinian Authority - he is a staunch opponent of the land-for-peace formula.\n\nHe has since declared there will be no more evacuations of Jewish settlers or settlements under his rule, nor the creation of a fully fledged Palestinian state.\n\nWhile Mr Netanyahu - colloquially known as Bibi - remains popular with his party base, he is a divisive figure in Israel, where critics see him as venal and even anti-democratic.\n\nHe faces a tough challenge from political opponents seeking to topple him in elections on 17 September. Among them are another former prime minster, Ehud Barak, and a former military chief-of-staff.", "Scientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since Mr Bolsonaro took office\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has accused his own country's national space institute of lying about the scale of deforestation in the Amazon.\n\nHe said the institute was smearing Brazil's reputation abroad by publishing data showing a dramatic increase in deforestation there.\n\nThe far-right president said he wanted to meet with the head of the agency to discuss the issue.\n\nThe National Space Research Institute (Inpe) says its data is 95% accurate.\n\nMr Bolsonaro's comments on Friday came a day after preliminary satellite data released by Inpe showed that more than 1,000 sq km (400 sq miles) of the rainforest had been cleared in the first 15 days of July - an increase of 68% from the entire month of July 2018.\n\nSpeaking in a meeting with foreign journalists, Mr Bolsonaro said the data \"doesn't relate to the reality\".\n\nScientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since Mr Bolsonaro took office in January, with policies that favour development over conservation.\n\nAs the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How is the rainforest helping limit global warming?\n\nOfficial figures suggest that the biggest reason to fell trees there is to create new pastures for cattle.\n\nOver the past decade, previous governments had managed to reduce deforestation with concerted action by federal agencies and a system of fines.\n\nBut Mr Bolsonaro and his ministers have criticised the penalties and overseen a dramatic fall in confiscations of timber and convictions for environmental crimes.\n\nSeveral scientific institutions, including the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, have defended Inpe and the accuracy of its data.\n\nIn his comments to foreign journalists on Friday, Mr Bolsonaro also denied the existence of hunger in Brazil. He said there are no \"people on the streets with skeletal physiques as seen in other countries\", the Reuters news reports.\n\nAccording to data from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, some 5.2 million people suffered from hunger in Brazil in 2017.", "This crisis was entirely predictable, but was it avoidable?\n\nAt the start of this month the Gibraltarian authorities - aided by a detachment of Royal Marines - detained a tanker which was believed to be carrying Iranian oil destined for Syria.\n\nThis would have been a breach of EU sanctions directed against various Syrian entities and individuals.\n\nGibraltar and Britain insist they were acting entirely legally, but Tehran has described the episode as piracy.\n\nAnd ever since the vessel was detained, the Iranians have been threatening to seize a British-flagged ship in retaliation.\n\nIndeed, an earlier effort by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to divert a British tanker into Iranian waters was only averted by the muscular intervention of a Royal Navy warship, the Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose.\n\nBut there is a limit to what one warship can do.\n\nThis time it appears not to have arrived on the scene quickly enough and the Stena Impero and its crew are now in Iranian hands.\n\nA second ship that was detained by the Iranians was subsequently allowed to go, underlining the fact that this seems to be a direct retaliation for the arrest of the tanker off Gibraltar.\n\nWell the first thing to remember is that this specific row between Tehran and London is only one aspect of an already highly volatile situation in the Gulf.\n\nThe Trump administration's decision to walk away from the international nuclear deal with Iran and to re-apply sanctions is having a hugely damaging impact on the Iranian economy.\n\nWhile it denies some of these actions, the US and its allies believe it was responsible for attacking several vessels with limpet mines.\n\nIt has also shot-down a sophisticated US unmanned aircraft.\n\nAnd, as if to underline the risk of conflict, the US claims more recently to have shot down an Iranian UAV (drone) that approached one of its vessels. The Iranians deny the loss.\n\nSo the first order of business is to try to calm tensions and avoid escalation.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has made it clear that way ahead will rely upon diplomacy not force\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has made it clear that he wants this problem resolved urgently, but that the way ahead will rely upon diplomacy not force.\n\nHe has already spoken with his US counterpart - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nHe has tried, but so far failed, to speak to his Iranian opposite number.\n\nThere are likely to be many more bilateral conversations in the hours and days ahead as Britain seeks to develop as wide a coalition of countries as possible to try to encourage Iran to release the Stena Impero.\n\nWhile Britain will not want to have this presented as a simple exchange of vessels - it maintains that Iran's actions, contrary to its own, are illegal - it is highly likely that the fate of the Grace 1 - the vessel detained off Gibraltar - will have to figure in any future arrangement.\n\nSince Iran's threats to UK-flagged shipping were well known, this episode is highly embarrassing for the British government.\n\nThe priority now will be to ensure the safe return of the vessel and its crew.\n\nBut difficult questions will have to be answered concerning the decisions that have been taken and the resources available.\n\nGiven the highly fragile and volatile situation in the Gulf, together with the desperate need to bolster the flagging Iran nuclear accord, was it sensible to detain the vessel carrying Iranian oil off Gibraltar?\n\nWhat did ministers think Iran would do?\n\nAnd did they really believe that this arrest could be insulated from the wider crisis in the Gulf?\n\nSecondly, why was UK shipping not adequately protected in the Gulf?\n\nThere are only a relatively small number of UK-flagged vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, but, as events have shown, far too many for one hard-pressed warship and its crew to provide security.\n\nA second warship is on its way, the Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan.\n\nWe are told that the decision to announce the despatch of the second vessel was thought about long and hard - balancing the need for security against a desire not to do anything to escalate tensions.\n\nNonetheless, Iran was signalling its intentions loud and clear. It was neither deterred nor dissuaded from seizing a British tanker.\n\nThe episode raises some uncomfortable issues regarding Britain's global maritime role.\n\nThe UK has the pretence of playing a significant naval role in the Gulf.\n\nThis today amounts to a naval base, one frigate, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary amphibious landing ship and four mine counter-measures vessels - what used to be called minesweepers.\n\nOne destroyer is on its way and another vessel is due to head to Gulf waters in due course.\n\nThis force was not configured to protect British shipping.\n\nNaval experts believe that the Royal Navy simply no longer has sufficient numbers of work-horses - frigates and destroyers - to be able to surge vessels into the Gulf when a crisis beckons.\n\nYou clearly cannot be everywhere at once.\n\nBritain must tailor its armed forces according to its means. But this crisis did not erupt yesterday.\n\nAnd for whatever reason, the naval presence there was insufficient to prevent the seizure of a British merchant vessel.\n\nPerhaps Iran's warnings were not taken seriously enough?", "Ireland's Shane Lowry produced one of the great major championship rounds with a sensational eight-under-par 63 that sees him take a four-shot lead into Sunday's final round of The Open.\n\nLowry, who called it \"one of the most incredible days of my life,\" carded eight birdies to finish on 16 under overall at Royal Portrush.\n\nEngland's Tommy Fleetwood is Lowry's closest rival on 12 under after a 66.\n\nJB Holmes is third on 10 under, one head of Justin Rose and Brooks Koepka.\n\nWorld number one Koepka, who won this year's US PGA Championship and finished runner-up at the Masters and US Open, finished with successive birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to keep himself in contention to win a fifth major in his last 10 appearances.\n\nBut the day belonged to the 32-year-old Lowry who started the day tied at the top of the leaderboard alongside Holmes and was in sensational form from the first hole until the last, hitting 17 of the 18 greens in regulation as he set a new course record.\n\nA partisan crowd at the Northern Irish course cheered his every birdie, the noise being so raucous that Fleetwood and playing partner Lee Westwood, who were in the group in front, had to wait to play their tee shots on the 18th.\n\nAnd there were incredible scenes as Lowry walked down the last. Scenes usually reserved for the final day of the championship, as fans stood to applaud and cheer their man as he completed a memorable round of golf.\n\nWith adverse weather forecast for Sunday, tee times have been brought forward with the first tee time at 07:32 BST with the leaders beginning their final round at 13:47 BST.\n\n'Nowhere I'd rather be'\n\nWith home favourite Rory McIlroy - who shot a 61 on this course before two new holes were created on the Dunluce Links for The Open - missing Friday's halfway cut, the fans put their support behind Lowry, and he rose to the occasion.\n\nHe came agonisingly close to matching Branden Grace's major-championship record of 62, set at The Open two years ago at Birkdale, but his effort for birdie on the 18th missed by an inch.\n\nNevertheless, his 16-under overall total of 197 is the lowest after 54 holes in Open history and he has, so far, shown little signs of faltering in his pursuit of a first major success.\n\nEven as Fleetwood rose up the leaderboard Lowry kept his cool, picking up a shot on the par-five fourth before taking the outright lead with another gain on the 12th before successive birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th stretched his advantage to four.\n\nAnd amid the chaotic scenes on the 18th as Lowry putted for par, his playing partner Holmes holed a birdie putt to ensure a positive end to a mixed round.\n\nThe American had kept pace with Lowry through the first 12 holes, sinking three birdies without dropping a shot, but bogeys on the 13th and 14th allowed Lowry to move clear. Holmes finished with a two-under 69 and starts Sunday's round six shots off the pace.\n\nHowever, Lowry knows as well as anyone that there is still a long way to go. Three years ago he went into the final round of the US Open with a four-shot lead only to let that tournament slip from his grasp with a final-round 76.\n\n\"I hope I'm going to be able to deal with it better,\" said Lowry. \"I know it's going to be difficult and hard but hopefully I am ready for it.\n\n\"I have a tough 24 hours ahead of me, but there's nowhere I would rather be. I have a four-shot lead in an Open in Ireland. Sunday is going to be incredible no matter what happens.\"\n\nWaiting to pounce should Lowry slip up, however, is Fleetwood.\n\nThe Southport native is aiming to become the first English winner of the Open since Nick Faldo in 1992 and he, like Lowry, made the most of the calm conditions to shoot a low score on the front nine, hitting three birdies to reach the turn in three under.\n\nFleetwood picked up another birdie on the par-five 12th but finished with six straight pars to post a bogey-free 66.\n\n\"We'll see what happens, but Sunday is going to be special and very loud,\" Fleetwood told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It will be a challenge to keep your concentration all day but I wouldn't have it any other way.\"\n\nEngland's Rose, who finished in a share of second place at last year's Open Championship at Carnoustie, threatened to trouble the leaders when an eagle on the par-five 12th followed by two birdies propelled him up the leaderboard.\n\nHowever, a bogey on the par-three 16th meant he finished with a three-under 68 and will start Sunday seven shots behind Lowry, alongside Koepka, who shot six birdies and two bogeys.\n\nCompatriot Lee Westwood briefly climbed to the top of the leaderboard after a run of three successive birdies from the second, sparking hopes the 46-year-old might finally break his major duck, but his form slipped on the back nine and two bogeys meant he signed for a 70 to finish on eight under.\n\nBut it was a good day for 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett as the Yorkshireman shot the second lowest total of the day.\n\nThe 31-year-old hit six birdies without dropping a shot, giving him the clubhouse lead halfway through the round but Lowry's scintillating display likely leaves Willett needing another strong final round to just put himself in contention for a second major victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said Boris Johnson would do \"a great job\" as UK prime minister and they would have \"a very good relationship\".\n\n\"He's a different kind of a guy but they say I'm a different kind of a guy too,\" Mr Trump told reporters.\n\nOutgoing prime minister Theresa May \"has done a very bad job with Brexit\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson is the frontrunner in the contest to become the next Tory leader and UK prime minister.\n\nHe and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt are the final two candidates, with the winner announced on 23 July and taking office the next day.\n\nPresident Trump said he had spoken to Mr Johnson on Thursday, adding: \"We get along well.\"\n\n\"I like Boris Johnson, I always have,\" he told reporters in the Oval Office in Washington DC.\n\nCommenting on the UK's Brexit negotiations, he said: \"It's a disaster and it shouldn't be that way.\"\n\n\"I think Boris will straighten it out,\" he added.\n\nThe US president has previously said Mr Johnson would be an \"excellent\" choice as Conservative leader.\n\nHe has also been critical of Mrs May's Brexit policy in the past, saying he was surprised by how \"badly\" the negotiations had gone.\n\nSome 160,000 Conservative Party members are voting in a postal ballot to elect the next leader. Ballots must be returned by 17:00 BST on Monday.", "The BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell has been interrupted on air by pro-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nThere have been mass demonstrations in the city in recent weeks against a proposed extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to China for trial.\n\nThis weekend is seeing mass protests by both pro- and anti-China demonstrators in Hong Kong.\n\nRead more: Why are there protests in Hong Kong? All the context you need", "December, 1987: A tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq war\n\nTankers blazing in the Gulf. American warships answering distress calls. Warlike rhetoric sparking fears of a wider conflict.\n\nWe've been here before: 28 years ago, America and Iran came to blows in the same waters. Ships were attacked, crew members killed and injured.\n\nBefore it was over, an Iranian airliner had been shot out of the sky, by mistake.\n\nThe \"tanker war\" was a moment of high international tension at the end of revolutionary Iran's eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nThe two sides had been attacking each other's oil facilities since the mid-1980s.\n\nSoon neutral ships were being hit too, as the warring nations tried to exert economic pressure on the other side. Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi oil were especially vulnerable.\n\nThe US, under Ronald Reagan, was reluctant to get involved. But the situation in the Gulf was becoming increasingly dangerous – a fact underlined when an American warship, the USS Stark, was hit by Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi jet – though Iraqi officials later claimed this was accidental.\n\nBy July 1987, re-registered Kuwaiti tankers, flying the US flag, were being escorted through the Gulf by American warships. In time, it became the biggest naval convoy operation since World War II.\n\nOctober 1987: An escort from the USS Guadalcanal watches a tanker in the Persian Gulf\n\nThen, as now, America and Iran were at loggerheads.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had been calling America \"The Great Satan\" since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.\n\nWashington was still smarting from the humiliation of seeing 52 of its diplomats held hostage in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 – 1981.\n\nSo even though Iran and Iraq were both responsible for the crisis, the tanker war was quickly part of the simmering, long-running feud between Iran and America.\n\nIt's a feud that has never gone away and which has flared once more in the wake of Donald Trump's decision to apply \"maximum pressure\" after walking away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nOnce again, the waters either side of the Strait of Hormuz have become the arena in which this almost pathological contest plays out.\n\nWhat, if anything, has changed?\n\n\"Both sides have expanded their capabilities,\" says Dr Martin Navias, author of a book on the tanker war.\n\nIran, he says, is more capable than ever of using mines, submarines and fast boats to attack and damage commercial and military shipping.\n\nAnd it's not just a battle at sea: Iran's ability to shoot down a sophisticated American surveillance drone points to another battle, high overhead.\n\nThe US military identified the drone as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nCould the US and Iran start to exchange serious blows?\n\nIf attacks on tankers escalate, we could see another US-led reflagging and escort operation.\n\nOn 24 July 1987, a re-flagged Kuwaiti tanker hit an Iranian mine on the very first convoy mission. The US deployed more forces and more ships. The two sides were now on a collision course.\n\nIn September, American helicopters attacked an Iranian ship after watching it lay mines at night.\n\nIn the months that followed, more tankers, and a US frigate, were hit. American forces responded with ever greater firepower, destroying Revolutionary Guard bases and attacking Iranian warships.\n\nEventually it ended – but not before an American missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook an Iranian Airbus A300 for an attacking jet and shot it down, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290\n\nThe official report into the incident said that \"stress, task fixation (and) an unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role\".\n\nThe US navy invested heavily in technology and training to avoid such catastrophic mistakes in the future.\n\nBut Nick Childs, a naval analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says today's environment, with rivals also exchanging angry salvoes on social media, makes for a febrile atmosphere.\n\n\"The information space has changed,\" he says. \"People get jittery. The danger is that each side is misreading the other.\"\n\nDonald Trump and Hassan Rouhani both say they don't want a war. Hardliners, on both sides, are a little more ambiguous.\n\nDr Navias says we're not yet heading for another tanker war.\n\n\"We're not seeing an anti-shipping campaign, but a signalling campaign,\" he says. \"The Iranians are signalling to the Americans that they could escalate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nFor all the drama of those months in 1987 and 1988, very few tankers were actually sunk and shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz was never seriously disrupted.\n\nNow, 30 years on, the US is far less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Iran has far more to lose, in terms of imports and exports, from a closure of the Strait.\n\nFor now, another tanker war seems unlikely. But the fact that neither side really wants an all-out confrontation doesn't mean it won't happen.\n\nDr Navias says the dangers are real.\n\n\"This kind of environment is pregnant with possibilities.\"", "The chairman of the High Speed 2 rail project has reportedly warned that its cost could rise by £30bn.\n\nHS2 chairman Allan Cook has written to the Department for Transport to say the high-speed line cannot be delivered within its £56bn budget, according to the Financial Times.\n\nThe DfT said a review of HS2's costs is continuing.\n\nThe line will connect London, the Midlands and northern England using trains capable of travelling at 250mph.\n\n\"The chairman of HS2 Ltd is conducting detailed work into of the costs and schedule of the project to ensure it delivers benefits to passengers, the economy and represents value for money for the taxpayer,\" the DfT said in a statement.\n\n\"This work is ongoing. We expect Allan Cook to provide his final assessment in due course.\"\n\nThe first segment of the project between London and Birmingham is due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase to Leeds and Manchester expected to be completed by 2032-33.\n\nAn HS2 spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on leaks or speculation.\n\n\"We have previously noted that our chair, as you would expect, continues to scrutinise the programme, and regularly reports back to the Department [for Transport].\n\n\"We are determined to deliver a railway that rebalances the economy, creates jobs, boosts economic growth and is value for money for taxpayers.\"\n\nMr Cook was appointed to head HS2 in December 2018 after his predecessor, Sir Terry Morgan, resigned as chairman because of delays at the Crossrail project in London which he was also leading.\n\nThere has been no denial that this letter was sent by the chairman of HS2 to the top civil servant at the Department for Transport.\n\nAnd none of my contacts have rubbished the \"potential £30bn overspend\" idea outright.\n\nSources at HS2 and at the DfT insist Allan Cook's review is ongoing and that he has not settled on a final figure.\n\nThat may be true, but there has been a subtle shift of tone in recent months from both HS2 and the government; a creeping acceptance that the project, in its current form, is increasingly unlikely to come in within its £56bn budget.\n\nAnd there has already been plenty of evidence suggesting that the project's original estimates of how much it would cost to purchase land and property along the route were significantly below the true values.\n\nThis leak, which feels at the very least like a case of 'no smoke without fire', comes at a very sensitive time.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling, who has repeatedly insisted that the project HAS to be delivered within budget, is possibly leaving his post in a matter of days.\n\nBoris Johnson - considered the front-runner to be the UK's next prime minister - is by no means a die-hard fan of the scheme.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson has already nominated a former HS2 executive, Douglas Oakervee, to carry out a separate review of the project if he gets the keys to No 10 next week.\n\n£56bn was already a hefty sum. As a former senior official at the Treasury puts it: \"In terms of value for money it [HS2] scores lower than lots of other projects.\"\n\nAnd the government \"is taking quite a big risk\" by putting so much money into high-speed rail, the source told me.\n\nThat risk looks set to rise.", "The puppies catch up on some sleep after their ordeal\n\nSix puppies stolen by machete-wielding burglars have been reunited with their mother after they were found by police.\n\nThe litter was snatched on Saturday morning when two men followed a man into a flat in Harpurhey, Manchester.\n\nThe five-week-old puppies were shoved into carrier bags and their mother was slashed in the face when she tried to defend them, police said.\n\nOfficers later recovered all six puppies from a property in Moston.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nGMP initially believed seven puppies were taken but on Sunday they said six puppies had been stolen.\n\nZena was injured with a machete while trying to defend her puppies\n\nDet Con Nick Kershaw said: \"The puppies are all safe and well, and have been reunited with their mother, Zena, who was absolutely delighted to see them.\n\n\"It has been a huge effort from the team to reunite the puppies with their mother before the worst happened, however our investigation is not finished there and we are keen to speak with anyone who can help us.\"\n\nA man at the Fernclough Road flat was also attacked during the burglary and suffered \"defensive wounds\" to his hands and arms, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nOfficers said the burglars - who also took cash, keys and a phone - were both black, slim and wore dark clothing with their hoods up.\n\nBoth men were thought to be in their 20s.\n\nOne is believed to have been about 6ft 3in and was wearing a grey and black camouflage face covering while the other is slightly shorter and wore a plain black face covering, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gen Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of US Central Command, visited Saudi Arabia on Thursday\n\nThe Pentagon has said US troops are being deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend American interests from \"emergent credible threats\".\n\nThe move comes amid heightened tensions with Iran over the safety of shipping lanes in the Gulf.\n\nSaudi Arabia confirmed that King Salman had approved the move \"to strengthen regional security and stability\".\n\nThe kingdom has not hosted US combat forces since 2003, when Donald Rumsfeld announced their withdrawal.\n\nThe US presence in Saudi Arabia started with Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when Iraq invaded Kuwait.\n\nBBC North America correspondent Peter Bowes says the US is understood to be deploying Patriot air defence missile batteries manned by 500 soldiers to Prince Sultan Base in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe US also plans to send a squadron of F-22 stealth fighters to the base.\n\n\"This movement of forces provides an additional deterrent and ensures our ability to defend our forces and interests in the region from emergent, credible threats,\" a statement from US Central Command said.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran have worsened since Washington unilaterally withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. The US has since tightened sanctions it re-imposed on Iran's oil sector.\n\nLast month, Iran shot down a US surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz, accusing it of violating Iranian airspace. The US insisted the drone had been over international waters at the time, and condemned it as an unprovoked attack.\n\nThe US has also called on Iran to release a Panamanian-flagged tanker and 12 of its crew, which was seized by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday during a naval patrol. Iran said the vessel had been smuggling fuel.\n\nThen on Thursday President Donald Trump said a US warship had destroyed an Iranian drone that came too close. Iran has denied losing a drone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran releases video which it claims show its drone still flying\n\nOn Friday tensions ratcheted up even higher when Iranian forces seized the UK-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in the Gulf saying it was in breach of regulations.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt demanded the tanker's release, saying there would be \"serious consequences\" if Iran continued to detain it.\n\nThe US has also blamed Iran for two separate attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June - an allegation Tehran has denied.", "Netball World Cup: England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa battle for final Last updated on .From the section Netball\n\nCommonwealth champions England will bid to reach their first Netball World Cup final when they take on New Zealand in the last four in Liverpool on Saturday. The Roses are unbeaten in their home tournament so far but this will be their toughest test yet. Four-time winners the Silver Ferns have contested the last five finals, playing Australia on every occasion. The Aussie Diamonds are the holders and play South Africa in the first semi-final at 11:15 BST. The Proteas, ranked fifth in the world, were runners-up in 1995 but had not reached another semi-final prior to this year's tournament. There will be live coverage of England v New Zealand from 14:30 BST on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, Red Button and online, with Australia v South Africa live on the Red Button and BBC Sport website and app from 11:00 BST.\n• None All you need to know about the final weekend\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone 'This will be a fantastic battle' The Roses have reached the World Cup semi-final consistently since the tournament was reformatted in 1991 but have yet to advance to a final. Most recently, at the 2015 tournament in Sydney, they lost 50-39 against New Zealand and went on to claim bronze. However, England have beaten the Silver Ferns in their previous three meetings and having also won Commonwealth gold in 2018 are aiming to lift the trophy on home soil. So far, coach Tracey Neville has had two difficult matches to negotiate, but they came through unscathed against world number two side Jamaica and finished the group stage in some style with a 57-48 win over South Africa. New Zealand, meanwhile, will have to pick themselves up after losing by a single goal against Australia in their final group match. Of Saturday's opponents, Roses defender Geva Mentor said: \"I highly rate Noeline Taurua as a coach and she'll have done her homework on every single one of our players. \"They had a great game against Australia and they're in great form. They look really fit so it's going to be a fantastic battle.\" On paper, it is almost impossible to see past an Australia semi-final victory given they have won 11 World titles - including the last three - and three Commonwealth golds. They have the best domestic league in the world, the biggest financial backing and the most competitive development programme. The Diamonds cantered through their first five games of this tournament, and, just like England, were not outscored in a single quarter until they came up against New Zealand in that final group game. Underdogs South Africa beat the higher-ranked Jamaica convincingly in the group stage but were then outplayed for large periods in the loss to England. The Proteas lost their influential captain Bongi Msomi in the first quarter and they will be sweating on her fitness for the Diamonds clash. Coach Norma Plummer, a former world champion and Australia player, has turned the team into championship contenders since she took over in 2015, and the thought of receiving a substantial bonus for winning gold or silver will also be added motivation for the 74-year-old's players. BBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here. Give it a go yourself! Find out how to get into netball with the BBC Get Inspired guide", "HM Courts and Tribunals Service said it treats security \"extremely seriously\"\n\nThousands of knives and sharp objects are being confiscated annually at London family courts, with campaigners saying it showed how \"desensitised\" some people were to carrying weapons.\n\nEighty-six knives with blades longer than 3in (8cm) were seized in 2018-19, a big rise from just 18 a year earlier, Ministry of Justice data revealed.\n\nAlmost 4,000 shorter blades were found in 2018-19, the figures showed.\n\nHM Courts and Tribunals Service said it treated security \"extremely seriously\".\n\nFamily courts mainly deal with private family disputes that involve parents and concern their children, and public work when local authorities take action to remove children from their parents' care.\n\nThe figures, revealed following a Freedom of Information Act request from the BBC, covered 15 of the courts based in the capital.\n\nMandatory bag searches, metal detectors and surveillance cameras are used to find blades and anything considered an offensive weapon is reported to police.\n\nThe number of longer-bladed weapons confiscated had fallen before increasing dramatically last year.\n\nIn the financial year 2015-16, 41 were taken by court staff but that dropped to 11 in 2016-17 and 18 the following year, before soaring back up to 86 in 2018-19.\n\nThe number of knives with shorter blades increased steadily from 1,814 to 3,893 over the same four-year period.\n\nThe figures for shorter blades include items of cutlery, razors, pen knives, key rings and scissors which have been confiscated, as well as weapons.\n\nPatrick Green, chief executive officer of anti-knife charity The Ben Kinsella Trust, said the increase was likely to be partly down to improved security, but also showed how carrying a knife had become \"normalised behaviour\" for some people, even in places where they knew they would be searched.\n\n\"It defies logic to the majority of us but it shows their thinking and association with carrying knives,\" he said.\n\nThe president of the Family Division of the High Court has expressed a similar view.\n\nDuring a lecture in May, Sir Andrew McFarlane said the judiciary \"do not believe that most, indeed any, of these knives were necessarily being brought in for use in the court building\".\n\n\"It simply seems to be a facet of everyday life in 2019 for some members of the population.\"\n\nThe courts service said staff confiscated items to \"keep our sites free of any article that could be used as a weapon\".\n\n\"HMCTS has a robust security and safety system to protect all court users and the Judiciary,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of central London in a march against Brexit and Conservative Party leadership hopeful Boris Johnson.\n\nThe pro-European March for Change is holding a \"No to Boris, Yes to Europe\" event, and includes a blimp depicting him.\n\nCampaigners are asking for Mr Johnson to \"stop the Brexit chaos\".\n\nEither he or Jeremy Hunt will be named as Theresa May's replacement as prime minister next week.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Mr Johnson, who has declined to comment on the march, is seen as the frontrunner in the contest.\n\nMany protesters waved the European Union flag as they demonstrated through central London\n\nHe said the UK would leave the European Union by 31 October \"come what may\" under his tenure, while Mr Hunt said he expected this to happen by Christmas.\n\nMr Johnson has claimed Brexit \"done right\" could \"cement and intensify\" the union between the UK nations.\n\nThe balloon depicting Mr Johnson has \"£350m\" emblazed on its front, symbolising the leave campaign's pledge of money towards the NHS during the 2016 referendum.\n\nThe March for Change organisers said: \"We won't put up with a hard Brexit PM being imposed on the country and hurtling us towards the cliff edge.\"\n\nThe march began in Park Lane and ended with a rally in Parliament Square\n\nProtesters used placards to share their feelings on Brexit\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some tweets called for the release of drill rap artist Digga D\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's website has been hit by hackers who posted a series of bizarre messages.\n\nA series of tweets were sent from the force's verified account, which has more than a million followers, including one about rapper Digga D.\n\nA stream of unusual emails were also sent from the force's press bureau at about 23:30 BST on Friday.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed its website had \"been subject to unauthorised access\".\n\nFollowing the incident, US President Donald Trump renewed his attack on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, in a tweet quoting right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins.\n\nMs Hopkins said \"they have lost control of London streets\" and \"apparently they lost control of their twitter account too\", while Mr Trump added: \"With the incompetent Mayor of London, you will never have safe streets!\".\n\nThe Mayor's office has declined to comment on Mr Trump's tweet.\n\nThe force said it used an online provider called MyNewsDesk to issue news releases and said \"unauthorised messages\" appeared on its website, Twitter account and in emails sent to subscribers.\n\nThe Met's account has more than a million followers\n\nThe tweets, which have been deleted, contained offensive language and mentioned the names of several people.\n\nThe posts also linked to press releases about the rapper and an apparent missing child.\n\nBBC home affairs producer Daniel De Simone tweeted that the hack was a \"serious issue\" and added: \"The press and public relies on comms from the Met during emergencies such as terror attacks.\"\n\nA Met spokesman said the force was working to establish exactly what happened.\n\n\"We have begun making changes to our access arrangements to MyNewsDesk,\" he added.\n\n\"At this stage, we are confident the only security issue relates to access to our MyNewsDesk account.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers have pledged to put an end to the use of so-called \"poor doors\" in housing developments in England.\n\nThe separate entrances for social housing tenants living in new builds \"stigmatise\" and divide them from private residents, the government said.\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire said he had been \"appalled\" by the examples of segregation he had seen.\n\nUnder the new measures, planning guidance is to be toughened in a bid to create more inclusive developments.\n\nDevelopers are often required to build social or affordable housing units in private developments as a condition of being granted planning permission.\n\nBut in some cases, social housing tenants have been excluded from using some facilities, and made to use different entrances from those which give access to privately owned homes.\n\nIn March, one development in south London was reported by the Guardian to have blocked children living in social housing from using a communal playground.\n\nThe BBC also visited a London apartment block in 2015 where there were separate entrances for private and social housing tenants.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan promised during his election campaign in 2015 to ban the practice, describing it as an \"appalling form of social segregation\".\n\n\"Poor doors segregate people who are living side by side, they drive a wedge between our communities,\" he said at the time.\n\nAs part of new measures, the government said a new design manual will set expectations for the inclusivity of future developments and help ensure planning decisions promote social interaction in communities.\n\nThe measures come as a survey commissioned by the government to mark 100 years of social housing found older people were less likely to feel comfortable about living close to council and housing association properties.\n\nAccording to the survey, 38% of over-65s reported feeling comfortable, compared with 53% of 18 to 25-year-olds.", "The tourists were also fined €950 (£853)\n\nPolice in Venice have fined two German tourists who were caught making coffee on the steps of the Rialto bridge.\n\nThe backpackers, aged 32 and 35, were fined a total of €950 (£853) for preparing coffee on a travel cooker. They were also asked to leave the city.\n\nVenice has introduced a law on a series of public order offences - including picnicking at certain sites and not wearing a shirt in public spaces.\n\nAbout 30 million tourists visit the city every year.\n\nThe tourists from Berlin were spotted making coffee at the foot of the Rialto Bridge - the oldest of the four bridges on the Grand Canal. They were reported to police by a passer-by.\n\nVenice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said: \"Venice must be respected and those impolite people who come here and do what they want must understand that. Thanks to the local police, they will be sanctioned and removed.\"\n\nThe pair, from Germany, were asked to leave Venice\n\nThose found flouting the rules will have their identities shared with the embassy of their home country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cruise ship crashes into a dock in Venice in June\n\nVenetians have long complained about mass tourism in the city.\n\nLast December, the city won approval to introduce an entry fee of up to €10 for short-stay tourists.", "Passengers at London Heathrow were handed letters from BA explaining the suspension of the Cairo flights\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all flights to the Egyptian capital Cairo for a week as a security \"precaution\".\n\nPassengers about to board a BA flight to the city from London's Heathrow Airport were told that it was cancelled - and that there would be no alternative flights for a week.\n\nThe airline did not specify what the security issue was.\n\nA spokesman for Cairo airport told the BBC the airport had yet to be notified by BA of any such changes.\n\nA BA spokesman said: \"We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment.\n\n\"The safety and security of our customers and crew is always our priority, and we would never operate an aircraft unless it was safe to do so.\"\n\nGerman airline Lufthansa also cancelled flights to Cairo on Saturday. However, flights to the city would resume on Sunday, a spokesman said.\n\nChristine Shelbourne, 70, from Surrey was due to go to Cairo for a week on Saturday with her 11-year-old grandson. She said she managed to check into the flight at 1500 (1400 GMT). However, her boarding card wouldn't open the barriers.\n\nMs Shelbourne said her husband knew about the cancellation before the airport staff\n\nShe said: \"The check-in staff reissued my boarding pass and I tried again but that didn't work either and we were told to try again in half an hour.\n\n\"Whether they knew anything I don't know, but my husband told me the flight had been cancelled before they did. There were no suggestions or help from staff about alternative flights.\"\n\n\"My 11-year-old grandson is heartbroken - he's been looking forward to the trip for months. We're just not going now,\" she added.\n\n\"It was handled badly to be honest. My grandson is currently looking for flights for us - he's devastated.\"\n\nOne passenger named Dan said the airline had given customers £5 food vouchers \"meant to last 24 hours\".\n\nMichael Khalil, 42, from Guildford says he is about £1,200 out of pocket as a result of his flight being cancelled.\n\nMichael Khalil said he rushed to another terminal to catch an alternative flight to Cairo\n\nHe was booked on the flight earlier on Saturday but ran to Terminal 2 and used his own money to book onto another flight.\n\nMr Khalil works in training and development. He says he has an important business meeting on Monday and told the BBC: \"I have no choice. I have to be there.\"\n\nSafaa Almaghrabi was due to fly to Cairo on 24 July with her husband and six children for her sister's wedding on 26 July.\n\nThe 31-year-old says she cannot find any direct flights. When there were some available earlier on Saturday, they were more than £35,000 for the whole family.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We contacted British Airways and they had two nonsense solutions. The first was to book us a flight on the 31st July, the earliest flight they can. And this way we'll miss the wedding.\"\n\nThey also offered her a full refund which she says is \"really disappointing and unfair.\"\n\nThe only indirect flights she can find are via Dubai, and Jordan which she said \"will be horrible for six kids.\"\n\nShe said: \"I cannot afford to go but I have to go.\"\n\nThe UK Foreign Office updated its advice for Britons travelling to Egypt.\n\nThe advice includes the warning: \"There's a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation. Additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to the UK.\"\n\nFollowing the bomb explosion that destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October 2015 after it had departed Sharm El Sheikh airport, the UK was one of a number of countries to temporarily suspend flights to and from the country.\n\nThe Foreign Office continues to advise against travel to certain parts of Egypt.\n\nHave you been affected by flights to Cairo being cancelled by British Airways? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "MEPs are in Strasbourg and have begun the first full sitting of the European Parliament since May's EU elections.\n\nIt comes as European leaders remain deadlocked over who should get the EU's top jobs, with talks between them resuming over in Brussels.\n\nThe European Parliament has the power to block or amend EU laws, and will have the final say on whether to ratify a Brexit deal with the UK.\n\nHere are four things look out for as the new-look parliament gets back to work.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be back in Strasbourg\n\nThey are the parliamentarians who were never meant to be elected - but with Brexit delayed, the UK has sent 73 MEPs to take up their seats in Strasbourg.\n\nWith 29 MEPs, The Brexit Party will not only be the largest British party, but the joint-biggest party delegation in the European Parliament overall.\n\nThe party has yet to announce if it is joining a new trans-national group, which requires MEPs from at least seven different EU countries.\n\nGroupless parties have more limited access to speaking time, and their leaders don't get to speak at the front, as the BBC's Adam Fleming points out:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have increased their representation from a single MEP to a group of 16 - and will no doubt want to use the platform for their pro-Remain message.\n\nBut with uncertainty surrounding the length of their tenure, it is unclear what role the British MEPs will be given in the running of the new parliament, including piloting legislation through the chamber and chairing its numerous committees.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker is due to step down at the start of November\n\nThis month could prove an early test of mettle for MEPs in the process of deciding who becomes the next boss of another EU institution, the European Commission.\n\nThey have previously insisted that the Commission's next boss must be one of the spitzenkandidaten - or lead candidates - put forward earlier this year by the assembly's various political groups.\n\nThis process resulted in Jean-Claude Juncker - who was the candidate of the centre-right EPP group - becoming the current Commission President in 2014.\n\nHowever the convention is not precisely defined in the EU's treaties, and some leaders are keen to do away with the idea altogether.\n\nThe previous parliament threatened to reject anyone put forward who was not a lead candidate when they face their confirmation vote in the assembly.\n\nThis week's sitting will provide a first opportunity for MEPs to react if a non-spitzenkandidat emerges as the leaders' preferred candidate.\n\nThey will have to decide how far they are willing to go to preserve the principle, ahead of the confirmation vote due later this month.\n\nThe president chairs debates in the chamber and represents the parliament internationally\n\nMEPs are also due to make a decision on who should serve as the European Parliament's next president.\n\nThe job runs until early 2022, the mid-point in the new parliamentary session.\n\nCandidates must be nominated by the assembly's political groups or a group of at least 38 MEPs, with the winner decided in a series of secret ballots.\n\nCurrent incumbent Antonio Tajani has insisted the process is \"entirely independent\" of the haggling over other major positions among EU leaders.\n\nBut it remains to be seen whether agreement between leaders on the Commission presidency could result in a side-deal for the Parliament role, which would see the major political groups unite behind a common candidate.\n\nIndeed according to one compromise deal discussed by EU leaders, the role has already been offered to German MEP Manfred Weber as a consolation prize if his bid to become the Commission president fails.\n\nWith new personnel comes a change in the political groups which house the myriad national parties represented in the parliament and provide a basic structure governing the allocation of funds, positions and speaking time in the chamber.\n\nThe National Rally party of Marine Le Pen and Italy's right-wing League party have clubbed together with Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) to form a new group called Identity and Democracy.\n\nWith 73 MEPs, they will be the fifth-largest group in the new parliament - and be a bigger presence than the former ENF group they have essentially replaced.\n\nThe liberal group, formerly known as ALDE, now includes MEPs from President Macron's Renaissance delegation and has rebranded as 'Renew Europe'.\n\nThe centre-right EPP and centre-left S&D remain the biggest groups but have lost the combined majority that underpinned their traditional dominance.\n\nWith the liberal, anti-EU and green groups all boosting their numbers, the power structure in the new assembly will be more fragmented.\n\nSome of the largest groups are in talks to see if they can reach agreement on shared objectives in areas such as trade, climate change, and migration.\n\nBut even if a deal is reached, compromise could be more difficult, particularly in policy areas where the divide between parties on the left and right is often more important then where they stand on the EU project overall.", "Scotland struggles to retain many of the doctors it trains\n\nScottish universities are to recruit more medical students from Scotland at the expense of those from elsewhere in the UK.\n\nThe move will see the number of medical students who live north of the border increase by 100.\n\nThe number accepted from England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be reduced by the same amount.\n\nIt is hoped the move will ensure more doctors stay in Scotland after finishing their training.\n\nThe Scottish government said in 2016 that it would increase the number of medical school places by 190 over the next five years as part of efforts to tackle a shortage in doctors.\n\nHowever, it fears that the Scottish NHS will not fully benefit from this increase unless more doctors actually stay and work in Scotland once they have graduated.\n\nThe government says medical students from other parts of the UK are twice as likely to leave after finishing their training than those who are from Scotland.\n\nAnd it says Scotland currently has far fewer \"home\" domiciled medical students than England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has estimated that increasing the number of Scottish medical students by 100 will lead to 36 new doctors working in the Scottish NHS each year.\n\nIt hopes the move will also encourage some of the 100 or so Scots who study medicine elsewhere in the UK every year to train in Scotland instead.\n\nThe government has acknowledged that the new policy has \"caused concern\" with universities as it will disadvantage students from the rest of the UK, but it argues that the \"positive gain\" in the Scottish workforce justifies the move.\n\nScottish universities can charge £9,000 a year in fees to students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Evidence shows that Scots domiciled graduates remain working in NHS Scotland in the longer term at a significantly higher rate than graduates from elsewhere in the UK or overseas.\n\n\"Following discussion with universities, a new target for Scottish domiciled and the rest of EU medical student intake for 2019-20 was introduced in line with Scottish government guidance to increase retention of medical students.\"\n\nUniversities Scotland said it was pleased that more Scots would be able to study medicine in Scotland - but it was \"unfortunate\" that students from other parts of the UK would lose out.\n\nIts director, Alastair Sim, said: \"We will continue our constructive dialogue with the Scottish government about how workforce needs across the NHS can be met, including monitoring the success of this initiative.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association said Scotland should be careful not to turn down the most talented students purely because of where they live, and said the focus should instead be on making the Scottish NHS a more attractive place to work.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said it was \"no surprise\" that universities were concerned about the new policy, which it claimed was \"yet more evidence of the deeply damaging discrimination inherent within SNP higher education policy.\"\n\nAs a general rule, universities are free to choose how many fee paying students from the rest of the UK and countries outside Europe to admit.\n\nThey have always strongly denied claims that Scots were deprived of places to let more fee paying students from elsewhere in.\n\nOrdinarily they describe these suggestions as being like comparing apples and pears.\n\nThe number of places for Scots (and, at present, nationals of EU countries outside the UK) is agreed between universities and the Scottish Funding Council. Scots are not denied places, they insist, to give more fee paying students a chance.\n\nSo why should an increase in the number of places for Scots studying medicine mean a drop in the number of opportunities for those from the rest of the UK?\n\nThe nature of the courses mean that it simply would not be practical to quickly increase the overall number of students. So more places for Scots mean, for now at least, that there will be fewer opportunities for others.\n\nThis may lead to some debate within universities which are always keen to portray themselves as international institutions.\n\nOrdinarily though, any increase in the number of SFC funded places on a course would not lead to a directly corresponding drop in the number of places available to those who pay fees.", "FlyBe has denied racism was the reason it stopped a British group getting on a flight from the Netherlands to the UK.\n\nVideos posted to social media by the sister of Chloe Williams - who was one of four women who were denied boarding - accused the staff of \"racial profiling\".\n\nThe airline says it stopped the passengers from boarding because of their \"disruptive behaviour\".\n\nChloe, 20, told Radio 1 Newsbeat her family would take legal action.\n\nThe group of friends had been in Amsterdam for the Oh My! Festival to celebrate the end of their year of studying.\n\nChloe says the problem started when the flight they were meant to be on - which was taking them back to Birmingham on Sunday - began boarding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by kai$£r This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from London, said her group were first in line but weren't seated in the seat numbers that had been called for boarding - so they were asked to stand to the side.\n\nBut when it was their turn she claims their passports were briefly taken and they were told they wouldn't be allowed on.\n\n\"The attendant said 'It's my plane, I decide who goes on',\" Chloe says.\n\nFlyBe denies that the group's passports were taken at any stage, by them or by the Dutch police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by kai$£r This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChloe claims that airport staff threw a \"barrage\" of insults at her and her friends - and denies that any of them were threatening towards FlyBe staff.\n\nThe airline says it's taken the allegations made by the group \"extremely seriously\" and they were investigated \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nIt told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"Flybe's third party ground services' agents did feel threatened by the aggressive behaviour and language used towards them by this group of passengers.\"\n\nVideo footage of the incident was posted by Chloe's sister - who was not part of the group - on to Twitter where it went viral with more than 20,000 retweets.\n\nFlyBe claims the word \"disgust\" used towards the group was \"misinterpreted\" in the video and was meant to refer to the fact the gate agent was \"disgusted by their behaviour\".\n\n\"There was no intention for this to be communicated or received as a personal insult to any of the passengers involved.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlyBe says it \"stands by its decision\" to stop the passengers boarding because of their \"disruptive behaviour\".\n\nIt also claims to have been in touch with a family member of the passengers involved - something Chloe says hasn't happened.\n\nThe group eventually made it back on the Eurostar train - 24 hours after the flight they were supposed to be on had left.\n\nChloe says the tickets cost her friends £240 each.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fans are accusing TikTok creators of exploiting them for cash\n\nVideo-sharing app TikTok says it is \"sorry\" that some children and other young people have felt pressured into sending money to their favourite influencers on the app.\n\nTikTok lets fans send their favourite videomakers \"digital gifts\", which can cost up to £48.99.\n\nA BBC investigation found influencers promising to share their phone numbers with fans in exchange for the gifts.\n\nTikTok said it would strengthen its policies and guidelines but did not explain exactly how.\n\nClaire (not her real name) told BBC News she regretted spending £100 to obtain her favourite TikTok star's phone number - and he had never answered his phone.\n\nClaire, 12, who lives in the north-west of England, sent TikTok star Sebastian Moy a £48.99 \"drama queen\" gift to show her appreciation for his videos.\n\nAnd when he had asked for another one in exchange for his personal phone number, she said she was swept up in the moment.\n\nThe US-based video-maker has 3.8 million fans on TikTok and has not broken any of the app's rules.\n\nHe has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nTikTok is the fastest-growing social media app, with about 500 million regular users, although the company doesn't disclose its userbase. It's estimated to have been downloaded more than a billion times on app stores.\n\nThe app lets people post 15-second videos. It is known for clips of teenagers lip-syncing and dancing to the latest trending music.\n\nThe company says it is most popular with 16- to 24-year-olds but there is evidence that many users are under 13, which is against the app's rules.\n\nThe firm has already been fined $5.7m (£4.5m) by a US regulator after being accused of collecting under-13s' personal details without their parents' consent. And on Tuesday, the UK's Information Commissioner revealed she had also launched an inquiry into whether the app was doing enough to safeguard its youngest users.\n\n\"We do have an active investigation into TikTok right now, so you can watch that space,\" said Elizabeth Denham.\n\nVideomakers with more than 1,000 followers are allowed to broadcast live on the platform. It is during these live streams that fans can send digital gifts to show their appreciation.\n\nGifts appear as on-screen animations and cost between 5p and £48.99. The app's biggest stars can earn thousands of pounds in one live stream.\n\nTikTok declined to say how much of that money it kept - but several influencers told the BBC they took home 50% of all gift revenue earned.\n\nOver 10 weeks, the BBC monitored dozens of live streams in which the app's stars asked fans for gifts.\n\nIn exchange, they promised shoutouts on their live streams, said they would follow back fans on social media or offered to make \"duets\", which allow users to collaborate with TikTok stars in a split-screen video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne creator promised to talk to a fan on Instagram \"for a week\" and was given three gifts worth a total of £147.\n\nSome creators routinely offered personal messaging details and phone numbers in exchange for gifts.\n\nThe BBC also found a group who scoured the app for people giving gifts and then contacted them directly asking for money in exchange for \"likes\" and \"follows\".\n\nStephanie Barbour, from Toronto, found her 11-year-old daughter had run up a bill for $400 (£240).\n\n\"I was shocked when I found out what the money was spent on,\" she said.\n\n\"I said to my daughter, 'So you don't actually get anything for it?' and she said, 'No.'\n\n\"Adults should know better. And even other teenagers should know better - that you do not ask children for money.\"\n\nAnother TikTok fan, Kelly, told the BBC she had spent £500-£600 of her own money on digital gifts. She no longer sends them because she feels she was exploited.\n\n\"I understand people need to make money these days off social media but I just think it's force-fed down young people's throats that they need to pay money to get attention or feel appreciated,\" Kelly said.\n\nRhys, 20 said he had spent more than £1,000 without realising it.\n\n\"Gifting on TikTok is a little bit like gambling,\" he said \"It gets addictive. I really didn't see anything wrong with it at the time but now I don't think it's worth it.\n\n\"I have nothing to show for it. It was my personal choice but I do think there should be some sort of age restriction or timeout function.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted several of the TikTok stars seen using such techniques but most of them did not reply.\n\nThe Neffati brothers have amassed 2.5 million followers in just six months on the platform.\n\nThe 25-year-old Polish twins who live in Blackburn, Lancashire, are famous for their dancing and comedy sketches.\n\nThey offer to follow back fans in exchange for a \"drama queen\" gift, worth £49 and promise to write fans' names on their heads if they send multiple gifts.\n\nThey told the BBC that they had only started offering perks in exchange for gifts because they had been receiving them regularly.\n\nThey said they were simply following the lead of other creators on the platform and that most of the fans that sent gifts were about 30 years old.\n\nBut they said they did feel guilty when they received gifts from young fans.\n\n\"We don't like it when our gifters are young, so basically we ask them if their parents know about it,\" they said.\n\n\"But we can't stop them. We can't stop it. We are going live not only for the money but we are going on the live to get more audience.\"\n\nRhia, from south Wales, and has 2.5 million fans thanks to her creative video-editing skills.\n\nShe said her average fan was about 10 to 14 years old and they were always happy with the perks she offered in exchange for gifts.\n\nBut she also feels uncomfortable when she receives several gifts from very young followers.\n\nAnd she would like to see stricter age limits on gifting.\n\n\"It would give us peace of mind as creators,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It would make you feel more ethical because taking money from children is not a good way to earn a living really.\"\n\nLivestream gifting originated in China - where TikTok's owner Bytedance is based. The practice is far more popular there. Professional \"cam girls\" earn huge amounts from their audiences.\n\nIn the West, tipping has become more common especially on gaming platforms such as Twitch.\n\nHowever, the rapid rise of TikTok is testing the business model like never before.\n\nTikTok declined to answer specific questions but told the BBC it was investigating digital gifting.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We do not tolerate behaviours that are deceptive in nature and we are sorry to hear some of the users' experiences.\n\n\"We recognise there is always room for improvements in terms of making guidelines and information more accessible, clear and easy-to-understand for all users.\n\n\"We value your feedback and will further strengthen our policies and product features.\"\n\nThe company gave no details on what policies or community guidelines it would change.\n\nAlessandro Bogliari, from the Influencer Marketing Factory, said there was wider pressure on TikTok to make changes.\n\n\"These sorts of stories are not good for a social network that is becoming popular with brands and marketers,\" he said.\n\n\"The app has major potential but there is clearly work to do to improve things.\n\n\"I think more parental-control features would be a good idea and some sort of cap on the amount users can gift per day or per livestream.\n\n\"They could also make the guidelines more clear and ban the use of certain terms that 'hard sell' to users.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Dalai Lama has apologised for controversial comments about the possibility of a woman succeeding him.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last month, the Tibetan spiritual leader said that any future female Dalai Lama should be \"attractive\".\n\nBut a statement from his office apologised for his words, suggesting he had been joking.\n\n\"He is deeply sorry that people have been hurt by what he said and offers his sincere apologies,\" it said.\n\nIn the interview, the spiritual leader, who is 84 this week, touched on topics including US President Donald Trump, his dreams of returning to Tibet, and refugees.\n\nHowever, it was his comments on the prospect of a female Dalai Lama that raised eyebrows.\n\n\"If a female Dalai Lama comes, she should be more attractive,\" he said in English, while laughing.\n\nThe statement apologised for any offence caused and put it down to a misunderstood joke.\n\nThe Dalai Lama \"has a keen sense of the contradictions between the materialistic, globalized world he encounters on his travels and the complex, more esoteric ideas about reincarnation that are at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist tradition\", the statement said.\n\n\"However, it sometimes happens that off the cuff remarks, which might be amusing in one cultural context, lose their humour in translation when brought into another. He regrets any offence that may have been given.\"\n\nThroughout his life, the Dalai Lama has opposed the objectification of women and supported gender equality, it added.\n\nThe statement also said comments in which he said refugees in the European Union should ultimately return home \"may have been misinterpreted.\"\n\n\"He certainly appreciates that many of those who leave their countries may not wish or be able to return,\" it said,\n\nHowever, there was no apology for his comments on Mr Trump who, he said, had a \"lack of moral principle.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rain has caused at least 18 deaths and triggered massive rail, road and air transport disruptions in India's financial capital Mumbai.\n\nThe victims died when a wall collapsed on them in the early hours of Tuesday after persistent rainfall for two days.\n\nAuthorities have declared a public holiday on Tuesday and have requested people to stay indoors.\n\nMet department officials have confirmed that this is the heaviest rainfall in the city for a decade.\n\nExperts have blamed rapid construction and bad urban planning for what many call Mumbai's annual rain chaos.\n\nThe victims were mostly labourers working at a construction site in the suburban area of Malad. Authorities said the wall had weakened after several days of rainfall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Nick Miller looks at the torrential rain and flooding in Mumbai.\n\nAt least 15 people were killed when a wall collapsed during the torrential monsoon downpours\n\nMany parts of Mumbai are heavily flooded\n\nThe city has witnessed continuous rain in the past two days, causing flood-like situations in many areas.\n\nOfficials have requested people to be cautious.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRailway officials have also announced that the suburban rail network, which is known as the city's lifeline, will not be running on several routes, with officials from the central railways - one of the three main lines in the city - calling it \"nature's fury\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Central Railway This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAviation authorities have also shut down the main runway at Mumbai's international airport after a plane skidded off the runway while landing amid a heavy downpour. Officials said no passengers were injured in the incident.\n\nMumbai, which is the financial capital of India, has the second busiest airport in the country.\n\nSo far, more than 50 flights have been diverted with at least another 50 cancelled.\n\nThe second runway continues to be in operation but several flights are likely to be delayed or cancelled.\n\nThe city's low-lying areas have turned into flood zones and residents are being forced to stay indoors.\n\nSome have blamed the city's civic authorities for not preparing for the heavy rainfall.\n\nThe city's low-lying areas have turned into flood zones\n\nThousands of people migrate to the city every day in search of jobs which fuels rapid construction\n\nMumbai was also brought to a halt in 2017 as well when heavy rain lashed the city. And it witnessed one of its worst disasters in 2005 when at least 900 people died in rain-triggered floods.\n\nThousands of people migrate to the city every day in search of jobs which fuels rapid construction, which is very often unregulated. Many areas in the city have ageing drainage systems and that causes flooding as well.\n\nMeanwhile, at least nine people have died in other parts of Maharashtra state, taking the overall death toll to 27.", "Tributes have been paid to a \"very popular\" 13-year-old boy who was found dead in a river.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into how Christopher Kapessa ended up in the River Cynon in Fernhill, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Monday.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene at about 17:40 BST and police said he was confirmed dead \"shortly after\" his body was found in the water.\n\nIt was \"a terrible tragedy\", a Mountain Ash Comprehensive School governor said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family,\" chairwoman Pauline Jarman added. \"It's knocked us for six to be honest.\"\n\nThe main road in Mountain Ash was closed while police attended the scene\n\nDozens of tributes have been left on the main road near the scene.\n\nA group of pupils from the school came to lay flowers.\n\nBethany, 13, was one of Christopher's friends and said: \"He was a lovely, funny boy. He was like the class clown.\"\n\nThe girls added friends of the boy who were with him at the time had tried to help but were unable to save him.\n\nBethany's grandmother Heather Llewellyn, from Cwmbach, was with Bethany on Monday when she got the news.\n\n\"Beth was sitting next to me and she said, 'My friend's died'.\n\nAnother tribute called him the funniest boy in the world, adding: \"You meant the world to me. Your laugh changes everybody's mood.\"\n\nOne tribute at the scene read: \"I miss you so much already\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said in a statement: \"This is devastating news, but I know that the local community will rally around and offer its full support to the family and his friends at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nRay Thomas, from Fernhill Community Centre, said the family of the boy, from Pontypridd, had not lived in the area very long.\n\n\"As a community we have been left devastated by the tragic events that unfolded last night,\" he said.\n\n\"We cannot begin to comprehend what the family and friends of the victim are going through.\n\n\"The family have not lived in our community long but that has no relevance to us, when you live in our community you become one of our own.\n\n\"We all feel incredibly saddened by this tragedy and would like to express our sincere heartfelt condolences to the family and close friends of this young lad and extend our offer of support to anyone who has been affected.\"\n\nHis football club Mountain Ash Juniors, said in a tribute on social media that Christopher was a \"lovely lad, a great friend and teammate to many\".\n\nLawson, 13, a classmate and teammate in the football club's under-13s side, came to leave a football shirt in his memory.\n\nOne girl cried on her friend's shoulder after placing her flowers alongside the ever-growing pile of tributes.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was \"saddened\" to hear about the incident and added pastoral support would be offered to those affected.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Severomorsk is the main base of Russia's Northern Fleet\n\nA fire aboard a Russian navy research submersible has killed 14 crew members, the Russian defence ministry says.\n\nThe crew was poisoned by fumes as the vessel was taking measurements in Russian territorial waters on Monday.\n\nThe ministry gave no details about the type of vessel. But Russian media reports say it was a nuclear mini-submarine used for special operations.\n\nThe fire was later put out and the vessel is now at Severomorsk, the main base of the Russian Northern Fleet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Vernon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Vernon\n\nThe defence ministry did not say how many crew members were aboard at the time. Reports in local media say several crew were injured and taken to hospital.\n\nAn investigation into the incident has begun under the commander-in-chief of the navy.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin later on Tuesday pulled out of a scheduled event in the Tver region, north-west of Moscow, to discuss the issue with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.\n\nMr Putin described the incident as a big loss for the Russian Navy, and expressed \"sincere condolences\" to the victims' families.\n\nSeven captains and two service personnel awarded Russia's highest honorary title, Hero of the Russian Federation, were among those who died on board the vessel, the president said.\n\nMr Shoigu was ordered to go immediately to Severomorsk.\n\nIt's still not clear what caused the fire, which the crew ultimately brought under control; we don't know how many men survived.\n\nAnd there are still questions over exactly what vessel was involved.\n\nPresident Putin said the dead included two heroes of Russia and seven \"captains 1st rank\"- which seems unusually senior - for research work.\n\nSome media in Russia are citing sources saying they could have been on board a nuclear-powered submarine, possibly even the secretive AS-12. It is thought to be used for highly sensitive missions.\n\nMr Putin returned especially to the Kremlin from out of town to order his defence minister to oversee the investigation.\n\nThe president is clearly keen not to repeat his disastrous handling of the Kursk submarine disaster in August 2000, when 118 men died.\n\nThat accident was shrouded in secrecy - and Mr Putin initially stayed on holiday for several days.\n\nSubmersibles are generally smaller vessels with limited crew on board supported by ships on the surface, while submarines are larger vessels capable of operating autonomously over long distances.\n\nThe Kursk submarine, which was destroyed by the blasts in the Barents Sea, was also part of the Northern Fleet.\n\nAccidents involving underwater vessels are rare. Here are some of the most serious:", "Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made \"at least five times\" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists.\n\nTheir rapid attribution study says that rising temperatures \"super-charged\" the event, making it more likely to happen than through natural variability alone.\n\nHeatwaves in June are now about 4C hotter than they used to be, the researchers said.\n\nGlobally, the average temperature for June was the highest on record.\n\nHeatwaves naturally occur in summertime but last week's event in many European countries was unprecedented because it happened so early, and the recorded temperatures were so high.\n\nRecords were broken at locations in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Spain.\n\nThe new French record, established at Gallargues-le-Montueux last Friday, was more than 1.5C above the previous high mark.\n\nMuch of the concern about the heat focused on France, with red alerts in several areas, many schools were closed, exams were postponed and health minister Agnès Buzyn warned that \"everyone is at risk\".\n\nThe immediate cause of the heatwave was the weather, with hot air drawn in from northern Africa, caused by high pressure over central Europe and a storm stalling over the Atlantic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy lucky coincidence, the authors of this new study happened to be in Toulouse, France, at a conference on climate change and extreme events.\n\nThe researchers, members of the World Weather Attribution Group decided to use the opportunity to analyse the link between human-induced climate change and the heatwave.\n\nThey defined the heatwave as the highest three-day averaged daily mean temperature in June, arguing that this is a better indicator of health impacts than maximums or minimums.\n\nThe researchers compared the observations of temperatures recorded during the month of June with climate models that can show how the world would be without the human influence on the climate.\n\nThey found that, over France, the probability of having a heatwave had increased by at least a factor of five. However, the researchers say that this influence could be much higher still, by a factor of 100 or more.\n\n\"We are very confident that this lower boundary of factor five is valid - but we are not confident we can say much more than that,\" said Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.\n\n\"The reason we are fairly careful is because we found fairly large discrepancies between the modelled properties of heatwaves and the observed properties of heatwaves. They all show stronger heatwaves but the trend in the observations is much larger than in the trends in the model.\"\n\nThe scientists say that the observations indicate a heatwave trend of around 4C in June, where the models show a much lower trend.\n\nAccording to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, June generally was more than 2 degrees above the long term average. Globally the temperature was also the highest for June on record, being about 0.1C higher than 2016.\n\nHeatwaves in the 1970s and 1980s in Europe were limited somewhat because of what's termed aerosol cooling. This is essentially the impact of air pollution which for a number of years exerted a cooling influence. However, as the air has become clearer, heatwaves have come back with a vengeance.\n\nAccording to those involved with this study, this trend in heatwaves is likely to get worse.\n\n\"We experienced a heatwave whose intensity could become the norm in the middle of the century,\" said Dr Robert Vautard, Senior Scientist, CNRS, France.\n\n\"The new record of 45.9C set in France last Friday is one more step to confirmation that, without urgent climate mitigation actions, temperatures in France could potentially rise to about 50°C or more in France by the end of the century.\"\n\nThe researchers believe that if global warming continues to the 2C level envisioned in the Paris climate agreement, heatwaves like the one experienced last week will become the norm in June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spectators cheered as the total solar eclipse took place\n\nThousands of skywatchers gathered in South America on Tuesday to witness a rare solar eclipse.\n\nBeginning in the Pacific, the 6,000-mile long band of darkness carved its way across areas of both Chile and Argentina.\n\nThe eclipse also made its way across several of the world's most powerful telescopes, all located in the region.\n\nAs always, people were urged to take great care during the eclipse. Gazing into the Sun can damage the eyes.\n\nProper protection is needed, such as the use of approved solar glasses.\n\nThe Moon's great shadow, or umbra, first touched the ocean surface east of New Zealand.\n\nThe first - and only - piece of land in the Pacific to lie in the path of the eclipse's \"totality\" was tiny Oeno Island - part of the Pitcairns British Overseas Territory.\n\nThis uninhabited atoll was plunged into darkness for nearly three minutes, starting at 10:24 local time (18:24 GMT).\n\nChile is home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes\n\nThe umbra then reached across to the coast of Chile, near La Serena, arriving at 16:38 local time (20:38 GMT).\n\nIts path stretched out across several parts of Coquimbo in northern Chile, an area known for its dark skies and numerous observatories.\n\nTickets worth $2,000 (£1,588) each sold out in three minutes for the privilege of watching the eclipse alongside astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, high in the Atacama desert.\n\nThe umbra passed swiftly over the Andes mountains and across the continent. Among those last to experience totality were the inhabitants of Chascomús in the district of Buenos Aires at 17:44 local time (20:44 GMT), not long before sunset.\n\nSome of the classic features of a full solar eclipse were on show. These included \"Baily's beads,\" which arise as the last shafts of sunlight drive through valleys on the Moon; and the \"Diamond Ring\", which is the single brilliant point of light that signals the beginning and end of totality.\n\n\"But I have to say, no matter how long it lasts - it feels like eight seconds. You're so completely caught up, you find yourself saying, 'go back, go back; I wasn't done! It all goes by in an instant.\"\n\nPeople were advised to wear proper protection to protect their eyes from sunlight during the eclipse\n\nDr McCarthy watched this event in Chile. He's Vice President of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) facility, which is being built in the Atacama Desert.\n\nThe path of totality passed fractionally to the south of the telescope site, and so the astronomer, colleagues and friends took a short drive to make sure they were in just the right spot.\n\n\"Going into a total solar eclipse is a remarkable feeling,\" said Dr McCarthy. \"The colours get bluer, the shadows change and everything on the ground looks washed out. It's as if the world is becoming darker, almost monochromatic.\"\n\nThe GMT is a next-generation telescope that will have a 24.5m-wide primary mirror system. Its infrastructure is steadily being put in place atop Cerro Las Campanas, with first observations of the sky due to begin in late 2026, with full operation expected in 2028.\n\nAlthough the emphasis in a total solar eclipse is always on the narrow path of full shadow, a wider area is able to appreciate a partial event of varying darkness.\n\nOn this occasion this meant all of the rest of Chile and Argentina, as well as Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, and parts of Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Panama. It was really just the northern coast of South America that missed out.\n\nSouth America is also expected to see the world's next total solar eclipse - this time on 14 December, 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aaron Singh wants Wales to follow England and reverse the ban\n\nA ruling that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven is discriminatory, a Sikh boxer has said.\n\nAaron Singh, 20, said the rule used by the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association (WABA) prevents him from competing because of his faith.\n\nThe English amateur body, England Boxing, reversed the ban following a campaign from Sikh and Muslim boxers.\n\nThe WABA said whether or not the rule was discriminatory would be decided this month by its members and board.\n\nIt added it would also consider if the \"sporting integrity\" of amateur boxing would be affected by abandoning the rule.\n\nMr Singh, who is from the East Midlands but is studying philosophy and economics at Cardiff University, said: \"For me to compete, they're asking me to shave all of my beard off, which is against my religion.\n\n\"I spoke to the WABA on the phone and they told me that it was a health issue.\n\n\"To have someone tell me that I'm not allowed to participate in something like a sporting event because I've got a beard - I personally see that as being wrong.\n\n\"Personally I do feel that the rule is discriminatory. I can do it an hour away but as soon as I come here it's not allowed.\"\n\nThe Sikh principle of Kesh prevents the removal of any hair on the body, because it is considered sacred and a gift from God.\n\nAmerpreet Singh, a prominent figure within the Sikh community in Cardiff, agrees with Mr Singh and said: \"To me, it's 100% discriminatory. By saying you cannot fight in Wales as an amateur boxer because you have a beard is heartbreaking.\n\n\"Sikhs fought in the first and the second world war. When we fought in those wars, they didn't fight with a trimmed beard. They fought with their turbans and their full beards.\n\n\"It hurts that they're trying to tell us that we can't do amateur boxing in Wales because we have a beard, but yet we were fine to fight for freedom in those wars.\"\n\nAmateur boxing is governed internationally by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), under which boxers continue to be prevented from competing with facial hair.\n\nBut AIBA was stripped of its Olympic status in May, meaning the International Olympic Committee will set its own regulations for boxing in next year's Tokyo Olympics.\n\nProf Carwyn Jones is a lecturer in sports ethics at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He said he understood the WABA's reasoning for the rule, but does not feel it justifies the current ban.\n\n\"It seems there's some evidence that having facial hair may impede the referee and the doctor's ability to recognise and treat injuries,\" he said.\n\n\"The question from the equality point of view is whether the potential harm or injury are significant enough to warrant a rule that is fairly discriminatory against certain religions.\n\n\"If this was Formula One, for example, and somebody said for religious purposes I can't wear a safety belt, you could say well that's a significant enough risk to say actually you have to.\n\n\"With this rule, boxing is a dangerous sport. Boxers know the risks and they take precautions.\"\n\nMr Singh fears the rule has already hampered his prospects of a career in the sport.\n\nHe said: \"I've missed out on a lot of experiences. We've had home shows at Cardiff University that I've not been able to participate in, which to me is quite upsetting.\n\n\"I would like to get this rule changed not just for myself, but for all my Sikh brothers, my Muslim brothers, and anyone out there who has a beard.\"", "Protesters have stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo) building and are occupying the council's chamber.\n\nHundreds of demonstrators forced their way into the building by smashing through doors and steel shutters.\n\nThe group are a breakaway part of a peaceful protest involving hundreds of thousands of people on the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of protests against a controversial bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.\n\nThe group of breakaway protesters smashed their way into the LegCo building.\n\nMany were wearing hard hats, face masks and glasses.\n\nImages from inside LegCo show protesters smashing up the chamber building and flying both the union jack and colonial flag.\n\nOnce they entered the chamber, the Hong Kong emblem was spray painted black and a colonial Hong Kong flag was placed on the seat of the legislature's president.\n\nHong Kong is a former British colony and has been part of China since 1997 under a \"one country, two systems\" deal. Pro-democracy events are held every year on the anniversary of the handover.\n\nHowever, the anniversary this year comes in the midst of protests against the extradition bill.\n\nThe Hong Kong emblem in the LegCo building was spray painted black (above).\n\nProtesters also sprayed slogans onto the walls of the chamber building.\n\nPortraits of some legislative council members were damaged and ripped from the walls. The outside walls of the building were also daubed with graffiti.\n\nProtesters then left the building after police warned that they would \"take reasonable force\" to remove them from the area.\n\nTear gas was fired at the protesters who chose to stay in the area.", "Five whaling ships set sail from Kushiro in Japan for the country's first commercial hunt since 1986.\n\nThe ships are allowed to catch up to 227 whales in Japanese waters, after it pulled out of an international whaling moratorium.\n\nShigeto Hase, the Director General of the Japanese Fisheries Agency, said many people had been hoping for this moment but conservationist groups like Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd remain critical of Japan's resumption of whaling.", "Tom Holland, Letitia Wright, Adele, Lady Gaga and Winston Duke have been named among 842 new members added to the Oscars Academy.\n\nThat's the group of people who decide who win Oscars each year.\n\nAnd after criticism of its lack of diversity, the new additions are 50% women and 29% are people of colour.\n\nYou might remember #OscarsSoWhite being used in 2015 and 2016 in protest at the lack of actors of colour being nominated for top acting awards.\n\nThe new additions are more inclusive and representative of the movie industry following this criticism.\n\nOverall female membership is now 32% - up from 25% in 2015.\n\nPeople of colour make up 16% of the Academy's membership now - double what it was four years ago.\n\nGemma Chan, Winston Duke and Lady Gaga are also new names in the Oscars voting academy\n\nIn 2016, people like Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee said they would boycott the Oscars when only white actors were nominated for the big awards.\n\nTo address this, the people asked each year to join the voting panel since then has become more diverse.\n\nPeople like Riz Ahmed, Priyanka Chopra, Gal Gadot and Naomie Harris joined in 2017.\n\nAnd 2018 saw Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish, Amy Schumer, Daniel Kaluuya and Timothée Chalamet added.\n\nOther new names on the 2019 list include Captain Marvel and Crazy Rich Asians star Gemma Chan and British actress Claire Foy, who you may have seen in The Crown.\n\nJamie Bell, Elisabeth Moss, Archie Panjabi and Amanda Peet have also been added.\n\nThey've been selected from 59 countries from around the world.\n\nIt's estimated there are now 10,000 voting members of the Oscars academy.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "New laws should be brought in within six months to protect elections from online interference, MPs have said.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said rules around political advertising and campaign funding were wholly inadequate for the digital age.\n\nIt wants stronger checks for online donations, clearer records on digital spending and information about who is behind adverts.\n\nThe government agreed there needed to be \"robust safeguards\".\n\nA spokesman said they had already pledged to hold a consultation on the issues later this year.\n\nThe select committee has issued its plea in a report as a response to the consultation on the government's online harms whitepaper - which closed on Monday.\n\nThe committee said the paper \"has scant focus on electoral interference and online political advertising\" or analysis about foreign players targeting voters, despite its recommendations.\n\nDamian Collins, chair of the DCMS Committee said: \"We know that our electoral laws are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"Political campaigns are fought online, not through the letterbox, and our laws need to be brought up to date with the digital age.\n\n\"We've repeatedly highlighted threats to our electoral system and it's essential that public confidence is restored.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"The government agrees we need robust safeguards against hostile states, foreign lobbyists and shadowy third parties in place for the digital age.\n\n\"We have already pledged to publish a consultation paper on electoral integrity - it is an important convention that the laws affecting political parties should not be changed by governments without proper consultation and discussions with political parties.\"\n\nThe call comes after a row over party funding in the European elections earlier this year.\n\nThe Electoral Commission visited the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding after it was accused by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\" online.\n\nIt later said the party's funding system left it open to \"a high and on-going risk\" of impermissible donations.\n\nBut the Brexit Party's leader, Nigel Farage, accused Mr Brown of \"a disgusting smear\" and said no rules had been broken.\n\nUnder UK law, donations of £500 or above must be made by a \"permissible donor\" - someone who is listed on the electoral register or a company registered in the UK.\n\nAmounts below that do not have to be declared, but some critics have said there is no way of telling whether those smaller amounts come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system may be being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC One or iPlayer, listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, read live text commentary on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nEngland against the United States is a perfect semi-final.\n\nWhen the Lionesses line up in Lyon on Tuesday they will have a better chance to beat the USA in a World Cup match than ever before.\n\nPlayer for player, the American team is the stronger side and you have to think they will get through - but England have the better manager, tactically.\n\nWe're going to see tactics come into play in this game more than in any other match in this tournament so far, which is why I'm excited to see what Phil Neville has in store.\n\nI have a new-found excitement and admiration for this England side because of how well they've been doing under Neville over the past 18 months.\n\n'I would have loved to play for Neville'\n\nThese Lionesses have a new sense of confidence and belief about them, with a swagger that I've never seen them have before.\n\nI believe that's testament to Neville's leadership and the confidence he instils in his team.\n\nHe's a true leader. He takes responsibility and he shows courage. He's a coach I would have loved to play for.\n\nHe holds his players to account and everybody wants to step up to the plate and perform under his leadership.\n\nAnd they are certainly performing for him, winning the SheBelieves Cup earlier this year and now showing their quality with a 3-0 win over Norway in Thursday's quarter-final.\n• None Alex Scott's tips on how to make it as a pundit\n\nThe USA may fear England for the first time\n\nIn the past, England were always respected and admired by the USA, but not feared.\n\nThe two teams have met 16 times and the USA have won 10 of those, including a 3-0 victory in their only World Cup meeting in 2007.\n\nThis summer, after victories over Scotland, Argentina, Japan, Cameroon and Norway to reach the last four, there might be a small sense of fear from the United States for this England team.\n\nAnd that's not how the US have ever operated previously - we simply do not fear teams.\n\nThere's a sense of arrogance in the fact that we like to instil fear in others, and we don't operate with fear ourselves.\n\nWhat's different in 2019 is that every team now has to fear England just a little bit - whether that's because of their attacking play, their midfield, Ellen White scoring goals, or Lucy Bronze and Nikita Parris flying down the right-hand side.\n\nThis American team won't admit it, but the Lionesses can instil a tiny bit of fear in Jill Ellis' defending champions.\n\nIn 2015, when the USA won the World Cup for a third time, that simply was not the case. There was no sense that England could do damage to us, but that is different now.\n\nEngland must watch out for Heath\n\nA lot of people are looking forward to the head-to-head match-up between Megan Rapinoe down the USA's left and England right-back Lucy Bronze.\n\nHowever, for me this game is also about whether the Lionesses can shut down Tobin Heath on the other flank, because both of the holders' wingers are dangerous.\n\nYes, Rapinoe scored those two important goals against France in the quarter-finals, after getting two more against Spain in the last 16 - but Tobin has been at the heart of the US attacks throughout this World Cup.\n\nSo England should be really concerned about closing her down as well, because their left side is not as strong as their right side with Lyon star Bronze.\n\nThis is also a match in which USA striker Alex Morgan can really be successful because of her speed.\n\nIf she can get behind the two centre-backs, Steph Houghton and Millie Bright, this could be her game, her semi-final, her moment.\n\nMeanwhile, at the other end of the field, can White can get in between Abby Dahlkemper and Becky Sauerbrunn? I think she can.\n\nEllen is a smart attacker who likes to play in between the two centre-backs and sneak off their shoulders.\n\nThe Manchester City striker has been scoring fantastic goals against great opponents - not just the weaker teams - throughout this tournament, so she's deserving of the Golden Boot.\n\nThere will be turnovers if England press this USA defence, through Parris and White, and that's the way to beat them.\n\nThey have to force turnovers and go straight for the counter-attack once they win the ball back.\n\nEngland have improved their fitness quite a bit, but it may be an issue for them to face the USA in this heat here in Lyon, because I know the Americans' sports science programme has been light years ahead of every other team for some time.\n\nThat said, these Lionesses are fitter than I've seen them in past tournaments, but the US are still more experienced and have greater endurance.\n\nBecause of that, things are edging more in the way of the USA, so I think they're going to just come out on top and reach Sunday's final against either the Netherlands or Sweden.\n\nNevertherless, I would not be surprised if it went the other way.\n\nIt comes down to tactics. England have to play a smarter game than the USA. And that's why, ultimately, this will come down to Neville.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "George Alagiah, Lauren Laverne and Andrew Marr all make the cut\n\nThe BBC has published the latest list of its highest-paid stars later as part of its annual report.\n\nSome stars have had pay increases, while others have dropped down the list and there are also some new joiners.\n\nBear in mind that not all earnings are published - for example, Zoe Ball's earnings for Strictly: It Takes Two are not included, as that is produced by BBC Studios, which is classed as a commercial entity.\n\nThe stars of other high profile programmes produced by BBC Studios - such as Top Gear and Doctor Who - are also missing for the same reason.\n\nHere's a list of the biggest earners at the BBC in 2018-19:\n\nMatch of the Day, Sports Personality of the Year and World Cup\n\nEvans left the BBC and began working for Virgin Radio in January. So his figure reflects nine months of work on the Radio 2 breakfast show before leaving in December, and not his full annual salary.\n\nBBC Radio 2 Saturday show and BBC TV fee for a range of programmes such as Eurovision - but not including his BBC One chat show.\n\nBBC News and and news specials. The BBC has previously reported he's taken a pay cut.\n\nMatch of the Day and World Cup\n\nStart the Week, The Andrew Marr Show and documentaries\n\nBall's figure will only cover what she earned for hosting the breakfast show in the first three months of this year, plus her earnings for the Saturday-only Radio 2 show she hosted prior to that. Strictly's It Takes Two isn't included as it's made by BBC Studios.\n\n2017/18: Not on the list presumably because her then Saturday Radio 2 show didn't put her in the £150,000 or above wage bracket.\n\nRadio 1 breakfast show and then moved to Radio 1 drivetime\n\nVarious sports including athletics, football, rugby, Commonwealth Games and Sports Personality of the Year\n\nThe Scott Mills Show on Radio 1, Radio 1 Breakfast Show cover, Biggest Weekend and festival coverage, Eurovision Song Contest\n\nBBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The girl's mother told BBC correspondent Fiona Lamdin her daughter was \"traumatised\" by what had happened\n\nA 10-year-old girl from Bristol was stopped from flying to Djibouti from London because of fears she was at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).\n\nThe girl was detained by police at an airport on Thursday and is now the subject of an FGM protection order.\n\nHer mother said the family was being \"treated like criminals\" and they had \"done nothing wrong\".\n\nBristol City Council said: \"Where there is concern for the welfare of children and families we will act.\"\n\nNimko Ali said she would rather parents \"felt a little bit offended\" than a child \"be subjected to one of the most horrific forms of child abuse\"\n\nThe girl's mother, who did not want to be identified, spoke to BBC correspondent Fiona Lamdin.\n\nShe said: \"Why do I have to tell them where I am going? Why? We have no freedom of movement. We have done nothing wrong. I'm not going to send my daughter to an unsafe place.\n\n\"I have a sister who is five years younger than me and she hasn't had FGM and she is a mum now, she has daughters and even my nieces they haven't had any FGM so I wasn't even thinking of that.\"\n\nAnti-FGM campaigner Nimko Ali said: \"When it comes to FGM I think the key indicator is that children - girls specifically - are being taken out of school just before the summer holidays because that is the specific time when FGM risk is heightened.\n\n\"I can understand that the family is upset that their holiday plans might have been interrupted but I think the police and the border agency had a legitimate reason in order to stop a child being taken out of the country during term time.\n\n\"Ultimately, I'm actually really grateful and thankful that the police and border agency have put the child's safety above that of community relations and walking on cultural eggshells.\"\n\nA Bristol City Council spokesman said: \"Our commitment continues to be one where we put the safety of children and families first but to do so in an inclusive fashion supported by open dialogue.\n\n\"Agencies remain in communication with the family impacted by this case, and will continue to be so, to explain the action taken and the reasons why.\"\n• None FGM- What is it- - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Therapy dogs are used in more than 1,000 universities and colleges in the US\n\nStress among students really can be reduced by spending time with animals, according to research from the US.\n\nIt has become increasingly common for universities to bring \"therapy dogs\" on to campus - but claims about their benefits have often been anecdotal.\n\nNow, scientists say they have objective evidence to support the use of dogs.\n\nPatricia Pendry, from Washington State University, said her study showed \"soothing\" sessions with dogs could lessen the negative impact of stress.\n\nDogs are also used to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder\n\nThe study of more than 300 undergraduates had found weekly hour-long sessions with dogs brought to the university by professional handlers had made stressed students at \"high risk of academic failure\" or dropping out \"feel relaxed and accepted\", helping them to concentrate, learn and remember information, she said.\n\nA children's hospital in California got its first therapy dog this year\n\n\"Students most at risk, such as those with mental health issues, showed the most benefit,\" said Dr Pendry.\n\nThe study was supported by the Mars group, which as well as funding animal research, includes chains of veterinary surgeons, pet hospitals and pet-food brands.\n\nIn the US, about 1,000 campuses are using therapy pets.\n\nIt has also become more common in the UK, with Buckingham, University College London, Cambridge, Nottingham Trent, London Metropolitan and Swansea among those deploying dogs.\n\nThe University of Middlesex has even put \"canine teaching assistants\" on to the staff, to stop lonely students dropping out.\n\nStudents spent an hour with dogs, brought to the university by professional handlers\n\n\"There does seem to be something specific about the reducing of anxiety from the petting of animals,\" said Dr Pendry.\n\nMiddlesex University has put dogs on the staff as \"canine teaching assistants\"\n\n\"Do we fully understand the mechanism? No,\" said Prof Nancy Gee, a psychologist at the State University of New York and researcher from the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, also part of the project.\n\nBut students appeared to \"feel calmer and more socially supported\", giving them more confidence in their studies.\n\nEven just looking at animals could sometimes lighten the mood, Prof Gee added.\n• None Every school 'needs dog as stress-buster'", "Councils have a legal duty to provide a range of services, including waste collection\n\nCouncils in England and Wales have warned they are \"completely in the dark\" about how much money they will get from central government next year.\n\nThe Local Government Association says councils need \"urgent guarantees\" they will get enough to provide key services like child protection and social care.\n\nMore than 90 of its members fear they will run out of money to meet their legal obligations within five years.\n\nMinisters said councils had been given extra funding for vulnerable residents.\n\nThe Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government said total funding for local authorities had gone up by nearly 3% this year to £46.4bn, with an extra £650m to help councils provide care for the elderly.\n\nThe recent cash crisis at Northamptonshire County Council - which is to be scrapped and replaced by two separate new authorities - has highlighted the financial plight facing local government.\n\nAhead of the start of the LGA's annual conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday, council leaders have warned the future financial viability of other local authorities is in doubt.\n\nIncreasing demand on councils for adult social care and children's services meant likely cuts elsewhere, the body - which represents more than 300 councils - warned.\n\nNearly 50 councils have told the organisation they may not be able to fund services they are legally obliged to provide - such as care for the elderly, shelter for homeless people, bin collections and libraries - by 2022-3.\n\nA further 40 or so councils fear they will run out of money to properly fulfil their legal duties by 2024-5.\n\nThe annual funding councils get from government each year has fallen 49% in real terms since 2010.\n\nIn 2016, councils agreed a four-year financial settlement with the government, giving them greater financial freedom in return for shouldering more responsibility for care provision and hitting efficiency targets.\n\nBut hopes many councils would become virtually self-funding by the end of the decade, by allowing them to retain up to 75% of the business rates they charge on High Street shops, have proved optimistic as financial pressure on their core services has grown more acute.\n\nAccording to the LGA, the funding \"gap\" facing local government is set to rise from an estimated £3.1bn next year to £8bn by 2024-5 unless urgent action is taken.\n\nLord Porter, the outgoing chair of the organisation, said the situation was not helped by uncertainty over Brexit and the Conservative leadership.\n\nJames Brokenshire has insisted government is listening to councils' concerns\n\nThe Conservative peer, who will step down this week, said whoever succeeds Theresa May in Downing Street must make the financial sustainability of councils their top priority in the government's Spending Review due in the autumn.\n\n\"Councils would normally have started their budget-setting planning process but remain completely in the dark about how much funding they will have next year,\" he said.\n\n\"Communities relying on the vital local services that make a difference to their lives deserve better.\n\n\"Urgent guarantees are needed that councils will have the funding they need to ensure our vital public services survive the uncertainty ahead.\"\n\nAt the very least, he said ministers must confirm the continuation of key funding programs, such as the Better Care Fund, worth £1.8bn this year.\n\nHe also called again on local authorities to be able to raise council taxes by whatever amount they felt necessary without having to get the consent of residents through a referendum if increases were deemed excessive.\n\nBoth Tory leadership contenders, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, have pledged more money for social care although this could be put in doubt by a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government is currently consulting on local authorities' changing financial needs and resources, the outcome of which is likely to influence future funding settlements.\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire has said ministers recognise the financial pressure on councils and have sought to meet their demands for more resources.\n\nThese include £4.3bn in ring-fenced resources for adult social care this year, £100m to end rough sleeping and nearly £60m to help councils prepare for the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nIn a statement, the department said councils had received nearly £200bn over the past four years and their future needs would be considered in the Spending Review.\n\n\"Ultimately councils are responsible for managing their own resources and we are working with local government to develop a funding system for the future,\" it said.", "Eight students and two teachers died in the May 2018 school shooting\n\nA man who claimed to be a substitute teacher and survivor of a school shooting in Texas in 2018 never actually worked at the school, officials say.\n\nDavid Briscoe told news outlets he had protected students from harm while working at Santa Fe High School, where 10 people were killed.\n\nThe Texas Tribune revealed the truth behind his false claims on Monday.\n\nBut not before CNN, Wall Street Journal and others had published his lies.\n\nMr Briscoe told CNN at the time he had been teaching English when he heard screaming and gunshots.\n\nHe said he had barricaded his classroom door with tables and desks, turned off the lights and told his students to get down.\n\n\"It felt like hours before we got out of the school, but one of my students said it was 30 to 45 minutes,\" Mr Briscoe told the news outlet. \"I had around 10 to 15 students and I'm grateful they were safe.\"\n\nOn Monday, Texas Tribune journalist Alexandra Samuels revealed Mr Briscoe had contacted her in April 2019 to do a follow-up piece in light of recent suicides by mass shooting survivors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe says she spoke to him on the phone for 31 minutes, during which he claimed to have \"quit teaching after the massacre\" and had become depressed.\n\nHe said \"just knowing that there's blood on the walls\" meant he could not go back to the school.\n\nThe \"insane story\" roused her suspicions and the journalist contacted the local school board who confirmed no one of his name had ever worked in the district.\n\n\"We are extremely disappointed that an individual that has never been a part of our school community would represent themselves as a survivor of the mass violence tragedy that our community endured,\" Santa Fe ISD Superintendent Leigh Wall said in a statement.\n\n\"This situation illustrates how easily misinformation can be created and circulated, especially when the amount of detailed information available is limited due to the still ongoing investigation.\"\n\nA student is in custody facing murder charges for the killing of eight other students and two teachers in the May 2018 attack, the fourth deadliest shooting at a US school in history.\n\nThe Texas Tribune reports that public records show Mr Briscoe's only home address is registered in Florida.\n\nSome original stories that included his accounts have been corrected by outlets since the allegations emerged on Monday.\n\nAfter tweeting about the shooting at the time, the account @Daviddbriscoe was approached by the BBC.\n\nMr Briscoe claimed in a private Twitter message to have been a teacher at the school who had got scared and had left the scene. The BBC did not pursue him further or use any of his quotes in its coverage.\n\nSocial media handles registered to his name have now been deactivated or had their names changed.\n• None The problem with mass shootings and the media", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray has confirmed he will play mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon.\n\nMurray, a two-time singles champion at SW19, will compete in both the men's and mixed doubles less than a month after returning following hip surgery.\n\nAmerican Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, had earlier told journalists: \"If you guys really want it... all right, done.\"\n\nThe pair are expected to play their first match together on Thursday.\n\nMurray, who won Queen's with Feliciano Lopez, will partner Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the men's doubles.\n\nThe Scot was turned down by world number one Ashleigh Barty before suggesting he might pair up with 37-year-old Williams, who has won seven doubles titles at Wimbledon.\n\nMurray said: \"Serena is obviously a brilliant player, has a great doubles record and is brilliant on grass obviously. She's arguably the best player ever.\"\n\nLaughing, he added: \"So she'd be a solid partner.\"\n\nThe only issue will be whether the American's knees will cope with the extra demands of playing doubles as well as singles - and whether Murray's fitness holds up to what will be a packed doubles programme if they have a good run.\n\nWilliams has struggled with a knee injury this year but beat Giulia Gatto-Monticone on Tuesday.\n\nMurray played mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 2006 where he teamed up with Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens and reached the second round.\n\nHe was also a silver medallist with Laura Robson in the London 2012 Olympics which were played at the All England Club.\n\nWilliams is a two-time mixed doubles Grand Slam champion, having partnered Max Mirnyi to win Wimbledon and the US Open in 1998.\n\nSome 64 pairings compete in the mixed doubles, which is played over the best of three sets.\n\nJust before the pairing was confirmed, Williams had remained coy about the prospect at a news conference following her first-round singles victory.\n\nJournalist: \"When do you think you could make that decision? Next three hours? In the morning?\"\n\nWilliams: \"This is crazy. I don't know. I'm still kind of in the singles mode, trying to figure that part out. We'll see. I could use extra matches, though, so... could be something.\"\n\nJournalist: \"Could you give us a rough percentage of how likely you think it is you would play with Andy?\"\n\nWilliams: \"I don't know. If you guys really want it, then maybe I'll do it.\"\n\nJournalist: \"We do really want it.\"\n\nWilliams: \"Yeah? All right, done, just for you guys. Don't forget.\"\n\nAsked what she likes about Murray, Williams replied: \"We're a lot alike on the court! I've always liked that about him.\n\n\"Talking about work ethic... His work ethic is just honestly off the charts. That's something I've always respected about him. His fitness, everything.\n\n\"To do what he's done in an era where there's so many other great male tennis players, so much competition, to rise above it, not many people have done it.\n\n\"There's so many things to be admired. Above all, he really stands out, he really speaks up about women's issues no matter what. You can tell he has a really strong woman in his life. I think above all that is just fantastic.\"\n• None Relive the coverage of day two from Wimbledon\n• None Williams through with Barty and Kerber\n• None Konta among five Britons to reach second round on Tuesday\n• None Theatrical Kyrgios sets up Nadal tie as Tomic loses in under an hour", "Zoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz have all moved up the list\n\nClaudia Winkleman, Zoe Ball and Vanessa Feltz have all moved up the BBC's star salaries list after the corporation's efforts to tackle an equal pay problem.\n\nThe top 12 earners were all male last year, but Winkleman is now eighth, Ball is ninth and Feltz is joint 10th.\n\nMatch of the Day's Gary Lineker is still at the top of the list, on an unchanged £1.75m per year.\n\nThe total talent bill has risen by £11m to £159m, with the number of stars earning over £150,000 up from 64 to 75.\n\nOf those 75 presenters and correspondents, 60% were men, down from 65% when the list was first published in 2017.\n\nThe stars' salaries are published as part of the BBC's Annual Report and covers the period from April 2018 to March 2019.\n\nHowever, as usual the list is not a fair or complete reflection of what all celebrities at the BBC earn.\n\nActors and some entertainment presenters who work for the corporation's commercial arm BBC Studios are not included.\n\nAs a result, the stars of some of the BBC's biggest programmes - like Top Gear and Doctor Who - are absent from the list.\n\nIn the past 12 months, Chris Evans has left for Virgin Radio, replaced by Zoe Ball. As a result, his figure reflects nine months of work on the Radio 2 breakfast show before leaving in December, and not his full annual salary.\n\nSimilarly, Zoe Ball's figure only covers what she earned for hosting the breakfast show in the first three months of this year, plus her earnings for the Saturday-only Radio 2 show she hosted in the nine months prior to that.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said the budget for paying talent was now a smaller proportion of total programming costs than last year.\n\nSpeaking about Lineker's pay, Lord Hall said the success of BBC Sport, which reaches 40% of the UK population, has \"much to do with Gary\", adding that he \"does an excellent job\".\n\nBBC chairman Sir David Clementi said he had \"seen no evidence we are paying anyone above the market rate\", adding: \"What I've seen suggests the opposite.\"\n\nThe figures show that some male stars including Jeremy Vine, John Humphrys and Steve Wright have taken significant pay cuts.\n\nVine earned around £290,000 in 2018/19 - down approximately £150,000 on the previous year. Humphrys is now on the same level, a cut of about £110,000.\n\nWright has lost roughly £85,000; Stephen Nolan is down by around £75,000; and Nicky Campbell is reduced by approximately £70,000.\n\nNolan hosted a huge number of programmes for the BBC - around 350 editions in total including shows for Radio Ulster and 5 Live. Vanessa Feltz presented more than 400 editions of her shows across Radio 2 and BBC London.\n\nOf the biggest risers, Zoe Ball and Sara Cox are both new entries on the list after landing the Radio 2 breakfast and drivetime shows respectively.\n\nOther new entries include former footballer Jermaine Jenas on £210,000, BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin on £205,000 and news presenter Clive Myrie on £200,000.\n\nOf those who were also on the list last year, the biggest rises have gone to Jo Whiley (up approx £100,000), Jason Mohammad (up approx £95,000), Justin Webb (up approx £85,000) and Sarah Montague (up approx £80,000).\n\nLauren Laverne and Fiona Bruce both saw their salaries rise by roughly £75,000, while Sophie Raworth was up by around £60,000.\n\nThree major figures have left for the commercial sector in the course of the year - Chris Evans, Simon Mayo and Eddie Mair.\n\nThe corporation's overall gender pay gap has fallen from 7.6% last year to 6.7% this time, BBC media editor Amol Rajan said.\n\nWoman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey, who leads a campaign group called BBC Women, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I'd like to congratulate the three women who have made it into the top 10.\n\n\"That's 30% of the top 10. Of course it would be nice if it was 50, or maybe even more than that. Who knows, we might reach that state of nirvana at some point in my life.\"\n\nTrevor Nelson and Greg James have started new shows on Radio 2 and Radio 1\n\nShe said she had sympathy with the viewers and listeners who felt the salaries were still too high. \"Perhaps it would have been better to cut more male salaries rather than to up some female salaries,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, BBC Women said: \"There has been some progress in the last two years, but many women at all levels of the BBC are locked into slow, inefficient and demoralising internal processes.\n\n\"New equal pay cases are still emerging and staff are yet to have confidence that pay inequality is in the past.\"\n\nLord Hall said the public supported the BBC to give high salaries to \"big stars\" because they were \"talented and entertaining\".\n\nIn an article for The Huffington Post, he wrote: \"The BBC was rightly criticised for a lack of female representation when we first published details of our highest earning stars two years ago.\n\n\"But the reality is that on pay we have come a long way to becoming a fairer organisation since then.\"\n\nDamian Collins, the chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said: \"It is welcome to see more women named on the high earners' list. However, this masks the wider issue of equal pay across all levels of the BBC workforce.\n\n\"The rising talent bill is concerning in light of plans to remove free TV licences from all but the poorest of those over 75. We'll be raising this with BBC executives when they appear before the committee later this month.\"\n\nThe cost of providing free licence fees to over-75s is £745 million. This used to be paid for by the government, but in 2015 it was announced the BBC would absorb the cost by 2020 as part of a licence fee settlement.\n\nLast month, the BBC announced that only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will continue to receive free TV licences. All other pensioners, around 3.7 million, will have to pay for a TV licence from June 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Sikh boxer says a rule that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven is discriminatory.\n\nCardiff University student Aaron Singh, 20, says the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is preventing him from competing because of his faith.\n\n\"It's not right and it's not fair,\" he said.\n\nA similar rule was dropped in England and professional boxers have been allowed to compete with a beard for years.\n\nThe Welsh Amateur Boxing Association said it was waiting for guidance from the International Boxing Association.", "A US Navy Seal has been found not guilty of killing a young Islamic State group prisoner in Iraq and other murder charges in a San Diego military court.\n\nSpecial Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, was accused of stabbing the injured teenager to death as well as randomly shooting Iraqi civilians.\n\nHe was convicted of posing with the 17-year-old's corpse, but acquitted of all other charges.\n\nAnother Seal had testified that he was the one who killed the prisoner.\n\nGallagher, a decorated combat veteran who served eight tours, denied all the allegations against him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe seven-person military jury, which included five Marines and two sailors, delivered the verdict after about eight hours of deliberation.\n\nThe maximum sentence for posing for photos with a corpse is four months - but Gallagher has already served nine months in pre-trial confinement.\n\n\"We have a sentencing to do, but the maximum sentence of what they're about to sentence him on is much less than the time that they've already had him in the brig,\" Gallagher's lawyer, Tim Parlatore, said after the verdict, according to NBC News. \"So he is going home.\"\n\nThe allegations against the chief had come from members of his own platoon in the special operations branch of the US Navy.\n\nBut in a surprising twist, Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott testified earlier this month that he had asphyxiated the wounded militant while the teenager was in US custody.\n\nThe Seal medic said he had witnessed Gallagher unexpectedly begin stabbing the fighter after the two men had stabilised his injuries following an airstrike, but that the stab wounds had not appeared to be life-threatening.\n\nWhen the chief walked away, Mr Scott said he had plugged the youth's air tube as an act of mercy. When asked why, Mr Scott replied, \"I knew he would die anyway.\"\n\nMr Scott was granted immunity from being prosecuted for criminal charges before he testified. Prosecutors accused him of trying to protect Gallagher, alleging he had never mentioned committing the crime in previous interviews.\n\nIn the San Diego courtroom, I watched the seven men on the jury, knowing that six of them had served in combat. The fact that most of them had gone through battle meant they were more likely to be sympathetic to the accused, a veteran of eight deployments.\n\nThe verdict shows that the jurors did not believe there was enough evidence against him for a murder conviction - but enough to find him guilty of posing with a dead body.\n\nOverall, the verdict reflects an understanding that people can be transformed by combat and act in ways that are out of character.\n\nThis will reassure those who are concerned about being unfairly punished for their actions during wartime.\n\nAt the same time, the verdict will upset those who thought that the evidence against Gallagher was compelling. Regardless of how one sees the outcome of the trial, one thing is clear: it will be closely studied by those in the military for years to come.\n\nThe case drew the attention of some Republicans in Congress as well as President Trump, who tweeted in support of Gallagher and had reportedly weighed a pardon for him.", "George Osborne and his wife Frances are divorcing, with the couple saying they will remain \"good friends\".\n\nThe former chancellor, who is now editor of London's Evening Standard, said the end of their 21-year marriage was sad but had been a mutual decision.\n\nThe couple have two teenage children.\n\nMr Osborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum, but recently endorsed Boris Johnson's Tory leadership bid, prompting speculation of a return to frontline politics.\n\nThe pair met at a friend's house over Sunday lunch, before marrying in 1998.\n\nFrances Osborne, the daughter of former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Howell, is a successful writer.\n\nHer best-selling books include The Bolter, a biography of her great-grandmother, the English aristocrat Idina Sackville.\n\nIn a statement released on Monday, the couple said: \"George and Frances Osborne have sadly decided to divorce after 21 years of marriage.\n\n\"This is a long thought-through and mutual decision. They remain good friends and jointly devoted to their wonderful children.\n\n\"For the sake of their children, they ask that the family's privacy is respected. Neither George nor Frances will be making any comment.\"\n\nAs well as editing the Evening Standard, Mr Osborne, 48, has a number of other jobs, including chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.\n\nHe stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.", "The person is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi on Sunday afternoon\n\nA suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden.\n\nThe body - believed to be that of a man - was found in Offerton Road, Clapham just before 15:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nPolice said it was thought the individual fell from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi.\n\nA neighbour said the body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden.\n\nThe man, who did not want to be named, said he heard a \"whomp\" so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and \"blood all over the walls of the garden\".\n\n\"So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken,\" he said.\n\nThe neighbour, who asked not to be named, said a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on an plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.\n\nThe plane spotter had arrived almost at the same time as the police and told them the body had fallen from a Kenyan Airways flight.\n\n\"If it had been two seconds later, he would have landed on the common where there were hundreds of people - my kids were in the garden 15 minutes before [he fell]\", the neighbour added.\n\n\"I spoke to Heathrow. They said this happens once every five years.\"\n\nDescribing the victim, he said: \"One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where do stowaways hide on planes?\n\nOfferton Road in Clapham, on a bright summer's day, is a tranquil and leafy corner of south-west London.\n\nYou could be forgiven for thinking nothing of any significance had happened here recently.\n\nOther than journalists arriving, there is little activity, with many people presumably out at work.\n\nBut every 30 seconds or so the quiet is punctured by the din of jet engines travelling overhead, indicating the road's position directly underneath a major highway for aircraft, heading for Heathrow from across the globe.\n\nThe Met Police said a post-mortem examination would be carried out in due course and the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nKenya Airways said the aircraft was inspected and no damage was reported.\n\nA bag, water and some food were found in the landing gear compartment on the aircraft when it landed.\n\nThe discovery of the stowaway who started his journey from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi has raised questions about the effectiveness of security checks in place there.\n\nThe airport is already under a state of heightened security largely responding to the threat posed by the militant group al-Shabab, based in neighbouring Somalia.\n\nA similar incident took place in 1997 when the body of a young man was found hanging in the nose-wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Nairobi after it landed at Gatwick Airport.\n\nThe Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) says a team has been assembled to investigate how the stowaway got on board the plane.\n\nThe KAA carries out security drills at the airport - most recently in November 2018.\n\nA spokesman for Kenya Airways said: \"The 6,840km (4,250-mile) flight takes eight hours and 50 minutes. It is unfortunate that a person has lost his life by stowing aboard one of our aircraft and we express our condolences.\n\n\"Kenya Airways is working closely with the relevant authorities in Nairobi and London as they fully investigate this case.\"\n\nIt is not the first death of this kind on the Heathrow flight path.\n\nIn June 2015, one man was found dead on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com's headquarters in Richmond, west London, while another was found in a critical condition after they both clung on to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg.\n\nIn August 2012, a man's body was found in the undercarriage bay of a plane at Heathrow after a flight from Cape Town.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chess piece had been bought by an Edinburgh antiques dealer for £5 in 1964\n\nA medieval chess piece kept in a drawer of an Edinburgh home has been sold at auction for £735,000.\n\nIts previous owners had no idea that the object was one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen.\n\nThe chessmen were found buried in a sand dune on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 but the whereabouts of five pieces have remained a mystery.\n\nThe Edinburgh family's grandfather, an antiques dealer, had bought the chess piece for £5 in 1964.\n\nThe new owner of the piece has not been named. Sotheby's said the price set a new record for a medieval chess piece at auction.\n\nThe Edinburgh antiques dealer had no idea of the significance of the 8.8cm piece (3.5in), made from walrus ivory, which he passed down to his family.\n\nThey have looked after it for 55 years without realising its importance, before taking it to Sotheby's auction house in London to be auctioned.\n\nThe chessmen are thought to have been made in Scandinavia, possibly Norway\n\nThe Lewis Chessmen are among the biggest draws at the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.\n\nMade in Scandinavia, possibly Norway, they are seen as an \"important symbol of European civilisation\".\n\nSotheby's expert Alexander Kader, who examined the piece for the family, said his \"jaw dropped\" when he realised what they had in their possession.\n\nThe newly-discovered piece is a warder, a man with helmet, shield and sword, which \"has immense character and power\".\n\nThe identity of the new owner of the warder has not been revealed\n\nFollowing the sale, Mr Kader said: \"This is one of the most exciting and personal rediscoveries to have been made during my career.\n\n\"It has been such a privilege to bring this piece of history to auction and it has been amazing having him on view at Sotheby's over the last week - he has been a huge hit.\n\n\"When you hold this characterful warder in your hand or see him in the room, he has real presence.\"\n\nDespite not knowing its significance, the late 12th/early 13th Century chess piece had been \"treasured\" by the family.\n\nThe previous owner's late mother believed it \"almost had magical qualities\".\n\nThe chess piece has been in the care of an Edinburgh family since the 1960s\n\nThe Lewis Chessmen set includes seated kings and queens, bishops, knights and standing warders - the medieval version of rooks on a modern chess board - and pawns.\n\nSome 82 pieces are now in the British Museum and 11 pieces held by the National Museum of Scotland. As well as the chess pieces, the hoard includes 14 \"tablemen\" gaming pieces and a buckle.\n\nSince the hoard was uncovered in 1831, one knight and four warders have been missing from the four combined chess sets.\n\nSotheby's said the price set a new record for a medieval chess piece at auction\n\nThe discovery of the hoard remains shrouded in mystery, with stories of it being dug up by cattle grazing on the dunes.\n\nIt is thought it was buried shortly after the objects were made, possibly by a merchant to avoid taxes after being shipwrecked, and so remained underground for 500 years.", "Tony Hall says the BBC's current fixed income is \"not sustainable\"\n\nThe publication of this report shows the perennial difficulty of reporting any financial year, and the disadvantages of removing BBC Studios from the equation of salaries disclosed.\n\nWhile there has been some progress in improving the overall balance of this list - on which my own name appears - the top of the list is still dominated by men.\n\nHad BBC Studios' salaries been included, there would have been a better balance of men and women overall on the list, and more of the names at the very summit of the list would have been female.\n\nBut the BBC argues that it needs BBC Studios to flourish commercially, and publishing names there would put it at a disadvantage.\n\nThe other problem for the corporation is that, because the figures here reflect the past financial year, major changes - whether some men being paid less, or some women being paid more - aren't in the figures available today. They will only filter through next year.\n\nThis is the sense in which such financial reporting always seems a year behind.\n\nWhile the issue of equal pay and the gender pay gap will dominate headlines, the annual report mentions an existential question for the BBC, which the director-general also addressed when I spoke to him.\n\nLord Hall of Birkenhead says the current model of the BBC, in which it has a fixed income in a super-inflationary market - where the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and Disney are all spending billions building direct-to-consumer, global offerings - \"is not sustainable\".\n\nI asked him what he intends to do about this. Apparently the BBC board are turning their attention to this in the autumn, making it a priority after August. But it already feels late.\n\nDevising a plausible solution to the BBC's fixed revenue model, perhaps in conjunction with other public service broadcasters - or failing to do so - will be an even bigger part of Lord Hall's legacy than equal pay.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, please follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and also please subscribe to The Media Show podcast from Radio 4. I'm grateful for all constructive feedback. Thanks.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC One or iPlayer, listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, read live text commentary on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nWhen England take on the world's number-one ranked side in Tuesday's Fifa Women's World Cup semi-final, they will also be up against two Englishwomen at the very top of the sport.\n\nThe United States' Hampshire-born head coach Jill Ellis and Newcastle-born high performance coach Dawn Scott are integral to the holders' bid for a fourth world title.\n\nEllis and Scott have worked together for nine years in varying capacities. Their childhoods lacked opportunities to play competitive girls football, so how did they progress to become global leaders in their fields?\n\nIf I'd stayed in England I might not be coaching - Ellis\n\nEllis, 52, grew up near Portsmouth, having being born when women's football was still banned in England by the Football Association.\n\n\"I grew up playing with boys in the yard: with my brother in the backyard and boys in the schoolyard. I just loved the sport, loved the game,\" Ellis said.\n\n\"I truly think if I'd have stayed in England, I'm not sure I'd would be in coaching.\n\n\"At the time, it was not even a career path. It was a rare career path in the States but it wasn't a career path [in England] for sure.\"\n\nBut that changed after she moved to the USA in the 1980s.\n\n\"I was just fortunate to move to the States and have an opportunity to play organised football as we know it,\" said Ellis.\n\n\"What America gave me was the dream, the opportunity and the ability to follow that path.\"\n\nEllis is the best at the moment - Neville\n\nSince taking full charge of the US national team, Ellis has overseen 2015's World Cup win and two wins at the Concacaf Championship. She was also the Fifa World Coach of the Year for Women's Football in 2015.\n\nBut having supported Manchester United since the age of seven, she believes her love for football would not be what it was if she had grown up in any other country than England.\n\n\"What America gave me was an environment to put on my first-ever team uniform in terms of soccer,\" she said. \"I always loved the sport and then that just gave me a vehicle to experience it even more.\n\n\"But the whole British culture I experienced growing up is still with me. I'm very grateful for that.\n\n\"Had I grown up in another country, I don't think the passion for football would be what it is, for sure.\"\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville has questioned the USA's 'etiquette' in the build-up to Tuesday's semi-final between the teams - after at least one member of Ellis' staff was spotted at his team's hotel in Lyon.\n\nHowever, he made clear that he is a big fan of Ellis.\n\nHe said: \"I have an unbelievable amount of respect for her. She is the best at the moment.\n\n\"As she is a Manchester United fan, that instant connection is probably because we both support the same team. We have a lot of respect for each other.\"\n\nUSA's sports science set-up 'second to none'\n\nBut while Ellis' leadership has been one key factor in the USA's success, they have also received widespread praise for their fitness and sports science expertise.\n\nFormer USA number one goalkeeper Hope Solo feels the team have been 'light years' ahead of the competition, thanks in part to sports science expert Scott.\n\nSolo told BBC Radio 5 live: \"The sports science aspect on the US team is second to none.\n\n\"Of course, we took Dawn Scott, our fitness coach, from you guys in England.\n\n\"We train at altitude, we train in humidity and we train in the heat, so we know how to take care of our bodies.\"\n\nScott worked within the England set-up from 2001 to 2009, before switching to the USA's programme in 2010.\n\nSo how did a Newcastle United fan end up with a gold medal sitting on a Los Angeles mantelpiece?\n\n\"I oversee everything in terms of physical fitness or physical status of players, monitoring physical training every day with GPS heart rates,\" Scott told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I oversee the recovery side in relation to hydration and nutrition, whether that's ice tubs, pool session recovery or stretching.\n\n\"And then a new area we are focusing on as well is monitoring menstrual cycles and paying attention to certain things in players' diets around that as well.\n\n\"When they players are not in camp, I prescribe their training loads and training programmes and then work in conjunction with NWSL clubs, minimising injury risk and then optimising physical performance.\"\n\nFormer Worcester University lecturer Scott worked under former England boss Hope Powell for eight years, culminating with the Lionesses' run to the final of the 2009 European Championships.\n\nTimes have changed since her arrival at the FA 18 years ago.\n\n\"In 2001, when I started working with England, there was no sports science programme,\" she said.\n\n\"Back then, sports science was even new in the men's game, and on the women's side it was non-existent.\"\n\nWhat was also non-existent was girls football near Scott's Newcastle home when she was growing up - at least not until a plea on local radio.\n\nScott recalled: \"When I was 14, my Mum actually called up the radio station, Metro Radio, and said: 'My daughter loves playing football - does anybody out there know if there are any teams?'\n\n\"Through that way, we found a team, Whitley Bay Ladies, but we didn't have a car back then and it was two bus rides away and took about 90 minutes to get there.\n\n\"I would go but I was also at school, and I'd be getting back at like 22:30, 23:00 at night because it was so far away.\"\n\nProud of her Tyneside roots, the former Newcastle United season-ticket holder recalls being \"gutted\" when they narrowly missed out in the 1996 Premier League title.\n\nShe has gone on to have her own success, helping the USA win gold at the 2012 Olympics in London - where they played at St James' Park along the way - and then the 2015 World Cup.\n\n\"You don't get an Olympics medal [on the backroom staff] but all of the support staff received gold medals at the 2015 World Cup, and mine has pride of place on my mantelpiece at home, alongside a signed shirt from the team as well.\n\n\"I'm very fortunate to be working with this group. The drive of these players is so amazing.\n\n\"They still want to get better every day, whether that is technical, tactical, game understanding or the physical side of it.\n\n\"If you're not highly motivated and highly driven yourself, you could not work with this team, because they demand that from you.\n\n\"Jill and I know each other very well. I feel like she trusts me and challenges me, which I enjoy as well, otherwise you could become stale in what you do.\n\n\"We have a really good relationship and that is so important at the elite level, to have high-performance sports science and have a really good relationship with the head coach and the technical staff.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Tony Hall said Evans had been under \"pressure\" after his salary was revealed\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall has said the publication of star salaries was a factor in radio presenters Chris Evans and Eddie Mair choosing to leave.\n\nLord Hall told a committee of MPs the pay disclosures had \"made it harder for us to retain people like that\".\n\nEvans is moving from Radio 2 to Virgin, while Mair has joined LBC from Radio 4.\n\n\"We have to recognise we're not going to attract people at the kind of mega sums others in the commercial sphere might be able to pay,\" Lord Hall said.\n\nEddie Mair earned more than £330,000 at Radio 4 in 2017/18\n\n\"For three or four days he was the centre of a lot of attention,\" he said.\n\nLord Hall told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee: \"[It has a] bearing on when you think about where you want to work in the future. I think he's a remarkable presenter. He's a loss to the BBC, a loss to our audiences.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Hall also said: \"I have no complaint, disclosure is a good thing.\"\n\nHe added that Evans, who was paid £1.66m in 2017-18, also wanted to leave so he could find a new challenge.\n\nMPs asked the BBC director general about the recent Sir Cliff Richard court case\n\nLast year was the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 had been made public. The BBC was compelled to reveal the information under the terms of its new royal charter.\n\nLord Hall said the corporation would \"find the next generation of talent\" and promote from within rather than compete with the \"mega\" salaries on offer from commercial rivals.\n\n\"A lot of [current BBC] presenters I know could make possibly more money outside but actually are not doing it for that - they're doing it because they're committed to the BBC and I admire them hugely for that,\" he said.\n\n\"But of course we will lose some people and of course we have lost a couple of people for a large number of reasons, but no doubt disclosure and the fact people know their pay has been a factor in some of those losses.\"\n\nClaudia Winkleman (left) is still the best-paid woman on the BBC pay list\n\nLord Hall was asked about equal pay at the corporation, given that the top 12 earners on the BBC's latest list of star salaries are all men.\n\n\"Myself and the team want to get to the point where the top 20 are made up equally of men and women and not just women at the bottom and men at the top,\" he said.\n\nThe director general also revealed he had approached Sir Cliff Richard personally ahead of the recent court case involving the BBC.\n\nIn July, Sir Cliff won his privacy case against the corporation over its coverage of a 2014 police raid on his home.\n\nThe singer said the BBC's reporting of the raid, which included helicopter footage of his home being searched, was a \"serious invasion\" of privacy. He was never arrested or charged.\n\nLord Hall said: \"We approached Sir Cliff's lawyers and... I approached Sir Cliff on a couple of occasions suggesting could we sit down and try to sort this out without going to the court.\n\n\"But sadly, and, I guess understandably, the legal view came back that, 'We don't want to talk.'\"\n\nLord Hall added that Sir Cliff's team said they were only prepared to reach a settlement if the BBC admitted it had acted illegally, but he said he didn't think the corporation had acted illegally.\n\nHe said: \"We are really sorry about what Sir Cliff has been through.\n\n\"We reported accurately what happened but we overdid it, the helicopter overdid it, it was something to report but [further] down the bulletin.\"\n\nLord Hall also said the BBC would be publishing a new edition of its editorial guidelines later this autumn, following the Sir Cliff episode.\n\nThe committee also discussed the BBC licence fee concession for over-75s.\n\nThe government used to meet this cost in its entirety but it was agreed in 2015 that the BBC would take on the full cost of the concession over a phased period.\n\nThe BBC is due to absorb the full cost from 2020/21 - but Lord Hall said the corporation will review whether it continues to offer the arrangement after that time.\n\nLord Hall said it was \"a difficult balance between what people can afford and our need to give proper services\".\n\nThe total financial liability for licences for over-75s for 2017/18 was £655m.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bureaux de change and currency transfer businesses are to be raided by police in a week-long crackdown on suspected drugs money laundering.\n\nThey hope targeting the cash will reduce street violence linked to disputes between gangs by disrupting their activities.\n\nPolice say 12 businesses in London will be raided on Tuesday - the first day of the operation\n\nInspectors will visit another 39 to check they are complying with the law.\n\nThere are around 9,000 money exchanges in London, handling tens of billions of pounds each year between them - about a fifth of the UK market.\n\nDetectives say the vast majority of these companies operate legitimately, but a \"significant number\" - which they call \"launderettes\" - are involved in illegal activity.\n\nThis can include receiving bags or holdalls full of cash from drug deals and processing it to make it look as though it has come from a legitimate source.\n\nAbout £100bn is laundered through the UK every year, but it is not known much of this goes through money service businesses.\n\nThe crackdown is a joint operation between the Metropolitan Police, HM Revenue & Customs and financial services watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nMost of the debate about ways to curb knife crime has revolved around short-term measures, including stop-and-search, and long-term solutions, such as the 'public health' model pioneered in Glasgow.\n\nBut with much of the violence believed to be linked to drug disputes over territory and unpaid debts, police are stepping up their efforts on that front too.\n\nDrug gangs exist to make money, the argument goes, so impeding the flow of their ill-gotten gains will disrupt their activities and reduce the violence.\n\nThe \"launderettes\" - the illegal money transfer businesses that conceal and process the drugs money - are a key target in the anti-violence campaign.\n\nDet Ch Supt Mick Gallagher, who is co-ordinating the operation, said: \"Money drives drug dealing, drives violence.\"\n\nHe added: \"The cash is the lifeblood of this. If you choke off the ability to trade effectively, then you disrupt the network.\"\n\nFollowing a similar operation in 2011, police described the use of legitimate bureaux de change by money launderers as a \"weak point\".\n\nA number of people were convicted of offences linked to drug dealing or money laundering in a case that exposed one London firm's links to organised crime networks from all over the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nFifteen-year-old American qualifier Cori Gauff caused a stunning upset by defeating five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the first round.\n\nFellow American Williams had won four Grand Slam titles - including two at Wimbledon - before Gauff was born.\n\n\"It's the first time I have ever cried after winning a match,\" said Gauff, who previously said Venus and sister Serena were her \"idols\".\n\n\"I don't know how to explain how I feel.\n\n\"I definitely had to tell myself to stay calm, I had to remind myself that the lines are the same lines, the courts are the same size and after every point I told myself 'stay calm'.\"\n• None Edmund & Watson through to round two\n\nGauff will play Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova - 15 years her senior - in the second round.\n\nWilliams turned professional 10 years before her opponent was born, with Gauff being the youngest player to qualify for the main Wimbledon draw since the Open era began in 1968.\n\nShe previously said the Williams sisters inspired her to first pick up a tennis racquet.\n\n\"Venus told me congratulations and keep going, she said good luck and I told her thanks for everything she did,\" Gauff added.\n\n\"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her - I told her she was so inspiring and I've always wanted to tell her that but I've never had the guts to before.\n\n\"My parents will be super happy, my dad was jumping up every time I won a point. I'm so happy they spent all their time on me and my brothers and making sure we're successful.\n\n\"I never thought this would happen. I'm literally living my dream right now.\n\n\"I'm really happy Wimbledon gave me the chance to play, I never thought I would get this far.\"\n\n'The sky's the limit' - a debut to remember\n\nIn a sharp introduction to the Wimbledon stage, Gauff initially struggled to return Williams' serve but she soon impressed with big serves of her own.\n\nGauff, who won the French Open junior title last year, went a break up on Williams for 3-2 in the first set, proving a solid wall that her veteran opponent simply couldn't break down, hitting only two unforced errors throughout the set.\n\nAfter sealing the set in 35 minutes, she went a break up in the second after Williams double-faulted, only to do the same herself on her own serve as Williams looked to claw back.\n\nShe went on to scupper three match points before Williams created a break point, but she failed to capitalise on the chance as Gauff clinched a memorable win on the fourth time of asking.\n\nIt marks only the second time Williams has been beaten in the first round at Wimbledon since her 1997 debut.\n\nAsked about Gauff's future, Williams said: \"I think the sky's the limit, it really is.\n\n\"She did everything well today. She put the ball in the court, which was much better than I did. She served well, moved well. It was a great match for her.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "MPs on the public spending watchdog committee attacked the \"breathtaking complacency\" of a system of healthcare fines in England in which 1.7 million penalties were overturned as incorrect.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee was inquiring into a National Audit Office report showing confusion and errors in fines over eligibility for free dental treatment and prescription charges.\n\nSir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, accepted that the system was \"problematic\" and promised significant changes.\n\nBefore fines are issued, he said there would be a new stage in which people could put forward evidence showing they were entitled to free treatment.\n\n\"It gives people a clear opportunity to say that we've got it wrong before we get into the penalty charge notice process,\" Sir Chris told MPs.\n\nThe British Dental Association described this as a \"huge victory for patients\".\n\nThe cross-party committee repeatedly challenged the credibility of a system which has been accused of unfairly charging hundreds of thousands of people for fraudulent use of health services.\n\nThe National Audit Office had shown that since 2014 almost a third of the fines issued, worth £188m, were subsequently withdrawn.\n\nA series of BBC stories had highlighted concerns from families who believed they had been unfairly hit by penalty charges after getting dental treatment.\n\nDentist Charlotte Waite has raised concerns about vulnerable people being wrongly fined\n\nCharlotte Waite of the British Dental Association said many of those getting caught up in the penalty fine process were \"vulnerable\" people, who might be brought to the dentist by carers or relatives.\n\nThis might include people with dementia, learning difficulties or the very elderly, who either might have ticked the wrong exemption box or who were not able to supply the required information.\n\n\"We're very concerned about this hitting innocent patients,\" she told MPs.\n\nEven if the fines - often of about £100 - were levied in error, Ms Waite said many people might pay up.\n\n\"Appealing is stressful and difficult. How many people don't appeal? How many just pay the fine?\" she asked.\n\nConservative MP Anne Marie Morris said the fining regime was effectively \"putting the frighteners on people\".\n\nMeg Hillier warned \"something has gone pretty badly wrong\"\n\nThis was rejected by Brendan Brown of the NHS Business Services Authority, who described the process as taking people on a \"customer journey\".\n\nMeg Hillier, chairwoman of the committee, said it was very rare to have such unanimous levels of concern from MPs about what had been revealed.\n\nThe Labour MP said that when so many people were contacting MPs over the fines, it showed \"something has gone pretty badly wrong\".\n\nSir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown challenged representatives of the NHS and the Department of Health as to whether the \"vastly over-complicated\" penalty system was even \"fit for purpose\".\n\nThe Conservative MP said there was a poor financial return from the fines, which involved \"chasing some of the poorest people in the land\".\n\nHe questioned an \"easy read\" guide to eligibility for free treatment that stretched for 21 pages.\n\nSir Chris told MPs: \"We're not trying to claim that the system is simple.\"\n\nBut Ms Morris said: \"My concern is that you're not doing anything about it.\"\n\nWitnesses told MPs about the problems of patients either being unable to understand the rules of eligibility for free treatment or who had falsely been identified as fraudsters.\n\nDan Scorer, of the mental health charity Mencap, told MPs it was a \"real problem\" causing a \"lot of confusion among people with learning disabilities and their families\".\n\nGeoffrey Clifton-Brown asked whether the system was \"fit for purpose\"\n\nLaura Cockram of Parkinson's UK said that vulnerable patients were left \"shocked and anxious\" when they received penalty fines.\n\nSir Geoffrey said in six years serving on the Public Accounts Committee, this has been one of the most critical hearings he had ever attended.\n\nHe warned of a fining process which was \"scaring large numbers of the most vulnerable in society\".\n\nThe Cotswolds MP said it was \"staggering\" that the forms for not paying prescription charges still did not include a box for universal credit.\n\nLabour's Shabana Mahmood said the \"system is indefensible\" - and was not about a political policy choice, but poor public administration\".\n\nShe warned of \"breathtaking complacency and arrogance\".\n\n\"We have heard of real distress caused to our citizens because of this system,\" said Ms Mahmood.\n\nThe committee heard from the British Dental Association that low-income patients had been deterred from going to the dentist because of fears over fines.\n\nMs Waite said there had been a fall of 23% in low-income patients attending the dentist.\n\nLabour MP Bridget Phillipson such a big drop should have \"set off alarm bells\".\n\n\"Isn't there a risk that people are just not getting the treatment they need because they're worrying about whether they are going to end up with a fine?\" asked Ms Phillipson.\n\nSir Chris said there was a need for \"further progress\" but said that \"taking a harder line\" could be a deterrence for fraud.\n\nHe said there would be trials of a \"real-time checking system\", so that people getting prescriptions could see if they were eligible for free treatment before ticking a box to claim it.\n\n\"We don't deny at all that it is a very complicated system and some of our processes can cause people distress,\" said Sir Chris.\n\n\"We think it can be improved.\"", "Announcing the nominations for the four top posts in the EU, European Council President Donald Tusk has hailed a \"perfect gender balance\" of two men and two women.\n\nIf approved by the European Parliament she will become the first female in the job.\n\nIMF chief Christine Lagarde was also nominated to head the European Central Bank.", "Mr Magid said he was \"visibly different\" and \"didn't intend to fit in\"\n\nA newly-elected Green MEP claims he was asked to leave the European Parliament building in Strasbourg on his first day.\n\nMagid Magid, 30, was wearing a baseball cap and a T-shirt with swearing and an anti-fascist slogan on it when he was asked to leave.\n\nThe former Lord Mayor of Sheffield was elected as one of six MEPs for the Yorkshire and Humber region in May.\n\nThe European Parliament said no member of staff was involved in the incident.\n\nMr Magid said he did not know who the person was who asked him to leave, although he believed that individual to be an official.\n\nHe said the person asked if he was lost and then suggested he leave.\n\nHe added: \"I make people feel uncomfortable, people don't know how to react.\"\n\nIn a tweet, he said: \"I know I'm visibly different. I don't have the privilege to hide my identity. I'm BLACK & my name is Magid.\n\n\"I don't intend to try fit in. Get used to it!\"\n\nHe said the exchange said a lot about what people thought politicians were supposed to look like, and he did not leave the building.\n\nA spokeswoman for the European Parliament said: \"We investigated the matter immediately after our attention was brought to it and can safely say that no member of Parliament staff was involved.\"\n\nMr Magid was attending the opening of the new five-year session of the parliament, though the length of the UK's involvement remains in doubt.\n\nUK MEPs may sit in the parliament until the country formally leaves the EU.\n\nMr Magid came to Sheffield aged five from an Ethiopian refugee camp \"to find a better life\".\n\nHe was a contestant on Channel 4's reality show Hunted, and was elected Broomhill and Sharrow Vale Green councillor in 2016 and became the city's youngest Lord Mayor in 2018.\n\nHe went on to cause controversy when, in July 2018, he \"banned\" visiting US President Donald Trump from Sheffield.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Northern Ireland's politicians have jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.\n\nGroup B Strep is the most common cause of serious infection in newborn babies in the UK.\n\nA cross-party letter has been sent to Department of Health officials.\n\nIt says it is unacceptable that a baby born in Northern Ireland has a higher chance of developing the infection than one born elsewhere.\n\nThe letter was prompted by the death of Hollie Maguire shortly after her birth in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital in 2016 from congenital pneumonia.\n\nAt her inquest last month, her parents, Brendan Maguire and Susan Ho-Maguire from Dunmurry, warned other mothers-to-be to take a simple test for the Group B Streptococcus bacteria that caused their daughter's death.\n\nGroup B Strep is also one of the leading causes of neonatal pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis.\n\nOn average, two babies each day in the UK develop a Group B Strep infection and each week one baby dies.\n\nEach year in the UK, between 400 to 500 babies are born with Group-B streptococcus (GBS) - a bacteria which can cause serious illness or death in newborns.\n\nMost will fully recover with treatment, but GBS can lead to pneumonia, meningitis and a dangerous blood infection called sepsis.\n\nAbout 150,000 pregnant women - one in five - carry GBS and if it is undiagnosed, there is a chance they could pass it to their baby.\n\nGBS can be especially dangerous to babies who are born prematurely.\n\nThe government has launched a new screening trial across 80 hospitals in Great Britain\n\nMost strains of the new born infection can be prevented by testing during pregnancy and providing intravenous antibiotics to women in labour.\n\nHowever, the UK does not routinely test for GBS, unlike the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.\n\nExperts worry that routine testing would see antibiotics given to many more women.\n\nIn 2017, independent experts said there was not enough proof that a national screening programme would benefit mothers and babies. Campaigners disagree.\n\nIn May, the government said screening would be offered as part of a trial at 80 hospitals in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe trial will compare two tests with the current approach of testing only \"high risk\" pregnant women.\n\nMr Maguire said he was pleased to see the issue had united the parties.\n\n\"I'm so pleased to see the political parties united in support of group B Step screening,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing can bring Hollie back, but if Northern Ireland introduced routine screening, other babies like Hollie would be protected and other families wouldn't have to go through the heartbreak we have.\"\n\nBrendan Maguire and Susan Ho-Maguire have called for all pregnant women to be tested for Group B Strep\n\nThe letter signed by representatives of the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance parties is also backed by the chief executive of charity Group B Strep Support.\n\nThe letter outlines that while Northern Ireland has made significant steps forward in its prevention of Group B Strep infection, improvements are possible.\n\n\"In America, Canada, France, Germany or Italy, Mrs Maguire would have been tested to see if she was carrying Group B Step bacteria and offered antibiotics in labour, which would very likely have prevented Hollie's infection,\" it states.\n\nJane Plumb who founded the B Strep support group told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster that the UK national screening committee had recommended against routine testing.\n\n\"We believe their decision is flawed,\" she said. \"Most developed countries are screening and have seen their rates fall quite dramatically.\n\n\"In ours, the rates are just going up. If we just keep doing what we're doing, we're going to get the same thing happening.\n\n\"It is not good enough. One baby a week in the UK is dying from GBS. We must change this.\"\n\nMs Plumb said that the test for GBS was costed by the NHS at £11 to £12.\n\n\"It's inexpensive, simple and safe. When you consider the costs of having a baby who develops GBS, the financial costs associated for that are absolutely huge before you even get onto the emotional costs.\n\n\"We can be protecting these babies and for the sake of £11 for this test for each pregnant woman, we absolutely should be making this available.\"\n\nShe welcomed news that Northern Ireland politicians had united to call for screening and noted that NI had made \"significant steps forward\" in recent years in preventing GBS.\n\n\"We can be doing so much more because babies and families are being let down by the current approach.\"", "Gary Lineker is now top of the list, followed by Chris Evans and Graham Norton\n\nThe top 12 earners on the BBC's latest list of star salaries are all men.\n\nMatch of the Day host Gary Lineker has overtaken Chris Evans as the best-paid person on the list, earning between £1.75m-£1.76m in 2017-18.\n\nEvans, Graham Norton, Jeremy Vine and John Humphrys are among those to have seen their pay drop since last year.\n\nClaudia Winkleman is still the top woman, on £370,000-£379,999. Mary Berry and Newsnight's Emily Maitlis are among eight women to have joined the list.\n\nWinkleman was eighth last year but has now dropped to 13th as a result of a shake-up of the corporation's structure.\n\nShows like Strictly Come Dancing, which are made by BBC Studios, are no longer included on the list because BBC Studios is now considered a commercial entity.\n\nThe BBC said the published salaries do not yet fully reflect some pay rises and pay cuts, which will not filter through until next year's list.\n\nLast year, Sarah Montague and Emily Maitlis were revealed to earn less than male co-hosts\n\nThis is the second year that the BBC has published the salaries of its best-paid presenters, although actors, comedians and some hosts have been removed this time as a result of the BBC Studios change.\n\nLast year, the top seven were all men and the list sparked an outcry about gender inequality, with some men shown to have been paid more than female co-hosts.\n\nThere were also complaints about a lack of ethnic diversity. This year, the figures at the top of the list are all white again, although the BBC said the overall number of BAME stars on the list is rising.\n\nThis year's list includes on-air presenters who earned more than £150,000 in the financial year 2017/18 from news, sport and radio as well as some TV entertainment shows.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said the BBC was \"making progress\" and that he wants a 50/50 split on the list as a whole, but that \"these things take time\". The BBC has pledged to close the gap by 2020.\n\nBut Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey, who is one of the eight women to join the list, told Radio 4's PM programme the pace of change was \"absolutely glacial\".\n\nShe said: \"There needs to be a proper conversation about why in 2018 we are still fighting the same old battle on equal pay and why the work of women just isn't valued in the same way as the work of men.\"\n\nRadio 2 said Steve Wright's pay cut will be reflected next year\n\nThe other new entries include Europe editor Katya Adler and Radio 4 presenter Sarah Montague, with Maitlis earning between £220,000-£229,999 to make her the highest new name.\n\nFour men have also joined, including BBC media editor Amol Rajan on £200,000-£209,999, which also covers other radio presenting work.\n\nOf the 12 people who have moved down the salary bands because their pay has dropped since the previous list, eight are men. But four of the five to have moved up the pay bands are also men.\n\nThose moving into a higher salary bracket include Radio 2's Steve Wright and Ken Bruce; Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw; and Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen. The only woman to move up a pay band is Sophie Raworth.\n\nBBC Radio 2 said: \"Steve has just signed a fresh two year contract with Radio 2 which will show a considerable pay reduction - the BBC annual report is a year behind for him as his old contract had yet to expire.\"\n\nSome names have dropped down or been removed from the list since last year because they work for BBC Studios, which has been classed as a commercial entity since April 2017.\n\nAs part of its latest disclosures, the corporation also published figures for 2018-19 to show it is on the way to rectifying the gender imbalance.\n\nExcluding BBC Studios, 59% of on-air figures earning more than £150,000 in the current financial year are men, it said. That compares with 76% in 2016-17.\n\nClaudia Winkleman is still the best-paid woman on the list\n\nLord Hall said: \"I've made it absolutely clear that's not good enough and I want to get to 50/50, and that will mean changes in the range of what people are paid right across [the organisation].\"\n\nHe added: \"We are making progress and you must understand that. We're trying to get a balanced range of men and women and their pay right across the organisation.\n\n\"I am concentrating on what is a huge change, which is going from 25% of women to 40% of women being in the top, over £150,000 pay... These things take time.\"\n\nThe salary details were published in the BBC's latest annual report, and come a week after the corporation said its overall median gender pay gap had reduced from 9.3% to 7.6%.\n\nAnd it comes two weeks after former China editor Carrie Gracie received an apology and back pay from the BBC after discovering on last year's list that she had been paid less than her male counterparts.\n\nIn last year's report, Claudia Winkleman was the best-paid woman, earning between £450,000-£499,999. This year, she is still the top earning female star, but has slid down the rankings with earnings between £370,000-£379,999.\n\nThat means the top of this year's list appears more male-dominated than last time.\n\nWinkleman's Strictly co-host Tess Daly has dropped off the list all together, as have The One Show's Matt Baker and Casualty's Derek Thompson, among others.\n\nThat's because most entertainment, factual and drama programmes are made by BBC Studios which, as a commercial entity, no longer has to declare the salaries it pays its staff because it is competing with other production companies.\n\nBBC Studios chief creative officer Mark Linsey said: \"We are at a significant disadvantage if we don't have a level playing field. It's a bunfight out there for talent.\"\n\nSo Claudia's actual earnings will exceed the amount given in this year's annual report. The same can be said for the likes of Graham Norton, Mary Berry and Fiona Bruce, who also make shows for BBC Studios.\n\nThis year's list doesn't fully reflect the pay cuts for some male presenters - and pay rises for some women. In a number of cases, these will be enacted over several years.\n\nFor example, John Humphrys has seen his published salary drop from £600,000-£649,999 to £400,000-£409,999. But in 2018-19 - which will be shown on next year's list - his pay for the Today programme will be in the £250,000-£299,999 bracket.\n\nSimilarly, Nicky Campbell and Huw Edwards have also taken pay cuts, which have started to filter through to the list - but are being staggered over a number of years.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC annual report also revealed that the corporation received 48 complaints of sexual harassment and assault in 2017/18.\n\nNine resulted in formal cases or disciplinary action, the BBC said. The remaining 39 did not for a variety of reasons - including the complaint being withdrawn or the individual being complained about no longer working for the BBC.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Whirlpool has admitted that there could be as many as 800,000 faulty tumble-dryers in homes around the UK.\n\nIn June, the government said it would issue a recall notice of up to 500,000 dryers which pose a fire safety risk.\n\nBut when pressed by MPs on the Business Committee, company executives admitted the number of unmodified machines could be higher.\n\nA fault in Whirlpool machines was blamed for at least 750 fires over an 11-year period, the government said.\n\nWhirlpool said it had logged 54 fires caused by a build-up of fluff in its tumble dryers in recent years, three of which were in machines that had been modified.\n\nCharlie Pugsley, deputy assistant commissioner at the London Fire Brigade, said his service had seen a wide range of faults causing fires in machines that had already been modified.\n\nJemma Spurr was one customer whose modified dryer caught fire.\n\nShe told the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that despite repeated attempts to get in touch with Whirlpool directly, she had never received the report on the cause of her fire, or an apology from the company.\n\nWhirlpool executive Jeff Noel apologised to Ms Spurr during the hearing and said the company had modified every machine bought to its attention.\n\nMs Spurr also claimed that Whirlpool asked her to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) about the incident. She did sign it but has spoken out anyway.\n\nWhirlpool said non-disclosure agreements were standard industry practice during insurance settlements.\n\nFaulty dryers, months to wait for a fix, continued problems even after modifications, and a full product recall. It's a string of bad publicity for a company trying to brand itself as a provider of \"quality home appliances\".\n\nIt isn't the first time that the company's corporate vice-president has had to defend his products to a parliamentary committee. Jeff Noel previously responded to safety concerns about the company's fridge-freezers which were blamed as the cause of the Grenfell fire.\n\nCustomers are understandably frustrated, and the white goods market is particularly dependent on trust.\n\nResearch by Deloitte suggests that people are more likely to read online reviews, and ask family and friends for recommendations of household appliances than any other purchase.\n\nThe string of damaging news has put Whirlpool in a real spin, as it comes at the same time as increased competition from the likes of Samsung, Bosch, Siemens and Zanussi.\n\nThe company also confirmed that, during the recall period, customers can either have their current dryers modified or get a brand new machine free of charge, including installation.\n\nIn a statement, the Whirlpool Corporation told the BBC: \"The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) recently concluded a comprehensive year-long review of the dryer programme which confirmed that the modification is effective in resolving the issue.\n\n\"Safety is always our number one priority and we remain committed to resolving all unmodified dryers affected by this issue.\n\n\"As we updated the committee, we are expanding our recall campaign to include further options to encourage remaining consumers to come forward and remedy their unmodified appliances.\n\n\"The crucial message to anyone who still owns an affected dryer and has not already had it modified by Whirlpool is to contact us immediately on 0800 151 0905, or visit https://safety.hotpoint.eu/, https://safety.indesit.eu/ or https://safety-swan.eu.\n\n\"As advised by OPSS, consumers whose tumble dryers have been modified can continue to use them safely and there is no need to contact Whirlpool at this time.\"\n\nSue Davies, strategic policy adviser at consumer group Which?, said: \"With Whirlpool admitting it has only managed to provide a modification or replacement for a tiny proportion of affected machines in the last two years, it's clear that the company is failing to do enough to keep customers safe.\n\n\"Now it has acknowledged that modified machines are still catching fire.\n\n\"If the safety of Whirlpool's fire-risk tumble dryers cannot be assured, secretary of state Greg Clark must step in and ensure that all potentially dangerous machines are immediately removed from people's homes.\"", "Ann Drummond's death is being treated as suspicious\n\nA woman who died after being discovered in a burning car in West Lothian \"lived a brave and exciting life\", her family have said.\n\nAnn Drummond, 47, had serious burns and a head injury when she was found near Dumcross Farm, Bathgate.\n\nA man, also 47, was found next to her and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.\n\nMs Drummond died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Thursday. Her death is being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn a statement, her family said: \"Our mum was a talented, compassionate and happy woman who was infinitely strong and lived a brave and exciting life.\n\n\"We are proud and honoured to call her mum and are all utterly devastated to have lost her.\n\n\"We ask that you respect our privacy at this time.\"\n\nDet Insp Nick Brookfield, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Ann's entire family and we are continuing to support them while at the same time progressing our inquiries into her death.\n\n\"If you believe you have any relevant information to assist with this investigation then please contact police immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boys with asthma are twice as likely as girls to visit their GP with worsening symptoms during the first weeks of the new school year, research suggests.\n\nIt found a tripling of appointments related to \"back to school\" asthma in England.\n\nBeing exposed to new viruses at school and a relaxed use of inhalers over the holidays could be factors, experts say.\n\nAsthma could turn into \"a ticking time bomb\" during the summer holidays, Asthma UK said.\n\nIn recent years, there has been a sharp rise in school-age children with asthma being admitted to hospital in September, around the start of the autumn term.\n\nThese increases, called the \"back to school\" effect, were also found in Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Back to school asthma\" is thought to account for up to a quarter of serious bouts of asthma in many northern hemisphere countries.\n\nThis Public Health England analysis, based on data from hospitals and GPs surgeries in England from 2012-16, also found evidence of the effect in pre-school children, as well as in five- to 14-year-olds.\n\nCompared with the summer holidays, doctors' appointments related to asthma were two to three times higher in the weeks after school began.\n\nAnd this was particularly marked in boys, according to the research, in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, although it is not clear why.\n\nThere were no post-summer peaks in children over 15, when girls were more likely than boys to seek treatment.\n\nThe researchers said there could be many reasons for the \"back to school\" effect.\n\nDr Alex Elliot, consultant epidemiologist at Public Health England, said: \"The reasons underlying 'back to school' asthma are complex, most likely involving seasonal viruses and environmental factors and a greater understanding of these elements will help design future public health approaches.\"\n\nHe also suggested the role of fungal spores could be an area for future research to investigate.\n\nDr Andy Whittamore, clinical lead for Asthma UK and a practising GP, said: \"While boys are more likely to get asthma than girls, it is still shocking that boys with the condition are twice as likely to need GP treatment than girls.\n\n\"In fact, all children with asthma are at risk during the summer holidays, when their asthma can turn into a ticking time bomb.\n\n\"Many fall out of the routine of taking their daily asthma medication during the summer and this, combined with an abundance of cold and flu in the autumn, which are known asthma triggers, puts them at a higher risk of having a life-threatening asthma attack when they go back to school,\" he said.\n\nDr Whittamore said parents should ensure their child used their preventer (brown) inhaler every day as prescribed over the summer holidays.\n\nThis helps calm the inflammation in their airways and prevents them having an asthma attack if they come into contact with one of their triggers.\n\n\"If your child is using their reliever inhaler (usually blue) three or more times a week, coughing or wheezing at night or feeling out of breath and struggling to keep up with their friends, book an urgent appointment with their GP,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's biggest gambling firms have agreed to contribute more money to fund treatment for problem gamblers.\n\nThe owners of William Hill, Ladbrokes Coral, Paddy Power Betfair, Skybet and Bet 365 will increase their voluntary levy on gambling profits from 0.1% to 1% up to 2023 - a contribution of £60m.\n\nIt will be \"a step change\" in how they tackle addiction, the firms claimed.\n\nIt comes amid criticism of the industry on how little it spends to help addicts compared with its marketing budget.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens warned betting firms could be taxed to pay for addiction treatment.\n\nMr Stevens condemned the \"fraction\" spent by industry on helping those struggling with addiction, compared with the amount spent on advertising and marketing.\n\nThe companies said cumulatively they would spend £100m on treatment over the next four years.\n\nLast month, when the BBC broke the news of the plans, a source said the industry had to act: \"The industry is on a precipice - if we don't get ahead of this, we will end up where the alcohol industry was 10 years ago, and tobacco 30 years ago.\n\n\"The fear is that we face a ban on touchline advertising or football shirt sponsorship.\"\n\nPeter Jackson, chief executive of Flutter Entertainment - the holding company name for Paddy Power Betfair - said the agreement marked \"an unprecedented level of commitment and collaboration by the leading companies in the British betting and gaming sector to address gambling-related harm\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"We think that is an important step to make.\n\n\"We do think we need to increase the amount of money that is available to protect the young and vulnerable.\"\n\nMarc Etches, chief executive of charity GambleAware, told the BBC: \"We welcome this initiative by the leading operators as it's essential there is sufficient funding to provide for treatment and support for both problem gamblers and for those who are 'at risk' - particularly the young and vulnerable.\n\n\"Customers should be able to gamble in a safe environment, where help and advice is readily available at the point of need.\n\n\"It is vital that we work closely with the commission, government and other organisations to ensure that operators continue to focus on making gambling products safer, and that treatment and support is properly funded alongside other initiatives including the Safer Gambling campaign, Bet Regret.\"\n\nThe five firms have also agreed to increase safer gambling messages in their adverts and review the \"tone and content\" of their marketing and sponsorship material.\n\nThe Gambling Commission estimates there are 430,000 people with a serious gambling addiction in the UK. If you include those they deem at risk of addiction, the number rises to more than two million.\n\nOf these, around 55,000 are children and young people aged 11 to 16.\n\nJeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said the gambling industry had a responsibility to tackle problem gambling and contribute to the cost of treatment to rebuild the lives of those affected.\n\n\"We will monitor closely the progress of these new measures and encourage the wider industry to step up. The government will not hesitate to take further action to protect people from gambling related harm.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor has called on Tory leadership candidates to \"stop and think\" about their spending promises.\n\nBoth Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have announced a raft of policies during the contest, including cutting taxes and increasing spending on public services.\n\nBut Philip Hammond said they needed to \"be honest\" as the policies \"greatly exceed\" the Treasury's coffers.\n\nHe also said available money would be needed to support the UK economy in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg if the candidates were being honest with the electorate, he said: \"I think they need to be very careful about setting out these ambitions and being clear about the consequences of them.\"\n\nThe warning comes after Mr Hunt said he would decide by the end of September whether there was a \"realistic chance\" of reaching a new deal with the EU were he to become PM.\n\nThe foreign secretary said he would deliver a provisional \"no-deal Brexit budget\" in early September, but abandon talks at the end of the month if there was no \"immediate prospect\" of progress - instead moving to a no-deal footing.\n\nHis rival Boris Johnson has vowed to leave \"come what may\" by 31 October.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Mr Johnson said it was important to have a \"hard deadline\" for leaving, adding that previous no-deal preparations had \"sagged back down\" after exit dates were not met.\n\nThe Conservative Party's 160,000 members will begin voting next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July.\n\nMr Hammond said the Treasury had \"built up fiscal headroom to protect against the cost of a no-deal Brexit\" and that money could be released \"if we have a smooth Brexit with a transition period in an orderly way\".\n\nBut he said the current proposals on the table from Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson would already require increased borrowing beyond the government cap, or spending cuts or tax rises elsewhere - even without a no-deal Brexit-shaped \"hole\" in the public finances.\n\nJeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have been busy spraying around hypothetical cash - whether on defence, on care for the elderly, on schools, for more police, the list goes on.\n\nIt is not politically surprising that they both want to signal they would turn on the spending taps a bit after a long, long period of cuts. But one of their erstwhile colleagues seems to have had enough.\n\nAfter making some carefully crafted warnings in the last couple of weeks, Chancellor Philip Hammond has tried to call a halt, telling the BBC that both of the candidates have to resist the temptation of a bidding war, worrying that the party's reputation is at risk too.\n\nMr Hammond told me the candidates needed to \"stop and think\". And that by his calculation, both of the candidates' plans \"greatly exceeds\" the amount of wriggle room they will inherit from No 11 if they are lucky enough to be the one that moves in next door.\n\nMr Hammond also said the headroom wasn't \"a pot of money sitting in the Treasury\", but a way of borrowing more without breaching government limits.\n\n\"Whether it is a leadership competition or a general election, there is always a temptation to get into a bidding war about spending more and cutting taxes,\" he said.\n\n\"But you can't do both, and if we're not careful, all we end up doing is borrowing more, spending more on interest, instead of on our schools, hospitals and our police, and delivering a bigger burden of debt to our children and grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said the candidates' policies were \"sensible and interesting ideas\", but said the government had \"built up a reputation for fiscal responsibility... and it is very important we don't throw that away\".\n\n\"We have to live within our means and people have to be honest about the consequences of either spending more money or of cutting taxes that will have implications for borrowing or spending elsewhere,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office Minister David Lidington has also warned the candidates about their spending promises, saying they had to \"raise the money honestly from somewhere\".\n\nThe de-facto deputy prime minister said: \"While in a short term crisis you can ease up on the borrowing, money borrowed has to be repaid by the next generation with interest - so you shouldn't take on extra borrowing lightly, nor should we be wanting to impose more taxes on people already working very hard.\n\nHe said the \"stewardship\" of Mr Hammond meant \"money is available\" to \"cushion the impact\" of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut, he added: \"I don't think any of us should pretend that no-deal would be easy even with the most meticulous and thorough planning.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: Who is the Conservative leadership contender?\n\nMr Hunt has said he wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and would be building a team to create an \"alternative exit deal\" to be published by the end of August.\n\nHe would then engage with other EU leaders, but keep up preparations at home for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the timeline Mr Hunt was setting out was very tight - especially given the notice the government's fiscal watchdog, the OBR, usually needs to prepare for a Budget.\n\nEarlier, one of Mr Johnson's leading backers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times the days of public sector \"pay freezes\" under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nBut during a campaign visit in Kent on Monday, Mr Johnson declined to make a detailed pledge on public sector pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason's guide to the political life of Boris Johnson\n\nA no-deal exit on 31 October remains the default position in UK law after MPs rejected the deal Mrs May had agreed with Brussels three times.\n\nIf that does happen, the UK will automatically begin trading with the EU under the basic World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nUnder these rules, the tariffs - the taxes on imported and exported goods - will be different to what the UK currently trades under.", "A disabled fan who booked an access ticket for R&B star Janelle Monae may not get a seat, she has been told.\n\nVirginie Assal, who has a serious back condition, booked the ticket in 2018 so she could sit down, but the seats have now become \"first come, first served\".\n\nShe has to arrive early to get a seat at the 4 July concert at Manchester International Festival (MIF).\n\nMIF said access was a \"priority\" and it had made adjustments to accommodate as many disabled people as possible.\n\nHowever, it has emerged only provisions for wheelchair-users are guaranteed.\n\nMs Assal, who has a serious back condition and is the diversity and liberation co-ordinator at the University of Manchester, which focuses on inclusivity, says this is the first time a concert in the UK has not been accessible to her.\n\nThe 25-year-old said when she booked her ticket to see the popular US singer, who's just played Glastonbury, she was asked what she required - a seat away from the crowd - and was told \"that was fine\".\n\nThe situation changed last week when she looked at the festival's website and saw there were only provisions for wheelchair-users to reserve spaces and that seats for mobility impaired people could no longer be assured.\n\nMonae addresses social and sexual politics on her new album, Dirty Computer\n\nMs Assal messaged MIF. In messages seen by the BBC, it replied: \"We will have an accessible seating area available for the performance. As we have limited capacity, we'd advise turning up early as the seating area will be first come first served.\"\n\nMs Assal responded: \"So booking an accessible ticket doesn't guarantee me to be in the accessible area? What time should I arrive?\"\n\nShe was told the accessibility area has \"unreserved seating\" and is limited so she should arrive \"as soon as doors open\".\n\nMs Assal queried what happened if more people needed seats than were available.\n\n\"It made me upset,\" Ms Assal said. \"How do I enjoy the concert now? I have scoliosis so my back isn't straight. It means I can't stand for a long time statically and I'm always worried in a crowd that I might get pushed and fall and really hurt myself.\n\n\"I really need a seat because it means I'm in pain if I don't have one and I don't really want to burst into tears because of the pain, or sit on the floor because of the pain, or put myself in a vulnerable position.\"\n\nMs Assal says she's now not sure whether to attend the concert at Castlefield Bowl, or not.\n\n\"I don't want to arrive early and get a seat and then find another disabled person has been turned away. I'd prefer them to have my seat.\"\n\nChris Fry, managing partner of Fry Law, which specialises in equality and human rights, says operating a \"first come, first served\" policy can be a breach of the Equality Act 2010.\n\nUnder the act, any organisation supplying a service to the public has a duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that a disabled person's experience is as close as possible to that of someone without a disability.\n\nMr Fry said it was the duty of the service provider, in this case MIF, to ensure the venue is accessible.\n\nHe said: \"It's fairly well established that whilst 'first come first served policies' appear to offer a level playing field, if the outcome creates a systemic disadvantage to disabled people then they are a form of indirect discrimination and are unlawful.\n\n\"Whilst it's justifiable... for there to be a limit to the number of wheelchair spaces for evacuation and safety reasons, there's no reason why disabled people who do not use wheelchairs should be restricted to seating in those spaces.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, MIF said: \"MIF does not manage or run the venue. We have made reasonable adjustments within the constraints of an outdoor standing event, with limited capacity space, to accommodate as many disabled people as possible.\n\n\"We are not offering a 'first-come, first-served assistance policy' as suggested, we offer the same opportunity to book tickets and select access preferences to everyone.\"\n\nMIF said it has 40 unreserved seats available for use in its access area at Castlefield Bowl.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotch whisky is among the products targeted by the US for a possible range of new tariffs on imported goods.\n\nThe US has threatened to impose tariffs on European Union imports worth up to $4bn (£3.2bn), although it is not known when tariffs would be imposed.\n\nWhiskey from Ireland, cheeses including Parmesan and Gouda, pasta and olives are other items affected.\n\nThe US Trade Representative said it was \"in response to harm caused by EU aircraft subsidies\".\n\nIn April, the US announced proposed tariffs on $11bn of EU goods.\n\nThe moves are part of a 15-year dispute at the World Trade Organization between the US and EU over subsidies given to plane-makers Airbus, from Europe, and the US's Boeing.\n\nThe United States is the world's largest export market for Scotch whisky by value - £1.04bn in 2018. By volume, it is the second largest, with 137 million 70cl bottles exported last year.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scotch Whisky Association told the BBC: \"Exports of Scotch whisky to the US have been zero tariff for 20 years, so it is disappointing that Scotch whisky has been drawn into this dispute.\n\n\"The Scotch whisky industry has consistently opposed the imposition of tariffs, which harms economies on both sides of the Atlantic which depend on trade for their continued prosperity.\n\n\"There is a close relationship between the US whiskies and Scotch whisky, not least due to the use of bourbon casks for maturation which generates around £70m for the US economy each year.\n\n\"We continue to urge the UK government, the EU and the US government to resolve this situation.\"\n\nScotch whisky makes up 12% of the total whiskey market in the United States, with US whiskey accounting for 48%.\n\nThe Distilled Spirits Council of the United States warned that the move may harm both jobs and consumers in the country.\n\n\"We strongly oppose the inclusion of distilled products in the proposed retaliation list,\" said spokeswoman Lisa Hawkins.\n\n\"US companies - from farmers to suppliers to retailers - are already being negatively impacted by the imposition of retaliatory tariffs by key trading partners on certain US distilled spirits.\n\n\"These additional tariffs will only inflict further harm,\" she said.", "Pro-democracy activists stormed the building during a day of protests on the anniversary of Hong Kong's transfer of sovereignty to China from Britain.\n\nThe BBC's Nick Beake has been inside to see the damage.", "Arizona has pulled a $1m grant to help Nike build a new factory in a dispute over the firm's withdrawal of a trainer allegedly featuring racist symbolism.\n\nThe state's governor had condemned Nike's decision, which was prompted by complaints about its use of an old US flag embraced by white nationalists.\n\nNike-sponsored sportsman Colin Kaepernick had criticised the trainers, now selling on websites for $1,500.\n\nBut governor Doug Ducey said Nike had bowed to political correctness.\n\nThe special edition Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July trainer features the Betsy Ross flag.\n\nWith a circle of 13 stars representing the first US colonies, the flag was created during the American Revolution. Although opinion is divided over its origins, the flag was later adopted for use by the American Nazi Party.\n\nNike said it withdrew the trainers \"based on concerns that it could unintentionally offend and detract from the nation's patriotic holiday\".\n\nOn Tuesday the trainers were selling for well over $1,500 on StockX, the online marketplace for trainers.\n\nColin Kaepernick was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers for six years\n\nEarlier, Mr Kaepernick, a former NFL star, reportedly told Nike that he found the flag offensive because of its connection to the era of slavery. Other critics also raised concerns with Nike.\n\nLast year, he became the face of Nike's advertisement marking the 30th anniversary of the company's \"Just Do It\" slogan.\n\nThe former American football quarterback had previously sparked a furore by kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest against police violence against African-Americans.\n\nMr Kaepernick was joined by other players, but their actions caused fury among some Republicans.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the players had shown \"disrespect\" to the US flag, adding that they should be sacked.\n\nThe Betsy Ross flag was used by the American Nazi Party as a symbol, here seen at a German American Bund rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939\n\nDoug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, said in a series of tweets: \"Words cannot express my disappointment at this terrible decision. I am embarrassed for Nike.\n\n\"Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation's independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,\" he said.\n\nLater, the governor's office confirmed that the $1m from the Arizona Commerce Authority' Competes Fund had been withdrawn. The fund is designed to attract, expand or retain businesses to the state. The factory was expected to generate about 500 jobs.\n\nNike said in a statement it remained committed to making \"a significant investment in an additional manufacturing centre which will create 500 new jobs\". It did not mention the Arizona plant by name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Doug Ducey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGeorgia Lord, the mayor of the city of Goodyear in Arizona where Nike is building the new factory, said the city \"had found itself in the middle of a difficult situation\".\n\nShe said the Goodyear City Council had recently \"unanimously approved a job creation agreement with Nike\".\n\n\"This deal is expected to bring more than 500 jobs and a significant investment to the city. We will honor the commitment we made in our agreement,\" she added.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz also dismissed Nike's move as unpatriotic, writing on Twitter that the shoe giant \"only wants to sell sneakers to people who hate the American flag\". Other Twitter users called for a boycott of Nike products over the move.\n\nHowever, Nike also received widespread support, with Twitter users pointing out that the flag had been used by white nationalists.\n\nMatt Powell, senior industry adviser at the research and consultancy group NPD, said Nike would probably find support among its core consumers.\n\n\"I think it's important to understand who Nike's core demographic is here. They're really focused on teens and looking at the commentary on Twitter and so forth, I don't see a lot of teens coming out with a negative attitude here,\" he said.\n\nMr Kaepernick has not played in the National Football League (NFL) since the 2016 season, and sued the organisation, arguing team owners deliberately froze him out because of his activism, later settling with the NFL.\n\nBetsy Ross was credited with sewing the first \"Stars and Stripes\" flag in 1776, although this version of events has been rejected by modern US scholars.\n\nNike is not the only company to recently face a backlash over products labelled racially insensitive. In December, Prada pulled products accused of depicting blackface.\n\nAnd on Monday, reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian said she would rename her Kimono line after people in Japan said her use of the term was disrespectful.", "Fifteen-year-old Alex became an internet sensation after performing on stage with rapper Dave at Glastonbury.\n\nThe rapper was performing on The Other Stage on Sunday afternoon when he asked the teenager to join him on stage. \"I was so nervous,\" he says.\n\nThe pair performed the rapper’s track with AJ Tracey, Thiago Silva – named in honour of the Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain football player.\n\nThis video has been removed for rights reasons", "Lauren Bullock, Morgan Barnard, and Connor Currie died as they queued to get into an event on St Patrick's night\n\nThe Police Ombudsman is starting a criminal investigation into five PSNI officers for alleged misconduct over the Cookstown disco crush tragedy.\n\nFour of the officers attended an incident at the Greenvale Hotel in County Tyrone where three teenagers died on the night of 17 March.\n\nThe other officer was involved in call handling that night.\n\nThe PSNI had asked the ombudsman to look into the actions of the first officers arriving at the hotel.\n\nThe ombudsman's office confirmed it was considering whether the five officers committed the offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nMorgan Barnard, 17, Lauren Bullock, 17, and Conor Currie, 16, died as hundreds of young people queued to get into an event on St Patrick's night.\n\nThe PSNI said at the time that officers who responded to a 999 call \"withdrew to await further police support\".\n\nThe then Chief Constable Sir George Hamilton has since described the officers' actions as \"brave\" but later apologised for doing so.\n\nNone of the officers under investigation has been suspended, the BBC understands\n\nMorgan Barnard's parents have said serious questions must be asked of the police.\n\nThe inquiry \"does not come as a surprise\", according to the Barnard family's solicitor Darragh Mackin.\n\nThe ombudsman's decision to investigate \"exonerates the family's efforts to ensure that no stone has been left unturned in the pursuance of truth\", he said.\n\nThe PSNI said it would \"cooperate fully throughout\" the ombudsman's investigation.\n\n\"We have full confidence in the office of the Police Ombudsman to complete a thorough and independent investigation,\" said Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin.\n\n\"Until this is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the families of Morgan Barnard, Connor Currie and Lauren Bullock who tragically died at the event and the police investigation into the circumstances surrounding their deaths continues.\"\n\nIt is understood none of the officers under investigation has been suspended but that position is being kept under review.", "The S&P 500 index of US stocks has closed at a record high amid signs of progress in US-China trade talks.\n\nThe index closed at 2,964.33, beating 21 June's previous high, with technology stocks driving the rise.\n\nMarket watchers say more optimism around a potential trade deal between the US and China led to the movement.\n\nAnd gold, often seen as a safe asset in times of uncertainty, fell 2% to $1,382 per ounce, the biggest drop since June 2018.\n\nThe Dow Jones closed 0.44% higher at 26,717.43, while the Nasdaq finished 1.1% higher at 8,091.16.\n\nIn Europe, both the UK's FTSE 100 index and Germany's Dax closed 1% higher.\n\n\"We're right back on track,\" US President Donald Trump said after the countries agreed to restart trade talks.\n\n\"Gold tends to do well during times of concern over growth, market volatility or when markets think the powers-that-be are losing control of events,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at stockbroker AJ Bell.\n\n\"A trade deal would deal with all three issues and markets are happy to take the view that a deal is coming. Though it could still be a long time coming, if there is to be one at all.\"\n\nNegotiations between China and the US have dominated market moves for months as positive statements are often followed by extra tariffs, sending stock, currency and commodity markets up and down.\n\nThe latest moves follow a pledge to renew talks between the US and China, an agreement that was reached at the G20 summit in Japan.\n\nUS President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on $300bn of new tariffs on goods and relaxed restrictions on Huawei, while China agreed to make new purchases of US farm equipment.\n\nLast year, the US imposed three rounds of tariffs on more than $250bn worth of Chinese goods. China hit back by imposing tariffs ranging from 5% to 25% on $110bn of US products.\n\nA truce agreed last December collapsed and in May the US raised tariffs on $200bn of Chinese products to 25% from 10%. Again China retaliated with tariff on $60bn of US goods.\n\nThe price of gold is also retreating after gaining 8% in June, with prices exceeding $1,400 per troy ounce.\n\n\"Gold has just had a strong run. Nothing goes up in a straight line,\" said Mr Mould.\n\nWhile it earns no income, like a share or a bond would, gold's indestructible nature and its place in history as a store of value make it attractive to some investors in times of strife.\n\nOther safe-haven assets also declined, including the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. The dollar rose 0.4% against the yen to 108.26, and advanced 0.7% on the franc to 0.9830 francs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans of the Los Angeles Angels pay tribute to Tyler Skaggs\n\nThe Los Angeles Angels baseball team has confirmed the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs. He was 27 years old.\n\nThe announcement was made on the team's Twitter page and came hours before they were scheduled to play against the Texas Rangers.\n\nSouthlake Police said he was found unconscious in his Hilton hotel room in Texas on Monday afternoon. No foul play is suspected, police said.\n\nSkaggs debuted in the MLB at age 20 as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks.\n\nThe starting pitcher was drafted directly out of high school by the Angels in the team's first round of selections in 2009. He had last pitched for the team on Saturday, according to the MLB.\n\nSo far this season he has started 15 games, most recently on 29 June against the Oakland Athletics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Southlake DPS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Tyler has, and always will be, an important part of the Angels family,\" the team said in a statement.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Carli and his entire family during this devastating time.\"\n\nHe was due to turn 28 in less than two weeks.\n\nA police spokesperson told the LA Times that \"suicide is not suspected\". The Fort Worth Star-Telegram quotes an unnamed police source saying \"in these early stages of the investigation, it does not appear at this time that suicide was the cause of death\".\n\nA post-mortem examination is scheduled for Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.\n\nOn Sunday, Skaggs posted a photo to Instagram of him and the team wearing cowboy hats with the caption \"Howdy y'all\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by tskaggs45 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I am deeply saddened by today's tragedy in Texas,\" MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.\n\n\"All of us at Major League Baseball extend our deepest condolences to Tyler's wife Carli, their family, their friends and all of his Angels' team-mates and colleagues.\n\n\"We will support the Angels' organisation through this most difficult period, and we will make a variety of resources available to Tyler's team-mates and other members of the baseball family.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Los Angeles Angels This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow Angels pitcher Parker Bridwell tweeted his condolences after the news broke, writing: \"I can't believe this, my heart and prayers go out to his wife and family! We lost an amazing human being. Rest In Peace brother.\"\n\nSkaggs was born in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Woodland Hills and attended Santa Monica High School.", "Princess Haya fled her husband in Dubai and is in hiding in London\n\nPrincess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband.\n\nSheikh Mohammed, 69, who is a billionaire racehorse owner and has often been seen conversing with the Queen at Ascot, has posted a furious poem on Instagram accusing an unidentified woman of \"treachery and betrayal\".\n\nThe Jordanian-born and British-educated Princess Haya, 45, married Sheikh Mohammed - owner of Godolphin horse racing stables - in 2004, becoming his sixth and \"junior wife\".\n\nSheikh Mohammed reportedly has 23 children by different wives.\n\nPrincess Haya fled initially this year to Germany to seek asylum. She is now said to be living in a £85m ($107m) town house in Kensington Palace Gardens, in central London, and preparing for a legal battle in the High Court.\n\nSo what prompted her to flee her luxurious life in Dubai and why is she said to be \"afraid for her life\"?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSources close to her have said that Princess Haya had recently discovered disturbing facts behind the mysterious return to Dubai last year of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler's daughters. She fled the UAE by sea with the help of a Frenchman but was intercepted by armed men off the coast of India and returned to Dubai.\n\nPrincess Haya then, along with the former Irish president Mary Robinson, defended Dubai's reputation over the incident.\n\nThe Dubai authorities said the runaway Sheikha Latifa had been \"vulnerable to exploitation\" and was \"now safe in Dubai\". But human rights advocates said she was forcibly abducted against her will.\n\nSince then, it is alleged, Princess Haya has learnt new facts about the case and consequently came under increasing hostility and pressure from members of her husband's extended family until she no longer felt safe there.\n\nA source close to her said she fears she may now be abducted herself and \"rendered\" back to Dubai. The UAE embassy in London has declined to comment on what it says is a personal matter between two individuals.\n\nPrincess Haya was educated in Dorset and Oxford and is thought likely to want to stay in the UK\n\nThere is, however, a wider, international element to this story.\n\nPrincess Haya, who was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset then University of Oxford, is thought likely to want to stay in the UK.\n\nIf her estranged husband demands her return then this poses a diplomatic headache for Britain, which has close ties to the UAE.\n\nThe case is also awkward for Jordan since Princess Haya is the half-sister of Jordan's King Abdullah. Nearly a quarter of a million Jordanians work in the UAE, sending back remittances, and Jordan cannot afford a rift with Dubai.\n\nThe BBC documentary Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess will be re-broadcast on BBC Two at 23:15 BST on Thursday.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "After England reached the Women's World Cup semi-finals, we asked you for your stories of meeting Lionesses players - and you did not let us down.\n\nHere is a selection of your tales.\n\nI watched Steph Houghton play up front for Sunderland when she was 14 as my flatmate also played for Sunderland at the same time. If my memory is correct, her dad used to give her money for every goal she scored. I bumped into her again a couple of years ago, she was as down to earth as she always was. I have followed football my whole life but the dedication, determination and humility of the women's game will always set the ladies apart. You can natter to a women's England international player about the passion and pride of representing their nation. Bring football home ladies.\n\nI was working at a conference at St George's Park while the Lionesses were in residence. I happened to stumble across a couple of the players. One was Alex Scott, my daughter's favourite player. I asked her if I could have a selfie and the other player said: \"Do you want me to take the picture for you?\" The picture was duly taken, and I thanked the players. Later on in the day I discovered that the other player who had kindly taken the picture was Steph Houghton! How embarrassing to have not been bothered to ask the England captain for a picture with her too! Sorry Steph! Come on the Lionesses!\n\nEllen White was a pupil at The Grange, Aylesbury. I was her history teacher in Years 7 and 8. I recall her as a positive, keen and able student. She had immaculate handwriting, taking care over her work and I kept one of her exercise books for many years as an exemplar piece! She had a sporty group of friends and was, at that stage, playing for Arsenal juniors. I recall her as able, conscientious, polite, friendly and sporty, of course! She is now the same age as I was when I taught her! I can easily tell it's her; only she's bigger now! Ellen - we are proud of you!\n\nMy daughter Amelia met with Ellen White while she was a Birmingham City player. She took part in a coaching session and Ellen was watching on. She later spoke to her, told her she had talent and gave some really positive advice which only inspired her further. Four years on and my daughter now plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers and always speaks about that moment with Ellen when she gave her the belief that girls could play football too.\n\nMy sister Nicola was good friends with Ellen White when they were at school. Ellen used to come to our house for dinner after school, and my sister would get annoyed because Ellen and I would end up playing football in the back garden while my sister sat there and watched! Ellen was probably seven or eight years old at the time. I'm four years older than her, but even at that age you could see how good she was - miles better than me!\n\nI remember going to watch my local team Aylesbury United at Buckingham Road. Pre-match entertainment was a kids' five-a-side and I saw there was a long-haired blonde girl playing. It was the first time I had seen a girl play football and thought stupidly \"this will be funny\". The girl in question wiped the floor with them all, scoring goals for fun and was by far the best player on the park. Turns out that girl was Ellen White. Ellen, Aylesbury is proud of you!\n\nIn 2009 my family went to the Women's European Championship in Finland for a 10-day holiday to support England. They faced Finland in the quarter-finals and we couldn't get tickets. I walked in to the England team hotel and left a note for the FA explaining our holiday and if they had any spare tickets. Later that evening I got a call saying we could possibly have two tickets but in fact they gave us four. England won and I think we were the only England fans who weren't family at the stadium. The FA invited us to dinner with the players and I remember the amazement on my girls' faces, as they sat with Karen Carney. The next day the FA offered us a lift on the coach back to Helsinki. They even offered us more tickets for the semi-final but we had to catch our flight in time for the girls to be back at school. We remain great fans of England and also saw them at Euro 2017 and went to Nice for the Japan game and try to get to as many home games as possible. A great group of women and amazing role models for today's generation.\n\nSeveral years ago my girls' primary school football team were playing in a local schools tournament at St George's Park near to Burton. This team included several girls who had never played a competitive game in their lives. We were told that a couple of women from the Lionesses would be coming down for a five-minute photo shoot. This they duly did. One of the two was Karen Carney. The tournament organisers emphasised how very important and very busy the two Lionesses were. Not only did the ladies make a little speech and let everybody have their pictures taken with them but they stayed with my girls for TWO hours! Two years later, same scenario, Karen Carney again and once more she stayed with them for another two hours, encouraging and supporting my seven to 11-year-olds as they began their footballing careers. She was humble, enthusiastic and charming. What a role model, what an inspiration and, in a world of over-hyped, over-paid athletes, what a genuine hero. I have been a fan of women's football and the England Lionesses since then. She has never disappointed me and could never disappoint me. Karen, because of what you did for my girls, you are my hero.\n\nMy mum was Keira Walsh's teacher at primary school and was also her netball coach (she was my mum's star player). She was asked to write a reference for Keira to help get her into her preferred high school. In the letter, my mum said: \"Keira will play for England, I don't know at what sport, but she will play for England.\" Turns out she was right!\n\nAt the 2017 Euros I was staying in the same hotel as the Lionesses. They thumped Scotland 6-0. When the England team returned to the hotel they found some very dejected Scottish supporters. The England players were all very gracious victors but Jill Scott stood out among them - she spoke with the young Scotland supporters, posed for pics and even brought out the match ball for them to be photographed with. What a lovely young woman. I will always support the Lionesses now (unless they are playing Scotland, of course).\n\nMy daughter (11 at the time) broke her wrist playing football for her grassroots team in April last year. As she also attended an Arsenal Under-12s weekly training programme, I informed the club she would be absent for a few weeks while she healed. Within 24 hours, we received a personalised video message recorded by Leah Williamson wishing my daughter a speedy recovery, reassuring her she'd soon be fine to play again; sharing a story of when she herself once broke her arm in a game. My daughter and I were absolutely blown away by the kindness and thoughtfulness of the gesture, and for Leah telling her she would bounce back very soon. Leah has been her footballing heroine ever since.\n\nWatching coverage of one of France's group games, you interviewed Rachel Daly. I thought \"she looks familiar\". A quick Facebook and Google search later, I realised that a young Rachel Daly was in my school - Saltergate Juniors. She was a year below us but played alongside me up front for the school team! Playing boys a year older than her, Rachel definitely scored the lion's share of our goals. #ItsComingHome", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit Party MEPs turned their backs as Ode to Joy was performed\n\nBrexit Party MEPs turned their backs during the EU's anthem, while Lib Dem MEPs wore yellow \"Stop Brexit\" T-shirts as the European Parliament returned.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said his 29 MEPs were \"cheerfully defiant\".\n\nHe accused European Parliament President Antonio Tajani of \"taunting\" his MEPs by insisting they should \"stand for the anthem of another country\".\n\nSome criticised the stunt on Twitter using the hashtag #notinmyname.\n\nBut one of the party's MEPs, Ann Widdecombe, said they had received \"volumes of support\" from others.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"What we did was symbolic. We didn't make a noise, we didn't disrupt anything… we just turned around to say 'we reject this.'\"\n\nMr Farage said his MEPs made their \"presence felt\" and while they always planned to turn their backs, they were particularly enraged by Mr Tajani's remarks.\n\n\"I think when Tajani talked about the fact the European Union is now a country that was it for me,\" he told LBC radio.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said he did not think any action would be taken against the MEPs as he did not think there had been any breach of parliamentary rules.\n\nUKIP's MEPs - then led by Mr Farage - performed the same move at the start of the session in 2014.\n\nUK MEPs are back in Strasbourg following May's elections, when the Brexit Party and Lib Dems made gains and the Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nThe UK's elected representatives will only have their European Parliament seats for four months if the country leaves the EU on the current deadline of 31 October.\n\nThe MEPs turned their backs as musicians played the anthem in the chamber\n\nLiberal Democrat MEPs wore \"Stop Brexit\" T-shirts on the first day of European Parliament\n\nAnother Brexit Party MEP, David Bull, told BBC Radio 5 Live he and his colleagues turned their backs did so because it was a \"federal anthem\".\n\n\"We were not turning our backs on our European friends and colleagues, we do not believe in a federal European state and an anthem is a symbol of that,\" he said.\n\n\"If it had been a national anthem we would have respected it. No-one in Europe has voted to have an anthem.\"\n\nWhen asked by Emma Barnett whether he would be collecting a European Parliament pay cheque Mr Bull said: \"I have submitted my bank details because we are working.\"\n\nA number of MPs criticised the move on Twitter. Labour's Lilian Greenwood called the stunt \"childish, disrespectful and damaging to our country's interests\". Her colleague Luciana Berger called it \"beyond pathetic\".\n\nThe Brexit Party's Nigel Farage and Ann Widdecombe took their seats in the European Parliament\n\nAfter the stunt, #notinmyname began trending on Twitter.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said the move was \"embarrassingly pathetic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Turner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour Party member Maria Carroll tweeted that it was disrespectful, saying: \"Build Bridges not borders.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Maria Carroll Labour PPC Carmarthen East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd actor Richard Armitage questioned the message it sent to other countries. The Lib Dems' stunt was \"equally unacceptable\", he said, adding they should \"just do the job\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Armitage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther MEPs refused to stand at all as the EU's anthem - composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1824 - was played by a jazz ensemble.\n\nMeanwhile, on the other side of the political divide, Lib Dem MEPs wore yellow \"Stop Brexit\" and \"bollocks to Brexit\" t-shirts.\n\nEuropean Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt tweeted in support of the pro-EU MEPs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Guy Verhofstadt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTuesday marked the opening of the new five-year session of the parliament.", "Stephen Nolan earned between £325,000 and £329,999 from the licence fee in 2018-19\n\nThe BBC presenter Stephen Nolan's pay fell by about £75,000 in 2018-19.\n\nHe earned between £325,000 and £329,999 from the licence fee, compared with just over £400,000 in 2017-18.\n\nThe figure is contained in the BBC's latest annual report, which gives details of the pay of its top earning stars.\n\nThe reduction in Mr Nolan's pay is mainly down to the fact he presented 40 fewer radio and TV programmes in 2018-19 than the previous year.\n\nMr Nolan no longer presents Question Time Extra Time on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday nights, which accounts for 30 of the programmes.\n\nThe report also reveals that the pay of BBC Northern Ireland director Peter Johnston rose.\n\nHe earned between £175,000 and £179,999 in 2018-19, compared with between £150,000 and £159,999 the year before.\n\nMr Nolan and Mr Johnston are the only two figures who work mainly in BBC Northern Ireland whose salaries were revealed in the report.\n\nIt also states that Mr Nolan presented 210 programmes on BBC Radio Ulster, 10 editions of the television show Nolan Live and 120 programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nUnder the terms of the BBC's charter it has to publish the details of those who earn more than £150,000 a year from the licence fee.\n\nDetails of the pay of stars working on programmes for BBC Studios - the corporation's commercial arm - are not included in the figures.\n\nPayments stars receive from independent production companies are also not revealed.\n\nGary Lineker was again the BBC's best paid star, earning about £1.75m during the year.\n\nClaudia Winkelman and Zoe Ball were the best paid female presenters, earning between £370,000 and £374,999.\n\nZoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz have all moved up the list\n\nOf the pay that is being made public, 75 BBC presenters earned more than £150,000 in 2018-19 - 45 men and 30 women.\n\nData for 2019-20 in the report suggests that 74 will earn more than £150,000 this year - 41 men and 33 women.\n\nThere has been controversy over the salaries paid to the BBC's top earning stars and staff, especially within the context of the corporation's recent decision to scrap free TV licences for around 3.7 million pensioners.\n\nThere has also been controversy over the gender pay gap at the BBC, though the latest report suggests the gap is closing.\n\nThe report reveals the gap between the average yearly earnings of men and women working for the BBC has fallen from 7.6% in 2017-18 to 6.7% in 2018-19.\n\n\"The BBC is well ahead of other organisations but we're still not where we want to be,\" the report said.\n\nThe 2018-19 annual report also gives some details of how the BBC's budget is spent and its audience figures in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2018-19, the BBC spent 3.1% of its overall television network expenditure in Northern Ireland, the same level as two years ago but up from 2.4% in 2017-18.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Belfast has been a fantastic home for Line Of Duty, says writer Jed Mercurio\n\nDramas set in Northern Ireland broadcast during the year, for instance, included Come Home and Death And Nightingales, while others like Line Of Duty and Mrs Wilson were filmed in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Radio 2 Folk Awards and the 6 Music Biggest Weekend concerts were also held in Belfast in 2018.\n\nThe BBC collected £97m from the licence fee in Northern Ireland, while spending £55m on Northern Ireland-specific output.\n\nHalf of adults (50%) in Northern Ireland watch dedicated BBC Northern Ireland news programmes each week, while 80% watch any BBC television.\n\nSix in 10 adults listen to BBC radio each week, with BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle the most listened to station in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, the average time viewers in Northern Ireland spent watching BBC television and listening to BBC radio each week fell.\n\nAdults spent an average of six hours and 46 minutes a week watching BBC TV in 2018-19, compared with 7 hours and 22 minutes a week the previous year.\n\nThey spent an average of seven hours and 26 minutes a week listening to BBC Radio in 2018-19, 17 minutes less than the previous year.\n\nHowever, BBC Northern Ireland has expanded its online service with more digital news output for instance.\n\nThe BBC has also announced a range of plans to change the way its programmes are offered online.\n\nThese include making programmes on the BBC iPlayer available for 12 months rather than 30 days and starting Britbox - a new subscription streaming service with ITV that aims to compete with rivals like Netflix.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland's dreams of reaching their first Women's World Cup final were dashed as Steph Houghton's late penalty was saved in a dramatic semi-final loss to holders the United States.\n\nThe England skipper's 84th-minute spot-kick was held by Alyssa Naeher, shortly before Houghton's fellow centre-back Millie Bright was sent off for a second bookable offence, as the Lionesses exited at the last-four stage for a third major tournament in a row.\n\nWinger Christen Press and striker Alex Morgan scored with headers either side of Ellen White's instinctive equaliser as the USA took a deserved 2-1 lead in a frenetic first half.\n\nA spirited Lionesses side improved after the break and White thought she had equalised with a low strike from Jill Scott's flicked through ball, only to be found to be marginally offside on a video assistant referee (VAR) review.\n\nWhite was then clipped in the area and Phil Neville's side were awarded a penalty after another VAR review.\n\nBut Houghton could not convert from the spot and the wait for a senior England side to reach a first global final since 1966 goes on.\n\nThe USA, who were backed by the majority of the 53,512 crowd in a gripped Stade de Lyon, are through to their third consecutive World Cup final and will now bid for a record fourth title when they face either Sweden or European champions the Netherlands on Sunday.\n\nThose two sides meet on Wednesday, with the losers taking on the Lionesses in Nice in Saturday's third-place play-off.\n\nSo close but yet so far for England\n\nThe Lionesses were the first senior England side to reach the semi-finals of three consecutive major tournaments, after their third-place finish at the 2015 World Cup in Canada and their run to the last four at Euro 2017.\n\nAfter winning the invitational SheBelieves Cup in the USA earlier this year, victories over Scotland, Argentina and Japan saw them top Group D in France, as belief grew that they could win their first major trophy.\n\nConsecutive 3-0 victories over Cameroon and Norway in the knockout stages followed, but Neville's side were unable to play with the same composure on the ball against the confident defending champions.\n\nEngland came under intense pressure in the early stages and may have been slightly relieved to be only 2-1 down at half-time, after the lively Rose Lavelle twice went close for the holders.\n\nEngland had the better of the second 45 minutes and were rewarded with a late chance to level when Becky Sauerbrunn made contact with White's shooting leg when the Manchester City striker was poised to tuck home.\n\nHowever, Houghton's penalty was weak and Naeher saved low to her right - the third spot-kick out of four England have missed in this tournament.\n\nTwo minutes later Bright was dismissed for a second yellow card for a clumsy foul on Morgan.\n\nSome of the devastated England players sank to the ground in despair as the final whistle extended their wait for a first major title.\n\nPre-tournament favourites the USA, who have reached at least the semi-finals of every Women's World Cup, will now contest their fifth final.\n\nAfter narrow 2-1 wins over Spain and hosts France in their past two games, they showed their experience and clever game-management to see out a third consecutive win by the same scoreline.\n\nThey were rampant early on, and led through Press' powerful header, continuing their record of scoring inside the first 12 minutes in all of their games so far in this tournament.\n\nThey had almost netted even earlier, when Lavelle nutmegged Bright in the fourth minute and rounded Demi Stokes, only to see her close-range shot well saved by Carly Telford, who played in goal for England with number one Karen Bardsley out with a knock.\n\nMorgan's sixth goal of this tournament put her level with White again at the top of the standings in the battle for the Golden Boot, after White had turned home Beth Mead's excellent ball from the left to level for England.\n\nHampshire-born coach Jill Ellis' side went through without their star of the previous two matches, winger Megan Rapinoe, who was a surprise late absentee with a hamstring injury.\n\nThroughout this tournament, England head coach Neville - who took charge of the Lionesses in January 2018 - has insisted his side's style is \"non-negotiable\", but he raised eyebrows by tweaking his line-up tactically for Tuesday's semi-final.\n\nRather than playing wide on the right, Lyon winger Nikita Parris was moved to a more central role, playing as a deep striker in something closer to a 4-4-2 formation than the tried-and-trusted 4-2-3-1 that had seen the Lionesses through to the last four.\n\nToni Duggan and Fran Kirby were left out with versatile winger Rachel Daly and Arsenal's Beth Mead coming in to the side to start as wide midfield players. England had a 4-2-4 feel when they were attacking, but Neville's team were frequently overrun in midfield in the first half.\n\nThe introduction of Kirby at number 10 after the break and Parris' switch back out to the wings appeared to propel England back in to the game, as they rallied and saw more of the ball in the USA's half.\n\nUltimately, they remain without a win over the USA in the World Cup, having lost 3-0 in 2007's quarter-finals and being beaten in 10 of their 16 contests overall.\n\nBut the Lionesses have won over millions of new supporters at home, with record television audiences watching their run to the latter stages.\n\nAnd their next major tournament will be on home soil, with 2021's European Championship to be played in England.\n\n'I've moved on from this already' - reaction\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"We'll have to allow 24 to 48 hours for this to sink in and for them to get over this disappointment. Nothing I can say will make them feel better.\n\n\"Elite sport and being on top of the world means that on Saturday in Nice [in the third-place play-off] we have to produce a performance. It will tell me a lot about my players.\n\n\"I've moved on from this already and now I'm looking forward to Saturday's game. I'll see the attitude, commitment of my players. They won't let me down, because they never have.\"\n\nEngland captain Steph Houghton: \"It's hard to put into words. We took one of the best teams in the world all the way. I'm so proud but I'm disappointed with the penalty and the goals we conceded.\n\n\"Ultimately we know that we can beat them and our aim was to win and we didn't do that. I got told today [that I'd be taking any penalty] and I've been practising them a lot and I was confident.\n\n\"I just didn't get a good connection. I'm gutted. I've let the team down. I'm gutted and heartbroken. We were so close but I'm proud of everyone because we gave it everything.\"\n\nUSA boss Jill Ellis: \"I can't even express how proud I am. It was such a great effort from everybody. Everyone stepped up, and that's what this team's about.\n\n\"That was her [Alyssa Naeher's] shining moment. We have one more game. I couldn't be prouder of this group. We have four days this time in between, so that will help.\n\n\"I told them [in a post-match huddle]: 'Stay humble. We've got one more.'\"\n\nEngland off the spot - the stats\n• None USA become the first side to reach three consecutive World Cup finals - they played Japan in 2011 and 2015.\n• None USA set a new World Cup record of 11 successive wins with victory, beating Norway's previous mark of 10 in a row (1995-99).\n• None Steph Houghton is only the second player to miss a penalty in a World Cup semi-final. Both misses have been against USA, also Germany's Celia Sasic in 2015.\n• None England's Millie Bright became the fourth player to be sent off at the World Cup.\n• None Christen Press' opening goal ended England's national record run of 381 minutes without conceding at the tournament.\n• None USA have never lost a World Cup game they have scored first in, winning 36 and drawing four.\n• None Ellen White is only the third player in World Cup history to score in three consecutive knockout games, after Carli Lloyd (2015) and Abby Wambach (2011).\n\nHow has the World Cup inspired you?\n\nWhat impact has the Women's World Cup had on you? Has it inspired someone you know to take up football? Has it sparked an interest in the game you are going to continue into the new season? Let us know here and we will publish the best stories.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.\n• None Carli Lloyd (USA) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Nikita Parris (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Second yellow card to Millie Bright (England) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Francesca Kirby (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty saved! Stephanie Houghton (England) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Becky Sauerbrunn (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland missed out on a place in the Women's World Cup final after losing 2-1 to holders the United States in Lyon. Ellen White was your star performer for the Lionesses. Here's how you rated the players out of 10.", "IV drips for healthy people are \"an expensive way of filling your bladder\", says one doctor\n\nA wellness company has withdrawn a £250 IV \"fertility drip\" after experts said it could \"exploit vulnerable women\".\n\nGet A Drip offers therapies including the \"slim drip\", \"anti-ageing drip\" and \"mood-boost drip\" at locations such as Westfield shopping centre in London.\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said there was \"no evidence\" its treatment could improve fertility.\n\nGet A Drip defended the product's nutritional benefits but apologised for \"insensitivity\".\n\nThe company, which opened its clinic in the west London shopping centre earlier this year, says it aims to take a wellness trend that began in high-end clinics into the main stream.\n\nIt says it employs medical staff, including qualified doctors and nurses, and administers vitamins and minerals along with rehydrating saline solution directly into customers' veins.\n\nProducts start at £75 for \"basic hydration\" - using a solution of salt, bicarbonate, potassium and calcium - and rise to £3,000 for a three-stage \"skin brightening\" therapy, which adds the antioxidant glutathione and a high dose of vitamin C.\n\nRichard Chambers, the company's founder, said he stood by the benefits of the vitamins and minerals in the fertility drip but conceded: \"We understand that the issue of fertility is much deeper than nutrition.\"\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for the insensitivity of the fertility drip and apologise wholeheartedly for any upset caused,\" he said.\n\nBut he said IV drip therapy was \"an effective, medically supported treatment to help the body reach optimal nutrition\" for people who were not absorbing sufficient nutrients through the gut.\n\nPeople given the IV therapies were given a \"thorough medical consultation\", including medical history, a pulse check, blood-pressure reading and temperature check, he said.\n\nKatherine O'Brien, associate director of communications and campaigns at BPAS, said the fertility drip offered an unproven \"quick fix at an extortionate cost\".\n\n\"There is no evidence that an IV drip of any combination of vitamins can improve a woman's fertility,\" she said.\n\n\"In promising hope to women at a very desperate time, we are concerned that, aside from providing no real benefit, these drips may be causing real damage to women's emotional wellbeing.\"\n\nThe only medically recommended supplements for women trying to conceive are folic acid and vitamin D, said Gwenda Burns, head of operations of Fertility Network UK.\n\nCompanies charging sums such as £250 for an IV vitamin drip were \"exploiting their customers and offering false hope\", she said.\n\nTom Dolphin, a consultant anaesthetist, highlighted the company's therapies on social media, calling them a \"dubious, costly medicalisation of basic nutrition/hydration\".\n\n\"It's an expensive way of filling your bladder,\" he told the BBC. \"People who are healthy definitely don't need IV drips.\"\n\nWhile a long-term vitamin deficiency could affect aspects of health, including fertility, he said a one-off IV drip would not help.\n\nHe said: \"If you've got a chronic deficiency, you should be having oral supplements on an ongoing basis.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said clinics offering IV nutritional therapies had to make it clear if they were offered for \"non-medicinal purposes\".\n\nShe said IV vitamin therapies that made medical claims needed to be licensed and tested for \"safety, quality and efficacy\", as well as complying with legislation on advertising.\n\n\"The MHRA has previously taken action against a number of clinics who have advertised IV vitamin and mineral drips for medical purposes,\" she said.", "Protesters have been removed from Hong Kong's parliament after an hours-long siege.\n\nPolice fired tear gas into the remaining crowd outside the building as they advanced. Most of the demonstrators had left the building by then, though a few still remained in the central chamber.\n\nHong Kong was marking the 22nd anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule. But as officials raised their glasses in celebration, protesters were rallying on the city's streets.", "Stanley was visiting the house when he was fatally shot by Albert Grannon with a modified weapon\n\nA man who shot dead his six-year-old great-grandson with an unlicensed air rifle has been jailed for three years.\n\nStanley Metcalf died in hospital after being hit in the abdomen by a pellet at Sproatley, near Hull, on 26 July.\n\nAlbert Grannon, of Church Lane, Sproatley, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nAfter Grannon had pulled the trigger on the adapted weapon, the boy told the 78-year-old: \"You shot me granddad.\"\n\nStanley's mother said the pensioner has never apologised.\n\nGrannon admitted possessing an air rifle without holding a firearms certificate, along with the charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nThe youngster was shot by Grannon from a few feet away at a family gathering at the pensioner's house, prosecutor John Elvidge QC told the court.\n\nAlbert Grannon shot his great-grandson Stanley Metcalf with an air rifle\n\nMr Elvidge said Grannon kept the gun in a cupboard with a curtain over it and it was normally left loaded. The weapon needed a firearms certificate because its power meant it was categorised as \"specially dangerous\".\n\nHe said members of the family who were in the garden heard a loud bang and rushed in to find Stanley bent over in the kitchen with a wound the size of a 5p piece in his stomach.\n\nMr Elvidge said the pellet from the .22 rifle had gone all the way through, severing an artery.\n\nStanley's condition deteriorated in the ambulance and he died within two hours.\n\nThe prosecutor said Grannon told police the gun went off as he was checking whether it was loaded and the pellet must have ricocheted off the floor.\n\nBut, he said, forensic tests revealed that this could not have been the case.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, mitigating barrister Paul Genney said his client accepted that he pointed the gun at Stanley as he squeezed the trigger to check the gun was not loaded, \"but not, of course, deliberately\".\n\nReading a statement to the court Stanley's mother Jenny Dees said: \"Never once did he say sorry and now if he did, it would be meaningless and too little too late.\n\n\"It was through his [Grannon] recklessness, stupidity and lack of forethought that caused Stanley to be taken away.\n\n\"I hope he can live with himself and the pain he has caused\".\n\nGrannon showed no emotion as he stood to be sentenced.\n\nThe boy was shot in the abdomen with the air rifle, but died later from the injuries\n\nMr Justice Lavender told Grannon: \"You ended a young life and you brought lifelong grief and misery to his parents and to the whole of his family.\"\n\nHe said: \"What you did was obviously a very dangerous thing to do. Why on Earth did you do it?\"\n\nThe court heard how Stanley's extended family had been split by the incident and some relatives sat in the court itself while others were in the overhanging public gallery.\n\nMany were in tears as the sentence was passed.\n\nAs he was taken down, one woman shouted from the balcony: \"Love you Dad.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christine Lagarde is known as the \"rock star\" of international finance\n\n\"No, no, no no, no no,\" was what Christine Lagarde was reported to have said when asked last year if she was interested in running the European Central Bank (ECB).\n\nYet just a few months later, she has been nominated as the institution's new president.\n\nMs Lagarde - known as the \"rock star\" of international finance - said the new role was \"an honour\".\n\nPoised, chic and known for her straight talking, she has become one of Europe's most influential ambassadors in the world of international finance.\n\nUntil this weekend, the main contenders for the ECB job were male central bankers.\n\nBut assuming the nomination is approved she will become the central bank's first ever female leader, responsible for the euro and the monetary policy of the eurozone.\n\nMs Lagarde is legendary for her stamina\n\n\"First ever female\" is a tag that has followed Ms Lagarde throughout her career.\n\nThe former lawyer was the first woman to chair global law firm Baker McKenzie, the first woman to serve as a finance minister from any Group of Seven nation and then the first to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n\nUnsurprisingly she has long championed promoting women into powerful positions, saying it's the key to improving the world economy.\n\n\"As I have said many times, if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today,\" she said earlier this year.\n\nThe silver-haired 63-year-old is legendary for her stamina. A former synchronised swimmer for the French national team, she is reported to exercise daily, even during meetings if necessary.\n\nIn her current role, she has been praised for steering the Washington-based IMF through the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nChristine Lagarde's status as rock star of international finance is beyond doubt.\n\nShe has a high profile as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, building on her experience as a cabinet minister in France.\n\nWhat she doesn't have is the technical expertise as a central banker. The previous presidents of the ECB did.\n\nAll three had been governors of their own national central banks. Mario Draghi in particular presided over the bank at a time when it faced the eurozone financial crisis and a weak economic recovery. The response was both innovative and technical.\n\nChristine Lagarde would not be the first ever central banker to be in that position. But there could well be challenges.\n\nThe eurozone is struggling with inflation that is persistently below its target. Getting it back up might require more innovation. Ms Lagarde would need to draw on the expertise of the ECB's technocrats.\n\nHer career has however had one significant negative, when she was investigated for abuse of authority during her time as French finance minister in 2007.\n\nIn 2016, she was convicted in a French court for failing to challenge a €404m award to flamboyant French businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008 over the sale of sportswear brand Adidas. She did not serve a sentence.\n\nBernard Tapie was ordered to pay back the €404m with interest\n\nMs Lagarde has always defended her decision, saying it was \"the best solution at the time\".\n\nIt's a determination that she learnt at a young age after her father's death when she was 17. Her mother, widowed at just 38, bought Ms Lagarde and her three younger brothers up alone.\n\n\"My mother was a very strong character. I learnt a lot from her,\" she told the Financial Times in an interview.\n\nMs Lagarde knew how to \"impose calm\" a former colleague says\n\nConsistently ranked among the top 10 most powerful women globally, Ms Lagarde has helped to rebuild the IMF's credibility following Greece's 2010 bailout, which bent the fund's rules.\n\nShe also presided over the IMF's biggest bailout, a $57bn deal for Argentina last year that many credited with arresting emerging market turbulence.\n\nMs Lagarde has admitted before that she lacks economic experience, telling the Guardian in 2012: \"I've studied a bit of economics, but I'm not a super-duper economist.\"\n\nMany don't believe this will hold her back.\n\nOne former IMF official said her leadership of the fund meant she was \"exceptionally qualified\" to run the ECB.\n\n\"She knew how to impose calm without posing as morally superior,\" instead displaying \"a touch of humanity,\" said a former colleague.\n\nMark Sobel, a former US Treasury official 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